‘Til Death: Rachel Harrison on Why Weddings Make Perfect Horror Settings
The night before my best friend’s wedding, the power went out. The bride, the groom, and several bridesmaids, including me, suddenly found ourselves in total darkness. We were staying in a beautiful...
View ArticleCarolyn Marie Wilkins on Historical Fiction, Cults, and Writing Psychic...
Carolyn Marie Wilkins is a jazz pianist and vocalist, a professor at Berklee College of Music Online, and a psychic medium. She is the author of multiple books including a family memoir, and many...
View Article7 Crime Novels That Feature Outsiders Who Challenge the Status Quo
One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather clues, hoping to...
View ArticleCarrie Talick on Mashing Up Genres and Injecting Comedy into Murder Mysteries
Just when you thought thrillers and mysteries were the only place to find a body, along comes a small army of writers who love a good romance and a lot of laughter with their untimely deaths. Lately,...
View ArticleAlly Zetterberg on Writing the Women Who Actually Live in Monaco
When I say “Monaco woman,” what image comes to mind? Perhaps it’s a model stretched out on the deck of a yacht, champagne (or green detox juice) in hand. Perhaps it’s a sunglasses clad woman carrying a...
View ArticleCarly Hillman on Going from Producing Colbert’s Late Show to Writing a Crime...
I wasn’t planning on writing a book. Here’s what I was planning: I was going to go for a hike, enjoy a day out in nature, have dinner with a friend, and hopefully go to bed early. Instead, I came back...
View ArticleHow the Directors of ‘Chronovisor’ Created a Modern Borgesian Mystery for the...
Chronovisor, Kevin Walker and Jack Auen’s debut feature, is an immersive, intellectual mystery in the style of Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. Taking place mostly in libraries and showcasing the...
View ArticleA Brief History of Stolen Paintings
At five minutes past seven in the morning of Monday 21st August 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian decorator, walked into the Louvre in Paris dressed in a white workman’s smock similar to the ones...
View ArticleKasey Lansdale on Writing an Inexperienced Small-Town PI Protagonist
When I first thought about writing a PI novel, I read and heard lots of advice about how to make your character good at what they do. Fellow authors talked about the research they had done to learn...
View Article8 Great Tales That Feature Supernatural and Otherworldly Houses
Horror is having a moment. From masterful spins on classic gothic tales to daring new explorations of supernatural and psychological horror, readers are chomping at the bit for spooky tales. Perhaps...
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