How ‘At Close Range’ Set the Tone for Rural Crime Storytelling
Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...
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Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...
Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, enterta...
Across the new crime novels we write about this week you’ll visit some pretty remote places – forgotten mining towns, backwoods places and the fringes of cities where tourists neve...
In Britain, across Canada and the US, all over the Northern Hemisphere flowers are blooming… foliage is flourishing… vines are creeping… plants are proliferating… and in some cases...
The Finnish-Japanese coproduction evolves from a classic detective drama into a fun, pulpy thriller, blending Japan's folklore with sharp plotting.
“With her debut novella, Reynolds pours a mean mix of slasher and western in a gruesome package primed for a bloody and satisfying finish.” For over a year, Darlene Boone has been...
These thrillers set in small towns will have you wondering if these places are idyllic or sinister.
Whether it is central London or rural France, looking at crime statistics is only ever a very rough guide. What is better is to look at things from a thief’s point of view as to th...
Daphne Brewster has come to cherish the slow, soothing, picturesque corner of Norfolk, England, that includes Cranberry Farmhouse, her cottage; Pudding Corner, the village in which...
Mik_Bennett: There are also barks of aggression for strangers and barks of excitement for friends Villagers have dogs - braques, ususally - round here, including our friend Mary...
Mik_Bennett: There are also barks of aggression for strangers and barks of excitement for friends Villagers have dogs - braques, ususally - round here, including our friend Mary...
Mik_Bennett: There are also barks of aggression for strangers and barks of excitement for friends Villagers have dogs - braques, ususally - round here, including our friend Mary...
In the fall of 2019, my debut novel came out: Ain’t Nobody Nobody—a quirky, small town literary crime novel set in East Texas. It was reviewed well. I got compared to Carl Hiassen,...
An excerpt from Prestige Drama by Séamas O’Reilly We heard about Monica Logue going missing same as everyone else. It was in the Gazette and I’d know the editor, Deirdre, very well...
When something sinister's lurking in every sunny backyard or seemingly innocent sub-basement... The post Seven Works of Suburban Folk Horror appeared first on Reactor.
A misty seashore, a scented pine forest, or a foggy woodland river. Any of these set the tone for mystery and suspense. But why do they trigger our primal urge to venture off into...
A look at how feminine intuition shaped the noir genre through Dorothy B. Hughe's 1947 novel and Nicholas Ray's beloved film adaptation.
Evening Team SF, Hands up, working in risk management has ruined my life. In my planning to retire to France I’ve had to examine flood risks, landside risks, forest fire risk, drou...
The forthcoming book from Hat & Beard Press leans into the dualities of Los Angeles. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support...
Ireland is the cadaver on the dissection table in these murder mysteries by five women writers. Their books are forensic examinations of the country’s social dysfunction; the pasts...
Every reader of this genre knows that there’s no noir like California noir. Southern California is the exemplary place where beauty and death sit side by side, and it’s produced a...
Gritty, darkly humoured and occasionally bleak.
We’re curious. It’s part of being human. But there’s an added layer to this—let’s just call it nosiness—when it involves matters happening behind the tony doors of the well-to-do....
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