The Boundary between Writing Crime and Horror
Turning the unknown into the known, and back again...
Fiction frequently takes one of the most abject sources of terror in our real lives – violence – and uses it as fuel for enjoyment and escapism. Crime stories are not usually horror stories precisely because they do not aim to scare the reader in any heightened, ongoing manner. Instead, they play with some of the same tropes, ultimately turning the evil…
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