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An Addictive Detective Treat Author: Holly Jackson For her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi has decided to solve a murder. And not just any murder, the one that rocked her town five years ago and continues to define the undertones of fear and hatred. Andie Bell was your stereotypical perfect high-school princess: beautiful, popular, an all around American-pie kind of girl with a bright future. . . until her boyfriend, Sal Singh, murdered her, hid the body, texted his confession to his parents, and then killed himself. But Pippa knew Sal, at least a little, and something doesn’t quite add up [...]

The Serial Killer Story I Couldn't Handle Author: Dr. Karl Berg My recent excursions into true crime lead me to The Dusseldorf Vampire, a book that was published in 1938 by psychiatrist Dr. Karl Berg. It covers the confessions of Peter Kürten, a particularly vicious serial killer who rampaged for multiple years across Germany. This was my first encounter with Kürten, but despite the ominous red filter used to highlight a man who looks like he stepped out of another time (which, of course, he did) and the “extremely graphic and shocking!” label proudly smacked on the front, I was sure [...]

Horror Meets Splatterpunk Meets Erotica Author: Patrick Freivald Davis MacArthur can make his violin keen so soulfully that it drowns out the wails of the damned, which is a good thing, because they are incessant. Davis didn’t always see the sinister world behind the sunshine and the rushing evening crowds. The sky wasn’t always filled with demons and putrescence;  the nauseous air of debauchery and torment didn’t always bubble under his feet like an overflowing cesspit. But, he didn’t always tamper with the occult. Until he did . . . Now as a world-famous violinist, Davis has a secret pocket-demon [...]