The Saddest Character Deaths on Screen and Paper

The Saddest Character Deaths on Screen and Paper

Great characters are those that manage to draw out emotions from readers. They can make you feel frustrated, sympathetic, and euphoric. You form a deep emotional connection with them as you progress through their stories. That’s why if the character dies, it...
12 Common Horror Tropes with Examples

12 Common Horror Tropes with Examples

Horror, like any other genre, can suffer from an excess of tropes that bog down its storytelling. While tropes aren’t inherently bad, too much reliance on them creates a formulaic story. And when a story turns formulaic, it loses the suspense and uncertainty...
10 Essential John Le Carré Books

10 Essential John Le Carré Books

John Le Carré was a British-Irish author best known for his best-selling, award-winning espionage novels, many of which became feature films, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man. Born David John Moore Cornwell, he wrote 25 novels under his famed...