Horror fiction versus true crime
Subject in True Crime
Horror fiction versus true crime has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Morbid. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alaina UrquhartCo-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels
Urquhart recounts working for years in a morgue performing autopsies and says cases involving children affected her deeply.
“I worked in the morgue for like years. So I did autopsies”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:25:50
Richard ChizmarAmerican horror author and founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, author of the Boogeyman trilogy
Chizmar says he leaves some mysteries unexplained because real serial cases, as shown in true crime books, rarely resolve neatly.
“it's never usually super neat with a bow tie on the end, no matter how good the detectives are or the police”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (Sep 25, 2026) · Listen from 1:15:36
Podcasts
- Morbid · 1 episode
Episodes
Morbid Book Club: Killing The Boogeyman by Richard ChizmarMorbid · Sep 25, 2026 · 2 h 11 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart talk with horror author Richard Chizmar about his Boogeyman trilogy finale, Killing the Boogeyman, and collaborating with Stephen King.