Why Everyone Is So Obsessed With Thrillers, According to a Best-Selling Author – The Every Girl

Being fascinated by scary stories, true crime cases, and chilling tales is nothing new. If you’re anything like me, you have memories dating back to the ’90’s of watching Dateline with your mom, being disturbed by The Sixth Sense way too early, or picking up a John Grisham book when you had no business reading anything but Harry Potter. There’s something captivating about stories that are so horrific and so far out of our realm of possibility that when we get our hands on a particularly interesting one, we crave another. I know I can’t be the only one impossibly loyal to thriller novels and has questioned her sanity more than once asking why I can’t get enough.