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“Turn Back, Turn Back, You Young Bride”: Grim/m Stories of Murderous Husbands

Mar 11, 2025

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by

Heidi Darroch

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The most common trope of one strand of domestic thriller is the murderous spouse, nearly always a husband. In a milder version of the story, he’s merely untrustworthy: a liar, a con man, a bigamist (arguably, Jane Eyre‘s Rochester is all three). But from Hitchcock’s Suspicion to the gaslighting husband of The Girl on the…