Chip Jacobs

Not all monsters are born that way. Sometimes, a freak accident changes their fate, and others down the line.

Behind every murder is a tragedy, but also a raw story where a victim intersects with a killer in the culmination of myriad events. Some writers take the just-the-facts-man…

"An entertaining true-crime period piece built around a chillingly odd sociopathic villain."—Kirkus Review

How an obscure song from the Hammer-of-the-Gods band grew from teenage anthem to the heart of Pasadena fiction

Up in the foothills was a wasteland of smoke. You could barely see, and breathing took concentration. Took coughing and eye-rubbing and delusion that we could achieve anything.

Medium The baseball cracked off the bat, vanishing into the smoggy, gray sky over east Pasadena’s Eugene Field Elementary School.

The baseball cracked off the bat, vanishing into the smoggy, gray sky over east Pasadena’s Eugene Field Elementary School. Squinting and craning for it, I became a boy obsessed, a…

By the time she settled into her South Pasadena dream house, Lucretia Garfield was a longtime member of an exclusive, bloodstained club uniquely American.

Since it's Halloween, and the witching hour is nearly upon us, it's time to address the elephant over the Arroyo Seco.

"A riveting and enjoyable look at how local myths are constructed, and a vivid depiction of a time and a place that felt full of possibilities"—Booklist