(Bloomberg) -- Americans’ appetite for true-crime stories shows no sign of flagging. Exhibit A: the recent career trajectory of John B. Allen, better known to his ravenous, online fans as MrBallen.

John Allen makes it look easy. With his backwards cap, seemingly endless number of flannel shirts and casual on-camera manner, the popular YouTuber and podcaster known by the moniker MrBallen is ...

Last year, popular YouTuber and podcast host John Allen made the jump to comics with MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious, a graphic novel that adapted some of the many true tales of horror ...