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A book cover of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel called The Halloween Invitation. Three people dance in costumes at a Halloween party.

Choose Your Own Path: The Halloween Invitation

Use this couple's costume interactive short story to help you find your Halloween costume.

Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl

Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl

You already know the final girl, but may we introduce you to her bloodier counterpart, the murder babe?

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

Or, why I stopped worrying and learned to love Walter Benjamin in the Backrooms.

Life is a Liminal Highway

Life is a Liminal Highway

Alexander Ullom's It Ends is a surprisingly relevant tale of nihilism and persistence after you find out the world you were promised isn't the one you're living in.

Image with background of woman crying and the cover of Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House with red text and navy bunny.

Let Them Fight: Incidents Around the House

To Daddo or to Daddon't? That is... well, it's certainly *a* question.

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10 2026 Horror Debuts to Treat Yourself this Spooky Season

10 2026 Horror Debuts to Treat Yourself this Spooky Season

No tricks here, just treats for your Halloween week reading!

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When a Prequel Wins: Crystal Lake, Pamela Voorhees, and Why It Works

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Darker Times Book Club - November Pick

A collage image with a Costco Wholesale banner that reads 'Now Open' overlaid on a movie still from Halloween of Michael Myers lurking behind TVs, shopping carts, and a sample stand.

Michael Myers, My Dream Boyfriend

A book cover of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel called The Halloween Invitation. Three people dance in costumes at a Halloween party.

Choose Your Own Path: The Halloween Invitation

Hatchet Job: Carrie (2026)

Hatchet Job: Carrie (2026)

Personal Horrors

A collage image with a Costco Wholesale banner that reads 'Now Open' overlaid on a movie still from Halloween of Michael Myers lurking behind TVs, shopping carts, and a sample stand.

Michael Myers, My Dream Boyfriend

Or that one dream where Michael Myers happened to be my boyfriend.

Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) & The Monster of Disbelief

Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) & The Monster of Disbelief

Image of Gillian Anderson as Billy Presley in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with Hannah Einbinder as Kris in the background

Billy Presley Might Just Save Us All: How Casting Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Healed an Awkward Horror Heart

Black and white photo of Shirley Jackson set on top of a background of her book cover

Seen by Shirley: A Young Woman’s Camaraderie with One of Horror's Greatest Voices

Just Asking Questions: Ex-Mormons Talk About Heretic

Just Asking Questions: Ex-Mormons Talk About Heretic

A baby's cradle with a crow and monster hand reaching down toward it.

Parenting (A Witchling) is Not for the Faint of Heart

Punching Holes in the Literary Lid: Capturing Voice Through Storytelling

Punching Holes in the Literary Lid: Capturing Voice Through Storytelling

Books

10 2026 Horror Debuts to Treat Yourself this Spooky Season

10 2026 Horror Debuts to Treat Yourself this Spooky Season

No tricks here, just treats for your Halloween week reading!

White text on a black background reading "Darker Times Book Club" with a red hand beneath the words "Book Club"

Darker Times Book Club - November Pick

A book cover of a Choose Your Own Adventure novel called The Halloween Invitation. Three people dance in costumes at a Halloween party.

Choose Your Own Path: The Halloween Invitation

No One is Safe in Folk Horror

No One is Safe in Folk Horror

Blue background with hearts, butterflies, and stars. Three images of Dev Lemons in different poses overlaid on top.

Nostalgic Reads for an Angry Heart: Dev Lemons Horror Readalikes

Cover of Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne on red, blurry background

Sharply Sublime: Jennifer Thorne’s Newbourne Park

Image of the book cover of In the Woods They Wait by Carrie Lee South showing green leaves with hidden eyes and yellow text with title and author name

A Delightfully Disturbing Debut: Carrie Lee South’s In the Woods They Wait

Movies

A collage image with a Costco Wholesale banner that reads 'Now Open' overlaid on a movie still from Halloween of Michael Myers lurking behind TVs, shopping carts, and a sample stand.

Michael Myers, My Dream Boyfriend

Or that one dream where Michael Myers happened to be my boyfriend.

Image of Jessica Chastain in black and white with a crack running across her face set on a black glittery background

Hatchet Job: Other Mommy (2026)

Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl

Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl

Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) & The Monster of Disbelief

Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) & The Monster of Disbelief

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

Movie stills from popular horror movies on a grey background with money falling behind them.

Highest-Grossing Horror Films of the 21st Century

Life is a Liminal Highway

Life is a Liminal Highway

Queer Horror

Image of Gillian Anderson as Billy Presley in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with Hannah Einbinder as Kris in the background

Billy Presley Might Just Save Us All: How Casting Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Healed an Awkward Horror Heart

Layered, nuanced, and campy, Schoenbrun's latest wins out in many ways, chiefly thanks to stellar casting

Two teens stand on either side of a teen sitting down with the caption between them saying, "Yo, Sleepaway Camp. How come you're so fucked up?"

A Queer Community History of Sleepaway Camp (1983)

An Incomplete Compendium of Gay Monsters

An Incomplete Compendium of Gay Monsters

Be Gay, Fight Monsters: Horror Shows to Help You Battle Your Inner and Outer Homophobic Demons

Be Gay, Fight Monsters: Horror Shows to Help You Battle Your Inner and Outer Homophobic Demons

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When a Prequel Wins: Crystal Lake, Pamela Voorhees, and Why It Works

Hatchet Job: Carrie (2026)

SpongeBob HorrorPants: Electric Boogaloo, Season Two Terrors

Hatchet Job: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Eleven?

SpongeBob HorrorPants: Diving into Bikini Bottom’s Greatest Horrors from Season One (1999 - 2001)

Genre is a Construct

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No One is Safe in Folk Horror

Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl

From Faux Pas to Mayhem: Escalating Social Violations in Horror

Spooky Procedurals: A Taxonomy

Let Them Fight

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Let Them Fight: Hokum (2026)

Let Them Fight: Men (2022)

Let Them Fight: Incidents Around the House

Disclosure Day and the Power of Truth

Games

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Delving Into the Depths with Idols of Ash

Horror Histories

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Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination

We Are the Daughters of the Witches You Couldn't Film

Down the Tube: A History of Short YouTube Horror Films

Mechanics of Fear

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The Mechanics of Fear: Undertone and Diegetic Sound

Delving Into the Depths with Idols of Ash