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Emily C. Hughes

Emily is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Horror for Weenies and a co-founder of Darker Times.

Let Them Fight: Hokum (2026)

Let Them Fight: Hokum (2026)

In this edition of Let Them Fight, Emily and Anna tussle over Hokum, the third movie from rising star Damien McCarthy.

Dead Country: An Ode to Karen Russell's "Proving Up"

Dead Country: An Ode to Karen Russell's "Proving Up"

Karen Russell's Western Gothic tale is the scariest short story you've never read.

Let Them Fight: Men (2022)

Let Them Fight: Men (2022)

Fascinating folk horror or f*cked up gender commentary? Alex Garland's surreal and divisive film gets the Let Them Fight treatment.

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.

Image of the character Eleven from Stranger Things set on a light red background holding out her hand with the Hawkins kids on bikes in the foreground.

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

How Stranger Things failed its breakout character.

still from the movie Disclosure Day: Emily Blunt stands in front of a group of people holding a glowing metal object

Disclosure Day and the Power of Truth

Emily liked it, Jessica hated it: Let! Them! Fight!

Getting Back to the Why

Getting Back to the Why

It'll change your life, I swear.