Punching Holes in the Literary Lid: Capturing Voice Through Storytelling
Engaging audiences both on and off the page takes skill, both as a writer and as a performer. Clay McLeod Chapman knows more than a little about both.
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The Darker Dispatch 7/26/26
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Hatchet Job: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Eleven?
How Stranger Things failed its breakout character.
Motel of the Mind: Lora Senf’s Unnamed Bones, Isolation, and the Hope of Survivalist Horror
How the YA horrors in Senf's latest release have power beyond belief
Obsession and the Paradox of Sex Scene Discourse
Hailey Piper on how audience reactions to sex scenes tell us more about the audience than the art.
From Faux Pas to Mayhem: Escalating Social Violations in Horror
Etiquette is a social contract providing everyone with words to use and actions to take to comply with general respectful norms. But what happens when that goes out the window?
Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?
Rachel Harrison on anxiety, horror, and coming to terms with her inevitable death.
The Darker Dispatch 7/17/26
Delving Into the Depths with Idols of Ash
How the team at Leafy Games made the horror game Idols of Ash so damn creepy and fun.
SpongeBob HorrorPants: Diving into Bikini Bottom’s Greatest Horrors from Season One (1999 - 2001)
Taking a look at the show that probably shaped my strange horror heart
The Darker Dispatch 7/10/26
A Queer Community History of Sleepaway Camp (1983)
An attempt to chart how Sleepaway Camp went from being a low budget hackjob with a “shocking nature” to a queer cult classic.