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The Darker Times Book Club

Read the best horror with the best kinds of folks, Darker Times subscribers.

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

How Stranger Things failed its breakout character.

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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

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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.

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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?

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Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?

Rachel Harrison on anxiety, horror, and coming to terms with her inevitable death.