A review of Carrie Lee South's horror debut that explores the emotional elements at play in the book.

How a Disney Channel original movie kept my weirdness alive.

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

Look, we love books, but even we have reading slumps–here's what they look like, and how we get ourselves out of them.

Look, we love books, but even we have reading slumps–here's what they look like, and how we get ourselves out of them.

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

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

Sitting with The Library at Mount Char in all of it's flabbergasting glory

Sitting with The Library at Mount Char in all of it's flabbergasting glory

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.

A look back over the last 25 years of high-earning horror movies.

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.

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

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

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

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

Great horror films to watch while high that aren’t your typical stoner horror movies.

End-of-summer beach essentials: sunscreen, snacks, towels, and a massively popular Japanese horror-mystery series.

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

Help Darker Times get to 500 paid subscribers by August 14th so we can keep you up to your elbows in frights.

“The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” by Karen Russell THE SCARECROW THAT WE FOUND lashed to the pin oak in Friendship Park, New Jersey, was thousands of miles away from the yellow atolls of corn where y...

A love letter to the author who may understand me best, from fear to understanding and everything in between

A love letter to the author who may understand me best, from fear to understanding and everything in between

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

Help Darker Times get to 500 paid subscribers by August 14th so we can keep you up to your elbows in frights.

ALT: Spongebob Squarepants Says Hoopla!

Help Darker Times get to 500 paid subscribers by August 14th so we can keep you up to your elbows in frights.