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🎃 Happy Halloween Week!🎃 Curling up with the perfect horror read is a fabulous way to celebrate spooky season, and we've got you covered! @annarosereads.bsky.social has curated a list of ten phenomenal 2026 debut horror books (all on shelves NOW)! www.darkertimes.com/2026-horror-...

Many thanks to @darkertimes.bsky.social and @annarosereads.bsky.social for including me on their 2026 debut list! bsky.app/profile/dark...

Anytime a new sequel, reboot, or prequel is announced, we sometimes groan. What if this beloved piece of media is tarnished? But alternatively, what if it works? @annarosereads.bsky.social writes about why Crystal Lake works in her latest which you can read here: www.darkertimes.com/crystal-lake/

Something must be in the air because @darkertimes.bsky.social also has a feature about monster boyfriends. www.darkertimes.com/michael-myer...

At Eastham Library last night with @victoriadalpe.bsky.social and Aleese Lin, I talked a bit about horror romance or "horromance" and what the deal is. I think this post from Aigner Loren Wilson over at @darkertimes.bsky.social gets at the idea very well. www.darkertimes.com/michael-myer...

Ever dreamed of dating a slasher? What it would be like perusing the aisles of Costco with Michael Myers? Aigner Loren Wilson writes about the fever dream experience of this very thing, and you can read it here: www.darkertimes.com/michael-myer...

Less than 13 days till halloween and you still don't have a couple's/polycule costume? Have no fear, the Darker Times interactive fiction is free to read for the rest of October to help you pick your costume and that of your partners. www.darkertimes.com/the-hallowee...

Mike Flanagan's Carrie is...something! @emilyhughes.bsky.social unpacks it all in our latest Hatchet Job which paid subscribers can read in its entirety at the link below 😈 www.darkertimes.com/hatchet-job-...

“It’s an adaptation style I think of as “And if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bicycle.” […] you’re fundamentally altering so much of the original story that nothing is left but the shell.” @darkertimes.bsky.social on Flanagan’s Carrie is worth the read www.darkertimes.com/hatchet-job-...

today at @darkertimes.bsky.social: I *also* hated the Carrie miniseries! www.darkertimes.com/hatchet-job-...

traveling back in time to tell teenage Emily that one day she's gonna be the horror columnist for the New York Times Book Review!!!!!!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/b...

For our second installment of Hatchet Job, our essay series where we unpack media that didn't quite land with us, @annarosereads.bsky.social discusses Rob Savage's Other Mommy in all its sometimes sparkly but mostly tarnished glory: www.darkertimes.com/hatchet-job-...

No one is safe in folk horror (especially the animals)

Other Mommy never stood a chance against @annarosereads.bsky.social!!!!

For our second installment of Hatchet Job, our essay series where we unpack media that didn't quite land with us, @annarosereads.bsky.social discusses Rob Savage's Other Mommy in all its sometimes sparkly but mostly tarnished glory: www.darkertimes.com/hatchet-job-...

Diving into folk horror and Liam Higginson's The Hill in the Dark Grove, @jessicaesquire.bsky.social examines what makes the sub-genre (and Higginson's novel) so terrifying: www.darkertimes.com/folk-horror-...

today on @darkertimes.bsky.social, @jessicaesquire.bsky.social writes about Liam Higginson's The Hill in the Dark Grove and the deadly lessons of folk horror: www.darkertimes.com/folk-horror-...

Picture this: you're listening to music, & you stumble across songs that REALLY get you. They see you & take you back to a very specific time. & you think, "Damn, I wish I could read a book like that." Well, Aigner has you covered if you happen to love Dev Lemons: www.darkertimes.com/dev-lemons-h...

let them fight is genuinely my favorite thing anyone's ever done, i love @darkertimes.bsky.social

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good morning!!!! for the NYTBR, I reviewed Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Other Worlds Than These www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/b...

Want to give a quick shout out to @darkertimes.bsky.social for getting me to pick up Everything Endless, an interesting call-and-response cosmic poetry book, after reading this interview a while back. Have enjoyed it as a first (and short) read for October www.darkertimes.com/everything-e...

New review from @annarosereads.bsky.social! "Carving its way into the canon of timely, stylish, and wildly entertaining horror fiction, Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne cuts deep with precision, fully frolicking in all that the genre has to offer." www.darkertimes.com/newbourne-pa...

murder babes unite, imo