Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl
You already know the final girl, but may we introduce you to her bloodier counterpart, the murder babe?
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Hatchet Job: Other Mommy (2026)
Other Mommy, the film adaptation of Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House, Glitters But Isn’t Gold
No One is Safe in Folk Horror
Nostalgic Reads for an Angry Heart: Dev Lemons Horror Readalikes
The Darker Dispatch 10/11/26
Sharply Sublime: Jennifer Thorne’s Newbourne Park
The Darker Dispatch 10/4/26
Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl
Personal Horrors
Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) & The Monster of Disbelief
How a Disney Channel original movie kept my weirdness alive.
Billy Presley Might Just Save Us All: How Casting Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Healed an Awkward Horror Heart
Seen by Shirley: A Young Woman’s Camaraderie with One of Horror's Greatest Voices
Just Asking Questions: Ex-Mormons Talk About Heretic
Parenting (A Witchling) is Not for the Faint of Heart
Punching Holes in the Literary Lid: Capturing Voice Through Storytelling
Motel of the Mind: Lora Senf’s Unnamed Bones, Isolation, and the Hope of Survivalist Horror
Books
No One is Safe in Folk Horror
Liam Higginson's The Hill in the Dark Grove teaches us an important lesson: in the Welsh mountains, nobody can hear you scream.
Nostalgic Reads for an Angry Heart: Dev Lemons Horror Readalikes
Sharply Sublime: Jennifer Thorne’s Newbourne Park
A Delightfully Disturbing Debut: Carrie Lee South’s In the Woods They Wait
Darker Times Book Club - October Pick
In Praise of the Slump-Buster
From the Community Catalog: A Reflection on our First Darker Times Book Club and The Library at Mount Char
Movies
Hatchet Job: Other Mommy (2026)
Other Mommy, the film adaptation of Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House, Glitters But Isn’t Gold
Murder Babes: The Other Side of the Final Girl
Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999) & The Monster of Disbelief
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination
Highest-Grossing Horror Films of the 21st Century
Life is a Liminal Highway
Billy Presley Might Just Save Us All: How Casting Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Healed an Awkward Horror Heart
Queer Horror
Billy Presley Might Just Save Us All: How Casting Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Healed an Awkward Horror Heart
Layered, nuanced, and campy, Schoenbrun's latest wins out in many ways, chiefly thanks to stellar casting
A Queer Community History of Sleepaway Camp (1983)
An Incomplete Compendium of Gay Monsters
