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  • 1 week ago | reactormag.com | Sam Reader

    Welcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent, where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story, and in the process, explore the underpinnings of a genre we all love. For an in-depth introduction, here’s the intro post. Ambrose Bierce was a writer whose acid-tongued societal critiques and gift for crafting scenes of the unnerving feel like a lightning rod for literature to come.

  • 3 weeks ago | reactormag.com | Sam Reader

    Welcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent, where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story, and in the process, explore the underpinnings of a genre we all love. For an in-depth introduction, here’s the intro post. “The Beautiful Stranger” finds Shirley Jackson in a more unnerving and tragic mode, compared to her last story in the anthology.

  • 1 month ago | reactormag.com | Sam Reader

    Welcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent, where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story, and in the process, explore the underpinnings of a genre we all love. For an in-depth introduction, here’s the intro post. “What Was It?” is something of an outlier for The Dark Descent.

  • 1 month ago | reactormag.com | Sam Reader

    Welcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent, where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story, and in the process, explore the underpinnings of a genre we all love. For an in-depth introduction, here’s the intro post. “The Beckoning Fair One” (1911) marks an interesting point in our discussion of The Dark Descent.

  • 2 months ago | reactormag.com | Sam Reader

    Welcome back to Dissecting The Dark Descent, where we lovingly delve into the guts of David Hartwell’s seminal 1987 anthology story by story, and in the process, explore the underpinnings of a genre we all love. For an in-depth introduction, here’s the intro post. We’ve all encountered the work of Robert W. Chambers before.

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