This Dark Matter

[...] Welcome to our first installment of Black Friday Fiction, This Dark Matter‘s original fiction series. Happy Solstice (and holidays in general) to [...]

[...] Welcome to Black Friday Fiction, This Dark Matter‘s original fiction series. If you’d like to submit your own work to [...]

[...] Welcome to Black Friday Fiction, This Dark Matter‘s original fiction series. If you’d like to submit your own work to [...]

[...] Welcome to Black Friday Fiction, This Dark Matter‘s original fiction series. If you’d like to submit your own work to [...]

[...] –just dark and creepy enough to get into the right mood for dark celebrations. Photo Credits: Jason Clarke Photography, Dave Walsh Photo, and Nicole Wolverton, 1. That’s probably [...]

[...] , 2013) and Death and Dying in general with Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (Routledge, 2001) Photo Credits: In the Jungle via flickr cc [...]

[...] and dirt . . . until the time comes to open the tomb for another of your kin to join you. Photo Credits: Chair via flickr cc [...]

[...] the stance the Tibetan Buddhists have about the body, it does make a certain amount of sense. Photo Credits: Black Vulture_Portrait via flickr cc [...]

[...] the most annoying person in the world to watch a horror movie with. There are very few recent horror movies that can hold my attention well enough—I tear them all apart. I‘m pretty vocal about [...]

[...] and reproduction referred to as “gynaehorror.” In truth, that ends up being a lot of horror movies, particularly classic slasher films such as Friday the 13th (parts 2 and on), [...]

[...] their bodies in order for the offending limb to be removed. It sounds like the stuff of horror movies. Imagine a woman walking into an ER with a gun. She points, cocks, and aims it, not at medical [...]

[...] the consequences. That, however, is not why I need help. Netflix has a wide selection of horror movies, and I figured I’d surely find something to watch among them. I went back and forth, happy to [...]

[...] to start. Or, you know, open the door to see what might happen. Tell me this doesn’t have a horror movie written all over it. [...]

[...] I’m probably the most annoying person in the world to watch a horror movie with. There are very few recent horror movies that can hold my attention well enough—I tear [...]

[...] . By day, the cathedral is imposing but not particularly spooky. By night, it looks like a horror movie waiting to happen. And when the doors creaked open and we waited in the pitch black vestible, [...]

[...] an evil spawn. About 20 minutes into the film, all I could think was that this was a horror movie that spoke to me and my personal feelings about motherhood.1 Even if nothing spooky happened [...]

[...] . What we’re not getting much of is restraint. Restraint is a strange word within the horror genre. After all, why have a horror story at all if you’re not raining buckets of blood and a pretty [...]

[...] : this is the best exorcism movie ever made. In fact, it’s probably the best example of the horror genre itself. Father Karrass is a man on a ledge when he first meets the possessed Regan, having [...]

[...] often lack depth and personality, female characters usually have it in droves. Women in the horror genre have evolved from being weak damsels-in-distress to kickass bitches who can take on anything. [...]

[...] performance of disability. So–what other non-evil characters with a physical disability in the horror genre are there? Who did I miss? Do you find the portrayals good or bad? [...]

[...] in TV and movies of this type of character include Ripley from the Alien series and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Gamora from Guardians of the Galaxy and GoGo Tomago from Big Hero 6. And think about how [...]

[...] the risk that surrounds us, our horror “heroes” do the same. Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer is not a heroine to play it safe on the sidelines. Though she’d much rather be done [...]

[...] which we explored through Dawn of the Dead, Pet Sematary, and The Birth-mark. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Rosemary’s Baby guided us through the second reason — [...]

[...] death via Dawn of the Dead, Pet Sematary, and The Birth-mark. In the second, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Rosemary’s Baby guided us through our society’s need [...]

[...] Join This Dark Matter each Friday for an excerpt from our favorite works of dark fiction. I really wanted to choose a short story from the Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells anthology, [...]

[...] Join This Dark Matter each Friday for an excerpt from our favorite works of dark fiction. Today we celebrate Icelandic writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir. Apart from the lapping of the waves, [...]

[...] new work–short stories, flash fiction, and poetry–each Friday, highlighting the best in dark fiction. What genre? It doesn’t matter as long as the work has a horrifying darkness at its [...]

[...] As a consumer, creator or observer of dark fiction in all media formats, you have more than likely come across stories with pale characters who [...]

[...] the power of the franchise lay in its leading man–Robert Englund. After having portrayed Freddy Krueger for almost 20 years, Englund was replaced by Jackie Earle Haley for this version of the 1984 [...]

[...] spree that spans what must be about 30 movies and even a crossover with fellow slasher Freddy Krueger. Jason is the strong, silent, stalking kind of guy who kills for fun. He’s even done it in [...]

[...] of physical disability in horror films and television generally tends toward the freakish. Freddy Krueger with his burned body and knives for fingers. The family from The Hills Have Eyes. American [...]