Home / David Hartwell David Hartwell Book Recommendations Dissecting the Dark Descent The Show Will Go On: “The Swords” by Robert Aickman By Sam Reader March 26, 2024 Comment 3 Book Recommendations Dissecting the Dark Descent American Myths, Warlocks, and Washington: “Vandy, Vandy” by Manly Wade Wellman By Sam Reader March 12, 2024 Comment 5 Book Recommendations Dissecting the Dark Descent The Call Is Coming From Inside the House: “If Damon Comes” by Charles L. Grant By Sam Reader February 27, 2024 Comment 3 Book Recommendations Dissecting the Dark Descent Violent Apathy and Vicious Novelty: “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” by Robert Bloch By Sam Reader February 13, 2024 Comment 5 Column Dissecting the Dark Descent A Gothic Morality Tale Meets the Mundane: “Belsen Express” by Fritz Leiber By Sam Reader January 30, 2024 Comment 2 Rereads/Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent “Sticks” by Karl Edward Wagner: The Terror of Isolation By Sam Reader December 5, 2023 Comment 0 Rereads/Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent Obsession, Privilege, and the Void: “John Charrington’s Wedding” by E. Nesbit By Sam Reader November 21, 2023 Comment 0 Rereads/Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent Doom and Defiance: “The Autopsy” by Michael Shea By Sam Reader November 7, 2023 Comment 0 Rereads/Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent “The Crowd” by Ray Bradbury: A Sinister Natural Order By Sam Reader October 24, 2023 Comment 0 Rereads/Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent Grotesque and Gothic Retribution: “Mr. Justice Harbottle” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu By Sam Reader October 10, 2023 Comment 0 Rereads and Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Horrors of Hypocrisy and Moral Polarity By Sam Reader September 26, 2023 Comment 3 Rereads and Rewatches Dissecting the Dark Descent Hell-Bent on Allegory: Russell Kirk’s “There’s A Long, Long Trail A-Winding” By Sam Reader August 1, 2023 Comment 0 icon-chervon-left 1 2 icon-chervon-right