Spookier Times

I had a very, very rough May this year. Locked is my way of exploring my car being broken into but nothing actually stolen when the last episode of Spookier Times was going to be filmed and edited.

More contemporary fantasy styles can use one thing slightly out of the ordinary to explore dark and complex issues in a way that still feels magical. Roald Dahl was a master at this, and Matilda tackled a slew of important social issues with a little girl that could literally fight back with her brain.

In this episode of Spookier Times, we take a look at two new asymmetrical online horror games offering a different experience to Dead by Daylight: Home Sweet Home: Survive and Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals. Both games come from indie developers who previously created popular and successful indie horror games with unique characters, lore, and settings.

Killer Fashion is a subgenre of the paranormal slasher where a fashion item--a dress, shoes, hair extensions, an accessory, etc.--gains the ability to kill.

In this episode of Spookier Times: A Podcast of Horror, Gothic, and Weird Fiction, we take a look at the tropes of the deadly game genre through the 2012 film Would You Rather?

In this episode of Spookier Times, we take a look at the historical horror trope of that dark and stormy night at Lord Byron's that led to the creation of Frankenstein. This is the inspiration for Nora Unkel's new horror film A Nightmare Wakes, about Mary Shelley's attempts to write Frankenstein.

In this special episode of Spookier Times, I pull back the curtain on my creative writing process, specifically how I approach writing horror as a person living with severe mental wellness problems. This is all in celebration of the audiobook and special edition release of Take Out & Other Stories: A Collection of Weird Fiction.

In the longest ever episode of Spookier Times, we dive deep into the intersection of my careers: horror media criticism and working in live theatre in the greater NYC area.

In this episode of Spookier Times, we take a look at the Revenge film through the lens of feminist film critique, the female-driven Revenge resurgence of the 2000s, and Emerald Fennell's new Revenge film Promising Young Woman.

In this special episode of Spookier Times, we look back at the best fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films of 2020. My full Best of 2020 list is available at https://sketchingdetails.com/sketchy-details/top-11-films-of-2020