The Dark Descent – Spooky and Dark Stories, Books, and Films!

You ready to get MASSIVE? You ready to get MOONED?! It’s “The Moonstone Mass” by Harriet Prescott Spofford! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

Get ready for a story that’ll make you feel really bad for everything you’ve ever done to your SIMS. It’s “Passengers” by Robert Silverberg! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

There’s just something about a good ol’ WTF story. Jean Ray’s “The Shadowy Steet” feels like it could have been written yesterday, and we’re gonna talk about it! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

When is a room not a room? when it’s a LITTLE ROOM! This episode, Willow and Phil are talkin’ ’bout Madeline Yale Wynne’s “The Little Room”, a story so weird, she had to write a sequel. So, we’re also talkin’ ’bout the sequel to “The Little Room” titled “The Sequel to The Little Room” I … Continue reading "“The Little Room” by Madeline Yale Wynne | Horror Story Analysis and Discussion" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

Get ready to hear two people yellin’ about shoggoths! That’s right, we’re going deep deep DEEP under Antarctica and finding out just WHERE WE CAME FROM and HOW BAD IT SMELLS with Part 2 of our coverage of H. P. Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS! We talk timelines, Old Ones, Mi-Go, Cthulhu Spawn, and … Continue reading "“At The Mountains of Madness” Part Two! | Horror Story Analysis and Discussion" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

Antarctic exploration? Grotesque penguins? Elder Things? Warning signs everyone should probably have taken more seriously?! Let’s descend into the first half of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

Let’s darkly descend into Robert A. Heinlein’s “They,” a reality-bending tale from David G. Hartwell’s Foundations of Fear. Is its unnamed protagonist delusional, imprisoned in a simulation, or right but for all the wrong reasons? Along the way, we’ll talk paranoia, isolation, collective consciousness, suspiciously localized rain, and the story’s connections to The Matrix, The … Continue reading "“They” by Robert A. Heinlein | Horror Story Analysis and Discussion" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

In this episode of whatever we’re calling this show now, Willow and Phil pick apart the incredible “Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier! The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

Willow and I FINALLY managed to get together to record an episode! Because we’re OBLIGATED TO for this PODCAST we OSTENSIBLY do. It’s Guillermo del Toro’s first and dozenth iteration of “Frankenstein!” The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/

It’s Del Toro Time returns with a deep dive into Steven Spielberg’s haunting 2001 sci-fi fairy tale, A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick and completed by Spielberg, this movie mashes up Pinocchio, Frankenstein, and a whole lot of emotional trauma—plus teddy bears and Jude Law as a robot gigolo. What more could you … Continue reading "The Ecstasy of Influence – A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)" The Dark Descent! is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://deltorotime.wpcomstaging.com/