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Dissecting the Dark Descent
Doom and Defiance: “The Autopsy” by Michael Shea
“The Crowd” by Ray Bradbury: A Sinister Natural Order
Grotesque and Gothic Retribution: “Mr. Justice Harbottle” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Horrors of Hypocrisy and Moral Polarity
“The Whimper of Whipped Dogs” by Harlan Ellison: The Torture Never Stops
Small, Sinister Details: Shirley Jackson’s “The Summer People”
H.P. Lovecraft: Breaking an Ancestral Curse
Hell-Bent on Allegory: Russell Kirk’s “There’s A Long, Long Trail A-Winding”
Victorian Stranger Danger: Lucy Clifford’s “The New Mother”
Subversion in Superstition: “The Ash Tree” by M.R. James
“Evening Primrose” by John Collier: Cheerful Cruelty, Capitalism, and Cowardice
Dissecting The Dark Descent: Stephen King’s “The Reach,” and Why Reading Order Matters
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