Deep Cut Magazine

Arts EN ↓ 4 episodes

Dark, literary horror, read aloud. Narrated criticism from The Second Read and the magazine’s original dark fiction — for listening in the dark.

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The Second Read: You Will Feel the Sun 18.06.2026 9:42

May contain spoilers for You Weren't Meant to Be Human. Content warning: pregnancy and forced gestation, abortion and its criminalization, suicidal ideation and self-harm, sexual coercion and abuse, and graphic violence including the death of an infant. Ash on Andrew Joseph White's adult debut (Saga Press, 2025): a worm-hive in Appalachia, a mute narrator named Crane, and a slim, brutal novel that...

The Second Read: What the Hunger Was For 14.06.2026 11:21

May contain spoilers for Grief Eater. Ash reviews Emma Osborne's debut novella Grief Eater (Interstellar Flight Press, 2026): a zombie story that is really about an unloved childhood, a monster who can taste the love inside everyone she kills, and the question of whether there was ever any in the people who made her.

The Second Read: Believe What You Want 12.06.2026 10:37

May contain spoilers for Hokum. Ash on Damian McCarthy's Hokum (2026) — a beautiful, well-acted haunted-hotel picture that mistakes its own evasiveness for depth, plus the deeper cuts to read after.

The Second Read: Two Ways to Lose Yourself 11.06.2026 5:27

May contain spoilers for both films. Obsession and Backrooms, seen a week apart — two films about coming apart, and what the gap between them says about where horror is going. The first dispatch from The Second Read, Deep Cut Magazine’s criticism, narrated.