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Why Britain Does Dark Comedy Better than Anyone Else
A love letter to a nation that laughs at its…
Trashy Thrillers: A Love Letter to Literary Junk Food
A celebration of chaos, clichés, and page-turners with the nutritional…
The Beast in Me Review: Claire Danes vs. the Human Red Flag Next Door
A lesbian, a possible murderer, and a neighbourhood watch meeting…
Film & TV
Horror, thrillers, and the darker corners of screen culture. Scenes that stay with you, stories that bruise a little, and the moments you still think about in the dark.
The Scariest Scenes in Modern Horror
What Makes a Scene Scary? (Chewie’s Theory of Theatrical Terror) The scariest scenes aren’t loud or gory. They’re not the ones that fling a…
True Crime
Real cases that never quite let you go. No sensationalism — just bad decisions, strange interviews, and the kind of truths you can’t unhear.
The Watcher House: Letters From a Suburban Horror
657 Boulevard should’ve been a happy ending. Big, expensive, aggressively respectable. Leafy…
The Bain Family Murders: A Whodunnit That Refuses To Whodunnit
A family implodes, a country picks sides, and thirty years later, no…
Chew Crew Essential True Crime Podcasts
The true crime canon: long-form listening that refuses to let you move…
Chew Crew Essential True Crime Docs
The dark canon: required viewing for the terminally curious ranked from best…
The Canon
Where to start. Required viewing and listening for the terminally curious — the stories that define ALL THINGS DARK. The ones you argue about, obsess over, and carry with you once the lights come back on.
Oddities
Folklore, oddities, urban legends, and the beautifully unhinged. The strange corners of culture you shouldn’t explore at 2 a.m. (so obviously you will).
Who Does She Think She Is, Fanny Cradock?
There are very few television personalities who can make you feel like…
Paper Cuts
Books that slice deeper than they should. Psychological horror, bleak thrillers, and the stories that crawl under your skin and make themselves comfortable.
Casting Crimes: Hollywood Clearly Didn’t Read the Book
A tribute to every adaptation that made readers clutch their pearls, shut…
Dark Places
Travel for the terminally curious. Haunted towns, unsettling histories, eerie landscapes — the places with more past than people.
Edinburgh: The Most Haunted City on Earth
Edinburgh doesn’t ease you into the darkness. It just hands you the…
Chewie’s PICKS
Not the latest. Not the loudest. These are the stories that linger — the ones that crawl under your skin, get under your ribs, and refuse to leave. Carefully chosen from across true crime, film, books, and the darker corners of culture. New? Start here.
The Bain Family Murders: A Whodunnit That Refuses To Whodunnit
A family implodes, a country picks sides, and thirty years later, no…
These Japanese Urban Legends Will Ruin Your Life (You’re Welcome)
Eight stories from Japan that will sit quietly in the back of…
Chew Crew Essential True Crime Podcasts
The true crime canon: long-form listening that refuses to let you move…
Chew Crew Essential True Crime Docs
The dark canon: required viewing for the terminally curious ranked from best…
Hereditary vs. The Babadook: Grief in a Monster Suit
Two iconic modern horror films face off. On the dark side of…
The Haunting of M. Night Shyamalan
The haunting of M. Night Shyamalan doesn’t start with a ghost. It…
Worth A DOOMSCROLL
Enter the void
Occasional dispatches from the dark. Extra pieces, offcuts, and the things we save for later. If it’s not worth opening, it doesn’t get sent.
