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Ash Darrow is an independent scholar, resident spooky nerd of critical media and theory, and co-ghost and producer of Horror Vanguard, a podcast about Gothic Marxism and horror films. When not traveling the country looking for the next cemetery to post up in, he likes to watch French arthouse films and rail against the evils of the Disney Corporation and the Marvel Universe.
  • Scary Stories to Tell at the End of History

    Scary Stories to Tell at the End of History

    ‘Scary Stories’ is set in a past haunted by the Vietnam War, made for adults haunted by eternal remixes of their youth, and aimed at a future straining to reconcile the ghosts of its past. The film winds up nostalgic for a past no one experienced. It’s a product of a larger struggle to imagine…