Essay
Dark romance trigger warnings: how to read them, and why I print them
Why every book on this shelf carries warnings, whether they spoil anything, what the shorthand means, and how to search for the one thing you can't read.
4 essays · The Dark Room
Responses to critics: Dark romance essays
Replies to the video essays about our genre. Each one credits and links the original; the argument is mine.
Responses to critics essays
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Is Dark Romance Harmful? A Dark Romance Writer Answers the Critics
My reply to MissWeiWei’s ‘Dark Romance is Corn For Women?’ on fantasy, consent, the addiction claims, and why fiction isn’t endorsement.
Responding to MissWeiWei (opens in a new tab)
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Why Do Women Read Dark Romance? The Psychology Behind the Fantasy
My reply to Aydin Paladin’s ‘The Secret Psychology of Women’s Romantic Fantasies’ on escapism, imagination, feminism and fantasy.
Responding to Aydin Paladin (opens in a new tab)
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The History of Dark Romance: From Wuthering Heights to Haunting Adeline
Picking up from Shanspeare’s ‘Dark Romance: Love, Desire…Oppression?’: gothic novels, the Brontës, du Maurier, bodice rippers and BookTok.
Responding to Shanspeare (opens in a new tab)