Darker Magazine (russian: Даркер) is a Russian monthly horror

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. It covers various sorts of horror media, including

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, splatter,

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, as well as

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s and dark music. The magazine is in regular publication since April, 2011. It is part of Russian Horror Web. It publishes articles, interviews, reviews and short stories by Russian and foreign authors. The zine also helds an annual literary contest “The Devil's Dozen”, which is the largest among horror stories in Russian. Darker Magazine is a cult outlet in Russian Internet horror segment, and its mission is support of horror in Russia. It is published on the initiative and with the assistance of The Horror Authors Association and Horror Web media network. The zine is funded by its subscribers.

History

''Darker'' was founded in 2011 succeeding another webzine ''The Darkness'' (russian: Тьма). ''Darkness editor Mikhail Parfenov ran the new project that soon became even more successful than its predecessor. The first issue of Darker Magazine has been released on April 21, 2011 and since then has been publishing every month on 20th. Since that time ''Darker'' released a lot of reviews of books and movies and also interviews with notable horrormakers.

Notable authors

''DARKER'' has been first in Russia to translate some short stories by such horror authors as H.P. Lovecraft,

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, Tomas Ligotti,

Jeff Vandermeer Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. The tr ...

Graham Masterton Graham Masterton (born 16 January 1946, in Edinburgh) is a British author known primarily for horror fiction. Originally editor of '' Mayfair'' and the British edition of '' Penthouse'', his debut novel, ''The Manitou'', was published in 1976. T ...

Christopher Golden Christopher Golden (born July 15, 1967) is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults and teens. Early life Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts ...

, Joe Lansdale,

Ramsey Campbell Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. He is the author of over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them winners of literary awa ...

Robert McCammon Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three ''New York Times'' bestsellers (''T ...

Adam Nevill Adam Nevill (also known as Adam LG Nevill) is an English writer of supernatural horror, known for his book ''The Ritual''. Prior to becoming a full-time author, Nevill worked as an editor. After publishing several novels through Pan Macmillan ...

Ken Liu Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. His epic fantasy series ''The Dandelion Dynasty'', which he describes as silkpunk, is published by Simon & Schuster. Liu has won Hugo and Nebula Awards for his short fic ...

Gwendolyn Kiste Gwendolyn Kiste is a Pennsylvania based horror and speculative fiction writer. She writes short stories and novels. She won the 2018 Bram Stoker Award for her novel ''The Rust Maidens'' and the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction for ...

Matthew Stokoe Matthew Stokoe (born in 1963) is a British writer and screenwriter. Biography Stokoe was born in England, graduated from University of East London where he studied economics, and has lived in Australia, New Zealand, and the US (Santa Monica, CA) ...

S.T. Joshi and more. Also publish for the first time some short stories of the famous Russian writers as Mariya Galina,

Svyatoslav Loginov Svyatoslav Vladimirovich Vitman, primarily known under the pen name Svyatoslav Loginov (russian: Святослав Логинов, Святослав Владимирович Витман) (born October 9, 1951 in Ussuriysk, Russia (then Voroshi ...

Anna Starobinets Anna Alfredovna Starobinets (Russian:Анна Старобинец, born 1978) is a Russian writer and scriptwriter who has been called the "Russian Queen of Horror". She has published novels, short stories and children's books, and describes hers ...

. The zine also publishes interviews with notable horror figures, and among them are Mike Flanagan,

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Chris Walas Christopher James Walas (born 1955) is an American special effects artist, make-up effects artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the film '' The Fly'' (1986), for which he won an Academy Award and was ...

Brian Lumley Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English author of horror fiction. He came to prominence in the 1970s writing in the Cthulhu Mythos created by American writer H. P. Lovecraft but featuring the new character Titus Crow, and went on to ...

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Mick Garris Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, as well as making Stephen King adaptations. Early life Garris was born in Sant ...

André Øvredal André Øvredal (; born 1973) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films ''Trollhunter'', ''The Autopsy of Jane Doe'' and ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark''. Life and career He is best known for w ...

Critics

Famous British author

notes the educational role of Darker Magazine:

��to make horror popular and to bring together a community of people who find horror exciting, frightening, wildly imaginative and highly creative. DARKER does the same for Russia. There is a wonderful tradition of dark and disturbing literature in Russia. ��DARKER is helping to breathe life back into that tradition and I admire your courage and determination in doing that.

Notable contributors

* Mikhail Parfenov — creator of the webzine *

— veteran of Russian

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* Mariya Galina — Russian horror writer and translator * Alexei Sholokhov — Russian horror writer

Awards

Literature

# Nesterik, Ella, Kazbekova, Maiya
Supernatural Horror in English Literature and Means of it Realization
European Researcher (2014) # Ksenia Olkusz
Zombie w kulturze
Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta (2015) # Ksenia Olkusz, Krzysztof M. Maj
Narracje fantastyczne
Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta (2018) # Nosachev, Pavel
The Influences of Western Esoterecism on Russian Rock Poetry of the Turn if the Century
Faculty of Philology,

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(2018)

References

External links

Darker official site
2011 establishments in Russia Horror fiction magazines Magazines established in 2011 Science fiction magazines published in Russia Russian-language magazines Horror fiction websites {{Authority control