Drawn to Darkness

Send us Fan Mail This week, we discuss Hannah Olson’s 2023 HBO docuseries, Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, the story of Amy Carlson, a former McDonald’s manager and mother of three who abandoned her children, declared herself a 19-billion-year-old divine being, and with help from Robin Williams and Carrie Fisher, convinced a group of vulnerable people that she was Mother God. Through interviews and livestream footage, the docuseries follows Amy’s transformation into Mother God, th...

Send us Fan Mail In this Halloween episode of Drawn to Darkness, we're going back to where it all began with John Carpenter's iconic 1978 slasher Halloween. And we've brought along a special guest, Steve from Horror Makes Us Happy, to help us decide whether Michael Myers is still terrifying nearly 50 years later. We discuss the birth of the modern slasher, Laurie Strode as the ultimate Final Girl, the rules of surviving a horror movie, and whether Michael Myers is more frightening with or wit...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Drawn to Darkness, we dive into Josh Malerman’s shiver-inducing 2024 horror novel Incidents Around the House, a deeply unsettling story about a relentless entity known as ‘Other Mommy’ who asks again and again “Can I go into your heart?” In this episode, we unpack the child narrator, Bella and the effectiveness of horror seen through a child’s limited perspective, parental guilt, bad parenting decisions, the traumatising consequences of family secrets...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we discuss Oxygen’s The Lady of the Dunes: Hunting a Cape Cod Serial Killer. For almost 50 years, the woman found brutally murdered in the dunes outside Provincetown in 1974 was known only as the Lady of the Dunes. Three generations of investigators became obsessed with giving her back her name, surviving lost evidence, institutional resistance, red herring suspects. Eventually, forensic genetic genealogy did what decades of traditional investigation could not: ide...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Drawn to Darkness, we head to the foggy shores of Widow’s Bay with very special guest Liz Sower of Ghosts in the Burbs. This Emmy-winning Apple series follows widowed mayor Tom Loftus, who is determined to transform his economically struggling New England island into the next Martha’s Vineyard. Unfortunately, local fisherman Wick insists the island is cursed, Tom’s teenage son Evan is sassing him, and the town appears to be cursed as increasingly bizarre su...