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Another Chicago Review digs Darrin Doyle's The Dark Will End the Dark, calling it a "loving gesture to the darkened and deformed hoi polloi who have always lived under the ostentatious veneer of the stories people tell each other—and themselves". anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/12/09/r...

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Review: When Midwestern Gothic Meets the American Ideal, Only One Survives in Darrin Doyle’s “The Dark Will End the Dark” by Taylor Thornberg The collection’s opening salvo asserts this tension in a whiplash, maximalist mad dash. Stories steer their readership past one visceral image after another: burnt oil engines, boiled feet, metalli… https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/12/09/review-when-midwestern-gothic-meets-the-american-ideal-only-one-survives-in-darrin-doyles-the-dark-will-end-the-dark-by-taylor-thornberg/