Short answer: mostly yes, but it's complicated. Dark romance books are almost always erotica in the sense that explicit sex…
It can be hard to explain my enjoyment of the dark romance genre to an outsider. Describing some of my…
Book cons are supposed to be the good part. The part where the parasocial relationship you've been cultivating with an…
Dark romance has been having its moment for a while now. Post-COVID BookTok boom, gothic fashion resurgence, corset kink courtesy…
Before dark romance had a Spotify playlist, a BookTok aesthetic, or a respectable shelf at Barnes & Noble, it had…
Have you seen the trailer for The Drama? Tagged a “dark comedy,” this A24 film gives almost nothing away from…
A lot of dark romance books are controversial for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes the controversy stems from an…
Slasher flicks. Cave diving. True crime. Dark romance. Why do humans chase experiences steeped in discomfort and even danger (and…
The community already knows. They've always known. Long before corporate publishing decided to weigh in, dark romance readers were doing…