Deep Cut Magazine https://magazine.deepcut.press/ en-us 273025ff-a5a5-5c34-9022-4bda5edeae03 yes episodic Deep Cut Magazine © 2026 Deep Cut Press Dark, literary horror — read aloud. Deep Cut Magazine in your ear: narrated criticism from The Second Read, and the magazine’s original fiction read for listening in the dark. New cuts on a rolling schedule. Dark, literary horror, read aloud. Narrated criticism from The Second Read and the magazine’s original dark fiction — for listening in the dark. Deep Cut Magazine ash@deepcut.press https://magazine.deepcut.press/content/files/deepcut-podcast-cover.jpg Deep Cut Magazine https://magazine.deepcut.press/ true Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:52:00 +0000 The Second Read: You Will Feel the Sun https://magazine.deepcut.press/you-will-feel-the-sun/ bf585686-636b-42ea-bbfa-0d64ff035756 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:45:00 +0000 May contain spoilers for You Weren't Meant to Be Human. Content warning: pregnancy and forced gestation, abortion and its criminalization, suicidal ideation and self-harm, sexual coercion and abuse, and graphic violence including the death of an infant. Ash on Andrew Joseph White's adult debut (Saga Press, 2025): a worm-hive in Appalachia, a mute narrator named Crane, and a slim, brutal novel that builds three hundred pages toward a single unforgivable mercy, plus the deeper cuts to read after. 582 full 4 false The Second Read: What the Hunger Was For https://magazine.deepcut.press/what-the-hunger-was-for/ 4fb6e0db-da28-4d27-a074-3699fa310903 Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:45:07 +0000 May contain spoilers for Grief Eater. Ash reviews Emma Osborne's debut novella Grief Eater (Interstellar Flight Press, 2026): a zombie story that is really about an unloved childhood, a monster who can taste the love inside everyone she kills, and the question of whether there was ever any in the people who made her. 681 full 3 false The Second Read: Believe What You Want https://magazine.deepcut.press/believe-what-you-want/ 0a6643f6-9a46-412f-9cf0-5ac46927bc67 Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000 May contain spoilers for Hokum. Ash on Damian McCarthy's Hokum (2026) — a beautiful, well-acted haunted-hotel picture that mistakes its own evasiveness for depth, plus the deeper cuts to read after. 637 full 2 false The Second Read: Two Ways to Lose Yourself https://magazine.deepcut.press/two-ways-to-lose-yourself/ deepcut-two-ways-to-lose-yourself-2026-06-11 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:41:18 +0000 May contain spoilers for both films. Obsession and Backrooms, seen a week apart — two films about coming apart, and what the gap between them says about where horror is going. The first dispatch from The Second Read, Deep Cut Magazine’s criticism, narrated. 327 full 1 false