Some killers have claimed they were driven by demons, forces, voices, urges, alter egos, or something beyond themselves. Whether those claims were delusion, manipulation, or excuse-making, they reveal something chilling: evil often tries to separate itself from responsibility. It says, That wasn’t me. That was the thing inside me. That idea sits at the heart […]
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There are moments in life that divide everything into before and after. For me, one came a couple of months after a jury deadlocked in the trial of the man who assaulted me. We were waiting for a retrial, the date constantly being changed at the last minute. It was frustrating, and I’d had enough.
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The Darkness in my trilogy is not the kind of monster that we’ve come to know. It is an ancient manipulator disguised as something familiar. In The Darkness, the entity that badgers Edward understands his weaknesses better than Edward understands them himself. It does not howl into the night, scrape at doors, or bang at
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It took courage to walk into the county jail that day to face the man who’d raped me. I did not know what to expect; my worst fear was that he would refuse to see me, once again giving him the power. The main reason I was going was to regain my power. Sure, he
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After the rape, my home no longer felt safe. Sometimes, at night, I’d sit outside on the front porch rather than be inside as I waited for my new husband to come home from work. Inside everything was still the same—but nothing was the same. Nothing would ever be the same. Before that night, I