#dark-humor

#dark-humor

Roald Dahl made his career writing children's books that dared to be mean (yes, sometimes in rather unfortunate ways). Across almost 20 novels, the British author spun fantastical tales with unsentimental wit, infusing his work with darkly morbid humor, blithe child endangerment, rotten and antagonistic adults, and a willingness to occasionally laugh at the misfortune of others. And no other work of Dahl's gets more pitch-black than "The Twits," a thin, acidic little text about deeply repugnant people.

Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick's folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies-usually with something just a little strange going on. In "Drift," for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and float into the sky one by one, and "Fracture" defies gravity altogether with a hovering apartment tower that crumbles from below.

Consume Me is a life sim about the worst parts of its protagonist's life. Like any life sim, it asks you to spend your time wisely to manage stats that measure your character's achievements. Only here, instead of running a farm and making friends, you're maintaining a diet, studying for exams, and trying to keep your boyfriend from breaking up with you.

"In a sideways medieval Europe, instead of the son of god we have a daughter, and instead of a cross, a wheel, taking on a blend of familiar themes and alien elements."