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Those who've read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch are probably walking around with a look that's equal parts contemplative introspection and paralyzing paranoia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Addams’s surreal juxtapositions made horror hilarious. They poured boiling oil on Christmas carollers they asked their neighbors for a cup of cyanide their idea of child’s play was to roll boulders onto passing cars. “The tasty little family”-as the first editor of The New Yorker, Harold Ross, called them-were figures of startling caprice, grotesques inhabiting a bourgeois world while taking revenge on its suffocating decency. His po-faced characters never explained themselves their behavior allowed us to connect the dots of their perversity. His game was to turn values upside down: bad was good ugly was beautiful freaky was normal the deadly gave life. 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