This course explores how “dark fiction” texts portray instances of bodily, cultural, psychological, and/or sociopolitical terror in the representational lives of young adult characters. Using Adriana Cavarero’s, Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence, to provide theoretical grounding, we will read novels such as (but not limited to), The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson, Model Home by Rivers Solomon, The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson, and Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (now called, Billy Martin) to analyze ideas, concepts, and themes germane to literary genres of horror.