[2][3] The zine also helds an annual literary contest "The Devil's Dozen", which is the largest among horror stories in Russian.

Since that time Darker released a lot of reviews of books and movies and also interviews with notable horrormakers.

Lovecraft,[5] Clive Barker, Tomas Ligotti,[6] Jeff Vandermeer, Graham Masterton,[7] Christopher Golden, Joe Lansdale,[8] Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Adam Nevill,[9] Ken Liu, Gwendolyn Kiste,[10] Matthew Stokoe[11] S.T.

[12] Also publish for the first time some short stories of the famous Russian writers as Mariya Galina, Svyatoslav Loginov, Anna Starobinets.

[13] The zine also publishes interviews with notable horror figures, and among them are Mike Flanagan, Lin Shaye, Chris Walas, Brian Lumley, Ryuhei Kitamura, Mick Garris, André Øvredal.