Welcome to The Twilight Tone, a genre culture journal featuring reported essays, interviews, and analysis focused on science fiction, horror, fantasy, and alternative music.
I’m Ian Joseph, a cultural writer examining how genre media and subcultures are made, sustained, and experienced, looking beyond surface aesthetics to the creative process, labor, and meaning behind the work. My writing explores science fiction, horror, fantasy, and goth as living, evolving cultural spaces rather than fixed identities.
This space features long-form features, interviews, reviews, and critical essays shaped by haunted soundscapes, neon noir, and the kinds of stories that linger long after the lights go out. Coverage spans film, television, music, and visual culture, with an emphasis on craft, atmosphere, and the people who build these worlds.
Alongside writing, I perform as DJ Vampyrian, spinning goth rock, darkwave, post-punk, and synth-driven sets. While separate from my journalism, that work informs my understanding of sound, space, and subcultural life, the same themes explored throughout this site.
The Twilight Tone serves as both a publication and a writing portfolio, with selected work developed for freelance features, interviews, and editorial opportunities.
🔮 Stay strange. Stay tuned.
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