Almost £4m was pledged to the game, which is a physical adaptation of the hugely popular Dark Souls video game series, with an average pledge of more than £120 (the base game cost £80, but almost 800 backers went for the £200 retailer package, which offered six games to shops that wanted to resell).
"There's always been a strong disco community in Sweden or Scandinavia even so, when I first started releasing music, I was hugely influenced by moody and dark disco".
But this candour, this desire to shed light on a dark and hugely costly affliction, is apparently not to everyone's taste.
I hope Santa brings Vol 3. Alex Spalding, Sidmouth, Devon I hugely enjoyed Lisa McInerney's dark but tender debut novel with its vivid portrayal of the life and times of Ryan, a teenage gangster in the making.
Ray read the story in near-dark conditions, hugely hunched over a glaring little podium lamp, constantly fiddling with his big glasses, clearing his throat, sipping water, beetling down at the pages of his book as if he'd never really thought of reading this story out loud and wasn't finding it easy.
We've got the Crimson King (known here as the Kingfisher); Patrick Danville, who would be hugely important in the final Dark Tower books; and there are massive thematic connections, particularly regarding Purpose and Random, the "grammar" of the Dark Tower.
On a darker note, I hugely admire Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich (Fitzcarraldo Editions 14.99), where she builds a Greek tragic chorus of memories about the Soviet Union.
Since the return of Lord Voldemort, artifacts and tools of the Dark Arts have become hugely popular, trading briskly in secondary markets like eBay and Borgin and Burke's.
Mr Lloyd, who was elected as PCC in November, said child sexual exploitation was a "hugely complex issue which casts a dark shadow" across the region.
Made by the design company Digital Kitchen, the nearly two-minute credit sequence to Dexter, entitled "Killer Breakfast", is a hugely clever introduction to the show's dark themes.
