Afternoons in the Dark is a memoir focusing on the first ten years of Larry Dachslager’s obsession with cinema, beginning at age eight and ending with the acquisition of his first VCR at eighteen. It describes what it was like to be a young movie fan before the days when home video, cable TV, and streaming made movies easily accessible. In addition to a nostalgic reminiscence of his movie-centric Houston childhood, Larry provides an annotated list of every movie he saw in public from 1966-1979 and how the films corresponded with his coming of age.