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adharastarlight · 6 months

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the marauders as things I've said:

James: okay, love, you relax

Regulus: I won't relax, i live in perpetual fear

James: ...of what?

Regulus: the horrors

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kiikixo · 7 months

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#aesthetic #halloween #betty boop #dark aesthetic #dark fantasy #spooky #october #halloween vibes #black and white #spooky month #spooky memes #spooky gifs #horror #gifs #pumpkin #pumpkaboo #candles

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meerawrites · 2 months

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Black Vampires!

Below the cut you’ll find a list of 10 pieces of vampire media centring black folks by black folks, happy black history month!

1. Fledgling by Octavia Butler (see more)

2.The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomèz

3.House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

4.Darknesses by Lachelle Seville

5.My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

6.Slay: the stories of the vampire noire by multiple authors

7.Horror Noire (documentary on AMC+)

8.Vampires in Brooklyn (movie)

9.The Dark World Series by @writingvampires

10.The Black Vampyre (1819) by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, problematic themes and handling of blackness, however our black protagonist vampire, a black bisexual (implied) vampire protagonist is very AMC-Louis-like and it’s important for understanding the others as groundbreaking and reclaiming their stories as they are.

Happy Black History month! I rarely make booklists like this, however, it recently came to my attention that some people aren’t aware of the brilliant subgenre that is gothic/horror written by people of global majority (colour), given it is black history month this list focuses on black people vampire stories written by black people, most of which are also queer (cause vampires are queer af). Allyship is the bare minimum, if we as a society are to grow at all from our forefathers we must understand that our ancestors were flawed, unlearn internalized biases (racism etc), and make intersectional spaces for everyone. I’ve kept it to 10 for my own ability to count everything, I can say with most certainty there’s more out there. These are just the ones I’ve read/watched and have influenced me the most.

#meeralikesbooks #black history month #black history month 2024 #books and reading #vampires #gothic horror #black vampire #queer #lgbtq+#bisexual #lesbian #representation #representation matters

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mimi-0007 · 10 months

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African American history is American History!! You can't hide it!! Can't sweep it under the rug!!

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k-wame · 1 year

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JACOB ANDERSON • Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire 2022 • Horror • S01.E01 • dir. Alan Taylor

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2pyssst · 4 months

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ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡ @2ᴩyꜱꜱꜱᴛ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ

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richincolor · 3 months

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Happy Black History Month!

This Black History Month I'd like to celebrate the genre that makes us jump at every unknown noise, brings us nightmares, and has us up late turning the page in anticipation of what will happen next - Black Thriller & Horror! There has been a lovely uptick in the publishing of Black Thrillers and Horror in the past few years where Black protagonists are solving complex mysteries, fighting against all forms of supernatural beings, and sometimes a combination of both. I've had so much fun reading all of these novels and am greatly looking forward to what 2024 has to bring.

When creating a list of Black Thriller/Horror writers I must begin with the queen, Tiffany D. Jackson. Her first book "Monday's Not Coming" was a perfectly written thriller with a plot twist that hit with a gut punch that I'm still recovering from. Since then she's been on a streak with hit after hit after hit. Her latest, The Weight of Blood, is a book you cannot miss.

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation … Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret … one that will cost them all their lives.

2023 also gave us two amazing debut thrillers and I, for one, cannot wait to see what these two authors cook up next.

Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

You must work twice as hard to get half as much. Adina Walker has known this the entire time she’s been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy—a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It’s why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted from her top choice Ivy League college and any other. Her only chance to regain the future she’s sacrificed everything for is the Finish, a high-stakes contest sponsored by Edgewater’s founding family in which twelve young, ambitious women with exceptional promise are selected to compete in three mysterious events: the Ride, the Raid, and the Royale. The winner will be granted entry into the fold of the Remington family, whose wealth and power can open any door. But when she arrives at the Finish, Adina quickly gets the feeling that something isn’t quite right with both the Remingtons and her competition, and soon it becomes clear that this larger-than-life prize can only come at an even greater cost. Because the Finish’s stakes aren’t just make or break… they’re life and death. Adina knows the deck is stacked against her—it always has been—so maybe the only way to survive their vicious games is for her to change the rules.

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom. But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate choice: continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is—monstrous heart and all. That is, if the god-killer doesn’t catch her first. From debut author Jamison Shea comes I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me, a slow-burn horror that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.

And to round out this list, we also gotta point out the fellas who are also killing it with the Thriller/Horror genre.

Promise Boys by Nick Brooks

The prestigious Urban Promise Prep school might look pristine on the outside, but deadly secrets lurk within. When the principal ends up murdered on school premises and the cops come sniffing around, a trio of students―J.B., Ramón, and Trey―emerge as the prime suspects. They had the means, they had the motive . . . and they may have had the murder weapon. But with all three maintaining their innocence, they must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested. Or is the true culprit hiding among them?

The Getaway by Lamar Giles

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world’s most famous resorts. He’s got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property’s main theme park. Life isn’t so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it’s to get away from all that. As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff. First, Jay’s friend Connie and her family disappear in the middle of the night and no one will talk about it. Then the richest and most powerful families start arriving, only... they aren’t leaving. Unknown to the employees, the resort has been selling shares in an end-of-the-world oasis. The best of the best at the end of days. And in order to deliver the top-notch customer service the wealthy clientele paid for, the employees will be at their total beck and call. Whether they like it or not. Yet Karloff Country didn’t count on Jay and his crew--and just how far they’ll go to find out the truth and save themselves. But what’s more dangerous: the monster you know in your home or the unknown nightmare outside the walls?

The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson

Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Seventeen-year-old Douglas Jones wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making; he’s just trying to survive. But then a student is murdered and, for some reason, by the next day no one remembers him having ever existed, except for Douglas and the groundskeeper's son, Everett Everley. In his determination to uncover the truth, Douglas awakens a horror hidden within the forest, unearthing secrets that have been buried for centuries. A vengeful creature wants blood as payment for a debt more than 300 years in the making—or it will swallow all of Winslow in darkness. And for the first time in his life, Douglas might have a chance to grasp the one thing he’s always felt was power. But if he’s not careful, he will find out that power has a tendency to corrupt absolutely everything.

If you are a fan of murder mysteries, supernatural thrillers, or just like to get scared, get thee to a bookstore (or library) and support your Black Thriller/Horror writer.

#young adult books #weneeddiversebooks #book lists #black history month #black thriller #black horror

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missmisnomer · 1 year

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Sea that baptises and touches and tastes. Sea of blood. Sea of love.

Morpheus is the ageless, formless, eldritch King of Nightmares and frankly, we don't get enough representation of that fact. Give me the sumptuous horror, the luscious longing, the depths of insanity. Give me a monster worth loving, and the human crazy enough to do it.

Thank you for the meal @landwriter, your fic drives me absolutely feral. And thanks to @teejaystumbles, who with one image created a concept so potent it proceeded to knock me out of my art funk.

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vampirepyramidscheme · 7 months

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Like vampires? How about diverse vampires?

Then get your copy of our charity zine - Vampires of Color, Volume 2: Crimson Kiss.

We have a wonderful 80 page zine featuring stories, art, comics and more featuring BIPOC vampires (and even a NSFW mini zine if that appeals to you).

All profits will be donated to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America.

UPDATE! Pre-orders will close on 10/9 at 11:59pm PST.

(Originally 9/30)

Learn more here.

This anthology zine is apart of BIPOC VampDay.

#vampires #horror #anthology #zine #charity #fundraiser #bipocvampday #sickle cell awareness #sickle cell awareness month #black vampires #bipoc writers #bipoc artists #queer #trans #vampire #fantasy

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clovariia · 5 months

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you both have your father's eyes.

#south park #eric cartman #scott tenorman #my art #I AM EXTREMELY NORMAL ABOUT THE SOUTH PARK HALF-BROTHERS.#i've been wanting to draw some horror piece of these two for MONTHS but i took so long to think of a composition lmao #i'm having lots of fun experimenting with my art...teehee #i would love to draw more fucked up shit like this #my art style absolutely doesn't imply this fact but i LOVEEEEEEEEEE creepy horror stuff so much #i'm just trapped in cutesy art style hell #please notice how everything is black and white except for their matching brown eyes

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uwussch · 1 year

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omg very scary dangerous man!! (゜゜)

#I'm just so fucking sure that this man can't sit normally #my boi #I'm just realized that it's finally his month omg im stupid-#actually like sketch more #billy lenz #billy lenz fanart #art #black christmas fanart #black christmas 1974 #black christmas #horror movie

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hinaypod · 1 year

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★~Happy Black History Month from the Hi Nay team!~★

We've commissioned an amazing Black artist, Riptide (who's asked not to be tagged), to do a piece for our lovely but still mysterious Elder, Mary-Anne Weekes, who was responsible for creating the "good" Foci.

Once part of Sauvard's inner circle, Mary-Anne at some point chose to counter the other Elders with the creation of her own Foci. As the only Black member of the Ordo, and the eldest daughter of a hotel tycoon, she was treated with disdain by some members and alienated by others.

However, Sauvard and those in his inner circle respected her intelligence and prowess with magic, and she had a lover in Claudette-Jean, or CJ.

(picrew by @K_pupu)

Mary-Anne had a brother, whom she loved dearly, who offered to marry CJ for her so they could live together.

Her brother was eventually killed.

Her brother was represented by a bird, to match his flighty, free nature. She herself was represented by a fish, since she secretly always felt "out of water". And her love CJ was represented by a white lily, her favourite flower.

Mary-Anne's character was partly inspired by various pieces of information about Black Canadians living in Toronto in the late 19th century, early 20th century.

One of the figures that stood out was James Mink, who fled to Toronto from enslavement and became a millionaire, having owned a hotel and livery stable, who established the first transit systems in Toronto alongside his brother George. There's unfortunately a lot of misinformation about him and his family, since records on his life are sparse.

As a tribute to him and his daughter, we characterised Mary-Anne as the rich daughter of a hotel tycoon, her status respected by Sauvard and others.

While there was still a lot of prejudice in Toronto in the 1900s for Black Canadians (such as unions refusing trade jobs to Black workers), it had more opportunities for success for Black communities than other parts of North America.

With Mary-Anne Weekes, and another character - the elusive Journalist (who features in the Puppetmaster's Arc, and will play a big role in Act 3), a Black journalist active from the 1960s-1980s, I was able to delve deeper into Toronto's Black history and the kind of world these characters might have lived in. It's been fun and my brain is itching to write more about these two, hopefully in a way that's respectful, nuanced, and as historically accurate (or as close to it) as possible.

-Motzie

#black history month #hinaypod #hi nay podcast #hi nay art #mary-anne weekes #claudette-jean villeneuve #bhm #horror podcast #audio drama #riptide #black artist

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bloodyfinchesandgreenbirds · 2 years

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Queer fashion