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Black Horror Writers

Feeling a sudden desire, for whatever reason, to add some diversity to your bookshelf? Want to put a few bucks in the pockets of authors of color? Here’s a sampler platter to get you started. 

Tananarive Due A film historian and a hot name in horror fiction, Due is an outspoken academic and prolific author. Start with The Good House, a 2003 Gothic, if you’re a fan of haunted house stories.

Wrath James White A former athlete, White is a hugely prolific author of hardcore horror. You can start with The Resurrectionist, but honestly, with more than 35 books to choose from, you’ve got plenty of options.

Victor LaValle LaValle has only written four novels so far, but they’re well-regarded and rich narratives. The Changeling is the usual recommendation for a starting place.

Brandon Massey Southern Gothic themes woven through horror, suspense and urban themes - that’s Massey’s brand in a nutshell. He’s plenty prolific, so you’ve got a bunch to choose from. Maybe start with this year’s new release, The Quiet Ones.

Chesya Burke A prolific short story writer, Burke writes speculative fiction and comic books. If you’d like a collection of stories all in one place, try out Let’s Play White. If you’d rather do a novel, read The Strange Crimes of Little Africa.

Jemiah Jefferson Do you like pulpy erotic vampire horror? You don’t have to answer that. Just buy Jefferson’s books if you do. There’s a series, so you’ll want to start at the beginning with Voice of the Blood.

Michael Boatman An actor and screenwriter, Boatman is also a novelist. He writes splatterpunk that Joe Lansdale has praised, which is as fine an accolade as they come. The Revenant Road was his first novel. He also shows up in a ton of anthologies, so keep an eye out.

Helen Oyeyemi Oyeyemi is a rising star, Shirley Jackson Award finalist, scholar, a world traveler, among other things. Her most recent book, Gingerbread, came out in 2019. I think it would not be out of line to compare her to Angela Carter.

Maurice Carlos Ruffin A debut novelist, Ruffin’s work launched with a bang in February. His book We Cast a Shadow was long-listed for a stack of prizes, and as a scathing cultural sci-fi horror, it fits right in with the work of folks like Jordan Peele.

Nnedi Okorafor A Nigerian-American writer, Okorafor writes for both children and adults, and her stories have earned a whole stack of awards. She is, for the record, also disabled. She’s got a whole stack of YA and adult books to choose from, as well as comic books. Binti and its sequel are as good a place as any to start, though.

Jewelle Gomez Philanthropist, playwright, poet, author – Gomez dabbles in a lot of things, and she’s an outspoken voice for LGBTQ women of color. Check out The Gilda Stories if you’ve always wanted to read about a black lesbian vampire (and, let’s be honest, who hasn’t?)

PS: When you order, don’t waste your money on Amazon. Instead, use a service like https://bookshop.org/ that distributes your hard-earned cash to independent booksellers. Keep money in your community. 

PPS: I love Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler and also left them off the list because they’re well-known already and because I think it’s really important right now to support living artists, but you should check out their work too. 

long time, no m9

(might fuck around and draw the rest in modern stuff too. maybe. these were drawn in a 3 hr respite from the Mechanisms Fever)

Pride reminders!!

happy pride month!

Black Power and Gay Pride aren’t mutually exclusive. the first pride was a riot led by trans black women.

feel free to use!

INTREPID HEROES

(art-only blog is @shantywolves​ )

*Vox Machina are telling spooky stories on the Critical Role equivalent to Hallows Eve. Tiberius is telling a folk story from Draconia and is now describing a very scary room the protagonist stumbled upon*

Tiberius: A large pentagram on the floor, a altar, a large black kettle and a black robe.

Grog: A pointy hat, a broomstick,

Tiberius: Grog!

Grog: Three Newts,

Tiberius: This isn't how the story goes.

Grog: A lizard's tongue, eyeballs.

*Rest of the party laughs while Tiberius is giving Grog a death glare*

Big Gorgug Energy

I love these idiots so much

Redraw of one from a while ago!

these were done sorta quickly but?? here’s my first attempt at drawing the mighty nein, based off their newer designs! :)

quarantine mood 2020

Oh hello these turned out wicked! Celebrate that Sapphic love in the form of a woven patch! Etsy Link

Baking requires fairly precise timing. On the ship one day Caduceus puts four attempted cupcakes into a small clay oven, finds Caleb, and taps him on the top of the head.

"Twenty minutes," Caduceus says calmly, then sits down and starts checking on the beetles in his staff. Caleb looks at him, confused, before going back to his books.

Exactly twenty minutes later, Caleb's head pops up.

"Twenty minutes," he says.

Caduceus nods his thanks before putting his staff down and walking out the door. It's only three minutes later he returns holding a plate with four cupcake-shaped baked goods when Caleb realizes what just happened.

Pride and Prejudice (personal project) by Airi Pan

anyway here’s some stuff i’ve been doing if ur bored

watched a flight rising drawing stream [link]

made some bread [recipe link]

practiced drawing hands [reference post]

listened to a podcast about capitalism [link]

read about shitty rich people houses [link]

generated some moodboards and used them to create OCs [link]

watched a chill japanese dude play minecraft [link]

Hands Row 1 & 2 Row 3 Row 4 Row 5 & 6 Row 7

i guess im feeling numb!

my interpretations of laura and taliesin’s descriptions! apologies for the messy sketches! :’) which outfit would you most want to wear? 

(edit: also yes, there is no pirate hat I’m sorry!! maybe in a future drawing!) 

vox machina was like 90% "what's a team composition" and the might nein accidently created an unbeatable wall of perfect team build and i love it

Someone tagged my post saying that with Vox Machina each of them was their own hero, and the Mighty Nein have never really felt like that. All of them are just there to watch out for each other. Their first instinct is to protect each other, rather than defeat the opponent. It means that as the DM you can’t really target individual people because you’re always interacting with the whole group and their abilities. You want to break the clerics’ concentration on Bless before you  target any of the melee fighters, but the melee fighters have an ability that prevents you from leaving their range, so you attack the half-orc, but sucks to be you, because his armor fights back, and before you know it you have twelve crossbow bolts in your torso and your whole shit is on fire from two idiots who you’ve barely even seen on the battlefield. 

To know… Poor Cad, this latest episode of Critical Role hurt.

Do not alter or repost my art anywhere. Reblogs are love.

Have some bad sketches from episode 94 that I did right before bed! 

This episode implied that Caleb has been wearing his long hair down. Nice. I like it. 

Love the ladies getting excited about hairstyles they should do each others hair~

Essen drawing in the sand while holding a parasol is the best thing ever.

Percy, to Pike: You’re intimidating as fuck, you know that?

Pike: Me?

Percy: Yes.

Pike: How?!

Percy: Everyone’s always worried about impressing you.

Pike: Impressing me?

Percy, briskly: Yes, it’s why we’re rubbish when you’re not around, is everybody’s trying to impress you.

Pike: You know, I’m just rubbish. I’m just all the time rubbish [She laughs].

Percy: I know. Believe me, I’m aware. [He hands her a letter] Here’s a list of every terrible thing I’ve got going on in this city right now. So you’ll know what I’ve got cooking, plus some people that if you need particular things, you can talk to in the city, who are friends of the family. Uh, ten things to see in the city that might be nice, and my ten favorite books in the library, in case you get bored.