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fluoresensitive · 6 months

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JUST A LITTLE SNACK: A SHORT STORY COLLECTION

A pregnant woman is devoured by an unsettling hunger. A man is buried alive, punished for a crime that is none. A boy goes missing, and he returns, changed.

In this collection of nine disturbing horror stories, the author of On Sundays, She Picked Flowers explores themes of disconcerting appetites of body and mind, of decay and the restless dead. Yah Yah Scholfield skillfully engages with Southern Gothic and Afro-Gothic traditions to create unsettling tales about nature, religion, and the body. Just a Little Snack is a perfect treat for fans of Her Body and Other Parties and What Moves the Dead.

Can everyone just like, scream with me and for me for a second? Because as of today, my short story collection is available for pre-order! Are y'all hungry for Just a Little Snack, or WHAT?

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON NYX PUBLISHING

#🦢#SCREAM KISS MY ASSSSSSSSSSS #black author #black horror author #horror fiction #yah yah scholfield #cover reveal #book announcement

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sugar-grigri · 6 months

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If Fumiko is monstrous then Fujimoto should start presenting her as such

Fumiko is written to remind us that Denji is a child, and I repeat, she is the symbol of a child's sexual trauma in all its horror and "paradoxes".

Touching Denji without his consent, catching an adolescent who hasn't yet discovered himself off guard, is the most obvious way of proving the link between the theme of sexual assault and Fumiko, but it doesn't stop there.

The fact that Denji accepts only proves this point: it shows just how much he's someone who needs boundaries and protection. He passively listens to what he's told without question simply because Fumiko has the upper hand.

She has one, but spends her time pretending she doesn't, in particular by disguising her age like a predator, calling him "senpai" when she's 22, and playing up her protective role as a "bodyguard" when she's only there to stop Denji thinking for himself

As can be seen in the dialogue between Miri and Denji, she positions herself as an interlocutor, standing in Denji's shadow, influencing his decisions and distracting the boy from the substance of Miri's message.

But she's a complete paradox, still trying to make Denji believe she's protecting him, she refers to Chainsaw Man as a "child", which rather than demonstrating a good intention shows that she's well aware of what Denji is and that she's abusing him head-on.

Who protects a child by attacking him?

Once again, I insist, these are two pages from the same chapter. Dare you tell me that Fumiko doesn't present any contradictions?

Above all, she makes it seem as if she only wants what's best for Denji, even when he hasn't responded to her pleas for help. Once again, there's a paradox: the predator blames her victim for not having seen her own vulnerability, whereas she’s only abusing those of her victim.

Fumiko is a metaphor for the very dangerousness of sexual assault, gentle on the surface but insidious, its violence only made clear and felt after the event, rising like a tide.

When Yoshida convinces Denji to give up his normal life, he leaves him in the hands of Fumiko, a public hunter, who symbolises the extent to which, despite the monster in front of them, danger also exists among men, and that the milieu of public hunters is a harmful world for a child.

I think the reason Fujimoto doesn't immediately place Fumiko in a position of condemnation is to instil a feeling of frustration and powerlessness at seeing Denji unprotected, to make it clear that "he's missing something", a parental figure.

But I think that for the writing to be complete, the author has to take a clear stance on the subject, in his own way of course, but explicitly

Seeing Fumiko next to Denji makes me anxious, it's such a common form of violence that it pulls me out of my reading.

Fumiko is a monster, so I pray that Fujimoto will have fun explicitly detailing her dark side and her horror.

If he doesn't, then she'll remain an unfinished and confusing chimera, the result of lazy writing and a fear of commitment.

#csm 136 #csm 137 #csm 139 #csm 142 #chainsaw man #csm #csm part 2 #csm spoilers #denji #fumiko #fumiko mifune #my thoughts #But I'm a realist I can also see the flaws in an author I love Fujimoto likes the dissident and morally controversial aspect of his work #Even when the violence is correctly presented there will be no narrator to condemn it Fujimoto doesn't risk accentuating Fumiko's horror #but just making it more present more controversial Just to disturb his readers who sometimes have no real use for the script.#Maybe I'm being too hopeful and justifying the shortcomings of Fumiko's writing to reassure myself #It's possible she's the black spot in part 2 #In a jump shonen you can't present a 22-year-old girl touching a teenager as a joke.#I'm in favour of creative freedom but I'm also in favour of authors being aware of their audience.

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m1ssnovember · 16 days

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My body doesn’t love me anymore.

I bleed and for that I am to be grateful

It’s coagulated and it doesn’t hurt anymore.

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haikumaven · 3 months

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Happy birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!! 🐦‍⬛🕯🖤📜🐈‍⬛️

I did this Raven inspired makeup look a few years ago 😊 still one of the best makeups I've ever done

#edgar allan poe #poe #poet #poetry #poems #writer #author #stories #macabre #morose #makeup #mua #raven #nevermore #quoth the raven #black cat #happy birthday #horror #horror stories

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bookaddict24-7 · 7 months

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RECO OF THE WEEK!

Ring Shout by P. Djelo Clark

Synopsis:

"In America, demons wear white hoods.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.

Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?"

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Check out my review on Goodreads here.

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readrenard · 10 months

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I would like to introduce: my most anticipated release of 2023!!!

Jamison has an amazing style & I've wanted to read their stories for a while now. SO happy they are finally being published. I am hungry for the ambitious black ballerina who makes deals in blood to succeed against the rich.

I Feed her to the Beast and the Beast is Me releases 08/29/2023, but it's available for pre-order right now.

#i want i want i want #i want it so bad #black author #non-binary author #book release #anticipated releases #2023 books #I feed her to the beast and the beast is me #jamison shea #dark fantasy books #horror books

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haveyoureadthispoll · 4 months

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Nobody has a ‘normal family’, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she could never return. But then the envelope arrives on her doorstep. Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper’s beloved cousin Rosie, hosted at the family home. Have they made an exception to the rule? Wouldn’t be the first time Vesper’s been given special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olive branch? A trap? Doesn’t matter. Something inside her insists she go to this wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxic environment she escaped from. Even if it means reuniting with her mother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen. When Vesper’s homecoming exhumes a horrifying family secret, she’s forced to reckon with her family’s beliefs and her own crisis of faith in this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties can bind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.

#polls #book: black sheep #author: rachel harrison #genre: horror #year: 2020s

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grady-hendrix-the-cat · 6 months

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Do you want to see pictures of Grady sleeping? Of course you do.

#black cats #grady hendrix #cats of tumblr #black cat love #kitty #cat lovers #crazy cat lady #horror author #funny cats

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psychophore · 2 years

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kieren-fucking-walker · 22 days

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which horror protagonist trope are you? 🔪🩸

Take this uQuiz to find out which horror movie protagonist trope you are, and then use this Piccrew to create your protagonist!

Tagged by: @softest-punk (sort of!)

Hey now, you can be sensible and not boring! I got all my friends out (never mind everyone else) and I've never felt particularly afraid of any horror movie villain I can punch.

They are very tired but they're alive and unimpressed with your murders, try harder.

Tagging anyone who wants to do this because it looks fun (that's what I did!) and also @dont-offend-the-bees because you're my horror buddy and I think between us we'd survive a horror (or at the very least I would make sure you got out and scramble after you or maybe haunt you as a friendly ghost to lessen the trauma ig?)

#tag games #horror #this was fun #sensible isnt boring i promise #its sensible to just beat the guy with anything you have to hand if you're trapped in a corner #catch me beating off a bad guy with a toaster kicking him in the balls and pulling the fire alarm on my way out of the building #and then calling the authorities because while i care not for them #im not getting caught up in some legal black hole after this #and while the legal system is shit #its their problem now

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fluoresensitive · 4 months

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FLUORESENSITIVE'S GROSS N GORY DOUBLE FEATURE!

Experience thrills, chills and ewwwwssss @ the fluoresensitive GROSS N GORY DOUBLE FEATURE! Read cult classics FILTHINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS and INGRID IS HUNGRY!

Filthiness is Next to Godliness: The Final Interview of Viola Vile (dir. yah yah scholfield, 2023): Witness the final interview of adult film star and performance artist, Viola Vile, the Goddess of Gore! + bonus features: soundtrack, director's commentary Ingrid is Hungry (dir. yah yah scholfield, 2023): Hungry, Hungry Ingrid's mother went away for the weekend...SOMETHING ELSE CAME BACK!

edit: ingrid is hungry has the right link now

#🦢#my writing #horror author #black horror author #i am. high as hell and i did all this work and no one is awake #digital collage #bricolage #peep how they look like vhs covers omg im so. im so tired but this eats.

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mrkvhs · 2 years

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Horror themed author (dangers in fiction) stimboard please and thank you -S

author stimboard with horror themes for anon. <3

#markiplier #markiplier egos #danger in fiction #author danger in fiction #author markiplier #the author #the host #the host markiplier #author stimboard #danger in fiction stimboard #markiplier stimboard #various stims #horror #horror cw #glitch #glitch cw #black and white stimboard

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hasmoneanbulbasaur · 7 months

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I recently finished read The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown.

A great sci-fi horror experience, that is short, sweet, (well, bloody), and to the point! Not only is it filled with thrills and chills, but also a hope for humanity. My review.

#books #book review #the scourge between stars #ness brown #scifi #sci-fi #science fiction #sci-fi horror #black authors #aliens #novella #scifi horror

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haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll · 2 months

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Have you read...

White Is for Witching concerns a twin named Miranda and her relationship with the sentient, xenophobic house she inhabits.

submit a horror book!

#White is for Witching #Helen Oyeyemi #horror books #horrorbookpoll #horror #bookblr #books #witch #witches #witch lit #witchcraft #gothic horror #magical realism #gothic #queer horror #lgbt horror #queer fiction #black authors

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fiendingforifs · 2 months

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Damn near all these books sound so intriguing!

#book recommendations #booktube #thriller books #horror books #diverse books #there's lots of black authors mentioned in this video #Youtube

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thisblackwitch · 2 years

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My newest book, a YA paranormal horror novella is out! Kinetics!

(MultiMind is my pen name :3)

The blurb for Kinetics (because I suck at talking about it):

Ava and Tyrone always shared everything. As twins, they were always two parts of a whole. But one day, Ava discovers that she is part of a much bigger whole. And Tyrone wants nothing more than for Ava to take part … or take her apart instead.

Now Ava faces a decision: either be by Tyrone’s side or become another one of his victims.

Doesn't matter to Tyrone, as long as he has her abilities - one way or another.

Kinetics is available in ebook and print (also, soon in audiobook!) anywhere books and ebooks are sold!

There is also a sample of Kinetics that can be read on my site, MultiMind Publishing - actually, all my works (yes, I have more books) have samples on that site, both print and audio! The samples show all content warnings at the start should the title have any. (such as Kinetics)!

#book #book tumblr #we need diverse books #YA horror #New book #black protagonist #black authors #bipoc books

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