💚👁️🕸️ In honour of The Magnus Protocol releasing today, here are some book recommendations based on The Magnus Archives Fears!! 🕸️👁️💚
Detailed list of books below the cut!
For more book recommendations, especially queer horror, check out my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks
The Buried ⚰️
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
- Stuck by Ben Young
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
- The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Corruption 🦠
- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
- Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
The Dark 🌑
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski
- No Power by Todd Kirby
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Desolation 🔥
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Burner by Robert Ford
- Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
- Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins
The End 💀
- Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
The Extinction 🦴
- Lost Signals by Max Booth III
- Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy
- No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
- The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones
The Eye 👁️
- Video Palace by Maynard Wills
- Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
- A History of Fear by Luke Dumas
- The Watchers by A.M. Shine
The Flesh 🦷
- You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca
- Carnivore by Justin Boote
- A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
- Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Hunt 🏹
- Hunt by Alexandra Nisneru
- The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
- Survive the Night by Danielle Vega
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Lonely ☁️
- Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan
- Solitude by Michael Penning
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Slaughter 🥩
- Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas
The Spiral 🌀
- That Darkened Doorstep by Catherine Jordan
- Mind the Mirrors by Amanda Leanne
- Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke
- Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
The Stranger🕴️
- It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- The Deep by Alma Katsu
- The Outside by Stephen King
The Vast 🪂
- From Below by Darcy Coates
- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
- Floating Staircase by Ronald Mafi
- Nightmare Sky by Red Lagoe
The Web 🕸️
- The Taking of Jake Livingston
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu
- The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
- Come Closer by Sarah Gran
If You Like The Magnus Archives 💚
- Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims
- Family Business by Jonathan Sims
- Gas Station by Jack Townsend
- Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
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book!l&co character lineup
finally finished extended version of my L&Co designs, based on their book descriptions! it took months, but im happy with the results
ID of designs + thumbnail-sketch under the cut
[image ID: two digital drawings of characters from Lockwood and Co books, done in semi-realistic style, black lineart and plain colour against grey background.
image 1: from left to right there are full body drawings of George Cubbins, Anthony Lockwood and Lucy Carlyle. George is standing facing left, slouching, he's looking at the viewer with indifferent expression. he's fat, light-skinned and has medium length fair hair. George's wearing round glasses, red t-shirt, baggy jeans, unzipped grey hoodie and sneakers. he has a grey sport bag in right hand and a black messenger bag across left shoulder.
next to him there's Lockwood, he's standing half turned to right, he's facing the viewer with a gentle smile. Lockwood is paler than George, almost a head taller and slim with short, slightly wavy, black hair. he's wearing a grey three piece suit with white shirt underneath, as well as smart black shoes and a purple tie. on top of it is a black greatcoat. Lockwood stands with one hand in pocket and another resting on rapier's grip. the sword is in its scabbard attached to Lockwood's belt.
furthest on the right is Lucy, she's standing half turned to right, head facing left with a curious look directed at the viewer. her skin is light and her hair is warm brown, slightly uneven and spiky with middle parting. she has a wide frame and is the same height as George. Lucy's wearing a baggy orange sweater, plaid grey skirt, black leggings and tall dark-brown work boots with iron patches. she's holding onto a strap of her rucksack that is on her right shoulder. there's also a belt on top of the sweater which holds her rapier.
image 2: from left to right there are full body drawings of Flo Bones, human version of the skull, Quill Kipps and Holly Munro. Flo is standing half turned to left, facing towards the viewer with a smirk. she's light-skinned with long dirty-blonde hair, and her face has smudges of mud all over. compared to previous pictures, she's almost as tall as Lockwood, but not quite. Flo is wearing long blue puffer jacket on top of her darker clothes that resemble one of fisherman's with mudded thigh-high rainboots. she stands with one hand in jacket pocket, one raising a brim of straw hat with a knife. said hat has a fishing hook stuck on its brim and two lavender stems attached to hat band.
next to her is the skull in his human form. he stands half turned to right, slouching, hands in pockets, with head thrown back with a wide smirk across his face. skull is very thin and not really tall, he is tanned and freckled with spiky dark hair. skull is wearing ill-fitting clothes: a white old-timey shirt that is slightly too big and grey trousers that are too small and short. he stands barefoot.
third from the left is Quill Kipps, he stand half turned to right, crossing his arms, head facing left with a look of annoyance. Kipps is short and slim, he has ruddy and freckled skin and short ginger hair. Kipps is wearing a grey leather jacket with Fittes logo on it as well as two medals, tight black jeans and chelsea boots. his rapier scabbard has a baldric type of belt. rapier itself has green gems on a hilt.
finally, there's Holly Munro, she's standing half turned to left, head facing right with a gentle smile. she's pretty tall and slim with deep rich black skin tone and black shoulder length curls. Holly's wearing a white short lantern sleeve shirt with a blue dress with a cloth belt wrapped around and tied into a bow at the back, as well as low heel shoes. she has a light-blue scarf wrapped around her head. Holly also has white small earrings and beige nail paint.
all of the characters have artist’s watermark at the lower right side of them./end ID]
bonus sketch
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Lockwood reread commentary pt. 2:
Now that I’m closer to Kipps’ age than Lucy’s, I find the idea of him at 20-22ish having to babysit manage a team of roughly 15-17 year olds kind of hilarious. He’s really just a young adult trying to figure out his life and then there’s this team of grimy children pulling insane stunts and roasting him at every turn. But at the same time he’s the closest thing to an adult they’ll trust and they’re also his only friends so he has to stick around and try to keep them alive.
Lockwood & co: *does something outrageously illegal*
Quill Kipps, old enough to have a consciousness: this is fine
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Can I mention the brilliance the RF Kuang did with Robin Swift’s name? No, not “Robin Swift,” but his original one.
We’ll never know what his original name was. I was waiting, all 500+ pages, and on the last one with Robin’s POV, we get nothing.
But he gets his name back. After all his suffering, I’m inclined to believe that he deserves it.
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late night talks
put a bunch of stem majors on a minecraft server and they talk about fourier analysis
ft @lummox-exe, me, @lightns881, and @peach-oolong-tea
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The main characters of Lockwood & Co:
Anthony "every fight can be a swordfight" Lockwood
Lucy "or we could just murder them with ghosts" Carlyle
George "I'm working with maniacs and I'm the one that likes fire" Karim/Cubbins
Holly "oh my god can any of these children just be fucking normal for a second—wait, where's my gun" Munro
Quill "I'm just along for the ride and also the adrenaline and oh would you look at that, I can fight ghosts again, happy me" Kipps
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