#bram stoker or mary shelley or stephen king

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

OOOOOOH the magnus institute characters are named after horror authors

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Frankensexy

Guillermo del Toro: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, I call this the tale of frankenstein del Toro: but this time del Toro: there's a little twist del Toro: the twist is that frankenstein is hot

del Toro: see, what if it starred Andrew Garfield and Oscar Isaac? Mary Shelley: which one is frankenstein? del Toro: doesn't matter, they're both pretty fuckable Shelley: Shelley: yeah that's right

Bram Stoker: are we back on this fuckable frankenstein kick? this is just awful Stoker: you're destroying the essence of the story! Stoker: frankenstein can't be hot Stoker: he's SUPPOSED to represent the hubris of man's folly! Mary Shelley: shut the fuck up bram

del Toro: and we're getting mia goth to be in it too Bram Stoker: and who's she playing? del Toro: del Toro: uhhhh del Toro: igor?

Mary Shelley: igor's not in the fuckin book Stephen King: are you sure about that, mary? i mean i've seen frankenstein and i'm pretty sure there was an igor Shelley: that was the MOVIE steve Shelley: and also igor wasn't in that either!! Shelley: jesus christ you guys

King: whoa whoa whoa mary King: are you saying that igor wasn't in the frankenstein book OR the frankenstein movie? Shelley: that's right King: well then King: where's he from? Barker: that's some real mandela effect shit Shelley: NO IT'S NOT

King: ok but where's igor from then? Shelley: how the hell should i know? probably from one of those fuckin idk flintstones meets frankenstein shit specials or something King: c'mon mary that's just silly King: also it would be frankenSTONE Shelley: what

Shelley: fine! put an igor in! I don't fuckin care Shelley: do whatever you fuckin want with your fuckin femme igor that Shelley: femme igor Shelley: wait Shelley: wait a second actually this idea slaps

del Toro: anyway back to my del Toro: [waggles eyebrows] cabinet of curiosities!

del Toro: watch, i'm going to introduce every episode the cabinet of curiosities with a pithy philosophical monologue del Toro: like if i was the giant flying liquid metal skull at the beginning of skeleton warriors Barker: pft you can try man but you're no tony jay

del Toro: light del Toro: dark del Toro: the two sides of the same coin battling for the hearts of mens souls del Toro: but what of those in the middle? del Toro: which way del Toro: will they turn?   [dramatic pause] King: just gives ya chills doesn't it? Barker: not really

[omgrandomwords]

WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER FOUR YEARS TO REALIZE HOW MANY TMA CHARACTERS ARE NAMED AFTER HORROR AUTHORS

[goryhorroor]

horror book covers remade

[inthewitchesstew]

My book recs

☆Mostly classics but a few more modern ones in there too!! Make sure to check warnings for any books you read ☆

1. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

2. 1984 - George Orwell

3. If We Were Villains - M.L Rio

4. Animal farm - George Orwell

5. Dracula - Bram Stoker

6. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

7. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

8. Notes From the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

9. Dante's Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

10. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

11. Ariel - Sylvia Plath

12. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath

13. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath

14. Moby Dick - Herman Melville

15. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper lee

16. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

17. Macbeth - William Shakespeare

18. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

19. The Devils - Fyodor Dostoevsky

20. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky

21. A Nervous Breakdown - Anton Chekhov

22. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

23. The Wind in The Willows - Kenneth Grahame

24. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

25. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

26. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

27. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

28. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin

29. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

30. Emma - Jane Austen

31. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

32. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

33. The Odyssey - Homer

34. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

35. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

36. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

37. A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

38. The Trial - Franz kafka

39. My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

40. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

41. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

42. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

43. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

44. Selected Stories - Alice Munro

45. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

46. Normal People - Sally Rooney

47. Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre

48. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

49. Persuasion - Jane Austen

50. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

51. The Death of The Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

52. The Iliad - Homer

53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

54. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger

55. The Outsiders - S.E Hinton

56. The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

57. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

58. Middlemarch - George Eliot

59. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

60. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

61. Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

62. The Stranger - Albert Camus

63. The Republic - Plato

64. Letters From a Stoic - Seneca

65. Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

66. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

67. Bunny - Mona Awad

68. Belladonna - Anbara Salam

69. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

70. My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun - Emily Dickinson

71. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing - Michel de Montaigne

72. The Telltale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe

73. The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

74. Come Close - Sappho

75. The Fall of Icarus - Ovid

76. Tender Is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica

77. Cassandra - Christa Wolf

78. Forbidden Notebook - Alba de Céspedes

79. Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

80. Carrie - Stephen King

81. Mrs. S - K Patrick

82. Sunburn - Chloe Michelle Howarth

83. Perfume - Patrick Suskind

84. After Dark - Haruki Murakami

85. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

86. No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

87. Wednesday's Child - Yiyun Li

88. My Husband - Maud Ventura

89. All Down Darkness Wide - Sean Hewitt

90. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

91. The Waves - Virginia Woolf

92. The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

93. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

94. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

95. Journey Into the Past - Stefan Zweig

96. Outline - Rachel Cusk

97. Chess Story - Stephen Zweig

98. Diary of a Madman - Nikolai Gogol

99. A Very Easy Death - Simone De Beauvoir

100. A Writer's Diary - Virginia Woolf

Enjoy!!

[phantom-of-notre-dame]

Books Read in 2023

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Dec. 27, 2022- Jan. 16, 2023)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson (Jan. 16- Jan. 28)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (Jan. 28- Feb. 22)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J.R.R. Tolkien (Feb. 22- March 5)

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (March 5- March 15)

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (March 15- March 27)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (March 27- April 24)

Tales of Norse Mythology by Helen A. Guerber (April 24- May 20)

The Medici by Paul Strathern (May 20- June 12)

Ghost Stories of Tennessee by A.S. Mott (June 12- June 21)

The Borgias by Paul Strathern (June 21- July 22)

Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire (July 22- August 1)

Carrie by Stephen King (August 1- August 13)

The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth (August 13- September 5)

Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon (September 5- November 4)

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise by Vilém Flusser (November 4- November 7)

Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (November 7- November 22)

King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table by Martin J. Dougherty (November 22- December 3)

Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir (December 3- December 27)

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (December 27- December 27)

[readerbookclub]

Paranormal - A Book List

Hello everyone! This month’s list is a collection of novels that deal with the supernatural! Are you ready for something a little spooky?

As always, please vote for which one we should read using the link at the bottom of the post. 

The Saturday Night Ghost Club, by Craig Davidson

Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls--a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place--Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly lighthearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become.

Opium and Absinthe, by Lydia Kang

New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied. Tillie can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for a girl who relies on facts and figures to know what’s real—or whether she can trust those closest to her.

Later, by Stephen King

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.

The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson

It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

In the Shadow of Blackbirds, by Cat Winters

In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never believed in ghosts. During her bleakest moment, however, she’s forced to rethink her entire way of looking at life and death, for her first love—a boy who died in battle—returns in spirit form. But what does he want from her? Featuring haunting archival early-twentieth-century photographs, this is a tense, romantic story set in a past that is eerily like our own time.

Please vote for our next book here. 

[frostyreturns]

Best And Worst Books From 2022

Top 5 Classics of 2022

5.) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 4/5

4.) Dracula - Bram Stoker 4/5

3.) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley 4/5

2.) The Screwtape Letters - C.S Lewis 5/5

1.) The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien 5/5

Bottom 5 Classics of 2022

5.) War Of The Worlds - H.G Wells 3/5

4.) Animal Farm - George Orwell 2/5

3.) Beren And Luthien - J.R.R/Christopher Tolkien 2/5

2.) Roughing It - Mark Twain 2/5

1.) Walden - Henry David Thoreau 2/5

Top 5 miscellaneous genre fiction of 2022

5.) The Road -Cormac McCarthy 3/5

4.) Misery - Stephen King 3/5

3.) The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson 3/5

2.) Batman No Mans Land - Greg Rucka 5/5

1.) Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay 5/5

Bottom 5 miscellaneous genre fiction of 2022

5.)  Splintercell - Raymond Benson 3/5

4.) Skin -Ted Dekker 3/5

3.) Pirate Latitudes - Michael Chrichton 3/5

2.) Skipping Christmas- John Grisham 2/5

1.) Small Steps- Louis Sachar 2/5

Top 5 Star Wars Novels of 2022

5.) Jedi Search - Kevin J Anderson 4/5

4.) Dark Apprentice - Kevin J Anderson 4/5

3.) Heir To The Empire - Timothy Zahn 5/5

2.) The Empire Strikes Back - Donald F Glut 5/5

1.) The Last Command - Timothy Zahn 5/5

Bottom 5 Star Wars Novels of 2022

5.) Dark Force Rising -Timothy Zahn 3/5

4.) Tatooine Ghost - Troy Denning 3/5

3.) Rogue Planet - Greg Bear  3/5

2.) The Courtship Of Princess Leia - Dave Wolverton 3/5

1.) Splinter Of The Minds Eye - Alan Dean Foster 3/5

Top 5 Young Reader Novels of 2022

5.) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 4/5

4.) Holes - Louis Sachar 4/5

3.) The Magicians Nephew - C.S Lewis 4/5

2.) The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe - C.S Lewis 4/5

1.) A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket 4/5

Bottom 5 Young Reader Novels of 2022

5.) Bailey SK:Swamp Monsters Don’t Chase Wild Turkeys - Debbie Dadey 1/5

4.) Goosebumps: Go Eat Worms - R.L Stine 1/5

3.) X Men Cyclops And Phoenix - Paul Mantell 1/5

2.) Of Mice And Nutcrackers - Richard Scrimger 1/5

1.) Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - John Tiffany 1/5

Top 5 comics of 2022

5.) Calvin And Hobbes: Revenge Of The Baby Sat - Bill Watterson 5/5

4.) Calvin And Hobbes - Bill Watterson 5/5

3.) Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic Omnibus Vol 2 -  John Jackson Miller 5/5

2.) Batman Hush - Jeph Loeb 5/5

1.) Calvin And Hobbes: Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons - Bill Watterson 5/5

Bottom 5 Comics of 2022

5.) Archie Jumbo Digest 326 3/5

4.) Amazing Spider-Man Coming Home - J Michael Straczynski 2/5

3.) You’re So Smart Snoopy - Charles Schultz 2/5

2.) Marvel Comics Digest #2 Avengers 2/5

1.) Batman Serious House On Serious Earth - Grant Morrison 1/5

[h0m3land3r-exe]

Favorite Color(s): Purple and blue!

Favorite Flavor(s): Wild Cherry, chocolate, apple

Favorite Music: Classical (violin, harp, and piano specifically), showtunes, video game soundtracks, rock, disco, polka

Favorite Movies: Us (2019), Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween

Favorite Series: Steven Universe, The Boys, Criminal Minds, Law & Order, Forensic Files, My Little Pony

Last Song: Screams and Silence by Magpiepony and TheLostNarrator

Last Series: Steven Universe

Last Movie: Stephen King's Misery

Currently Reading: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula

Currently Watching: Wendigoon's Cryptid Iceburg

Currently Working On: An AU for the game We Happy Few

Tagged by: @hom3land3r (my main acc is @four-armed-angel)

Tagging: @ferretoftrouble @star-ligh7

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Ace Succubus

John Wiswell: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the asexual succubus Wiswell: it's about a succubus who's different from the stereotypical succubus Wiswell: it makes you think about what if you were an individual in a society

Wiswell: so this succubus, you see, is ace Barker: oh come the fuck on Barker: come on!!! Barker: you can't have an asexual succubus! Barker: how would that even work?! Wiswell: well, CLIVE Wiswell: i'm about to explain that

Wiswell: this ace succubus expresses love in other ways Wiswell: like holding hands Wiswell: or parallel play Wiswell: that's when you sit next to each other on the couch playing stardew valley on the krobus the monster merchant roommate route Barker: what

Bram Stoker: interesting! i, for one, am glad to finally hear a succubus story without all that sex Barker: you can't just have an asexual succubus! Barker: that's like having a straight vampire! Stoker: Stoker: NOW SEE HERE YOU LITTLE-!!

Stoker: vampires aren't gay, how dare you!? Anne Rice: um yeah of course vampires are gay Stoker: no they're not! Rice: yes they are! Barker: fight! fight! fight! Poe: stop it! stop it! everyone, settle down! Mary Shelley: [flipping switchblade] finally, some action!

Poe: mary! who's side are you even on in this fight? Shelley: [stabbing Stoker] the winning side! Shelley: [stabbing Rice] as always Poe: Poe: yeah i guess that's usually try Shelley: [stabbing Poe] ALWAYS true Shelley: [stabbing Barker] try and stop me, nerds!

Barker: this is ridiculous, how can you have a succubus who's not horny?? Barker: i am offended by the very idea! King: actually, my boy joe dropped the take of the century on me earlier, he said that some aces actually DO get horny Barker: i am not getting into a discourse steve

Barker: how am i even supposed to get horny for this story about a succubus NOT having sex?! Wiswell: i have another story about a succubus turning into a couch Barker: how am i supposed to get horny for a couch!? Barker: who am i, JD vance!? [rim shot]

[coiled-dragon]

I need to be better about considering audiobooks Books I Have Read. It feels "fake" but its not a lesser way to get the story... I wanna start keeping logs of what books ive read, regardless of if I sat and stared at a page to hallucinate for a few hours, or if I listened to someone tell me their tale while Im working.

So far this year I have read:

-Dracula (twice) by Bram Stoker -The Ritual by Adam Nevill -Later by Stephen King -Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[compozingart]

Literary Drawlloween Prompt List 2023

(Translation at the end of the post)

After two years (or so?) without participating in any drawing events in October, this year I decided to create my very own prompt list!

For career purposes, I niched the list with the literary theme to explore spooky characters, wether they're from horror books or not. It is not a daily challenge because I really wanted to focus on quality over quantity this time.

Anyone is welcome to join in! Just remember to credit me and, if possible, tag or mention me so I can check your art as well <3 (my IG profile is written on the image).

Here's a translation for English speakers:

01/10 - Dracula (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

04/10 - Carmilla (Carmilla, by Sheridan Le Fanu)

07/10 - Lestat (Interview with the vampire, by Anne Rice)

10/10 - Frankenstein's monster (Frankesntein, by Mary Shelley)

13/10 - Erik (Phantom of The Opera, by Gaston Leroux)

16/10 - Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz, by Frank Baum)

19/10 - Coraline (Coraline, by Neil Gaiman)

22/10 - Carrie White (Carrie, by Stephen King)

25/10 - Brás Cubas (The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis)

27/10 - Samel (Renascimento Sombrio*, by Piter Salvatore)

31/10 - Bia (As cartas de Vento*, by Fábio Yabu)

*These last books haven't been translated to English yet, so feel free to use it as a blank space to add a character of your choice!

1. Bia is the same character from the Sea Princesses TV series, but her first appearence was in the book mentioned. 2. Renascimento Sombrio is available on Amazon as an e-book. If you're curious you can see how Samel looks like (he's the ginger guy on the cover).

[lilyletham]

Hi! I hope your recovery is going well, Lily, and the transfusion is doing its job. We're very lucky to have you here. If you feel like it; what are your favorite films and books? ❤️🖤

I am doing well, thanks! My levels are all trending upwards to normal, thanks to the transfusion and other treatments. Oh wow, tough question though! I love too many to fully list them all but here's some that I really enjoy and can remember to list right now: Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal Lecter movies Event Horizon Pleasantville The Truman Show Pan's Labyrinth Natural Born Killers Stay(of course, essentially one of my all-time favs, even before I got into RG fandom) K-PAX American Beauty A Beautiful Mind Gladiator Moulin Rouge The Green Mile Legend Looking to expand into older films from 50s-70s, ofc there's never enough time and it takes me a while to get through my watchlist, but I'm particularly interested in David Lynch atm, and while I've seen a majority of Twin Peaks and The Elephant Man(absolutely beautiful film and devastatingly tragic), I'd like to watch the rest of his films as well. As for books, it'd probably surprise people that I'm not a huge book reader, as sometimes my attention span struggles to sit for long periods of time and absorb the writing. It's why I like short-form writing like poetry, short stories, and fanfic. Mind you I have read some 250k+ word fics and I had to take long breaks sometimes with all of the chapters. However I do have a fondness for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and the short horror stories of Stephen King.

[t4t-apexeclipse]

the sides fav books:

logan: we all know it’s the murder of roger ackroyd but i bet his second fav is sherlock holmes (which i have yet to read sadly, but i do own it!!!). or maybe fahrenheit 451?

patton: there’s this book i read as a kid, called my one hundred adventures by polly horvath. i remember it being a cute read, and i think patton would love it

roman: lord of the rings you cannot change my mind

virgil: frankenstein by mary shelley (projecting with this one lmao). he also enjoyed dracula by bram stoker. gothic literature is his jam

janus: i don’t know why but i think he’s secretly a hunger games fan. i haven’t finished any of them but what ive read so far seems like something he’d enjoy idk

remus: anything by hp lovecraft (but ofc the call of cthulhu is way up there). or maybe stephen king’s it?