#horror homage

[stil-lindigo]

bite of winter.

a comic about a princess who died in the snow.

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[johnny-dynamo]

"THE EVIL DEAD" by Adam Perocchi

[weirdlookindog]

Howard Nostrand (1929-1984) - Zombie, c. 1970s

"Pre-Code horror-comics master Nostrand nods respectfully to Roger Hill, one of the field's most important collector-historians and co-founder of the influential EC Comics fanzine known as Squa Tront. Nostrand was a point-man artist with Harvey Comics during its heyday as a rival to EC's horror line. Nostrand's inside-joke device of placing Hill's name upon a figurative tombstone was likely inspired by a 1964 Tales from the Crypt anthology, for which Frank Frazetta had placed his cover-signature on a gravestone" source

[grayrazor]

It'd be in the truest spirit of Lovecraft's style that if you're writing homage fiction, include eldritch beings from other unrelated works of fiction in the lists of blasphemous names.

"She began to speak, calling upon the epithets of the outer gods, harsh sounds not meant for the human tongue. Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, Shuma-Gorath, Hastur, Ungoliant, Tzeench, Slannesh, Pah-Wraith, Redjac, Ideon, Qull of the Five Inversions, Mxyzptlk, Dormammu, Lavos, Jenova, Zeromus, Kyuubey, Xeelee, Ghidorah, Ogdru Jahad, Vorlon, Dagoth Ur, Hermaeus Mora, Sheogorath, Abeloth, Waru, Mnngal-Mnngal, Zonama Sekot, Phaaze, Unicron, W'rkncacnter."

[doesnotloveyou]

A Boy and His Dog (1975) references in Fallout (2024)

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

The most recent episode of Interview with a Vampire let's us see Lestat's side of the story and see how it compares to Louis' accounting of their relationship. As a result, it reaffirms just how unreliable of a narrator Louis is, but it also further illuminates elements of his character that the director and writers have been playing with since the beginning of the show.

There's this part in the episode where Lestat turns to Louis and apologizes and it's framed with Lestat turned to Louis on one side and Claudia on his other side. They're the angel and devil on Louis' shoulders, but who is the angel and who is the devil? And as my friend said, Armand and Daniel are placed into that same dynamic with Louis later on. We are being asked to decide who to trust, who's telling the truth, who's the good guy, but the fact of unreliability robs us of that decision.

This whole story is about Louis, he's the protagonist, though not the narrator, and he is constantly being pulled in two directions, no matter when or where he is in his story. He's a mind split in two, divided by nature and circumstance. He's vampire and human, owner and owned, father and child, angel and devil. He's both telling the story and being told the story. His history is a story he tells himself, and as we've seen, sometimes that story is not whole.

Louis is the angel who saved Claudia from the fire but he's also the devil who sentenced her to an life of endless torment, the adult trapped in the body of a child. He's the angel who rescued Lestat from his grief and also the devil who abandoned him, who couldn't love him, could only kill and leave him.

He's pulled in two directions, internally and externally at all times and so it's no wonder that he feels the need to confess, first to the priest, then Daniel, and then Daniel again.

He's desperate to be heard, a Black man with power in Jim Crow America who's controlled by his position as someone with a seat at the table but one who will never be considered equal. He doesn't belong to the Black community or the white community, he can't. He acts as a go-between, a bridge, one who is pushed and pulled until he can't take it anymore. He's a fledgling child to an undead father, he's a young queer man discovering his sexual identity with an infinitely experienced partner. He's confessing because he wants to be absolved, that human part of him that was raised Catholic, that child who believed, he wants to be saved. He wants to be seen.

Louis wants to attain a forever life that is morally pure, but he can't. He's been soiled by sin, by "the devil," as he calls Lestat, and he can never be clean again. Deep down, I think he knows this, but he can't stop trying to repent. He tries to self-flagellate by staying with Lestat and then tries to repent by killing him, but can't actually follow through. He follows Claudia to Europe to try and assuage his guilt. He sets himself on fire, attempts to burn himself at the stake, to purify his body, rid himself of the dark gift.

Louis is a man endlessly trying to account for the pain he has caused and he ultimately fails, over and over again, because he can't get rid of what he is. A monster. He's an endlessly hungry monster. He's hungry for love, for respect, for power, for forgiveness, for death. He's a hole that can never be filled. He can never truly acquire any of those things because he will always be punishing himself for wanting and needing them in the first place. He will never truly believe he deserves them and as a result, can't accept them if they are ever offered. He can never be absolved for he has damned himself by accepting the dark gift and thus has tainted himself past the point of saving.

[deebrisbyfish]

When I saw that this October ALSO had a Friday the 13th in it, I couldn't resist doing SOMETHING to acknowledge it in the strip. This initial gag was actually the inspiration for all of this month's extra strips.

[cosmicyellow]

Homage to @yugsly because they are a HUGE inspiration to me right now I am absolutely OBSESSED with their geometric art style so I attempted to redraw a panel from their book Be Kind, My Neighbour I hope I did it justice [[potential hyperfixation incoming]] !!!!!!

[konaharts]

He's been on my mind ,,,

[lunarlauncher]

If i see one more brain dead take about how the Nosferatu remake’s visual style is ripping off Coppola’s Dracula i will tie down every Letterbox-pilled Twitter reply guy horror fan and force them to watch a slide show where I compare every shot to a gothic painting and/or 1931 Dracula

[mellorocket]

If there's one thing I love about RE8, aside from the story and all that, it's that it's such a Huge love letter to classic gothic works.

[weirdlookindog]

Chilling Adventures in Sorcery #1 - Archie, 2021. Dan Parent's homage to Lee Elias.

[chocolatechipkraken]

Phos with a Pearl Eye

[xxhatchetxx]

@alt-zadr-b1tch3z day 5 ??? The Thang

And that’s a wrap from me! It’s always fun doing this event and I’m glad I was able to participate this year :,>

[femmchantress]

Ohmygod someone over on youtube made a Ted's Caving Page found footage-style adaptation! (the playlist contains all ten installments)

[deebrisbyfish]

Of all the jokes I've seen so far about so-called "AI Art", I've yet to see one that also references John Carpenter's THE THING. I mean, I'm sure they EXIST and I'm doubly sure folks will loudly let me know about it as soon as this starts running, but I'VE not seen them. Heidi was delighted to get cast in the Kurt Russell/MacReady role for this gag.