#it is casa tomada/ house taken over

[algumaideia]

Interisting how the two pieces of Argentinian literature I'm interested in reading and know that exist are short stories.

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Casa tomada (House taken over) (Julio Cortázar) "It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. The mystery that revolves around what those entities are is largely left up to interpretation, allowing the genre of the story to vary from fantasy to psychological fiction to magic realism to political fiction, among others."

Nightworld (F. Paul Wilson) "At the start of Nightworld the sun rises five minutes too late. Repairman Jack can't understand why the scientists are so disturbed by this, but when portals to Another Dimension open all over the world, spewing a horde of Eldritch Abominations every night, the fact that every day the sun inexplicably rises later and sets earlier than the last becomes a reason for serious panic."

[mistergreatbones]

you know what We Have Always Lived in the Castle reminds me of? House Taken Over / Casa Tomada by Julio Cortazar

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Wrap yourself in the breathtaking landscapes and rhythms of northern Florida.

Allison Janae Hamilton’s “A House Called Florida” is a three-channel film installation depicting the artist’s home region. In it, the artist references French Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa Tomada” (“House Taken Over”) about ghosts that slowly take over a home and eventually push out its owners, room by room. Hamilton’s film pays tribute to the Black Floridians who remained in the Red Hills and Forgotten Coast regions, despite the racial violence and environmental precariousness they faced throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Delve deeper into the Great Migration and its complex impact with three of the artists featured in the exhibition—Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, and Robert Pruitt— during Brooklyn Talks on May 18. Get your ticket, which includes after-hours access to #GreatMigrationBkM, at the link below.

🎟 https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

📷 Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Photo by Frankie Alduino

[laannie0803]

Dalton Greyjoy, conocido como el Kraken Rojo, fue el Señor de las Islas del Hierro, Lord Reaper de Pyke y jefe de la Casa Greyjoy durante los últimos días de Viserys I Targaryen y luego la Danza de los Dragones. Se le considera un gran héroe de los hijos del hierro de las Islas del Hierro.

Dalton era un hombre osado y sanguinario. Fue amado por sus hombres pero no por sus esposas, ya que se cansó rápidamente de las mujeres.

Dalton, hijo salvaje del heredero de Pyke, remaba a los cinco años y despegaba a los diez, navegando con su tío para saquear las ciudades piratas de las islas Basilisk. A los catorce, Dalton había navegado hasta Old Ghis, luchó en una docena de acciones y reclamó cuatro esposas de sal.

Dalton reclamó una espada larga de acero valyrio, a la que llamó Nightfall, de un corsario muerto. Mientras luchaba en los Stepstones como un velero, Dalton, de quince años, vengó a su tío después de presenciar su muerte. Debido a que Dalton salió de la pelea empapado en sangre por una docena de heridas, los hombres comenzaron a llamarlo el Kraken Rojo. Más tarde, en el mismo año, Dalton regresó a las Islas del Hierro para reclamar la Silla Seastone después de enterarse de la muerte de su padre. Inmediatamente comenzó a construir barcos, forjar espadas y entrenar cazas, citando que "la tormenta se acerca" como la razón.

La Danza de los Dragones comenzó después de la muerte del Rey Viserys I Targaryen en 129 d. C., cuando Dalton tenía dieciséis años. Se dice que el Kraken Rojo se rió después de enterarse del estallido de la guerra.

Los verdes de Aegon II Targaryen le ofrecieron a Dalton el puesto de capitán de barcos y el almirantazgo para reemplazar a Ser Tyland Lannister, quien había sido nombrado maestro de monedas, si Dalton traía sus barcos alrededor de Westeros para luchar contra Lord Corlys Velaryon, la Serpiente Marina. En lugar de aceptar la oferta, Dalton esperó a ver qué podían ofrecer los negros. En el consejo negro, el príncipe Daemon Targaryen sugirió apelar a la sed de sangre de Dalton para ponerlo del lado de Rhaenyra Targaryen. En lugar de pedirle que navegara a Blackwater Bay, Rhaenyra solo le pidió a Dalton que atacara a sus enemigos.

El Kraken Rojo eligió el negro sobre el verde, y decidió atacar las cercanas tierras del oeste, vulnerables con Lord Jason Lannister haciendo campaña en las tierras de los ríos. La esposa de Jason, Lady Johanna, bloqueó las puertas de Casterly Rock pero no pudo proteger el resto del oeste. Dalton quemó la flota de la Casa Lannister y saqueó Lannisport, llevándose oro, cereales y mercancías comerciales. Cientos de mujeres y niñas fueron tomadas como esposas de sal, incluida la amante favorita de Jason y sus hijas naturales. Dalton lideró la captura de Kayce, y después de la caída de Faircastle y Fair Isle reclamó a cuatro de las hijas de Lord Farman como esposas de sal, dando la quinta, la "hogareña", a su hermano Veron. Lord Jason murió en la batalla de Red Fork en 130 d. C.

Durante la mayor parte de dos años, el Kraken Rojo gobernó el Mar del Atardecer como los reyes nacidos del hierro de antaño, aunque no reclamó el título de Rey de las Islas del Hierro. Ser Tyland Lannister y la regencia de Aegon III ordenaron a Dalton que detuviera sus incursiones, pero el Kraken Rojo los ignoró. Cuando Lady Johanna Lannister comenzó a construir una nueva flota en nombre de su hijo, Lord Loreon Lannister, los hombres de hierro de Dalton quemaron sus astilleros y secuestraron a otras cien mujeres.

Dalton nunca tomó una esposa rockera, aunque tenía veintidós esposas saladas y se jactaba de tener cien. Cuando Dalton se enteró del espectáculo de ganado del Día de la Doncella, consideró enviar a una de sus hermanas como candidata para convertirse en la segunda esposa del rey Aegon III Targaryen. Después de que sus occidentales defendieran a Kayce y mataran al tío favorito de Dalton, Johanna envió una flota irregular para invadir discretamente Fair Isle. Sin embargo, los hombres de hierro tendieron una emboscada a estos hombres del oeste, y Dalton envió las cabezas de Lord Prester, Lord Tarbeck y Ser Erwin Lannister a Johanna en Casterly Rock.

Después de que Lord Alyn Velaryon derrotara a la flota Braavosi en Stepstones durante la Guerra de las Hijas, Lord Unwin Peake intentó deshacerse de Alyn Oakenfist enviándolo a poner fin a la insurrección de Dalton. Dalton respondió reuniendo cientos de barcos largos en Fair Isle y las costas de las tierras occidentales. El Kraken Rojo tenía la intención de conquistar las Islas Escudo y Driftmark y saquear Oldtown y Sunspear.

Mientras dormía en el dormitorio de Lord Farman en Faircastle en 133 d.C., Dalton murió cuando una de sus esposas de sal, la niña Tess, le cortó el cuello con su propia daga antes de arrojarse al mar. Como el Kraken Rojo nunca había tomado una esposa rockera, sus herederos eran dos jóvenes hijos de sal en Pyke, Toron y Rodrik. Dalton también tenía tres hermanas y varios primos ambiciosos. Toron tenía solo cinco años, y pocas horas después de la muerte del Kraken Rojo, estalló una sangrienta lucha por la sucesión entre los nacidos del hierro. Cientos de hombres de hierro murieron cuando Fair Isle se rebeló. Faircastle resistió por un tiempo, pero el castillo cayó después de que Gunthor Goodbrother mató a Alester Wynch mientras luchaba por otra de las esposas de sal de Dalton, Lysa Farman. Habiendo llegado para encontrar a Dalton ya muerto, Alyn Puño de Roble dejó un tercio de su flota con los hombres del oeste un y regresó a casa para las tierras de la corona.

En 134 d. C, la viuda de Lord Jason Lannister, Johanna Lannister, vengó las incursiones de Dalton haciendo que sus hombres de armas navegaran hacia las Islas del Hierro con la flota de Ser Leo Costayne, el almirante de la Cuenca. Entre los nacidos de hierro muertos se encontraban dos de las hermanas de Dalton y nueve de sus primos. Su hijo menor, Rodrik, fue tomado cautivo, castrado y convertido en el nuevo tonto de Casterly Rock.

La espada de Dalton, Nightfall, finalmente pasó a la Casa Harlaw. La vida del Kraken Rojo está incluida en Sea Demons: A History of the Children of the Drowned God of the Isles del Archimaestro Mancaster.

Dalton Greyjoy, known as the Red Kraken, was Lord of the Iron Islands, Lord Reaper of Pyke, and head of House Greyjoy during the final days of Viserys I Targaryen and then the Dance of the Dragons. He is regarded as a great hero of the ironborn of the Iron Islands.

Dalton was a daring and bloodthirsty man. He was loved by his men but not by his wives, as he tired of women quickly.

The wild young son of the heir to Pyke, Dalton rowed at age five and reaved at ten, sailing with his uncle to plunder the pirate towns of the Basilisk Isles. By fourteen, Dalton had sailed as far as Old Ghis, fought in a dozen actions, and claimed four salt wives.

Dalton claimed a Valyrian steel longsword, which he named Nightfall, off a dead corsair. While fighting in the Stepstones as a sellsail, the fifteen-year-old Dalton avenged his uncle after watching his death. Because Dalton emerged from the fight drenched in blood from a dozen wounds, men began calling him the Red Kraken. Later in the same year, Dalton returned to the Iron Islands to claim the Seastone Chair after hearing of his father's death. Immediately he began to build longships, forge swords, and train fighters, citing that "the storm is coming" as the reason.

The Dance of the Dragons began after the death of King Viserys I Targaryen in 129 AC when Dalton was sixteen. The Red Kraken is said to have laughed after hearing of the outbreak of war.

The greens of Aegon II Targaryen offered Dalton the position of master of ships and the admiralty to replace Ser Tyland Lannister, who had been made master of coin, if Dalton would bring his ships around Westeros to battle Lord Corlys Velaryon, the Sea Snake. Instead of leaping to the offer, Dalton waited to see what the blacks had to offer. On the black council, Prince Daemon Targaryen suggested appealing to Dalton's bloodlust to bring him on the side of Rhaenyra Targaryen. Instead of asking him to sail to Blackwater Bay, Rhaenyra only asked for Dalton to attack her enemies.

The Red Kraken chose black over green, deciding to attack the nearby westerlands, vulnerable with Lord Jason Lannister campaigning in the riverlands. Jason's wife, Lady Johanna, barred the gates of Casterly Rock but was unable to protect the rest of the west. Dalton burned the fleet of House Lannister and sacked Lannisport, carrying off gold, grain, and trade goods. Hundreds of women and girls were taken as salt wives, including the favorite mistress of Jason and their natural daughters. Dalton led the capture of Kayce, and after the fall of Faircastle and Fair Isle he claimed four of Lord Farman's daughters as salt wives, giving the fifth, the "homely one", to his brother Veron. Lord Jason was killed in the Battle of the Red Fork in 130 AC.

For the better part of two years, the Red Kraken ruled the Sunset Sea like the ironborn kings of old, although he did not claim the title King of the Iron Islands. Ser Tyland Lannister and the regency of Aegon III commanded Dalton to cease his raiding, but the Red Kraken ignored them. When Lady Johanna Lannister began building a new fleet on behalf of her son, Lord Loreon Lannister, Dalton's ironmen burned her shipyards and abducted another hundred women.

Dalton never took a rock wife, although he had twenty-two salt wives and boasted of having a hundred. When Dalton heard of the Maiden's Day Cattle Show, he considered sending one of his sisters as a candidate to become King Aegon III Targaryen's second bride. After her westermen defended Kayce and slew Dalton's favorite uncle, Johanna sent a ragtag fleet to discretely invade Fair Isle. The ironmen ambushed these westermen, however, and Dalton sent the heads of Lord Prester, Lord Tarbeck, and Ser Erwin Lannister to Johanna at Casterly Rock.

After Lord Alyn Velaryon defeated the Braavosi fleet in the Stepstones during the Daughters' War, Lord Unwin Peake attempted to rid himself of Alyn Oakenfist by sending him to end Dalton's insurrection. Dalton responded by gathering hundred of longships to Fair Isle and the coasts of the westerlands. The Red Kraken intended to conquer the Shield Islands and Driftmark and sack Oldtown and Sunspear.

While sleeping in Lord Farman's bedchamber at Faircastle in 133 AC, Dalton was killed when one of his salt wives, the girl Tess, cut his throat with his own dagger before throwing herself into the sea. As the Red Kraken had never taken a rock wife, his heirs were two young salt sons at Pyke, Toron and Rodrik. Dalton also had three sisters and several ambitious cousins. Toron was only five years old, and within hours of the Red Kraken's death a bloody struggle for succession broke out among the ironborn. Hundreds of ironmen were killed as Fair Isle rose in rebellion. Faircastle held out for a time, but the castle fell after Gunthor Goodbrother slew Alester Wynch while fighting for another of Dalton's salt wives, Lysa Farman. Having arrived to find Dalton already dead, Alyn Oakenfist left a third of his fleet with the westermen and returned home for the crownlands.

In 134 AC Lord Jason Lannister's widow, Johanna Lannister, avenged Dalton's raids by having her men-at-arms sail to the Iron Islands with the fleet of Ser Leo Costayne, the lord admiral of the Reach. Among the ironborn slain were two of Dalton's sisters and nine of his cousins. His younger son, Rodrik, was taken captive, gelded, and made into Casterly Rock's new fool.

Dalton's sword, Nightfall, eventually passed to House Harlaw. The Red Kraken's life is included in Archmaester Mancaster's Sea Demons: A History of the Children of the Drowned God of the Isles.

[akeytothearmoire]

Leopard on the Run

I had a bunch of photos from Spain that I had still not posted, so here they come!

These were taken in Lugo, a city which is part of Galicia, in the Northwest part of the peninsula. It's a city surrounded by a Roman wall that is part of UNESCO's World Heritage sites, and is over 17 centuries old! Yes, 17! This is where my mom is from, and where she still has the house and land where she was born, which is over 300 years old. I spent some of the best summers of my life running around these mountains, so this city is very special to me.

For the roadtrip, I chose to wear all black for a sleek and easy look, and topped it off with a linen trench coat that belonged to my dad. Hope you like it!

WHAT I WORE:

Sweater: Cashmere; Kier + J (similar here, here, here)

Leggings: Cotton and elastane; Anne Klein (similar here)

Trench Coat: Linen; Teller Coat, it belonged to my dad (similar here)

Shoes: Leopard print calfhair; Coach (similar here, here, here)

Bag: Woven rattan (similar here, here, here)

Ring: Gold (similar here)

Earrings: Faux tortoise shell; Raph Lauren (similar here)

Bracelet: Gold bangles (here); Faux tortoise shell (similar here, here)

Sunglasses: Le Specs (in black, here)

Hat: Straw; Vintage (similar here, here, here)

You can see how I styled this trench coat before here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

You also can shop same (or very similar pieces!) at a variety of price points by clicking on the links next to each item! When you do, I receive a small commission for helping you shop.

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Todavía tenía muchas fotos de España que no había publicado, así que aqui vienen!

Estas fueron tomadas en Lugo, una ciudad que es parte de Galicia, en el noroeste de la peninsula. Es una ciudad rodeada por una muralla romana que esta protegida por la UNESCO y tiene mas de 17 siglos de antiguedad! Asi es, 17! De aqui es mi mamá, y aqui es también donde todavia tiene la casa donde nació que tiene mas de 300 años. He pasado algunos de los mejores veranos de mi vida en estas montañas, asi que esta ciudad es muy especial para mi.

Para el viaje decidí vestirme toda de negro para un estilismo elegante y fácil, al cual añadí una gabardina de lino antigua de mi papá. Espero que les guste!

LO QUE ME PUSE:

Suéter: De cashmere; Kier + J (similar here, here, here)

Leggings: De algodón y elastane; Anne Klein (similar here)

Gabardina: De lino; Teller Coat era de mi papá (similar here)

Zapatos: De pelo con estampado en leopardo; Coach (similar here, here, here)

Bolso/Cartera: De ratán tejido (similar here, here, here)

Zarcillos/Pendientes: De falso carey; Raph Lauren (similar here)

Anillo/Sortija: De oro (similar here)

Pulsera/Braceletes: De oro (aqui); de falso carey (similar here, here)

Lentes/Gafas de Sol: Le Specs (in black, here)

Sombrero: De paja; Antiguo (similar aqui, aqui, aqui)

Pueden ver como combiné esta gabardina anteriormente aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui y aqui.

También pueden comprar las mismas piezas (u otras muy similares!), con una gran variedad de precios, al apretar los enlaces que incluyo abajo, junto a la descripción de cada cosa! Cuando realizan una compra a través de uno de mis enlaces, yo recibo una pequeña comisión por ayudarles a comprar.

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[fyeahgothicromance]

“House Taken Over” (”Casa Tomada”) by Julio Cortázar

I never could get used to this voice from a statue or a parrot, a voice that came out of the dreams, not from a throat. (x. x.)

[micaramel]

Artists: Lutz Bacher, Ángela Bonadies, Melissa Cody, Tania Pérez Córdova, Hildegarde Duane Paz Errazuriz, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Victor Estrada, Radames “Juni” Figueroa, Fernanda Laguna, Jumana Manna, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Eduardo Navarro, NuMu (Jessica Kairé and Stefan Benchoam), Juan José Olavarría, Jamasee Pitseolak, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Eric Paul Riege, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Sable Elyse Smith, Stephanie Taylor, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, David Lamelas 

Venue: SITE Santa Fe

Exhibition Title: Casa Tomada

Curated by: José Luis Blondet, Candice Hopkins, and Ruba Katrib; curatorial advisor: with Naomi Beckwith

Date: August 3, 2018 – January 6, 2019

Note: The gallery guide from this exhibition is available here.

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of SITE Santa Fe. Photos by Eric Swanson.

Press Release:

The title of SITElines.2018 references Argentine writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa tomada” (House Taken Over), which follows two bourgeois siblings who rarely leave their ancestral home. As a disruptive and unexplained presence begins to occupy parts of the house, they are eventually forced out onto the street without any material possessions except a wristwatch and a key.

“Casa tomada” is a complex tale of class and dispossession. Who belongs—when, where, how, and why—is a line of questioning that also informs this exhibition. The events that rupture communities, the building and severing of monuments, the displacement and resettle-ment of people, and the clearing and occupation of places are central concerns. In this exhibition fragments of language, of material, of history, of culture, reveal the unattainability of the whole.

Link: “Casa Tomada” at SITE Santa Fe

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Casa tomada. English translation and commentary.

These drawings are particularly interesting in that they are not limited to the mere translation of the narrated space into one of the possible floor-plans of the house, but they really use the floor-plan as the scenario of the narration, turning it into one of the characters of the story. In this way these illustrations represent a literary and graphic antecedent of that family of works where “theatrical staging” is itself part of the narration […]

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Casa tomada (House taken over) (Julio Cortázar) "It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. The mystery that revolves around what those entities are is largely left up to interpretation, allowing the genre of the story to vary from fantasy to psychological fiction to magic realism to political fiction, among others."

Nuestra parte de noche (Our share of the night) (Mariana Enríquez) "A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family.

A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?"

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Casa tomada (House taken over) (Julio Cortázar) "It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. The mystery that revolves around what those entities are is largely left up to interpretation, allowing the genre of the story to vary from fantasy to psychological fiction to magic realism to political fiction, among others."

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (Matt Stover) "The villain, Lord Shadowspawn, is a Force-user who has a different view of the Force than that of Jedi or Sith; he believes that the Force is the Dark, which is basically destruction and entropy; he induces visions of the Dark — of being alive in the eons after all the stars burn out — to cause despair that he can then use. On a metaphorical mind-battly level, his ultimate technique is to become a black hole, which makes sense in story."

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Revenge of the Shadow People (R.L. Stine) "Afraid of your own shadow? Vinny Salvo is. Lately weird things have been happening to his shadow. It's grown horns. And claws. And big sharp teeth! Now it's coming after him!

Vinny needs someplace to hide -- and quick.

But where can you hide from your own shadow?"

Casa tomada (House taken over) (Julio Cortázar) "It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. The mystery that revolves around what those entities are is largely left up to interpretation, allowing the genre of the story to vary from fantasy to psychological fiction to magic realism to political fiction, among others."

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Dark Leitner Tournament Round 1

The Double Shadow vs. Shadow-Bride

The Moon in Swampland vs. Empire of the Vampire

Abarat vs. Our share of night

Nightworld vs. The Night Land

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor vs. Dead Silence

Darkness vs. Jane Eyre

Paradise Lost vs. Fear of the Dark

Slime vs. The Dark

Ice vs. The Shadow Wood

Peekaboo vs. The Shadow

The Phantom of the Opera vs. The Haunter of the Dark

The Pit and the Pendulum vs. Nightfall

Revenge of the Shadow People vs. Casa tomada (House taken over)

IT vs. Lamplight

Project Hail Mary vs. No Power

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark vs. Stolen Sun

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Dark Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Dark Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!

Andersen, Hans Christian: The Shadow Asimov, Isaac: Nightfall

Barker, Clive: Abarat Barnes, S.A.: Dead Silence Baxendale, Trevor: Fear of the Dark Brennan, Joseph Payne: Slime Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

Chukovsky, Korney: Stolen Sun Cortázar, Julio: Casa tomada (House taken over) Coville, Bruce: The Shadow Wood

Dean, Benjamin Appleby: Lamplight Dukaj, Jacek: Ice

Enríquez, Mariana: Nuestra parte de noche (Our share of the night) Enríquez, Mariana: Bajo el agua negra (Under dark waters)

Halpern, Jake & Peter Kujawinski: Nightfall Hesse, Hermann: Demian Hodgson, William Hope: The Night Land

King, Stephen: IT King, Stephen: The Mist Kirby, Todd: No Power Kristoff, Jay: Empire of the Vampire

Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera Lord Byron: Darkness Lovecraft, H.P.: The Haunter of the Dark

Milton, John: Paradise Lost

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Pit and the Pendulum Pronzini, Bill: Peekaboo

Robertson, M.P.: The Moon in Swampland

Schwartz, Alvin, ill. Stephen Gammell: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Sheckley, Robert: Ghost V Smith, Clark Ashton: The Double Shadow Snicket, Lemony: The Dark Snicket, Lemony: The Ersatz Elevator Stine, R.L.: Revenge of the Shadow People Stover, Matt: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

Tolkien, J. R. R.: Shadow-Bride

Weir, Andy: Project Hail Mary Wilson, F. Paul: Nightworld

Andersen, Hans Christian: The Shadow

The story follows a Learned Man on a voyage south from northern Europe. One evening as he sits by a fire, he amusedly observes his shadow dancing and imitating his movements in the light of the flames, and thinks that it would be funny if it was a creature with a will of its own. The next morning, he awakes and finds to his surprise that his shadow has disappeared overnight. But as a new shadow slowly grows back from the tip of his toes, the Learned Man does not give the incident another thought, and soon thereafter goes home to northern Europe. One evening several years later, however, he hears a knock on his door. It is his shadow, the one he lost years before during his journey, now standing upon his doorstep, almost completely human in appearance. Intrigued, the Learned Man invites the Shadow inside, where the two sit down and talk about the Shadow's experiences during its travels and how it came to take the form of a human.

During the conversation, the subject turns to the Learned Man's rather unsuccessful writing career. The Learned Man values the good, the true, and the beautiful in the world, and writes about it often, but his writing seems to garner little to no interest with the public. The Shadow declares that the Learned Man is too much of an idealist, and his view of the world is flawed. The Shadow claims that he, unlike his master, understands the world, that he has seen it as truly is, and knows how evil some men really can be. They soon part ways once again.

The Shadow goes on to make itself quite wealthy, even as the Learned Man barely manages to survive. He eventually grows very ill, and so the Shadow proposes they travel to a health resort. The Shadow will fund the trip, on the condition that the Learned Man pretend to be its shadow instead of the other way around. Absurd as the suggestion sounds, the Learned Man ultimately agrees and they undertake the trip, with the Shadow as his master.

On the trip, the Shadow meets and woos a Princess. When the pair are about to be married, the Shadow asks the Learned Man to remain as its shadow permanently, in exchange for a good life with them. The Learned Man refuses and threatens to reveal the truth to the Princess. Thus, the Shadow has him arrested and ultimately executed, and goes on to live a happy life with the Princess.

Asimov, Isaac: Nightfall

"Nightfall" is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times.

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Barker, Clive: Abarat

"Candy lives in Chickentown USA: the most boring place in the world, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future may hold. She is soon to find out: swept out of our world by a giant wave, she finds herself in another place entirely... The Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of the island of Midnight, ruled by Christopher Carrion. (...)"

Half of the islands in Abarat are night islands and most of the main bad guys work for forces of darkness trying to bring eternal monstrous darkness to all islands.

Spoilers: Can't speak of it in detail cuz I have not read that part yet, but the bad guys apparently succeeded in bringing forces of darkness to the islands.

Barnes, S.A.: Dead Silence

A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed—made obsolete—when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.

What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right.

Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.

Baxendale, Trevor: Fear of the Dark

Synopsis: "On the very edge of the galaxy lies Akoshemon: a putrefied world of legendary evil.

In the year 2382 archaeologists land on Akoshemon's only moon, searching for evidence of the planet's infamous past. But when the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa are drawn into the lunar caverns they find more than a team of academics — and help uncover much more than ancient history.

Something is lying in wait, deep inside the labyrinth of caves: something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction.

An age-old terror is about to be reborn. But what is the hideous secret of the Bloodhunter? And why does Nyssa feel that her thoughts are no longer her own? Forced to confront his own worst fears, even the Doctor will be pushed to breaking point — and beyond."

Why it's Dark: The Doctor does battle with the literal embodiment of darkness and evil, as unseen monsters in the dark pick off crewmembers one by one. Even by the standards of this series, this book is incredibly grim.

Brennan, Joseph Payne: Slime

Originally published in the March 1953 issue of Weird Tales. The title creature is a black, amorphous blob from the bottom of the sea. In fact, it's so black that it's all but invisible at night; witnesses to its attacks pretty much see their friends and loved ones "taken by the darkness", as though the dark itself were alive and hungry.

Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

As you read, the shadows get deeper and darker, and you start hearing noises from overhead. It sounds like it's coming from the attic? Do you have an attic? Why would anyone be up there if you did? No, you can't look! It's my attic! Anyway, secrets and shadows and the unknown.

Chukovsky, Korney: Stolen Sun

A Russian children's poem that narrates how the crocodile consumed the Sun and how the bear gave him a proper pummeling and forced him to release the star back into the sky. No, it doesn't make sense in context either, but it does take on the motifs of Slavic myths about a dragon stealing the Sun and imprisoning it for thirty-three years, cueing global night and cold.

Cortázar, Julio: Casa tomada (House taken over)

It tells the story of a brother and sister living together in their ancestral home which is being "taken over" by unknown entities. The mystery that revolves around what those entities are is largely left up to interpretation, allowing the genre of the story to vary from fantasy to psychological fiction to magic realism to political fiction, among others.

Coville, Bruce: The Shadow Wood

The hero faces down and defeats an army of living shadows with a magic candle... until his own shadow rises up and blows it out.

Dean, Benjamin Appleby: Lamplight

Standard sort of evil shadow monsters made interesting by the fact that the only way to stay safe from them is to be in pitch blackness -- no light, no shadows.

Dukaj, Jacek: Ice

The story of the book takes place in an alternate universe where the First World War never occurred and Poland is still under Russian rule. Following the Tunguska event, the Ice, a mysterious form of matter, has covered parts of Siberia in the Russian Empire and started expanding outwards, reaching Warsaw. The appearance of Ice results in extreme decrease of temperature, putting the whole continent under constant winter, and is accompanied by Lute, angels of Frost, a strange form of being which seems to be a native inhabitant of Ice. Ice freezes history and philosophy, preserving the old political regime, affecting human psychology and changing the laws of logic from many-valued logic of "Summer" to two-valued logic of "Winter" with no intermediate steps between true and false. It can also be used to create candles that cast shadows instead of light. This isn't normal darkness, but rather a sort of "anti-light", which can make people and objects in its radius cast "anti-shadows" made up of non-darkened areas, and seems to have an odd effect on the minds of people who spend a lot of time exposed to it.

Enríquez, Mariana: Our Share of Night

This is like a chronicle of some alternate universe People’s Church of the Divine Host. It centres on a cult devoted to a menacing entity that possesses appropriate hosts, manifesting in rituals that summon a devouring darkness that leaves devotees scarred and maimed. There’s also an abandoned house that may exist in many places at once and is brimming with unnatural darkness that acts as a conduit to either the entity itself or its native realm. Beyond the more straightforward darkness, the book’s themes related to obscured knowledge—the central relationship is between one of the darknesses’s hosts and his son, anticipated to inherit his father’s abilities. We see again and again how Juan works to hide his son’s abilities from the cult and also hide knowledge of the cult and the world that he inhabits from his son, even to the point of hurting him very badly with zero explanation in an attempt to keep him safe when he’s gone.

Enríquez, Mariana: Nuestra parte de noche (Our share of the night)

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family.

A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?

Enríquez, Mariana: Bajo el agua negra (Under dark waters)

In this short story, a detective called Marina goes to a town to investigate some strange murders. There, she finds a cult that adores something that lives under the black water of the polluted lake.

Halpern, Jake & Peter Kujawinski: Nightfall

On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on the horizon. The weather is turning cold and the shadows are growing long.

Because sunset triggers the tide to roll out hundreds of miles, the islanders are frantically preparing to sail south, where they will wait out the long Night.

Marin and her twin brother, Kana, help their anxious parents ready the house for departure. Locks must be taken off doors. Furniture must be arranged. Tables must be set. The rituals are puzzling—bizarre, even—but none of the adults in town will discuss why it has to be done this way.

Just as the ships are about to sail, a teenage boy goes missing—the twins’ friend Line. Marin and Kana are the only ones who know the truth about where Line’s gone, and the only way to rescue him is by doing it themselves.

But Night is falling. Their island is changing. And it may already be too late.

Hesse, Hermann: Demian

Religious imagery, seen very often w/ the Dark (i.e. Hither Green Chapel, Montauk's cult that I forgot the name of, etc), especially blasphemy (seen most clearly in Manuela Dominguez's statement). Max Demian of Demian fame would be an avatar of the dark I think. There *is* a hint of the End in there but not enough to qualify it

Hodgson, William Hope: The Night Land

The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in the Last Redoubt, a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high, which is under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a shield known as the "air clog", powered from a subterranean energy source called the "Earth Current". For thousands of years vast living shapes known as the Watchers have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. It is thought that they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.

King, Stephen: IT

Pennywise is the boogeyman, the monster under the bed, the shapeless fear in the dark.

King, Stephen: The Mist

In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends...David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind.

This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know—and the one you can only imagine.

Kirby, Todd: No Power

A blackout. A bloodthirsty beast. The Bronx. This is not how Tom pictured his 17th birthday... His plan was far more bleak. When Manhattanite Tom Walton wakes up from a suicide attempt, he finds himself in a Bronx hospital being attacked by an ancient, savage creature that thrives in the darkness of a summer blackout. Tom, the son of a rich and racist New York politician, teams up with his fellow patients — a diverse group of Bronx natives — in an attempt to fight back. As Tom falls helplessly in love with Kiki, a badass teenage patient, he gains a deeper understanding of the source of his pain and reconsiders his stance on life. But when Tom’s true identity is revealed to the crew, he must work to unify the group and escape the hospital… or be eaten alive.

Kristoff, Jay: Empire of the Vampire

Daysdeath is the term used to describe the sudden shroud of ash and smoke which rose into the sky twenty-seven years prior to the beginning of the story. The exact cause remains unknown, though most people suspect a falling star which crashed into the earth with enough force to send tons of debris into the lower atmosphere, blanketing the skies and preventing more than a smidgen of sunlight from passing through the shroud. The shroud has not abated in strength over the following decades, and the results have been devastating - repeated crop failure and abysmal harvests, the withering of forests and other natural greenery and the resulting food and material shortages, but perhaps worst of all, the undead no longer being constrained be the daily need to hide from the sun, their numbers quickly multiplying as the lesser vampires were no longer destroyed by the sunlight. The ancien vampires soon realized the opportunity this afforded, and not only have they embarked on a campaign of global conquest, they actively work to eliminate any chances of mankind dispelling the shroud through artificial means.

Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera

Everything revolves around the hidden and unseen opera ghost -- the lights are harsh and the dark is a refuge for him, one that he tries to tempt Christine into.

Lord Byron: Darkness

Written in the 'Year without a Summer' of 1816, Byron was inspired by the ashen darkness to compose this poem about the end of the world, and the gloom that would accompany it.

Lovecraft, H.P.: The Haunter of the Dark

The main character, Blake, inadvertently summons an eldritch being into his local church. The being can only go abroad in darkness, and is hence constrained to the tower at night by the presence of the lights of the city. However, when the city's electrical power is weakened during a thunderstorm, the local people are terrified by the sounds coming from the church and call on their Catholic priests to lead prayers against the demon. Blake, aware of what he has let loose, also prays for the power to remain on. However, an outage occurs and the being flies towards Blake's quarters. He is subsequently found dead, staring out of his window at the church with a look of horror on his face.

Milton, John: Paradise Lost

The primary imagery for Satan and other demons is unadulterated darkness. "No light, but rather darkness visible."

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Pit and the Pendulum

The protagonist describes the horror and uncertainty he feels in stumbling through his darkened enclosure, only able to feel around for the instruments of his destruction.

Pronzini, Bill: Peekaboo

From TV Tropes: The only character in the story is a career criminal pretending to be a reclusive writer hiding out in a rented house a good distance away from the closest town. One night he thinks he hears an intruder in the house and decides to investigate while armed. While he's searching his suddenly creepy hideout, he can't help but reminisce on the games of Peekaboo he used to play when he was a kid, as well as the old rumors of occult worship and paranormal activities surrounding the house. He's a nervous wreck by the end of the story, and when he finally reaches the basement after finding nothing in the rest of the house he giggles in relief. There's nothing there after all, it's just him, all alone, hiding under the stairs.

"Peekaboo," a voice behind him said.

Robertson, M.P.: The Moon in Swampland

Hidden in the dark, marshy bogs of Swampland, the wicked and mischievous bogles hide from the Moon, and lie in wait for travellers. Anyone who wanders too close to the edge will feel clammy fingers dragging them beneath the murky water. When the Moon saves a young boy called Thomas, she gets captured by the bogles, and Thomas must set out to save her. Can he end the bogles' reign of terror?

Schwartz, Alvin, ill. Stephen Gammell: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a collection of short stories, written for children. The stories themselves are pretty standard stories that are just spooky enough for kids, but the illustrations are what most people remember. Each story is accompanied by a picture that are still unnerving to look at as adults, let alone as kids. Growing up with this book, it felt like a test of bravery just to turn the page. It reminds me a lot of the Season 4 TMA episode, in Callum Brodie's domain - an avatar of The Dark planting images of monsters in kids' heads and letting their imaginations do the rest of the work in scaring them.

Sheckley, Robert: Ghost V

The protagonists visit a planet with an atmosphere full of a drug bringing out hallucinations of their childhood bogeymen, potentially lethal as if you think you're dead, you are. They take out a couple of monsters with a magic word and a water pistol, but the last bogeyman is absolutely invincible. It's also capable of getting past any lock and door.

(Spoilers) They do manage to beat it with a security blanket. But hey, Leitners do tend to twist their tales -- it could just as easily finish off with 'the blanket never did anything'.

Smith, Clark Ashton: The Double Shadow

The titular shadow arrives after a master wizard attempts an ancient and unknown summoning spell. It does nothing except approach the casters one by one, very slowly, ignoring every method they use to flee or fight it, until it touches and merges with their own shadow, forcing them into a hideous transformation.

Snicket, Lemony: The Dark

The Dark is about a young lad named Lazslo, who is terrified of the dark. He avoids “the dark” as it mainly hangs out in the basement. Then, one night “the dark” is in his room as his nightlight bulb loses its spark. Lazslo, the young lad, must come face-to-face with his fears of “the dark”.

Snicket, Lemony: The Ersatz Elevator

I actually don't think the whole book is cursed, I'm thinking specifically of those pages that are fully blacked out when they're in the elevator shaft

Stine, R.L.: Revenge of the Shadow People

Afraid of your own shadow? Vinny Salvo is. Lately weird things have been happening to his shadow. It's grown horns. And claws. And big sharp teeth! Now it's coming after him! Vinny needs someplace to hide -- and quick. But where can you hide from your own shadow?

Stover, Matt: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

The villain, Lord Shadowspawn, is a Force-user who has a different view of the Force than that of Jedi or Sith; he believes that the Force is the Dark, which is basically destruction and entropy; he induces visions of the Dark — of being alive in the eons after all the stars burn out — to cause despair that he can then use. On a metaphorical mind-battly level, his ultimate technique is to become a black hole, which makes sense in story.

Tolkien, J. R. R.: Shadow-Bride

This macabre poem is about a man with no shadow who sits like a statue until a woman passes by. Then he wraps her shadow around them both and forces her to dance with him forever, casting a single shadow...

Weir, Andy: Project Hail Mary

The book is about alien microbes extinguishing the sun by siphoning off its light energy to fuel their own metabolism. The book follows the amnesiac protagonist, sent far off into the depths of space to the origin of said microbes to save the world before everything gets too dark and too cold. Basically, the sun is dying.

Wilson, F. Paul: Nightworld

At the start of Nightworld the sun rises five minutes too late. Repairman Jack can't understand why the scientists are so disturbed by this, but when portals to Another Dimension open all over the world, spewing a horde of Eldritch Abominations every night, the fact that every day the sun inexplicably rises later and sets earlier than the last becomes a reason for serious panic.