#mister magic

[stil-lindigo]

my love is mine all mine

[jasper-the-menace]

If I had a dollar for every horror book I read this year (that was also published this year) in which a conservative cult used powers beyond mortal ken to enforce their conservative agenda onto a bunch of queer and neurodivergent children who then turned that power around to decimate the cult at some point in their lives, I would have two dollars, which isn't a lot but it's great that it happened twice.

Anyway, read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Mister Magic by Kiersten White.

[catfindr]

[your-fave-is-pro-life]

I found a quote in Mister Magic by Kiersten White that is unintentionally pro life and I wanted to share it (tw swearing and spoilers (I guess? Maybe a bit?))

Those monsters outside decided some children were an acceptable cost in their paternalistic fetishization of innocence, their singular definition of "good". Fuck good. Those children were real. They needed love and protection and nurturing, and everyone in their lives failed them.

[the-woman-upstairs]

Favorite Horror Novels I Read in 2023:

[pthalomars]

You've walking, you've been hiding

And you look half dead half the time

Monitoring you, like machines do

You still got it, I'm just keeping an eye

[songofsunset]

A) I just accidentally stayed up WAY past my bedtime reading this book in one go

B) this book should be read by everyone who is exmormon and even remotely interested in horror/fantasy/those weird children's shows with a cast of kids hanging out and doing things

[lgbtqreads]

Better Know an Author: Kiersten White

Today on the site, I am absolutely thrilled to be chatting with powerhouse author Kiersten White, whose newest novel, Lucy Undying, releases tomorrow from Del Rey! Lucy Undying is gloriously lush and Gothic lit fic that travels between past and present (slash near future) telling the story of Dracula‘s Lucy Westenra, and before we get to my chat with the author, here’s a little more about the…

[fictional-gods-tournament]

Round 1

Narcissus (wiki)

Domain: Vanity

Propaganda:

I think he could really do numbers in the right crowd

Mister Magic

No domain.

Propaganda:

No domain, but rules a pocket dimension where anything you imagine can become real "Hey, what if religious trauma and conservatism was personified, and also had a TV show?" This motherfucker will look at a group of children, ask if anyone is gonna traumatize this, and not wait for an answer. Great book.

[selkiemaidenfae]

books read in 2023: mister magic by kiersten white

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"as the years passed, the fear didn't fade, but she grew into it. grew around it. grew stubborn and strong-willed, ignoring the shape of the fear at the core of her. and even though she wanted to know, needed to know, how her mother died, she wasn't going to ask. not ever."

[july-19th-club]

"mister magic" a genuinely good book so far. a little over halfway through it and it definitely is one of those ones you want to go into completely blind but i'm really enjoying it . does a good job of laying enough breadcrumbs that the reader picks up on where it's going before some of the characters do, but the characters don't look dumb for taking so long to figure it out because they have personalities/experiences that preclude them from Noticing certain stuff, and it's not SO spelled out that the reader who gets it really early will get bored; there are still things you want answers to or elaboration on. and that is ALL i will say for now

[mthollowell-writes]

"Your favorite childhood television program feels like a fever dream. You don't remember it at all until I start humming the theme song and then--oh, I can see it in your eyes. The wash of images, ideas feelings."

Kiersten White, Mister Magic

[jellyfishjuliet]

the “there’s a hole in the world” concept will never not have me shook like imagine…… a hole in the world……… with kreetures and tings……….

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

September wrap up 🤍 my faves this month were The Shadow Cabinet and You, Again!

[completelychaoticbabe]

Mister Magic is a must read for anyone who remembers a show that apparently never existed ~

[pthalomars]

I love the cast of Mister Magic. These are the people that will help Val remember who she is.