#spalders

[corviisquire]

I’ve read the comments on my post abt soulsborne sleep token thing! Here’s some concept art I tried. More is on the way just… HW ew. Tagging people who were interested/encouraging this idea: @sleep-token @wingedinsect @moonchild-in-blue @foundationsofdecay @madsthenightowl @a-s-levynn

Undercut is me mindlessly rambling about what’s going on in my brain about this. Don’t read unless you like torturing yourself with reading.

I guess to start, I have only played Elden Ring (crucible knight more like crucible kill yours-IM JOKING), I’ve watched some lore videos on Elden Ring Bloodborne and DS1, haven’t played DS1 yet, and have all the art books except DS2 (cause nobody likes DS2). I’ve played very limited DND games. I’ve read lots of weaponry wiki pages but I have bad memory. If any information I say below is incorrect (like I say this sword is two-handed but it’s not or I misspell spauldor… spalder? Spauldron?) please correct me. I’m just using information I know and I’m always open to suggestions and feedback!

Random Lore Bits: Sleep and the Whale lived in peace but Sleep was always the higher deity. It created all that lives on the land and the TMBTE creatures. Sleep had many worhsippers but Vessel and the rest stood out. They were appointed as the highest knights of sleep. Vessel always had Sleep’s favor and therefore became Sleep’s vessel. Confusing I’m aware lmao. Sleep and Whale became enemies somehow and Sleep injured the whale, causing it to die. This time period before the Whale’s death was called Eden. NPCs speak of Eden all the time about how, “Peace and day has never been restored since Eden” “Eden is over” “If the whale were here, Eden would still be here”. All followers of Sleep become corrupt.

Bosses: Once killed, all bosses turn into statues and have branches grow out of them. They aren’t dead, just dormant. You can fight them again but returning to their fight area and making an offering of a certain amount of tokens. Once defeated again they return to being dormant. If you defeat all resurrected bosses (fought each one twice) you get smth called a Talisman of Blood (important later).

Regular enemies: Idk skeletons???? Giant birds??? Snakes???? Giant insectoids Idk bro???

Location: Like Elden Ring lands between, it’s called Fields of Elation. The capital city is either Nazareth or Jericho. I’ll try to incorporate Calcutta somehow. Geography is a mix of frigid coast, deep dark forest, large cavernous cave strictures, old ruined castles with mysterious rusty machinery inside, sparatic temples to sleep (all whale temples were destroyed), and the remnants of towns. Large trade road that goes through the entirety of the land is called the Path of Reason??? Idk bro I’m spitballing.

Currency: Tokens. Killing enemies and bosses earns you large amounts of tokens and like how runes work, you can level up you and your armaments with them.

Waypoints: Sites of grace, bonfires, more like RITUALS (I am not funny). I think calling waypoints rituals makes sense.

Flasks HP/FP: Estus Flask, Flask of Crimson/Cruelean Tears…. How about Flssk of H I G H W A T E R. Nah I’m kidding. No idea! Suggestions are open! I’m reading lyrics and nothings jumping out.

Incantations/Spells: Can be equipped to magic armaments and weapons! Kinda like you can choose between spell sword or just being a wizard.

Player Character: Tarnished, undead, hunter…. No idea what to call them. Robes and garments Very inspired by TPWBYT. Thinking the whale was an ancient god defeated by Sleep. Player Character is gifted with a certain power of the whale and was resurrected to defeat Sleep. Game opens with epic cutscene and player charter emerges from a cavern (TLYW) and goes through it before finding themselves on the coast of a freezing raging sea and an inviting forest. There’s probably one class you play as cause I’m lazy and you just collect armor and new weapons on the journey. TLYW style robes with greaves, hood, and gauntlets. Basic longsword.

Vessel: I’ve read the feedback and I agree that staff needs to stay. Live laugh staff. I’ve seen a few Elden ring builds where it’s right armament is staff for casting the long range stuff and left armament is a short sword, miséricorde (mercy dagger), scimitar(?), or other various short weapons. I like the image of this because I imagine him having somewhat light armor so if you’re far away, he spell. If you’re close, he stab. Spells are gonna be red. Change my mind. I like the Elden Ring boss Maliketh’s magic attacks so I imagine something like that. I imagine his boss fight starts with epic cut scene with him kneeled in a big arching cathedral temple type place and he’s like, “you seek to defeat the vessel of Sleep, foolish warrior? I have not known defeat against those of the sea nor those of Sleep” or some crazy bs like that. Half health, hands of Sleep show up and swipe and grab and Player Character. Just giant spindly hands that appear and float around. Attempts to break away form Sleep control but fails so that why he evil >:}

II: Dual wielding… what? No idea. I want him to dual wild some sort of straight weapon cause like drumsticks but honestly… sickles are so badass… Med. to light armor so he can move around a lot. Some sort of helmet with feather Mohawk. Boss area is probably in a fort outside of the main city. Just you and this guy. Get ready for a stamina check.

III: I’m torn between frenzied flame/black flame style magic user or spell sword. If magic, light armor. If spell sword, med. armor. Boss fight in a large old temple, candlelit and torn tapestries everywhere. Better have some fire immunity talismans on you.

IV: Halbert. All the way. Heavy armor my guy. Idk not much to say. Thinking banished knight ornstein inspo?? Boss fight Outside the gates to Vessel/Sleep’s castle. Vigor check time!!!

Chokehold: large dark cavern with webs strung about. It appears from above like, “A traitor to Sleep, hm? Pity. You seemed like you would be a good asset to the Vessel’s artillery.” Big axe time. High HP high strength boss. Vulnerable spot is probably its stomach area. Gives you armor, weapon, talisman, and incantation “Branches in a Flood” (roots sprout from the ground and entangle enemy).

The Summoning: Player probably stumbles upon the fight after meeting Aqua Regia and Granite. Mean killing machine. Idk what else to say erm… maybe player interacts with a sleep token symbol on a pillar with runes and it summons (pun intended) the summoning creature??? Stonehenge lookin boss area. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

Granite: Relatively peaceful NPC. Dialogue options are cool and it probably raises stats and alters your armaments. Quest line ends with Granite maybe just becoming dormant or it becomes a member of sleep again and sad boss fight initiates. Drops its armor, axes, root/weed talisman that increases stamina and immunity.

Aqua Regia: Chill and never ends in boss fight. Probably lets you summon them during other boss fights. Spear and sword. Gifts you new armor and talismans. Quest line maybe ends with them becoming too weak to keep battling and becomes dormsnt. You get their armor, spear, sword, rose talisman that raises FP, and a spell/incantation that shoots gold acid rays called Gold Rush or smth similar (Like Aqua Regia? Get it?)

Vore: Awesome boss. Inflicts poison damage for sure. I think we can all imagine how fighting Vore would be. In a poison lake haha it wants you to suffer. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

Ascensionism: Swords swords swords. Pulls a Starscourge Radahn and turns a meteor and player has to dodge lmao (cause yk ascending). Boss area is probably in a giant colosseum that’s old and crumbling. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

Are You Really Okay?: Player character pulls a stupid and decides to touch and inspect the strange incubator with a fetus inside and AYRO appears and is like “DONT TOUCH MY CHILD” initiate boss fight. Small castle is the boss fight area. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

The Apparition: Big guy, big hammer. Boss fight is somewhere in a forest clearing. No other ideas for it. Drops weapons, armor, talisman, incantations like everyone else.

DYWTYLM: Chokehold but with tiny dagger and looks like a giant engine. Probably shoots fire from the pipes on its body? Chokehold is PISSED if you defeat this guy first. Brothers fr fr. Boss fight in an old building filled with machinery. Speed is low but HP is super high. Drops armor, weapons, incantations, and talisman.

Rain: Your magic immunity better be HIGH. Renala style fight: Crazy hits, bad defense. Probably drops some crazy cool incantations, armor (really bad armor), and a talisman of fire immunity and raises your FP. Boss fight area is in a shiny crystaly forest area surrounded by weeping willow/wisteria like trees.

Take Me Back To Eden: The last boss before Vessel. Killer fight. Armor is also fire??? Difficult but probably super dope. Boss fight is in a SUPER large hallway in the castle of Sleep. Drops weapons, armor, talisman of resistance against airborne attacks.

Euclid: NPC that’s probably cranky and hesitant to befriend you at first. Still a follower of Sleep but respects the players fate to defeat the sleepmiester (I’m so tired bro—). Might fight you idk.Once dormant, drops and old mask of Vessel, a few incantations, and armor.

Endings: Endings one: You defeat vessel, sleep becomes dormant and no gods rule over the land. Creatures and vessels are resurrected. Endings 2: You defeat vessel and become the new Vessel of Sleep. No difference from first ending, you just chose if ya wanna be evil or not. Endings 3: If you acquire the Talisman of Blood, Sleep sees you worthy to fight them without using a vessel. Radagon Elden Beast situation. When you defeat sleep, the whale is resurrected.

[nixalegos]

"Where did that come from?"

"Shrapnel from the western ridge of the basin." He said tiredly, what had been his shoulder pauldron and spalders held in his other hand as he lurched, and not so much walked towards her. What was left of his shoulder was wrong. Twisted. Cursed veins, drying blood, and protrusions of fel forged steel and soul warped glass skewered and spiked the amalgamation of bone and regenerative tissue was barely keeping his other arm attached to his body. "That uh, Felwarped Ursoc needed a creative means of putting back in their timeline." He said as he stumbled mid step. Magic was about the only thing keeping him upright, and it seemed even that was running out. "I uh, had to overload a nearby Legion pylon, directed the blast back at it...Even uh, tainted, seemed it didn't lack in physical strength." He said as he let himself be caught and held up by her. "It hurts." He said so quietly it could barely be heard over the low roar of renewed conflict actively spawning to their left and right. "...How much more of this do we need to do today?" He asked as if the very notion of fighting was draining. His wound bubbled and pitched, the blood now seeping black and as thick as tar in places where it roiled over the cursed glass and steel still imbedded in his flesh.

@tyleinth

[teigantulsie]

Part 2 of the night I put half my armour on instead of packing it for the Ren Faire. Yes I know this looks stupid. But I was having a fun night waving my swords around for the camera.

[fictionz]

New Horror 2022 - Day 26

(Image source)

"The White Cormorant" by Frithjof Spalder (1971) "A prayer poured from my lips."

The ocean’s a verified scary place, but coasts are also strangely compelling. If you ask me, that space where the ocean meets the land must be the most haunted of all. This story explores the boundary.

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"Gestation" by Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Doug Garbark, Nic. J. Shaw (2014) "I'll deal with the corpse, my lady-love."

It’s very satisfying when men in power are absolutely wrecked by women, so I appreciate the still too-rare opportunity to see it happen. (And you should know that this short comic story was expanded into its own series.)

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Monster (aka Humanoids from the Deep) dir. Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami (1980) "Somebody killed my dog, Slattery. You got any ideas?"

I haven’t watched anything from Roger Corman’s wheelhouse until this. It was a decent and straightforward creature feature with emphasis on the ecological consequences of bioengineering and ignorance about colonialism, but then there are also some clearly exploitationy scenes in which women are raped by monsters. (The poster tips the viewer off to that aspect.) It looks like there was behind-the-scenes drama in which Corman mandated the nudity and rape scenes to give the movie more oomph without telling the director or actors about it. Beyond that, this had thematic crossover with the ocean stuff from today’s short story and the birthing stuff from the comic, so it tied things together in an interesting way.

[leer-reading-lire]

The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories

Edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle

​​What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read?  For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that?

For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. All the foreign-language stories in this book appear here in English for the first time, while the English-language entries from countries like the Philippines are appearing in print in the U.S. for the first time.

The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world:

Pilar Pedraza, 'Mater Tenebrarum' (Spain)

Flavius Ardelean, 'Down, in Their World' (Romania)

Anders Fager, 'Backstairs' (Sweden)

Tanya Tynjälä, 'The Collector' (Peru)

Frithjof Spalder, 'The White Cormorant' (Norway)

Jose María Latorre, 'Snapshots' (Spain)

Luigi Musolino, 'Uironda' (Italy)

Martin Steyn, 'Kira' (South Africa)

Attila Veres, 'The Time Remaining' (Hungary)

Lars Ahn, 'Donation' (Denmark)

Bernardo Esquinca, 'Señor Ligotti' (Mexico)

Cristina Fernández Cubas, 'The Angle of Horror' (Spain)

Christien Boomsma, 'The Bones in Her Eyes' (Netherlands)

Elisenda Solsona, 'Mechanisms' (Catalonia)

Michael Roch, 'The Illogical Investigations of Inspector André Despérine' (Martinique)

Solange Rodríguez Pappe, 'Tiny Women' (Ecuador)

Bathie Ngoye Thiam, 'The House of Leuk Dawour' (Senegal)

Marko Hautala, 'Pale Toes' (Finland)

Yvette Tan, 'All the Birds' (Philippines)

Ariane Gélinas, 'Twin Shadows' (Québec)

Flore Hazoumé, 'Menopause' (Ivory Coast)

Now for this exciting follow-up volume the editors have expanded their search to even more countries, finding more of the world's best horror fiction and making it available to American readers for the first time. Featuring a wide variety of tales from Brazil to Malta to Nigeria to Japan, and all points in between, this new anthology is a must-have for any horror fan or anyone interested in contemporary world literature.

Included in this volume are some of the world's best horror writers, many of them unknown in the English-speaking world:

Luciano Lamberti, 'The Nature of Love' (Argentina)

Roberto Causo, 'Train of Consequences' (Brazil)

Braulio Tavares, 'Screamer' (Brazil)

Yavor Tsanev, 'The Recording of the Will' (Bulgaria)

Zhang Yueran, 'Whitebone Spirit' (China)

Teddy Vork, 'The Wonders of the Invisible World' (Denmark)

Indrek Hargla, 'The Grain Dryer of Tammõküla' (Estonia)

Mélanie Fazi, 'Dreams of Ash' (France)

Konstantinos Kellis, 'Firstborn' (Greece)

Gary Victor, 'Lucky Night' (Haiti)

Steinar Bragi, 'The Bell' (Iceland)

Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, 'Shelter from the Storm' (India)

Stephan Friedman, 'The Pallid Eidolon" (Israel)

Yasumi Tsuhara, 'The Old Wound and the Sun' (Japan)

Anton Grasso, 'The Ant' (Malta)

Dare Segun Falowo, 'Olowabi Olowolagba' (Nigeria)

Wojciech Gunia, 'The War' (Poland)

Ana María Fuster Lavín, 'Footsteps of Hunger' (Puerto Rico)

Val Votrin, 'The Regensburg Festival' (Russia)

Bora Chung, 'Mask' (South Korea)

Viola Cadruvi, 'The Runner' (Switzerland)

[weirdletter]

The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1, edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle, Valancourt Books, 2020. Illustrations by M.S. Corley, info: valancourtbooks.com.

​​What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read?  For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. All the foreign-language stories in this book appear here in English for the first time, while the English-language entries from countries like the Philippines are appearing in print in the U.S. for the first time. The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world.

Contents: Editors’ Foreword – James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Acnowledgments Uironda – Luigi Musolino (Italy) Mater Tenebrarum – Pilar Pedraza (Spain) The Time RemainingAttila Veres (Hungary) The Angle of Horror – Cristina Fernández Cubas (Spain) Down, in Their World – Flavius Ardelean (Romania) The Collector – Tanya Tynjälä (Peru) Señor Ligotti – Bernardo Esquinca (Mexico) The Illogical Investigations of Inspector André Despérine – Michael Roch (Martinique) Menopause – Flore Hazoumé (Ivory Coast) The Bones in Her Eyes – Christien Boomsma (Netherlands) Twin Shadows – Ariane Gélinas (Québec) Backstairs – Anders Fager (Sweden) Pale Toes – Marko Hautala (Finland) Kira – Martin Steyn (South Africa) Donation – Lars Ahn (Denmark) Tiny Women – Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Ecuador) Mechanisms – Elisenda Solsona (Catalonia) The House of Leuk Dawour – Bathie Ngoye Thiam (Senegal) The White Cormorant – Frithjof Spalder (Norway) All the Birds – Yvette Tan (Philippines) Snapshots – Jose María Latorre (Spain) About the Authors

[ridetherain]

MGB Part 4

Part 1 | Part 3

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Guarding outside the Princess’s door should not be this fun. Link made a huge racket when he arrived since he once again wasn’t in the Royal Guard uniform. And he wasn’t in the blue shirt that the Princess was supposedly making for him, but has yet to appear. His favorite golden spalder was the setpiece of his armor, but every inch sparkled in the flickering torchlight. The men he had relieved were not pleased and grumbled loudly before trudging off with stomping footsteps. The Princess’s room had been silent through the whole exchange.

After a good five minutes of silence where Link stood with his spear crossed in front of her doorway, the Princess began making normal noises behind the door. The gentle shuffle of her feet over carpeted floor, a soft crinkle of pages turning, a thunk of something heavy onto a wooden surface. It wasn’t until a gentle gasp of surprise and furious page-turning could be heard that the sword decided to make itself known on his back.

“Goodness, Master! She’s got something good in there!”

Link hummed in agreement.

“That book must be extra steamy for a gasp like that!”

A smile tugged at his lips when a crash came from inside the room. She had definitely heard the sword. It wasn’t exactly trying to be quiet. Lucky for him, he gets to go into the room now to make sure she didn’t hurt herself.

He swung around and opened the door to see the Princess sitting demurely on her settee with ankles crossed and back straight. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, excepting the heavy red flush on her face and the scattered gears on the floor. She carefully did not look at him.

“Your Highness, is anything the matter?” Link asked keeping all traces of humor out of his voice.

“Of course not. You may go.”

She put up a good pretense for a moment before glancing up at him and flushing somehow deeper red at the sight of his bare chest. As with the first time they met, she was entranced. The folk here at Castle Town were different than Gerudo. It was considered indecent and shocked the poor repressed civilians. And Princesses. This Princess wasn’t didn’t stop at his chest though, her eyes trailed down his body and stuck on the large gem in the middle of his belt buckle. Link was about to step forward and get her a little more flustered and closer to that buckle when she threw him for a loop.

“I thought there was a blue gem there before?” She asked.

She had been looking before too. Now the smirk was permanently etched on his face.

“Yes, Your Highness. Sapphires keep me cool in the desert, but this isn’t the desert. I had it replaced with a ruby. I’m not used to the cold of these northern provinces.”

She seemed satisfied with his answer but didn’t take her eyes off the gem.

“I’ll return to my post.” Link said and turned, but not before giving the gem a good rub to “clean” it. Just to remind the Princess where she was looking. A muffled gasp behind him gave away his success.

The door was shut and the spear was once again in hand crossing her doorway when the sword decided to speak again.

“Next time you should get an amber stone and offer for her to grab it! Get her used to touching something hard and shocking!”

Another crash came from inside the room.

Next

[katieskarlette]

My much-neglected druid had had the same transmog for years, so when I decided to dust her off and finish leveling her through Legion content, at least, I made her a new outfit.

Head, Hands and Back:  Hidden Legs and Feet:  Not really visible

Shoulders:  Spalders of the Ring Chest:  Scorched Wormling Vest Shirt:  Black Swashbuckler’s Shirt Wrists:  Demonslayer’s Wristguards Waist:  Belt of Flayed Skin Weapon:  Scythe of Elune, default skin

[willowwisped]

For Halloween, I did a test run of a Ganondorf cosplay I'm working on. He's supposed to be a mix of different incarnations, mainly Ocarina of Time and my take on BOTW2 (Rehydrated Ganondorf 🔥)

I have A LOT of pieces to get. Including a spalder, harem pants, golden sandals, a decked out spikey golden crown/tiara, a weapon, some good gray paint, etc. I have Plans™️.

My ideal cosplay is a Princely Ganondorf that is mainly based on what he'd look like with all the new Gerudo Lore we have from BOTW. I hope once I get it together, he'll be recognizable. Even with my dainty features. (Teen Ganondorf?? 😅)

I was proud of what I did with two items and stuff laying around tho. I'm not quite sure why I'm posting, but maybe some other fans will like this idea :>

(PS: My best friend said I looked like Midna and I realized how right they were!! 🥰)

[jamesgilmerintstudio]

Notes on Ian Spalder

[white-tree-barden]

It's probably safe enough to post stuff about Wound by now, right? I've got trivia stuff.

-no time skip between books this time

-Colleners celebrate victory by hitting each other in the ass with bunches of wheat that are on fire

-Dante's nether zombies have a limit of 20 miles with full functionality, 40 with steadily decreasing reliability

-King Charles' seal is a hawk flying over various stylized landforms

-orange trim on a priest of Taim indicates a spalder, a reasonably high rank

-neeling came to Bressel from Tanar Atain about 300 years ago

-the Keeper's been in the Reborn Shrine for 90 years

-shadowalking through glass is a thing

-Dozundo is the southern clans' pronunciation of Josun Joh

-the Itiego family crest is a bunch of albatrosses

-the first story in the Cycle is about Arawn not actually killing some guy named Janth

-Raxa was 7 or 8 when she first went to Pocket Cove. She left 16 years ago, making her 25ish now

-Sorrowen is 18

-Raxa went by the name Saya in Pocket Cove

-Dante does not appreciate Tanarian fashion

-Dante probably does not appreciate giant alligators either

-Lady Maura of Boscayne is great

-'Clear waters' is a Tanarian goodbye

-'Bloody scales' is a curse

-Naran does not appreciate Blays's knot tying skills

-Odo Sein suppress active use of nether/ether nearby, but they don't break existing links- the loons still work after contact with them, and Dante was still able to track Gladdic

-torchstones are made of ether-infused azamite

-streaks of orange in your hair is a sign of noble blood in Tanar Atain

-Also it's illegal to dye your own hair orange

-Gladdic's a good character, but as a person, I sorta want to throw him out a window

Good times. I'm gonna try to get that timeline up in the next couple days since I'm on break, and after that, who knows?

[teigantulsie]

Here's an old tiktok skit!

This is also how I feel about hearing my old pre-puberty voice.

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2022 - October

Short Stories & Chapters

"Leonora" by Everil Worrell (1927)

"The Hollow Man" by Norman Partridge (1991)

"The Black Stone Statue" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman (1937)

"The Door" by Ann R. Loverock (2020)

"The Events at Poroth Farm" by T.E.D. Klein (1972)

"The Dead Wagon" by Greye La Spina (1927)

"Soft" by F. Paul Wilson (1984)

"Beelzebub" by Robert Bloch (1963)

"The Black Phone" by Joe Hill (2004)

"The Angle of Horror" by Cristina Fernández Cubas (1996)

"The Striding Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896)

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)

"The Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)

"The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber (1949)

"The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson (1950)

"The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado (2014)

"The Phantom 'Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling (1888)

"Scales" by Cherene Sherrard (2017)

"The Aztec" by Carmen Baca (2020)

"The Reaper's Image" by Stephen King (1969)

"The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier (1840)

"When the Gentlemen Go By" by Margaret Ronald (2008)

"The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin (1987)

"Turn Out the Light" by Penelope Love (2015)

"Unseen—Unfeared" by Francis Stevens (1919)

"The White Cormorant" by Frithjof Spalder (1971)

"A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain (1870)

"The Signal-Man" by Charles Dickens (1866)

"Rearview" by Samantha Hunt (2020)

"The Green Bowl" by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)

"A Good Student" by Nuzo Onoh (2014)

Dracula Daily - "October" by Bram Stoker & ed. Matt Kirkland (1897, 2021)

Comic Shorts & Single Issues

"Swamp Monster" by Basil Wolverton (1953)

"The Portrait of Sal Pullman" by Lonnie Nadler & Abby Howard (2019)

"O Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" by M.R. James & Abby Howard (2019)

"Rainbow Sprinkles" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Nimit Malavia (2018)

"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall!" by Jack Davis, et al. (1953)

"The Harvest" by Shannon Campbell & Pam Wishbow (2016)

"In Each and Every Package" by Reed Crandall, et al. (1954)

"Roots in Hell" by Richard Corben (2016)

"Mars Is Heaven!" by Ray Bradbury, Wally Wood, et al. (1953)

"Save the Last Dance for Me!" by Dennis O'Neil & Pat Boyette (1969)

"Infected" by Bruce Jones, Richard Corben, Steve Oliff (1982)

"Unpleasant Side Effects" by Kerry Gammill, Sam F. Park, Mar Omega (2010)

"The Boar's Head Beast" by George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, Wayne Howard (1975)

"Ill Bred" by Charles Burns (1985)

"Don't Go to the Island" by Sfé R. Monster & Kalyna Riis-Phillips (2016)

"Some Other Animal's Meat" by Emily Carroll (2016)

"Greed" by Becky Cloonan, Jordie Bellaire, Travis Lanham (2013)

"Goin' South" by Nancy Collins, David Imhoff, Jeff Butler, Steve Montano, Renée Witterstaetter, Electric Crayon, Simon Bisley (1995)

"Winnebago Graveyard #1" by Steve Niles, Stephanie Paitreau, Jordie Bellaire, Jen Bartel, Alison Sampson, Aditya Bidikar, Mingjue Helen Chen, Sarah Horrocks (2017)

"Seed" by Fiona Staples, Jose Villarrubia, Michael Dougherty, Todd Casey, Zach Shields, Marc Andreyko (2015)

"Kill Screen" by Lauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly, Eva de la Cruz, Clem Robins, Bill Sienkiewicz, Rowena Yow, Shelly Bond (2015)

"The Fool of the Web" by Patricia Breen, Roel, Brenda Feikema (1997)

"Fortune Broken" by Sandy King, Leonardo Manco, Marianna Sanzone (2015)

"The Cemetery" by Franco, Abigail Larson, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

"The Speed of Pain" by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart, Steve Wands, Will Dennis (2018)

"Gestation" by Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, Doug Garbark, Nic. J. Shaw (2014)

"Chemical 13!" by Michael Woods & Saskia Gutekunst (2009)

"Hello, My Name Is..." by Nadia Shammas, Rowan MacColl, Licha Myers, Chris Sanchez (2021)

"Sea of Souls" by Jenna Lynn Wright, Alvaro Feliu, Juan Francisco Mota, Ricardo Osnaya, Erik Lopera Tamayo, Jorge Cortes, Robby Bevaro, Maxflan Araujo, Walter Pereyra, Taylor Esposito (2022)

"Crush" by Janet Hetherington, Ronn Sutton, Becka Kinzie, Zakk Saam (2018)

"The End of All Things" by Natalie Leif & Elaine Well (2014)

Video & Electronic Games

Silent Hill dev. Team Silent (1999)

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow dev. Cloak and Dagger Games (2022)

Halloween Forever dev. Imaginary Monsters (2016)

Bride of Frankenstein dev. Paul Smith, Steve Howard, Timedata Ltd. (1987)

Zombies Ate My Neighbors dev. LucasArts (1993)

Darkstalkers 3 (aka Vampire Savior) dev. Capcom (1997)

Movies

Smile dir. Parker Finn (2022)

The Mummy dir. Karl Freund (1932)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers dir. Don Siegel (1956)

The Skin I Live In dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2011)

The Picture of Dorian Gray dir. Albert Lewin (1945)

The Uninvited dir. Lewis Allen (1944)

The Other Side of the Underneath dir. Jane Arden (1972)

Jeepers Creepers: Reborn dir. Timo Vuorensola (2022)

Terrifier 2 dir. Damien Leone (2022)

Ravenous dir. Antonia Bird (1999)

The Experiment dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel (2001)

Ganja & Hess dir. Bill Gunn (1973)

Def by Temptation dir. James Bond III (1990)

Eyes Without a Face dir. Georges Franju (1960)

Under the Shadow dir. Babak Anvari (2016)

Amsterdam dir. David O. Russell (2022)

Deadstream dir. Joseph Winter & Vanessa Winter (2022)

In My Skin by Marina de Van (2002)

Evolution dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović (2015)

Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness dir. Shimako Satō (1995)

Celia dir. Ann Turner (1989)

Censor dir. Prano Bailey-Bond (2021)

Halloween Ends dir. David Gordon Green (2022)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari dir. Robert Wiene (1920)

Black Adam dir. Jaume Collet-Serra (2022)

Trouble Every Day dir. Claire Denis (2001)

Eve's Bayou dir. Kasi Lemmons (1997)

Monster (aka Humanoids from the Deep) dir. Barbara Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakami (1980)

The Mafu Cage dir. Karen Arthur (1978)

Medusa: Queen of the Serpents dir. Matthew B.C. (2020)

Medusa dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira (2021)

Prey for the Devil dir. Daniel Stamm (2022)

It Follows dir. David Robert Mitchell (2014)

Amer dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (2009)

TV Episodes

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" (2022)

Bob's Burgers - "Apple Gore-chard! (But Not Gory)" (2022)

TV Series

Costume Quest (2019)

Castlevania - Seasons 3 & 4 (2020-2021)

[closeknithearts-a-blog]

Why is Jack's tag "Golden Broken Heart?" Who hurt he

**It’s based on a few things! Golden, from both his mother being Golden Lily, his eyes, and the fact that, well, he really does have a good heart + soul (’heart of gold’!)- Broken heart because of his CHD, and the a.buse he suffered from his father. 

It kinda rolled off the tongue well, and Jack’s mun and I plot like hella, other things that came up were “Golden Irish Spider”, “Gold Eyes Gold Broken Heart”, “The one irish guy”, “Spalder” Why do people let us name things**