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borninwinter81 · 1 month

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Queer horror from my teens

I periodically wonder whether these books are still known and read by young goths and horror fans as they were all extremely important to me in my teenage years, so I thought I'd share them.

Though I'm cishet, during the mid 90s two of my favourite authors wrote primarily queer fiction: they were Anne Rice and another author from New Orleans who is now known as Billy Martin.

He came out as a trans man in 2011, however these books were published prior to that so unfortunately you have to search for them under his deadname. This is why I've used that name in the tags on this post. I don't believe the books were ever reprinted with his current name.

Though I loved Rice, I always felt a more immediate connection with Martin due to his vivid portrayal of subcultures like goth and punk, and how it felt to be a teenager who was part of them. I could see myself in many of his characters as I had the same interests, listened to the same music, and shared the same sense of social alienation. Remember in the 90s the Internet was still a reasonably new thing, and many of us didn't have a home Internet connection at all. There was certainly no social media, no YouTube, and no real way to meet and interact with like-minded teens unless you were lucky enough to have another "weird kid" at your school. If you were a weird kid, you likely had very few friends and were bullied.

That as much as anything else led me to seek solace in books written by an author who I felt understood me, and characters who became my friends.

Lost Souls is about vampires in a kind of Lost Boys/Near Dark way. Fans of the YouTuber OfHerbsAndAltars might be interested to know that this book is where the name of his channel comes from - it's a description of the taste of Chartreuse liqueur.

Drawing Blood is about ghosts, a "murder house", computer hacking, comic art and a very beautiful (if rather messed up) romance. This one is probably my favourite of the three.

Exquisite Corpse is about serial killers, set against the AIDS crisis of the 90s. If you like the Hannibal TV series you'll probably enjoy this one - imagine if Dennis Nilsen and Jeffrey Dahmer had somehow met.

Martin doesn't pull any punches when it comes to descriptions of blood and gore, violence, abusive parents or his portrayal of toxic romantic relationships (of which there are many in his books), but if you can deal with those things there is also a great deal of beauty, phenomenally good writing, and a somewhat unique perspective on the supernatural.

Maybe I'm biased, looking at these through the lens of my teenage self. Maybe they'd seem horribly dated to today's young audience. But I still wanted to make this post in case there's someone out there who will end up loving them as much as I did.

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monstraduplicia · 1 year

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so these are my copies of lost souls and drawing blood by poppy z. brite. bought in the mid 90s by my mother, she gave these books to me when i was 14 and in the twelve years since ive read them maybe 20 times each? honestly, i lost count. i know some people will find what ive done over the years to be sacrilegious as ive had to completely tape the outside and spine bc of how fragile the books had become, added stickers and drawings and song lyrics, and left lipstick kisses at all the moments that broke my heart, but i disagree. these are my favorite books of all time and theyve become so special to me that they feel like a part of me. personalizing the book in this way feels right to me. i fully intend to add even more the next time i reread them.

#poppy z brite #lost souls #drawing blood #txt #mine #cant believe how many neutral milk hotel lyrics ive drawn in these whoops

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smashpages · 3 months

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Image will publish ‘Drawing Blood’ as a 12-issue series

Originally crowdfunded as a graphic novel, the series fictionalizes Kevin Eastman’s life as a comics creator.

#image comics #kevin eastman #comic books #comics #drawing blood #david avallone #ben bishop #troy little

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luthersart · 17 days

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practicing blood (????)

#tw blood #blood #drawing blood #drawn by me

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auburngods · 2 years

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i'm tired of this human duet, no civilising hides our animal impulses

#exquisite corpse #poppy z brite #andrew compton #jay byrne #lost souls #drawing blood #queer art #queer horror #horror art #my art #fan art #fanart #dennis nilsen #jeffrey dahmer #cw blood #lgbt books #horror books #digital art

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venusdeservedbetter · 2 years

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I 100% understand that they were meant to be an in-universe stand in for the Ninja Turtles and their rise as pop culture icons, but man, I kinda want a Ronin Ragdolls series. Not a full ongoing, maybe just a 4 issue limited series, but you cant just throw me a fascinating concept like this and not expect me to get obsessed.

#ronin ragdolls #radically rearranged ronin ragdolls #tmnt #kevin eastman #drawing blood

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formulatrash · 1 year

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Sorry to bother you but I don't understand why Indycar would bite anyone

anon I am sorry about how much time I spent not answering this because I was laughing but no - not IndyCar, the open wheel motorsport series, I tagged that post IndyCat, my cat called Indy who bites people all the time.

last time I took her to the vet she bit three people. a great day out for her.

#IndyCat's version of affection is literally like #clawing #screaming #howling #drawing blood #idk how she does it she only has one tooth but boy does she know how to wield the blade!#average indy bites five people a day factoid actually just statistical error #indycat who lives under my bed and bites more than 359408658956 people per day is an outlier and should not have been counted

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howaitora · 1 year

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Worst part of 'drawing blood' is that he doesn't say which Cure song was playing in the strip club. That's. that's super important for the scene dude

#just kidding the book is good but not for everyone #anyway tell me what the cure song you would play in a strip club #drawing blood

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pansy-placebo · 7 months

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PLEASE I need gay horror recommendations and I need them STAT. M💗M especially! I just finished Drawing Blood by William Joseph Martin and I also read Lost Souls by him and I loved it but I need M O R E and I need it RIGHT NOW!!!

#horror #lgbtqia #mlm #horror books #booklr #bookblr #book recommendations #book reccs #gay love #gay goth #queer lit #queer #poppy z brite #william joseph martin #drawing blood #lost souls

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shadendesire · 7 months

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Fate coming for blood on the latest play through.

#fate #fate grand order #hans christian andersen #mordred #call me out #drawing blood #right in the soft spot

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sadartbitch87 · 8 months

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Here you go

Am not traying to say anything about meg in this patinting i just like drawing blood

#art #drawing #draw #sketchbook #jack white #the white stripes #white stripes #third man records #fanart #doodlings #meg white #jackwhiteiii #jack white iii #graphic design #drawing blood

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luthersart · 16 days

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#tw blood #blood #drawing blood #drawn by me

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macaronis-telegraph · 2 years

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He wasn't much for erasing anyway. Sometimes your mistakes showed you the really interesting connections between your brain, your hand, and your heart, the ones you might otherwise never know were there. They were important even if you had no idea what they meant.

-Poppy Z. Brite, Drawing Blood

#book quote #lgbtq literature #horror books #poppy z brite #drawing blood #book quotes

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wolfsune09 · 2 years

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This was not supposed to become a full piece but here we are because I can't not hyperfocus when drawing :))