From the jump, Dark Matters has relied on Tambay A Obenson’s blog Shadow & Act to keep us up on Cinema of the African Diaspora. If you’re not familiar with this comprehensive and far-ranging resource, help yourself: follow on Twitter @shadowandact@ AND bookmark the journal’s new home at Shadow & Act.
LINK: AfroCyberPunk
You can just tell we’d heart it from the name. AfroCyberPunk is a futurism blog by Jonathan Dotse out of Accra, Ghana. Though his posts are infrequent, Dotse’s focus considers genre creations of Blackness as a global whole: music, film, fiction, comics, art from Africa or the Diaspora. This world soul approach to Afrofuturism conveys Dotse’s singular vision of inclusivity and celebration. Bookmark worthy.
LINK: AfroCyberPunk
You can just tell we’d heart it from the name. AfroCyberPunk is a futurism blog by Jonathan Dotse out of Accra, Ghana. Though his posts are infrequent, Dotse’s focus considers genre creations of Blackness as a global whole: music, film, fiction, comics, art from African or of the diaspora. This world soul approach to Afrofuturism conveys Dotse’s singular vision of inclusivity and celebration. Bookmark worthy.
Multo: Ghost stories from around the world
“Ghosts of story, myth, or anywhere else…” Nina Zumel blogs about folklore and weird fiction, reading, writing and more.
Site Rec: 百物語怪談会 Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai aka Translated Japanese Ghost Stories & Tales of the Weird and the Strange
This blog showcases work translated by @ZackDavisson- who, in and of himself, is pretty impressive.
“Zack Davisson is an award winning translator, writer, and scholar of Japanese folklore and ghosts. He is the author of Yurei: The Japanese Ghost, The Ghost of Oyuki, and The Secret Biwa Music that Caused the Yurei to Lament (Chin Music Press). He has also contributed to Weird Tales Magazine, Japanzine, Metropolis Magazine and the comic book Wayward (Image comics).”
And that’s just the headlines.
Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai brings together Japanese folklore, art, history, ghost stories and other mythic and mystical aspects of Japanese culture. Presented in an engaging style that both informs and delights, Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai also accepts inquiries from readers looking to track down and identify “yōkai” and discover the stories behind them.
Big ups.
Manuela Velasco
I got pulled right into this- a hard thing to accomplish with found footage horror. They were able to create some serious tension and scares with a very simple combo of elements on a simple set. Not enough gore to trigger the squick factor but there are def some juicy moments.
Dark Matters 
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