Welcome to the Nightmare Magazine Story podcast.

Enter freely and of your own free will.

I am your humble host, Terence Taylor, one very much at home with the Children of the Night. Stay close as my muse, the medieval

demon goblin, guides us down into beautiful darkness. In this episode, before our full-length

story, we have a poem, Blacula, written by PC Veron, and narrated by Mirren Willis but first

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Blacula By P. And now, Mirren Willis.

Blackula by P.C. Verone.

The first line began as the heart of a much larger story about a group of queer black vampires.

But the more I ruminated on this question, the more paths I followed that revealed so many different ways, death, undeth, and resurrection have been central to being queer and black in America.

This poem became my way of mapping those paths.

PCV

What PCV What does a queer black immortality look like?

Is it a soul song carried from the ivory coast to the shores of South Carolina,

buried by Pullman Porter's up to Motown.

Is it Darcy's vampire, stoking revolution,

desiring whiteness and murdering it,

but always falling short of both.

Is it a zombie, perpetuating dominion and enslavement?

Or is it Eartha's Angelitos Negros?

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