Recs if you like Mama Day...

Representations of the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. Recommendations welcome!

less of the usual culprits if you please!

Non-exhaustive list of foundational reading for the fantasy genre; either foundational texts or classics that influenced the development of the genre and its conventions. Also some key modern texts + criticism.

Love casts a spell; the real monster is oppression. Modern magical realism, urban fantasy, and fabulism: books that use supernatural elements to explore themes of family, desire, history, and society.

All the stories from the bard and stories that he inspired- I definitely need recommendations for this one!!

Your favourite female fantasy writer's... favourite female fantasy writer. Works of SFF by female writers which proved critically lauded or influential to subsequent writers.

for haunted hotties