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J.A. Hernandez
@jahernandez.bsky.social
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I write horror, make art, and hang out with cats. I also have a newsletter about dark history and folklore. https://www.jahernandez.com
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#art inspired by the #blackvolga #urbanlegend whispered about across Cold War Eastern Europe. They say it prowled the streets at night, abducting anyone who got too close. #inkart #fountainpenart #darkart #horrorart #folklore #mixedmedia #charcoalart
Artwork of the Black Volga legend, painted on watercolor paper. The car is depicted in dramatic tones, with glowing white headlights cutting through dark surroundings. The background features a dimly lit building with warm orange light emanating from windows, creating a haunting atmosphere. The artwork is displayed on a textured, dark surface with subtle radial lines, enhancing the eerie and vintage aesthetic.
February 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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#art inspired by #Carmilla — Twenty-five years before Dracula, Le Fanu’s 1872 gothic tale gave us the first true #vampire seductress. Dark, atmospheric, and boldly feminist, it reshaped vampire fiction. #inkart #fountainpenart #darkart #SheridanLeFanu #gothicfiction #horrorart
An original ink illustration inspired by Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, featuring two women intertwined in a gothic, ethereal style. The figure on the left, Carmilla, is drawn with dark flowing hair and an intense gaze, contrasted by the brighter figure of Laura, whose delicate features and soft, light hair evoke innocence. Their hair swirls together in an otherworldly motion. The artwork is set against a rich black fabric background with an embroidered red rose pattern, enhancing the gothic and elegant tone of the piece.
February 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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#art #fountainpenink on #watercolor with #bleach inspired by a #ghost story from Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel's. Laughter drifts through empty halls, a piano plays with no one there, and once a year, the phone rings with a voice from the fire. #darkart #spookyart
An original ink and watercolor artwork depicting the ghostly figure of a young girl surrounded by musical notes and staff lines, which appear to dissolve and melt into smoke. The spectral figure seems to emerge from a dark, ethereal background, evoking an eerie and haunting atmosphere. The artwork is textured, with shadowy tones and hints of rust-like colors, representing the haunting legend of the ghost girl at Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel.
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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#art #darkart inspired by The Jiajing Emperor who ruled the Ming Dynasty in isolation. He was obsessed with alchemy and immortality—at the cost of at least dozens of young girls’ lives. Sixteen of his concubines tried to strangle him with a silk ribbon but failed. #fountainpenink #darkhistory
Watercolor and ink artwork depicting the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The piece features a minimalist design with warm golden hues in the background, splattered red stains resembling blood, and a golden bowl filled with dark red liquid at the center. The emperor’s face is faintly outlined, with piercing green eyes and a black rope looping downwards, adding an ominous and haunting atmosphere.
February 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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#art #inkart inspired by Tomoka's Carnivorous Pink Cloud—
deadly pink cloud that terrorized Florida's #Tomoka River from 1955 to 1966, dissolving foliage and leaving only bones behind. #urbanlegend #urbanlegends #carnivorouspinkclouds This one was a lot of fun to make with #fountainpenink.
An eerie black-and-white illustration of a swamp under the moonlight, featuring draping tree branches and a glowing, ominous pink cloud at ground level. The surreal scene evokes a haunting and mysterious atmosphere.
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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#art inspired by #gingersnaps. #darkart #horrorart #inkart A brutal, blood-soaked allegory blending body horror with dark humor as two outcast sisters face lycanthropy, transformation, and the raw terror of growing up. Smart, subversive, and unapologetically vicious.
Original artwork inspired by the film Ginger Snaps, featuring a haunting, high-contrast portrait of Ginger with blood dripping from her mouth. Her pale face is framed by wild, unkempt hair, set against a dark, textured background resembling a strip of film. The raw, visceral imagery evokes themes of transformation and feral rage.
February 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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#art #inkart inspired by Incident in a Ghostland aka #ghostland A mother and her daughters inherit an old house. Then come the intruders—the witch and the ogre. What follows is a brutal descent into terror, reality twisting like a fever dream. #darkart #horrorart
Original artwork by J.A. Hernandez portraying Vera from the film 'Incident in a Ghostland,' trapped behind a door and desperately trying to get free. The high-contrast black and beige illustration conveys a sense of fear and entrapment, framed with a film strip motif and displayed against a wooden backdrop. Original artwork by J.A. Hernandez depicting the character Beth from the film 'Incident in a Ghostland.' The high-contrast black and white illustration features Beth with an eerie expression and the words 'Help Me!!' written beside her, framed with a film strip motif and displayed against a wooden backdrop.
January 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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#inkart and bleach #art inspired by the strange events of Christmas Day, 1964 #Warminster, England. Deafening roars, shockwaves rattling homes, invisible paralyzing forces, glowing orbs, #UFOs, and droning sounds that vibrated people like tuning forks. #warminsterthing
An original artwork by J.A. Hernandez depicting the Warminster Thing at Cley Hill. The piece features a bright, glowing cross-shaped UFO in a dark, starry sky with fiery edges, illuminating a rural landscape below. The foreground shows a winding road toward a hill, evoking a mysterious and otherworldly atmosphere.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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#art inspired by Inuit #folklore about the deadly Qalupalik (aka Qallupilluit that snatches children who wander too close to the ice — a little #mixedmedia with #fountainpenink and #charcoal #horrorart #darkart
Original artwork by J.A. Hernandez depicting a haunting scene with the Qalupalik, a mythical Inuit creature. A dark, menacing figure with wild hair and elongated claws emerges from the icy water, facing a young child dressed in a winter coat with a hood. The scene is illustrated with a sepia-toned, vintage effect, enhancing the eerie atmosphere and tension between the child and the creature.
January 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#fountainpen #inkart inspired by the #urbanlegend of Pennsylvania's Green Man, Raymond Robinson, aka "Charlie No-Face" #art
Sepia-toned artwork depicting a lone figure walking on a dark, winding road surrounded by dense trees. With indistinct facial features, the figure is slightly illuminated, standing out against the dark forested background. A '351' road sign is visible nearby, adding a hint of isolation and eeriness to the scene, evoking a haunting, vintage atmosphere.
January 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A little #inkart play with a #fountainpen for a blog post about #annerice #art
Original artwork of Anne Rice created in ink on aged, parchment-like paper. The piece features a stylized black-and-white portrait of Anne Rice on the left, with bold, distressed stencil-style text on the right. The text reads: 'Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been; I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!' The background has a weathered appearance, with darkened edges that add to its vintage, gothic aesthetic.
January 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Bran Castle in Romania. #fountainpen #inkart
Original artwork by J.A. Hernandez of Bran Castle, featuring a dark, atmospheric illustration. The ink rendering shows the castle surrounded by jagged trees and a moody sky with heavy clouds. The piece is aged with sepia tones, giving it an antique, vintage feel, as if part of an old, weathered photograph.
January 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Anyone else like Michael McDowell? #inkart #michaelmcdowell
Fountain pen ink portrait of Michael McDowell, featuring a textured, hand-drawn style. The art includes a quote from McDowell's The Elementals that reads: 'There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.' The text is arranged with a mix of horizontal and vertical placements, using a distressed, typewriter-style font.
January 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Really does put Earth into perspective...
Photo of Barry Wilmore, Astronaut “You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he's Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he's just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he's the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.”
January 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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There's something inherently eerie about old-time radio. Here's #charcoal #art inspired by #nightfall radio series. #spookyart #darkart
Charcoal artwork inspired by the Nightfall radio series, depicting a nostalgic living room scene viewed from inside a TV screen. The composition features a patterned couch, a boombox, a Rubik's cube, a glass plate, a TV Guide, and other vintage details, evoking a surreal, eerie atmosphere.
January 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Hansel & Gretel stuck with me as a kid. I was always a fan of the witch. I created this original #charcoal #art inspired by the image I had in my head from when I was a kid. I took a pic of the charcoal and printed it using a photo printer to give it some #vintage photo vibes. #brothersgrimm
This custom artwork by J.A. Hernandez resembles an inverted linocut, portraying a dark, eerie version of Hansel and Gretel. The children are shown in silhouette, walking toward a gothic-style house with sharp, spired rooftops nestled in a shadowy forest. The black ink outlines are bold, while the background is left light, emphasizing the ominous mood. A large gingerbread man dangles from a tree on the right, with a swirl-shaped candy hanging above, evoking a haunting fairy tale atmosphere. The textures mimic the distinct carved look of a traditional linocut.
January 23, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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#charcoal art inspired by Sarah's Ghost at the (now closed) Thornton's chocolate shop in #Chester, England. If you look closely, you can see a bit of the #ghost legend of Sarah captured in the shop window.
Original artwork of a historic row of buildings in Chester, including Thornton's, depicted in a sepia-toned, sketch-like style. The scene evokes a haunting atmosphere, with the middle building showing a window where Sarah's ghost is believed to have appeared. The streets and structures are detailed in a shadowy, vintage manner, capturing the eerie and mysterious essence of the legend.
January 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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I heard Bluesky liked art. I write and do visual art—mostly fountain pen ink and watercolor paper. Sometimes, I go mixed multimedia.

Here's one inspired by a ghost legend about Miss Jane Vernelt in Edinburgh. #charcoal and potato quality photo
A vintage-style charcoal drawing of the ghost of Jane Vernelt walking down George Street in the rain. The eerie figure, dressed in a dark, flowing gown with a high collar and an elaborate hairstyle, is silhouetted against the shadowy outlines of old buildings, creating a haunting and ominous atmosphere.
January 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM