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Black Spot (Treasure Island)
The black spot is a literary device invented by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island (1883): a circular paper blackened on one side with a message on the other, handed to a pirate as a verdict of guilt, deposition or death.
Black Sunlight
Black Sunlight is a 1980 novel by the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera about a photographer caught up with an urban guerrilla group; it was banned in Zimbabwe in 1981.
Blackest Night
Blackest Night is DC Comics' 2009-2010 crossover event by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, in which Black Hand and Nekron raise dead heroes as the Black Lantern Corps; it concluded the War of Light and led into Brightest Day.
Blacksad
Blacksad (Un lugar entre las sombras) is a noir comic series by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido about black-cat detective John Blacksad in 1950s anthropomorphic-animal America, published by Dargaud since November 2000 with about 2 million copies sold.
Blade & Bastard
Blade & Bastard (ブレイド＆バスタード) is a dark fantasy light novel by Kumo Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) with art by so-bin (Overlord), set in the Wizardry RPG universe, published by Drecom's DRE Novels since December 2022, with a manga by Makoto Fugetsu and an announced anime.
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human is K. W. Jeter's authorized October 1995 sequel novel to the 1982 Blade Runner film, set in Los Angeles in August 2020, following Deckard's hunt for a missing sixth replicant; contradicted by Blade Runner 2049.
Bladedance of Elementalers (精霊使いの剣舞)
Bladedance of Elementalers (精霊使いの剣舞), also known as Blade Dance of the Elementalers, is a Japanese light novel series by Yū Shimizu about Kamito Kazehaya, the only male elementalist in a world where only maidens contract spirits.
Blaise Zabini
Blaise Zabini, a Slytherin student in Harry Potter's year, named without description in Philosopher's Stone and revealed in Half-Blood Prince (2005) as a tall Black son of a wealthy seven-times-widowed witch; a fandom blank slate.
Blame! (ブレム!)
BLAME! (ブラム) is Tsutomu Nihei's hard SF manga serialized in Monthly Afternoon 1997-2003, 10 volumes, following Killy's search for the Net Terminal Gene in an endless megastructure city; adapted as a 2017 Polygon Pictures anime film.
Bleach (ブリーチ) (manga)
Bleach (ブリーチ) is Tite Kubo's supernatural action manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2001-2016, 74 volumes, over 130 million copies, about Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki; Big Three member with One Piece and Naruto.
Bleak House
Bleak House, Charles Dickens's 1852-1853 novel serialized in 20 parts by Bradbury and Evans, satirizes Chancery through Jarndyce and Jarndyce and uses dual narration by an anonymous narrator and Esther Summerson.
Blindness (novel)
Blindness (Ensaio sobre a Cegueira) is a 1995 novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago in which an unnamed city is struck by an unexplained epidemic of white blindness.
Blockade Diary
A blockade diary (блокадный дневник) is a journal kept by a resident of Leningrad during the 1941 to 1944 siege, recording daily life under bombardment and starvation.
Blondie (comic strip)
Blondie, also starring Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead, is an American comic strip created by Chic Young, debuted September 8, 1930, in King Features syndication. The 1933 marriage turned it into the long-running Bumstead family domestic comedy; films, radio, and TV followed.
Blood Blockade Battlefront
Blood Blockade Battlefront (血界戦線, Kekkai Sensen) is Yasuhiro Nightow's Shueisha manga set in Hellsalem's Lot, a sealed post-breach New York, adapted into two 12-episode Studio Bones anime (2015, 2017), distinct from Trigun.
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, is Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel following the kid and the historical Glanton scalp-hunting gang in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, drawing on Samuel Chamberlain's memoir My Confession and regarded as McCarthy's magnum opus.
Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves (Krew elfów) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 1994 fantasy novel, the first full-length Witcher Saga novel following The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny, following Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer amid human-elf conflict.
Blood Syndicate
Blood Syndicate is a DC Comics series about a Milestone team of super-powered former gang members protecting Paris Island in the fictional city of Dakota, launched in 1993.
Bloodshot (comics)
Bloodshot (comics): Valiant Comics anti-hero created by VanHook, Perlin, and Layton, first published 1992 (Eternal Warrior cameo, Rai debut). Nanite-blooded Project Rising Spirit operative with erased memories; relaunched 2012; 2020 Vin Diesel film.
Bloom County
Bloom County, Berkeley Breathed's Pulitzer-winning American comic strip (December 8, 1980 to August 6, 1989), satirized 1980s politics through Opus the penguin, Bill the Cat, Milo Bloom, and Steve Dallas, later revived on Facebook in 2015.
Bloom Into You (やがて君になる)
Bloom Into You (やがて君になる, Yagate Kimi ni Naru) is a yuri manga by Nio Nakatani, serialized 2015–2019 in Dengeki Daioh across 8 volumes, over 1 million copies sold, adapted into a 2018 Troyca anime and Sayaka spin-off novels.
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE: BMY) is a British independent publisher founded by Nigel Newton in 1986, headquartered at 50 Bedford Square, London; originating publisher of Harry Potter, listed since 1994, with fiscal 2026 revenue of £325.9m.
Bloomsday
Bloomsday, June 16, is the annual literary holiday marking the single day, June 16, 1904, on which James Joyce's Ulysses is set. Named for protagonist Leopold Bloom, it is celebrated worldwide with readings, re-enactments, and Joycean breakfasts.
Blow-Up and Other Stories
Blow-Up and Other Stories, first published as End of the Game and Other Stories in 1967, collects 15 short stories by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.
Blue Cat
Blue Cat (Aoneko, 青猫) is a 1923 poetry collection by the Japanese poet Sakutarō Hagiwara, gathering 55 poems from 1917 to 1922 and marking the establishment of colloquial free verse in modern Japanese poetry.
Blue Horses
Blue Horses (Georgian: Lurja Tskhenebi) is a symbolist poem by the Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze, written in 1915 and published in 1916 in the journal Tsisperi Qantsebi.
Blue Lantern Corps
Blue Lantern Corps: DC Comics ring-wielders powered by hope, created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, debuting in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (January 2008). Founded by exiled Guardians Ganthet and Sayd on Odym; famous for supercharging green rings but needing a Green Lantern nearby to reach full power.
Blue Lard
Blue Lard is a 1999 postmodernist novel by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, about clones of Russian writers and a hunted substance called blue lard.
Blue White Red
Blue White Red is a 1998 debut novel by Congolese-French writer Alain Mabanckou about a young Congolese man's disillusioning experience of illegal immigration in Paris.
Blurb
Blurb: promotional text coined by Gelett Burgess c. 1907; covers back-cover jacket copy and author endorsement quotes; studied as a genre and criticized as reciprocal logrolling.