darklings

Tessa had read of them in the Codex: Subjugates, or darklings, were mundanes who had sworn themselves to the service of a vampire.

Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

They call them darklings, those who are half-turned.

Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

The bad news is that this is also the time when their hometown of Bixby, Oklahoma is populated by dark, sinister, shape-shifting creatures called the darklings.

REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld 2006

Her expertise with numbers is a skill she uses to good effect when she charges weapons to fight off the darklings.

REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld 2006

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A group of kids who possess supernatural abilities during the midnight hour fight off the sinister darklings.

REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld 2006

They call them darklings, those who are half-turned.

City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

I guess the mention of collapsed time (12: 00 AM for the Midnighters, the other 24 hours for the darklings) is supposed to explain it, but I would have like a more concrete explanation.

REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld 2006

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A group of kids who possess supernatural abilities during the midnight hour fight off the sinister darklings.

September 2006 2006

Jessica is also a Midnighter with powers that are apparently so fierce, the darklings decide to emerge from the outer badlands and go after her.

REVIEW: Midnighters #1 - The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld 2006

The midnighters--people born at the stroke of midnight--have access to the Secret Hour, an extra hour at midnight when time freezes and the midnighters alone roam the town...well, not quite alone, because there are also the darklings: ancient predators who were long-ago banished to the "blue time," as Bixby's teenage midnighters call it.

The WritingYA Weblog: How to Save the World a. fortis 2007