Black roses 

are symbols featured in fiction with many different meanings and titles such as black velvet
rose, black magic, barkarole, black beauty, Tuscany superb, black jade, and baccara.[citation
needed]
 The roses commonly called black roses are technically a very dark shade of red, purple or maroon.
The color of a rose may be deepened by placing a dark rose in a vase of water mixed with black ink.
Other black roses may be blackened by other methods such as burning.

Contents

 1Language of flowers

 2Anarchism

 3Pop culture

o 3.1Examples

 4References

Language of flowers[edit]

In the language of flowers, roses have many different meanings, with black roses specifically symbolizing
ideas such as hatred, death, and despair.[1]

Anarchism[edit]

See also:  Anarchist symbolism

Anarchist anti fascists with black rose

Black Rose Books is the name of the Montreal anarchist publisher and small press imprint headed by the
libertarian-municipalist/anarchist Dimitrios Roussopoulos. One of the two anarchist bookshops
in Sydney is Black Rose Books which has existed in various guises since 1982.

The Black Rose was the title of a respected journal of anarchist ideas published in the Boston area during
the 1970s,[2] as well as the name of an anarchist lecture series addressed by notable anarchist and
libertarian socialists (including Murray Bookchin and Noam Chomsky) into the 1990s.
Black Rose Labour (organisation) is the name of a factional political organisation associated with the
United Kingdom Labour Party, which defines itself as Libertarian Socialist.[3]

Black Rose Anarchist Federation is a political organization that was founded in 2014, with a few local and
regional groups in the United States.[4]

Pop culture[edit]

The symbolism in many works of art or fiction is usually to contrive feelings of mystery, danger, death, or
some sort of darker emotion like sorrow or obsessive love.

Examples[edit]

In the Night World series, the black rose is the symbol for made vampires, as opposed to the black iris
for lamia (or born vampires).

In the Dragonlance series, the black rose is the symbol for knights who have betrayed their ideals. The
most famous is known as Lord Soth, Knight of the Black Rose.

In Revenge (Season 2, Episode 18), black roses are a symbol for dying love.

"Black Rose" is the title of the background music for a level in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.
[5]
 "Black Rose" is likely the name of the game's haunted mansion.

In the Babylon 5 episode "Passing Through Gethsemane", a black rose is given to a monk as a symbol of
death, and later placed in the mouth of a murdered woman.

In "American Horror Story: Murder House" Tate gifts Velma a black rose stating that she doesn't like
black roses.

Black Rose  was a hit single by rock band Thin Lizzy and was the title of an album. Lead singer and bass
player Phil Lynott had an interest in Irish mythology and claims he was inspired by it.

The artist Charli XCX composed a song entitled "Black Roses", which was included on her 2013
album, True Romance.

The Black Rose is a gift item in the video game Fable. Although most NPCs become offended if a black
rose is given to them, they are needed to marry Lady Grey, a seductive villainous noblewoman.

The Black Rose is a secret organization that has existed in the world of League of Legends (known as
Runeterra) for thousands of years.

In the first-person team based shooter Team Fortress 2, there exists a knife weapon for the Spy class
that takes the namesake of the black rose, which was created in a cross promotion with the
game, Alliance of Valiant Arms.