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Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror by Shane Hawk

17 reviews

eficca33's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"Orange" and "Soilborn" were both flash fiction and the ending GOT ME!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Cannibalism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Addiction, Car accident, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Adult/minor relationship, and Classism

persian_green's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Gore, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cultural appropriation and Racism

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racism, and Addiction

Minor: Sexual assault, Drug abuse, and Drug use

jessereadsthings's review

dark tense fast-paced

2.0

Some really interesting ideas for short stories that were either a bit too short to be effective or started really good but did not nail the ending. Which led to this collection being just okay overall. However, this is definitely an author I want to read more from in the future. Especially, since certain parts of the author’s writing really hit for me at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Drug abuse, Body horror, Racism, Animal death, Gore, Racial slurs, and Suicide

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Blood and Animal death

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Violence, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

booktribe's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.5

• Soilborne: ⭐️⭐️✨
• Wounded: ⭐️⭐️✨ (TW: death of a child, alcoholism, addiction, sexual assault mentioned, attempted suicide mentioned)
• Orange: ⭐️ (TW: racism)
• Imitate: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Dead America: DNF (I don’t do spiders lol)
• Transfigured: ⭐️⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism

Minor: Suicide attempt and Sexual assault

notthatlibrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

krys_kilz's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.0

I do not read a lot of horror, so I don't have much to compare this collection to. I did find a lot of the stories creepy and unsettling, but they lacked any real punch that would make me gasp or check under my bed before going to sleep.

This collection also claimed to be firmly rooted in place/history, but I really did not get that from reading it. It could have been set almost anywhere, which felt disappointing to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Alcoholism, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual assault

queergoth_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Child death, Murder, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Sexual assault

madarauchiha's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

✨🌠 my about / byf / CW info carrd: uchiha-madara 🌠✨

I wanted to love this. I kinda just liked it instead, with mild hate to 'wounded' for tactless use of csa plot points. I felt at times the writing was a little weak, but when it was good, it dunks your brain into creepy crawly juice. This was fairly heavy on traumatic topics and gross out horror, which I'm not personally keen on. All the same I'd rec this if you want some good indigenous horror.

It was certainly a creepy, freaky, gross, terrifying assortment of tales. My fave was 'Imitate' because I adore a good Changeling story.

◆ Soilborne
minor child death, 
medium body horror, 

◆ Wounded
medium child death, kidnapping, grief, suicide attempt, drug abuse, rape, sexual abuse, pedophilia, csa, blood, religion, gore, unsanitary, 
major alcohol use, underage drinking, 

◆ Orange
medium car crash, death, pregnancy, 
major alcoholism 

◆ Imitate
minor drug use, infidelity, 
major body horror, colonization, anti indigenous racism, gore, body horror, animal death, vomit, gore, death, child death, gun violence, 

◆ Dead America
minor suicide, 
major spiders, body horror, insect horror, unreality, 

◆ Transfigured
major body horror, gore, murder, car crashes, cannibalism, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Racial slurs, Racism, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death, Drug use, and Infidelity