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Vanilla by Mona Kabbani

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1.0

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I don't even know how I found this book. I guess storygraph recced it to me? Ok. From the summary I figured this was an edgy pedo horror abuse shit and I was irght. There's child abuse but not outright pedo shit a la CSA. Alright there's some overt pedo shit wiht he infantilization of a adult woman and her being groomed for her entire life. The first half of the book is the villain and his victim. The rest of the book is the victim wandering around being 'free' and us getting info dumps on who the villain is and how he got to this point. And I do mean info dumps. POV switches and we get a info dump of who they are and their backstory and how they are involved with the villain. and then we get serendipitous crossed paths of characters and there's never really an tension. The villains plots are not in danger of being foiled, and I think that's why the book flounders for me. 

The writing was decent. I thought the pacing was off. It was fine at the start, switched POV and started dragging real bad. I had zero investment with any of the characters, personally. They were incredibly one dimensional. I think the mc(?) Vanilla was trying to poke into a second dimension, but the book never really followed through with this.

The plot twist ending was... ok. Not out of no where, you know from the start what the villain guy wanted to do. The ending with the kid was. Idk. I think at 80 percent of the way through I justwanted to see what the finale was. I lost interest. I think there's definitely themes of generational abuse and what not but again, I don't care enough to thnk about it.

There's a lot of sexual violence and sexual harassment. Even the city is one dimensional in that this is all there is to the location. You got cis men sexually harassing / assulting women on street who can only run away or cower. Trans people don't exist in this book and I'm glad because jesus christ keep your hands off trans character if this is what you write cis characters like. Anyways we get bland characters all around. It's all very tragic sad trauma porn and I'm struggling to figure out who would like this book. There's no hook. There's not even a mystery that characters uncover. There's silly philosophical shit conveyed by a character that sounds like a emo kid from the early 00s. Omg xd Im dead?? rawr? Where teh thump thump?! 0.0'''

Lesbophobia.
Lesbians, skip this. So basically the one
victim character [vanilla] goes to a party with one of the MCs who promptly ditches her and the MCs friend tiffany leads the Victim upstairs where they lay on a bed and she starts touching Victim. During this touching, Tiffany randomly traumadumps her very tragic past of having a girl best friend who she was dating as a child [teen? it's not clear] and one day her dad catches them doing lesbian stuff [i assume sex] and throws a lesbophobic tantrum, throwing the lesbian gf out of his house. The lesbian gf never shows up to stchool and tiffany assumes she either moved away or died of a hate crime within the time span of being thrown out and going home. Then tiffany makes her move on Victim, who promptly kills her brutally goreily, on screen.


I don't rec this. There's better written more interesting horror out there.

content warnings.
minor incest, whorephobic language, 

medium kidnapping, 

major arson, blood, body horror, child abuse, child death, confinement, emotional abuse, fire, gore, gun violence, injuries, lesbophobia, medical abuse, medical content, miscarriage, murder, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual violence, unsanitary, violence, whorephobia


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Bringing Home The Rain by Bob McGough

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adventurous funny hopeful mysterious sad

3.5

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A fun interesting story about impoverished magician who uses hard drugs and solves local mysteries by choice and because some government agency forces him to. Not my thing personally, but it's humorous and well written. I sought out this book because I read something from this author in the anthology Journals of Horror: Found Fiction edited by Terry M. West . Spoiler for the anthology, but it was one of the few stories that was well written and I enjoyed reading.
The first story sets up the characters and works pretty well. The second story is very heartwarming, to a degree, no pun intended. The characters feel a little flat but I can brush that aside and attribute that to the MC not especially caring about others. I do like the little history injected into the worldsetting, about the various family names that been there for generations.

First story.
A man deals with a strange phenomenon that is causing drought in a five mile radius. 

minor cancer, medical content, infidelity, 
medium vomit, pregnancy, miscarriage, 
major violence, body horror, alcoholism, police, confinement, drug use, vomit

Second story.
The MC offers to find a young man's missing mother.

minor arson, fire,demolition, murder, domestic abuse, 

medium sexual content, drug abuse, lesbophobia, whorephobia, 

major violence, religion christianity, murder, death, drowning, fire, house fires, medical content, 

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Frozen Hell by Bob Eggleton, Robert Silverberg, John W. Campbell Jr.

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

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Ok. So if you've ever seen the 80s movie, you know how this plays out. I think if you enjoyed the movie, you'd like the novella. Yah it plays out the same beat by beat, but it's different enough that it feels fresh and interesting. The gore isn't over the top, and I love the character's and their voices. The writing is fantastic, and I understand why some books are simply classics.

Content warnings

medium murder, animal death, 

major dogs, gore, blood, body horror, violence, gun violence,

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The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

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

1.0

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Ok. I don't understand why people were so hot for this book. Kinda lesbian flavored horror set in a cave. The writing is ok, I thought the author portrayed the environment very well and didn't lose me on the technical details. 

The  toxic lesbian relationship  felt shoehorned in and oddly placed. Personally I prefer lesbian relationships in media without the toxicity or the unhealthy, abusive dynamics. It's not unrealistic but ehhh let's do better. 

I haven't read much cave based horror but I think this was fairly creepy and tense. I think the tension was more based in the environment than anything paranormal or supernatural, however. After a while it got pretty repetitious. Like.. nothing really happened lol.

If you want a horror story where the horror is mainly supernatural or paranormal, you may not appreciate this one. There is definitely some fungal body horror if you like that, though.

I don't recommend this, just go in knowing what you want.

Wrt diversity. Yes they're black characters or characters of color. Not sure which is intended. It rarely comes up outside of descriptions, so temper your expectations. Don't expect [spoiler name] to mention eating pig feet and collards as a child.

Character descriptions [mild spoilers?]
▪ The camera shifted, Em’s mother turning it around to face herself. She looked like she was in her mid-twenties, maybe the same age Em was now, and looked eager and happy, foreign expressions on her daughter’s face. She was pale-skinned, her blond hair curling gently against her cheeks, and her green eyes glittered. She had the same small notch in her chin as her daughter. “You hear that? Laurent says we’re all going to be rich.”


▪ Em’s eyes darted from side to side, too ashamed or panicked to meet Gyre’s gaze. She had dark circles under her eyes that looked like they had been there long before Gyre had entered the cave. Her hair was thick, pure black, haloing around her face in a mess of tight curls. Her skin was darker than Gyre’s, a rich, warm brown without freckles or moles. She was stunning, even in her exhaustion, even though her full, doll-like lips were chapped and torn from chewing at them. She pursed them as she thought about what to say next, the motion deepening the small cleft in her chin.


So I guess. Em is part white? idk it's confusing and shoehorned in.

The conclusion was a happy one. I didn't have everything answered but the character arcs ended well and I appreciate how it was handled. If you want answers to everything, you may be disappointed.

Content warnings
minor suicide, drug abuse, vomit, 

medium medical content, 

major injuries, psychosis, vomit, amputation, medical content, gore, paranoia, death, medical abuse, death, body horror, fungi horror, parasite horror, claustrophobia, 

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Transmission by Ambrose Ibsen

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adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Ok, creepy! I liked the concept of secret ominous ghost messages in music, like a geocache but make it paranormal. I thought the pay off was decent. The ending... I didn't care for it, but it was refreshingly different. I can appreciate the author trying something there. I feel like this could be expanded into a full length novel, but I'd rather not. I'm interested in seeing more of the unusual pagan stuff, but I don't have faith in the author's skills to really flesh out this world just yet. Maybe in a few years and books later.

Nothing at all the same but if I had to put it into a list. House of leaves and Dionaea house creepypasta. Kind of like putting similarly vibing songs on a playlist, rather than a list of covers of the same song.

I like that the auxiliary character didnt feel like the standard sidekick or Watson character.

I thought the writing was decent and had great atmosphere. The settings was pretty creepy and I loved how the mystery unfolded. 

If you're Black, you might not like this book for obvious reasons which I'll spoil here to confirm.

Reggie Cash, the only Black character, dies. 
 

How it happens.
 
He picks up a person he's met before, they have a conversation where it's revealed that the person knows more than previously stated, and it cuts to another scene. When return to Cash, the other protagonists discover he's been brutally murdered with a knife. The gore is explicit and described.
 

I really don't like that despite it been 2022 we're still doing this shitty racist trope. The book really suffers from this. 

▪ “So maybe we were right about Agnes getting killed. I dunno about you fellas, but I don't think it's my job to go digging up bodies,” added Reggie, slumping against the wall. “We need to get the police involved


Absolutely unrealistic to have a Black man say this. Keep in mind this is before
they start trying to dig up where they think a dead body is. He's not wrong to get the police involved but it would absolutely look bad that a Black man is involved with a white woman's disappearance and potential murder.


content warnings
minor body horror, murder, gore, alcohol, murder, Vietnam war, racism, segregation, 

medium racism, air plane crash, death, 

major murder, blood, anti black racism, death, gore, torture, murder, 

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The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

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adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Ok what a weird horror book. Pop horror with a side of supernatural demonic possession and science fiction time travel. I'd rec this but with some caution. There's a fair amount of gore and death and other traumatic themes. The mc is intentionally unlikable and there are the usual edgy *ist / *phobic ways that go along with such a character. The writing was consistent and decent. The pacing is a little jarring and abrupt sometimes. It throws you through scenes without a care.

I can appreciate that in some way this is mental illness manifesting, but it's not blamed in an ableist way. The characters are quite straight forwards about it. I liked the unreliable narrator, and the sort of plot twist that leaves you questioning what the fuck happened. 

I think this is a great example of semi lighthearted 'found footage' type genre in literature. 


Misc bones to pick.


CHASTAIN: In layman’s terms, he was trying to control his own ego.LAWSON: What? His own ego? What? CHASTAIN: Listen. What the Mimi Experiment did, it projected Jack’s ego and turned it into a psychokinetic entity. LAWSON: How can a scientific experiment do that? CHASTAIN: Usually it can’t. But with a great deal of help from darkness . . . Jack’s ego was combined with everyone else’s to form a gestalt being. When that being came under threat, it rejected what it saw as the inferior parts of itself and came home to possess Jack. 


This is kinda a plot twist? like if youre deadset on traditional demon possession and nothing else you may not like this. Then again you probably havent gotten that far into the story to see this. 


Flashing those killer eyes of hers, Hot Mama (5,051 followers  says Mimi was a gifted singer and psychic who visited Kenya and got beaten to death for being a witch. She adds that this might connect our Mimi ‘rather nicely’ to Harold, as a tip of the hat.


What the fuck is this weird racism.


The mind plays Chinese whispers with itself.

Just say 'the whisper game' or 'telephone game'.


I wonder aloud whether female combat magicians are very common. ‘There’s a few of us dotted about,’ she says, slouching in her chair and propping her feet up on the balcony rail. ‘And most of us kick arse more than the guys. We got the advantage of a menstrual current, see. If something has blood, we’re even more able to fuck it up.’

This is some weird bad transmisogyny and cissexism. And intersexism? I think?

Content warnings.

major arson, blood, body horror, child abuse, death, drug abuse, drug use smoking tobacco, fire, gore, grief, house fires, misogyny, murder, parental death, psychosis?, religion catholic christianity, religious bigotry, self harm, sexual content, suicide, torture, violence, vomit

medium alcohol use, bone fractures, child abuse, child death, cissexism, drug use, eye trauma, gore, hand trauma, homophobia, medical content, murder, self harm, starvation, transmisogyny

minor ableist r slur, animal death, anti Rromani g slur, anti indigenous racism slur [Si*uxsie Si*ux], beastiality, blood, cancer, car crash, death, drug abuse, fatphobia, harvey weinstein mention, incest, infidelity, jehovahs witness, murder, overdose, pedophilia, racial slurs [sp**k], racism, sexual content, shooting spree, sinophobia, suicide, the sun magazine mention, whorephobic language

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Journals of Horror: Found Fiction by Todd Keisling, P.D. Cacek, Terry M. West

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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I don't think I really recommend this book if you want weird fiction / found footage esque horror. Other than being called 'transcripts' a lot of them don't have much to do with being records found by other people uninvolved with the incident. It's very standard horror, including cosmic, supernatural, and paranormal themes. I think 'finders keepers' is probably the most in vein with the concept of found footage.

Fave stories
Note-To-Self By Christopher Alan Broadstone
Whispers On The Wind By Robert Mcgough
Night Terrors: Journal By Michael Thomas-Knight
Finders Keepers By Paul D. Marks
In The Woods, We Wait By Matt Hayward
Going Home By Michael Mcglade
Hamburger Lady By Darryl Dawson
Beyond Castle Frankenstein By Paula Cappa


◆ Bagged, Tagged & Buried By Terry M. West
A secret fbi division for strange artifacts and magical items gets shut down, with disastrous results.
minor suicide, alcohol, 
medium murder, death, 

◆ Turn Me On, Dead Man By Robin Dover
A monolongue written on objects by a dying man.
minor excrement, 
medium cancer, murder, 
major psychosis?, 

◆ Truant By D.S. Ullery
Transcripts of a court ordered journal of a domestic abuser and the last days of his life.
minor fatphobia, cancer, infidelity, 
medium animal death, 
major domestic abuse, misogyny, police, body horror, animal cruelty , 

◆ The Book Of Flesh And Blood By Jeff O’brien
Evil cursed book which eats and kills any who open it.
major self harm, gore, suicide?, 

◆ Beyond Castle Frankenstein By Paula Cappa
A letter penned by the Mary Shelley, regarding a guilty, ominous ghost haunting her during a stay at a castle.
medium infidelity, suicide, 

◆ Dying Scrawl By Dj Tyrer
Final words written by a dead man on his own arms about lost carcosa?
no CWs

◆ Girl In The Woods By Evan Purcell
Teen massacre horror movie, via texts and 911/police transcripts.
medium murder, misogyny, femicide. 
major classism, 

◆ Going Home By Michael Mcglade
A man returns to his parents vacated mansion in the woods to restore it, while grieving the loss of his late wife. However, the mansion current residence are quite curious at this newcomer.
minor murder, ableist c slur, drug use, 
major gore, death, grief, 

◆ Hamburger Lady By Darryl Dawson
A pedophile encounters a vengeful school ghost who protects other women from danger.
medium gore, body horror, prisons, death penalty, hangings, 
major body horror, gore, blood, infidelity, teacher student relationship, pedophilia, anti sex worker sentiment / tropes, murder, cannibalism, gore, 

◆ Hole By Joseph Ramshaw
A British colonization party eats a monster who refuses to be digested.
minor body horror, vomit, alcohol, 
medium racism, 
major excrement, blood, gore, 

◆ Human Resources By Todd Keisling
A resignation statement from a man whose workplace has been overrun by a eldritch tech god and its prophet.
minor sexual harassment, 

◆ In The Woods, We Wait By Matt Hayward
An old man recounts the last days leading up to his wife's disappearance, and the deadly eldritch woods that people have been lured into.
minor injuries, 
medium infidelity
major body horror, police, gun violence, gore, 

◆ “Killing Jessica” By Glenn Rolfe
An incel's journal about murdering his room mate and room mate's sexy slutty female girlfriend. No horror here, just boring reddit incel shit. Not even a plot twist. 
minor alcohol 
medium sexual content, 
major misogyny, gore, murder, blood, violence, infidelity 

◆ Letter To Grandma By Crystal Leflar
A child hidden in an attic writes a letter to grandma, while waiting for their mother to return. Meanwhile, the world outside goes to shit.
minor blood, house fires, fire, 
medium guns, 
major confinement, child abuse, 

◆ Look Up By Michael Seese
Self help fliers in a city lead a man through a treasure hunt with drastic results. Kinda pathetic religious bigotry, imo.
medium religion, child neglect, alcoholism, addiction, 
major religious bigotry, 

◆ Lucca By John Ledger
Boring edgy alleged teen girl's suicide note that claims she's into bdsm and wants to try cannibalism. This reads like a 4chan fanfic about those evil FEMALES who won't fuck said 4channer.
major whorephobia, anti sex worker sentiment, drug use and abuse, sexual, racism, anti asian racism, animal death, animal cruelty, murder, gore, cannibalism, 

◆ Night Terrors: Journal By Michael Thomas-Knight
A woman plagued by night terrors, stuck a haunted house, and an trapped in a loveless marriage looks to escape both in any way possible.
minor toxic relationships?, infidelity, child death, ableist c slur, insects, 
medium injuries, domestic violence, parental death, 
major psychosis?, gore, death, parental death, misogyny, murder, arson, death, body horror, infidelity, 

◆ Finders Keepers By Paul D. Marks
A man finds a cell phone that has weird videos from the former owner, who recorded himself obeying the horrifying commands of an 'angel'.
minor drug use weed, excrement, 
medium fire, car fires, 
major animal death, animal cruelty, rape, murder, 

◆ The Anniversary By Sonja Thomas
On the anniversary of his foster / adopted father's murder, a teen boy gets clues from his stalker as to why the stalker hate crimed his father to death.

Sonja Thomas can suck the shit straight out of my asshole for this one, and here's why. The plot twist is that the
high school coach killed the gay father because he's gay and the coach didn't want the teen boy to have two gay fathers. Also there's some child abuse thrown in and also this causes the teen boy to because the Antichrist child from the The Omen movie. Because child abuse does that to children? The incident which set off the coach was that he saw the foster father bullying the teen exactly once. That's it. The coach is a required reporter, at least in the USA. He could've reported that which would lead to the child being removed from the foster home. The coach specifically states in the story that he wanted to save him [teen boy] from the f*gs raising him.

Hysterically, this anthology isn't listed on the author's personal website. Something the matter? Don't want parents to know you're writing hateful homophobic shit? Also, side note, the teen characterization was pretty awful. 
minor anti feminism, 
medium child abuse, 
major parental death, murder, torture, gore, injuries, hate crime, homophobia, bullying, homophobic f slur, child abuse, 

◆ The Breath Within The Darkness By Essel Pratt
A federal agent leaves his last will and testimony on a diner table.
medium gun violence, 
major suicide ideation, 

◆ The Devil’s Irony By Lori R. Lopez
A young man explores underground tunnels where his grandfather had disappeared in when he was a teen.
minor animal death, insects, body horror, gore, death, 

◆ The Note By P. D. Cacek
A poem about a creepy note found in a dresser.
minor infidelity, murder, 

◆ The Seahorse Speaks By Erik Gustafson
A man wakes up tied up, surrounded by dead bodies that are slowly transforming into a horrific carousel.
major kidnapping, death, confinement?, gore, body horror, 

◆ Vermilion A Traveler’s Account By Stuart Keane
A edgy sexist serial killer gets stuck in a tavern full of newly turned zombies.
minor excrement , anti black racism infidelity, 
medium sinophobia, racism, 
major alcohol use, gore, murder, murder, ableist r slur, homophobia, homophobic f slur, vomit, cannibalism, gun violence, sexism, misogyny, genital mutilation, child abuse, 

◆ Whispers On The Wind By Robert Mcgough
The forest surrounding an authors new home gives him divine, eldritch inspiration, with devastating world wide consequences.
minor ableist c slur, jk rowling, cults, medical content, blood, 
medium murder, blood, gore, animal death, animal hunting, animal death, 
major drug use smoking tobacco, 

◆ There's Something In My House By Wesley Thomas
Haunted House feat killer clowns.
minor alcohol, 
major blood, religion christianity, medical content, clowns, 

◆ Tweets Of Terror By Robert Holt
A tweet conversation between a human trafficker and his victim. 
minor trafficking
major stalking, 

Self-Consumed By Terry M. West & Regina West
Hannibal Lecter, but a Black man and medical doctor, and he gets revenge on the white man who murdered his daughter.
minor alcohol, child death, 
medium car crash, 
major medical abuse, torture, cannibalism, racism, bullying, confinement, 

◆ Note-To-Self By Christopher Alan Broadstone
A man accidentally becomes a serial killer, compelled by a strange parasitical infection introduced to him by using an astrolabe at a specific star. We meet him during the hunt for his final victim. 
minor suicide, parental death, zodiac killer, 
major vomit, body horror, self harm, violence, gore, blood, injuries, serial killers, medical content, mental illness, 

all content warnings 
major ableism, alcohol, animal cruelty, animal death, anti sex worker sentiment, arson, blood, body horror, bullying, cannibalism, child abuse, classism, clowns, confinement, death, domestic abuse, drug abuse, drug use smoking tobacco, excrement, genital mutilation, gore, grief, gun violence, hate crime, homophobia, infidelity, injuries, kidnapping, medical abuse, medical content, mental illness, misogyny, murder, parental death, pedophilia, police, psychosis?, racism, rape, religion christianity, religious bigotry, self harm, serial killers, sexism, sexual content, stalking, suicide ideation, suicide, teacher student relationship, torture, violence, vomit, whorephobia

medium addiction, alcoholism, animal death, animal hunting, blood, body horror, cancer, car crash, car fires, child abuse, death, death penalty, domestic violence, femicide, fire, gore, gun violence, hangings, infidelity, injuries, misogyny, murder, parental death, prisons, racism, religion, sexual content, sinophobia, suicide

minor ableism, alcohol, animal death, anti black racism, anti feminism, blood, body horror, cancer, child death, death, drug use, excrement, fatphobia, fire, gore, house fires, infidelity, injuries, insects, jk rowling, medical content, murder, sexual harassment, suicide, toxic relationships?, zodiac killer

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Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories by Aviaq Johnston, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Gayle Kabloona, Repo Kempt, Cara Bryant, Thomas Anguti Johnston, Jay Bulckaert, Richard Van Camp, K.C. Carthew, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Ann R. Loverock

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Fave stories. The Door, Wheetago War II: Summoners, Revenge, Lounge.

Lounge is the eldritch horror I've been looking for all this time. If you compare this to the The Thing movie I will beat your ass. Incomparable. Fantastic, I loved it so much.

Honestly all the stories were such amazing hits for me that I was kind of stunned. Rarely do I ever like more than 1 or 3 stories in a whole anthology. I think that's because most anthologies I've read are hot doo doo dog shit though. This one? Bump to the top of your to be read lists, and then read it. You won't regret it.

Content warnings

◆ Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq: The Haunted Blizzard
minor drug use smoking,

◆ The Door
minor violence, parental death, grief, 
medium colonization, religion catholic, 
major animal hunting, animal death, blood, 

◆ Wheetago War II: Summoners
minor child death, grief, gore, 
major animal death, guns, body horror, gore, 

◆ Revenge
medium child abuse, bullying, parental death, 
major animal death, ableism, animal death, animal hunting, 

◆ Lounge
major body horror, sexual harassment, anti indigenous racism, 

▪ mechules
major medical abuse, body horror, gore, 

◆ Utiqtuq
major gore, gun violence, 

◆ Sila
major gun violence, 

◆ The Wildest Game
minor police, 
major pica, cannibalism, animal death, animal hunting, gun violence, gore, 

◆ Strays
minor vomit, 
major medical content, gore, alcohol use, death, grief, dogs, 

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Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror by Shane Hawk

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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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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