Trigger Warning: Body Horror

  • A Guest in the House

    A Guest in the House

    After many lonely years, Abby’s just gotten married. She met her new husband, a recently widowed dentist, when he arrived in town with his young daughter seeking a new start. Although it’s strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother, but the more she

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  • Grand Metal Organs Vol. 01

    Grand Metal Organs Vol. 01

    In a world where human evolution has reached new heights, life has become reliant on newly developed electric abilities. But not everyone has the power required to survive in this new society. Enlil, a young man born without electrical prowess, dreamed of being a hero no matter what. And though life without powers is a

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  • Black Sheep

    Black Sheep

    A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly…something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community

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  • Iron Lung

    Iron Lung

    In a post-apocalyptic future after “The Quiet Rapture” event, a convict explores a blood ocean on a desolate moon using a submarine called the “Iron Lung” to search for missing stars/planets. My bud invited me to go see it with her and so we packed into the car and drove about an hour to the

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  • My Best Friend’s Exorcism

    My Best Friend’s Exorcism

    Was Grady Hendrix a teenage girl in a past life? Some of it is staggeringly teenage girl. The horror of being young and powerless rolls off this book strongly. No one believing you when you try to tell the truth, when things go awry. The world suddenly turning against you when you don’t have privilege.

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  • Tantrum

    Tantrum

    this book left me paralyzed. it’s about generational trauma passed from mother to daughter, abuse that takes the form of “taming” and reliance. the beginning of the book seems grounded in reality and the discussions of feminine rage. of feeling underappreciated and overworked and having more problems on top of that. the deep boiling anger

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  • 100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 4

    100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death Vol. 4

    NIGHT TALES! A horse that only roams at midnight.A woman who rants and raves with a poison tongue.A patrolman staking out a child’s room.All around Yuma, strangeness abounds… jesus christ the stuff happening between the stories are scarier than the story themselves

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  • The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow

    The Twice-Scorned Lady of Shadow

    I’m learning to embrace who and what I am, but there’s one thing I can’t face: the night Zak betrayed me. But even with the mysteries of our shared past hanging between us, I can’t turn Zak away when he asks for my help. Powerful fae are going missing, and when he tried to investigate,

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  • The Forest

    The Forest

    Right now I’ve doubled my time, and I only like playing with friends. I have dreams about this game, we get so into it. Bugs aside, it IS fun. I’ve been looking for a game similar to it that I can play on my lonesome because I love the base building, just… you can’t play

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Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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