Trigger Warning: Body Horror

  • Edenville

    Edenville

    An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from an exciting new voice in horror for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a

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  • Bury Your Gays

    Bury Your Gays

    This is an AWESOME takedown of rainbow capitalism and AI in creative spaces. Chuck Tingle has always been a stellar writer, but holy shit, this is fantastic. It really leans into a paranormal angle at first, and it’s definitely along the lines I was thinking, but the execution turned the expected turnout into something more.

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  • The Gay Who Turned Kaiju

    The Gay Who Turned Kaiju

    Bullied for being gay, teenager Takashi Arashiro wishes he could just be somebody else—but who could predict he’d morph into a giant-headed sci-fi creature?! This is a story about acceptance. About the pettiness of people, about how some people change and how others don’t. Self-acceptance is the strongest acceptance one can have, and it would

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  • Just Like Home

    Just Like Home

    “Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories — she’s come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there. Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to

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  • Nightbitch

    Nightbitch

    One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else… An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her

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  • Uglymug, Epicfighter

    Uglymug, Epicfighter

    His looks are -255, touching girls causes him pain, and sexual acts will literally tear him apart. Just what can our ex-salesman Shigeru get in the other world in exchange for such inconveniences…? This is an epic tale of one very ugly, but ridiculously strong man! i actually ended up liking this a lot. it

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  • The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

    The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Season 1

    Jill breaks out of prison the night before she’s set to be executed by her fiancé, Crown Prince Gerald. She’s struck by an arrow while escaping, but instead of dying, she’s transported six years into the past—to the night she and Gerald met. Desperate to alter fate, she instead proposes to the first man she

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  • Animal Crossing

    Animal Crossing

    so way back when let’s plays were becoming a thing, people used to do write-ups of let’s plays. this was back in ye olde october 2007, the perfect time for me to be scouring the internet for interesting horror stories and the period of growing popularity of creepy pastas! so this is a reinterpretation of

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  • Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Vol. 1-7

    Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling Vol. 1-7

    ISEKAI’D BY: Summoning? Harem Scale H: Illusia’s moral compass is off the charts. A: He has absolutely no awareness that a bunch of cute girls (or lizards) are after him. R: No romance, period. E: Low ecchi levels. Most ecchi is costuming, and even then the costumes are mostly very reasonable. M: It’s a fun

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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: 23/50
46%
Comics Read in 2026: 51/200
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 470/809
58%


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