M's Media Menagerie

Thoughtful Dumping Grounds

Trope: Horror Nostalgia

Horror that takes relics of the past, like analog horror, puppets, VHS tapes, beloved icons of childhood, and turns them into something sinister.

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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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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Scary Movie

⭐, Fuck This

Black Comedy, Comedy, Horror, Parody

when i was a kid this was peak comedy.now it did not age well.it’s an old style wayans brothers production, leaning heavy on racial jokes and weed jokes and dick jokes and juvenile humor all around. that’s fine, but we veer into like… transphobic territory, homophobic territory, the terrible depiction of autistic people, and just…
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How to Sell a Haunted House

⭐⭐⭐⭐

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and
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I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Johnny awakes. A puppet looms over his bed. He recognizes the furry Grandpa was its puppeteer on the children’s television show R-City Street. But Grandpa went missing a year ago. He disappeared from this very apartment building, which was converted from the old R-City Street studio. Desperate to see Grandpa again, Johnny follows the puppet
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Fever Knights

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I want to make one, too.
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Mister Magic

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Children’s programming can really fuck you up.
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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:

10

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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