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Runebinder by Alex Kahler

Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler

When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind’s downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place. But they are losing. Tenn is a Hunter, resigned to fight even though hope is nearly lost. When he is singled out by a seductive Kin named Tomás and the enigmatic Hunter Jarrett…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Dubious consent scenarios
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Graphic murder
Torture
Animal death & hunting

Gyo by Junji Ito

Gyo by Junji Ito

Something is rotten in Okinawa… The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene and so begins Tadashi and Kaori’s spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of Uzumaki, Junji Ito. Hold your breath until all is revealed.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted suicide
Body horror
Animal death
Animal cruelty

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday. It is Halloween, and Seaglass – the crumbling Cornish house perched upon its own tiny private island – is at one with the granite rocks it sits on. The Darker family haven’t all been in the same place for over a decade, and when the tide comes in they’ll be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. When the tide goes back out, nothing will ever be the same again, because one of them is a killer . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Animal death

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Fatmisia
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including having an ear cut off
Death of a child
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Gun violence
Animal death
Animal attack

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Abandoned by a single mother she never knew, 16-year-old Raya—obsessed with ancient myths—lives with her grandmother in a small conservative Texas town. For years Raya has been forced to hide her feelings for her best friend and true love, Sarah. When the two are outed, they are sent to Friendly Saviors: a re-education camp meant to “fix” them and make them heterosexual. Upon arrival, Raya vows to assume the mythic role of Orpheus to escape Friendly Saviors, and to return to the world of the living with her love—only becoming more determined after she, Sarah, and Friendly Saviors’ other teen residents are subjected to abusive… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Transmisia
Deadnaming & misgendering
Lesbomisia & lesbomisic slurs
Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Outing
Conversion therapy (theme)
Nonconsensual electroshock therapy of a minor
Nightmares
Attempted suicide
Self harm
Starvation
Torture
Car accident
Animal death

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Coming out themes
Ableism & ableist language
Racism
Attempted sexual assault of a child by an uncle, on-page
Parental abandonment & neglect
Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse
Domestic violence recounted, off-page
Cheating mentioned
Nightmares
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Hospitalisation for attempted suicide recounted
Suicidal ideation
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Graphic body horror
Emesis
Murder & attempted murder
School shooting
Gun & knife violence
Car accident
Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)
Animal death (insects)
Animal abuse & torture (insects)
Bullying

Vacationland by John Hodgman

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Recreational drug use
Death of a parent
Cancer
Animal death (rat)
Bullying

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

Jasper “Jazz” Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he’s also the son of the world’s most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal’s point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo’s Nod. In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Graphic dismemberment
Drugging
Hospitalisation of a friend
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Torture
Animal death

The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her “aunt.” With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as free domestic labor for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage’s coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real, exceedingly wealthy, and with secrets of her own. Secrets and wealth she intends to share–for a price.⁠… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Slut shaming
Alcohol consumption
Prescription drug addiction
Suicide mentioned
Death of a pregnant woman
‘Botched’ abortion mentioned
Blood, gore & mutilation
Dead bodies
Rabies
Surgery
Murder
Poisoning
Drowning
Animal death (dog)

The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham

The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham

Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild, wine-soaked nights. To raise funds for her cause, she’s set to publish explosive memoirs exposing the powerful man who ruined her. Her ideals are her purpose, her friends are her family, and her paramours are forbidden to linger in the morning. Adam Anderson is a wholesome, handsome, widowed Scottish architect, with two young children, a business to protect, and an aversion to scandal. He could never, ever afford to fall for Seraphina. But her indecent proposal—one month, no strings, no future—proves too tempting for a man who strains to keep his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Slut-shaming
Alcoholism
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Miscarriage
Stillbirth
Death during childbirth recounted
Emesis
Death of a spouse recounted
Animal death