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Ruin by John Gwynne

Ruin by John Gwynne

The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. At his back stands the scheming Calidus and a warband of the Kadoshim, dread demons of the Otherworld. They plan to bring Asroth and his host of the Fallen into the world of flesh, but to do so they need the seven treasures. Nathair has been deceived but now he knows the truth. He has choices to make, choices that will determine the fate of the Banished Lands. Elsewhere the flame of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Rape
Infidelity
Emesis
Death of a child
Animal death

Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well-guarded secret—but it’s not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they’ve needed to keep others out. And now they’re worried they’re keeping a murderer in. Irene’s widow hires Evander Mills to uncover the truth behind her mysterious death. Andy, recently fired… R ead more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & slurs
Hate crimes, including gay bashing
Suicidal ideation
Alcohol consumption
Murder
Police brutality
Animal death & hunting (rabbit)

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th-century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Human trafficking
Slavery
Antisemitism
Queermisia
Rape mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Smoking and medicinal drug use mentioned
Blood & injury depiction including broken bones and knife wounds
Depiction of corpses
Cancer mentioned
Emesis
Death of a friend
Murder & attempted murder
Genocide recounted
Torture mentioned
Physical assault
Knife violence
Drowning
Fire
Loss of autonomy (possession)
War themes
Animal death

The Summer We Forgot by Caroline George

The Summer We Forgot by Caroline George

Darby and Morgan haven’t spoken for two years, and their friend group has splintered. But when the body of their former science teacher is found in the marsh where they attended camp that summer, they realize they have more questions than answers . . . and even fewer memories. The group of reunited friends suspects that a murderer is stalking the coastal highway 30A, and they are desperate to recover their memories as quickly as possible . . . before their history they can’t remember repeats itself. As tensions rise… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse mentioned
Statutory rape
Attempted rape of a minor
Memory loss
Car accident
Kidnapping & hostage situtation
Blackmail
Death of a pet mentioned

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

It’s 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse recounted
Parental abandonment
Panic attack
Suicide recounted
Alcohol consumption
Drugging mentioned
Stillbirth recounted
Blood & physical injuries depiction
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father in a fire recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Physical assault
Explosion
Poisoning
Kidnapping & hostage situation
Blackmail
Colonialism & slavery discussed
Animal death mentioned

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she’s buried beneath anger-induced blackouts. Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide & suicidal ideation mentioned
Self-harm
Death of a child mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Graphic cannibalism
Murder
Torture
Animal abuse & cruelty
Animal death

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