Bestiality – Trigger Warning Database

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott

The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, hungry the desire to be loved, and seen, and known. And the terror of those things to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be known and recognized as the monstrous thing you are. Two young women working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets—and their own doomed summer love. A group of witchy teens concoct the perfect plan to induce the hated new girl into their ranks. A woman… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse
Infidelity
Alcohol consumption & drug use
Blood & gore depiction including decapitation & body horror
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother recounted
Death of a child
Drowning
Animal death
Bestiality

Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara

A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. Rebelling against her society’s expectations for women, Psyche spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to meet her destiny. When Psyche angers the love goddess Aphrodite, she sends Eros, god of desire, to deliver a cruel curse. After eons watching humanity twist his gifts, the last thing Eros wants is to become involved in the chaos of the mortal world. But when he pricks himself with the arrow intended for Psyche, Eros finds himself doomed to yearn for a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Rape
Incest
Bestiality mentioned
Cheating
Suicide
Self-harm
Death of parents
Murder

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

As Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos, Ariadne and her sister Phaedra grow up hearing the hoofbeats and bellows of the Minotaur echo from the Labyrinth beneath the palace. The Minotaur – Minos’s greatest shame and Ariadne’s brother – demands blood every year When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives in Crete as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne falls in love with him. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that in a world ruled by mercurial gods – drawing their attention…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Rape
Incest (mother-stepson)
Sexual assault
Suicide
Pregnancy
Blood & gore depiction
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Death of a parent
Bestiality
Animal cruelty
Animal death

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape & rape by coercion
Marital rape
Paedophilia
Bestiality
Necrophilia
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father
Murder
Kidnapping

Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle. Not only is she still struggling to keep her investigative business afloat, but she must now deal with the affairs of the Pack, including preparing her people for attack from Roland, a cruel, ancient being with godlike powers.

As Roland’s long shadow looms ever nearer, Kate is called to attend a gathering of leaders from Atlanta’s supernatural factions. When one of the Masters of the Dead is found murdered by a shapeshifter, Kate is given less than twenty-four hours to hunt down the killer. And this time, if she fails, she’ll find herself embroiled in a war that could destroy everything she holds dear…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Bestiality mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Emesis
Dismemberment
Death of a friend

The Heart Goes Last of Margaret Atwood

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car. They desperately need to turn their situation around, and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer. Everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in… for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their “civilian” homes.

At first, this doesn’t seem like too much of a sacrifice to make but when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events puts Stan’s life in danger.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cheating
Bestiality
Imprisonment
Homelessness

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her family; nevertheless, the woman finds the haunting oddly comforting for the spirit is that of her own dead baby, never named, thought of only as Beloved.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racial slurs
Slavery
Sexual assault (forced fellatio) & gang rape
Bestiality mentioned
Murder of an infant by a handsaw
Strangulation

Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

In the house of Helios, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power – the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Rape (on-page)
Rape by coercion recounted & discussed
Incest mentioned
Emotional, verbal & physical abuse
Cheating
Arranged & forced marriage
Nightmares
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Graphic caesarean childbirth (on-page)
Pregnancy
Blood & physical injury depiction
Dead bodies
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a sibling
Death of a child
Death of a father
Death of a husband
Murder
Torture
Death from a fall
Death by drowning mentioned
Animal death (on-page)
Bestiality mentioned & recounted
Bullying

Damsel by Elana K Arnold

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: when the prince-who-will-be-king comes of age, he must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been.

When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, however, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon, or what horrors she has faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome prince, the story he tells of her rescue, and her destiny to sit on the throne beside him. Ama comes with Emory back to the kingdom of Harding, hailed as the new princess, welcomed to the court.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Physical & emotional abuse, including gaslighting
Graphic sexual assault
Graphic rape & rape threats
Bestiality
Suicide
Graphic self-harm
Grey-area cheating
Alcohol consumption
Imprisonment
Graphic animal abuse & animal cruelty