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madarauchiha's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
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I don't think I really recommend this book if you want weird fiction / found footage esque horror. Other than being called 'transcripts' a lot of them don't have much to do with being records found by other people uninvolved with the incident. It's very standard horror, including cosmic, supernatural, and paranormal themes. I think 'finders keepers' is probably the most in vein with the concept of found footage.
Fave stories
Note-To-Self By Christopher Alan Broadstone
Whispers On The Wind By Robert Mcgough
Night Terrors: Journal By Michael Thomas-Knight
Finders Keepers By Paul D. Marks
In The Woods, We Wait By Matt Hayward
Going Home By Michael Mcglade
Hamburger Lady By Darryl Dawson
Beyond Castle Frankenstein By Paula Cappa
◆ Bagged, Tagged & Buried By Terry M. West
A secret fbi division for strange artifacts and magical items gets shut down, with disastrous results.
minor suicide, alcohol,
medium murder, death,
◆ Turn Me On, Dead Man By Robin Dover
A monolongue written on objects by a dying man.
minor excrement,
medium cancer, murder,
major psychosis?,
◆ Truant By D.S. Ullery
Transcripts of a court ordered journal of a domestic abuser and the last days of his life.
minor fatphobia, cancer, infidelity,
medium animal death,
major domestic abuse, misogyny, police, body horror, animal cruelty ,
◆ The Book Of Flesh And Blood By Jeff O’brien
Evil cursed book which eats and kills any who open it.
major self harm, gore, suicide?,
◆ Beyond Castle Frankenstein By Paula Cappa
A letter penned by the Mary Shelley, regarding a guilty, ominous ghost haunting her during a stay at a castle.
medium infidelity, suicide,
◆ Dying Scrawl By Dj Tyrer
Final words written by a dead man on his own arms about lost carcosa?
no CWs
◆ Girl In The Woods By Evan Purcell
Teen massacre horror movie, via texts and 911/police transcripts.
medium murder, misogyny, femicide.
major classism,
◆ Going Home By Michael Mcglade
A man returns to his parents vacated mansion in the woods to restore it, while grieving the loss of his late wife. However, the mansion current residence are quite curious at this newcomer.
minor murder, ableist c slur, drug use,
major gore, death, grief,
◆ Hamburger Lady By Darryl Dawson
A pedophile encounters a vengeful school ghost who protects other women from danger.
medium gore, body horror, prisons, death penalty, hangings,
major body horror, gore, blood, infidelity, teacher student relationship, pedophilia, anti sex worker sentiment / tropes, murder, cannibalism, gore,
◆ Hole By Joseph Ramshaw
A British colonization party eats a monster who refuses to be digested.
minor body horror, vomit, alcohol,
medium racism,
major excrement, blood, gore,
◆ Human Resources By Todd Keisling
A resignation statement from a man whose workplace has been overrun by a eldritch tech god and its prophet.
minor sexual harassment,
◆ In The Woods, We Wait By Matt Hayward
An old man recounts the last days leading up to his wife's disappearance, and the deadly eldritch woods that people have been lured into.
minor injuries,
medium infidelity
major body horror, police, gun violence, gore,
◆ “Killing Jessica” By Glenn Rolfe
An incel's journal about murdering his room mate and room mate's sexy slutty female girlfriend. No horror here, just boring reddit incel shit. Not even a plot twist.
minor alcohol
medium sexual content,
major misogyny, gore, murder, blood, violence, infidelity
◆ Letter To Grandma By Crystal Leflar
A child hidden in an attic writes a letter to grandma, while waiting for their mother to return. Meanwhile, the world outside goes to shit.
minor blood, house fires, fire,
medium guns,
major confinement, child abuse,
◆ Look Up By Michael Seese
Self help fliers in a city lead a man through a treasure hunt with drastic results. Kinda pathetic religious bigotry, imo.
medium religion, child neglect, alcoholism, addiction,
major religious bigotry,
◆ Lucca By John Ledger
Boring edgy alleged teen girl's suicide note that claims she's into bdsm and wants to try cannibalism. This reads like a 4chan fanfic about those evil FEMALES who won't fuck said 4channer.
major whorephobia, anti sex worker sentiment, drug use and abuse, sexual, racism, anti asian racism, animal death, animal cruelty, murder, gore, cannibalism,
◆ Night Terrors: Journal By Michael Thomas-Knight
A woman plagued by night terrors, stuck a haunted house, and an trapped in a loveless marriage looks to escape both in any way possible.
minor toxic relationships?, infidelity, child death, ableist c slur, insects,
medium injuries, domestic violence, parental death,
major psychosis?, gore, death, parental death, misogyny, murder, arson, death, body horror, infidelity,
◆ Finders Keepers By Paul D. Marks
A man finds a cell phone that has weird videos from the former owner, who recorded himself obeying the horrifying commands of an 'angel'.
minor drug use weed, excrement,
medium fire, car fires,
major animal death, animal cruelty, rape, murder,
◆ The Anniversary By Sonja Thomas
On the anniversary of his foster / adopted father's murder, a teen boy gets clues from his stalker as to why the stalker hate crimed his father to death.
Sonja Thomas can suck the shit straight out of my asshole for this one, and here's why. The plot twist is that thehigh school coach killed the gay father because he's gay and the coach didn't want the teen boy to have two gay fathers. Also there's some child abuse thrown in and also this causes the teen boy to because the Antichrist child from the The Omen movie. Because child abuse does that to children? The incident which set off the coach was that he saw the foster father bullying the teen exactly once. That's it. The coach is a required reporter, at least in the USA. He could've reported that which would lead to the child being removed from the foster home. The coach specifically states in the story that he wanted to save him [teen boy] from the f*gs raising him.
Hysterically, this anthology isn't listed on the author's personal website. Something the matter? Don't want parents to know you're writing hateful homophobic shit? Also, side note, the teen characterization was pretty awful.
minor anti feminism,
medium child abuse,
major parental death, murder, torture, gore, injuries, hate crime, homophobia, bullying, homophobic f slur, child abuse,
◆ The Breath Within The Darkness By Essel Pratt
A federal agent leaves his last will and testimony on a diner table.
medium gun violence,
major suicide ideation,
◆ The Devil’s Irony By Lori R. Lopez
A young man explores underground tunnels where his grandfather had disappeared in when he was a teen.
minor animal death, insects, body horror, gore, death,
◆ The Note By P. D. Cacek
A poem about a creepy note found in a dresser.
minor infidelity, murder,
◆ The Seahorse Speaks By Erik Gustafson
A man wakes up tied up, surrounded by dead bodies that are slowly transforming into a horrific carousel.
major kidnapping, death, confinement?, gore, body horror,
◆ Vermilion A Traveler’s Account By Stuart Keane
A edgy sexist serial killer gets stuck in a tavern full of newly turned zombies.
minor excrement , anti black racism infidelity,
medium sinophobia, racism,
major alcohol use, gore, murder, murder, ableist r slur, homophobia, homophobic f slur, vomit, cannibalism, gun violence, sexism, misogyny, genital mutilation, child abuse,
◆ Whispers On The Wind By Robert Mcgough
The forest surrounding an authors new home gives him divine, eldritch inspiration, with devastating world wide consequences.
minor ableist c slur, jk rowling, cults, medical content, blood,
medium murder, blood, gore, animal death, animal hunting, animal death,
major drug use smoking tobacco,
◆ There's Something In My House By Wesley Thomas
Haunted House feat killer clowns.
minor alcohol,
major blood, religion christianity, medical content, clowns,
◆ Tweets Of Terror By Robert Holt
A tweet conversation between a human trafficker and his victim.
minor trafficking
major stalking,
Self-Consumed By Terry M. West & Regina West
Hannibal Lecter, but a Black man and medical doctor, and he gets revenge on the white man who murdered his daughter.
minor alcohol, child death,
medium car crash,
major medical abuse, torture, cannibalism, racism, bullying, confinement,
◆ Note-To-Self By Christopher Alan Broadstone
A man accidentally becomes a serial killer, compelled by a strange parasitical infection introduced to him by using an astrolabe at a specific star. We meet him during the hunt for his final victim.
minor suicide, parental death, zodiac killer,
major vomit, body horror, self harm, violence, gore, blood, injuries, serial killers, medical content, mental illness,
all content warnings
major ableism, alcohol, animal cruelty, animal death, anti sex worker sentiment, arson, blood, body horror, bullying, cannibalism, child abuse, classism, clowns, confinement, death, domestic abuse, drug abuse, drug use smoking tobacco, excrement, genital mutilation, gore, grief, gun violence, hate crime, homophobia, infidelity, injuries, kidnapping, medical abuse, medical content, mental illness, misogyny, murder, parental death, pedophilia, police, psychosis?, racism, rape, religion christianity, religious bigotry, self harm, serial killers, sexism, sexual content, stalking, suicide ideation, suicide, teacher student relationship, torture, violence, vomit, whorephobia
medium addiction, alcoholism, animal death, animal hunting, blood, body horror, cancer, car crash, car fires, child abuse, death, death penalty, domestic violence, femicide, fire, gore, gun violence, hangings, infidelity, injuries, misogyny, murder, parental death, prisons, racism, religion, sexual content, sinophobia, suicide
minor ableism, alcohol, animal death, anti black racism, anti feminism, blood, body horror, cancer, child death, death, drug use, excrement, fatphobia, fire, gore, house fires, infidelity, injuries, insects, jk rowling, medical content, murder, sexual harassment, suicide, toxic relationships?, zodiac killer
I don't think I really recommend this book if you want weird fiction / found footage esque horror. Other than being called 'transcripts' a lot of them don't have much to do with being records found by other people uninvolved with the incident. It's very standard horror, including cosmic, supernatural, and paranormal themes. I think 'finders keepers' is probably the most in vein with the concept of found footage.
Fave stories
Note-To-Self By Christopher Alan Broadstone
Whispers On The Wind By Robert Mcgough
Night Terrors: Journal By Michael Thomas-Knight
Finders Keepers By Paul D. Marks
In The Woods, We Wait By Matt Hayward
Going Home By Michael Mcglade
Hamburger Lady By Darryl Dawson
Beyond Castle Frankenstein By Paula Cappa
◆ Bagged, Tagged & Buried By Terry M. West
A secret fbi division for strange artifacts and magical items gets shut down, with disastrous results.
minor suicide, alcohol,
medium murder, death,
◆ Turn Me On, Dead Man By Robin Dover
A monolongue written on objects by a dying man.
minor excrement,
medium cancer, murder,
major psychosis?,
◆ Truant By D.S. Ullery
Transcripts of a court ordered journal of a domestic abuser and the last days of his life.
minor fatphobia, cancer, infidelity,
medium animal death,
major domestic abuse, misogyny, police, body horror, animal cruelty ,
◆ The Book Of Flesh And Blood By Jeff O’brien
Evil cursed book which eats and kills any who open it.
major self harm, gore, suicide?,
◆ Beyond Castle Frankenstein By Paula Cappa
A letter penned by the Mary Shelley, regarding a guilty, ominous ghost haunting her during a stay at a castle.
medium infidelity, suicide,
◆ Dying Scrawl By Dj Tyrer
Final words written by a dead man on his own arms about lost carcosa?
no CWs
◆ Girl In The Woods By Evan Purcell
Teen massacre horror movie, via texts and 911/police transcripts.
medium murder, misogyny, femicide.
major classism,
◆ Going Home By Michael Mcglade
A man returns to his parents vacated mansion in the woods to restore it, while grieving the loss of his late wife. However, the mansion current residence are quite curious at this newcomer.
minor murder, ableist c slur, drug use,
major gore, death, grief,
◆ Hamburger Lady By Darryl Dawson
A pedophile encounters a vengeful school ghost who protects other women from danger.
medium gore, body horror, prisons, death penalty, hangings,
major body horror, gore, blood, infidelity, teacher student relationship, pedophilia, anti sex worker sentiment / tropes, murder, cannibalism, gore,
◆ Hole By Joseph Ramshaw
A British colonization party eats a monster who refuses to be digested.
minor body horror, vomit, alcohol,
medium racism,
major excrement, blood, gore,
◆ Human Resources By Todd Keisling
A resignation statement from a man whose workplace has been overrun by a eldritch tech god and its prophet.
minor sexual harassment,
◆ In The Woods, We Wait By Matt Hayward
An old man recounts the last days leading up to his wife's disappearance, and the deadly eldritch woods that people have been lured into.
minor injuries,
medium infidelity
major body horror, police, gun violence, gore,
◆ “Killing Jessica” By Glenn Rolfe
An incel's journal about murdering his room mate and room mate's sexy slutty female girlfriend. No horror here, just boring reddit incel shit. Not even a plot twist.
minor alcohol
medium sexual content,
major misogyny, gore, murder, blood, violence, infidelity
◆ Letter To Grandma By Crystal Leflar
A child hidden in an attic writes a letter to grandma, while waiting for their mother to return. Meanwhile, the world outside goes to shit.
minor blood, house fires, fire,
medium guns,
major confinement, child abuse,
◆ Look Up By Michael Seese
Self help fliers in a city lead a man through a treasure hunt with drastic results. Kinda pathetic religious bigotry, imo.
medium religion, child neglect, alcoholism, addiction,
major religious bigotry,
◆ Lucca By John Ledger
Boring edgy alleged teen girl's suicide note that claims she's into bdsm and wants to try cannibalism. This reads like a 4chan fanfic about those evil FEMALES who won't fuck said 4channer.
major whorephobia, anti sex worker sentiment, drug use and abuse, sexual, racism, anti asian racism, animal death, animal cruelty, murder, gore, cannibalism,
◆ Night Terrors: Journal By Michael Thomas-Knight
A woman plagued by night terrors, stuck a haunted house, and an trapped in a loveless marriage looks to escape both in any way possible.
minor toxic relationships?, infidelity, child death, ableist c slur, insects,
medium injuries, domestic violence, parental death,
major psychosis?, gore, death, parental death, misogyny, murder, arson, death, body horror, infidelity,
◆ Finders Keepers By Paul D. Marks
A man finds a cell phone that has weird videos from the former owner, who recorded himself obeying the horrifying commands of an 'angel'.
minor drug use weed, excrement,
medium fire, car fires,
major animal death, animal cruelty, rape, murder,
◆ The Anniversary By Sonja Thomas
On the anniversary of his foster / adopted father's murder, a teen boy gets clues from his stalker as to why the stalker hate crimed his father to death.
Sonja Thomas can suck the shit straight out of my asshole for this one, and here's why. The plot twist is that the
Hysterically, this anthology isn't listed on the author's personal website. Something the matter? Don't want parents to know you're writing hateful homophobic shit? Also, side note, the teen characterization was pretty awful.
minor anti feminism,
medium child abuse,
major parental death, murder, torture, gore, injuries, hate crime, homophobia, bullying, homophobic f slur, child abuse,
◆ The Breath Within The Darkness By Essel Pratt
A federal agent leaves his last will and testimony on a diner table.
medium gun violence,
major suicide ideation,
◆ The Devil’s Irony By Lori R. Lopez
A young man explores underground tunnels where his grandfather had disappeared in when he was a teen.
minor animal death, insects, body horror, gore, death,
◆ The Note By P. D. Cacek
A poem about a creepy note found in a dresser.
minor infidelity, murder,
◆ The Seahorse Speaks By Erik Gustafson
A man wakes up tied up, surrounded by dead bodies that are slowly transforming into a horrific carousel.
major kidnapping, death, confinement?, gore, body horror,
◆ Vermilion A Traveler’s Account By Stuart Keane
A edgy sexist serial killer gets stuck in a tavern full of newly turned zombies.
minor excrement , anti black racism infidelity,
medium sinophobia, racism,
major alcohol use, gore, murder, murder, ableist r slur, homophobia, homophobic f slur, vomit, cannibalism, gun violence, sexism, misogyny, genital mutilation, child abuse,
◆ Whispers On The Wind By Robert Mcgough
The forest surrounding an authors new home gives him divine, eldritch inspiration, with devastating world wide consequences.
minor ableist c slur, jk rowling, cults, medical content, blood,
medium murder, blood, gore, animal death, animal hunting, animal death,
major drug use smoking tobacco,
◆ There's Something In My House By Wesley Thomas
Haunted House feat killer clowns.
minor alcohol,
major blood, religion christianity, medical content, clowns,
◆ Tweets Of Terror By Robert Holt
A tweet conversation between a human trafficker and his victim.
minor trafficking
major stalking,
Self-Consumed By Terry M. West & Regina West
Hannibal Lecter, but a Black man and medical doctor, and he gets revenge on the white man who murdered his daughter.
minor alcohol, child death,
medium car crash,
major medical abuse, torture, cannibalism, racism, bullying, confinement,
◆ Note-To-Self By Christopher Alan Broadstone
A man accidentally becomes a serial killer, compelled by a strange parasitical infection introduced to him by using an astrolabe at a specific star. We meet him during the hunt for his final victim.
minor suicide, parental death, zodiac killer,
major vomit, body horror, self harm, violence, gore, blood, injuries, serial killers, medical content, mental illness,
all content warnings
major ableism, alcohol, animal cruelty, animal death, anti sex worker sentiment, arson, blood, body horror, bullying, cannibalism, child abuse, classism, clowns, confinement, death, domestic abuse, drug abuse, drug use smoking tobacco, excrement, genital mutilation, gore, grief, gun violence, hate crime, homophobia, infidelity, injuries, kidnapping, medical abuse, medical content, mental illness, misogyny, murder, parental death, pedophilia, police, psychosis?, racism, rape, religion christianity, religious bigotry, self harm, serial killers, sexism, sexual content, stalking, suicide ideation, suicide, teacher student relationship, torture, violence, vomit, whorephobia
medium addiction, alcoholism, animal death, animal hunting, blood, body horror, cancer, car crash, car fires, child abuse, death, death penalty, domestic violence, femicide, fire, gore, gun violence, hangings, infidelity, injuries, misogyny, murder, parental death, prisons, racism, religion, sexual content, sinophobia, suicide
minor ableism, alcohol, animal death, anti black racism, anti feminism, blood, body horror, cancer, child death, death, drug use, excrement, fatphobia, fire, gore, house fires, infidelity, injuries, insects, jk rowling, medical content, murder, sexual harassment, suicide, toxic relationships?, zodiac killer
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Sexism, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Vomit
Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Death of parent, Confinement, Racism, Sexual content, and Suicide
Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
5hadow_girl's review
5.0
I’m a big fan of found footage horror movies. The Last Broadcast, The Blair Witch Project, and even a couple of the Paranormal Activity movies weren't bad. When I saw Journals of Horror, and saw all the top-notch writers involved… I knew I had to have it! Found footage horror without the headache or motion sickness? Yes, please.
Each story within this anthology is listed by a case number, and how/where the notes were found & transcribed. They each find their own voice – FBI secret divisions, obsession, curses, even the criminally insane aren't safe!
JoH is something new & unique in the world of horror, and it couldn't have been done by a better group of authors.
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Each story within this anthology is listed by a case number, and how/where the notes were found & transcribed. They each find their own voice – FBI secret divisions, obsession, curses, even the criminally insane aren't safe!
JoH is something new & unique in the world of horror, and it couldn't have been done by a better group of authors.
Join the discussion on BBB
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