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transbookoftheday · 6 months

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Trans Horror Books

Looking for some trans horror books to read for Halloween? Here you go:

Book titles:

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

Bound In Flesh by Lor Gislason

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bookandcranny · 29 days

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"bound in flesh" was sooooo good usually when i read any kind of collaborative anthology (and i do, frequently) its like very hit or miss but i cant think of a single story i feel like i really disliked. a couple of them were maybe just kinda Fine to me but the majority was like.. banger after banger fr.

perhaps it is just my bias towards body horror (my bias towards trans writers is not applicable here because folks i have read some short stories by trans writers that have Not thrilled me lol) but like. i am shrimply so pleased abt it! id been having some doubts recently because it seemed like whenever i took a chance on some more extreme horror i found it lacking in some way and it made me wonder if it was even the individual pieces of writing or if i just didnt like this level of horror as much as i thought i did, and now i can confidently say, when the shit is good that shit is gooood.

#bound in flesh #lazy reviews #short fiction #horror #trans author

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 5 months

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Bound in Flesh by Lor Gislason

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BOUND IN FLESH: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror brings together 13 trans and non-binary writers, using horror to both explore the darkest depths of the genre and the boundaries of flesh. A disgusting good time for all! Featuring stories by Hailey Piper, Joe Koch, Bitter Karella, and others. Edited by Lor Gislason. TABLE OF CONTENTS “Wormspace” by L.C. von Hessen “The Haunting of Aiden Finch” by Theo Hendrie “Coming Out” by Derek Des Agnes “Mama is a Butcher” by Winter Holmes “Fall Apart” by gaast “Lady Davelina’s Last Pet” by Charles-Elizabeth Boyle “In The Garden of Horn, The Naked Magic Thrives” by Hailey Piper “A Scream Lights Up The Sky” by Joe Koch “Long Fingers” by Layne Van Rensburg “A Brief History of The Santa Carcossa Archipelago” by Bitter Karella “Show Me” by Amanda M. Blake “Man of The House” by Lillian Boyd “Looking for the Big Death” by Taliesin Neith

Mod opinion: I remember quite enjoying this book when I read it. Of course, as it often is with anthologies, some I enjoyed more than others, but all in all a really good & fun & scary trans body horror collection.

#bound in flesh #lor gislason #lgbt books #lgbt lit #polls #lgbt literature #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #horror #short stories #anthology #own voices

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radiosaturday · 1 year

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Hey! I'm in this anthology and you can preorder it here! It's due out on April 2023!

#writing #body horror #trans writing #trans horror #it's a stacked TOC though i say so myself #bound in flesh

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winterholmesart · 1 year

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Bound in Flesh is out today!🎉🏳️‍⚧️ I’m so excited and honored to be included in this TOC.🖤

You can order the anthology here:

#lgbt writers #lgbt author #trans author #trans books #horror #queer horror #horror stories #body horror #horror anthology #short story #anthology #bound in flesh #ghoulish books #horror story

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stinkybreath · 1 year

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I used to spend a lot of time wondering what it would take to get someone to kill me.

This was a funny by-product of numerous mental health issues that I was too stubborn to get treatment for. I was too forgetful to take meds consistently. I didn’t like talking about my feelings, so therapy—in person, online, self-help books, journaling—was a non-starter.

The one thing I didn’t actually try was killing myself. I didn’t want to be alive, but suicide seemed a lot of effort. Too much risk trying to get the reward. If you fuck it up and don’t die, you either maim yourself or you end up in hospital until you’re determined not to be a suicide risk anymore and that fucks up the rest of your life. They don’t offer lobotomies anymore, much to my disappointment:

“Looking for the Big Death,” by Taliesin Nieth, in Bound in Flesh

#taliesin neith #bound in flesh #looking for the big death

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gaast · 1 year

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Anyway, check this shit out.

#bound in flesh

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gh0st-b0und · 3 months

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why are their shits gigmaxed now

#cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl sins of the flesh #OKAY BUT FR #WHY ARE THEIR SHITS HUGE NOW #ITS TERRIFYING???#my art #art-bound #cotl narinder #cotl lamb #shit-posts

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rocksanddeadflowers · 9 months

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so i've been listening to elysian fields way too much lately and thinking how fucked up that song is for the mechs to perform. like put death to the mechanisms out of your head (bc that basically didn't happen yet with udad) and listen.

they're immortal. they can't die. the song is all about the sweet release of death, and arguably a gentle one at that, cradled in the fields on a world were nature ceases, next to the grave of your deceased beloved. it's a beautiful song, and arguably, ulysses got their happy ending.

the mechanisms don't get that, though. most didn't even get the option of keeping mortality. they're stuck on the mortal plane, in flesh and metal, with no escape or release within reach.

their finale performance of this album is the bittersweet comfort of mortality and endings, something they're well aware they will never be granted.

#it actually just really messes me up thinking about it #anytime i get immortal characters i will immediately go for the angst of immortality that is bound in flesh somehow #cause dude that would SUCK actually #so many pros to immortally but man you mean i can NEVER have the big gothic nap??? like never???????#also i only just know realized that oedipus's father in the riddle of the spinx song and his bio father he killed aren't two different ppl #idk why i thought they were two different people for so long man #the mechanisms #ulysses dies at dawn #the mechanisms udad #udad #udad ulysses

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kamiart · 3 months

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Hm

I don't think I'm supposed to be out here

#i love the update but god I've had so many bugs #camera mode is broken (mainly the layering)#my followers/demons keep getting stuck #text boxes hanging around on the screen when they're not supposed to #and now out of bounds???#wild #anyways go play the update it's very fun #:3 #cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl sins of the flesh #sins of the flesh #cult of the lamb sins of the flesh

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ride-a-dromedary · 7 months

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I would like to know how Halsin's first barfight went down, because you just know this poor guy walked into a tavern completely unassuming (and likely fascinated because there aren't really taverns in the High Forest), people stared at him, he got approached by the wrong person who was very evidently heavily intoxicated, got confused when things started escalating and he started poking for a fight, got hit a few times still flabbergasted because he had no quarrel with this person he doesn't even know them, and then instinctually hit back/restrained them so they'd stop hitting him. Knocked the person out cold.

And suddenly people in the tavern are...looking at him like *he* had started it and took it too far even though a moment ago hadn't those same patrons been...encouraging it?

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #And ah...there it is #There's that nasty feeling creeping up the back of his neck #and he hears his mother's voice tickle in the back of his ear #reminding him that not every place is filled with understanding people #that sometimes people only see what they want to see #maybe he went to olostin's hold though that's more of an inn #anyway baby's first bar had him realizing some things about what people were bound to assume of him #worse if he had companions with him #anyway i will keep fleshing out everything this man says #and like yes halsin later doesn't seem to mind fighting when necesaary #but he's not a brute - but people LOOK at him like he is one

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transbookoftheday · 6 months

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Bound In Flesh by Lor Gislason

BOUND IN FLESH: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror brings together 13 trans and non-binary writers, using horror to both explore the darkest depths of the genre and the boundaries of flesh. A disgusting good time for all! Edited by Lor Gislason. Featuring fiction by LC von Hessen, Theo Hendrie, Derek Des Agnes, Winter Holmes, gaast, Charles-Elizabeth Boyles, Hailey Piper, Joe Koch, Layne Van Rensburg, Bitter Karella, Amanda M. Blake, Lillian Boyd, and Taliesin Neith.

#bound in flesh #lor gislason #transfem #transmasc #nonbinary #trans book of the day #trans books #queer books #bookblr #booklr

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aguacerotropical · 1 year

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the moon as resurrection in vampire lore

“Do you think," said an old man to another, "that he will come to life again, eh?"—

"Oh, yes, vampyres always do, and lay in the moonlight, and then they come to life again. Moonlight recovers a vampyre to life again."

"And yet the moonlight is cold."—"Ah, but who's to tell what may happen to a vampyre, or what's hot or what's cold?"

And there was Sir Francis Varney, raising slowly one arm with the hand outstretched towards the moon, as if invoking that luminary to shed more of its beams upon him.

from Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood (1847)

“According to a promise they had given his lordship, that [Ruthven’s corpse] should be exposed to the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey astonished, and taking several of the men, determined to go and bury it upon the spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit he found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes.”

from Polidori’s The Vampyre (1816)

Ruthven: Then I shall die content.—Swear then, to conceal my death, until the Moon shall set to-night, then throw this ring into the waves that drench the Tomb of Fingal.

Ruthven: Remember your oath.

The Moon gradually descends

from Planché’s play The Vampire (1820) based on Polidori’s book.

“There is no doubt that vampires seek a union with mortal beings expressly to prolong their existence on this earth. I shall instantly, therefore, seek the fair Aldwinkle, and achieve our marriage. After what I have endured meanwhile, a walk in the soft moonlight will revive me

from W.T. Moncrieff‘s play “The Spectre Bridegroom; or, A Ghost in Spite of Himself” (1821)

“The Sorcerer draws a blue fire circle with his wand round the Tomb—the moon becomes suddenly obscured—a storm begins to howl—owls and other birds of might flap their wings and utter their low voices of doom—the tomb flies apart, leaving a passage for Brunhilda to rise through—the Sorcerer scatters into the yawning earth, roots and herbs of magic power—the wind becomes more boisterous—thunder peals louder—the clouds divide—the moon bursts forth with all her power, and her beams are scattered on the fragments of rock that composed the tomb.)

Brunhilda: You stabbed me to the heart—you buried me;—But when the rite was done—marked you the moon? Her light restored me—but to be revenged!”

from George Blink’s play “The Vampire Bride; or, Tenant of the Tomb” (1830). This was an adaptation of the far more famous story Wake Not The Dead by Ernest Rapauch (1823)

"Know then," continued the sorcerer, "that only on the night of the new moon does she sleep the sleep of mortals; and then all the supernatural power which she inherits from the grave totally fails her. 'Tis then that thou must murder her."

From Rapauch’s Wake Not The Dead (1823)

“The moonlight is seen to tip the highest peaks and creeps down the mountain side; it arrives at the ledge, and bathes the body of ALAN RABY in a bright white light.—After a moment his chest begins to heave and his limbs to quiver, he raises his arm to his heart, and then, revived completely, rises to his full height.

Alan. (Addressing the Moon.) Fountain of my life! once more thy rays restore me. Death!—I defy thee

“The next evening I climbed the mountain, and concealed myself near the spot; he came; again his breast seemed to drink in the moonbeams. I looked close, when I saw here, in his left bosom, just over the heart, was an unclosed wound, as if a pistol bullet had passed through him!

From Dion Boucicault‘s The Phantom (1852)

Most of these come from the book Beyond the Count by Margo Bond Collins. Available in Z Library and Libgen via Anna’s Archive.

#yes i am a vanitas-will-not-die-so-easily truther #but can i possibly be blamed? look at vampires in 19th C. Lit #its SO interesting bc they were more like phantoms or spirits rather than vampires #and how modern day vampires are so bound by the flesh and blood. that was a dracula thing #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vnc #dracula daily #vampires #vnc meta

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gailynovelry · 1 month

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Breathing Gods is DONE.

#or at the least it's fully drafted #it will go through some rounds of editing but all the chapters are down and their sequence of events should be solid!#today i killed a god and discovered that sanctified flesh ie Herald flesh tastes kinda like the god that the Herald is bound to #meaning that Regent Ilaina tastes bad!#“who is tasting Regent Ilaina Gail”#: )#look just rest assured that sometime off-screen #Meparik will hear about this and try to convince Crislie/Navaeli to taste his blood FOR SCIENCE to see if he tastes like the Romne #(he does)

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winterholmesart · 11 months

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