horror

All garden entries tagged with "horror".

6 entries across the garden

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We Love You, Bunny

In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny.” An invitation to the Bunnies’ Smut Salon leads Samantha down a dark rabbit hole (pun intended) into […]

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🌱 Planted Feb 25, 2026
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The End of the World As We Know It

Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction. It has sold millions of copies and has been adapted twice for television. Generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilisation, and its stunning array of […]

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🌱 Planted Jan 23, 2026
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An Arcane Inheritance

Ellory Morgan is a 21-year-old freshman beginning her first semester at the prestigious Warren University. She dreams of going into journalism, but the high expectations of her parents back home in Jamaica have pushed her toward a law degree. After growing up between Jamaica and Queens, working twice as hard for half the recognition, Ellory […]

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🌱 Planted Jan 15, 2026
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Never Flinch

When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to ‘kill thirteen innocents and one guilty’ in ‘an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man’, Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of […]

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🌱 Planted Jan 14, 2026
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Anima Rising

Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. She’s alive! Back at his […]

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🌱 Planted Jan 9, 2026
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The Test

The Test by Sylvain Neuvel is a dystopian sci-fi novella that functions as a dark, psychological examination of state bureaucracy, immigration, and human morality. The Premise The story is set in a near-future United Kingdom, where the government has implemented the rigorous British Values Assessment (BVA). Only male immigrants between the ages of 16 and […]

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🌱 Planted Jan 7, 2026