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Triggered
Triggers. Everybody has them.
Some traumatic life event. A phobia. Something brought on by anxiety. Fear. Loneliness. Desperation. Desire. Rage. Memories. Hatred.
It’s how we react to them that shapes us.
Will they break us, leave us curled up and lost, helpless and hopeless? Or will they be the catalyst in making us snap? Triggered to run riot and rampage?
Different triggers engender different responses. They can be completely anticipated, they can be unexpected. They can be mystifying. They can be horrifying. They can be deadly. Sometimes they can be switched on, never to be turned off.
Everybody has triggers. Anything can set them off.
CAUTION
Some books come labelled with a trigger warning to advise readers that the material contained within has the potential to generate unpleasant responses.
This book however, has no such thing.
Instead, the whole work in its entirety is one great big trigger warning.
Some traumatic life event. A phobia. Something brought on by anxiety. Fear. Loneliness. Desperation. Desire. Rage. Memories. Hatred.
It’s how we react to them that shapes us.
Will they break us, leave us curled up and lost, helpless and hopeless? Or will they be the catalyst in making us snap? Triggered to run riot and rampage?
Different triggers engender different responses. They can be completely anticipated, they can be unexpected. They can be mystifying. They can be horrifying. They can be deadly. Sometimes they can be switched on, never to be turned off.
Everybody has triggers. Anything can set them off.
CAUTION
Some books come labelled with a trigger warning to advise readers that the material contained within has the potential to generate unpleasant responses.
This book however, has no such thing.
Instead, the whole work in its entirety is one great big trigger warning.
334 pages, Paperback
First published February 28, 2018
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About the author
Jim Goforth
72 books191 followersJim Goforth is a horror author currently based in Albury, Australia. Happily married with two kids and a cat, he has been writing tales of horror since the early nineties.
After years of detouring into working with the worldwide extreme metal community and writing reviews for hundreds of bands across the globe with Black Belle Music he returned to his biggest writing love with first book Plebs published by J. Ellington Ashton Press. Along with Plebs, he is the author of a collection of short stories/novellas With Tooth and Claw, extreme metal undead opus Undead Fleshcrave: The Zombie Trigger, Riders: Plebs 2-Book One and Two, The Sleep, Carnival of Chaos, and Festival of the Flesh, co-author of collaborative novel Feral Hearts, and editor for the Rejected For Content anthology series (taking over the reins after volume one Splattergore. He also has stories in both Splattergore and Volume 2: Aberrant Menagerie).
He has also appeared in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror, Tales From the Lake Vol. 2, Axes of Evil, Terror Train, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories For the Wicked Soul, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Teeming Terrors, Ghosts: An Anthology of Horror From the Beyond, Suburban Secrets: A Neighborhood of Nightmares, Doorway To Death: An Anthology From the Other Side, Easter Eggs and Bunny Boilers, MvF: Death Personified, Drowning in Gore, Trashed, Full Moon Slaughter, Moon Books Horror Anthology 2016, Dual Depravity (co-author), VS: US vs UK Horror, Bah! Humbug: An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories, and several others including numerous anthologies in Project 26 from J. Ellington Ashton Press.
He is currently at work on Plebs 3, and a handful of other novels.
After years of detouring into working with the worldwide extreme metal community and writing reviews for hundreds of bands across the globe with Black Belle Music he returned to his biggest writing love with first book Plebs published by J. Ellington Ashton Press. Along with Plebs, he is the author of a collection of short stories/novellas With Tooth and Claw, extreme metal undead opus Undead Fleshcrave: The Zombie Trigger, Riders: Plebs 2-Book One and Two, The Sleep, Carnival of Chaos, and Festival of the Flesh, co-author of collaborative novel Feral Hearts, and editor for the Rejected For Content anthology series (taking over the reins after volume one Splattergore. He also has stories in both Splattergore and Volume 2: Aberrant Menagerie).
He has also appeared in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror, Tales From the Lake Vol. 2, Axes of Evil, Terror Train, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories For the Wicked Soul, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Teeming Terrors, Ghosts: An Anthology of Horror From the Beyond, Suburban Secrets: A Neighborhood of Nightmares, Doorway To Death: An Anthology From the Other Side, Easter Eggs and Bunny Boilers, MvF: Death Personified, Drowning in Gore, Trashed, Full Moon Slaughter, Moon Books Horror Anthology 2016, Dual Depravity (co-author), VS: US vs UK Horror, Bah! Humbug: An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories, and several others including numerous anthologies in Project 26 from J. Ellington Ashton Press.
He is currently at work on Plebs 3, and a handful of other novels.
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March 16, 2018
A bit disappointing...
This makes me so sad. I love anthologies and was looking forward to this one in particular since hearing of its creation. Having decent authors does nothing when the stories are lackluster. I enjoyed maybe one or two stories in the whole lot. This seems more like whoever offered a story got in, rather than say someone going through submissions and choosing the best, most punch in the face stories.
This makes me so sad. I love anthologies and was looking forward to this one in particular since hearing of its creation. Having decent authors does nothing when the stories are lackluster. I enjoyed maybe one or two stories in the whole lot. This seems more like whoever offered a story got in, rather than say someone going through submissions and choosing the best, most punch in the face stories.
March 18, 2018
Enjoyable Collection!
Only one of these authors is new to me, so I am somewhat familiar with these writers and what I was getting into ... horrifying tales that would not let me down. They did not.
I suggest flipping to the back of the book first. Read the "Guilty Parties" section and get your smile on. Then choose a trigger point. I read the stories in order, but there is no need for that - you'll be delighted by each of these authors and their stories - no matter the order.
Only one of these authors is new to me, so I am somewhat familiar with these writers and what I was getting into ... horrifying tales that would not let me down. They did not.
I suggest flipping to the back of the book first. Read the "Guilty Parties" section and get your smile on. Then choose a trigger point. I read the stories in order, but there is no need for that - you'll be delighted by each of these authors and their stories - no matter the order.
December 14, 2018
Excellent
Best no holds barred authors of extreme horror. Everything and anything you could want. Great choice of topics. Waiting for part 2.
Best no holds barred authors of extreme horror. Everything and anything you could want. Great choice of topics. Waiting for part 2.
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