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Mansion
Mansion is a Slenderman/Creepypasta anthology of poetry.
- GenresPoetry
46 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2019
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September 25, 2019
As with all collections, the sheer variety means you'll like something more than another thing simply because it connects more. That said, Mansion is a creepy, wonderful, and often surprising collection based around the Slender Man. Voices and styles vary, from cryptic to full on narrative, though if you want something nice and eery for Halloween, I definitely recommend this.
Too often people say they don't like poetry because they think poetry is only one thing. This is a perfect collection to show another side of poetry... darker, more sinister, and saying that violets are redder than roses.
Too often people say they don't like poetry because they think poetry is only one thing. This is a perfect collection to show another side of poetry... darker, more sinister, and saying that violets are redder than roses.
October 23, 2022
Prose, poems and flash inspired by Slenderman and woods horror in general, edited by Kristin Garth. Girls of Gore opens us up to gothically macabre beauty as curdled midnight lakes & fish-skinned corpses. Horror movie tropes and tarts made even more titillating. A sensual scream queen not unlike signer Elita’s soft core masochistic aesthetic. Orbital Abduction hints at kidnappings & alien sightings in the “bird-filled frost of the night.” Peadophelia & lobotomies stemming from Slendman sightings, the poem after Of Proxies & Moonshadow is similar w/ speak of “rented hands washing themselves in innocence,” opposite of red-handed I suppose. A story taking a bit of a tangent on the horror of unrequited love on Valentine’s Day, not only as the only white girl, but only lesbian. Story by the editor of lit mag Kissing Dynamite.
John Dorsey writes of local summer news stories that lead to milk carton kids. How the arcade felt haunted by them and kids wishes it to be true because even tragedy breeds magic and wonder. Amy Alexander’s (EIC Anti-Heroin Chic) poem seems to hint at the real-life story of girls supposedly killing their friends or attacking family in the name of Slenderman, a father in search of children minions who also spit roast/ cannibalize. “Dizzy as bees” is a cute line from Necessary Violence. Cotton grip is fittingly “staccato swift” w/ a good last line. Effy Winter had a beautifully grotesque poem w/ baby coffins and hymen red imagery.
Slenderella by Garth is good w/ “eyeless alibis” and “basement eyes she cannot blink.” Some pieces are on-the-nose w/ predictable imagery, or a supremely off-theme bluntness lacking in coherence or cadence. There’s a strangely disproportional mention of Slenderman as the narrators’ fathers or representing how bad America is, which could be done well if not so scattered and stream of conscious. Nonetheless, every single piece has good lines w/ sticking power.
John Dorsey writes of local summer news stories that lead to milk carton kids. How the arcade felt haunted by them and kids wishes it to be true because even tragedy breeds magic and wonder. Amy Alexander’s (EIC Anti-Heroin Chic) poem seems to hint at the real-life story of girls supposedly killing their friends or attacking family in the name of Slenderman, a father in search of children minions who also spit roast/ cannibalize. “Dizzy as bees” is a cute line from Necessary Violence. Cotton grip is fittingly “staccato swift” w/ a good last line. Effy Winter had a beautifully grotesque poem w/ baby coffins and hymen red imagery.
Slenderella by Garth is good w/ “eyeless alibis” and “basement eyes she cannot blink.” Some pieces are on-the-nose w/ predictable imagery, or a supremely off-theme bluntness lacking in coherence or cadence. There’s a strangely disproportional mention of Slenderman as the narrators’ fathers or representing how bad America is, which could be done well if not so scattered and stream of conscious. Nonetheless, every single piece has good lines w/ sticking power.
December 30, 2022
Tom is told that he needs to settle down and marry or he will lose his job as Art Director in the family business. He decides that he urgently needs a wife and bribes his mousey secretary to be his fiance. Bianca is an omega who was forcibly claimed a few years ago and she is scared that her abuser will try to get her again when he gets out of prison. Can she cope with being Tom's fiance/wife?
An interesting book. I hadn't read an alpha/omega book before.
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An interesting book. I hadn't read an alpha/omega book before.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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