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Ebu Gogo
Terror lies waiting in the jungle island of Flores.
Terror in the form of cryptids called ebu gogo.
Terror for the cryptozoologists who dream to discover them.
The one thing Lewis Dare wants more than anything in the world is to discover the ebu gogo - three-foot-tall cryptids in the genus of Homo rumored to live in Indonesia.
But Lewis Dare’s ex-wife Linda, wanting to beat the famous cryptozoologist at his own game, has rushed to Indonesia in order to discover the ebu gogo before he does.
On the Indonesian island of Flores, their dream to discover a cryptid becomes a nightmare when the ebu gogo turn out to be primitive, savage, sex fiends.
Terror in the form of cryptids called ebu gogo.
Terror for the cryptozoologists who dream to discover them.
The one thing Lewis Dare wants more than anything in the world is to discover the ebu gogo - three-foot-tall cryptids in the genus of Homo rumored to live in Indonesia.
But Lewis Dare’s ex-wife Linda, wanting to beat the famous cryptozoologist at his own game, has rushed to Indonesia in order to discover the ebu gogo before he does.
On the Indonesian island of Flores, their dream to discover a cryptid becomes a nightmare when the ebu gogo turn out to be primitive, savage, sex fiends.
- GenresHorror
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 17, 2020
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About the author
J. Manfred Weichsel
34 books18 followersJ. Manfred Weichsel writes extravaganzas that fuse adventure, horror, science fiction, and fantasy into some of the most original subversive literature being published today.
Weichsel’s shorter works appear regularly in Cirsova Magazine and anthologies from Cirsova Publishing.
His longer self-published works have gained him a broad and dedicated base of rabid fans comprising folks from every segment of society – readers of all stripes who share a dark sense of humor and a desire to see modern culture burlesqued, and age-old human stupidity mocked.
A fiercely independent author, J. Manfred Weichsel aims to give birth to the classics of the future by writing works ungoverned by the constraints of traditional publishing houses and the inhibitions of contemporary society.
Loved by some and hated by others, Weichsel’s funny, unconventional, often grotesque books inhabit a unique space in American literature and will be read, talked about, and debated for generations to come.
Weichsel’s shorter works appear regularly in Cirsova Magazine and anthologies from Cirsova Publishing.
His longer self-published works have gained him a broad and dedicated base of rabid fans comprising folks from every segment of society – readers of all stripes who share a dark sense of humor and a desire to see modern culture burlesqued, and age-old human stupidity mocked.
A fiercely independent author, J. Manfred Weichsel aims to give birth to the classics of the future by writing works ungoverned by the constraints of traditional publishing houses and the inhibitions of contemporary society.
Loved by some and hated by others, Weichsel’s funny, unconventional, often grotesque books inhabit a unique space in American literature and will be read, talked about, and debated for generations to come.
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November 8, 2022
This is a funny and grose novella and the first I have read from the author.
It follows two groups of cryptozoologists who travel to Indonesia to be the first people to ascertain if the "Ebu Gogo" exist. They are rumoured to be dwarf sized hairy primative animals living in the jungles.
They are discovered by the groups where they are attacked and held captive. Some of the group will be changed forever due to these Ebu Gogo's savagery and lust for sex. Will anyone survive and live to tell the tale of their discovery?
Read it in one sitting, great writing of descriptions and plot was fast paced straight into the action from the first chapter. If you want a WEIRD trashy novella or a splatterpunk fan you will enjoy it.
It follows two groups of cryptozoologists who travel to Indonesia to be the first people to ascertain if the "Ebu Gogo" exist. They are rumoured to be dwarf sized hairy primative animals living in the jungles.
They are discovered by the groups where they are attacked and held captive. Some of the group will be changed forever due to these Ebu Gogo's savagery and lust for sex. Will anyone survive and live to tell the tale of their discovery?
Read it in one sitting, great writing of descriptions and plot was fast paced straight into the action from the first chapter. If you want a WEIRD trashy novella or a splatterpunk fan you will enjoy it.
July 15, 2021
Well that was complete and utter bonkers.. I'm actually kind of speechless.. In my head it played out like bad 80s cult movie.. It made me giggle so I've given it 4 furry stars.. That's one fumble in the jungle you can only read once.
May 25, 2020
An odd adventure tale of cryptozoology. A group of explorers looking for a dimunutive ancient relative of mankind, find a whole tribe. They are captured and stripped. It seems the little people, who look sort of like the 1980's toy, Monchi-chis, are going extinct. The ones they find are all women, with massive breasts. They capture a man, who is a closet furry, and pretty much the whole tribe mates with him in front of the human women.
Meanwhile, there's another group of explorers who also get captured.
It gets weird, but not as sleazy as it might have.
Meanwhile, there's another group of explorers who also get captured.
It gets weird, but not as sleazy as it might have.
June 9, 2025
I should be really angry after reading this work which can be described as sex and violence masquerading as adventure. But it’s so outrageously weird and deeply thought-provoking that I am unable to feel anything other than awe.
Man, this author has some imagination!
If you are OK with unpretentiously guilty fun and a fast read, this work is definitely recommended.
Man, this author has some imagination!
If you are OK with unpretentiously guilty fun and a fast read, this work is definitely recommended.
February 14, 2022
This was a unique weird tale of discovery.
May 21, 2022
This is furry porn.
Since that's not my particular fetish, I can't judge it on that basis. I can judge it on the basis of nothing in the description gives the hint that it's furry porn, and that those of us not into furry porn can rightfully feel tricked into having bought furry porn in a woefully misguided effort to support new, independent authors.
The trope this book is built on is the old pulp "degenerate sub-humans cross-breeding with humans" plot but with an actual regression of understanding of science compared to pulp authors of a hundred years ago. Those plots were never great, they were meant to be weird, and the horror is in the implications. This book spells the implications out in graphic detail but with no greater attention to detail, if that makes sense.
One finds one's self thinking "evolution doesn't work that way". Also "genetics don't work that way". And also "erections don't work that way", because there's way too much about erections in this book. And breasts. The word used to describe them is "large" but the descriptions themselves are more in the "long" family. Thrown over the shoulders. Used as pillows or comforters. Flapping in the breeze.
I was sorely tempted to just upload a recording of me groaning through the third act exposition dump, which just sealed the impression of this book as pornography. (Back in the old days, films which skirted the legal definition of pornography would show an hour of nudity, sex and/or drug-use and then close with a doctor telling you not to do any of those things.)
The female characters are "the redhead", "the brunette", "the blonde", "the Asian" and "the vaguely ethnic one". One is "the mature blonde", and should've just been "the milf". The book is about orangutan-people having sex with willing men and raping unwilling women.
This is going to create an ebu gogo race that will take over the world. What genetic superiority is going to allow inbred dwarfs (the book's term) to take over the world is not only not explained, it's never once challenged. All the characters agree that this would be the result. How a half-human, half-ebu gogo would still be an ebu gogo and how a couple of dozen (at most) would manage to maintain any semblance of species integrity amongst a population of 7+ billion humans...
No, you know what? I'm dumb for even trying to think this through.
If we could just retire the "You're outnumbered and unarmed, so we're going to throw a spear at the ground right where you could pick it up and use it against us" thing, that'd be a start.
Some defense may be made that this is a farce, and it certainly is. So is a lot of porn. And if you write me a story claiming that it's farce, but at the same time provide loving attention to bestial sex and casually suggest that 50% of the male population are furries, I'm going to take those parts in as much earnest as you have.
Relatively few typos for a self-published book of this length which, I guess, is about 35,000 words. Maybe 40. Too many. Too many "wearing nothing but a pith helmet and boots". (I do think that's meant to be a joke, at least.)
Since that's not my particular fetish, I can't judge it on that basis. I can judge it on the basis of nothing in the description gives the hint that it's furry porn, and that those of us not into furry porn can rightfully feel tricked into having bought furry porn in a woefully misguided effort to support new, independent authors.
The trope this book is built on is the old pulp "degenerate sub-humans cross-breeding with humans" plot but with an actual regression of understanding of science compared to pulp authors of a hundred years ago. Those plots were never great, they were meant to be weird, and the horror is in the implications. This book spells the implications out in graphic detail but with no greater attention to detail, if that makes sense.
One finds one's self thinking "evolution doesn't work that way". Also "genetics don't work that way". And also "erections don't work that way", because there's way too much about erections in this book. And breasts. The word used to describe them is "large" but the descriptions themselves are more in the "long" family. Thrown over the shoulders. Used as pillows or comforters. Flapping in the breeze.
I was sorely tempted to just upload a recording of me groaning through the third act exposition dump, which just sealed the impression of this book as pornography. (Back in the old days, films which skirted the legal definition of pornography would show an hour of nudity, sex and/or drug-use and then close with a doctor telling you not to do any of those things.)
The female characters are "the redhead", "the brunette", "the blonde", "the Asian" and "the vaguely ethnic one". One is "the mature blonde", and should've just been "the milf". The book is about orangutan-people having sex with willing men and raping unwilling women.
This is going to create an ebu gogo race that will take over the world. What genetic superiority is going to allow inbred dwarfs (the book's term) to take over the world is not only not explained, it's never once challenged. All the characters agree that this would be the result. How a half-human, half-ebu gogo would still be an ebu gogo and how a couple of dozen (at most) would manage to maintain any semblance of species integrity amongst a population of 7+ billion humans...
No, you know what? I'm dumb for even trying to think this through.
If we could just retire the "You're outnumbered and unarmed, so we're going to throw a spear at the ground right where you could pick it up and use it against us" thing, that'd be a start.
Some defense may be made that this is a farce, and it certainly is. So is a lot of porn. And if you write me a story claiming that it's farce, but at the same time provide loving attention to bestial sex and casually suggest that 50% of the male population are furries, I'm going to take those parts in as much earnest as you have.
Relatively few typos for a self-published book of this length which, I guess, is about 35,000 words. Maybe 40. Too many. Too many "wearing nothing but a pith helmet and boots". (I do think that's meant to be a joke, at least.)
June 5, 2020
When J. Manfred Weichsel let me know Ebu Gogo had come out on Amazon, he warned me it was “Rabelaisian”. If anything, that hardly does the book justice. I figure I can do no better than repeat the author’s words:
Warning: Ebu Gogo has repugnant sex, disgusting nudity, nauseating violence, unlikable characters, deranged humor, and cruelty to furries. It's a lot of fun.
Ebu Gogo is not likely to be to everyone’s taste. It is also a bit different than the typical work I review, so we’ll look at in a different way.
A grotesquerie like this is a kind of caricature, and the skill of a caricaturist is in how readily you are able to recognize someone or something despite the artist’s exaggerations. Since I learned more than I ever wanted to about furries from this book, I’ll look at the more standard sexual relations in this book.
For example, the deranged genius billionaire, and his estranged wife, who re-enact the "You don't have the guts!" scene from Ratatouille, except of course that the only thing that saves the deranged billionaire from death is the timely intervention of a giant bat.
As ridiculous as it is, the existence of this nearly identical scene in a popular kids movie made by perhaps the most skilled animation studio in the world is a clue that this is a recognizable, even a relatable, caricature to most people. The presentation is different, but so is the mode in which the story is told.
If you don’t like the Rabelaisian mode, you probably won’t enjoy this ridiculous romp through the jungles of Flores. But if you do, consider trying it out.
I received a free copy from the author.
Warning: Ebu Gogo has repugnant sex, disgusting nudity, nauseating violence, unlikable characters, deranged humor, and cruelty to furries. It's a lot of fun.
Ebu Gogo is not likely to be to everyone’s taste. It is also a bit different than the typical work I review, so we’ll look at in a different way.
A grotesquerie like this is a kind of caricature, and the skill of a caricaturist is in how readily you are able to recognize someone or something despite the artist’s exaggerations. Since I learned more than I ever wanted to about furries from this book, I’ll look at the more standard sexual relations in this book.
For example, the deranged genius billionaire, and his estranged wife, who re-enact the "You don't have the guts!" scene from Ratatouille, except of course that the only thing that saves the deranged billionaire from death is the timely intervention of a giant bat.
As ridiculous as it is, the existence of this nearly identical scene in a popular kids movie made by perhaps the most skilled animation studio in the world is a clue that this is a recognizable, even a relatable, caricature to most people. The presentation is different, but so is the mode in which the story is told.
If you don’t like the Rabelaisian mode, you probably won’t enjoy this ridiculous romp through the jungles of Flores. But if you do, consider trying it out.
I received a free copy from the author.
April 28, 2021
This book was sent to me as an Advance Reader Copy against an honest and fair review.
It was my first attempt at a novel from J. Manfred Weichsel, I have to admit I am not used to reading delirious literature. .
I must say that although the style and story are unconventional I have enjoyed reading this story which makes fun of the scientists or pseudo-scientists whose only concern is their fame and in the story seem totally unscrupulous when it comes to the means necessary to achieve their goal: having their name written on the world of fame of science.
It tells the story of 2 competing explorer groups searching for a new humanoid specie, the Ebu Gogo supposedly living, on Flores a remote island of Indonesia
The groups respectively lead by Linda Dare and her former husband Lewis supported by his daughter Clare end up fighting against the same enemy, both leaders driven by their resentment against each other and their search of recognition.
Unfortunately the adventures quickly turn, for the great pleasure of the reader, to a succession of disasters, some of explorers being abducted, other facing more cruel fates which in the end require the remaining members both teams to make alliance to survive their adventure.
In spite of the severity of the damages inflicted to some of the actors of the novel and their sufferings the story is too outrageous for the reader to take it seriously or literally, it reads like a Middle Age farce or Pantomime where characters get pummeled and at the end come back to greet the audience, nevertheless some of the happenings will restrict this novel to adults.
It was my first attempt at a novel from J. Manfred Weichsel, I have to admit I am not used to reading delirious literature. .
I must say that although the style and story are unconventional I have enjoyed reading this story which makes fun of the scientists or pseudo-scientists whose only concern is their fame and in the story seem totally unscrupulous when it comes to the means necessary to achieve their goal: having their name written on the world of fame of science.
It tells the story of 2 competing explorer groups searching for a new humanoid specie, the Ebu Gogo supposedly living, on Flores a remote island of Indonesia
The groups respectively lead by Linda Dare and her former husband Lewis supported by his daughter Clare end up fighting against the same enemy, both leaders driven by their resentment against each other and their search of recognition.
Unfortunately the adventures quickly turn, for the great pleasure of the reader, to a succession of disasters, some of explorers being abducted, other facing more cruel fates which in the end require the remaining members both teams to make alliance to survive their adventure.
In spite of the severity of the damages inflicted to some of the actors of the novel and their sufferings the story is too outrageous for the reader to take it seriously or literally, it reads like a Middle Age farce or Pantomime where characters get pummeled and at the end come back to greet the audience, nevertheless some of the happenings will restrict this novel to adults.
April 11, 2021
Ebu Gogo had a few ups or downs, but I grew to love it as it went on. The attention to details when discussing anthropology and cryptozoology was really appreciated, and knowing exactly what the book was referencing really adds into why I give it 5 stars. Without spoilers, The Ebu Gogo is not the type of story you think it’s going to be when you read the blurb. If you start this thinking of Castaways by Brian Keene you’ll be disappointed by the lack of bloodshed. While there is bloodshed, it is not quite as feral, for the Ebu Gogos are an intelligent species with a clear goal. Within these pages is a story of evolution and sacrifice, with just a splash of anti-furry propaganda, which I’m also okay with.
June 16, 2020
Even though what I got was free, I can't help feeling I got ripped off. Nowhere did it say that all I was getting was a preview! I have even gone back to the source and there is nothing there stating that you will only receive 10 pages or less. Had I known I wouldn't have wasted the time or effort it takes to download and then send to my Kindle.
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