As someone who usually writes “quiet horror” I haven’t always given much thought to content warnings. When I published All the Laird’s Men in August 2020, which was a deviation from my usual style, I was a bit more mindful of them, but I knew I could still do more.
In June 2021, Divination Hollow Reviews published my collaborative essay on content warnings and how to write horror responsibly for Pride in Horror Month. This essay featured contributions from a number of people in the horror community, both authors and reviewers. It highlighted the responsibility writers have towards their readers when they choose to include potentially traumatic narratives. This page is for people who want to read and enjoy my stories without being unexpectedly triggered or traumatised.
This is not an exhaustive list and I will be adding more as I go through all my published stories. I am also mindful that there are many other potential triggers I may have omitted accidentally. Please do feel free to contact me if you feel I have missed anything important and I will gladly update.
All the Laird’s Men (2020)
- Excessive gore
- Excessive profanity
- Talk of implied sexual assault
- Talk of implied homophobia
- Child/infant death
- Monster gore and violence
Dark Winds Over Wellington (2019)
Heat Pump
- General dread
- Implied threat of sexual assault
- Talk of abusive relationship
Good Cup of Coffee
- Implied mental illness
Last Chapter
- General dread
- Serious accident/talk of train derailment
Toot Tunnel
- Broken relationship
- Loneliness/depression
Fake Meat
- Body horror
- Child death
- Spousal death
- Minor monster gore
Choices
- Mental illness
- Grief
- Cancer
- Suicide
- Mention of infant death
- Paternal death
The Things You See
- Mental illness
- Body horror
- Paternal separation
- Medication/drug use in a child
Mongrel
- Profane language
- Minor gore
Blood Bonds
- Fatphobia
- Mention of child disappearance/death
- Bullying
- Loneliness/depression
- Child smoking
Second Chances
- Implied homophobia
- Child illness
- Child death
- Family separation
- Physical assault
- Minor gore
Neighbourly
- Body horror
- Parental separation
- Insects/bugs
From the Deep
- Maternal death
- Grief
- Child in grave danger
- Minor monster gore
Whispers
- Implied threat of sexual assault
- Deaf protagonist/audism
- Mental illness
- Minor gore