Pretty Dead Things Trigger List

Pretty Dead Things is a darkish paranormal smutty mystery. The content of this book contains graphic sexual content & dark depictions of violence—including murder. Most importantly, domestic violence, self-harm, and suicidal ideation are at the forefront of this book.

Your mental health matters, if anything on this list has the potential to make you not okay... please... please check your triggers and your mental state before continuing.

•Domestic Violence

• Self-harm

• Suicidal ideation 

• Graphic Sexually Explicit Scenes

• Technically Pretty Dead Things could be considered a Happily Ever After (HEA) relationship-wise. But you’re gonna be pretty fuckin pissed at the end of the book. Just saying.

• Masturbation solo & mutual

• Sexting

• Dirty talk

• Mention, use, and creation of pornography

• Cursing of both the language and literal witchcraft sense

• Stripping

• Moments of Sapphic curiosity

• Threesomes

• Talk of butt stuff

• What could be considered kink shaming, but we’re not entirely sure so we’ll put it here anyway.

• Technically cheating—again not sure, so here it is.

• Drug (Weed) & alcohol use

• mention of birth control

• Murder

• Christmas Themes

• Dismemberment of corpses

• Blood & Blood play

• Kidnapping

• Death of a child in past (off page, but discussion of crime scene)

• PTSD including flashbacks

• Possession

• Spanking (as a kink)

• Choking (as a kink)

• Self deprecation in talk & internal monologues

• Could be considered manipulation

• Loss

• Child/teen abuse (happened in past to MC, is discussed, maybe flashbacks involved)

• Breaking and entering

• Religious Trauma processing

• Gore

• Having to touch corpses

• MC is target

• Anxiety

• Bones

• Bullying

• Decapitation

• Divorce (discussed)

• Depression

• Gun violence

• Hospitalization

• Occult

• Poisoning

• Profanity

• Skeletons

• Slut shaming

• Torture

• Violence

• Light BDSM

• Pleasure Dom

• Misogyny

• Gaslighting

• Addiction

• Negative body thoughts

• Intrusive thoughts

• Substance addiction

• Dead bodies and body parts

• Amputation

• Dismemberment

• Blood & gore depiction

• Body horror

• Medical treatments and procedures

• Physical injuries

• Vomit and talk of vomit

• Death of Grandparent

• Death of partner/spouse

• Death of Child

• Grief & Loss Depiction

• Captivity & Confinement

• Hacking

• Mention of rape (never happens)

• Talk of Gang violence

• Lots of possibly insensitive comments

• Organized crime

• Physical assault

• Serial Killers

• He’s a cop (even if he is a rogue cop who hates all the policy and feels like the system is failing everyone, he’s still a cop and I understand this may be triggering to some.)

• Hunting/ Taxidermy Mounts

• Imprisonment & incarceration

• Brief stalking

• Scars

• Hallucinations

• Talk of sex work, possible sex-worker shaming