Book Trigger Warnings

This page is for readers who need a safe space, and prefer to know triggers before they read.
NOTE: If you feel I’ve missed any significant triggers, please message me.

Fantasy/Cosy paranormal/fantasy mysteries

The Aunt Enid Mysteries:
  • A Fey Tale (2) – violence, gaslighting, low level violence,
  • Aunt Enid: Protector Extraordinaire (1) – garden gnomes, gaslighting, panic attack, body possession, fire, enclosed spaces, swooping birds, graveyard, low level violence, asphyxiation
  • Portals and Portents (0.5) – garden gnome, gaslighting

Steampunk

The James Findlay Journals – darker gaslamp steampunk
  • Blood Ties (1) – violence, gaslighting, blood, alcohol and drug references, medical procedures, sexual references, body horror,
The Department of Curiosities series
  • The Department of Curiosities (1) – enclosed spaces, violence, gaslighting, falling, minor body horror/injuries, asphyxiation, exploding vehicle.
Also set in Karen’s steampunk world
  • Cogs and Conspiracies – enclosed spaces, low level violence, gaslighting, rats,

Victorian /Steampunk Mysteries

The Adventures of Viola Stewart series
  • Doctor Jack & Other Tales (1) – body mutilation (eye area), exploding flying vehicles, body horror (one scene), violence, violence against women, implied SA (pre-story), POV of villain when committing murder, enclosed spaces, morgue scenes, medical procedure.
  • Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales (2) – drug references, gaslighting, violence, supernatural themes, nightmares.
  • The Illusioneer & Other Tales (3) – gaslighting, non-gory violence.
  • Tomorrow, When I Die: A Christmas Adventure – gaslighting
Mrs Hudson Investigates series: Holmesian mysteries
  • Mrs Hudson Investigates – grief, low level violence,
  • The Case of the Forgotten Letter – burial, grief, low level violence

Short Story Collections by Karen J Carlisle

  • Another Twist of the Nib – gaslighting, grave yards, supernatural themes, violence
  • Quarantine Reads – ghosts, fire, isolation,
  • With a Twist of the Nib – garden gnomes, low level violence.