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
- 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,
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 horror (one scene), violence, violence against women, enclosed spaces, morgue scenes, medical procedure.
- Eye of the Beholder & Other Tales (2) – drug references, gaslighting, violence, gaslighting,
- 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, 040
- The Case of the Forgotten Letter – burial, grief, low level violence
Short Stories 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.