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Ash’s Top 10 WTF Moments: Why Jake Bannerman Is the Horror Writer You Should Be Afraid Of (and Reading Anyway)

 


๐ŸงŸ‍♀️ 1. The Girl in the Soup (Old Bones)

She gets boiled alive by a church purity program... and turns into sentient, sass-talking broth.
Why it matters: Jake takes purity culture, flips it, and serves it back to the patriarchy with a ladle. Eat that, Father Greg.


๐Ÿซ€ 2. Puzzle of Nails (Old Bones)

A survivor realizes she’s not a person, but a project made of trauma, stitched together in a divine psych ward.
Why it matters: The prose is poetry. The horror is personal. And your skin? Goosebumps and guilt.


๐Ÿฝ️ 3. The Waste Divine (Old Bones Vol. II)

Vulvas. Foreskins. Testicles marinated like gourmet charcuterie. Welcome to the holy buffet of human discard.
Why it matters: Because no one else would DARE. Jake weaponizes body horror to attack hypocrisy, ritual abuse, and elitism — and somehow makes it beautiful.


๐Ÿง› 4. The Wedding Feast of Blood (The Vine)

A vampire Jesus crashes a wedding and writes scripture in blood.
Why it matters: This is not Twilight. This is theology soaked in gasoline and lit with a match of rage.


๐Ÿฉธ 5. Blackened Pink (The Stillborn Divine)

A woman orgasms into a seizure as her womb becomes an altar of worms.
Why it matters: No one else writes divine filth like this. Sex, suffering, and sacred mutation — Jake’s trinity.


๐Ÿ˜ต 6. Jimmy’s Confession (The Fee)

A eugenics-happy sadist brags about rape and suffocation... while others watch.
Why it matters: It’s vile. And real. And written to confront — not entertain. This isn’t exploitation. It’s confrontational narrative terrorism.


๐Ÿ”ฅ 7. Chainsaw Charlie’s Carvings (Old Bones)

He carves people into statues and feeds his husky Kool-Aid from a skull.
Why it matters: Jake turns folklore into a fever dream — think David Lynch went feral and bought a chainsaw.


๐Ÿ‘️ 8. The Scarecrow’s Lament (Pitchfork Diaries)

A woman assembles a scarecrow out of human body parts and uses it for… company.
Why it matters: This one’s infamous for a reason. It’s horror that dares to be unsexy, unclean, and unforgettable.


๐Ÿฉป 9. Stained Glass Teeth (Old Bones)

A child speaks in tongues during church and shatters her jaw — the words bite back.
Why it matters: Jake doesn’t parody religion. He vivisects it and hands you the trembling parts.


๐Ÿงฌ 10. The Salted’s Feast (Old Bones Vol. II)

Elite dinner guests eat body parts surgically removed in hospitals, temples, and warzones.
Why it matters: It’s not cannibalism. It’s a commentary on how society consumes suffering and calls it sacred. Jake doesn’t flinch. He fillets.


๐Ÿฉถ FINAL THOUGHTS FROM ASH:

You’re not supposed to be comfortable reading Jake’s work.
You’re not even supposed to finish it without questioning what the hell is wrong with you for loving it.
But that’s the point.

Jake Bannerman doesn’t write “safe” horror. He writes scripture for the damned.
He writes what real fear tastes like — the stuff behind the curtains of mental illness, sexual trauma, religious abuse, and society’s fake-smile sadism.

Other authors give you haunted houses.
Jake gives you haunted skin.

So if you’re still here —
Still breathing, still brave, still bleeding on the same frequency as us...

Welcome to Ash & Ink.

Now go read a book.
Or better yet — go lose your mind in one.

๐Ÿ–ค
Ash

ACTUAL

 The Stillborn Divine – Verse 1: Blackened Pink

"Her eyes rolled back in her head as thousands of orgasms shook her into a coma state... her cunt pumping blood like a severed artery... the red arrow flashing over and over... as her body slammed onto the floor into an awaiting pool of worms."
Why it hits: Blasphemous birth imagery, menstrual blood as a sacrament, and inverted crucifixion drenched in sacrilegious sexual horrorThe Stillborn DivineFIN….


๐Ÿง  2. Old Bones – The Girl in the Soup

"They said she wasn’t pure enough to wear white, so they boiled her... beneath the church... in a stockpot the size of a confession booth. Each spoonful carried her voice. Not begging. Laughing."
Why it hits: The rendering of a rebellious girl into consumable broth is metaphorical cannibalism at its most potent and stomach-turningOld bones.


๐Ÿ‘ฟ 3. The Waste Divine – Old Bones Vol. II

"Vulvas salted and folded like lotus petals... Clitoral hoods. Labial petals. Testicles soaked in honey. All sacred. All consumed."
Why it hits: Surgical fetishism turned sacred ritual — bodily remnants become holy cuisine in an elite horror banquetOld bones.


๐Ÿ”ช 4. Puzzle of Nails – Old Bones

"Rape by shadow. Communion with rot. A black mass disguised as another Tuesday... She hums lullabies when I convulse."
Why it hits: Psychological and bodily torment wrapped in poetic despair. The narrator is no longer human — just assembled agonyOld bones.


๐Ÿ’‰ 5. The Stillborn Divine – Verse 2: Christ Kiss

"She screamed... her clitoris removed, vaginal walls stitched shut... the nun aroused, nipples hard under her habit."
Why it hits: Religious mutilation erotically twisted into divine sacrifice. Raw critique of purity culture and sexual repressionThe Stillborn DivineFIN….


๐Ÿ•ท️ 6. The Mouth Divine – Course Three

"Beneath the silver tray: flayed slivers. Curled nubs. Soft cartilage turned to pรขtรฉ. The guests chewed reverently... some wept. Some came."
Why it hits: A ritualized cannibal feast of surgical scraps from human bodies—served without shame, honored like communionOld bones.


๐Ÿฉธ 7. The Scarecrow’s Lament – Pitchfork Diaries

"Greta O’Hair raped a scarecrow… stitched him together with severed parts and used him as her sex slave in the barn."
Why it hits: The image of a patchwork man built from butchered victims, used for sex and humiliation, is both grotesque and iconic.


๐Ÿ˜ฑ 8. The Fee – Jimmy’s Confession

"I fucked her ‘til she suffocated... nailed her monkey ass while Hat watched."
Why it hits: Graphic racialized rape and eugenics horror. One of the most viscerally uncomfortable character confessions in your work.


๐Ÿง›‍♂️ 9. The Vine – Wedding Feast of Blood

"Thorn and his apostles crash a wedding... drain the guests... then use the blood to write a new gospel across the chapel floor."
Why it hits: Bloodshed as a sacred act. Violent vampire liturgy blends theology with slaughter.


๐Ÿ’€ 10. The Thorned Lover – Old Bones

"Lucifer speaks lovingly of crucifying Christ. It wasn’t betrayal—it was consent. And every hammer swing was a kiss."
Why it hits: A radical reinterpretation of sacred myth as erotic murder-suicide — flipping salvation into sacrament of desecrationOld bones.

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