Victor Manibo
Author of THE SLEEPLESS (2022), ESCAPE VELOCITY (2024), DEAD NOTE (2025), and THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED (2025) • Lambda Literary Fellow • NYC via MNL • he/him 🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by Victor ManiboThe Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.
- Reposted by Victor ManiboI'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.
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- Reposted by Victor ManiboI am such a huge @victormanibo.com fan and THE VILLA ONE BELOVED is his best book yet. reactormag.com/book-review-...
- Reposted by Victor ManiboMy latest for Reactor!! I love this one, go read it. Yes, you. You’re going to love it. 🇵🇭❤️🔥🌈👹
- "You cannot undo what you have inherited, no matter how violent the legacy." @mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Victor Manibo's searing, haunted horror novel The Villa, Once Beloved:
- Reposted by Victor Manibo"You cannot undo what you have inherited, no matter how violent the legacy." @mayagittelman.bsky.social reviews Victor Manibo's searing, haunted horror novel The Villa, Once Beloved:
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- Paradise
- Reposted by Victor ManiboThe Sunday Morning Transport looks across the water today with a story from Victor Manibo (@victormanibo.com) about how some draughts cannot quench a thirst. Free for everyone to read, like all of our January stories!
- Pausing my regular vacation posts because it’s new story day! So pleased to be back at Sunday Morning Transport. Please enjoy my latest tale in all its queer, bleak, grotesque glory— www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake
- I have made a critical mistake at this japanese karaoke bar and queued up the 9+ min version of dancing through life which includes all the dialogue and the stupid boq and nessa part all the way to the ozdust ballroom and now i am deceased
- Kyoto bound
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- Sitting next to a first date at dinner and the woman asks the guy if you were an llm, which one would you be? It gets worse—the guy says he’d be grok
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- Pray for me i just cued up Buttons at the office holiday karaoke party
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- Reposted by Victor ManiboMerriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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- Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—it’s got ghosts and witches and creepy crawlies and demons, plus a sexy gravedigging scene—and it’s out now More info ⬇️
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- Every day the list of ICE and DOJ attorneys I would like to get Nuremberg’ed grows ever longer
- Had such a lovely and lively fireside chat with @ryanlasala.bsky.social for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. Thank you to The Twisted Spine for hosting us, and thank you to everyone who came and joined in on the fun! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Victor Manibogood morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
- Reposted by Victor ManiboWelcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?
- So pleased to find THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED in such illustrious company! Thank you, @reactorsff.bsky.social!
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- Tomorrow tomorrow!
- Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
- Just finished Expedition 33. Did I cry? Maybe a little. Best game I’ve played all year
- I was working on a gothic this year, so
- Next week! Get your tix now—
- Fine ok they win they made me care about hockey
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- After a long journey, we have finally arrived at THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. I’m so grateful for getting to tell this complex and horrifying Gothic tale, and especially proud as I think this is my best work to date. I hope you all fall in love with it as much as I have. … ⬇️
- Here are some snaps from Monday’s delightful launch event—my deepest thanks to @claymcleod.bsky.social for being such an insightful and generous interlocutor, and to Strand Bookstore for always supporting my work. Thank you too to everyone who came out and celebrated with us! … ⬇️
- My deepest thanks, Clay! What a spectacular night. I’m so glad we got to do this
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- TONIGHT TONIGHT
- LAUNCH EVENT! Join me at the Strand as we usher into the world my gothic horror child, with one of my horror idols @claymcleod.bsky.social (Jsyk, his delicious new book Acquired Taste pairs well with mine, so go pick it up). More book tour stops coming soon but if you’re in NY, grab your tix now ⬇️
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