Witch Toxin

Review from May 2026
Now for something completely different! Something that is, in a lot of ways, completely different to anything else that I read this month. This story follows a researcher at a government facility that studies a group of non-human siren-like witches. These creatures have found a way to both look similar to humans and use their alien biology to seduce and devour them and they are being kept like animals in this place for research.

The thing that really made this story stand out to me is the perspective of the main character. Something clearly is happening to her (and I won't say what because it is something of a twist) that leads her into a world where she has trouble differentiating between dreams and waking time. Her reality starts collapsing and it is written in a way that I find really compelling. I love the way that the feeling of uncertainty and unreality is written.

The witches themselves as well as the general setting has a wonderfully creepy vibe to it. There is a wrongness that seeps through everything that happens in the story and kept me compelled to keep reading. I recommend this. it is great.