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Victor Manibo
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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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What a writer finds beautiful and moving, what they write about as aesthetically pleasing, what they struggle to and manage to get in front of a reader as a thing of beauty—all of that, independent of the “message” or “moral” or “theme”, is political
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Coming to the next BBB reading 2/17 @ 7pm with authors @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @victormanibo.com #ShvetaThakrar & @fondalee.bsky.social ? Of course you are! Then be sure to pick up our Gothic Strangely Delicious drink-- one night only! Let's sip & story together!

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February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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New blog post!

Check out my review of @victormanibo.com’s new Filipino Gothic, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED:

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💙📚 😱📚
Review of The Villa, Once Beloved—Filipino Gothic - The Gothic Library
“The villa, once beloved, was better left behind in all its tragedies.” You can try to escape a family curse, but in the end the sins of your past will always find you. A young woman named Sophie beco...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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NEXT WEEK! 🌟 BBB returns for our monthly Fabulous Reading Event on 2/17 @ 7pm at Barrow's! Join us as we welcome authors/readers
@victormanibo.com #ShvetaThakrar @fondalee.bsky.social &
@leannareneehieber.bsky.social for a night of sips, socializing, and stories!📚🎙️🍸

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February 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Coming up fast -- February's BBB reading event on 2/17 @ 7pm at Barrow's! Join us as we welcome authors/readers @victormanibo.com #ShvetaThakrar @fondalee.bsky.social & @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for a night of sips, socializing, and stories!

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February 5, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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The 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.
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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I'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.
the Post news is gutting for many reasons, but I can’t help focusing on the books section—how great it was, and how essential. So many worthy books barely get reviewed. I’ve had authors reach out to thank me because mine was the only post-pub coverage they got. Just awful for readers & for writers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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BBB is in the mood for our our post-Valentine's day reading! Join us on 2/17 @ 7pm as incredible authors @victormanibo.com #Shvetathakrar @leannareneehieber.bsky.social and @fondalee.bsky.social share stories while you sip and savor in our salon-like atmosphere! 📚🎙️🍸

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January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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I am such a huge @victormanibo.com fan and THE VILLA ONE BELOVED is his best book yet.

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Home Like A Haunting in Victor Manibo’s The Villa, Once Beloved - Reactor
The Villa, Once Beloved is a taut microcosm of one of the Philippines’ most formative modern horrors.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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My latest for Reactor!! I love this one, go read it. Yes, you. You’re going to love it. 🇵🇭❤️‍🔥🌈👹
January 26, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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"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:
Home Like A Haunting in Victor Manibo’s The Villa, Once Beloved - Reactor
The Villa, Once Beloved is a taut microcosm of one of the Philippines’ most formative modern horrors.
reactormag.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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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
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The new story, "Slake," from @victormanibo.com in The Sunday Morning Transport is a heartbreaker. I highly recommend reading it. And hey, it's free this month! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/slake
Slake
In this month’s third, free, story, Victor Manibo brings a skin-crawling, unquenchable horror story to your doorstep.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Paradise
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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The 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!
Slake
In this month’s third, free, story, Victor Manibo brings a skin-crawling, unquenchable horror story to your doorstep.
www.sundaymorningtransport.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Kyoto bound
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Good literary criticism is just as valuable in every respect as a good novel; it's incredibly sad to see it cut out by digital performance metrics and private equity companies.

Makes me grateful for places like Ancillary Review of Books & Typebar doing the good work in a hostile media environment.
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Thanks for tagging! Just finished @victormanibo.com’s latest book, ESCAPE VELOCITY, which I throughly enjoyed. Also finished season one of THE PITT.

Consuming new works has definitely recharged my creative batteries. #ScriptChat #ScriptSky
Another Q for screenwriters (pls RT)

What are you finding inspiring, writing-wise, right now?

(I'll keep tagging everyone I can and apologies if I miss you!)

#scriptchat
#scriptsky
January 3, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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📖 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📖 @victormanibo.com—best known for Escape Velocity, The Villa, Once Beloved, The Sleepless, Deadnote, and more—is coming to Awesome Con in March! 🎟️ Buy badges >> awesome-con.com/badges

#AwesomeCon #Authors
January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Check out my review of “The Villa Once Beloved” by Victor Manibo, a modern gothic horror story set in the Philippines about the terrible crimes people will commit to obtain and maintain wealth and power.

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December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Pray for me i just cued up Buttons at the office holiday karaoke party
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM