Dark Secrets

Proven manipulation tactics to put you ahead of others

By Someone Who Definitely Doesn’t Manipulate People

Welcome to the dark side — and congratulations on picking up a book that most people will pretend they don’t need.

This isn’t your typical self-help guide. It doesn’t promise happiness, healing, or enlightenment. In fact, it does quite the opposite: it walks you through the twisted, theatrical, and often shockingly effective tactics used by manipulators in everyday life. Romantic partners, coworkers, parents, influencers, bosses, best friends — the world is full of people playing subtle power games, and more often than not, they’re winning.

Why? Because they know the rules. You don’t.

Until now.

This book doesn’t preach. It exposes. It doesn’t moralize. It magnifies. And yes, it’s written with irony — but the behaviors are real, the patterns are recognizable, and the consequences are serious. Every “tactic” in this guide is something that’s actually used by people who control, coerce, confuse, and emotionally mug those around them.

Think of it as a satirical field manual for identifying psychological warfare in jeans and a nice smile.

Will some people read this and learn how to be worse? Probably.

Will others recognize these tactics and finally understand what the hell just happened to them? Absolutely.

That’s who this is really for.

So whether you’re here to laugh, to learn, or to burn your ex’s entire playbook, I invite you to read with your brain switched on and your bullshit radar dialed up to eleven.

Let the games begin.