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J. Federle

Gothic horror | Dark sci-fi | Monster romance

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Mushroom Horror: Spore Content That Will Make You Fear Fungi

By EditorWriterJF on February 28, 2025January 5, 2026

Their anatomy is poetry. The soft gills? Lamellae. Below the earth, thread-like hyphae compose the vast mycelium. Mushroom horror is keenly aware of the oddball beauty of mushrooms. It loves them despite (or maybe because of) their quiet relationship with death and rot. Mushroom Horror Book Recs In sporror (spore horror), Mexican Gothic has become…

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Snow Horror That Will Make You Shiver

By EditorWriterJF on January 31, 2025January 3, 2026

Snow horror embraces the cold. Isolation. Howling winds. The stark silence of a white, winter landscape. It forces protagonists to take shelter or brave the bleakest weather nature has to offer. This oddity list from the Author-Oddity Newsletter thrusts you into a frozen lake of horror book recs and other uncanny content. Mind your firewood….

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J. Federle is a wandering lover of ghost stories and folktales. She left Kentucky to study poetry in England. Now she lives in Peru with her husband and cow-colored dog, where she writes about her own ghosts and folks. Find her work in The Saturday Evening Post, The Threepenny Review, and the NoSleep Podcast, among other awesome publications.
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