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J. Federle

Gothic horror | Dark sci-fi | Monster romance

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House of Leaves: The Joyful Challenge of Tackling Hard Books

By EditorWriterJF on June 15, 2026May 27, 2026

House of Leaves has been on my “to read” list for over a decade. It’s a brick of a book (700+ pages) published in 2000 that defies traditional publishing. Every time I see it, I’m struck by how unlikely it feels it’d ever get published today. It’s a foundational depiction of liminal spaces, a horror…

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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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