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Spores: A Short Horror Story
Paperback
Publisher: Horror World Books
Published: Mar 10 2025
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Beatrix Brighton-a New Hampshire professor with expertise in demonology-receives a desperate call from her father about a fungal plague consuming his home, she expects to find another easily explained phenomenon. Instead, she discovers a city in the grip of something inexplicable: toxic spores blanket every surface, buildings sprout through with yellow growths, and the residents are slowly changing, their minds colonized by something that lurks in the bayou's depths.
As an expert in the occult, Beatrix knows this is no ordinary infestation. But in the heart of Louisiana's darkness, where reality melts like rot-softened flesh, she'll discover that some questions have teeth-and that knowledge can be fatal. To save her father, she'll have to confront an ancient evil that's taken root, one that's turning Baton Rouge into its own twisted nursery.
Perfect for readers of folk horror and Southern Gothic fiction where academia meets the occult. A standalone horror novella.
Perfect for readers who love:- Folk horror with a modern twist
- Baba Yaga & Russian Folk Tales
- Body horror
- Southern Gothic fiction
- Atmospheric supernatural thrillers
- Stories where academia meets the occult
- One Hour Reads
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