“Haunting and profoundly heartfelt, Farrenkopf uncovers horrors real and cosmic with this timely and relevant ecologically themed collection.”
A property manager explores the decaying halls of a seaside condominium, entranced by singing coming from the flooded basement. Translating a long-lost poem will save the world from environmental doom or bring on the apocalypse. An academic searches for her missing mother in the woods of Maine while rehabilitating gray wolves.
Dangerous tree cults. Seaside horrors. Insectile evolutions. The ever creeping threat of climate change.
Fifteen stories of ecological horror. Three stories published here for the first time. Dive into the depths of environmental decay and cursed ecosystems, elder gods in ancient forests, and nameless things that live deep in the ocean.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Corey Farrenkopf is one of the brightest rising stars in horror fiction today. While working by day as a librarian, Farrenkopf spends the rest of his time writing and serving as editor of the Cape Cod Poetry Review. Farrenkopf in the author of Living in Cemeteries and has short fiction featured in such publications as The Deadlands, Bourben Penn, Uncharted, Weird Horror Magazine, and Strange Horizons among others. Haunting and profoundly heartfelt, Farrenkopf uncovers horrors real and cosmic with this timely and relevant ecologically themed collection. Nathan Ballingrud (Crypt of the Moon Spider) says: “As the world we live in becomes stranger and darker under our influence, we need art to meet it. Corey Farrenkopf’s Haunted Ecologies does this work beautifully. These ecological horror stories are fueled by melancholy, anger, grief, and an abiding tenderness both toward the damaged world and toward ourselves, the fragile agents of nature’s destruction. It’s an excellent book and I want you to read it.” and Wendy N. Wagner (The Deer Kings) says: “Readers expecting stories of gardening cults, apocalyptic forests, and dying seas will not be disappointed by Haunted Ecologies. But Corey Farrenkopf’s stories excel in capturing humanity’s deep and aching hurt as the natural world unravels around us. Read it and be moved.”
Releasing from JournalStone 14 February 2025, Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
