Sporror – Write on the World

I knew exactly what I was getting into when I picked up Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce—or at least I thought I did. After how deeply Something in the Walls unsettled me (to the point that I had to stop reading it before bed), I expected dread. I expected unease. What I didn’t expect was just how suffocating this story would feel once it took hold.

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Set in the English countryside, the novel follows Hazel, who returns to her hometown of Idless after a traumatic divorce, intending to quietly rebuild her life. But when she fails to reconnect with her sister Cathy as planned, concern quickly turns into something darker. The town whispers. The woods loom. And the sense that something has gone very, very wrong settles in almost immediately.

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If you’re expecting a straightforward horror novel, Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill will catch you off guard—and that disorientation feels entirely intentional. Set in a near-future enclave cut off from a ruined outside world, the novel follows Nicole, a young woman raised in isolation and taught to fear both the world beyond her window and the fungal growths that cover her own body. When she’s married off to a man she barely knows and relocated to his decaying mansion on the edge of town, her life doesn’t expand—it contracts. What unfolds from there is less a traditional plot and more a slow, unsettling unspooling of identity, control, and buried desire.

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Let’s get this out of the way: this book is weird. Not in a gimmicky, shock-value way, but in a deeply immersive, almost disorienting sense. Cranehill builds a world shaped by plague and patriarchal control, where fungi have merged with human bodies to the point that many women are more mushroom than flesh. The men, somehow spared the worst of the infection, have constructed an insular society that positions them as protectors—though what they’re really protecting is their own authority.

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