This year I'm going to try to focus more on tracking my reads for the Scaredy Cat Bingo Challenge, which consists of 25 reading prompts on a bingo board.
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Today's prompt:
Feed Me, Seymour
Eco horror calls for us to take a look at what we are doing to the environment and make changes.
For this prompt, pick a book with ecohorror themes.
Here are just a few to get you started:
Ecohorror-themed fiction and poetry make up this anthology of 50 authors. Plants, animals, weather phenomenon - it all has a turn.
The author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World takes on the short story in this collection. Themes vary but the titular Growing Things is ecohorror.
annihilation by jeff VanderMeer
Yes, that Annihilation. The movie with Natalie Portman is based on this book by Jeff VanderMeer. A expedition of 4 women is sent to Area X to succeed where eleven before then failed. Area X is waiting for them.
Eden by Tim Lebbon
Another story with a human-free zone, this one established as a way to combat global warming. A team of adventures goes into the Virgin Zone as it's called, but nature has other ideas for them.
Mexican gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Part lush gothic, part ecohorror, Silvia Moreno-Garcia builds a mysterious and eerie landscape as socialite Naomi travels to High Place after an odd letter from her cousin. This one surprisingly is ecohorror with a great twist.
wilder girls by Rory power
A group of teen girls in quarantine at a boarding school fight to survive against their own mutating bodies and the wilderness of the island due to a contagion called The Tox.
the ruins by Scott smith
Another movie adaptation here, The Ruins follows a group of friends on vacation in Mexico as they go on an archeological dig deep in the forest and discover an ancient evil.
the terror by dan Simmons
In 1845 Sir John Franklin led many men in search of the Arctic's fabled North West Passage. Dan Simmons' version of what happened to the 129 men on the expedition is chilling (pun intended).
Silla and Nori are sisters running away from an abusive home in London and into the countryside to leave with their aunt but the woods are creeping closer each day.
The Black by Paul Elard Cooley
This time we take to the sea and an oil drilling platform but something lives beneath and it's pissed.
Two dozen weird and wild stories about fungi going from bizarrely whimsical to horrific.
FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD BY LOUISE ERDRICH
This dystopian novel has evolution moving backward. The government is capturing pregnant women and holding them through their delivery but why?
FEVER DREAM BY SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN
A young mother is dying in hospital with a young boy at her side but he's not her son. She can't see or move and David tells her it's because of the worms.
Of course it is.
A pregnant woman escapes to the mountain to escape a skin-sealing epidemic but the mountains aren't the safe place she expected.
The Nest by Gregory A. Douglas
Huge mutant cockroaches make up the bulk of this 80's novel.
That's it. That's all you need.
The Swarm by Frank Schätzing
The ocean and its occupants take revenge on humans.
Mists and Megaliths by Catherine McCarthy
Ten supernatural stories span themes from gothic to cosmic, folklore, and myths.
Cold Storage by
A fungal organism buried in a subterranean basement has found its way out and is mutating.