If Wolf Worm fans devoured parasitic dread crawling under skin, then The Hollow Kind by delivers that squirming horror through bleeding trees instead.
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- Southern gothic trees literally bleed & hunger
- Prickly protag w/ zero patience for BS
- Slow-burn dread that grows under your skin
- Grotesque body horror meets family curse
If Wolf Worm's parasitic invasion under your skin made you feel gloriously, viscerally alive with revulsion, The Hollow Kind offers that same squirming dread—but swap the worms for a Georgia pine forest harboring something older, slimier, and hungrier. Andy Davidson delivers body horror that crawls into your marrow: trees that bleed, family secrets that burrow deep, and grotesque transformations that hit with the same punch-to-the-gut intimacy Kingfisher perfected.
The prickly lead here wields dark humor like a blade through mounting terror, grounding Southern gothic nightmares in the same cathartic, no-nonsense survival instinct that made Wolf Worm's heroine unforgettable.
This is body horror that crawls into your marrow and refuses to let go.
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