The glow in the dark woods, now on screen.
Foxfire & Fern is Darkling Press on screen. The same dark literary, Appalachian gothic sensibility, translated into something you watch and listen to instead of read.
The name comes from the woods themselves. Foxfire is the pale green glow that rises off rotting wood in old Appalachian forests at night — bioluminescent fungus that generations of mountain folklore explained as spirit lights, will-o’-the-wisps, the dead signaling through the dark. Fern is what grows low and old on a forest floor that’s been quietly alive longer than anyone remembers. Together, they’re exactly what this channel is: something glowing softly in the overlooked, damp corners most people walk right past.
Expect readings from the Darkling Press catalog, atmosphere built to be felt as much as watched, and a running look at the folklore, history, and hollows our stories actually come from. The same ground The Hollow Almanac digs into, just told out loud instead of on the page. Behind-the-story conversations with the writers themselves, upcoming releases, and the occasional detour into a piece of Appalachian history nobody put in a textbook.
If you’re the kind of reader who also wants to hear it, or the kind of listener who ends up wanting the book, this is where those two things meet.
The Hollow’s Own Trailer
Iris Rose Reed came into the world with a veil over her face and an old woman’s hands the only ones steady enough to lift it. Granny Ana called it a caul. She called it a claiming. The hollow had chosen its own before the child ever drew breath.
The church on the ridge was already standing by then. Raised before her parents ever met, promising salvation to a place that never asked for it. The preacher who leads it wears kindness like a coat. Not everyone in the hollow is fooled, and the darkness that has watched this ground since before the first settler’s axe fell is not fooled at all.
Some sins wear a collar. This hollow has never needed one to know evil when it moves through the trees.
The Price of Greed:
The Wendigo Trailer
Paris, 1720. Henri Radisson has always wanted more than what was given to him. More than his brother’s share, more than his father’s patience, more than what even a life of privilege offered. When a brawl over a woman lands both brothers squarely in their father’s reckoning, Louis Radisson’s punishment is swift: ship them both into the wilderness of New York Colony to earn their keep among the fur traders.
The land is older than anything they have words for. And the winter that closes around their camp is older still.
When starvation begins to hollow them out, the men discover that the darkness that crawled out of the frozen ground wasn’t looking for just anyone. It was darkness seeking a dark soul.
The first entry in the Blood and Myth series. Dark fiction rooted in the oldest myths of a land that remembers everything. Some men don’t become monsters. They simply stop pretending they aren’t.
