The Root Wants to Remember

🕯️ Have you ever heard the voice of the earth?  

It doesn’t scream. It whispers — through mold, through water, through root.

🌿 Four tales. Four stages of contamination.  

**The Root Wants to Remember** is an anthology of psychological and symbolic horror, where nature isn’t just a setting — it’s an active force.  

Here, dread blooms slowly, through the cracks of concrete and the fractures of memory.

📍 Set in the deep lands of Brazil — among urban outskirts, ghost villages, and forgotten backroads — this book blends:

- Botanical horror and urban decay  

- Social critique wrapped in nightmares  

- Invented plant-based mythology and existential unease  

- Fictional rituals, contamination, and symbolic identity  

- Latin American magical realism and literary dark fiction

📖 Perfect for readers of **Mariana Enríquez**, **Jeff VanderMeer**, and **Brian Evenson**.  

If you enjoy haunting stories with thick atmosphere and themes like drought, ancestry, memory loss, and the body as living soil — this book will take root in you.

💀 In the final tale, a teacher receives a letter with no return address.  

What she finds in her hometown... isn't just the past.  

It's something that waited — and now wants to return.

🧬 A literary dark fiction anthology grounded in botanical horror, psychological trauma, and poetic symbolism.  

**Language:** English (Translated from Brazilian Portuguese)  

**Genre:** Psychological horror / Literary horror / Magical realism