Reef Mind

Name: Reef Mind
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Hazel Zorn
ISBN: 9798240133152

Author: Hazel Zorn

Narrator: Rain Corbyn, Raven Wildewood

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Haruspex Audio

Published: 04/13/2026

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

The coral reef rose from the seas, spreading across the land with incredible speed. A rapidly evolving invasive species.It transformed the landscape. Mutated every living creature of the surface world.We never suspected it had a plan.REEF MIND is a startling work of Body Horror and climate revenge. Paperback and ebook available from Tenebrous Press.Cover art by Becca Snow. Interior illustrations by Echo Echo.“An unsettling novella with so many ways to get under your skin. Zorn is a new voice in Weird Horror worth keeping a close eye on.” Michael Wehunt, The October Film Haunt and Greener Pastures“Unfolds with terror and hypnotic beauty.” Ivy Grimes, The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion"Zorn has stitched together a future unburdened by petty desire–there’s a greater power pulsing eerily beneath the prose." Andrew F. Sullivan, The Marigold and The Handyman Method“Surreal and skin-crawling. A pure oceanic nightmare and a must-read for fans of eco-Weird.” Thomas Ha, Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matty on September 27, 2025

Reef Mind is an eldritch apocalyptic horror novella about sentient hive mind coral reef that is striving to be the dominant species. It transforms the environment and all inhabitants leading to bizarre mutations. The story has a psychedelic atmosphere with flying fish, human bodily transformation, w......more

Goodreads review by Danger on November 12, 2025

The author herself claims this is a novel about climate change anxiety, which it totally is, but I saw a lot of parental anxiety expressed in here also, not just in terms of our looming environmental crises, but in the general we-all-feel-ourselves-getting-older sense too. It's like, you're expected......more

Goodreads review by this_eel on October 11, 2025

3.5? I do recommend, for its sense of tragedy and being effective icky and the sorrow of losing the world. I did not at all expect it to be so much about parenthood—yearning for, fearing, being the tragic result of, accidental, and post-apocalyptic. Who among the middle generations of our current er......more

Goodreads review by unstable.books on August 19, 2025

Reef Mind is an upcoming climate and eco-horror novella. A coral reef is rising from the sea and transforming landscapes. It is also mutating life … all life. The line between the natural world and humanity is obliterated. But Reef Mind is more than just climate, eco and body horror. Its about the f......more

Goodreads review by Lori on July 27, 2025

The sea is coming for you... Ooh this book grabbed me by the arm and sunk its cold fingerlike villi under my skin. If it's got elements of eco-horror, body horror, cli-fi and weird fiction, I'm all in. Throw oceanic horror into the mix and helloooo... I want to be drenched in it! The book follows Matt......more