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Shriek: An Afterword

by Jeff VanderMeer · Ambergris series

A sister's annotated afterword to her brother's monograph on the gray caps, the fungal intelligence beneath the city of Ambergris. VanderMeer's prose is dense, unreliable, and layered—footnotes argue with the text, memory fractures, and the city's fungal history refuses to stay academic. A novel that makes form part of its horror.

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