A photorealistic image of a gentle Yowie and a young woman standing outside a forest cave at dusk, holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes, with warm golden light filtering through the trees in the background, highlighting the emotional bond between them.

The Yowie’s Heart

In the eucalyptus-wrapped hills of the Blue Mountains, there lived a creature most dismissed as folklore, a tale told to scare kids away from wandering off at night. But the…
A terrifying forest scene with a massive tree split open, revealing darkness inside. A faceless, moss-covered forest god with many limbs stands before it, arms raised. A kneeling woman with root-like tendrils emerging from her fingers appears terrified, while a man with bark skin kneels beside her under an amber glow and swirling fog.

ROOTBOUND The Hollow That Hungers

The forest god didn’t move like a thing made of flesh. It moved like ritual. Its limbs bent in unnatural ways, stretching and twisting with purpose. Every motion echoed like…
A terrified woman stands in a forest clearing near a giant, split tree as a faceless, moss-covered forest god emerges. A humanoid figure with bark-covered limbs stands nearby, and eerie faces are pressed into the soil around them, all surrounded by fog.

ROOTBOUND Beneath the Bark

The fog pressed in like a living thing, thick as wool and humming low in her ears. Lark didn’t remember stepping off the porch, but she found herself standing on…
Inside a rotting Victorian house, a trapdoor in the floor reveals a dark staircase lined with pulsing roots. A figure resembling a man stands below, his eyes hollow and arms transforming into bark-covered branches. An eerie yellow glow illuminates the supernatural basement.

ROOTBOUND What the Roots Remember

Chapter Two: Lark didn’t scream. She wanted to. Every inch of her body was urging her to open her mouth and let loose something primal and piercing. But something about…
Two explorers stand at the porch of an eerie, decaying Victorian house on the edge of a foggy forest, with ivy-covered walls and a half-open door, suggesting something sinister awaits inside.

ROOTBOUND The Roots Whisper

Chapter One: When Lark first saw the house, she was sure it was holding its breath. It sat crouched at the edge of the woods like a predator, old timbers…