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Daphne Fama
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Actively plotting my own downfall. Buy my spooky book about filipino folklore, cannibalism, and toppling a dictatorship.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207767929-house-of-monstrous-women
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Daphne Fama @daphnefama.bsky.social · Aug 12
House of Monstrous Women releases today.

It's a story of oppression, liberation, sacrifice, and hope that refuses to be extinguished.

I am beyond lucky to have written this story and even luckier to share it with all of you. From the bottom of my heart:

Thank you.
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HMW made the @vulture.com list, and my heart is doing tiny bat flips. Appreciate the love! 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Want to read something "Scary but not in the way the world is scary?" Try House of Monstrous Women by @daphnefama.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian
House of Monstrous Women — Multnomah County Library
House of Monstrous Women — Fama, Daphne, — "A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This game was so real for this
Gaia from the Captain Planet game pointing to a crystal void and saying "Remember, there are still so many old white men who have to die, Planeteers."
September 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Things have never felt more fucked. When the world tries to silence you, keep shouting.

UNITE. PROTEST. FIGHT. And don’t forget: VOTE VOTE VOTE.
September 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Folk horrors that will crawl beneath your skin and make your blood run cold. (@daphnefama.bsky.social)
8 Folklore-Inspired Horror Novels That Will Make Your Skin Crawl - Electric Literature
Prejudice, misogyny, and colonial violence are the real terror in these books that will make your blood run cold
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September 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Horror at the library! @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @daphnefama.bsky.social @catherinedang.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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It was such a delight to be on Ink in Your Veins! We dig deep on how to use grief and pain to bring your work to life.
519 | On Using Real Pain to Bring Life to Your Work, with Daphne Fama
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August 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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And here's 363C! Jessikah chatted with Daphne Fama about HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN, which mixes Gothic and folk horror during the Marcos regime in the 1980’s Philippines. Make sure this one is on your TBR list. @daphnefama.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social

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August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Thanks so much for having me!!
splturnthepage.bsky.social Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · Aug 14
And here's 363C! Jessikah chatted with Daphne Fama about HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN, which mixes Gothic and folk horror during the Marcos regime in the 1980’s Philippines. Make sure this one is on your TBR list. @daphnefama.bsky.social @prhlibrary.bsky.social

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August 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Check out my review of House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama @duncansbooks.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @daphnefama.bsky.social #houseofmonstrouswomen #horror #gothic #folklore #Philippines #sapphic #family #sacrifice #Haunting #bookreview
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House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama: Haunting and Visceral - Duncans Books and More
A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. In this game, there’s one...
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August 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—and it’s coming this fall.

Thank you, @premeemohamed.com, for the kind words!
Reddish brown background showing detail of an ornate wood carving. Foreground is text that reads: For all its beauty, no saints, no heroes, no angels inhabit this villa—only ghosts and secrets. Manibo has crafted a pitch-perfect modern gothic, in which the personal is political and there is no such thing as the past: only facets of a dangerous and suffocating present. - Premee Mohamed Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora Award-winning author Below the text is an image of the hardcover for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by Victor Manibo On the lower left and lower right hand corners are the logos of Erewhon Books and Kensington books respectively
August 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Happy book birthday to HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN by @daphnefama.bsky.social! Gothic horror fans are in for such a treat—it’s full of Filipino history and folklore, a labyrinthine mansion, a dangerous game with sinister consequences, atmospheric prose, and SO MUCH MORE! 😈
The book cover for HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN. The title is in big bold letters surrounded by purple banyan trees and a girl in pink in the middle.
August 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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We've got a new interview out now featuring @daphnefama.bsky.social and her novel HOUSE OF MONSTROUS WOMEN! Come join to hear us talk about generational conflict, how the history of the Philippines fits into the book's story, and more!

Find us at Sley House Presents on all your podcast platforms!
Sley House Presents Episode #157: House of Monstrous Women with Daphne Fama. Episode is available on all major podcast platforms, like Spotify or Apple podcasts.
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
daphnefama.bsky.social
House of Monstrous Women releases today.

It's a story of oppression, liberation, sacrifice, and hope that refuses to be extinguished.

I am beyond lucky to have written this story and even luckier to share it with all of you. From the bottom of my heart:

Thank you.
August 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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yay, thanks for including House of Monstrous Women! 💜❤️
raenbowpunk.bsky.social 🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · Aug 11
This Must-Have Monday I have EIGHTEEN new releases to ft! Incl

🐕surviving inside a portal with a (very!) good dog by @ilonaandrews.bsky.social!
🌺Filipino gothic??? yes please! with @daphnefama.bsky.social!
👁️absurdist horror = statistician vs nothing from @chucktingle.bsky.social!

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Must-Have Monday #249 - Every Book a Doorway
Bone raiders, Korean vampires, and Filipino gothics!
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August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Where to find the best August books by women, femme, feminist, queer, trans, Black, Brown, and Native writers?? My latest for @msmagazine.com, of course!

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August 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in August 2025.
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August 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Day 3 of Filipino folklore in the run-up to House of Monstrous Women's release! Today, we have anting! Charms that can protect you from bullets to curses.
Day 3 of Filipino folklore. Anting Anting-anting have a long history in the Philippines. These items, which may be amulets, clothing, or charms, are said to hold miraculous power. Some of the most common abilities: - An immunity to bullets, blades, or physical harm - Protection against curses - Exorcism of spirits - Increased attraction from the opposite gender - The ability to curse others The symbols of an anting-anting are a hodgepodge of precolonial animism, Catholic mysticism, and local symbols a nd phrases. Some of the more common symbols you'll see are the all-seeing eye, suns and stars, and the Sator Square, angelic seals, and invented script. But once you have a charm, you must keep it fed. This might require living a virtuous life, reciting secret prayers, or anointing it with blood or holy water.
August 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A wonderful example of how to do modern Gothic horror. A great balance of creepy, visceral scenes and deeper themes. And I learned about Filipino history too!

@daphnefama.bsky.social

#TheHouseofMonstrousWomen #BookReview #booksky #📚💙 #horror #gothichorror

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The House of Monstrous Women - Book Review
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August 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Day 2 of Filipino folklore in celebration of House of Monstrous Women coming out in 6 days! I love making these. Today's feature is the monstrous aswang, which has haunted the Philippines for centuries...
Day 2 of Filipino Folklore Aswang Aswang is an umbrella term that refers to a myriad of monsters, from vampire-like creatures to shapeshifting witches. Nearly all types of aswang have an insatiable desire for human blood, viscera, corpses, or unborn babies. Beautiful women, old widowed women, and women who practice healing have frequently been accused of being aswang. Particularly when Spanish colonizers began spreading Catholicism. The most common forms for a shapeshifting aswang to take is a black dog or pig. It's at night that aswangs typically chase their hunger, seeking out blood and gore. Aswang have a variety of abilities. Common ones are flight, a heightened sense for pregnancy or blood, moving without a sound and leaving no shadow, mimicking voices (including babies crying), and paralyzing their victims. Make no mistake, being an aswang is a curse. And there are a number of ways you can become one. In the Visayas, the aswang curse is passed through bloodlines. Usually from mother to daughter. The curse can also be transferred on a dying aswang's deathbed. They must spit out a black object, which can be a stone or egg, into the chosen successor's mouth. This item carries the curse. It may be warm and alive. But you can also choose to become an aswang by conducting a ritual and eating human flesh. Love Filipino folklore? Grab House of Monstrous Women on August 12
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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House of Monstrous Women releases in 7 days!! To celebrate, I'll be posting some of my favorite folklore in the Philippines. Today's feature is paktol, a black sorcery used to kill its target. (1/4)
An image of a skull and catholic relic. Day 1 of Filipino Folklore. Paktol. Paktol, which means "to knock on someone's head" in Cebuano, is a type of skull sorcery. The skull must come from an unbaptized person (ideally a child), because they haven't seen god and rest in limbo. Oftentimes the skull is stolen from graves or inherited from an elder sorcerer. It's the spirit connected to the unbaptized skull that is called upon to harm or kill its target. Branches of specific tree, like the Malaysian persimmon and Philippine hackberry, are put in a triangle formation around the skull. Seven branches on each side. Three wooden wedges and the victim's name written on paper are tied to the skull with black cloth. Offerings to the spirits are placed nearby. Usually incense, liquor, and food. Once the skull is prepared, the ritual can begin. The ideal time is on Friday at 12 noon or at 8 PM, when night is about to fall. The sorcerer will then call out the name bound to the skull or some other dark entity and begins the invocation. "You are no longer among the living. You are of the dead. I command you, go to the person whose name is written here and kill them." The sorcerer then strikes the wooden wedges beneath the cloth while commanding the spirit to kill. The victim will soon suffer headaches and escalating illness. If no counter-magic is used, they will die in a few weeks. Love Filipino folklore? Grab House of Monstrous Women on August 12.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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my book is coming out in two weeks and I am nonstop vibrating with excitement and anxiety.
July 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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7 colors, pixelart
July 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM