Horror as Spiritual Practice: Undead Faith Poetry Zine

A poetry collection for the dearly deconverted...

Spooky photoshoot I did last year for Undead Faith’s original release. I’m dressed as a decaying corpse/ghost while holding a tombstone that reads “RIP to the Girl I Used to Know.”

Monster myth and moral panics, deconversion and death, reclamation and rebirth—these are the themes I love about the horror genre, and they’ve certainly been resonate for me as an exvangelical. Today, I’m sharing an extended edition of my horror poetry zine, Undead Faith: A Haunted House of the Dearly Deconverted. I originally released this last fall, and it has been updated with a whole second movement of horror poetry about the experience of surviving, leaving, and healing from a high-control religious environment.

Here’s to healing and joy, even through the valley of the shadow of undead faith.

(P. S. Want to learn more about the history and myth that inspired this collection? Check out my infodump about moral panics and monster myth from last year.)

In Wonder,

Kandi Zeller (she/her)

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