Occult Echoes 5: Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

In this episode of Occult Echoes, we explore Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt — a deeply unsettling modern horror novel that transforms the haunted house into something far more psychological, political, and personal.Following our journey into Cheiro’s You and Your Hand in Library of the Occult Ep 14, this companion piece examines how ideas of identity, destiny, and the body have evolved within horror and occult storytelling.Where Cheiro believed hidden truths could be read through the hand, Rumfitt presents the body as something vulnerable to influence, trauma, ideology, and fear.This is not simply a ghost story.It is a novel about:identity and transformationthe body as a battlegroundideological and psychological horrortrauma as hauntingthe loss of agency and selfAt the centre of the novel lies a haunted house that absorbs fear, repression, and violence — reflecting them back in deeply disturbing ways.In this episode, we explore how Tell Me I’m Worthless modernises classic occult themes without relying on traditional occult imagery, proving that possession, corruption, and transformation still haunt modern horror… just in different forms.I’m Saul Muerte.The echo continues.Ancient shadows. Modern stories.#OccultEchoes #TellMeImWorthless #AlisonRumfitt #ModernHorror #PsychologicalHorror #HauntedHouse #OccultFiction #HorrorBooks #BookReview #HorrorLiterature #LibraryOfTheOccult #SaulMuerte