Journey into the Macabre plunges listeners into a frozen world on the brink of rebirth—and ruin.

In “Mae in The Myconid Bloom,” Dr. Mae, a virologist and survivor of humanity’s last scientific stand, joins a fractured expedition to the abandoned Mount Baker Weather Station. Their objective is as dangerous as it is divisive: locate the fungal hivemind known as the Bloom—the infection that ended civilization and rewrote what it means to be human.

The Bloom does not merely kill. It converts. Those it touches become nodes in a vast mycelial network—violent at first, then subsumed into a single alien intelligence of chilling precision. High in the mountains, the cold has kept the infected dormant, buying the expedition precious time to observe, argue, and prepare. But spring is coming, and with it the thaw… and the Bloom’s awakening.

The team is unraveling. Their former leader fell to infection and was executed in the snow by Major Samantha Voss, the group’s sole military presence and keeper of the locked weapons crates. With no official second-in-command, tensions rise as epidemiologist Erica Novak grows increasingly forceful, while mycologist Dr. Alan Reese—once dismissed as a madman—seems willing to risk everything to understand the fungal hivemind rather than destroy it.

As the mountain warms and loyalties fracture, Dr. Mae is caught between science, survival, and the terrifying possibility that the Bloom may not be an enemy at all.

There are no clean choices.

Only time running out.