A Selection of Horror Books Released, 3 to 9 Mar 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghost, Frankenstein, dark fantasy, gothic, serial killer, vampire, cosmic, water, and Arkham horror
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Table of Contents
Chicano Frankenstein – Daniel A. Olivas
Frankenstein horror
An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him.
As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez.
His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the reanimation process erased.
Darkridge Hollow – Nicky Shearsby
Psychological horror
After losing his wife to a drunk driver, Joshua Raymond’s only wish was to show his young stepdaughter, Georgina, the country where her mother was born and meet her estranged family.
After a car accident leaves their rental in a ditch, Joshua wakes to find Georgina missing. He is concussed, bruised, and covered in blood not his own.
When a passing car stops to help, a stranger claims to have seen Joshua at a local gas station.
Yet, according to her, he was alone.
Free Burn – Drew Huff
Comedy serial killer horror
Triple-Six, an institutionalized, lovestruck outcast, fights to save the only girlfriend he’s ever had from the reanimated clutches of her undead mother, the infamous pyromaniac serial killer he accidentally freed from Hell.
The Haunting of Velkwood – Gwendolyn Kiste
Ghost horror
The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enter. And only one has in the past twenty years, until now.
Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the small town she so desperately wanted to escape from. When a new researcher tracks her down and offers to pay her to come back to enter the vicinity, Talitha claims she’s just doing it for the money.
Of all the crackpot theories over the years, no one has discovered what happened the night Talitha, her estranged, former best friend Brett, and Grace, escaped their homes twenty years ago.
The Hiding – Alethea Lyons
Dark fantasy horror
Arcane archivist Harper has always been plagued by dreams of grotesque creatures and bloody deaths.
When she bumps into a ghostwalker in the Shambles and has a visceral experience of his execution, she knows it’s a foretelling. Yet fear of the Queen’s Guard stops her speaking out.
When her vision comes true, the unusual markings on the ghostwalker’s corpse, combined with his neatly excised vocal cords, send a ripple of terror through York. The witch hunt is on.
As the body count rises, Harper knows her magic is the only way to find the killer-if she can avoid being hanged as a witch. To protect both human and supernatural, Harper walks the thin line between their worlds.
She and her demonhunter foster-sister form a multi-faith team with a forensic scientist, a spirit Harper accidentally summoned, and a techno-witch, to catch the killer before more people die.
The Invisible Hotel – Yeji Y. Ham
Psychological horror
Yewon dreams of a hotel. In the hotel, there are infinite keys to infinite rooms, and a quiet terror she is both eager to understand and desperate to escape.
When Yewon wakes, she sees her life: a young woman, out of her job at a convenience store, trapped in the tiny South Korean village of her birth, watching her mother wash the bones of their ancestors in their decrepit bathtub. Every house has them, these rotting and fragmented ribs, tibias, and femurs, whose constant care and persistent stench serve as reminders of what they have all lost to the Forgotten War that never seems to end.
Now Yewon’s brother is stationed near the North Korean border, her sister has experienced a life-changing tragedy, and her mother is overwhelmed by anxiety, her health declining.
When Yewon begins to drive a local woman named Ms. Han, a mysterious and aging North Korean refugee, to visit her brother at a distant prison, Yewon’s dreams intensify. As the line between reality and illusion slowly begins to blur, Yewon is led to an unsettling truth about her country’s collective heritage.
Mecha-Jesus and Other Stories – Derwin Mak
Cosmic horror collection
Ethnic traditions meld with fantastic visions in these twelve stories about memory fabric, eldritch gods during the Salem witch trials, and of course, Mecha-Jesus, Japan’s very own android kami.
Murder Road – Simone St. James
Serial killer horror
July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them.
When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find themselves in the crosshairs of the Coldlake Falls police. Unexplained murders have been happening along Atticus Line for years and the cops finally have two witnesses who easily become their only suspects.
As April and Eddie start to dig into the history of the town and that horrible stretch of road to clear their names, they soon learn that there is something supernatural at work, something that could not only tear the town and its dark secrets apart, but take April and Eddie down with it all.
Night of the Bloody Tapes
Slasher horror anthology
When Dan inherits a decrepit cabin in the woods, he and his friends decide to pay a visit.
In a locked box, hidden in the back of a wardrobe, they find a number of antiquated VHS tapes. Curious, they decide to watch them.
Join Judith Sonnet, Brian G Berry, Stephen Cooper and Harrison Phillips as they bring you a selection of scuzzy stories, straight from the era of video violence and VHS nastiness!
Pour One for the Devil – Theodore C Van Last Jr
Gothic horror
When Dr. Van Vierlans receives an invitation from Mrs. Elizabeth Van der Horst to give a lecture at her island mansion off the coast of South Carolina, he doesn’t think twice. There’s a generous honorarium, and he relishes the chance to revisit the Sea Islands, where he once studied the Gullah language.
The lavish house he arrives at is strangely out of time. No other historians appear, nor does an audience, as he passes the time chatting in Gullah with the household servants.
Just when his suspicions become difficult to ignore, Mrs. Van der Horst plies him with a sumptuous feast that distracts him from her true motives, which may prove more sinister than anything he’s prepared to imagine.
Screams from the Ocean Floor – BrokenBrain Books
Water horror anthology
No air. Complete darkness. Immense pressure. Bizarre creatures. No chance of survival. Welcome to the most dangerous place on Earth.
Sixteen tales of terror from the bottom of the vast ocean depths by some of the best new voices in indie horror.
So, take a trip with us on the open sea and get a glimpse at the horrors lurking in the deep. These tales will leave you thinking twice before booking your next cruise.
Song of Carcosa – Josh Reynolds
Arkham horror
Countess Alessandra Zorzi, reformed thief and acquirer of occult artifacts, faces her greatest challenge yet as she searches for an elusive artist in possession of the powerful Zanthu Tablet; the only thing that can stop the strange psychic malaise afflicting Alessandra’s assistant, Pepper.
The countess’s quest takes her to the crooked heart of Venice, where an eerie organization is planning a grand performance that will engulf the city in chaos.
As Pepper slips into an inescapable alien world, Alessandra must defeat powerful forces to save her friend. One wrong move could bring the curtain down on them all.
Thirst – Marina Yuszczuk
Vampire horror
It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet.
In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother’s terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women, and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back.
What Grows in the Dark – Jaq Evans
Supernatural horror
Sixteen years ago, Brigit Weylan’s older sister, Emma, walked into the woods in their small hometown of Ellis Creek. She never walked out. People said she was troubled. In the months leading up to her death, she was convinced there was a monster in those trees.
Marked by the tragedy, Brigit left town and never looked back.
Now Brigit travels around the country investigating paranormal activity (and faking the results) with her cameraman, Ian. But when she receives a call from Ellis Creek, she’s thrust into the middle of a search for two missing teenagers.
As Brigit and Ian are drawn further into the case, the parallels to Emma’s death become undeniable. And worse, Brigit can’t explain what’s happening to her: trees appearing in her bedroom in the middle of the night, something with a very familiar laugh watching her out in the darkness, and Emma’s voice on her phone, reminding Brigit to finish what they started.
It looks like Emma was right: there is a monster in Ellis Creek, and it’s waited a long time for Brigit to come home.
Published: 9 March 2024
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