A Selection of Horror Books Released, 19 to 25 May 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghost, serial killer, revenge, and nursery rhyme horror
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Table of Contents
Blood Covenant – Alan Baxter
Supernatural horror
In a remote lodge, a family is taken hostage by a criminal gang on the run, but the bloodshed awakens an ancient, very hungry, evil.
What should have been a breeze of a bank heist for James Glenn and his crew goes violently wrong, forcing them to flee, blood-stained and angry.
They stumble onto a remote lodge that doesn’t open for another month; a perfect place to lie low until the heat’s off.
Except it’s occupied.
The Moore family, just arrived to prepare for the season, are taken hostage by the criminals, but not without bloodshed. And when blood gets spilled, something ancient notices. Something malevolent. Something ravenous.
Their only hope is the youngest Moore, teenager Rueben, who is outside and unseen when James and his gang arrive. It’s up to Rueben to get help and save his family, but the influence of the ancient evil is taking a toll on him as well.
The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls – Angela Sylvaine
Horror collection
A heartbreaking horror collection about girls and women trapped by circumstance, manipulation, and obsession.
The dead spot: a corner drenched in shadow; an earthquake’s epicenter; the part of a roller coaster ride where the car rounds the final curve and all force dissipates, leaving those trapped beneath the safety bar feeling sick and hollow.
Death Behind Every Door – Heather Graham
Serial killer horror – Book 1 of The Blackbird Files
In the shadows of a Scottish castle, two FBI agents investigating a serial killer cult find something deadly lurking in every corner.
When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society. Named for the eighteenth-century monster regarded as America’s first serial killer, the society is comprised of a twisted web of killers, working to carry out heinous murders in Holmes’s memory. And now the group’s been linked to a Scottish castle turned B-and-B, where guests check in but never check out.
Arriving at Graystone Castle, posing as a tourist, Luke is joined by Special Agent Carly MacDonald, and the pair is immediately confronted by dangers hidden in the castle’s depths.
With guests disappearing and a network of killers closing in, Luke and Carly have only each other to rely on. They’ll have to race to cut off the head of the snake before the blood trail of the past can culminate in a very real and deadly present.
Find Him and Kill Him – Cody J Thompson
Revenge horror
A road trip novel, filled with revenge, murder, twists, turns, suspense, tragedy, familial bonding, and lots of blood.
Fourteen-year-old Mitch Graves is bored with festivities at a Memorial Day block party in 2006, so he decides to ride his BMX to a set of train tracks near his home. He discovers a wayward drifter hiding in the shadows of an abandoned railcar in the midst of taking another man’s life.
Where most kids would be terrified beyond belief, Mitch finds himself intrigued. Taking the young boy under his wing, the drifter unlocks something horrifying deep within Mitch that he never knew existed. Together, they unleash their own brand of terror onto unsuspecting townsfolk.
That is, until tragedy befalls the Graves family, leaving Mitch as the only hope to save his baby sister, Myrna.
Sixteen years later, Mitch and Myrna Graves embark on a road trip of a lifetime, with their sights set on an exacting revenge on the person who tried to take everything from them all those years ago: to find him and kill him.
Hate House – John C Foster
Psychological horror – Part of Encyclopocalypse Originals
Reclusive investigator Megan French is lured from isolation by a mysterious client who wants her to investigate the infamous Hate House.
Too late, she discovers Hate House isn’t a job, it’s a trap. Gaslighted and manipulated, French is caught in an elaborate revenge plot seeking to unbalance her mind before framing her for a horrible crime.
As French unravels the plan, she uncovers a wider world of the ultra-wealthy who treat people as nothing more than pieces on a game board.
In the Tall World – Angel Van Atta
Psychological horror – Book 2 of Little Voices
Mella finds herself in a whole new world, surrounded by all new things and people.
Life was often scary back in the tall trees in that tiny little house, but it was all she knew, and that brought her comfort.
Now, separated from her Momma, and her baby brother Pete, Mella has to find out how to make her way in this strange new home with all new rules and people.
The cruelty she finds here makes her wonder if there are more than just Bad Men to be afraid of, but Bad Women, too.
The Lamplighter – Crystal J. Bell
YA supernatural horror
In a 19th century whaling village, a young woman takes on the position of lamplighter after her father dies. As villagers vanish under her watch, she discovers unsettling truths about the village and her father.
The nineteenth-century whaling village of Warbler is famous for its lucky ship figureheads, and infamous for people disappearing into the nightly fog. In this murky locale, the lamplighter is synonymous with safety and protection, and it’s a position Temperance assumes when her father is found hanging from one of the lampposts. Though Tempe proves competent, the town is still hesitant to let a woman handle this responsibility.
When a girl disappears after two lamps go out, Tempe’s ability to provide for her mother and younger sister hangs in the balance. She scrambles for answers, hindered at every turn by the village authorities’ call for her removal. As more villagers vanish under her watch, Tempe discovers unsettling truths about the famous Warbler figureheads and her own beloved father.
But her warnings of a monster are ignored, even by her own family. Now she must follow the light out of her own fog of despair, as she faces the choice to look the other way or risk speaking out and possibly dooming herself and her sister to be among the lost.
Mazi – Koji A. Dae
Psychological erotic horror
When Silvena and her boyfriend take a vacation at an isolated mountain villa in Bulgaria, she gets the unsettling sense she is being watched by the knots in the house’s wooden walls.
Her boyfriend tries to distract her with their usual BDSM games, but Silvena’s hallucinations only worsen when she encounters a local woodcutter who takes an unusual interest in her.
Rockabye Souls – The Butchered Writers
Nursery rhyme horror anthology – Book 6 of The Butchered Writers Present: Terror Monthly
Your favorite nursery rhymes with dark, demented twist.
All new takes on Jack and Jill, Hickory Dickery Dock, Little Miss Muffet, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, The Muffin Man, and many more, there’s something for everyone’s dark side.
Stories from Jeffery Caston, Ryan McGregor, Sarah Moon, Megan Russ, Jason Nickey, Jimi Peranteau, Melinda Pouncey, A.R. Davis and more.
Signals in the Static – A.T. Sayre
Horror collection
Science fiction tales of determined robots, alien diplomacy, and space exploration; and, dark fantastical stories where natural laws are broken and monsters are revealed to wear a human face.
You Invited It In – Sarah Jules
Ghost horror
When a man tries to expose a fraudulent psychic, he finds himself haunted by something claiming to be his dead wife.
Felix Eastwood is your average guy, except for the fact that he can see the spirits of the dead.
Lilith Lavelle is a fraudulent psychic, plying her trade on social media.
When Felix stumbles across an advertisement for Lilith Lavelle’s Psychic Cleansing Services, he hires her under the pretence that his family is being haunted, hoping to expose her as a scam artist. By trying to play the hero, Felix puts his family in grave danger.
In the aftermath of Lilith’s visit, Felix finds himself haunted for real by something claiming to be his dead wife; something that is out for blood.
The problem is, Felix invited it in. And it doesn’t want to leave.
You Like It Darker – Stephen King
Horror collection
Twelve new short stories.
Explore the long-hidden secret of how ‘Two Talented Bastids’ got their skills.
A brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives.
In a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance with major strings attached.
A taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored.
Is prescience good luck or bad? It reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.
Published: 25 May 2024
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