A Selection of Horror Books Released, 30 Jun to 6 Jul 2024
Themes: Supernatural, monster, ghost, and haunted house horror
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The Dread Room – Michael Handy
Haunted house horror
A young couple buy a house from which the previous owners mysteriously vanished years before.
Kate and Derrick have just bought their first home in the sleepy town of Millston, MA. The previous owners of the house mysteriously vanished years ago, abandoning the home to foreclosure.
Ready to give the house a new life, the young couple soon realize not all is as it seems. There’s a room on the first floor of the house that has been kept sealed away for decades. An odd, dusty little room without windows. A shadowy, disused space that’s somehow colder than the rest of the house.
And what about that strange smell? It’s not the dust, but something deeper underneath. Something ominous and threatening. Bad things have happened in this room, and what’s been left in its wake is an overwhelming sense of loss and despair.
Welcome to The Dread Room.
Strange noises and eerie sensations soon begin to emanate from the room, inexplicably centered around Kate. Plagued by terrible visions and horrific apparitions, Kate becomes determined to uncover the truth behind the Dread Room and what happened to the house’s previous inhabitants.
But the deeper Kate digs, the more things seem to escalate.
With their new home and her very sanity on the line, Kate needs to find the answer, no matter how sinister it may be, before the Dread Room drags her into the darkness for good.
Midnight Rooms – Donyae Coles
Ghost horror
A sweeping saga with supernatural undertones set in Victorian England. Vibrating with tension, richly atmospheric, haunted by ghosts, guilt, and familial bonds.
England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman – an outsider with no fortune or connections – Orabella never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about the seeming devotion Elias bestows upon her, agrees.
The new bride is quickly whisked away to Korringhill Manor, the Blakersby family estate, and far from everything she knows. Expecting splendor, Orabella is shocked to find decay, skittish servants, and curt elders. But her kind new husband’s loving touch, promises of a happy life together, and his assurances she’ll never want for anything soothe her concerns.
Yet there is a darkness deep within this house. Rooms are locked or hidden away, and the walls seem to thrum with secrets. Orabella can never venture outside unattended; she spends her days having tea with a catatonic sister-in-law and evenings at Elias’s side, dutifully hosting lavish dinners.
The darkness soon begins to engulf her, too. Becoming dizzy and drowsy after dinner, she falls into a fitful sleep filled with macabre dreams, and is awakened by blood-curdling screams in the night. In the morning she rises from her bed covered in mysterious bruises.
Confused and terrified, she begins to question where her dreams end and reality begins. The longer Orabella stays in this place, the more she loses parts of herself. How long until she no longer exists?
A Misfortune of Lake Monsters – Nicole M. Wolverton
Monster horror
Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil’s Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college, but that’s impossible now that she’s expected to impersonate the town’s lake monster for the rest of her life.
Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to keep the tourists coming.
Without Lemon, the town dies, and she can’t disappoint her grandparents, or tell her best friends about any of it. That includes Troy Ramirez, who has been covertly in love with Lemon for years, afraid to ruin their friendship by confessing his feelings.
When a very real, and very hungry monster is discovered in the lake, secrets must fall by the wayside. Determined to stop the monster, Lemon and her best friends are the only thing standing between Devil’s Elbow and the monster out for blood.
Tales from Chesterfield – Z Martin
Horror collection
Chesterfield is just like any small town you’ve ever visited. The only exception is the Eldritch being controlling the town, but hey, the rents are cheap.
Allow me to tell you thirteen tales of misery and despair unlike any you have ever heard.
While I have you here let me just add one more to the population sign.
Even if you want to leave you can’t. You belong to Chesterfield now.
Wilderness Reform – Matt Query and Harrison Query
Supernatural horror
A wilderness camp for troubled teens is plagued by mysterious events and disappearances, taking survival and discipline to a frightening extreme.
Thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to a remote reform program for troubled teens by a juvenile court judge. But when he arrives at the camp, located on the edge of the vast wilderness of northwestern Montana, he immediately recognizes that there is something off about the counselors. They’re too friendly and upbeat … yet Ben can tell there’s an undercurrent of menace.
As he gets to know the boys in his cabin, he soon discovers that they each have far more going for them than whatever crime landed them there. And each has a different critical skill, one that could help them unearth what is really going on in this place – and how to make it out alive. They are inching ever closer to the truth, and the hidden evil beneath the camp’s surface will make itself known in order to deter them.
Published: 6 July 2024
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