A Selection of Horror Books Released, 18 to 24 Aug 2024
Themes: Supernatural, dark fantasy, slasher clown, splatterpunk, Frankenstein, sci-fi, and vampire horror
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Table of Contents
Blackheart Man – Nalo Hopkinson
Dark fantasy horror
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within.
Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on Chynchin’s Colloquium of scholars. However, unexpected events prevent that from happening. Fifteen Ymisen galleons arrive in the harbor to force a trade agreement on Chynchin. Veycosi tries to help, hoping to prove himself with a bold move, but quickly finds himself in way over his head.
Bad turns to worse when malign forces start stirring. Pickens (children) are disappearing and an ancient invading army, long frozen into piche (tar) statues by island witches is stirring to life, led by the fearsome demon known as the Blackheart Man.
Veycosi has problems in his polyamorous personal life, too. How much trouble can a poor student take? Or cause all by himself as the line between myth and history blends.
Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo – Adam Cesare
Slasher clown horror – Book 3 of Clown in a Cornfield
Quinn has just survived yet another bloody run-in with the murderous clown Frendo, but somehow still she knows this won’t be the last.
Tired of being hunted and seeing innocent people hurt, Quinn believes the only way to beat the horror is to take justice into her own hands, and stop the Frendo followers herself.
Little does she know that this path will take her across cornfields and state lines, to where she will have to face the most dangerous and bloody menace yet: True believers.
Faceless – PJ Verfall
Splatterpunk horror
Did you ever notice that you really don’t notice most people. Just repetition of the same boring people over and over again?
Bentley Thomas certainly has, and he has decided on a solution, to render them as faceless in reality as his memory renders them every day.
Helga – Catherine Yu
YA Frankenstein horror
Helga is not the obedient science experiment her father intended. And though she has only just awoken, he leaves her in the care of his lab assistant Penny to go on a business trip.
Bursting with curiosity, Helga quickly escapes from the well-meaning Penny and heads into Amaris City. There Helga finds she is as untamable as the invasive blackberry vines overtaking the island. And because of the misdeeds of her father’s scientific community, the natural world grows more volatile.
Helga soon discovers the night market, rowdy clubs, delicious food, and cute boys. Enamored with city life, she’ll do anything to find love, but she has only two weeks until her father gets back, and besides there are ominous rumblings from the volcanic island that could put her dating schemes, and even her own life, in grave peril.
Missing In Miskatonic – JP Behrens
Supernatural horror
Step into the shadowed streets of 1928 Arkham, where Miskatonic University holds secrets darker than the night.
Private Detective Travis Daniels is thrust into a harrowing investigation when a young woman disappears. As Daniels delves deeper into the labyrinthine mysteries of the storied New England city, he uncovers a web of sinister cults, ancient rituals, and eldritch horrors that threaten not only his own sanity but the fabric of reality itself.
Daniels navigates treacherous alliances and confronts malevolent entities lurking in the shadows, all while racing against time to unravel the truth behind the girl’s disappearance.
Sacrificial Animals – Kailee Pedersen
Supernatural horror
The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.
But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed reconciliation.
Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into romance.
Not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to suspect that Emilia’s interest in him may have sinister, and possibly even ancient, motivations.
Splice: The Novelization – Claire Donner
Sci-fi horror
Geneticists Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast are on the verge of a revolutionary breakthrough when they are forced underground by a closed-minded world, fearful of tampering in God’s domain.
There in the shadows they create Dren, a hybrid born of beast and man whose potential exceeds their wildest dreams. But Dren becomes their worst nightmare when she grows too strong to contain, too smart to control, and too seductive to resist.
We Love the Nightlife – Rachel Koller
Vampire horror
Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe.
London 1979. Two women with a deep love for disco meet one fateful night on the dance floor, changing the course of both their lives forever.
Nicola, a beautiful and brooding vampire for nearly two centuries, can’t resist fun-loving and feisty Amber from America, ultimately offering an eternity together where the glamour of nightlife always takes center stage.
But not all is what it seems.
Nearly fifty years later, after an unexpected betrayal, Amber wants out from under Nicola’s thumb, but it won’t be so simple to break up this festering friendship when she learns others have done the same, and wound up dead.
Sensing Amber’s restlessness and in one last play to keep her close, Nicola proposes they open a nightclub of their very own, hearkening back to their best days as dancing queens.
Amber agrees but she’s secretly hatching a dangerous escape plan. And if she fails, the party is over for good.
When You Leave I Disappear – David Niall Wilson
Psychological horror
A bestselling author’s imposter syndrome draws her into a darker and darker world from which she may never escape.
Published: 24 August 2024
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