A Selection of Horror Books Released, 1 to 7 Sep 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, gothic ghosts, dark sci-fi, technology, and eco horror
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Table of Contents
Blurred Vision – Stephanie Ellis
Short technology horror – Part of Darklings
Hiding in plain sight is made easy by fashion brand Incognito when they present their ‘anti-paparazzi’ fashion to the public.
The high-tech fabric affects cameras and any digital devices from identifying the wearer, blurring their vision.
But when Judy tries to steal the latest version, she gets more than she bargained for.
Death Aesthetic – Josh Rountree
Horror collection
This collection is obsessed with guilt, exploring the boundaries set by grief and guilt.
The Devil’s Tree – Axl Malton
Supernatural horror
Sophie Rose went missing eighteen years ago. Now the town think they may have found her body, when they were looking for someone else’s.
During the hottest summer on record, the small English town of Wymere is holding a summer fete. Children play and all is well, until a woman reports that her husband and son have gone missing. As a panicked search sweeps the fete, the missing man comes out of the woods covered in blood screaming, ‘I don’t know what I’ve done’. He doesn’t know what has happened, but his son is nowhere to be seen.
Deep in the Wymere woods, a dead tree grows from a mound of black dirt set in the middle of an old, dried-up reservoir. This is where Sergeant Tony Thorne finds the missing boy. And with it, he may have solved a mystery that has plagued the town for almost two decades, and discovered an evil that has lain dormant for centuries.
The Haunting of Moscow House – Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Gothic ghost horror
Two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family’s long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous, and deadly, to remember.
In the summer of 1921, a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought.
Eager to escape it and their unwelcome new landlords, Irina and Lili find jobs with the recently arrived American Relief Administration, meant to ease the post-revolutionary famine in Russia. For the sisters, the ARA provides much-needed food and employment, as well as a chance for sensible Irina to help those less fortunate and artistic Lili to express herself for a good cause. It might just lead them to love, too.
But at home, the spirits of their deceased family awaken, desperate to impart what really happened to them during the Revolution.
Limelight and Other Stories – Lyndsey Croal
Dark sci-fi horror collection
Twenty high-concept dark science fiction tales from near and far futures.
Explores the bright potential and the dark reality of our near and far futures through the lenses of connection and loneliness, love and heartbreak, autonomy and exploitation, desire and greed, wonder and despair.
The Lost Raven – Nicky Shearsby
Psychological horror – Book 2 of The Flanigan Files
The harrowing tale of a young woman whose hatred for men seals her fate.
If Angela Healy had reported her assault to the police when it happened, they could have filed the case, assessed her injuries, helped her fragile state of mind.
Five men did not need to die.
Newton Flanigan must unravel her past to save her last victim.
Nature Triumphs – Dark Moon Rising Publications
YA eco horror charity anthology
A dark speculative fiction anthology of ecological delights and nightmares.
In each piece, Nature prevails, it triumphs, one way or another, with teeth, claws, vines, tentacles, or more over human exploitation. Prose and poetry are equals here, giving you decadent, violent, and elegant delights. Dark humor and dark tales for dreams of a better tomorrow.
All speculative subgenres are included, from literary horror, extreme horror, psychological horror to dark science fiction and new weird. Beloved authors of horror, science fiction and new voices all raised in a cautionary chorus for ecological awareness. Life must always find a way.
All proceeds go to The Nature Conservancy.
The Night Guest – Hildur Knutsdottir
Psychological horror
A young woman finds herself waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries and no idea of what she’s doing while she’s asleep.
Iðunn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause.
When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same: have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.
Then one night, Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night.
Pay the Piper – George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus
Supernatural horror
A tale of dark folklore, grisly murders, and the horrors that manifest when a community must confront its shadowy past.
Alligator Point, Louisiana, population 141: For her entire life, young Renée Pontiac has heard stories of “the Piper” – a murderous swamp entity haunting the bayou. But now the legend feels horrifically real: children are being taken and gruesomely slain.
To resist, Pontiac and the town’s desperate denizens will need to acknowledge the sins of their ancestors, the infamous slave traders, the Pirates Lafitte. If they don’t, then it’s time to pay the piper.
In 2019, while sifting through University of Pittsburgh Library System’s George A. Romero Archival Collection, novelist Daniel Kraus turned up a surprise: a half-finished novel called Pay the Piper, a project few had ever heard of. In the years since, Kraus has worked with Romero’s estate to bring this unfinished masterwork to light.
The Rack – Tom Deady (editor)
Horror anthology
Twenty stories that are throwbacks to those golden years of horror.
Giant spiders, haunted books, swarms of cicadas, killer bears, chemical spills, and so many more chronicles of carnage and camp await you.
And did we mention the creepy dolls?
Visceral Discoveries – Villimey Mist
Horror collection
Fourteen tales of horror that will seize your heart and haunt your memories.
A girl catches a train filled with Japanese monsters.
An old lady goes shopping for an unusual Halloween outfit, one that’s skin-tight.
A field of lupines grabs the attention of two best friends, which prompts an investigation after one of them goes missing.
A receptionist discovers her boss’ out-of-this-world secret, contained in a painting.
A hopeless romantic goes to the literal depths of the ocean to showcase his love.
A daughter of a Doomsday Prepper worries about the future of water and takes matters into her own hands.
We Came to Welcome You – Vincent Tirado
Psychological horror
A married couple moves into a gated community where the neighbors are a little too friendly.
Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren’t helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-day – and all-bottle – event. Her wife, Alice, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful, gated community of Maneless Grove.
However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol’s opinion. She has no interest in the pushy Homeowners Association, their bizarrely detailed contract, or their never-ending microaggressions.
Suddenly, strange occurrences cause Sol to wonder if her social paranoia isn’t built on something more sinister. Yet Sol’s fears are dismissed as Alice embraces their new home and becomes increasingly worried instead about Sol’s drinking and manic behavior. When Sol finds a journal in the property from a resident that went missing a few years ago, she realizes why they were able to buy the house so easily.
The Web – Robin Knabel (editor)
Technology horror anthology – Book 5 of Inky Bones Press Dark Decades Anthology Collection
When the internet wormed its way into our world, it changed our lives forever.
So much of our day plays out on a device: working, gathering information, entertaining ourselves, even finding and building relationships.
But who or what is hiding behind the screen?
What happens when someone on the information superhighway decides to take a detour into darkness? Will you become their prey, languishing in a web of deceit and danger?
Are you ready to get connected?
The Woods Be Scary – Jerry Blaze
Supernatural horror
Five years ago, Kimberly’s entire world was destroyed when her entire family was massacred and she was the only survivor left with a cryptic message.
Now, living near a forest, Kimberly finds therapy through long runs in the woods. However, after one run ends in her getting lost, she must face the fight of her lifetime when an evil creature begins hunting her within the darkness of the forest.
Published: 7 September 2024
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