A Selection of Horror Books Released, 15 to 21 Sep 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, virus apocalypse, folklore, and splatter western horror
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Table of Contents
Bitter is the Heart – Mina Hardy
Psychological horror
Haunted by childhood abuse, a woman is forced to care for her cruel elderly mother.
Tamar Glass fled an abusive mother when she was eighteen, running away from home to find a better life elsewhere. She has lived in freedom from her mother for decades, but one night she wakes to find her now-elderly mother standing over her bed, disoriented and confused.
When Tamar reluctantly takes in her mother, strange events start happening inside her home: the house becomes oppressively hot, lights flicker, and cupboards open and shut on their own. Whispers filter beneath her bedroom door.
Tamar learns that Ruth has been kicked out of her assisted living home, and other facilities refuse to house her and endanger their own residents. Tamar has spent years suppressing her childhood trauma, but it comes rushing back with each strange event in her home.
As Tamar copes with their disturbing past, which her mother stubbornly refuses to admit to, she can’t shake the feeling that there’s something worse than her mother lurking in the shadows.
The Colony – Marie Lanza
Virus apocalypse horror
A virus has divided the world into two, Humans versus Carriers. The only chance for survival is to find The Colony.
When Emma’s phone rings in the early hours of the morning, she’s jolted awake by the voice of her husband, Ryan, calling from overseas. His words are urgent: a deadly virus is spreading, and she must find the colony, a safe haven in the north, that might be her only chance at survival. Then, the line goes dead, leaving Emma with nothing but fear and a vague direction to follow.
As the dangers grow, Emma begins to realize that surviving alone may no longer be enough.
Dark Alleys: Volume II – Elford Alley
Horror collection
A collection of stories that will return you to isolated towns, prowling monsters, and inevitable destruction.
Fear of Clowns – Kangas Kahn Publishing
Clown horror anthology
Twenty-nine twisted tales of clown mayhem.
The painted smile. The bulbous nose. The greasepaint mask. The colorful, baggy costume.
What makes a clown so terrifying?
Allow some of the best horror writers alive to demonstrate the many, many reasons to fear them.
The Graveyard Club: Revenge Game – R.L. Stine
YA graphic novella horror
Parker West is a senior at Grave’s End High, in the sleepy town of Grave’s End, a town surrounded by cemeteries. A place where swarms of bats fill the sky every night, and kids play hide-and-seek amongst tombstones. But none of that feels odd to the locals– Grave’s End is as sleepy and dead as they come.
A lonely hill on the edge of the town in the graveyard becomes the local hangout spot for Parker and his group of friends. They goof off, plan schemes, and form a secret club… the Graveyard Club.
Members have to be daring and unafraid to wreak a relatively harmless amount of havoc in the name of fun. But one night, after getting into an argument with a local cop, the kids find themselves in a prank war.
What starts off as mostly harmless practical jokes and tricks escalates into attacks that might put these kids in real, life-threatening danger if they won’t back down first… and Parker’s never been one to give up without a fight.
Lurking – Robin Knabel (editor)
Technology horror anthology – Book 6 of Inky Bones Press Dark Decades Anthology Collection
It seems harmless to bark basic household commands to an electronic assistant on the kitchen counter or to plot out your daily schedule on a digital calendar. Chatting online with strangers seems like a good idea, when you’re safe behind a locked door. But what if it isn’t?
How many times have you or someone you know jokingly uttered the ominous phrase: I think my phone is spying on me.
What if your devices become self-aware and develop ulterior motives?
What if these life-altering innovations decide to rebel?
Who controls the technology and social media you trust?
Mayhem Sam – J.D. Graves
Splatter western horror
In 1867, a series of unfortunate events sees the teenage Samantha Gray marry the famous Captain Jakes. Once his bride is installed at Sweet Pine, her charming fairy tale honeymoon unravels with diabolical intensity.
When Samantha discovers the Captain’s amorous interests in her younger sister, Sweet Pine becomes the young bride’s prison. Now forced into a life of unrelenting servitude, Samantha plots her revenge.
However, rumors of the Captain’s ill-gotten riches have drawn the attention of a ruthless gang of cutthroats. And this unwanted intrusion threatens to ruin all of Mrs. Jakes best laid plans.
The Medusa Psalms: Welcome to Walpurgis County – Kyle Toucher
Folklore horror collection
Welcome to Walpurgis County, where the line between reality and nightmare blurs and every shadow hides a darker truth.
Travel a chilling journey through ten stories and two novellas that unveil the grim history and malevolent folklore of America’s most cursed terrain. From haunted mountains to deranged cults, from cosmic horrors to ancestral vendettas, each tale plunges you deeper into a realm where monsters roam freely and secrets fester in the blood-soaked soil.
In this collection, exorcists battle ancient evils, time bends and distorts reality, and the unsuspecting collide with the macabre.
Meet a father consumed by grief and vengeance, a woman trapped in a temporal abyss, and a conspiracy theorist facing an occult agenda that threatens humanity’s very existence.
Encounter witches burning from within, possessed souls seeking revenge, and hybrids born of unholy alliances.
Midwestern Gothic – Scott Thomas
Horror collection
Four gothic novellas.
A construction worker’s bad day becomes a far worse night when drinks at an off-the-books bar send him down an unforeseeably bloody path.
Something evil has infected the counselors at a summer camp, and a young boy will have to do anything he can to survive the night.
A woman spying on her daughter and ex-husband notices an odd painting hanging in an empty apartment, one that seems to call to the building’s children.
A big-box clerk discovers that her book pick for a Halloween display echoes a dark secret hidden beneath the idyllic facade of her hometown.
A Sunny Place for Shady People – Mariana Enriquez
Horror collection
Welcome to Argentina. Twelve spellbinding new stories, about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural.
A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women.
These and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.
Published: 21 September 2024
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