A Selection of Horror Books Released, 29 Sep to 5 Oct 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, werewolf, ghost, haunted house, cosmic, extreme, and Halloween horror
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Table of Contents
Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables and Dark Tales – Crystal Lake Publishing
Horror anthology
A modern anthology of predation’s horrors inspired by the timeless tales of Aesop’s Fables, modernized for a more complex, unforgiving world.
Exploring the joy in our hurts, the wrongs in our rights, and the suffering in the shadows of our light, Bestiary of Blood invites you to the intersection of human and animal experience, crafting dark tales that resonate with life’s endless cycles of transformation.
Coup de Grâce – Sofia Ajram
Psychological horror
A young man is trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station.
Vicken has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station.
Determined to find a way out again, he starts to explore the rooms and corridors ahead of him. But no matter how many claustrophobic hallways or vast cathedral-esque rooms he passes through, the exit is nowhere in sight.
The more he explores his strange new prison, the more he becomes convinced that he hasn’t been trapped there accidentally, and amongst the shadows and concrete, he comes to realise that he almost certainly is not alone.
Depraved Halloween – Bryan Smith
Extreme horror – Book 5 of Depraved
After lying low for years, a stirring of wanderlust compels Jessica Sloan, the former professional assassin, to hit the road.
On the day before Halloween, she starts driving south with no particular destination in mind. Low on gas, she stops in Montclair, a small town deep in the heart of rural Alabama that conjures uncomfortable memories of Hopkins Bend, the depraved backwater burg where her life changed forever years ago.
At first Jessica chalks these feelings up to paranoia, but before long it becomes clear that all her worst fears are justified. The deranged denizens of Montclair are, if anything, even more sick and twisted than all her previous adversaries.
The dead will rise. Copious quantities of blood will be spilled. Minds and…things…will be altered. Because in Montclair, especially on Halloween, depravity is a way of life.
Good Dogs – Brian Asman
Werewolf horror
No one ever said being a werewolf was easy. Take Delia, for instance. She’s spent much of her life fighting against her own nature, plagued by nightmares of childhood trauma, and trying to find her place in the world. Many werewolves are just like her: ostracized by their families, forced to live alone and in secret as they await those nights when the Change overtakes them.
Becoming the den mother to an odd bunch of lycanthropes in Southern California isn’t exactly the answer Delia was looking for. But under the strict rules of the house, they are able to manage the Change safely, and hunt without endangering their San Diego suburb. And they aren’t lone wolves anymore, they’re a pack, a family.
But when one member’s carelessness leads to the discovery of a severed leg in their backyard, Delia and the rest of her family are forced to confront the cold, hard fact they’ve known all along: they don’t belong here. Their only option is to cover up the kill and head into the wilderness, far from people. There, hopefully, they can live out their lives without posing a threat to anyone else.
At home, they might’ve been apex predators. But in the wilds around Talbot – a town abandoned for a century – Delia and her pack aren’t the only ones with a savage bite.
Goosebumps: The Haunting Returns – Kate Howard
YA supernatural horror
Official YA novel based on the hit Disney Plus series includes an exclusive ending you won’t see on the show.
Thirty years ago, Harold Biddle died in a tragic accident – but there’s more to the story. Now, the teenage kids of Harold’s classmates are determined to find out what happened to him all those years ago, as long as Harold’s spirit doesn’t exact his revenge first!
But Harold Biddle isn’t the only monster roaming the streets of Port Lawrence. From doppelgangers to haunted books and one creepy dummy, Isaiah, Margot, James, and the rest of their friends have to fight to stay alive or risk becoming monsters themselves.
Hel’s Claim – Stephanie Ellis
Short horror – Part of Darklings
When Jarl Ulf is murdered, his widow Asa is determined to find the culprit.
The seiðr-woman, Valþogn, has agreed to aid her during the funerary rituals that accompany the dead man.
But at what price?
Hospital of Haunts – Watertower Hill Publishing
Supernatural horror anthology
Tour the most haunted hospital in the world. 23 Wards. 23 Ghosts. 23 Stories.
For 150 years, the diseased, the deranged, and the dying came to Lychhurst Hospital for comfort and healing. What they found there was something far more sinister.
In 1844, Lychhurst was built, stone by cursed stone, deep in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia.
Originally intended as an exclusive resort for the wealthy, Lychhurst suffered through multiple incarnations-military hospital, tuberculosis sanatorium, psychiatric facility, and more-before finally being abandoned to steep in its own sickness, but through all the hospital’s changes, one thing remained the same…
Lychhurst holds onto its ghosts.
I’ll Be Waiting – Kelley Armstrong
Ghost horror
Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future together. Months after they married, Anton died, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, “I’ll be waiting for you.”
That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press. Worse, that person claimed it wasn’t Anton who said the words but his ghost, hovering over his body.
Since their story went public, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium, a professor of parapsychology. For the séance, they rent the Lake Erie beach house that Anton’s family once owned.
The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter in an empty shaft.
Throughout it all she’s haunted by nightmares of her past. Because, unbeknownst to the others, this isn’t her first time contacting the dead. And Nicola isn’t her real name.
Influencer – Adam Cesare
YA psychological horror
A tense psychological thriller told from alternating points of view about a teenage girl who begins to suspect the charismatic new kid may in fact be a murderous psychopath.
As more and more of her friends fall under his influence, her suspicions begin to come across like jealousy.
But is she right? And if so, how much more dangerous would he be toward someone who has discovered his secret?
Love and Hate in the Time Of Covid: Selected Nonfiction: 2015 – 2022 – Brian Keene
Non-fiction horror
Keene turns his focus, wit, earnestness, and insight to global events such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S. presidential elections, changes in publishing and horror fiction, societal movements and pop culture moments, the loss of friends, and, as always, himself.
As civilization seems to obliviously hurtle toward certain doom all around him, Keene struggles to make sense of it for both himself – and his readers.
Does anyone get a happy ending, or are we all truly doomed?
Model Home – Rivers Solomon
Haunted house horror
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up.
When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things – the strange and the unexplainable – began to happen in their house.
Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.
As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents’ death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away.
The Ojanox IV: Lonesome Mountain – Daemon Manx
Cosmic horror – Book 4 of The Ojanox Series
It’s 1979 and a small New York town prepares to welcome the fall season in all the expected ways: young children bicker and boast over Halloween costumes, secret lovers meet in clandestine corners, and a tortured soul plots wicked deeds. All the while, hidden just out of view, patient and hungry, an ancient evil lurks.
Welcome to Garrett Grove, an unassuming community nestled within the foothills of the Watchung Mountains. The very definition of “Everytown, USA”, it is a largely self-contained municipality, most of the residents on a first-name basis. An almost postcard-perfect location.
The town of Garrett Grove has come under attack. Cut off from the rest of the world, they are forced to make their final stand.
The Vanishing Twin – Valerie B. Williams
Supernatural horror
Since childhood, successful New Jersey realtor Yvette Rollins’ friend Celine has helped her with all life decisions. But no one can see Celine, and the only person who hears her is Yvette. A serious car accident shatters Yvette’s body and exposes the crumbling façade of her seemingly perfect life. Her loyal twin, Anna, jumps in to help care for her three-year-old nephew, Max, while Yvette is in rehab. To Yvette’s dismay, the accident has also silenced Celine.
When Yvette returns home, Anna shares a recently discovered letter from their absent father, revealing the existence of a real Celine, a third sibling who died in the womb. Their father performed a Vodou ceremony and believes that Celine’s soul lives on in Yvette. Yvette is relieved to know Celine is real, while Anna has mixed emotions. Anna feels she’s spent her life competing with Celine, so is relieved that she’s gone.
As Yvette recovers Celine returns, causing Anna to fear for Yvette’s stability and Max’s safety. Anna uses an old family journal of Vodou spells to launch a desperate scheme to rescue Max from his mother.
Wicked Offerings and Tales of a Fearful Fall – Kyle Rolinatis
Halloween horror collection
Nine short tales of terror for an autumnal journey through horror and mayhem.
Tara gets in touch with her mystical side as she seeks revenge against a total creep.
Eva navigates a basic girl’s trip with her friends who make pumpkin spice their whole personality, even at their own peril.
You might not want to be in Reb’s Blue Plate on a full moon.
It’s time for the Friday night high school football game, and Maria is meeting a secret admirer under the bleachers. At least, she thinks she is.
Bobby gets more than he bargained for when he goes trick or treating dressed as a baseball player with his grandpa’s award-winning bat engraved with the emblem 666.
Ron runs into a woman at a bar while visiting his family for Thanksgiving. Is Lourdes Ron’s fantasy woman, or his worst nightmare?
A body dysmorphic new mother winds through the pratfalls of quick and easy weight loss and instant gratification.
A couple of ghost hunters and Tiktokers set out on a trip with a pit stop in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, home of the Mothman.
Rina’s parents are on an archaeological dig in Egypt and miss her birthday party, but a statue of Bastet arrives as a gift.
Yours Forever – Robbie Dorman
Psychological horror
Henry Collingsworth writes to his lost love, as he searches for her stolen heart. His hunt has brought him to the House, a gothic mansion located outside a cancerous town, built by the villainous Architect. The Architect has locked her heart inside, and Henry seeks to reclaim it and deliver her unto salvation.
But his quest is far from simple.
Henry discovers the House holds much more than his Beloved’s heart. Beneath it lies an unfathomable maze, defying time and space, the key to his fervent crusade hidden deep inside.
If Henry is to find her heart, he must delve down a thousand hallways and through a thousand doors. Doors which contain a thousand thousand worlds, containing riddles, madness, mutation, and death.
Published: 5 October 2024
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