A Selection of Horror Books Released, 12 to 18 Jan 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghost, and witch horror
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Table of Contents
Bury Me Cold & More Last Words – Jacob Steven Mohr
Horror collection
Infatuations. Trespasses. Abominations. Resurrections. Fourteen tales of living, bleeding proof that when the lights go off, terror always gets the last word.
An uncanny snowfall revives a cattleman’s dead wife-with terrible secrets from beyond to spill like blood.
A plague-like curse infects the memories of its victims, forcing them to go viral in increasingly grisly fashion.
Twin sisters share a psychic link nothing can sever, not even the cold of the grave.
Curiosity lures two stepbrothers into an imaginary haunted house-and the eager arms of its very real sole occupant.
The Home – Judith Sonnet
Supernatural serial killer horror
In the early ’60s, in a seemingly more innocent time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that’s just hearsay and rumor, isn’t it?
His name was Robbie Miller, and he was a killer. Driven mad by the THING that lived in The Home, he now exists to serve. He’ll do whatever the creature that calls itself Mr. Friendlyman asks, even become a ghost.
Decades later and much older, they are returning to The Home. A retired fantasy writer, A doting grandfather, and a mysterious old woman who seems to know things she should not.
A dark storm is brewing over this wicked house. A storm that will break down the very fabric of reality. A storm that demands blood and sacrifice, and feeds on the ghosts of anyone who dies within its premises.
JK-LOL – Patrick Barb
Psychological horror
Ted Hideman is a family man and a renowned tech start up guru.
He’s also the notorious impossible-to-track online troll JK-LOL.
When his online persona spills over into the real world, attacking those he’s virtually harassed and leaving a trail of bodies from California to Mississippi, the disgraced Silicon Valley wünderkind must abandon the protective anonymity of the online sphere and desperately search for answers in the real world.
As the authorities close in on him, and with the unlikely allyship of a cybercrimes-focused federal agent who’s been trying to nail JK-LOL for years, Ted is brought face-to-face with the living embodiments of his vile, hateful speech.
Strange Pictures – Uketsu
Psychological horror
An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance…
A pregnant woman’s sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning.
A child’s picture of his home contains a dark secret message.
A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth down a rabbithole that will reveal a horrifying reality.
Structured around nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls – Grady Hendrix
Witch horror
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives.
But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid, and it’s usually paid in blood.
Wretched – M.L. Rayner
Ghost horror – Book 2 of Lost Soul Series
After abandoning his land during the Highland Famine, Peter Daily struggles to accept the hauntings that have plagued his past.
Attempting to flee his torments, he travels far to his childhood refuge on the Scottish Isle of Lismore, a small island cut off by high cliffs and churning waters. But escaping one’s past is never as simple as it first seems.
When the darkness descends, Daily is tormented by the memories he longs to suppress, forcing him to relive the horrors suffered by those he has cruelly wronged.
In current times, Leslie Wills seeks to uncover the truth. Driven by his connection, he delves into the past, determined to expose the shadows that cling to him.
One thing is certain. No matter where you try to hide, fear will always find you.
Published: 18 January 2025
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