Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Books Released, 16 to 22 Feb 2025

6 horror books this week

Themes: Supernatural, ghost, sci-fi, creature, and historical werewolf horror

Horror books

Table of Contents

Crawl – Samuel Small

Creature horror

CrawlSomething crawls through Shady Valley, and when it feasts, its hunger can never be satiated.

Life has struck Troy Skinner like a hammer. In the past week, he’s lost his job, his wife, and has been forced to move to the trailer park on the bad side of town. The residents are anything but neighborly: a bunch of drunk hicks, half of whom he arrested during his time as a deputy.

And that isn’t even the worst of it. There are rumors of strange things lumbering in the woods that loom over everything like a shadow. Animals, and even people, have gone missing. As night descends, these mysterious, massive beasts hunt. And the trailer park is their territory.

The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions – Emma E. Murray

Horror collection

The Drowning Machine and Other ObsessionsEighteen stories that navigate the uncharted waters of love, lust, and loss, descending into that darkest of places: the human (and inhuman) heart.

Amidst the spiral and churn, you will hear frighteningly realistic tales of parental regret, the death of innocence, carnal yearning, and creeping evil, among other voices of the damned.

Some are ferocious howls from out of the deep; others, tender lullabies or deranged arias of grief, and, beneath it all, the quiet, contented hum of something which has just fed… yet hungers for more.

Food Court of the Damned – D.W. Hitz

Supernatural horror

Food Court of the DamnedA group of Floridian teens get summer jobs at the mall to pay for their trip to a music festival.

Unfortunately, working at this mall’s food court comes with a price, and they will be lucky if they escape with both their lives and their souls.

The Lycan – Comixology Originals

Historical werewolf graphic novel horror

The LycanYear of Our Lord 1777: A hardened band of international big game hunters returning from Africa are shipwrecked off a small British island.

In exchange for new supplies and the repairing of their good ship The Calydonian, Lord Ludgate engages the men for a task they are particularly well suited for: find the Berserking Beasts that have been eating his subjects, including a group of young Benedictine Nuns, and destroy them.

Noro – William F. Gray

Sci-fi horror

NoroAs a blizzard hits their rural Wyoming homes, Jonah Miller and his neighbor Con think the worst thing they have to worry about is being trapped and isolated with their dogs.

Then Con’s German Shepherd gets out in the middle of the storm after a mysterious meteor crashes out in the woods, forcing Jonah and Con to learn that there’s far more to fear than the cold and the snow piling up outside their doors.

The Vengeful Dead – Darcy Coates

Ghost horror – Book 5 of Gravekeeper

The Vengeful DeadKeira is caught in a deadly battle. Her ability to help ghosts move on from the mortal world has made her a threat to Artec, a powerful corporation intent on trapping the tortured dead for profit. They’ve been tracking her for years and now, finally, there’s nowhere left for her to run.

Artec fears Keira and everything she’s capable of. They will stop at nothing to eliminate her, including sending armed men after everyone she holds dear.

Desperate and quickly running out of time, Keira races to hone her abilities as she searches for a way to destroy the twisted organization for good. But at least now she’s no longer alone.

Her friends have offered to follow wherever she leads, even if that means a direct strike deep into the heart of Artec’s central base, and to the certain death waiting for them there.

Published: 22 February 2025