A Selection of Horror Books Released, 13 to 19 Apr 2025
Themes: Supernatural, haunted house, apocalypse, summer camp, and religious horror
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Table of Contents
The Blanks – Grady Hendrix
Supernatural horror – Part of The Shivers collection of short stories
Residents have an unspoken pact with the island’s unnatural inhabitants: ignore them, live happily. But one boy can’t look away, and pays the price.
Jeckle Island offers Rachel’s children the chance to spend summers roaming wild and free, as long as they follow the rules.
But when her son comes face to face with a terror they dare not speak of, she must prepare for their perfect world to change. Forever.
The Indigo Room – Stephen Graham Jones
Supernatural horror – Part of The Shivers collection of short stories
Don’t lose your head over office politics.
When the lights go out and the slideshow begins, middle manager Jennifer has a disturbing vision: a headless colleague right across the boardroom table. Is it a trick of the light, or a vision of the future?
She tries to brush it off and salvage the afternoon, but when her ex unexpectedly drops off her son at the office after school, suddenly her whole world takes an alarming turn.
Jackknife – Joe Hill
Supernatural horror – Part of The Shivers collection of short stories
Ruined by scandal, Dennis Lange is hoping for a comeback. Selling the story of a cursed tree could make his future, if it doesn’t kill him.
Dennis awakens something evil when he removes a decades-old jackknife from the trunk of a gnarled old sycamore.
Once pinned in place, now thoughtlessly freed, the tree returns to its roots. An act of vigilante justice took place under its boughs long ago.
But its taste for blood has only grown stronger.
Letter Slot – Owen King
Supernatural horror – Part of The Shivers collection of short stories
A helping hand, a fateful cost. The cost of living keeps rising, and it collects payment from the soul.
Sensing his mother’s failing health, a struggling teenager pours out his worries in a letter and drops it through the mail slot of an abandoned show house.
He’s surprised when a response arrives, promising good fortune for the price of just one name: someone he hates.
He’d give anything for his mother. But the true cost may be more than he’s willing to pay.
Misery Plaza – J.J. Alo
Supernatural horror – Book 2 of A Southern New England Horror Anthology
There’s no more country for old men like Joseph Griffin, notorious outlaw and murderer.
With his life in hiding unexpectedly exposed, Griffin, now William Potter, flees with his children to the remote, quirky village of Missouri Plaza; a place where everyone has something to hide. Liars, thieves, and killers alike reside in their newfound haven, and Potter and his family face not only the looming threat of the law, but dangers much closer to home.
The discovery of a mysterious buried treasure tantalizes Potter with one final hope for escape. Yet riches aren’t the only thing he unearths in his backyard. As the unflinching horrors of Missouri Plaza close in on him, Potter must confront his past and protect his family while evading capture or worse at the hands of a relentless bounty hunter, the U.S. Cavalry, and a creature far older and deadlier than he could ever imagine.
Night and Day in Misery – Catriona Ward
Supernatural horror – Part of The Shivers collection of short stories
In the gloom of her hotel, a mother readies to rejoin her past.
Room 17 was the last stop on her husband and son’s journey.
Eight years after their deaths, Stella books the same room, hoping to commune with their memories.
But as she tries to sleep, disturbing and urgent visions blur the lines between reality and the supernatural, and the other side sends a terrifying message.
Senseless – Ronald Malfi
Supernatural horror
When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can’t deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media outlets are quick to surmise this is the work of a budding serial killer, but Detective Bill Renney is struggling with an altogether different scenario: a secret that keeps him tethered to the husband of the first victim.
Maureen Park, newly engaged to Hollywood producer Greg Dawson, finds her engagement party crashed by the arrival of Landon, Greg’s son. A darkly unsettling young man, Landon invades Maureen’s new existence, and the longer he stays, the more convinced she becomes that he may have something to do with the recent murder in the high desert.
Toby Kampen, the self-proclaimed Human Fly, begins an obsession over a woman who is unlike anyone he has ever met. A woman with rattlesnake teeth and a penchant for biting. A woman who has trapped him in her spell. A woman who may or may not be completely human.
The Twitching House – Ben Farthing
Haunted house horror
In this house, the smallest residents see the biggest horrors.
It’s no longer safe in the meadow.
A mouse named Nettle flees with her newborn pups into the Red House.
But something wicked lives deep within the Red House. It’s already haunting the human family inside.
This evil won’t take kindly to a family of mice interfering. But Nettle can’t abandon a pup in danger, even if it’s the kind human pup who the wicked thing has targeted.
The Underdog – P.A. Sheppard
Apocalypse horror – Book 3 of Still Extant Series
In a broken world, rebellion meets survival in unprecedented times. Joey, a fierce teenage boxer with a chip on his shoulder, finds his world shattered when ravenous man-eating bugs bring America to its knees. As chaos descends, staff at the orphanage where Joey grew up abandon the children under their care, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Torn between his desire for freedom and the heavy weight of responsibility, Joey steps up, determined to protect the children who have no one else. With the odds stacked against him, he must navigate a nightmarish landscape teeming with predators, all while brawling with his own fears and insecurities.
Fueled by courage and grit, Joey learns that true strength lies not only in fists but in sacrifice, and that growing up quickly comes at a terrifying price. The fight for life is only the beginning, and the scariest monsters lurk within.
With Friends Like These – V.S. Lawrence
Summer camp horror
Camp Red Moon was supposed to be a fresh start for Kenzie – a summer of fun and new friendships – but the remote camp has quickly turned into a waking nightmare. When the camp leader heads into town, leaving the group isolated in the high Uintah Mountains, a seemingly harmless prank to summon a demon unleashes a terror beyond their worst fears.
As tensions boil over and the bodies begin to pile up, Kenzie finds herself questioning who to trust. But the deeper the campers descend into chaos, the closer Kenzie comes to uncovering a truth more horrifying than anything she could have imagined – one that will leave no soul at Camp Red Moon untouched.
Words of Christ in Red – Robbie Dorman
Religious horror
The Holy Church of Sacred is rotting from within, and Pastor David Ingram’s mission is to restore it. Young, charismatic, and hot-tempered, David moves with his husband and young son to Sacred, Georgia to preach God’s Word. Following the mysterious, brutal death of the former pastor, David has been tasked with healing the fractured congregation.
Eli Parsons leads the dissidents within the church. The Parsons founded the church, Eli’s blood deep in the faith. He hates David for his unashamed sexuality, for stealing his church-and for seeing through his facade, into the secrets Eli keeps. Secrets like the grotesque, nude figure of Christ in Eli’s basement and the suffering at the core of Eli’s worship.
Eli’s presence in the faith strains David’s belief, not only in his God, but in what shape he takes. Words turn to violence, and God’s watchful eye is all that keeps David from losing himself in righteous fury and sacrificing everything he’s built.
When David is pushed to the breaking point, he must choose-be the better man, or sate his thirst for bloody justice as the dark shape of God watches.
Published: 19 April 2025
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