A Selection of Horror Books Released, 4 to 10 May 2025
Themes: Supernatural, gothic, slasher, body, witch, sci-fi, zombie, and wilderness horror
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Table of Contents
Below the Grand Hotel – Cat Scully
Supernatural horror
Mabel Rose Dixon will do anything to become a Ziegfeld girl, including picking the pockets of the wealthy NYC elite to fund her way to stardom.
When she picks the wrong pocket, Mabel loses her soul to a hotel run by demons and tumbles into the world of The Grand Hotel, a place where any artist can make it big.
Mabel’s greatest wish to be famous is granted. Every night, she performs as the starring act to a crowded theater and finds she is never without patrons.
But Mabel quickly learns that losing her soul to get everything she ever wanted comes at a much steeper cost than what she bargained for. She must steal her soul back before the Grand’s annual May’s Eve Ball or become a demon herself forever.
The Butcher’s Daughter – David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark
Gothic horror
London, 1887: At the abandoned apartment of a missing young woman, a dossier of evidence is collected, ordered chronologically, and sent to the Chief Inspector of the London Metropolitan Police.
It contains a frightening correspondence between an inquisitive journalist, Miss Emily Gibson, and the woman Gibson thinks may be the infamous Mrs. Lovett – Sweeney Todd’s accomplice, “a wicked woman” who baked men into pies and sold them in her pie shop on Fleet Street. The talk of London Town, even decades after her horrendous misdeeds.
As the woman relays the harrowing account of her life in the unruly and perilous streets of Victorian London, her missives unlock an intricate mystery that brings Miss Gibson closer to the truth, even as that truth may cost her everything.
The Clatter Man – Janelle Schiecke
Slasher horror
It’s the summer before senior year of college, and Abby’s boyfriend has just booked a weekend away with friends at a rustic lakeside cabin. Located in northern Pennsylvania, the dwelling is tucked away and boasts a breathtaking view.
As drinks are flowing on a moonlit evening, paranormal stories begin to be told, and when talk of the Clatter Man comes up, his grisly tale draws attention. He’s an urban legend with a grim lore, notorious for the ways his victims are slain.
Tensions rise when these friends realize their dark curiosity about the Clatter Man may have gone too far, and what began as a relaxing getaway turns into a battle for survival.
Clifton Falls 4 – Lee Andrew Taylor
Zombie horror – Book 4 of Clifton Falls
After a Navy vessel receives an S.O.S. regarding a zombie attack on a Cargo Ship, a group of trained seamen find their way onboard. But neither expected to see the power the zombies possessed. They are faster and stronger than anything that the seamen had seen on the news reports aimed at Clifton Falls. And before they could react, a few of them are taken by the frightening monsters.
It leaves a scary task for the remaining seamen after they enter the Cargo Ship, but can they rescue the survivors before the flesh-hungry dead rip them apart?
At the City Hospital, mad Victor is still being hunted by the police officers, but his army of the undead is growing and they are taking down anyone who gets in their way.
And no one is able to stop it.
The survivors trapped inside the office on Old Clifton Hill must face the invisible monsters if they want to live, but the creatures that glow in the dark are too frightening to try and kill.
Deacon – Daemon Manx
Horror collection
Fact and Fiction collide as an author struggles to write a tale that has been eating him alive for the past decade. From a ravaged landscape where the dead walk the Earth to the tortured mind of the author, nothing is what it seems.
An aging woman has a dark secret to share with her granddaughter.
After ten years in the prison system, John stumbles across a strange new app and discovers the dark side of the Play Store and the shadows lurking within.
Three friends decide to explore a forgotten safari park that has been abandoned for decades and discover more than they ever bargained for.
Imagine a world without color. What lies in the antechamber below the great pyramid?
It’s Christmastime in Angel City. But it all reminds Travis of when he was five, and the terrible things that happened that day in the department store … the day he met Santa. But an unlikely encounter might just give Travis the second chance he needs.
Edgar Walsh has lived off the land since returning home from the war in Vietnam. But the demons he brought back are eating him alive. Consumed by the bottle, and his darkest secrets, Edgar finds himself in a most desperate situation.
Deadgirl – Bridgett Nelson
Body horror
Once deemed too controversial to release, DEADGIRL stunned festival audiences, outraged religious groups, and became an instant cult sensation. A film that seared itself into the minds of the depraved and the discerning alike, it remains one of the most transgressive and boundary-pushing nightmares of its era.
When two high school misfits, bound by boredom and adolescent hunger, ditch class to slip beyond the rusted doors of an abandoned hospital, they stumble upon a gruesome secret that will shatter their innocence and test the limits of their sanity: a woman, stripped bare and chained to a table.
She’s abandoned. She’s beautiful. She’s dead … or is she?
The Manor of Dreams – Christina Li
Gothic horror
Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing ingénue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career to live out the rest of her life as a recluse.
Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will, and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian’s grand, sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead, one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement.
In hopes of staking their claim, both families move into the mansion. As Vivian’s daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother’s life, disturbing visions and bizarre behaviors start to take hold of everyone in the house, forcing them to realize they are being haunted by something far more sinister and vengeful than their regrets.
After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the painful truth behind the house’s origins and the last, tragic summer they spent there, or will they cling to their secrets until it’s too late?
The Night Birds – Christopher Golden
Witch horror
Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again.
Now, as part of his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book lives aboard the Christabel, a 19th century freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a massive forest of mangrove trees has grown up through the deck of the ship, creating a startlingly beautiful enigma Book calls the Floating Forest. As a powerful storm churns through the Gulf, he intends to sleep on board as usual.
But when he arrives at the dock, he’s stunned to find Ruby there waiting for him. And she’s not alone. With her are a mysterious woman and her infant child, asking Book to hide them safely aboard the Christabel while they’re on the run. Only it isn’t the police who are after them, it’s a coven of witches the woman, Mae, has fled, stealing away the helpless infant for whom the coven had hideous plans, or so Mae claims.
It’s lunacy and Book wants nothing to do with it. But after the way he and Ruby ended things, and the unspoken pain between them, he can’t refuse. Yet even as he brings them out to the ruined ship and its floating forest, there are shadowed figures looming back in Galveston, waiting out the storm.
And despite the worsening wind and rain, the night birds are flying, scouring the coastline for their prey.
Overgrowth – Mira Grant
Sci-fi horror
Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her.
Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it’s already been warned, and it may be too late.
The invasion is coming, Stasia’s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.
Pleasant Shade – Brad Thomas
Wilderness horror
Six friends set out on a remote Tennessee trail, expecting breathtaking views and unforgettable memories. But the wilderness has other plans.
When they take a wrong turn into the backwoods of Pleasant Shade, they find something waiting for them, something that watches, hunts and never let’s go.
What started as an adventure becomes a fight for survival. They soon find out that Pleasant Shade isn’t so pleasant.
Published: 10 May 2025
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