A Selection of Horror Books Released, 11 to 17 May 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, haunted house, animal, sci-fi, and water horror
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Table of Contents
Blood in the Yolk – Tiny Worlds Publishing
Horror anthology
Something sinister hatches in these pages…
From the uncanny minds of seven cutting-edge horror writers comes a nest of nightmares, avian tales of terror, each more unsettling than the last.
Bochica – Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro
Psychological horror
A real-life Latin American haunted mansion. A murky labyrinth of family secrets. A young, aristocratic woman desperate to escape her past.
In 1923 Soacha, Colombia, La Casona, an opulent mansion perched above the legendary Salto del Tequendama waterfall, was once home to Antonia and her family, who settle in despite their constant nightmares and the house’s malevolent spirit.
But tragedy strikes when Antonia’s mother takes a fatal fall into El Salto and her father, consumed by grief, attempts to burn the house down with Antonia still inside.
Three years later, haunted by disturbing dreams and cryptic journal entries from her late mother, Antonia is drawn back to her childhood home when it is converted into a luxurious hotel.
As Antonia confronts her fragmented memories and the dark history of the estate, she wrestles with unsettling questions she can no longer ignore: Was her mother’s death by her own hands, or was it by someone else’s?
The Burden of Life – Jay Bower
Supernatural horror – Book 2 of The Eyebiter Saga
Haunted by a past he can’t escape, Joe Speight finds himself trapped in a horrifying legacy that threatens to consume him and everyone he loves.
After the traumatic events in Willow Falls, Joe sought refuge in the anonymity of college life, desperately trying to bury the darkness that lingers within him. But when his grandmother ends up in the hospital, he’s drawn back to the town where it all began. Once there, he’s forced to confront a vengeful spirit and the insatiable hunger that threatens to break him.
As Joe delves deeper into his family’s twisted history, he uncovers a web of secrets and lies that shake him to his core. The talisman he wears, crafted from a severed finger meant to protect him, turns into a symbol of the monster he’s become.
With each passing day, the line between his humanity and the creature within blurs, leaving him teetering on the edge of madness.
Ethereal Nightmares: The Final Awakening – Dark Holme Publishing
Horror anthology – Book 3 of Ethereal Nightmares
This is how the nightmare ends. Violently. Beautifully. Without mercy.
Twelve final stories to drag you through the dark one last time.
A comatose sister brings messages from beyond.
A woman wakes to find herself in a serial killer’s hands.
An alchemist bargains his soul.
A jealous house demands attention.
Doomdel the Clown wants to eat a kid, but he’ll have to get through the babysitter first.
From Halloween horrors and ancient beasts to twisted love and doomed bargains, this final volume blends visceral horror with dark myth, and finishes what the others started.
The Glass Garden – Jessica Lévai
Sci-fi horror
Dr. Therese Blake is a homebody archaeologist devoted to the history of planet Earth.
When her sister Lissy makes a stunning discovery near an abandoned colony on a distant exoplanet, the sisters team up to discover its secrets.
Eerie, luminescent images cover the walls of an underground cavern. The glass garden looks like a payday to Lissy, who’s been struggling to turn a profit to keep her salvage crew fed and paid. Therese, however, insists on careful academic procedure. She can’t figure it out: Is the anomaly an artificial creation or a living organism?
As the anomaly’s mystery draws the sisters into an obsessive orbit, it turns out neither greed nor science can offer protection from its relentless gravity.
Out of Air – Rachel Reiss
Water horror
A group of scuba diving friends stumbles across lost treasure, a legendary cave, and a new type of power that comes at a price.
Phoebe “Phibs” Ray is never more at home than when she’s underwater. On a dive six months ago, she and her four closest friends discovered a handful of ancient gold coins, rocketing them into social media fame. Now, their final summer together after high school, they’re taking one last trip to a distant Australian island to do what they love most: scuba dive.
While diving a local reef, Phibs discovers a spectacular underwater sea cave, rumored to be a lost cave with a buried treasure. But when Phibs and her best friend Gabe surface from the cave, they notice that they’re undergoing strange changes. Oozing gashes that don’t heal. Haunting whispers in their heads.Something has latched onto them, lurking beneath their skin, transforming them from the inside out.
When treasure hunters arrive, desperate to find the location of the cave and hold Phibs’ group for ransom, she’ll do anything to keep her friends safe. In the process she learns that, of all the dreadful creatures of the sea, she might be the most terrifying of them all.
Skinwalker Road – T.A. Tanaka
Supernatural horror
A cursed road. A weekend escape. A terror older than time.
When six college friends hit the open highway for one last road trip, they think they’re chasing freedom. But what they find waiting in the Arizona desert is something far older, and far more dangerous, than anything they could have imagined.
After a stop at a decaying gas station sets off a chain of unsettling encounters, the group begins to unravel. Whispers ride the wind. Shadows move just out of sight. And the road signs point toward Skinwalker Road, a place not found on any map, where ancient legends walk in flesh and bone.
As secrets fracture the group and reality begins to warp, they realize too late: something is hunting them. And it doesn’t just kill… it becomes.
Something I Keep Upstairs – J.D. Barker
Psychological horror
For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.
In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler’s life is about to take a terrifying turn.
When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities.
As they dig into the island’s dark past, they awaken an ancient evil that has influenced generations. What begins as an innocent summer adventure quickly descends into a nightmare.
Somewhere Quiet, Full of Light – Henry Corrigan
Haunted house horror
Perfection has its price.
Eric Tillman is looking for a way out. Born into a poor family, the once starving artist has spent his life dreaming of a home where his kids could escape screaming landlords and the sting of poverty.
When his husband Mike, a house-flipper with a jeweller’s eye for abandoned places, discovers a strange, but exciting old house in upstate New York, it feels like the perfect answer to all their prayers.
But once the family moves in, it isn’t long before Eric learns that some chances are too costly to take. For this house has standards it lives by, expectations which must be met.
And on the long, relentless road between perfection and salvation, some doors lead only to ruin.
Thrift Store Puzzles – John Boden
Horror collection
Ken Allenwood is a man being devoured, from the inside out, one memory at a time. A once famed horror writer who now spends his days in an elder care facility waiting for the breath that will be his last and hoping he’ll retain at least some memories from his long and unusual life. Has the unraveling fabric of his mind tangled with the threads of his fictive endeavors?
Elijah is a boy who adores all things spooky, a boy who spends the bulk of his time alone.
Then a change comes to the little town on Cordry. The killings are vicious and devoid of pattern, almost. When Elijah tells Ken about them, the old man grows fearful and decides to use his unreliable windows of focus to help his friends figure out what is going on and who or what is behind the murders.
A monster has come to roost in their midst. A creature that craves blood and possibly much more, inheritance of a sort, acknowledgment. A monster from the very dark recesses of Allenwood’s mind, a horror very old and very bitter.
Published: 17 May 2025
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