A Selection of Horror Books Released, 8 to 14 Jun 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, cosmic, religious, revenge, slasher horror, and horror movie novelizations
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Table of Contents
13 Bodies – Dale Zawada
Slasher horror
Thirteen victims. One monster.
Jack Delmont was doomed from the start, an abused child who claimed his first victim at thirteen. Now a hulking menace with a compulsive hunger for violence, Jack carves a bloody path through 13 unflinching chapters, each revealing the twisted artistry behind every kill.
But as Jack carves a bloody path through the shadows, whispers of his past claw their way back, twisted memories of torment and betrayal that gnaw at the edges of his sanity. The line between predator and prey blurs, and the walls of Jack’s world begin to close in.
The question isn’t if he’ll be caught, it’s what he’ll do when he’s cornered.
Ashes of August Manor – Blaine Daigle
Psychological horror
Noelle, a tragedy-ridden hospice worker with a unique connection to death, accepts a job caring for the dying patriarch of the reclusive August family at their lakefront manor just outside the town of Bell River, Oregon.
The house does not have electricity, and the eccentric nature of the family is displayed through the grotesque artwork that lines the walls of the manor.
As Noelle wrestles with her own struggles with understanding her connection to death, she is also plunged headfirst into the dark mysteries surrounding the August family. The dying patriarch who she is strangely never able to see. The head of the household incapable of giving a straight answer, and a boy unable to speak but clearly terrified of something.
Above all, she must uncover the answers behind the ashen footprints she finds all over the house at night and the withered figure she sees looming at the tree line across the lake.
Awakened – Laura Elliott
Psychological horror
Civilisation has ended.
In a bid to make us more productive, to give us more time, science took sleep from humanity.
But sleeplessness turned people into feral monsters and now a small group of scientists are trapped in the Tower of London, consumed by guilt at what they have done and desperately searching for a cure.
And then one day, as the last ravens circle, two miraculous survivors walk into the Tower.
Beyond the Smoke and Shadow – Catriona Mowat
Horror collection
A collection of 9 gothic tales and poetry to haunt the darkest of nights.
From the distant past to the far-off future, horrors lurk and there are no happy endings.
Pirates, witches, ghosts, cryptids, and darkness: what will you find waiting for you beyond the smoke and shadow?
What will happen when the spirits of Salem witches seek revenge? Or a hidden city is found beneath the earth? Is there something lurking in the woods at night?
Enter the Peerless – Kyle Winkler
Cosmic horror
Elpenor, a newly minted private investigator, finds his first case on Craigslist: twenty-nine people have entered an abandoned trailer in rural Indiana, and none of them have left.
Unable to open the trailer’s doors or windows, Elpenor enlists two local accomplices, a knife grinder and a janitor. When they finally gain access, they fall into a pocket universe ruled by a godlike being called Fiascoal.
Refugees of this world – a depopulated and exact copy of our world – congregate around a web of communities in St. Louis.
Elpenor attempts to find the missing people but is instead forced to become the new host of Fiascoal as a communal ritual.
His search for the missing in the netherworld and the needs of the hungry, petulant god conflict as the knife grinder raises a cult of personality, community leaders abuse their authority, and Elpenor must decide whether to save the few over the many.
That is, if he can find a way out of the metaphysical prison he’s broken into.
A Girl Walks into the Forest – Madeleine Roux
Supernatural horror
For as long as she can remember, Valla’s been told her beauty would give her a life most people only dreamed of.
So, when the mysterious Count Leonid calls on her to be his betrothed, Valla jumps at the chance to leave her small, bleak village. The only thing standing in her way? The journey through the dangerous Gottyar Wood that many don’t survive.
Filled with deadly and cunning creatures, the Gottyar immediately delivers on its reputation with an attack that leaves Valla injured; her face torn to shreds.
Barely making it to the castle in one piece, Valla is relieved to finally be safe. But things have changed. Valla’s face is no longer beautiful. And the Count is not happy…Valla thought making it through the Gottyar was a victory, but when she sees what awaits beyond the palace walls, the true battle begins.
The Haunting of Luke Schumer – Jennifer Osborn
Supernatural horror
When an introverted groundskeeper finds an unusual item at an estate sale, he accidentally unleashes an all-consuming evil hellbent on death and destruction.
John Carpenter Presents George A. Romero's The Amusement Park – Jeff Whitehead and Ryan Carr
Horror movie graphic novel
Graphic novel adaptation of George Romero’s lost 1973 film of the same name.
William Lincoln, an impatient businessman in his 20s, casually asks a small-town coffee shop barista about a carousel horse atop its roof. Within earshot, an elderly man asks William if he would like to learn about the history of the sprawling amusement park that once stood on that spot, the carousel horse the final reminder of its existence. They settle into a conversation that immediately disturbs young William. It is the story of an elderly man hoping to experience the amusement park one last time to recapture childhood memories, to relish the rapidly fleeting remaining moments.
Instead of pleasant memories, each attraction becomes a surreal microcosm of aging and its inherent challenges as bodies and minds begin to break down. The elderly man is abused, pushed in a seemingly endless throng of elderly people through attractions that mimic the final stages of life. Finally, he winds up right back where he started, battered both mentally and physically. Instead of being able to leave the park, he realizes he is trapped in a loop, forced to relive the harrowing experience over and over. At the end of the elderly man’s tale, William is puzzled, concerned, and annoyed, irritated to have had his time wasted on such a story.
William quickly realizes that not everything in the coffee shop is as it seems. The elderly man with whom young William has been conversing shares his name. It is William Lincoln. Perplexed and scared now, young William attempts to leave, fleeing through the coffee shop’s front door. When the door closes behind him, William is back in the amusement park, transformed again into his elderly self, still trapped in the loop, forced to reconcile the reality of aging and ultimately, his own mortality.
The King of Everything – Jack Moody
Cosmic horror
In the heart of an empty city, humanity’s last echo lingers.
The last living human wanders through a metropolis frozen in time. The streets still hum with electricity, food and drink remain fresh, and forest fauna roam the streets without worry.
By day, it’s a surreal paradise. But at night, shadows emerge from the darkness, slaughtering any creature foolish enough to remain in the open, stacking the corpses into towering pyres set ablaze as offerings to a greater eldritch being.
Desperation drives him into the nearby woods to seek refuge. Yet, something else calls the green expanse home. Something equally mysterious.
In order to survive, he’ll have to confront the unknown and unravel the mysteries of a dying world. Only then will he be ready to face that which frightens him most.
For no matter where he hides, an unseen voice beckons: Come home, little prince. Come home to me.
The Restless Few – James Watjen
Religious horror
Father Thomas Abner navigates adolescent trauma, declining mental health, and religious fanaticism.
The stakes grow as ghostly visions of a world devoid of wicked sinners clash with depreciating psychological state.
This blurred line crescendos into a catastrophic ending.
Spider Baby – Dayna Noffke
Horror movie novelization
Some families have skeletons in the closet. The Merryes feed theirs in the basement.
In a crumbling mansion on the edge of nowhere, the Merrye children live a secret life, watched over by their devoted caretaker Bruno and cursed by a rare genetic condition that causes them to regress into violent, childlike states while retaining the strength and appetites of adults.
Virginia catches flies in her imaginary web, then slashes them to pieces with butcher knives. Elizabeth sulks and plots. And Ralph… well, Ralph scuttles in the shadows, twitching, grinning, watching.
When distant relatives arrive to claim the family estate, Bruno can only hope the “children” remember their manners.
With a Vengeance – Riley Sager
Revenge horror
One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution.
Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.
But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge, and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.
With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them, even though it means putting her own life at risk.
Published: 14 June 2025
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