A Selection of Horror Books Released, 22 to 28 Jun 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, apocalyptic, werewolf, haunted house, western, and movie horror
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Table of Contents
Beyond the Pale – Brýn Grover
Horror collection
The macabre comes in many forms. These 10 tales go beyond the pale to explore lines between life and death, fear and sorrow, real and unreal, as characters cling to scraps of hope, thoughts of revenge, or redemption.
A woman’s leg holds the key to keeping a monster at bay. A crochet hook is used for protection. At a rural church ceremony, death waits in the pews. Hoping for improved sight, a child has violent visions. A woman is unexpectedly aided by an unknown entity. A fisherman returns what was once claimed. A man deals with the grief of loss. An alien plague is thwarted without weapons. A man’s life unravels taking everything but giving a new start. A cursed bicycle spans generations to ride again.
The Cleanse – James Yates
Apocalypse horror
Every twenty years, they return.
Demons? Aliens? No one knows for sure. But this time, they’re ready. Or are they?
Justin Adams thought he had a plan. Twenty years to prepare for the next Cleanse – the night the creatures come back. But one bad gamble and he’s lost everything. Now his family’s survival rests on a small metal box, a few borrowed guns, and a promise he’s terrified he can’t keep.
Across town, millionaire Rupert Bainbridge watches from his mansion. For him, survival is guaranteed – but even steel walls can’t keep out guilt, madness, or the cult gathering at his gates.
As the world braces for the bloodbath, neighbours will turn, secrets will surface, and the true nature of the Cleanse will be revealed.
Maryneal 1962 – Abigail F. Taylor
YA supernatural horror
Warned by a soothsayer at a traveling fair that something evil is about to come to Maryneal, sixteen-year-old Delah Nix chalks it up to carnie theatrics and ignores the woman’s suggestion to leave before dark. But then her sister is savagely attacked on their way home, and her murder leaves the small farming community stunned. The authorities scramble to place the blame on a deranged man, the carnival workers, and even the nearby Indigenous community.
Delah, however, starts to suspect that something supernatural is afoot when a childhood friend, bitten in an attempt to save Delah’s sister, gains powers and a thirst for the county’s livestock. As much as he is enjoying his super speed and perfect hearing, Delah senses there will come a point of no return and begins to desperately search for a way to save her friend before he hurts himself or the girl they both love.
With the full moon approaching and no salvation in sight, Delah is faced with an unconscionable decision: If she can’t find a cure, she’ll have to kill the boy next door.
The No-End House – Jeremy Bates
Haunted house horror
Nine rooms. Nine tests. One chance to get out alive. No one makes it to the end of The No-End House.
It’s the ultimate haunted house challenge. A crumbling stone mansion nestled in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, it may be the best-kept secret in Europe: a little-known attraction featuring nine escape rooms to explore, nine puzzles to solve, and a large cash prize for anyone who makes it to the end. There’s just one catch: no one makes it to the end of The No-End House.
When Joe Hadfield hears about the house from a pair of backpackers, he’s intrigued but not interested. He’s trying to escape a nightmare of his own: the trauma of witnessing his wife’s grisly death. Traveling the world to ease his pain and grief, he meets a beautiful stranger named Helen who convinces him to try The No-End House challenge together. Joe reluctantly agrees. But as soon as they enter its walls, meet its mysterious host, and sign an ominous contract, Joe begins to understand the seductive power of The No-End House.
It knows his darkest secrets. It feeds his greatest fears. It makes him do things he would never do. And there is no end to what he will do to make it out alive.
Run Werewolf Run – Onur Tukel
Werewolf horror
Clifford Monroe needs a break, from his job, his family, and the never-ending, mind-numbing grind of his everyday existence.
So, he heads out on a roadtrip to clear his head and recapture the spirit of his youth. A little adventure is good for the soul.
Clifford’s existential jaunt unravels quickly after he meets a rugged hunk named Channing. Channing is everything Clifford isn’t. He’s wild, carefree, and untethered from responsibility.
He’s also hiding a very dark secret. And when he decides to share it with Clifford, things go from bad to worse to downright catastrophic.
The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In – Craig Wallwork
Horror collection
From a boy raised by a mother with the power to light up the sky, to stories of sea monsters, ghosts, Greek mythology, aliens, Elvis, suicide pandemics, and a girl born without a head, these stories will guide you out of the dark and back into the light.
Smile for the Cameras – Miranda Smith
Horror movie horror
Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling, something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind.
Since her mother’s passing, Ella has decided to return to the silver screen. And with the cast and crew of Grad Night in the process of filming a reunion documentary, Ella has an express ticket back into Hollywood’s good graces.
Weighed down by the secret she’s been keeping all these years, Ella apprehensively makes the trip to the original set, a cabin in rural Tennessee, to reunite with her castmates for the first time in more than a decade.
But when the actors begin to meet the same gruesome fates as the characters they originally played, falling victim to someone dressed as the Grad Night villain, it’s clear their secret is out.
Ten Sleep – Nicholas Belardes
Western horror
A young Mexican American woman detects uncanny creatures stalking her on a cattle drive toward a canyon soaked in blood.
When Greta Molina’s old friend Tiller offered her the job, a ten-day cattle drive across the Wyoming prairie from the ranching town of Ten Sleep, it sounded like a well-paid break. Three hundred and twenty cows and calves, two guys her age she’s known since college, and a few long days on an ATV will give her time to sort out the mess in her head. The canyon along the trail has a history, sure, but nature has a tendency toward violence. Greta can accept that, even if it makes her insides squirm.
What Greta doesn’t know is the legacy of murder and rot that runs deep into the rocks of this land. As each night passes on the prairie, the trio faces mounting supernatural dangers: a ghost train of the damned, wild animals walking alongside dead ones, and evidence of a gigantic creature in the skies, one that’s supposedly been extinct for eons. And Tiller may be hiding even darker secrets the further they go.
Safety is only ten sleeps away, but Greta soon realizes that may be too long for all of them to survive.
The World Turns Red – Tim Waggoner
Psychological horror
Welcome to the meat room.
At first, it’s a whisper on the edge of your consciousness.
As it gets louder, you begin to make out words, dark, sharp, dangerous words. You clap your hands over your ears to shut them out, but you can’t escape what comes from inside you.
The voice tells you to do things to yourself. Bad things. Awful things.
The longer you listen, the more they seem reasonable. Desirable.
Inevitable.
And as you reach for the nearest knife, gun, or rope, the voice speaks the last four words you’ll ever hear:
All hail the Unhigh.
Published: 28 June 2025
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