Air Conditioned Nightmare – David K. Slater
Haunted house horror
Daniel is alone. He is sick. He is tired. He hates his job.
His apartment is haunted. He might be losing his mind. He lives in an air conditioned nightmare.
A haunted house collides head on with the real world horror of working a dead end job in a soulless call centre. Hell is other people.
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre – Philip Fracassi
Slasher horror
Rose DuBois is not your average final girl.
Rose is in her late 70s, living out her golden years at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home.
When one of her friends dies alone in her apartment, Rose isn’t too concerned. Accidents happen, especially at this age.
Then another resident drops dead. And another. With bodies stacking up, Rose can’t help but wonder: are these accidents? Old age? Or something far more sinister?
Together with her best friend Miller, Rose begins to investigate. The further she digs, the more convinced she becomes that there’s a killer on the loose at Autumn Springs, and if she isn’t careful, Rose may be their next victim.
Broken Dolls – Ally Malinenko
Middle grade doll horror
One. Two. Three. Are you ready to play?
Ever since Kaye’s grandfather died, she’s been obsessed with counting things: the steps to her bedroom, the dolls on her sister’s bed, even the threads on her favorite blanket. It’s arithmomania, and with the selective mutism that sometimes prevents her from speaking, she literally can’t find the words to talk about how she feels now that Grampa is gone. When they take the summer to clean out and renovate his old house, Kaye finds herself counting the days.
That is, until her younger sister, Holly, starts finding dolls. She finds them buried in the backyard, stuffed in the walls, crammed into the closets. From the first one, Kaye knows they aren’t like normal dolls. They smile at her like they know something, and sometimes their eyes open and close on their own. Kaye hears her sister talking to them constantly, and she swears she’s heard the dolls whispering back.
Everyone assumes that Holly’s just a kid with a good imagination. Kaye doesn’t think it’s a game, because she knows that Holly, and the dolls, are going to make her play with them. Forever.
Bugs – Matt Shaw
Horror collection (4 interlinking stories)
Giant bugs lurk beneath the ice and snow which covers the world; they come out at night to feast upon humans sheltering from the cold.
A motel owner, ever fearful of mankind’s extinction, has a plan to ensure our survival.
A mother and father take their daughter on a camping trip only to be tormented by a stranger in the night.
A young woman invites her friends to her lakeside home for a fun weekend which soon becomes the stuff of nightmares.
Harrowfield – Stephanie Ellis
Supernatural horror
Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales.
On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing.
When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?
Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse – Blumhouse
Horror movie non-fiction
Illustrated visual compendium that takes you behind the scenes of the films that have reshaped the horror genre, from The Exorcist to the Paranormal Activity and Halloween franchises.
Blumhouse celebrates its 15th anniversary throughout 2025, and this book captures the company’s journey to become a powerhouse in the horror and thriller film genres, taking you through the process of conception to premiere for films like Five Nights at Freddy’s, Sinister, Split, Get Out, M3GAN, now-classic franchises like The Purge, and so much more.
Featuring an introduction from CEO and founder Jason Blum, it also includes interviews with key filmmakers and writers like M. Night Shyamalan, Leigh Whannell, James Wan, and Mike Flanagan; actors, such as Allison Williams, Ethan Hawke, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Octavia Spencer; and Blumhouse executives like head of film Couper Samuelson and head of casting Terri Taylor.
How the Vortex Changed My Life – Pamela K Kinney
Supernatural horror
Cat Viggolone just can’t get a break.
She got married, but that ended when the husband left her for his younger secretary.
She wanted children. That flew out the window with the cheating husband.
There’s the career, but working a window at the Virginia DMV can’t really be classified as a great career choice.
At thirty-three, her life had become positively dull. Then the vortex opened.
Sucked into a corridor just outside of hell, she meets Connor, a werewolf, and Larry, a demon that looks like a blue-eyed eyeball. They escape back to earth, only to find that the vortex has opened up in downtown Richmond. The town is going to hell, literally. Besides a grayness seeping out and turning all living things into zombies, monsters and demons are invading Cat’s world.
In the Mouth of Madness – Sutter Cane
Psychological horror
Sutter Cane has always been a figure shrouded in mystery. Critics have called his writing “dangerously immersive” and “deeply infectious.” Although sales records are incomplete or missing, many believe he has outsold every living author.
The story follows John Trent, an insurance investigator assigned to find Sutter Cane after his sudden disappearance. What begins as a simple missing person case soon spirals into a nightmare.
Trent learns that Cane’s fiction doesn’t just reflect reality, it may shape it.
In the Shadow of a Broken Spire – Edward J. Flora
Witch horror
The school year at Blair High School is off to a tragic start when one student, Martin Welch, is found brutally murdered. Residents of the small town descend into a spiral of fear as they search for the person responsible for the horrific crime.
As BHS senior, Jaycie Brogdon, tries to navigate the turbulence of her community coming undone, she discovers cracks within the seams of her own family.
Blame begins to shift inward, and soon residents are certain that Martin Welch’s murderer is one of their own.
Fingers point toward Stuart Reinhart, Blair High School’s literature teacher. Tensions rise as many suggest that the books in Mr. Reinhart’s lessons are inappropriate, even immoral. This opens the door for history to repeat itself in Blair.
The town’s past is unearthed as the heart of a witch once used as a scapegoat continues to beat. The townspeople’s fear and hatred grows into a thirst for retribution.
It Sleeps Below – William Gray
Psychological horror
After thirteen-year-old Samantha Morris almost drowned in her parents’ lake, the nightmares that followed paled in comparison to the real-life horrors of watching her mother descend into madness.
By the end of the summer, Kate Morris disappeared without a trace.
Now an adult, Samantha is faced with another unexpected loss in her partner Ellie as well as the return of the nightmares. Only now, they’re bleeding into her waking hours, forcing her to question her own sanity, and they’re only getting worse.
As the line between real and imaginary continue to blur, physical manifestations of her dreams beg the question: is she losing her mind like her mother, or is she being targeted by something far more sinister?
Lovers’ Leap – Rikki Goodwin
YA haunted house horror
Running an allegedly haunted bed & breakfast sounds a lot more fun to Hazel than her current dead end job, but a trip to inspect a property with her three best friends has unearthed way more ghosts than she was willing to deal with, and only some of them are hers.
Hazel is surprised but pleased when her high school sweetheart Finn suggests they and their significant others go in together on purchasing a B&B, but their weekend trip to visit a potential property has a rocky start. The current elderly (and bizarre) owners seem to take issue with their presence. Dizzy spells plague her and was that a person she just saw in the mirror?
Both her boyfriend and Finn’s wife are also having a hard time coping with the creepiness of the place. They’d all assumed “haunted” was only a marketing strategy. Perhaps not. Finn, though, is resolute they’re overreacting, and insists on moving forward with the purchase, despite their misgivings. The expansive property might not be big enough to house both Finn’s and Hazel’s clashing personalities, or the secrets they’ve been keeping from each other.
They’ll have to put those issues aside though, when both of their partners suddenly start behaving erratically. Are they sick? Are they just tired of Finn and Hazel’s bickering? Or is something more sinister going on?
The Midnight Timetable – Bora Chung
Horror collection
A novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they’re running from are their own.
The book follows an employee on the night shift at the Institute. They soon learn why some employees don’t last long at the center.
The handkerchief in Room 302 once belonged to the late mother of two sons, whose rivalry imbues the handkerchief with undue power and unravels the lives of those who seek to possess it.
Meanwhile a live-streaming, ghost-chasing employee steals a cursed sneaker down the hall, but later finds he can’t escape its tread.
The cat in Room 206 begins to reveal the crimes of its former family, wanting to understand its own path to the Institute’s dimly lit halls.
Nether Station – Kevin J. Anderson
Cosmic space horror
Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying.
In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether.
Astrophysicist Cammie Skoura has joined the first research team traveling to the Nether anomaly, eager to understand the mechanics of the wormhole and to explore its possibilities as a shortcut to Alpha Centauri.
But another race of ancient beings has already been here – an impossibly long time ago – leaving remnants of their vast complexes and gigantic temples built for horrific beings beyond comprehension.
What dangers did those elder races find in the hidden corners of spacetime?
What did they unleash?
And what remains?
The October Film Haunt – Michael Wehunt
Movie horror
A woman is pulled into a cult horror film that is determined to have a sequel.
Ten years ago, Jorie Stroud was the rising star of the October Film Haunt – a trio of horror enthusiasts who camped out at the filming locations of their favorite scary movies, sharing their love through their popular blog. But after a night in the graveyard from Proof of Demons – perhaps the most chilling cult film ever made, directed by the enigmatic Hélène Enriquez – everything unraveled.
Now, Jorie has built an isolated life with her young son in Vermont. In the devastating wake of her viral, truth-stretching Proof of Demons blog entry ― hysteria, internet backlash, and the death of a young woman ― Jorie has put it all, along with her intense love for the horror genre, behind her.
Until a videotape arrives in the mail. Jorie fears someone might be filming her. And the “Rickies” – Enriquez obsessives who would do anything for the reclusive director – begin to cross lines in shocking ways. It seems Hélène Enriquez is making a new kind of sequel, and Jorie is her final girl.
As the dangers grow even more unexpected and strange, Jorie must search for answers before the Proof of the movie’s title finds her and takes everything she loves.
Pyres – Kev Harrison
Supernatural horror
Angela has been a spirit painter for years. Channelling the spirits as they commit memories to canvas through her: childhood pets, favourite holiday locations, and sprawling homesteads. But now, something has changed.
The paintings take a dark turn just as her sister, Becky, returns from Italy. People burnt alive, their smouldering remains a vivid, visceral stain on Angela’s canvasses. Already disturbed, her life is thrown into turmoil when a right wing TV news presenter is found incinerated in a facsimile of her new painting.
As the artworks, and charred bodies, mount, can Angela and Becky find out what’s happening, and how to stop it?
The Small Hours – Bob Pastorella
Vampire horror
Jay is convinced his creepy next-door neighbor had something to do with his friend’s brutal murder. Mr. Fields with his mobster tattoos, keeping odd hours, visitors arriving yet never seen leaving.
Then Jay gets a lucky break after spotting a piece of evidence that could nail Fields for good and give Jay and his friends closure.
All they need to do is break into Fields’ backyard shed, and discover the den of horrors waiting beyond the metal door.
The Wax Child – Olga Ravn
Witch horror
In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft.
She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the form of a tall headless man who gives them dark powers: they can steal people’s happiness, they have performed unchristian acts, and they can cause pestilence or death.
They are all in danger of the stake.
What Stalks the Deep – T. Kingfisher
Supernatural horror – Book 3 of Sworn Soldier
Alex Easton does not want to visit America.
They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.
But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousin, who went missing in that very mine, well, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do.
Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting – Richard Chizmar and W.H. Chizmar
Found footage horror
Longtime residents of Harper’s Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow’s Point Lighthouse. Some say it’s cursed. Others claim it’s haunted.
Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the lighthouse’s construction, including one who mysteriously plunged to his death from the catwalk. That tragic accident was never explained, and it was just the beginning of the terror. In the decades that followed, nearly two dozen additional deaths occurred in or around the lighthouse including cold-blooded murder, suicide, unexplained accidents and disappearances, the slaughter of an entire family, and the inexplicable death of a Hollywood starlet who was filming a movie on the grounds.
The lighthouse was finally shuttered tight in 1988 and a security fence was erected around the property. No one has been inside since. Until now.
Told across two harrowing incidents from 2017 and 2025, those who enter the Widow’s Point Lighthouse searching for supernatural proof and the next big thing find themselves cut off from the outside world. And although no one has recently stepped foot inside the structure, they are not alone.
The Writing on the Wall: A Horror Tribute to Iron Maiden – Jyl Glenn and Joseph Murnane
Horror anthology
Step into a nightmare forged in riffs, shadows, and blood.
Inspired by the iconic music of Iron Maiden, seventeen of horror’s boldest voices summon the darkness behind the lyrics, where prophecy is punishment, time is a curse, and death wears many faces.
Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a disciple of dread, these stories are charged with raw energy, dark imagination, and unholy rebellion. They’ll grip you like a power chord and drag you screaming into the abyss.
Up the Irons. Lock the doors.
The writing is on the wall.
Will you dare to read it?
