Bone of Our Stars, Blood of Our World – Cullen Bunn
Serial killer horror
A high-stakes hunt for a masked killer whose brutal murders may be a portent of an evil as ancient and cold as the stars themselves.
The bodies are stacking up on Wilson Island.
The town’s sheriff has his suspicions but no genuine evidence for an arrest, even as the murders continue and appear increasingly ritualistic in nature.
When an arrest is finally made, all hell breaks loose, literally, as a terrifying horror rises to envelop the town.
Soon it’s all up to an unforgettable and motley group of residents to band together and eliminate an ancient evil in a desperate struggle for survival.
Dark Roots – Sheldon Higdon
Psychological horror
When Benjamin Cole’s 83-yr-old father commits suicide, he’s thrust into a dark family secret that had been hiding in plain sight. With the task of selling the old family farm, repressed memories and chilling discoveries force him to confront the horrors that lie inside it.
But when his girlfriend’s son is kidnapped, Benjamin must figure out what is reality and who is family. Because in order to save the child, Benjamin will have to learn the truth of his father, and who Benjamin himself is.
A Dark Whimsy – DS LaLonde
Monster horror
Sometimes you should just stay out of the woods.
Lacking any other options after graduating college, Jeff reluctantly takes a job with his uncle’s logging business in the small town of Cayuga. He’s accompanied by his best friend Owen, the natural hero to Jeff’s inherent sidekick. Everything’s going fine until Jeff’s told to move his work crew into Sector G12.
Jeff doesn’t know anything about trees or the logging industry, but he can tell that something is very wrong with Sector G12. Strange circumstances and unnaturally bad luck thwart their efforts to move into the area, even as mysterious otherworldly strangers emerge from the woods and warn him to stay away. Perhaps most unnerving of all is the ragged, abnormally large black bunny with lime-green eyes watching him from the trees.
Before long, a woman nicknamed Coach rolls into town and claims she can solve Jeff’s problem, although her sanity is immediately called into question when she starts talking about fairies, elves, and pixies.
When Jeff’s unrequited crush Ivy gives credence to Coach’s story by claiming that elves in the woods are after her for nefarious purposes, he and Owen decide to accept Coach’s crazy plan for a quest into Sector G12. Their trek into the forest reveals unimaginable perils, as they discover that Sector G12 is home to all manner of creatures.
Jeff knew the logging industry was dangerous, but he assumed any blood or mayhem would be caused by an errant blade or falling tree, not by monsters in the woods. He was so very wrong.
Grace – Steven LaChance
Apocalypse horror
What if the end of the world didn’t come with fire or flood, but through a rising queen?
Born Bernard, cast out and remade in defiance, Grace transforms from the brutality of the streets and the sanctuary of drag into a figure of beauty, rage, and survival. As a chemical “zombie drug” rips through St. Louis and spreads across the globe, hate-fueled factions rise and civilization fractures into silence.
At once apocalyptic and intimate, Grace reveals the truth that hate, not horror, is what destroys civilizations. Fierce and unshakable, Grace stands at the center of the storm, her very existence an act of resistance.
But in a world collapsing into chaos, she must decide whether struggle will destroy her, or change her forever.
The Grimmoire – Mike Harris
Horror collection
Six twisted fairy tales.
Two siblings, lost in the woods, are offered shelter by a peculiar host with a monstrous appetite.
A visit to grandma’s house comes to a grisly end.
A young maiden makes a pact with a sinister imp.
A boy leaves home to discover the true meaning of fear.
Hand of God – J.B. Arnold
Serial killer horror
David Miller’s world is collapsing one body at a time.
A ruthless killer stalks the streets, hunting down the women in David’s life. The victims are strangled, their bodies burned in ritualistic purification, each murder justified by twisted Scripture and divine vengeance. The press has dubbed him “The Hand of God,” but David discovers this isn’t random violence. This is personal.
Someone with a biblical fury has surfaced, seeking to make David pay for the sins he thought were long buried. As detectives chase dead ends and the body count rises, David realizes he’s not just witnessing a killing spree, he’s the architect of his own nightmare.
Every lead goes cold. Every clue leads nowhere. And with each new victim, the killer’s message becomes clearer: David Miller will lose everything he holds dear, just as someone once lost everything because of him.
The Haunting of Wounded Birds – Beverley Lee
Folk horror
How far would you go to right a wrong?
For years the villagers of Combe Hurst have celebrated Gala Day. A chance to feast, to remember, and to thank the land and the forest for their blessings.
The death of his mother brings Jack ‘Jackdaw’ Dawtrey here, to live with a half-sister he never knew existed.
The life he thought he had is stolen, leaving him adrift and confused in a rural village where there are crows in the trees, willow poppets in the woods, and a sinister structure on the hill. It’s a place where he feels like he doesn’t belong.
But when he discovers an old journal under the floorboards of his room, he has something no one can take away.
As he struggles to unravel the mystery of the enigmatic words on the pages, he’s drawn further into the life of a boy who lived over two hundred years ago. A boy whose family dealt in death. A boy whose name is still whispered as lanterns are lit to repel the darkness.
As Gala Day approaches, and with it the strange customs the village holds close, Jackdaw is caught up in a terrible ritual that has its roots steeped firmly in the past, a ritual that threatens to devour him whole.
The Horror Collection: Christmas Edition – Kevin J. Kennedy
Christmas horror anthology
’Tis the season… to scream.”
Tinsel and terror return in The Horror Collection: Christmas Edition, the latest chilling installment of Kevin J. Kennedy’s bestselling anthology series. This festive fright-fest unwraps a sleigh full of sinister tales from an all-star lineup of horror’s finest authors. Where the season of goodwill turns into the season of screams.
Deep in the snow-shrouded North Pole, Santa Claus hides a century-old secret that could end Christmas forever, while Mrs. Claus, tired of her husband’s jolly façade, plots a dark revenge that drips with blood-red ribbon.
Krampus stalks the naughty once more — but this year, he’s brought friends.
From haunted dolls that whisper in the night to killer advent calendars counting down to your final breath, each story is a gift you’ll wish you’d left unopened.
With its blend of twisted tradition, folklore, and modern terror, The Horror Collection: Christmas Edition proves that even under the mistletoe, no one is safe. Grab a mug of cocoa, stoke the fire, and prepare for a festive season you’ll never forget — if you live to see the New Year.
Lesser Hungers – Rien Gray
Supernatural horror
There’s a haunting in Cameron Ciris’s blood, and the city they live in is hungry for every drop.
Chicago is like every other American metropolis: built on a foundation of death. Little surprise that when a loving couple in a low-rent apartment cannibalize each other, the police write it off as a bizarre murder-suicide. Cameron-local fixer and addict in recovery-volunteers to take up the case as a favor to their neighborhood, the 49th Ward.
A year ago, Cameron overdosed on a hot new party drug and picked up an extra passenger, an entity that forces them to perform rituals written in blood. Being possessed is Cameron’s new normal, but as more cannibalized victims turn up, so does an eldritch doppelganger of Cameron’s old dealer, hunting them through nightmares and hallucinations.
Cameron tracks the molding remnants of their dealer from block to block, discovering a malicious growth that promises to spread through Chicago and give it a whole new shape. With a body not quite their own, Cameron faces the question lurking throughout the urban sprawl: who gets devoured, and who gets to feast?
Problem is, they’re getting real goddamn hungry.
The Night Crew II: Bloodlust – Brad Ricks
Supernatural horror – Book 2 of The Night Crew Series
The hunt never ends, especially when the prey hunts back.
The Night Crew thought they’d seen it all: werewolves, vampires, and things too monstrous to name. But after barely surviving their last mission, Michael and his team are about to face something far deadlier: a supernatural killer with an insatiable thirst for blood and a plan to unleash chaos on New Orleans.
In the city’s neon glow, shadows twist with ancient hunger, and every lead draws the Crew deeper into a labyrinth of murder, betrayal, and forbidden magic. This time, the enemy isn’t hiding in the dark, they’re walking boldly among the living, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.
As the Night Crew fights to stop the bloodshed, they also confront their own inner demons: haunting memories, deadly secrets, and the chilling realization that some monsters aren’t born, they’re made.
No Exit: A Collection of Utah Horror – Timber Ghost Press
Horror anthology
For ages, stories of haunted highways and spectral hitchhikers have delighted readers.
However, among these dark stretches of road, you’ll find more than just cool wind in your hair.
Within these well-traveled pages, are 24 stories and poems about the shadowy things that journey with us along the way.
Join us on this trip and explore creepy diners, roadkill that refuse to stay dead, strange hitchhikers, and hotels you just may never leave.
Grab your snacks, fuel up your ride, and hit the road.
We’ve got places to be and such sights to show you.
Rot – Chisto Healy (editor)
Food horror anthology
10 horror authors, 10 horror stories about food, all for charity!
The Sofa – Sam Munson
Psychological horror
Mr. Montessori and his family return home from a trip to the beach to discover that their sofa is different. Once dark and contemporary, it’s now antique, green and yellow, and smelling faintly of damp.
Its appearance and origins are a mystery. A joke? An inverted theft? A break in the fabric of reality? Yes, the police take the “crime” seriously. But what happens next lies outside their expertise. Strange sounds in the night. A half-bathroom toilet with a mind of its own. Odd, fleeting glimpses of something (or someone) in mirrors. The inexplicable vision of Montessori’s neighbor: He swears he saw a burglar.
Montessori’s quest for answers will take him to a dank highway overpass in decayed upstate New York, a very strange dry-cleaning supply concern in outermost Queens, and into the depths of an eerie, warped forest where time and space no longer connect, all while putting his ever-more-troubled marriage and young family in grave danger. But that’s what it costs to find out if we own our possessions, or if they own us.
Salvation for the Damned – Jay Bower
Supernatural horror
When sixteen-year-old Logan Burrow chases his dog into the woods, he doesn’t expect to tumble into an endless abyss, straight into the pit of Hell itself.
But the real nightmare begins when he realizes a formless spirit has possessed his body. A spirit with unfinished business. A spirit desperate to escape eternal torment. A spirit named Jack.
Together, Logan and his unwelcome invader must navigate a labyrinth of horrors where the dead are flayed, twisted, and broken for eternity. Everywhere drips with blood. And at the heart of it all waits Leviathan, an ancient terror that doesn’t forgive escape attempts.
As reality unravels and sanity slips away, Logan must decide: fight for survival or surrender his soul to Jack-and Hell-forever.
