April Were’s Day – Jason David
Werewolf horror – Book 4 of NightWere
Roger has survived the loss of his family.
He has survived becoming a werewolf.
But can he survive the secret lurking in his past?
When Roger wakes up chained to a bed in an abandoned asylum, he’s not alone. Other wolves are imprisoned there, tortured by a monster; one of Roger’s own creation.
As his past comes crashing into the present, Roger realizes the joke is on him. With everything he holds dear on the line, he must confront the truth before it’s too late.
The Bargain – Eric Butler
Psychological horror
Seventeen years ago, Zeke made a deal with Mama Faye.
A deal that provided his barren sister with the baby she always wanted.
In exchange, on the girl’s seventeenth birthday, she will be wed to Mama Faye’s beloved son.
Now desperate to save her daughter from a fate worse than death, Zelma strikes a new bargain.
And all it will cost is her humanity.
The Glass Coffin – Women in Horror
Horror anthology
Five voices. Five resurrections. One promise: the women you silenced are clawing their way back.
Five authors shatter the glass coffin, that suffocating space where women’s stories are buried, their power entombed, their rage left to rot. But here’s the thing about burying women alive: we’ve always known how to dig ourselves out.
From Amber Hassler’s haunted orchard where revenge is served fresh-picked, to Alicia Powers’ boardroom bloodbath where the corner office demands a crimson price, these stories break ceilings and demolish the entire building. Reyna Young serves workplace harassment with a side of supernatural justice. Deborah Daughetee uncorks a vintage that flows with ancient feminine fury. And Staci Layne Wilson delivers a girl reporter whose biggest scoop becomes her own obituary, and her most dangerous exposé.
An Impossibility of Crows – Kirsten Kaschock
Psychological horror
Agnes Krahn, a chemist trained in Philadelphia, returns to her childhood home after the death of her father.
Just a stone’s throw from the haunted fields of Gettysburg, the small town of Letort, Pennsylvania is where the Krahn family has lived for six generations, bound by twisted folk wisdom and an uncanny kinship with the crows that loom over their land.
Back in the grim farmhouse of her youth, Agnes is drawn into the strange legacy she tried to leave behind. When she discovers an abandoned nest in the barn, she becomes consumed by a scientific, and deeply personal, experiment: to breed a crow large and intelligent enough to carry her daughter, Mina, to a freedom Agnes has never known herself.
As the bird grows, so does its terrifying potential, manifest in language, cunning, and a violent will of its own. What begins as a gesture of love and liberation turns darkly obsessive, echoing the dangerous ambition of Frankenstein’s monster and the generational trauma buried in the soil of her family’s past.
One Night at Camp Bigfoot – R.L. Stine
Middle grade bigfoot horror – Book 6 of Goosebumps House of Shivers
Siblings Harper and Dylan are reluctantly spending their summer at Camp Bigfoot.
Run by an eccentric guy everyone calls Uncle Squatch, Camp Bigfoot is a classic summer camp with wooden cabins, forest trails, lots of outdoor activities-and the occasional Bigfoot sighting.
Uncle Squatch loves wearing a Bigfoot costume and trying to scare unsuspecting campers.
But when a Bigfoot is spotted under a full moon, panic fills the camp.
Is this Uncle Squatch’s usual prank, or a real Bigfoot?
The Only One Who Knows – Lisa M. Matlin
Psychological horror
Something is lurking below the surface, and it’s hungry.
With her polished persona as a morning show co-host, Minnow Greenwood seems to have it all. But behind the camera, something’s about to break. When a public meltdown shatters her facade, Minnow flees back to Kangaroo Bay, a grimy fishing town on Australia’s southern coast, where locals vanish and something deadly hunts in the water.
On her first night back, a horrifying shark attack rocks the town, adding another body to the unsettling list of deaths and disappearances. Then a former colleague arrives to investigate, so she reluctantly teams up with him to find answers for herself and keep her own dark secrets buried.
But with danger closing in, Minnow must unearth her town’s deadly past, and face the darkness festering inside her, before she becomes the next to disappear.
Strange Buildings – Uketsu
Psychological horror
11 strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all.
A lonely hut in the woods.
A murder house.
A hidden chamber.
A mysterious shrine.
A home in flames.
A nightmarish prison.
After receiving multiple tips from his devoted readership, a writer fascinated by the occult put together eleven case files, each featuring its very own strange building. Each of the eleven structures in this book has a floor plan that conceals a disturbing architectural quirk: from disappearing rooms to apartments with no means of escape. Each buildings tells its own chilling story. And each is part of a grander puzzle.
Turn Off the Light – Jacquie Walters
Supernatural horror
Two women living centuries apart are bound by the same dark secret.
On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia, Edith is a healer, a woman of knowledge, and a woman watched. Shadows move where they shouldn’t. Whispers creep through the dark. Terrified she has opened her home to the Devil, Edith makes a desperate choice.
Claire doesn’t believe in ghosts until she returns home to care for her dying father and finds her childhood house listening. As one sleepless night bleeds into the next, she becomes convinced something is stirring beneath the floorboards. Something that has waited a long time to rise.
As the danger mounts, Edith and Claire will discover they’ll need each other to survive. But they are separated by four hundred years. And time is running out for them both.
When I Was Death – Alexis Henderson
YA supernatural horror
A teenage girl must do Death’s bidding to uncover the secrets of her sister’s disappearance.
Roslyn isn’t herself anymore. It’s been a year since her sister, Adeline, died under mysterious circumstances, and Roslyn is still tormented by her absence. So when the elusive caravan of girls that Adeline spent her last summer with rolls back into town, Roslyn joins them to finally figure out what happened to her sister.
Strange, beautiful, and intriguing, the girls are closed off from the world. And as it turns out, they’re brought together by a force more sinister than Roslyn’s nightmares could’ve conjured up: Death himself.
Death has spared the girls from untimely endings, and to pay for their lives, the girls travel the country reaping souls on his behalf. Now Roslyn must decide if finding closure is worth the price of striking the same deal.
Yearning for Imperfection – Micah Castle
Psychological horror
In a forest where death triggers a monstrous rebirth, one man must survive a high-stakes hunt to save his marriage, or become the very abomination he’s running from.
Michael is desperate. With his marriage collapsing, an invitation to an exclusive social club feels like a perfect escape. He was wrong. One drugged drink later, he awakes in a dense forest to find he isn’t a guest; he’s prey.
Orchestrated by a billionaire club owner, this lethal game of cat-and-mouse has a horrifying caveat: death isn’t the end, it’s a metamorphosis. The fallen are reborn as grotesque abominations that stalk the contestants with unrelenting hunger.
To get back to his husband and the marriage he’s desperate to save, Michael must survive the gauntlet of biological rot and visceral terror. But as the game takes its toll, his own humanity begins to fracture.
