The Bean Nighe – Brianna Raine
Folk horror
Having very stressful work lives, leaving not enough time for their marriage, Tara and Matt decide it’s time to make their relationship a priority and head to the Isle of Skye for a highland break.
Deep in the woods, something lingers, hiding and waiting for the next person to venture into the depths.
Cold Snap – Angela Sylvaine
Sci-fi horror – Book 2 of The Frost Bite Series
It’s 1998, and the town of Demise, North Dakota, is recovering from the Meteor Murders, hundreds of deaths caused by alien worms but blamed on a mass poisoning by a doomsday cult.
While nineteen-year-old Realene’s heroic actions saved the lives of many, she wants nothing more than to hide from the world and mourn the ones she couldn’t save.
When a second half of the meteor is found north of the border where her best friend Nate is on a spring break trip, she’ll have to face her fears and venture into Canada to find him.
The only thing standing in her way are rampant alien worms, a covert military op, and the cold snap of the century.
Crawlspace – Adam Christopher
Sci-fi horror
Mission Lead Olivia O’Connor and her team from the Artemis Corporation, along with their military liaison, are in the final preparations for an undertaking that will alter the course of human history: a test flight that promises to open up new frontiers in the expanse of the universe.
But their journey between dimensions is one they never trained for. Strange voices in the corridors. Long lost faces not forgotten. Strange symbols carved into the hull. And gathering outside the ship, ancient forces beyond reckoning.
The crew will need all their skills to survive and uncover the twisted truth behind their mission.
Dark – Iain Rob Wright
Sci-fi horror
When Dr Mara Voss wakes aboard the colony ship Eidolon, she expects sunlight and a new world. Instead, she finds a silent vessel drifting in darkness, malfunctioning systems, and an AI that won’t tell the truth.
Trapped in a labyrinth of failing technology and growing dread, Mara and her companions must uncover the truth about their mission, their ship, and the hostile world outside before time runs out. Because whatever waits in the darkness is getting closer.
And it knows they’re awake.
The Daughters – Joanna Margaret
Gothic horror
A grieving archivist uncovers a strange connection between recent disappearances and a small New York town’s history of witch trials.
Reeling from the dual deaths of her estranged father and ex-fiancé, Genevieve Tompkins has dropped out of her PhD program in New York City and is looking for a chance to start over in Wilton Springs, a faded Victorian spa town in upstate New York.
Utilizing her background as an archivist, she is hired to catalogue the papers of the prominent Wilton family, who trace their lineage back to the founders of the town. But as she digs into their records, Genevieve discovers that the family’s pharmaceutical business and their personal lives have been fraught with a history of tragedy.
She also uncovers a series of disturbing disappearances and suspicious deaths among the women of the town.
Three centuries earlier, Wilton Springs was the site of a brutal witch trial–a fact which someone has gone to extreme lengths to erase from historical record. As Genevieve explores the connections between the modern disappearances and the town’s ugly past, she becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy, where the line between superstition and reality begins to blur, and she fears she may become the next woman to go missing from Wilton Springs.
I Am Become Death – Stewart Clyde
Serial killer horror – Book 3 of Carver & Sandling Crime Thrillers
Twenty years ago, six women were killed in the Louisiana backcountry. Now it’s happening again.
FBI Deputy Director Bronwyn Gibson solved the Prophet Murders, and the case made her career. Now another body has been found in Louisiana. Not similar, the same as the killings twenty years ago, right down to forensic details that were never released to the public.
Someone knows exactly how those women died. And now they’re doing it again.
Is this a copycat? Or did Gibson help convict the wrong man?
Carver and his team are sent to Louisiana to find the answer, but Gibson is already there, running her own investigation, protecting her own secrets.
Something was left at the scene that links directly to the original case. A detail so specific that only someone who was there could know it.
The closer they get to the truth, the more the danger shifts. Because this killer isn’t finished. He needs a final victim. And one of the team has already been chosen.
Innamorata – Ava Reid
Gothic horror
Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy.
A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic.
But defiant against the new order stands the House of Teeth and its last living members: beautiful Marozia, the heiress to the House, and her cousin, the uncanny Lady Agnes.
Though she has not spoken a word in seven years, Agnes is the true carrier of the House’s legacy. And she has her orders. She must recapture the secrets of death magic and avenge her family’s fallen honor. She must arrange the betrothal of her beloved cousin Marozia to Liuprand, heir to the conqueror’s throne, for access to the forbidden library in his grotesquely grand castle.
Revenge burns in Agnes’s heart but so do stranger passions, and it is Liuprand, the golden prince, who speaks to her soul. This passion is as treasonous as it is powerful, poisoning the kingdom’s roots and threatening to tear the already shattered realm in two.
For Agnes’s final order is the gravest: She must not fall in love.
Long Drives & Lonesome Roads – John Evans
Horror collection
There are over four million miles of roads in the United States. They each have a memory. From ominous hitchhikers or devils to backroads that lead to other dimensions, untold perils lurk among the highways and byways.
Sixteen petrifying tales delve into the things that scare us most.
Take care, because the roads are dark, dangerous, and deep, and you still have many miles to go before you sleep.
Mother is Watching – Karma Brown
Supernatural horror
An art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life.
Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring The Mother. The painting, believed to be the work of a female surgeon-turned-artist after a personal tragedy, is the rumored fourth piece in a collection of only three known works. But this newly discovered painting, scarred by fire, holds more than meets the eye.
Soon after receiving the painting, Tilly discovers she’s unexpectedly pregnant. But almost immediately, strange, inexplicable things begin to happen: terrifying insect swarms, eerie visits from her long-deceased mother, and sinister whispers that invade her mind.
As these malevolent forces intensify, Tilly comes to a harrowing realization: the only way to sever the perilous bond she shares with the painting is to destroy it.
But The Mother has plans of her own, and they’re darker than Tilly could ever imagine.
Only Spell Deep – Ava Morgyn
Witch horror
A witch rediscovers her power while on the run from another willing to kill her for it.
Judeth Cole has always had certain uncanny abilities. But when she arrived at Solidago, her grandfather’s estate by the sea, she was forced to keep them secret. There she lived a harsh life under his rule and the haunting legacy of her late grandmother, Aurelia. Until the fateful day she ignited a fire with her magic. It was the last time she saw her family alive.
Seventeen years later, she’s living in Seattle as Jude Clark, and failing at life, when she makes a last detour through her favorite bookstore, selecting a book to read as she waits to die. But when she pulls it from the shelf, an invitation to her for a clandestine midnight meeting slips out.
Jude is quickly swept up into a world of secrets and magic, discovering a circle of powerful new companions led by the mysterious, enigmatic Arla. The source of their magic, Arla tells her, is an entity, trapped and bound, that they call The Fathom. But Jude swiftly realizes Arla wants this power all to herself, and that she’s willing to kill for it.
Terrified, Jude turns to Levi, the handsome bookseller who’s seen her at her worst. With his help, she begins a research journey that leads her all the way back to Solidago, the house she swore to never return to. Now, the Fathom threatening to break free and Arla on the hunt, Jude must finally face her past to save her future.
Rideshare – James Kaine & Timothy King
Horror collection
Four rides. Four passengers. Four descents into darkness.
Charlie has been a New York City Rideshare driver long enough to know everyone has a story. Each passenger that requests his car gets in the backseat with their own hopes, dreams and aspirations.
But many have demons.
Four of these people will share their tales with Charlie, each more harrowing than the last. From innocence lost to bloody vengeance, these are not the accounts of your average commuter.
Screams from the Bayou – Broken Brain Books
Horror anthology
People come to the bayou to hide things. The bayou keeps them.
13 tales of creatures born from mud and resurrected these secrets concealed in the swamp. Because nothing given to the bayou is ever truly lost.
The Spoil – Maile Chapman
Supernatural horror
In a rambling split-level house on the outskirts of Tacoma in the 1970s, a young girl is preoccupied by the anomalous phenomena she reads about in magazines: alien visitations, ESP, pyramid power, the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile, she and her stepbrother, thrown uneasily together by disaster and divorce, grow increasingly convinced that a malevolent presence resides in their house, and they develop elaborate strategies to live with it.
Years later, Mandy is living in Las Vegas in a modern townhouse caring for her mother who is in a terminal decline from Alzheimer’s. She works for a real estate company but struggles to focus on her tasks. She takes medication to manage her ADHD, which has her zagging between distraction and obsession, always halfway through some home renovation project.
Then, while digging through a box of her mother’s things hoarded in her garage, she sets something loose. Something old and baleful: a demon that soon possesses one of her neighbors, an affable semiretired house flipper and handyman named TK.
Wayward Souls – Susan J. Morris
Supernatural horror – Book 2 of Harker & Moriarty
Six days before Samhain – the night when the veil between worlds is thinnest – Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula’s killer, and Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the famed criminal mastermind, are thrown into their next case: the mysterious disappearance of two Society field agents in Ireland. Only this time, the Royal Society is sending Jakob Van Helsing to keep an eye on them.
Sam and Hel may have solved the Paris case, but that doesn’t mean the Society trusts them. Sam has the power to slip into the minds of monsters, and Van Helsing has sworn to kill her at the first sign of corruption. And if Hel can’t prove her father’s existence, she’ll soon go down for his crimes.
Their investigation takes them from the crumbling ruins of Ireland’s untamed wilds to the occult societies of the rich and powerful. The connection between the Sam and Hel is electric, but as they fall deeper into each other’s orbit, their secrets only multiply. For Hel, it’s the sins she committed when she was her father’s pawn. For Sam, it’s a plague of death omens, mysterious black feathers, and a siren song no one else can hear.
And then comes a chilling revelation that is poised to shatter everything: The agents who disappeared were each haunted by a ghost. And so, it seems, is Sam.
What Lies Unseen – S.E. Howard
Psychological horror
Gruesome spirits have haunted and plagued Sam since childhood. He believes he is alone in this terrifying ability, until he meets beautiful Amanda Foster, who can hear the voices of the dead.
Amanda tells Sam there are even more like them, a group she calls her spirit circle, comprised of powerful individuals endowed with the abilities to seek out and commune with the dead.
At first, Sam eagerly accepts the invitation to join this circle but slowly begins to grow suspicious about it, and Amanda’s, true purpose.
You Did Nothing Wrong – CG Drews
Haunted house horror
Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts Golden-retriever-devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect.
Until Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it … something strange is going on.
You Have To Let Them Bleed – Annie Neugebauer
Horror collection
19 stories and 8 new poems that will draw you into the lovely darkness, lure you deeper into the heartbreaking and gruesome, and leave behind its own collection of horrors to fill the shadows of your mind.
The collector hunts the darkness for terrible beauty: macabre and marvellous stories worth displaying in their shadow boxes. Tour these horrors with them, but beware: if you’re not careful, you might find yourself lost in a labyrinth of fear.
A pickup artist is after your skin. A junk drawer opens into the abyss. The twin sons of an ill-fated magician plot against their abusive mother. A man wastes his life dreading an unseen entity. A senior water aerobics class takes a turn for the bizarre.
Ultionem Spiritus: Timmy’s Revenge – Bradford Scott
YA ghost horror
A viral trend. A child’s death. A vengeance that refuses to stay buried.
Timmy was only a child when a social media challenge went horribly wrong, and his life was stolen in an instant. For his father, Derek, grief doesn’t fade with time. It festers. Especially when Timmy’s ghost won’t let him rest.
Haunted by his son’s tormented spirit and driven to the edge of sanity, Derek uncovers a forbidden spell capable of binding Timmy’s soul into three porcelain dolls – Billy, Charlie, and Rosie.
What begins as an act of desperation becomes something far darker.
Derek waits. Years pass. And when the time is finally right, the dolls are set free.
As the past collides with the present, those responsible for Timmy’s death begin to pay a horrifying price. But revenge has consequences, and some spirits don’t want justice.
They want blood.
