Abyss – Nicholas Binge
Workplace horror
Joe always had potential, but he doesn’t expect much, and he hopes that his new job as an admin assistant won’t expect much of him.
But when he enters the offices of Ponos – a company he’s never heard of and knows nothing about – he discovers that potential is exactly what they want from him.
The Devil in I – Angel Sanchez
Supernatural horror
When strange sounds and whispered voices begin haunting the Miller family’s home, what begins as fear soon turns to desperation. Their son, twelve-year-old James, starts speaking in a voice that isn’t his. The local priest, Father William Grant, believes he has faced evil before, but nothing like this.
The rites fail. The prayers go unanswered.
And as the nights grow longer, it becomes clear that what has taken hold inside that house isn’t seeking release. It wants to be free.
The House of Whispers – Tom Carter
Haunted house horror
Some houses keep secrets. This one whispers them.
After the death of his estranged mother, Jimmy Manning returns to his hometown of Broadoaks for the first time in twenty years. He hasn’t come back to pay his respects, but to make sure she is finally gone for good. That, and the fact he’s inherited the family home he hasn’t set foot in since he was sixteen. With his older brother, Jason, missing, and his younger brother, Thomas, the permanent resident of a mental facility, the arrangements all fall on Jimmy.
He would like nothing more than for the house to be gutted and burned down, but when he experiences strange goings on, he wonders if it’s his emotions getting the better of him, or if something paranormal is happening in the house that caused him so much misery.
Then he hears it. The Whisper. Dig.
Jimmy has a decision to make: turn and leave like he did twenty years ago, or listen to the whisper and trawl through the chaos of his youth to discover the demons buried there.
In the Blood – April Henry
Serial killer horror
An adopted teen takes a DNA test to find her biological parents and unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of a serial killer.
Adopted as a newborn, Tessa has always wondered who her biological parents are. After turning eighteen, she takes a DNA test in hopes of finding the answers.
With best friend El and lab partner Victor, Tessa uses the results to start building her family tree. But they find more dead ends than answers.
Her biological mother, who was raised in a religious cult, has cut all ties with her controlling family. And her biological father remains a complete mystery, at least until the police show up.
For fifteen years, they’ve been trying to identify a serial killer known as the Portland Phantom. Tessa may be the link they’ve been waiting for.
Killer Summer – Wendy Dalrymple
Slasher horror
She can still smell him. She can still feel him. But she can’t see him.
Dani Kincaid is an average teen on the cusp of adulthood in late 1990s California. She has her friends, her family, her boyfriend, and a job at the local video store. But she also has a dangerous stalker in preppy classmate Matt Vickers, a textbook misogynist who will stop at nothing to have her by his side.
Twenty-five years later, Dani is still struggling to shake the past of the killer summer that turned her life upside down. She’s changed her identity and moved to Florida, where the echoes of that awful summer continue to haunt every aspect of her life. Even though Vickers has been behind bars for a quarter of a century, Dani slowly begins to feel his terrifying shadow creep back into her life to finish what he began.
In a final girl showdown to end all showdowns, Dani is forced to face her past and stand up for herself and her freedom once and for all. But at what cost?
Make Me Better – Sarah Gailey
Psychological horror
An exclusive invitation. A remote island infamous for its miraculous ecology. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to fix everything that’s broken. But sometimes growth requires sacrifice.
Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family, to belong to someone. That’s why she’s going to Kindred Cove for the annual Salt Festival held by the secluded community that lives there. They promise that healing is possible. They promise that transformation is inevitable. There is no grief at Kindred Cove, because there is no suffering. Nothing is ever lost.
Celia knows that, at that mysterious island surrounded by that impossible, ever-growing reef, she will find herself.
She’s ready to be healed. She’s ready to be transformed.
She’s ready to believe.
The Remedy is the Disease – Leticia Urieta
Horror collection
A collection of experimental speculative and horror stories about living with chronic pain and illness, medical trauma, grief, and the way vulnerable bodies are treated in a capitalist, individualistic society.
However, the collection is not without moments of light. A mother’s love for her hard-won daughter; blossoming friendship between patients living nightmares of chronic pain; self-love in the face of a society that ignores individuals with disabilities at best, and reviles them at worst.
The Saw Mouth – Cale Plett
YA monster horror
A genderqueer teen survives a near-apocalypse only to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own.
When Cedar was a child, fragmented, tortured souls woke up in the world’s most complex machines, destroying them and pushing technology back decades. A fall. The Fall, some said, and they called it Autumn.
Ten years later, following a family tragedy, Cedar moves to the nowhere town of Sawblade Lake only to find something hunting them. A long, bent shadow that reeks like rot and has the mouth of a deep crevice. It’s after Cedar, and it’s willing to go to any lengths to break them, including preying on Cedar’s new queer family.
The closer it circles, the more it seems to weave through Cedar’s whole life. It might stretch back to their mother’s gruesome, inexplicable death, to the murk of their missing family, to the house they grew up in. Back and back and back to the first day of Autumn.
Cedar thought they understood how their world had changed, but they’re far from dredging the bottom.
Trad Wife – Sarah Langan
Supernatural horror
Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed.
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven perfect children, and a life of from-scratch meals and pastoral bliss, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a secret. And in this case, the secret is a horror.
Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia. Jenny is ready to write a scathing exposé, determined to uncover the deception behind Mia’s curated life. But soon, Jenny has more to contend with than staged videos and picture-perfect poses. There’s something wrong at the farmhouse. Something slithers through Jenny’s dreams, and at night, the children sing strange nursery rhymes.
She’s losing time. She’s losing her hair. She starts to worry, that she’s losing her mind.
Under a Carnivore Sky – Brianna Jett
Monster horror
I’m the only one left hunting the monster, the only one left with a chance of saving us all.
Raised in a town surrounded by a labyrinthian, man-eating swamp, Lili craves nothing more than to track down the monster lurking in its depths and kill it.
The monster’s curse claims the flesh and bone of every adult in town, stealing them away, piece by piece. For generations, people have tried to kill it or escape the town altogether, but every path out of town leads them right back in.
Caleb, a bookish boy with dreams of freedom, is hungry to escape. He thinks that with Lili’s help and knowledge of the swamp, he can make a map to freedom. And Lili hopes that with a better sense of its territory, she might finally find and kill the monster.
Together, they chart the swamp’s shifting terrain. Sharing in the danger and the beauty of the landscape sparks a friendship between them―and then something more. However, what they discover disrupts everything Lili thought she knew about the town, her father, the monster, even herself.
The truth at the root of the curse could devour them all. And Lili must decide if risking her life to be the town’s savior is worth sacrificing her own chance of escape.
