A Selection of Horror Books Released, 1 to 11 Jan 2025

4 horror books

Theme: Supernatural horror

Combinare – Kelvin V.A. Allison

Horror collection

Five unrelenting tales of terror together for the first time.

Five Gold Rings: A group of violent highwaymen and villains meet at The Five Gold Rings tavern on Christmas Eve 1684, to plan their next robbery

Jerry: When Conrad’s neighbour, the cantankerous and elderly Jerry died while sat upon his ride-on mower, Conrad might have been forgiven for thinking he was in for a quiet life. Yeah right.

Organic Love: The school librarian and the object of desire for every male teacher, is mourning her missing husband. Will the arrogant coach, Clint Clarkson be man enough to make her forget her organic love?

Don’t Open the door Harold!: Edgar is home alone in his new residence, an isolated home amid the wetlands. Just him and a book. Then the woman’s voice gasps in terror, “Don’t open the door, Harold!”

Mary: If you know, you know

Losers Get Haunted and Other Threats – Stephen Barnard

Horror collection

Fourteen horror tales.

A teenage soccer player has to survive sinister occurrences, starting in the tired, old changing room but taking him beyond his young imagination.

A handful of would-be gangsters try to strike up a deal with the wrong London family.

A seemingly harmless game app has horrendous real life consequences.

Stealing from the elderly is not advised!

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes – Clay Chapman

Supernatural horror

Noah Fairchild has been losing his formerly polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reckoning” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of the many conspiracy theories she believes in.

When his own phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the long drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles, a fridge full of spoiled food, and his parents locked in a terrifying trance-like state in front of the TV. Panicked, Noah attempts to snap them out of it and get medical help.

Then Noah’s mother brutally attacks him.

Noah isn’t the only person to be attacked by a loved one. Families across the country are tearing each other apart-–literally-–as people succumb to a form of possession that gets worse the more time they spend watching particular channels, using certain apps, or visiting certain websites.

In Noah’s family, only he and his young nephew Marcus are unaffected. Together, they must race back to the safe haven of Brooklyn–-but can they make it before they fall prey to the violent hordes?

Wicked Jenny – Matt Hilton

Supernatural horror

They thought they’d moved on … but someone, or something, won’t let them.

1988: Thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends – Carl, Brian, Johnny and Gavin – are witnesses to the vicious attack of their classmate, Poppy, and the brutal murder of her sister at a flooded railway line they call the frog ponds. They lead the police to a suspect, a vulnerable older boy whose differences single him out. But when he commits suicide, his guilt is never proven. And the crime goes unpunished, unti.

Now: Carl’s body is found beside the same body of water, and the lives of the four remaining friends start to unravel.

Is the hag-like woman terrorizing their every waking moment really a grown-up Poppy hellbent on revenge? Or something else, something steeped in childhood nightmares? Something determined to reveal the truth and punish the wicked?