Eat the Light – Andrew Najberg
Apocalypse horror
The world fell to darkness while they were locked away. They survived.
The day Elissa and Tabitha’s father came home from work brandishing a shotgun, the sisters found themselves locked in a secret fallout shelter beneath their home.
With no one else to teach them to survive and signs of the apocalypse occurring around them, the girls learn to navigate their new reality while facing a question that threatens to devastate everything they thought they understood.
How did their father know to shut them in when he did?
When they finally emerge into the outside world, they find their neighborhood transformed: deserted buildings decay, rain corrodes and poisons, and mysterious, glowing beings the girls call shimmer people stalk the streets.
Uncertain who among the few remaining people they can trust, the girls set out on an odyssey across their city as Elissa feels a mysterious compulsion to lead her sister up the mountain on the edge of town.
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own – Gwendolyn Kiste
Horror collection
Enter a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past still reverberate and shape our doom.
Here, morally complex women and queer antiheroines swim against the current of a social structure that serves as a spectral prison in these layered stories of the weird and the Other.
The Hive – Ronald Malfi
Psychological horror
A wave of collective obsession and paranoia takes over an American suburb.
The residents of Mariner’s Cove are changing.
In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday items left scattered upon the lawns, the streets, and the shoreline all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost everyone, and each item has a certain hold over the person who finds it—a hold that soon turns into unwavering infatuation. They hide their items from each other, obsess over them, and they will do anything – anything – to protect them.
The collective hum of bees’ wings.
A young boy finds himself the possessor of a strange and inexplicable power. Is the arrival of this power linked to the increasingly odd and dangerous behavior of the residents of Mariner’s Cove? Has he been granted this power in order to thwart whatever is about to happen in this small, bayside community, or is there a more sinister purpose?
All hail the Dragon…
All eyes are on him now.
The residents of Mariner’s Cove are watching.
They move as one, like a solitary organism, and will do anything to succeed in their single-minded purpose.
They will not be stopped.
Invasive Species – Ellery Adams
Gothic horror
The women in Cold Harbor all have something to prove, and they’ll have to do it in a world full of monsters.
Something’s not right in Cold Harbor, more so than usual. While this sleepy small town has seen its fair share of monsters in cheating husbands and leering bosses, none are as hungry as Mrs. Smith. The mysterious resident has finally emerged from her crumbling mansion on the hill, mesmerizing the townspeople with her beauty. Her secret? Nine human sacrifices to feed her immortality.
Natalie Scott is more worried about Mrs. Smith blocking her first real estate sale – the one that will take her from stay-at-home mom to working woman extraordinaire. She’s eager to prove herself in a world where the social mores of 1980s suburbia reign, where she’s expected to keep a magazine-perfect home and raise beautiful children, all while sticking to her husband’s budget. Natalie’s two best friends are facing their own demons, and Mrs. Smith and her deep, dark woods are an easy scapegoat for everyone’s problems.
But Natalie’s twelve-year-old daughter, Jill, and her Icelandic housekeeper, Una, can sense something deeper at play. Armed with library books and a whole lot of grit, Jill and Una team up to save the town once and for all. But as the rest of Cold Harbor sinks into anger, fear, and jealousy, they’ll have to confront the question: What does it really mean to be a monster?
Japanese Gothic – Kylie Lee Baker
Gothic horror
Two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge: his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn’t always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.
October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.
One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.
Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
Little Things Big – David M. Salkin
Creature horror
When a lab leak unleashes genetically engineered skin mites, survival becomes a nightmare.
Global Tech believes it has solved world hunger.
Using revolutionary genetic engineering, the powerful Big Ag corporation has created livestock the size of elephants: cattle, pigs, and sheep engineered to feed the planet and make billions in the process. To secure political support, Global Tech hosts an exclusive showcase at its rural Pennsylvania headquarters, inviting senators, congressmen, and investors to witness the future of agriculture.
But not everyone believes Global Tech should control the food supply.
When eco-terrorists attack the facility, their sabotage triggers a catastrophic accident inside the research labs. What they release isn’t just dangerous, it’s monstrous.
From the earliest days of Global Tech’s experiments come the forgotten failures: genetically altered skin mites that grow, multiply, and swarm with horrifying speed.
Within minutes, the party becomes a battlefield.
Scientists, Secret Service agents, and trapped guests must fight their way through a nightmare of crawling flesh-eating parasites spreading through the complex. And the deeper they push into the facility, the more terrifying the truth becomes.
Morsel – Carter Keane
Folk horror
Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office gig with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their multilevel marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment.
When Lou accepts a property appraisal assignment in the rural hills of Ohio, she knows it’s her last chance to save her job and keep making rent. But she quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, her dog, and someone, or something, stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.
If she can’t escape the woods in time, she’ll see firsthand that her job isn’t the only thing that wants to eat her alive.
Not One Left – Stephen Barnard
Vampire horror
It’s been nearly three years since the events at Kilbride House, and the survivors have been trying to rebuild their lives. However, one of them has been on a mission.
Now Rhea Bennett finds herself in Whitby, where a group of vampires are gathering, hiding in plain sight behind the carnival atmosphere of the Goth Festival. Their plan: to unite, collaborate, and ultimately destroy.
Rhea’s plan: to stop them.
Danielle Tilson also finds herself in Whitby, but doesn’t quite know why. When the two meet, Rhea knows that with Danni around, her mission just got a boost; she can use her experience at Kilbride House to help her search for the vampires.
Perdition – Brian Kubarycz
Horror collection
Conjuring dread without the jump scares, each story focuses not on an action but on a single arresting vision.
A hunting expedition devolves into a disorienting search for a lost woman.
Human bodies fall from the sky.
A true believer seeks salvation by swallowing scripture and corn whiskey.
Scrapbook – Iain Rob Wright
Apocalypse horror
It’s 2026. The cost of living is spiralling out of control, war is breaking out all over the globe, and an innocuous cold virus has just begun to spread in North West India.
A world already on the brink of collapse is about to experience the pandemic to end all pandemics.
Follow Max, Caz, Lanny and a variety of other ‘ordinary’ people as they try to survive the unsurvivable.
These Familiar Walls – CJ Dotson
Psychological horror
In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood, a boy with dead eyes, a fascination with fire, and no remorse. Their turbulent relationship is brief but creates lasting consequences.
Twenty-two years later, in 2020, he resurfaces to kill Amber’s parents, and is in turn betrayed by his accomplice and killed in Amber’s childhood home.
After the deaths, Amber inherits the house and, in an effort to save money, moves in with her husband and two children, hoping to reclaim some sense of stability in the grief and chaos surrounding her. Instead, she finds that the familiar walls are haunted by more than just bitter memories and lockdown stress. She shifts in and out of dreamlike trances, her reflection won’t meet her gaze, and a menacing voice whispers to her from the gathering shadows.
Although she tried to brush off the strange happenings as stress-fueled hallucinations, Amber is soon forced to admit that something much more real, and more dangerous, haunts her family. But Amber has deadly secrets of her own, and she must resolve these long-buried truths or lose the life she’s contrived for herself.
Wife Shaped Bodies – Laura Cranehill
Gothic horror
An isolated newlywed, covered in fungal fruiting bodies, strikes a precarious balance between following her husband’s strict rules and pursuing an intense connection with a woman who makes her question everything
Forbidden from leaving her house from girlhood until marriage, Nicole has only her mother’s lessons and what she can see from her bedroom window to draw on in forming her view of the world, and of herself. Taught that the mushrooms which cover the women in her village are repulsive and dangerous, she conforms to a rigid set of rules to protect herself and those around her.
When her wedding day arrives, Nicole moves from one prison to another: an empty mansion on the very outskirts of town belonging to the husband she’s been promised to since birth. As she haunts the edges of Silas’s unknowable life and decaying home, maintaining control over her own transforming body becomes increasingly impossible.
And when another wife with rebellious tendencies pays Nicole an unexpected visit, something within her cracks open. Their furtive explorations yield confusing answers, unearthing the long-buried secrets of the generations of resentful brides that came before. Unmoored, angry, and at last awakened, Nicole must reckon with who she really is, and perhaps, give in to what she truly wants.
