As It Unfolds – Matthew Salinas
YA horror collection
18 short stories that dig deep into the primal, the twisted, and the unknown.
From psychological terrors and blood-soaked nightmares to creatures lurking just out of sight, horror in every form. Whether you’re drawn to mind-bending suspense or unrelenting gore, this collection has one goal: to haunt you long after the last page.
Doghouse – Christian Francis
Zombie horror movie novelization
They came for a lads’ weekend. They walked into a nightmare.
When a group of mates heads to the remote village of Moodley to help their recently-divorced friend blow off steam, they expect beers, banter, and maybe a bit of peace.
What they find instead is a town abandoned, except for its new inhabitants: bloodthirsty, mutated women with one goal: total male annihilation.
Fever Dreams – Mark Morris (editor)
Horror anthology
20 original non-themed horror stories, 16 of which have been commissioned from some of the top names in horror, and 4 selected from the hundreds of stories sent to Flame Tree during a short open submissions window.
A delicious feast of the familiar and the new, the established and the emerging.
Futility – Nuzo Onoh
Revenge horror
Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot resist.
Chia runs one of the best restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria, and is renowned among the male clientele for her captivating beauty and delicious hot pepper soup. But her hot pepper soup has a secret ingredient, and her beauty is not what it seems.
Claire is a 50-year-old British woman living in Abuja with her young Nigerian boyfriend and his beautiful cousin, Shadé. Consumed by jealousy and resentment, Claire’s carefully organised life spirals into chaos after a night out at Chia’s infamous restaurant.
The Graceview Patient – Caitlin Starling
Psychological horror
Margaret’s rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can, until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.
The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.
Unsure of what’s real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview’s halls.
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow – Kelley Armstrong
Haunted house horror
When Samantha Payne’s grandfather dies, she figures she won’t even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn’t seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father was innocent, despite Sam having caught him burying the child’s body, his clothing streaked with blood.
But when she does attend the reading of the will at the behest of her aunt, she discovers that her grandfather left her the very valuable lakefront property where the family cottage sits. There’s one catch: Sam needs to stay in the cottage for a month. To finally face the fact she was wrong and her father was innocent, in her grandfather’s words.
Traveling to Paynes Hollow, Sam is faced with the realities of her childhood and the secrets kept hidden in the shadows of her memories. When her aunt goes missing a couple days into their stay, Sam begins to question everything again. Plagued by nightmares and paranoia, she begins hearing sounds in the forest and seeing shapes crawling from the water as the rippling waves of the lake promise something unspeakably dark lurking just below their surface.
The Hauntings Back Home – Rebecca Cuthbert
Ghost horror collection
13 ghostly manifestations haunt the pages of this book.
Some, you may recognize: a woman spurned too soon, a basement entity with no mercy.
Others are less familiar: a giant black dog that won’t go away. An orchard with no exit. Dancers who will not be shamed.
Turn back the cover and meet them.
Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In – Joe Bob Briggs
Horror non-fiction (updated edition)
This art book-sized hardcover edition features Briggs’ first columns for The Dallas Times Herald and contains his famous B-movie reviews, fan letters and his replies, plus Briggs’ adventures as the world’s foremost expert on drive-ins, some of which hasn’t been in print for more than forty years.
This expanded, newly-designed edition includes a cover by Wallace McBride, interior artwork by comic book artist Mike Norton, and an introduction by Stephen King.
Featuring Joe Bob Briggs’ writing on beloved horror classics ranging from Basket Case to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to The Evil Dead.
The Last Witch – C.J. Cooke
Historical witch horror
A woman accused of being a witch must use her voice to fight for her life and the truth.
Innsbruck, 1485. Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is doing: keeping house, supporting her husband, and bearing his children, but as an outspoken, strong woman, she sometimes has difficulty fitting in.
Then she draws the unwanted attention of a malign priest who is just starting his campaign to root out “witches” from among the women of her town, and when her husband’s footman dies, she finds herself accused not only of murder but of witchcraft.
Helena must find the courage to risk her life and the lives of others by standing up to a man determined to paint her as the most wicked of all.
Based on the incredible true story of a woman who challenged a man who went on to become one of Europe’s most notorious and cruel witchfinders.
Little Horn – Gemma Files
Horror collection
14 dark short stories and novelettes.
Helping to bring each story to life, this collection includes sixteen full-page illustrations by the author.
Mischief Night – James Kaine
Halloween slasher horror
When a family finds themselves under siege by a band of bloodthirsty psychopaths, will they fall victim to their deadly tricks?
October 30, 1979. As thunder booms and lightning streaks the skies over Pine Hill Mental Hospital, a mass breakout unleashes dozens of dangerously disturbed inmates into the darkness. While the authorities scramble to round up the escapees through the storm, three of the institution’s most demented patients form an unholy alliance. Jack, a charismatic cult leader, Ollie, a debaucherous deviant, and Wallace, a mute mountain of a man with freakish strength and no conscience.
Liberated from their imprisonment, the trio of madmen celebrate their newfound freedom by leaving a trail of mutilated bodies across the countryside.
Meanwhile, Susan, a young mother, braves the storm with her eight-year-old son, attempting to get away from a different kind of monster: a tormenter in the form of a man she once loved but now turns her every waking moment into a living nightmare. A man that will not be happy to find his family has fled and will go to any lengths to bring them home.
Seeking refuge at her brother’s farm, Susan’s respite will be short-lived when the maniacs descend on the isolated family in the midst of a blackout, seeking fresh blood to spill.
A Mortician’s Shadow – Kristal Shanahan
Urban legend horror
Whispers of what happened at the local church graveyard catches the attention of the new mortician in town.
After a few suspicious deaths occur before Halloween, Justin is determined to help the small town he’s grown to love.
As he investigates, he dives into local legends and lore which create more questions and possible secrets.
Remain – Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan
Supernatural horror
When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he is hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from an upscale psychiatric facility where he was treated for acute depression, he is still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister.
Sylvia’s deathbed revelation, that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family, sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain. But when he takes up residence at a historic bed-and-breakfast on the Cape, he encounters a beautiful young woman named Wren who will challenge every assumption he has about his logical and controlled world.
Tate and Wren find themselves forging an immediate connection, one that neither has ever experienced before. But Tate gradually discovers that below the surface of Wren’s idyllic small-town life, hatred, jealousy, and greed are festering, threatening their fragile relationship just as it begins to blossom.
Tate realizes that in order to free Wren from an increasingly desperate fate, he will need to unearth the truth about her past before time runs out; a quest that will make him doubt whether we can ever believe the stories we tell about ourselves, and the laws that govern our existence.
Love, while transformative, can sometimes be frightening.
The Skinner Effect – L. Andrew Cooper
Psychological horror
After university authorities observe a gruesome experiment that psychologist Dr. Stanley Burrows performs on rats, an experiment during which one of his graduate student assistants is injured, Dr. Burrows and his only loyal assistant, Edward Pine, accept exile from the academic world and embrace new supporters who want them to do different sorts of experiments on human subjects.
Dr. Burrows has limitless resources to develop innovative processes for behavioral conditioning that achieve extreme outcomes. He programs his subjects with violence so they will commit violence.
Spurred by conclusions drawn from the thinking of radical behaviorist B.F. Skinner, he will use his subjects to demonstrate not only the bloody extremes for which he can program a “human” but also a new understanding of “the human” susceptible to programming.
When Shadows Burn – Todd Brown
Small town horror
Some houses whisper. This one screams.
In the heart of Raven’s Cross, Virginia, the decaying Scott house looms. Its broken-window eyes watch a town desperate to forget. When Roxy, a teenage girl, vanishes into a sweltering night, long-buried fears erupt, and suspicion turns savage. The townspeople turn on the newcomers, blaming them for what they refuse to face in themselves. As polite smiles crack and old grudges resurface, Raven’s Cross’s genteel mask begins to slip, revealing the rot beneath.
Timothy Michaels came to town chasing a story. A true crime podcaster investigating the haunted legacy of the Scott house, he never expected to be pulled into something so immediate-and so dangerous. Alongside unexpected allies, Tim begins to unearth a legacy of complicity and cruelty-one the town would kill to keep buried. Because, in Raven’s Cross, the shadows don’t just linger. They burn.
