A Selection of Horror Books Released, 14 to 20 Apr 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghosts, dark fantasy, western, vampire, and cult horror
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Table of Contents
Bad Dreams in the Night – Adam Ellis
Illustrated horror collection
Like a graphic novel version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, this collection of original horror tales is packed with urban legends, terrifying twists, and delightfully haunted stories by one of the biggest stars in webcomics.
An updated, illustrated take on the horror anthologies the author grew up with as a kid, such as Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and In a Dark, Dark Room. These self-contained stories grew rapidly in popularity among the author’s online audience, and even inspired production of a motion picture from Buzzfeed Studios and Lionsgate Films.
Filled with spine-tingling, pulse-increasing tales of mystery and supernatural occurrences, this book of never-before-seen comics will be the perfect gift for people who love Black Mirror and Stranger Things and listened to podcasts like Welcome to Nightvale and Rabbits.
The Demon of Devil’s Cavern – Brennan Lafaro
Western horror – Book 2 of The Buzzard’s Edge Saga
The blood-curdling saga of Rory Daggett and Buzzard’s Edge is fixin’ to unleash a harrowing storm.
Six months after the death of Noose Holcomb, Buzzard’s Edge rests in an uneasy quiet, but can a town that resonates with such hatred remain peaceful for long?
Dark forces conspire to chase Rory Daggett and his mute adopted daughter, Alice, into exile, framed for a crime they didn’t commit.
With a new sheriff and a notorious killer for hire tracking their every move, the two must choose between starting a new life and saving the soul of the town that betrayed them.
Echoes of the Dead: Collected Hauntings – Heather Daughrity
Horror collection
The dead are gone but not forgotten. Each life leaves an imprint, a legacy, an echo…
A mother drowning in lonely Despair. A man suffering a hellish night dealing with his father’s Demons. A woman caught up in a twisted and supernatural Desire.
These stories and more explore the aftermath of loss and the struggle of the living as they fight the maddening reverberations that loss spins through their own lives – as they find themselves caught up in the Echoes of the Dead.
The House at the End of Lacelean Street – Catherine McCarthy
Psychological horror
It’s midnight, and in the middle of an ice storm, when Claudia Dance boards the bright yellow bus to Lacelean Street, a destination she has never heard of.
She has no coat, no luggage, and no clue as to why she left home. In fact, she has no memory of her past whatsoever, and yet she feels compelled to make the trip.
She will come to realize that salvation lies within the red-brick house at the end of Lacelean Street, a salvation granted by the strange power that dwells within.
Sanity will be questioned, limits tested, and answers revealed. But at what price?
Immortal Pleasures – V. Castro
Vampire horror
An ancient Aztec vampire roams the modern world in search of vengeance and love.
Hundreds of years ago, she was known as La Malinche: a Nahua woman who translated for the conquistador Cortés. In the centuries since, her name has gone down in infamy as a traitor. But no one ever found out what happened to La Malinche after Cortés destroyed her people.
In the ashes of the empire, she was reborn as Malinalli, an immortal vampire. And she has become an avenger of conquered peoples, traveling the world to reclaim their stolen artifacts and return them to their homelands.
But she has also been in search of something more, for this ancient vampire still has deeply human longings for pleasure and for love.
When she arrives in Dublin in search of a pair of Aztec skulls – artifacts intimately connected to her own dark history- she finds something else: two men who satisfy her cravings in very different ways.
For the first time she meets a mortal man, a horror novelist, who is not repelled by her strange condition but attracted by it. But there is also another man, an immortal like herself, who shares the darkness in her heart.
Now Malinalli is on the most perilous adventure of all: a journey into her own desires.
Indian Burial Ground – Nick Medina
Supernatural horror
A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems.
All Noemi wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on, things are finally looking up for Noemi. Until the news of her boyfriend’s apparent suicide brings her world crumbling down.
But the facts about Roddy’s death just don’t add up, and Noemi isn’t the only one who suspects that something menacing might be lurking within their tribal lands.
After over a decade away, Uncle Louie has returned to the reservation, bringing with him a past full of secrets, horror, and what might be the key to determining Roddy’s true cause of death. Together, Noemi and Louie set out to find answers, but as they get closer to the truth, Noemi begins to wonder whether it might be best for some secrets to remain buried.
Living in Cemeteries – Corey Farrenkopf
Ghost horror
Dave Gallagher mows the lawns and digs the graves at cemeteries in his hometown on Cape Cod. He also keeps the peace between the ghosts inhabiting those cemeteries.
In this world, wrongdoing is atoned for by a person’s descendants. Spirits decapitate relatives of serial killers and lay pox blankets over men responsible for the Trail of Tears.
The only way Dave can learn of his pre-ordained death is by traveling the New England countryside, visiting haunted cemeteries, asking familial ghosts what fate has in store. A gruesome death, or a happily-ever-after with his longtime girlfriend, Jessica?
Marauding Spirit-whipped bulls and deadly nightshade, a doomed roommate and a wayward crypt-sleeper each derail Dave’s path to understanding, but nothing presents more of a challenge than his silent, long dead father. The man’s refusal to speak leaves Dave wondering what evils his parents committed.
How dark is the shade cast by his family tree? The only way to find out is to speak to the dead, but Dave’s not always going to like the answers he receives.
Lord of the Feast – Tim Waggoner
Cult horror
Twenty years ago, a cult attempted to create their own god: The Lord of the Feast.
The god was a horrible, misbegotten thing, however, and the cultists killed the creature before it could come into its full power. The cultists trapped the pieces of their god inside mystic nightstones then went their separate ways.
Now Kate, one of the cultists’ children, seeks out her long-lost relatives, hoping to learn the truth of what really happened on that fateful night.
Unknown to Kate, her cousin Ethan is following her, hoping she’ll lead him to the nightstones so that he might resurrect the Lord of the Feast. And this time, Ethan plans to do the job right.
Sanctuary – Valentina Cano Repetto
Supernatural horror
Sibilla Fenoglio wants nothing more than to live with her husband in this run-down, derelict watermill.
Uninhabited since the Renaissance after a mysterious disaster befell the previous owners, the mill requires extensive repairs. But there is something frightening about the mill.
Repairs are violently undone, half-seen figures begin stalking Sibilla through the grounds, and haunting echoes of the previous owners’ lives infiltrate the present.
As the disturbances grow more vicious and her husband more secretive, she realizes that she and her child are in danger.
Skin That Screams – Thomas Stewart
Body horror collection
You ever wonder why it can be so uncomfortable to be in your own skin? You think maybe it has something to do with how you look in the mirror? Could it be that you’ve eaten too much? Maybe you’ve even gotten yourself in quite the predicament, letting yourself get hurt…
Whatever the case, though, one thing is certain, all flesh has a story, and it’s screaming it!
These tales are those of what one man’s skin tells him when he suddenly develops a strange condition that causes it to tell horrid things to him.
These Dark Souls – Steven Roy Burton
Dark fantasy horror
Within the kingdom of Britain, darkness will eventually descend upon the large town of Suffolk, where Redhill Castle lies.
The tranquil place in the East of England suddenly turns sour as the land is surrounded by superstition and magic.
An unknown entity from the earth’s core rises, and as it shoots up into the atmosphere, the days soon become bleak.
Withered – A.G.A. Wilmot
Psychological horror
A queer paranormal horror novel showing the complex real-life terror inherent in grief and mental illness.
After the tragic death of their father and surviving a life-threatening eating disorder, 18-year-old Ellis moves with their mother to the small town of Black Stone, seeking a simpler life and some space to recover.
But Black Stone feels off; it’s a disquieting place surrounded by towns with some of the highest death rates in the country. It doesn’t help that everyone says Ellis’s new house is haunted. Everyone including Quinn, a local girl who has quickly captured Ellis’s attention.
Ellis has started to believe what people are saying: they see pulsing veins in their bedroom walls and specters in dark corners of the cellar.
Together, Ellis and Quinn dig deep into Black Stone’s past and soon discover that their town, and Ellis’s house in particular, is the battleground in a decades-long spectral war, one that will claim their family, and the town, if it’s allowed to continue.
Published: 20 April 2024
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