Agnes, We’re Not Murderers! – Jessica Alexander
Vampire horror
Agnes is wasting away. In a bed of velvet and silk, she dreams of death, and Mary.
Mary – a wraith with bloodstained gown and mouth – materializes beside a lake, beneath a pear tree, outside the window. She turns servants feral and plunges the manor into anarchy. Since her arrival, nothing is right. The maids snarl. The nights grow strange. Agnes swoons.
Her brother, Arthur, calls it a sickness. A curse. He stalks the halls with scissors in his fist. He wants purity and order. He’ll strike out the unintelligible.
He is not the only one. Others have begun to stir: jilted lovers, disgraced doctors, moralists with sharpened knives. The disorder is spreading. It’s riotous. Contagious. They’ll purify the world in flame.
Autistic Ghost Stories and Other Chilling Situations – Sarah Kuntz
Psychological horror collection
An exorcism of thought, where misconceptions and misunderstandings are lured into metaphorical stories and investigated for the means of re-marrying the artistically lost and macabre expression of the neurotype.
Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror – Monstrous Books
Horror anthology
13 new short stories inspired by the hit TV series Creepshow™ from executive producer Greg Nicotero.
Original stories by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), David Avallone (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Blade Runner, Sonja Blue), Dennis Crosby (Weird Tales), Keith R.A. DeCandido (Supernatural Crimes Unit, Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Gwendolyn Kriste (2024 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for The Haunting of Velkwood), Jonathan Maberry (V-Wars), Lisa Morton (The Best American Mystery Stories 2020), Nick Roberts (The Exorcist’s House), Thomas E. Sniegoski (Hellboy, Vampirella), Tim Waggoner (Terrifier, Halloween Kills novelizations), Simon Bestwick (Best Horror of the Year), and James Aquilone (Kolchak: The Night Stalker).
A Dash of Demon – J.F. Dubeau & Amy Frost
Supernatural horror – Book 1 of Achewillow
Based on the Achewillow fiction podcast.
Miriam DuFour is at the end of her rope.
Kicked out of cooking school and living in her ex-boyfriend’s apartment, nothing in her life seems to be going right. That is until she inherits the estate of her dead great-grandaunt: a little café in the forgotten town of Achewillow.
Intent on selling the business and using the money to make a fresh start, Miriam visits Achewillow and discovers that the village sits firmly on the border between Vermont and Quebec. But that isn’t remotely the strangest thing about the place. There’s a cloud worshipping cult, a widow with a ghost husband, immortal raccoons, and something killing young women in the alleys.
As Miriam juggles demons, coffee, witchcraft, and baking, the town conspires to make her stay. Is it social pressure, financial hardship, or a family history that she hasn’t even begun to unravel? Only one thing seems certain: the answers to her questions are buried in the recipe books, mixing bowls, and coffee cups of the Achewillow café.
Dopefoot – Joshua Millican
Supernatural horror
When a college drop-out accepts work on a cannabis farm in the woods of Northern California, he realizes almost immediately that the harsh realities of this life won’t match his naïve fantasies. He’ll have to work hard-and watch his back.
Dubbed “Harmless” by his cultish cohorts, the young man learns the logistics of cultivation and the dark philosophies dictating conduct in this outlaw wilderness.
The farm sits on a mountain the locals call Satan’s Tumor, above a valley called The Green Cauldron, where dangerous elements have been brewing beneath the misty canopy. Overstimulated gangs of smugglers and well-funded foreign mobsters vie for control of this fertile territory, threatening to disrupt an elaborate ecosystem that predates history.
And beneath it all, in the most dismal corners of The Green Cauldron, even darker forces are stirring… angry, agitated, pushed to the brink. The forest is an explosive tinderbox on the verge of ignition.
If he’s going to survive, Harmless must sink to new depths before facing unimaginable horrors on a feverish journey into Hell and back.
Going to the Six – A.C. Hessenauer
Supernatural horror
On Lake Superior, some wrecks never rest.
When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four–person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka – a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior – he believes he’s chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger.
Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen’s own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two timelines: the ill-fated expedition, and the haunted present. Just as the record fractures, so too does Owen’s grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel.
Locals whisper of an old superstition: six signs that come before a person loses their mind. Did the crew uncover a secret buried with the Keuka? Or are Owen’s memories a labyrinth of guilt, grief, and madness?
Inhalation – Michael Boulerice
Psychological horror
With only weeks left to live, retired auto body mechanic Milo St. Lawrence refuses the option of hospice care in California and returns to the forgotten New England home where his family was destroyed.
Dying of cancer and haunted by fragmented memories, Milo believes he must confront something buried in the shadows of the past before death claims him. Confined to a hospital bed inside the half-rotten structure once called home, repressed childhood memories resurface.
One by one, he recalls his siblings’ mysterious illnesses, his parents’ rigid Catholic faith, and the cult-like devotion that replaced medical care with prayer. He remembers watching his estranged sister Marie speak to an imaginary friend in the corner of the living room, and how their parents eventually began communing with it too.
As the past and present collide, Milo remembers the night he fled. The night Marie revealed the truth about the many-limbed caterpillar man and the alien hookah device that had siphoned the life from the St. Lawrence children for decades.
Armed only with his engineering skills and a dying man’s resolve, Milo devises a plan to modify the supernatural parasite’s hookah for human operation in a desperate attempt to siphon the monster’s life from the device before he becomes its final offering.
Of Dread, Decay, and Doom – Stars and Sabers Publishing
Horror anthology
A horror-themed anthology edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L. Powell, and Scarlett R. Algee, featuring masters of horror fiction.
Contributing authors include Eugen Bacon, Patrick Barb, James Bennett, Renan Bernardo, Katrina Carruth, Vincent V. Cava, Andrew K. Clark, P.A. Cornell, Dennis K. Crosby, Nicole Field, KC Grifant, Jamal Hodge, Somto Ihezue, Pedro Iniguez, John Hornor Jacobs, Alice James, Ai Jiang, Helen Glynn Jones, Red Lagoe, Ruth Frances Long, Sarah L. Miles, Lee Murray, Cassandra Newbould, Justine Norton-Kertson, Amadin Ogbewe, Chris Panatier, David Quantick, Eden Royce, Eric Shanower, Riley Silverman, Diogo Silva Ramos, Mark Stay, Casey Stegman, Angela Sylvaine, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Tim Waggoner, Kali Wallace, and J.L. Worrad.
With illustrations by Ahmed Raafat and Jendia Gammon.
The Summer Fun Massacre – Craig DiLouie
Summer camp slasher horror
It’s 1992, and in the heat of Texas, camp Summer Fun rests by a crystalline lake surrounded by a shady forest. The counselors have set out the kayaks, prepped the kitchens, and refurbished the cabins. Now, on the night before camp begins, a bonfire and the teenage counselors’ rites of passage await.
But the camp has a horrifying history. In the ’80s, there was a massacre that left a sole survivor. One final girl. The killer never caught.
Deputy Tom Bailey is always on edge this time of year. There are rumors that the woods are haunted. That the killer might one day return. Tom has deeply personal ties to the ’80s massacre, and those ties have plagued his dreams.
Then Tom gets a call reporting bloodcurdling screams coming from the camp. The real nightmare is just beginning.
Try Not to Die: In Slattery Falls – Brennan LaFaro
YA interactive horror adventure
Welcome to Slattery Falls. Home to the most haunted house on the East Coast… that no one’s ever heard of.
Step inside and find out why.
You are Matty Hargrove, a high school senior determined to become a great horror writer. When your classmate, Nate Tedeschi, offers a chance to explore the infamous Weeks House, you’d be a fool to resist, especially with his twin sister Bex tagging along.
But the moment you enter, it becomes clear something is wrong. The house isn’t empty. It never was.
For years, something inside has been watching… waiting… feeding.
And now, it has you.
Every decision you make will determine your fate. Some choices might keep you alive, at least for a little longer. Most will lead to brutal, unforgettable deaths.
Can you uncover the truth behind Slattery Falls or will you become just another victim of the house?
Set in the terrifying world created by Brennan LaFaro, this interactive prequel connects to the events of Slattery Falls and beyond—where the hunters become the hunted, and the evil of the Weeks House refuses to die.
If you’ve visited Slattery Falls before, you’ll discover new secrets.
If this is your first time… choose carefully. More than a dozen ways to die. Only one path leads to survival.
And whatever you do… don’t go in the basement.
Veil of Darkness – Rachael Reese
Supernatural horror
When Arista and her sisters escaped the flames of Hell and traded wings for human masks, her only concern was staying hidden. But now, two centuries later, she’s trapped in New Orleans, bound to her sisters, and only one bad decision away from being discovered and dragged back to the underworld.
One of Death’s reapers can offer them an additional safeguard, but in exchange, the sisters must dispatch a rogue, newly escaped vampire. Once Arista hits the streets to begin her hunt, she begins to uncover much more than she bargained for.
Cameron Guillory always thought vampires were nothing more than a tall tale. But when his father’s body is discovered entirely drained of blood, he doesn’t just want answers—he wants revenge. Armed with holy water and a secret that could get him killed, Cameron searches the city streets for the undead murderer. To his astonishment, he finds a vampire—but she’s not the one he’s looking for.
Realizing the other might just be the key to success, Arista and Cameron strike up a contentious agreement to find the murderous vampire and kill her together. There’s only one little problem: Cameron has the most mouth-watering blood Arista has ever encountered.
Vervain Hollow – Catriona Silvey
Cult horror
Two years ago, Laura was in a cult. But when the sprawling house in the hollow burned down with Vervain, their strikingly handsome and magnetic leader, trapped inside, Laura had nowhere to go but home.
Brokenhearted, she finds herself longing for their lost leader, despite the trauma of that strange and terrifying year, she knows the power he promised her was real.
But when her estranged friend, Aliyah, calls to tell her that Daniel, one of the other acolytes, has been lured back to the hollow by a message from Vervain, Laura only hears one thing: He’s still there.
As Laura and Aliyah venture back to the house of their nightmares to find the truth, Laura soon realizes that not everything she remembers can be trusted, and that the darkness will do anything to get her back.
