The Ballad of Seven Bastards – Peter Caffrey
Western horror
Copper Creek appears to be little more than an unassuming mining community, but the reality is far more sinister. Elder Munroe controls the town, and intends to transform it into his version of the New Jerusalem. However, the elder and his inner circle share a dark secret, creating a fragile bond forged in adversity.
When Elijah Black arrives, seeking work, a moment of misjudgment threatens to send the town, and those who run it, into a spiral of destruction. As suspicion and mistrust bubble to the surface, old relationships are discarded. Those involved quickly turn against each other, and the battle for personal gain becomes all-consuming.
Exiles – Mason Coile
Sci-fi horror
The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray.
The machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is missing.
In this barren, hostile landscape where even machines have nightmares, the astronauts will need to examine all the stories, especially their own, to get to the truth.
Fiend – Alma Katsu
Supernatural horror
Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call.
The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They’re blessed.
At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family.
Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets, Maris’s most powerful contribution, much to her dismay, will be to marry strategically, and Nora’s job, as the youngest, is to just stay out of the way.
But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme.
They didn’t get to be one of the richest families in the world without spilling a little blood, but this time, it might be their own.
Food to Die For – John Ward
Middle grade horror – Book 8 of Scareville Books
Never trust a smiling clown…
Traverse City, Michigan, seems like the perfect small town, until a cheerful jingle and a pudgy clown mascot turn everything upside down. When the new burger joint, Chunko Town, opens its doors, the town can’t wait to meet Chunko the Clown. But the friendly facade hides a sinister secret.
Middle graders Kira and her friends quickly learn the hard way: whatever you do, don’t anger the clown! With each daring misstep, Chunko’s cheerful grin twists into something far more terrifying, and the kids find themselves trapped in a nightmarish game of wits and courage.
The Institute – Samuel Small
Supernatural horror – Book 2 of The Well Series
Easton’s Home for Wayward Youth is no ordinary orphanage: it’s a house under siege. Ghostly footsteps echo through its halls. Objects hurl across rooms. And at the center of it all is Isiah, a jittery, terrified boy cruelly ostracized for everyone’s safety.
Enter Jacob Waldmiller, a rogue priest with no credentials, no congregation, and no luck. His freelance exorcism gigs, scattered between paranoid students and superstitious grandmas, haven’t exactly paid the bills. But when a desperate call leads him to Easton’s crumbling doors, Jacob finds himself facing a force unlike anything he’s ever encountered.
His instincts are quiet. His sixth sense dead. Something is deeply wrong. When a figure from his past resurfaces, the line between salvation and damnation blurs, and Jacob must dive headfirst into the chaos.
Pretend You Don’t See Her – Kandisha Press
Horror anthology
The Invisible Woman: You barely notice her, sitting alone in the corner of the smoky bar. She walks through the streets at night, undetected until the moment she reveals her true self underneath that unremarkable form.
We are your shapeshifters, your werewolves, your witchy women, your wicked little creatures and demonic entities, all hiding in plain sight as harried housewives, college students, bartenders, business execs, Instagram influencers–ordinary, often forgotten ladies with dark secrets.
We’re ready to show ourselves!
Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses: The Making of a Cult Classic – Rob Zombie
Horror movie non-fiction
Writer, director, and musician Rob Zombie journeys into the madhouse with an inside look at the making of his cult classic horror film, House of 1000 Corpses, showcasing the visceral intensity of his signature artistic style and inviting readers to explore the twisted world that launched the Firefly universe.
Rob Zombie’s captivating art and making-of book is a visually stunning volume offering an unparalleled behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Zombie’s groundbreaking film that redefined the genre.
Explore a treasure trove of film stills, rare artwork, concept sketches, and the director’s original shooting script that brings to life the film’s vivid characters and chilling atmosphere.
With Zombie’s own handwritten notes, gain insight into the process and the dark inspirations that fueled the film.
The Silenced – Diana Rodriguez Wallach
YA supernatural horror
A haunted past collides with a traumatized present to reveal truths that were meant to stay hidden.
Hazel Perez thinks her school project on the abandoned Oakwell Farms School for Girls, the Farm, as it’s known to locals, will be just another assignment. But after a late-night research trip ends with her falling unconscious, she awakens with a desire for revenge that isn’t her own.
Desperate to free herself from these sudden violent urges, and the haunting visions of an unknown girl she sees in the mirror, Hazel decides to investigate.
As she delves deeper into Oakwell Farms’ past, Hazel discovers the harrowing experiences of the girls who were once forced to live under the watch of sinister men and encounters the spirits who still linger there.
With the help of some unlikely allies, Hazel navigates a treacherous path of corruption, history, and the supernatural to bring peace to the restless spirits and learn the truth about her family’s involvement.
Teenage Girls can be Demons – Hailey Piper
Horror collection
13 coming-of-rage stories that take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you’ll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.
A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls.
Across the world, something is mutating adolescents into bizarre creatures.
A girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her.
A Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world.
Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night – Stephanie Rose and William Sterling (editors)
Halloween horror anthology
18 stories capturing the storytelling style of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark with each author’s own twist.
Veil – Jonathan Janz
Supernatural horror
A heart-stopping story of one father who will stop at nothing to save his family.
It begins at night. People vanish from parks and city streets. Then in broad daylight, they’re dragged screaming into the woods, into the water, into the sky. People take refuge in their homes, but still the invisible creatures come, ripping people away from their horrorstruck loved ones. Spouses. Parents. Children.
Nowhere is safe and no defense can stop them. Because nothing can save you from what you can’t see.
High school teacher John Calhoun loses his son the first night. A day later, they take his wife. For two months, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter manage to survive, but in the end, she is abducted too.
In John’s darkest moment, he meets a motley group of survivors who have a secret: a near-fatal car accident has given one of them the ability to detect what normal human eyesight cannot.
The survivors believe they can replicate the brain injury that will enable them to see the creatures. To discover how they’re invading our world. To fight them. Desperate to save his family, John volunteers.
And after the veil of invisibility is lifted, he and his new friends will risk everything to achieve the impossible: enter an alien world and bring their loved ones back.
The Whistler – Nick Medina
Ghost horror
A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves.
For fear of summoning evil spirits, Native superstition says you should never, ever whistle at night.
Henry Hotard was on the verge of fame, gaining a following and traction with his eerie ghost-hunting videos. Then his dreams came to a screeching halt. Now, he’s learning to navigate a new life in a wheelchair, back on the reservation where he grew up, relying on his grandparents’ care while he recovers.
And he’s being haunted.
His girlfriend insists he just needs time to adjust to his new reality as a quadriplegic, that it’s his traumatized mind playing tricks on him, but Henry knows better. As the specter haunting him creeps closer each night, Henry battles to find a way to endure, to rid himself of the horror stalking him. Worried that this dread might plague him forever, he realizes the only way to exile his phantom is by confronting his troubled past and going back to the events that led to his injury.
It all started when he whistled at night.
