Beneath the Bog – D.Z. Hollow & Juliet Rose
Psychological horror
After the death of their grandfather, twin brothers Carson and Brennan O’Leary find themselves at odds with each other and themselves.
Carson, an addict, decides the only way to find something of meaning is to travel to Ireland to discover their roots. Brennan refuses to go as he has a baby on the way, burying himself in strange festishes and hiding who he’s become.
After their grandmother is put into a memory care facility, family secrets begin to unravel and Brennan realizes Carson is in grave danger traveling to Ireland alone. He takes off after his brother, only to find their actions have unleashed a generations old curse against them and their loved ones.
Bloodfire, Baby – Eirinie Carson
Gothic horror
A maternal gothic tale of new motherhood and the torment of a centuries-old haunting.
Before the shadow appeared, Sofia thought mothering would be all sun-drenched light and white linen sheets, as seen advertised by the momfluencers of Instagram. In her gorgeous home anchored in a posh suburb, far removed from her origins, Sofia revels in her success.
Motherhood seems like the natural next step, but when her husband travels for a work trip, leaving Sofia all alone with their unnamed three-week-old baby, she can’t quite square how mothering falls solely in her lap. Nobody seems able or willing to help her: not her husband, not her best friend, and certainly not the zealot mother she cut off long ago.
Her postpartum reality is overtaken by an ominous figure. Sleep-deprivation collides with a darkness that creeps in and begins to spread, threatening to consume her entirely. As her grip on reality slips away, Sofia learns of an insidious haunting that has plagued the eldest daughters in her family for generations.
With her baby’s safety on the line, Sofia realizes she must confront her murky history or risk losing more than just the veneer of perfection.
The Denizens – Brendan LaFaro
Witch horror
Just because it’s dead doesn’t mean it’s allowed to rest.
A small southern town surrounded by a living cemetery was the last place Sam Everett expected to find himself after the sudden death of his wife. Desperate to get away from the city and its memories, Sam flees to the tight-knit community of Maylene’s Hollow.
But the Hollow holds a secret. The town won’t allow its dead to rest. Forced to wander the earth for hundreds of years, the denizens of the woods have had enough.
With the help of a mysterious widow who may also be a murderer, the town’s matriarch who seems to possess magical abilities, and an ornery giant who believes the dead may be right to rebel, Sam must learn to let go of the dead in order to truly live.
Grandma’s Little Secret – Becca C. Smith
Serial killer horror
One girl’s life is changed forever when she foils a murder, and becomes a target herself.
When imaginative eleven-year-old Emma and her parents and friends go to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 1985, she thinks it’ll be a normal family vacation.
But when she starts dreaming of her loving Grandma Virginia killing people, she realizes there’s more to the sweet matriarch than she thought. And when she has a premonition that her grandmother intends to kill her husband, she knows she has to take matters into her own hands.
When she foils Virginia’s first plan to murder Grandpa Roy, Emma becomes a target herself.
Allied with her friends, Emma must differentiate between make-believe and psychic visions to try to save both her grandfather’s life and her own.
Hags and Witches – Kevin J. Kennedy
Witch horror anthology
Too long confined to fairy tales and fantasy, witches are reclaimed here in their darkest, most dangerous form. This anthology drags them back to their rightful home, horror.
Within these pages, you’ll find tales of vengeance, betrayal, jealousy, and unrelenting rage. Entire towns bound by secret covens. Worlds where magic collides with science in terrifying ways. Stories of war, power struggles, and the devastating cost of crossing the wrong witch.
These are not nursery-rhyme villains or whimsical spellcasters.
These witches are cruel. Calculating. Powerful.
The fire has been relit.
The cauldron is boiling.
And horror is ready to reclaim its queen.
Harmed and Dangerous – Jasper Bark
Supernatural horror – Part of Bark Bites Horror
Put yourself in Kyra’s place.
You’re seventeen years old, lost and alone in a remote town in Louisiana. You’re searching for the birth parents you never knew. The heat is crippling. The river often floods, washing houses away and lifting corpses from the ground.
The locals treat you with suspicion. You don’t belong here. They’re hiding something. All over town, in nooks and hidden alcoves, there’s evidence of a forbidden faith. They keep the old ways here, but no one will tell you what they are.
There’s an intangible presence following you. Hiding in your peripheral vision. You can’t see, hear or touch it, but you know it’s there, waiting for its chance to claim you.
Then the episodes start.
Your vision goes and when it returns you’re seeing the world as it was fifteen years ago. Physically you’re in the present, but everything you see happened a decade and a half ago.
Suddenly you realize.
You’re seeing through the eyes of the serial killer who murdered your birth mother. He takes control of you, forcing you to watch as he stalks and brutally murders her.
And there’s nothing you can do to stop him. Because he died by lethal injection more than a decade ago.
Her Last Breath – Taylor Adams
Psychological horror
Two friends embark on an ill-fated caving expedition and discover the dark truth of what happens deep underground.
After years of excuses, Tess has finally agreed to go caving with her best friend Allie. Their lives have diverged sharply since high school. Allie is a self-made travel influencer, while Tess is a shy (and claustrophobic) legal assistant struggling to pay for law school. Maybe she’s a little jealous of Allie’s globe-trotting life. Who wouldn’t be?
As Tess and Allie descend into the depths, they realize they’re not alone. A stranger who claims to be a fellow caver harasses them. Confident, take-no-shit Allie insults the guy, and he retaliates. Soon, Tess is trapped inside a narrow crawl space hundreds of feet underground, fighting to stay alive.
Twenty-four hours later, as a hospitalized Tess recounts her harrowing story of survival, the detective interviewing her shares new and shocking secrets about Allie’s true past. Together, they begin to suspect the brutal attack wasn’t so random after all.
Kayak – Kristal Stittle
Creature horror
For eighteen-year-old Keith, floating alone on a series of lakes and rivers, lost and without supplies, his kayak is his means of survival. Solid ground means certain death at the scissor-claws of vicious invading creatures.
What he needs is to find more people; but terrible guilt anchors him in solitude. A year earlier, when the creatures first appeared, it was Keith’s choices that brought disaster to the island community that took him in.
Now, it’s time to take responsibility for his actions, heal his scars, and survive.
Little Red Flags – Dark Matter Ink
Psychological horror anthology
Twenty-one tales of frightening fanaticism. Stories that explore how ordinary people find themselves in extraordinary danger
Nobody joins a cult. They find a family, a movement, a sense of meaning.
And nobody falls for a con. They trust a friend, a so-called expert, an opportunity.
The warning signs are easy to brush aside, until it’s too late.
From manipulative lovers to deadly gurus, from a trail of small deceptions to life-shattering betrayals, these stories will pull you to the edge of trust and shove you over.
Stay vigilant. The little red flags are waving.
The Monsters We Are – D.R. Long
Dark fantasy horror
In a city where truth is manufactured like paint, one detective discovers that seeing clearly might be the most contagious disease of all.
Five years after the cloaks fail and the monsters beneath humanity step into the light, private investigator Lou Fisk has become the reluctant savior of Nightmare City.
But the deeper he digs into Bridgework Industries, the company that promised unity through science, the more the city itself begins to bleed.
Mother Dauber – K. Bengston
Folk horror
Some memories are buried … others hatch.
Delilah Jones, a recent ornithology graduate, returns to Clear Fork at her uncle’s request to care for her dementia-riddled mother. It should have been a somber, simple duty. But the woods surrounding the house echo voices from her past-voices long gone. The treeline has started to encroach on the cabin, and the night doesn’t feel as empty as it used to.
The silence doesn’t last.
Mud-caked nests colonize the house. The droning swells, and her mother is dying in front of her. The voices in the woods are getting more personal. Something is circling the cabin at night, sucking on the windows and watching her sleep.
Cornered by a siege of buzzing nightmares, Delilah must dissect the truth from her own head before the swarm seals her in.
The hive is awake.
Nightmare on Nightmare Street – R.L. Stine
Middle grade horror
Twelve-year-old Joe Ferber, his sister Sadie, and their parents have just moved into a house that has all the hallmarks of a horror movie: tombstones in the basement, a creepy doll lying around, strange noises in the wall, and so on.
As Joe tries to fall asleep on the first night, his nightlight begins to flash and change colors, and the creepy doll appears in his bed. Then twelve-year-old Shawn Hannigan wakes up from a dream.
Shawn and his little sister, Addie, are seemingly living in the same house with their mother. But when they arrive at their new school for the first day, the teachers are all wearing animal masks, and the principal’s office is pitch black and full of noises. At the end of the day, a stranger claiming to be Shawn’s mom picks him up and tells him he doesn’t have a sister.
As more and more strange things happen to each of them, Shawn and Joe have to figure out what is real, and what is a nightmare.
Sauúti Terrors – Flame Tree Collections
Sci-fi horror anthology
A powerful dark science fiction collection, bringing back the revolutionary Afrocentric Sauútiverse from African and African diaspora writers.
Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more, in the worlds of the living, the in-between and the dead.
Unravel the darkest stories in the deepest parts of the Sauúti five-planet system with its two suns, and orbiting a binary star.
The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood – Roy Merkin and Spencer Charnas
Psychological horror
This is a forbidden chronicle ripped from the controversial manuscript of District Attorney Marcie Kent, the very woman who put Spencer Charnas on trial, and then put him in the ground.
Spencer Charnas is dead. That’s the bold claim detailed by Roy Merkin in Welcome to Horrorwood, written in the maverick journalist’s courageous and virile prose.
The people and organizations who want the world to believe that the person, thing, or artificial intelligence masquerading as Spencer at concerts, conventions, and correctional facilities around the globe is the real deal have fought mercilessly to keep this book from publication.
Welcome to Horrorwood unpacks the trial of the century with a first-person view as Merkin’s razor-sharp annotations guide readers through Kent’s obsessive psyche to reveal deep layers of conspiracy, collusion, and cavalier con jobs.
Welcome to Horrorwood is the book they don’t want you to read. Coverage you can count on, from the Merkin you trust.
Temple Fall – R.L. Boyle
Gothic horror
A group of teenagers is cursed to die on their 18th birthdays.
Flynn and her friends plan to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history, but their planned night of drinking and teenage debauchery twists into a surreal nightmare. Suddenly forced into strange choices and places, the tight-knit group starts to fall apart. And then Jackson falls to his death.
In the days that come after, Flynn finds herself trapped, as if she never left the house. Consumed by the lost secrets of her family past, and haunted by the spectre of a Victorian woman, she finds herself losing time and seeing things that aren’t there.
Reeling from the tragedy, Flynn must rebuild her group of friends, and bring them all together to grieve – and try to survive – on their own.
Because while they escaped Temple Fall, the house didn’t let them go.
This City is Going to Hell – Paul Downey
Horror movie non-fiction
The making and legacy of the Maniac Cop horror movie trilogy.
In 1988, audiences were introduced to Officer Matt Cordell, a wronged cop turned slasher-avenger who stalked the streets of New York City and carved out a permanent place in horror history. Two sequels and nearly four decades later, Cordell’s status as a genre icon remains firmly cemented.
Packed with never-before-seen photos, untold stories, and firsthand accounts from the filmmakers and cast, the book offers an unflinching look at the creative triumphs, behind-the-scenes conflicts, and enduring appeal of one of horror cinema’s most unique franchises.
Part production history, part cultural retrospective, and part celebration of independent genre filmmaking.
