Connected – Jason Jenkins
Serial killer horror
One call. One killer. One night to stop him.
Katharine Keyes spends her nights helping stranded motorists through Blue Sky Wireless’ Connected Services. Flat tires. Dead batteries. Lost drivers.
Simple problems with simple solutions.
Until the night she answers a call from Danny. He’s charming. Funny. And he’s just murdered a man.
Driving through the darkness in a brand-new car, Danny has disabled every system meant to track him. No GPS. No location. No way for police to find him. The only connection left is Kate-the voice on the other end of the line.
Danny says he isn’t killing randomly. He says his victims deserve what’s coming. And if Kate stays with him long enough, she’ll understand why.
Now trapped in the deadliest call of her life, Kate must piece together clues from every word, every sound, and every secret Danny reveals before he reaches the end of his list.
But the longer she listens, the harder one question becomes: What if the killer is right?
Happy Hour – Gemma Amor
Killer horror – Book 9 of Killer VHS
The eccentric owner of a ’90s underground London cocktail bar has a unique and disturbing way of keeping an eye on everything and everyone, then disappearing those who don’t behave.
Famous politicians, glamorous actresses, and international stars are all dying to get in… and to get out.
House – Christian Francis
Haunted house horror movie novelization
Reimagining based on Fred Dekker’s original story and Ethan Wiley’s screenplay.
Roger Cobb returns to his late aunt’s home, seeking isolation to write his memoir.
After the collapse of his marriage and the disappearance of his young son, he is desperate to get back to normality. But the past does not want to stay dead.
It wants more… It wants him.
Mercy House – Adam Cesare
Psychological horror
Welcome to Mercy House, a state-of-the-art retirement home that appears perfectly clean and orderly, but something is turning the residents into monsters.
Harriet Laurel notices the odor the moment she steps inside Mercy House, brought to the retirement home against her will by her son and his wife. In the early stages of dementia, Harriet has grown to resent her daughter-in-law for not providing grandchildren. Yet as she crosses the threshold, she notices her mind begins to sharpen. Then her hate begins to grow.
Arnold Piper, an eighty-five-year-old ex-Marine, has always prided himself on self-reliance. But betrayed by his own body, he’s learning that surviving war-torn Korea was easier than facing the daily indignities of old age. And his worst trials are still to come.
Sarah Campbell, an idealistic nurse, is already stretched thin at the chronically understaffed Mercy House. Now her duties are about to take a terrifying turn. Can she survive the night, and her patients?
Playing in the Dark & Other Stories – John Durgin
Horror collection
13 chilling tales where grief festers into terror and innocence is devoured by the horrors lingering just beyond the light. From haunted woods to disease spreading bugs, each story pulls you deeper into the shadows.
A cursed swing creaking in the night.
A grieving son cooks up a plan to avenge his neglected mother.
A boy lured from his abusive home by a stranger who promises he’ll never need to grow up.
A scout troop chasing the rainbow to its end… only to find something waiting that should never be found.
Pretty Bird – Hilary Faktor
Cult horror
Maeve Whitman has come a long way. As a teenage mom who’d escaped an artists’ cult by sacrificing her best friend, she’s created a safe and perfect suburban life.
But when the former cult leader, who is now a renowned photographer and father of her daughter, tracks her down and threatens to force her child back to the farm she escaped from, Maeve is faced with a choice: take her children and flee or stay and fight for the life she’s built for her family.
With her daughter facing the chaotic and slippery monsters who almost destroyed Maeve, she’s pulled back into a web of destruction she thought she’d escaped for good. By confronting her past, she’ll need to find the strength to take back her future and change the path her mother once set for them.
Tip Top – R.S. Zimmerman
Western horror
Evie Sinclair left the mountains of Prescott with a past to shed and a dying Arizona mining town to claim.
Tip Top once took millions in silver and copper from those deserted tunnels, but by 1910 only nine souls remain: a retired sheriff, an Irish brewer, a young gunfighter outrunning his legend, a doctor held together by the next drink, and others stake their last hopes on an old miner who claims he can hear the mountain speak.
When new technologies and old ambitions return to the forgotten tunnels, Tip Top’s nine souls make one last desperate blast. But the town’s search for wealth becomes the very thing that awakens its destruction. Something had been sealed in those dark tunnels long before men learned to dig.
While outlaws close in from above, something ancient stirs below. Something older than man, older than memory, and hungry for blood, silver, and fear.
The mountain will give them a fortune.
The price will be something else entirely.
The Turning of Sally-Mae – Nuzo Onoh
Supernatural horror
Two fearsome deities battle each other for the souls of white twins destined to either bring vengeful devastation or salvation to their community.
When Sally-Mae Jenkins is violated and impregnated by the twin scions of a wealthy rancher, she’s sent to join the African missionary ship as a widow. Pregnant and terrified, Sally-Mae vows vengeance on all those who abused her and her family.
Amara is a young woman with the body and face of an old hag. The village outcast, Amara can ‘eat’ the diseases ravaging the villagers and cure the most deadly ailments. But her powers drain her youth and her strength and the only help she has is the fearsome entity that claimed her soul, the spirit known as Aja-Mmọ, the death-giver and physician of the dead.
When Sally-Mae arrives in Amara’s village, her unborn twins become the focus of both the Python-Goddess, Asata, who wants the twins dead, and Aja-Mmọ, who wants the twins alive in her service, just like Amara. And suddenly, Sally-Mae finds the boys, with their unearthly and fearsome powers, have become the weapons of her vengeance against the unsuspecting citizens of her home town back in Texas.
When the Night Comes Knocking – Katherine Daniel
Creature horror
Two estranged siblings become trapped in a convenience store under attack by a monster from the mountains who feasts on guilty hearts.
Jane has not spoken to her brother Thomas since the accident that nearly killed them both. Their drive from college through the North Georgia mountains is uncomfortably silent, until they stop at a roadside convenience store, where a man stumbles in with a mutilated body, claiming to have been attacked by a monster.
At first, no one believes the man’s ravings, but when the next person to leave the store is brutally killed, they fear that local legend might be true:
There’s a beast in these mountains who feasts on guilty hearts… and someone among them has lured it out of hiding.
Jane and Thomas each harbor secrets, but so do the other patrons, and as the monster claims more hearts, the survivors turn on each other, desperate to save themselves by uncovering the guiltiest among them.
If the siblings can’t overcome the rift between them, they’ll surely become the monster’s next victims…or worse, become monsters themselves.
