A Selection of Horror Books Released, 19 to 25 Jan 2025
Themes: Supernatural, cosmic, serial killer, and graphic novel horror
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Table of Contents
Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown – Mike Mignola
Graphic novel horror collection
Eight fantasy stories, featuring a bonus sketchbook section.
From a search for the beating heart of a long-dead sorcerer, to a pirate girl who makes a deal with the devil, to the titular boy who wins a grim prize in a game with some undead interlopers, and more.
The Other Side – Timothy Palmer
Supernatural horror
Mitch Parker is a detective shot and killed in the line of duty. He is offered a place in heaven but turns it down to watch over and help guide his family. He finds himself in a plane of existence called the Veil. There, he meets other lost and unwanted souls and befriends several of them. However, they’re not alone.
An ancient evil hunts them and it’s hell-bent on consuming Mitch’s blood and possessing his soul. What unfolds is an epic battle between good and evil, heaven and hell, with only Mitch and a few of his friends standing in the way of hell on earth.
Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales – Rebecca Cuthbert
Horror collection
Our world is one of magic, both shadowed and bright.
We don’t see it. Distracted by the daily slog, we walk right by it; we pass it on the drive home from work. But it’s there, teeming from the sidewalk cracks, seething in the stare of a stranger, burbling in the creek out back. And when we do pay attention, we invite those powers to be our doom – or our salvation.
Meet a struggling bartender who swears the frogs outside are calling her name. A greenhouse worker lulled by an unlikely psychopomp. A twenty-something screw-up who turns to his widowed neighbor, and a ghost, for redemption.
Strange Stones – Edward Lee and Mary SanGiovanni
Cosmic horror
An insufferable horror-con lurker spurns the wrong woman and is cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraftian creations.
Professor Everard, weird fiction scholar and proclaimed critic of H.P Lovecraft’s works, is no stranger to making people mad. Giving convention presentations on the triteness and melodrama of Lovecraft’s work pays the bills, though. Sometimes he even gets laid.
When he angers a beautiful but dangerous witch and devotee of Lovecraft’s work, she casts a spell on him, sending him to a dimension where Lovecraft’s works are very real, and very deadly. Everard must find a way through this alternate dimension to get home, before the worst of Lovecraft’s horrors prove what a master of monstrosities he really was.
The Thing That Happened When We Were Little – Caroline Kelly Franklin
Serial killer horror – Book 1 of Scared
16 years after surviving a childhood abduction, three women struggle with whether they should keep the dangerous secret of how they survived from their image-obsessed town of Moss Groves or unleash it on the predators of their adult life.
For a family as wealthy and powerful as the Montgomerys, secrets are as simple as syrup. But there was never anything simple about Ida. First, there were violent tantrums. Then, the drawings of dismembered bodies. Then the things she did to the animals.
The Montgomerys didn’t just need to hide what their nine-year-old daughter did; they needed to hide what she was. Enter Ella and Susan-Eva. Two little girls the Montgomerys challenged to act as Ida’s conscience. It worked. Until the three of them got abducted by a serial killer. They survived, but the real story of how is one they agreed never to tell.
Sixteen years later, they still live together in one of the Montgomerys’ historic mansions. They’re fine. Ida is engaged, Ella works at the university, and Susan-Eva is getting her PhD. Sure, Ella’s boyfriend is kind of a jerk, and for reasons no one understands, Susan-Eva broke up with the love of her life, but Ida’s life seems perfect.
No one would guess that one of them was assaulted a few months ago, one of them committed a felony, or that one of them is dying. On top of all that, there are rumors a copycat killer is on the loose.
Published: 25 January 2025
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