A Selection of Horror Books Released, 21 to 27 Apr 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, historical, vampire, post-apocalypse, and travel horror
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Table of Contents
All Things Seen and Unseen – RJ McDaniel
Psychological horror
Alex Nguyen is an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself jobless, homeless, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship’s dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family’s empty summer mansion on a gulf island.
Surrounded by dense forest and ocean, in the increasingly oppressive heat of a 2010s summer, Alex is an outsider in a remote, insular community. She has to navigate the awkward, unexpected beginnings of a possible new romance, and live through the trauma she has repressed to survive, even as the memories ― and a series of increasingly unnerving events ― threaten to pull her back under the surface.
All Who Wander Are Lost – Gemma Amor
Travel horror story collection
First Landing State Park. Antarctica. Mongolia. France. Norway. Ireland. Somerset. Egypt. A giant glacier in an unnamed land.
What do all these places have in common?
They’re the perfect place to set a horror story, is what.
Expect dark and deranged encounters, beautiful vistas, old gods, ghosts, peculiar creatures, vampires, and that most terrifying of all monsters: mankind.
Children of the Dark 2: The Night Flyers – Jonathan Janz
Supernatural horror
Last summer, sixteen-year-old Will Burgess lost many of the people he loved most. Now he’s imprisoned in a facility for troubled youths. Separated from his surviving loved ones and terrified of a change inside him, Will is tormented by a new group of bullies and a sadistic government doctor. When his only ally, an orderly named Pierre, tells him there have been sightings of winged creatures with glowing red eyes, Will believes him.
Because Will has seen the Night Flyers too.
Even worse, he learns the monstrous Children are still lurking underground. They want revenge on Will and will stop at nothing to destroy everyone he cares about. Will and his friends, new and old, must band together to fight the forces of darkness, both human and supernatural. But as Will learned last summer, evil is relentless. And it won’t rest until its hunger is sated.
Collapse Years – Damir Salkovic
YA post-apocalypse horror collection
Extreme weather, natural disasters, and violence have turned much of the world into a wasteland.
The fabric of society is fraying with rampant polarization, the crumbling of democratic institutions, and the rise of corporate-driven totalitarianism.
Unchecked technologies are deepening existing rifts and opening up new arenas of exploitation.
Yet life goes on.
The Confession – Chad Miller
Historical killer horror
The year is 1887 and in the quaint Pennsylvania town of Temple, Isabella Strohmeyer stumbles upon a gruesome scene: her father and stepmother brutally hacked to death.
As the police investigation unfolds, gossip and rumors swirl through the tight-knit community. The Strohmeyer household, always steeped in simmering tension, harbors secrets that echo within its halls.
As an arrest is made, the town becomes embroiled in the trial of the century. Grisly truths emerge and no one is prepared for the shocking conclusion of this dark tale.
Cursed – Kevin Bachar
Horror collection – Book 3 of Nights of Madness
Eighteen horror stories of people pushed to the brink of madness. The moments when reality disappears and the dark forces of the world conspire to reign down horror after horror.
A college student takes a job as a nightwatchman at his uncle’s junkyard and the ghosts that haunt the wrecked cars are the least of his worries.
When a hardened New York City Detective tries to help two young boys being stalked by someone or something, he uncovers a truth that terrifies him.
What happens when a mother makes a wish on a four-leaf clover and wants to take back her request?
A lone plane crash survivor on a tiny atoll must make a horrific choice to survive. Sink or swim or…
The Day of the Door – Laurel Hightower
Psychological horror
Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. But on a hellish night that marked the end of their childhood, eldest brother Shawn died violently after being dragged behind closed doors. Though the official finding was accidental death, Nathan Lasco knows better, and has never forgiven their mother, Stella.
Now two decades later, Stella promises to finally reveal the truth of what happened on The Day of the Door.
Accompanied by a paranormal investigative team, the Lasco family comes together one final time, but no one is prepared for the revelations waiting for them on the third floor.
Drive – Jonathan Dunne
Supernatural horror
When Gracie Doyle and her friends visit Old Castle’s wrecking yard on Christmas Eve to say goodbye to their deceased friend Kelly Monroe, they unleash a malevolent force lurking within the eerie attraction known as ‘The Kill Car’.
Instead of finding closure, they open a mysterious portal to the supernatural world, plunging Gracie into a dark battle for survival as she grapples with twisted revenge and the murky boundaries between life and death.
Turning to her friend’s blind grandmother for help, Gracie uncovers startling secrets within the House of Mirrors, where illusions veil sinister truths, blurring the line between reality and nightmare with each passing moment.
First Light – Liz Kerin
Vampire horror – Book 2 of Nights Edge
It’s been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she’s not running away from the darkness; she’s running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives.
When Mia finds the monsters she’s been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along.
To escape their clutches, she’ll have to reckon with her mother’s harrowing past and confront a painful truth: that they might be more alike than she ever imagined.
The Redemption of Morgan Bright – Chris Panatier
Psychological horror
A woman checks herself into an insane asylum to solve the mystery of her sister’s murder, only to lose her memory and maybe her mind.
Hadleigh Keene died on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylum. The reasons are unknown. Her sister Morgan blames herself. A year later, with the case still unsolved, Morgan creates a false identity, that of a troubled housewife named Charlotte Turner, and goes inside.
Morgan quickly discovers that Hollyhock is not right. She is shaken by the hospital’s peculiar routines and is soon beset by strange episodes.
All the while, the persona of Charlotte takes on a life of its own, becoming stronger with each passing day. As her identity begins unraveling, Morgan finds herself tracing Hadleigh’s footsteps and peering into the places they lead.
Published: 27 April 2024
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