All’s Well That Ends Well – Vivian Kasley
Horror collection
Discover what sometimes lurks beneath the seemingly ordinary.
An old man with a grudge who wants a peaceful night’s sleep decides to take matters into his own hands.
A mermaid is captured, imprisoned, and forced to entertain at children’s parties.
A porch pirate learns a terrifying lesson.
A woman who suspects her husband is cheating hires a private detective, but gets way more than she bargained for.
A daughter watching her father be consumed by cancer makes a daring deal with a nefarious being that comes back to haunt her.
All this and much more.
Allison’s Tears – Thomas Stewart
Supernatural horror
Following her uncle’s gruesome demise, a family’s secrets are uncovered when Porsha Derringer and her father are called to their uncle’s old cabin in Grenview Pines. A routine getaway was all it was to her, but to others, those trapped within the confines of the old cabin, it’s much more than that. It’s cold, unforgiving revenge.
In the search for answers, Porsha and her girlfriend’s minds, bodies, and even their souls are put to the ultimate test to survive not only the onslaught of the unquiet dead, but the truth of Porsha herself.
Some truths can be deadlier than lies, however, and can cost one dearly.
Beneath Perfection – Christian Francis
Creature horror movie novelization
Based on the original screenplay of 1990 horror movie Tremors by S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock and Ron Underwood.
In the desolate Nevada desert lies the tiny town of Perfection-population: 14.
Life moves slowly in this forgotten speck on the map, until handyman duo Val McKee and Earl Bassett decide they’ve had enough of the dead-end town and hit the road. But before they can escape, they discover a grisly series of deaths-and something strange lurking underground.
As mysterious tremors shake the earth and people start disappearing, Val and Earl uncover the terrifying truth: giant, carnivorous worm-like creatures are tunneling beneath the surface, hunting anything that moves.
Cut off from the outside world, the residents of Perfection must band together to outwit the relentless monsters, now dubbed “Graboids,” using only their wits, limited resources, and an unhealthy amount of dynamite.
Blood Like Ours – Stuart Neville
Vampire horror – Book 2 of Blood
One mother faces the ultimate supernatural horror: the monster she must become to protect her child.
El Paso, Texas: Rebecca Carter awoke on a morgue table with only two desires: to find her daughter, Moonflower; and to sate her gnawing hunger. Rebecca sets out on a desperate quest, fighting her murderous craving for blood, and pursued by a vengeful FBI agent.
Alone in the wild, Monica Carter survives on whatever small prey she can hunt down. But she needs more. One night, a young man lures her through the mountain scrub with the scent of human blood, promising he and his little brother will feed her and keep her safe. Somehow these brothers know her nickname – Moonflower – and the truth of what she is. She needs them, but can she trust them?
When FBI Special Agent Sarah McGrath learns that Rebecca Carter’s body has disappeared from the morgue, she’s on the next plane to El Paso. Rebecca is responsible for the death of her partner, and McGrath wants answers, but she never expected them to come from a shadowy figure within the Bureau.
Frankenstein (Netflix Tie-In) – Mary Shelley
Frankenstein horror
With an introduction by Guillermo del Toro.
Obsessed with creating life, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity.
But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.
The Man with All the Keys – Mikayla Buckman
Supernatural horror
Reed has spent his life running from his past and the things he’s done, a past his psychiatrist is determined to dig into during their weekly sessions.
Preferring to stay unseen and disconnected, Reed keeps the world at arm’s length.
But when something dark begins stalking the halls of his apartment building, he’s forced to confront how much he cares about his neighbors and how far he’s willing to go to save them.
Night of the Comet – Christian Francis
Apocalypse horror movie novelization
Official novelization of the 1984 horror movie Night of the Comet.
The apocalypse has never been this much fun.
The world was supposed to celebrate a celestial event. Instead, disaster struck. When the comet passed, billions vanished overnight, leaving behind only red dust and abandoned cities.
Teen sisters Regina and Samantha Belmont wake up to an empty Los Angeles. At first, it seems like paradise, no school, no parents, and an entire city to themselves. But something doesn’t feel right. Everything has gone silent. The streets are still. And the deeper they look, the more unsettling the truth becomes.
As they search the city and make sense of what happened, they soon discover that they are not alone. Some people had escaped the comet’s glare, but not all of them are friendly. Survival will take more than luck. It will take strategy, willing, and a whole lot of firepower.
Requiem for a Dead Monarch – Bryan Moore
Psychological horror
Bullied. Broken. Forgotten.
A shy, withdrawn girl discovers the savage beauty of transformation and decides to take control. From schoolyard prey to corporate predator, she rises to power in a world where every success demands blood.
The Sound of the Dark – Daniel Church
Psychological horror
In 1983, experimental artist Tony Mathias began work on a new installation. It was to be a collage of visuals and sounds collected at an abandoned RAF base called Warden Fell.
Various stories and rumours swirled around the place, but Tony was interested only in the echoes of history. But soon after visiting the site to tape-record the sounds there, he returned to the caravan where he was staying with his family and killed his wife, his two children and then himself. Another dark twist in Warden Fell’s history?
But the past reaches out.
Decades later Cally Darker, gets the chance to investigate the terrible story and perhaps even solve the mystery; a fantastic exclusive story for her true-crime podcast.
Tony’s actress sister Stella is desperate for the mystery to be solved before she dies will do all she can to help and passes on the tapes left behind by her brother.
But before long, Cally realises that Warden Fell has a far older and darker story to tell.
This Bursted Earth – Garth Marenghi
Comedy horror – Book 3 of TerrorTome
Horror author Nick Steen is having visions: A sinister Black Steeple; eerie lights in the sky that look like a Catherine wheel but are not remotely a Catherine wheel, plus a giant skeleton with a moustache.
Are they omens? Auguries? Portenderings of things to come? (Spoiler: yes, they are.)
For Nick Steen’s imagination is bursting out of his brain and threatening to burst in turn the entirety of Stalkford.
Can Nick stop the aforesaid bursting? Or have things already slightly burst regardless? Is all that we see or seem merely a dream within an Earth that’s been bursted?
Tom’s Crossing – Mark Z. Danielewski
Supernatural horror
Hard to figure how so much awful horror could’ve started out with just them two horses and not a one yet named.
While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines.
For sure no one expected the dead to rise, but they did. No one expected the mountain to fall either, but it did. No one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif, to say nothing of Pillars Meadow.
As one Orvop high school teacher described that extraordinary feat just days before she died, Fer sure no one expected Kalin March to look Old Porch in the eye and tell him: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.
Witchboard – Christian Francis
Supernatural horror movie novelization
Based on the 1986 horror movie Witchboard.
Dare to play, and you may never escape the Witchboard.
When Linda Brewster agrees to try a Ouija board at a party, she never imagines it will open a door to terror. But what starts as a harmless game quickly becomes a living nightmare as the spirit she contacts seems friendly-at first. Soon, unexplained accidents, terrifying visions, and sinister forces invade her life.
As her boyfriend Jim and his estranged friend Brandon are drawn into the mystery, they realize the spirit’s intentions are far from benign. Together, they must unravel the secrets behind the board before Linda-and everyone she loves-falls victim to an evil beyond imagining.
