Bad Things Happen Here – Mark Morris
Supernatural horror
In 2004 a group of six students, who have newly arrived at university and quickly become friends, are beset by supernatural forces, which seem to centre around a 5th floor room in an otherwise innocuous student hall of residence. So insidious and terrifying is their ordeal that one of the six commits suicide, an act which drives an irreparable wedge between the rest.
Twenty years later, the remaining five friends are all living very different lives. Hannah Prentice is a divorcee with two children, the youngest of whom is being badly bullied at school, and a mother who is showing the first signs of dementia; Jess Maple is a professional artist, who is just about to break into the big time; Steve Lazenby is a successful architect, whose eight-year-old daughter is suffering from delusions and nightmares; Max Bradshaw is a self-employed plumber, happily married with three children, whose fourteen-year-old son has fallen in with the wrong crowd; and Michael Vance, bohemian and charismatic at university, is now a drug-addicted vagrant, who harbours a terrible secret.
Although the five friends have not been in contact for almost two decades, they are gradually drawn back together when their lives begin to fall apart. What happened to them twenty years ago seems to be seeping back into the present, affecting not just them this time, but their children, their partners, their loved ones.
As the terrifying visions, the violence and the madness escalate, they must mobilise forces and once again confront the horror in Room 55.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep – Paul Tremblay
Psychological horror
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. But he’s not dead dead: he has an AI mind implanted in his head.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person.
Who? He can’t remember.
Deadly – Oscar Brady (editor & illustrator)
Extreme horror anthology
7 horror shorts following the theme of the Seven Deadly Sins, with each tale focused on one of the famous vices, uniquely exploring their iniquity with dark humor and gory goodness. Each story is accompanied with an illustrated cover page with adult imagery not for the faint of heart.
From a spell that swaps the caster’s mind with the nearest beast to an influencer with an insatiable appetite!
Waitresses salaciously serve savory dishes at a hellacious eatery while a murderous window adornment seeks vengeance!
We have a phallus-obsessed fellow descending into madness, an avaricious doctor collecting bizarre specimens, and an egolomaniac venturing into snuff filmography!
Fetty on the Switches – David Simmons
Crime horror collection
Hallucinatory and darkly comic love stories are set against the gritty backdrop of the city, where guns and drugs collide with tales of paranoia, pursuit, and revenge.
Here, a middle school biology class spirals into a surreal vivisection. A man returns home each night to chew the freshly grown fingers off a corpse to avoid going into withdrawal. A monster in an upstairs apartment kills people, records songs about it, and retweets his victims postmortem.
In these stories, love arrives wearing the mask of addiction and absurdity.
From Dusk Till Dawn – Christian Francis
Horror movie novelization
A complete reimagining of the movie.
More brutal, more expansive, and built from the ground up. It features previously unfilmed scenes and characters, along with an all-new ending that will surprise even longtime fans.
All editions include an introduction by legendary special makeup effects artist Tom Savini, and a foreword by Robert Kurtzman. The hardcover edition also features an exclusive gallery of storyboards and concept art, along with the full original treatment.
Kurtzman said, “The book takes elements from the original story and elements from the screenplay but expands them in ways the film never could. In prose, we’re able to dive deeper and explore moments that only existed between the lines of the script. Some action plays out differently here, some scenes unfold in new ways, and there are variations that fans of the movie will immediately notice. The core of the story is the same, but the experience is richer, more internal, and in some places entirely new. My hope is that longtime fans will enjoy seeing this alternate version of a world they already know so well, and that new readers will discover the same strange, pulpy, genre-bending energy that sparked the whole thing in the first place.”
In From Dusk Till Dawn, the Gecko brothers, two dangerous outlaws on a crime spree, kidnap a father and his two kids and head south to a seedy bar south of the border. They expect to find safety, but what they find is a nightmare.
Ink For Blood, Volumes 1 & 2 – various
Horror anthology
Stories can’t cure disease, but they can spark hope, ignite compassion, and fuel the fight for those who need it most.
Ink for Blood is a testament to love, resilience, and the power of community.
Within these pages, authors from across genres have come together, creating tales of passion, heartbreak, healing, and survival. From swoon-worthy romances to exciting adventures, each tale carries you to a different world… but always returns you to a happily-ever-after.
Kingsburg – Jim Donohue
Supernatural horror
Roger Daniels is called back to Kingsburg, where he fled 25 years earlier after the town killed his parents.
And now it wants him.
The last in his bloodline.
See, the Daniels Men have a debt to pay to the town of Kingsburg, and it won’t be settled until it has taken every last one of them.
That is, unless the last of the Daniels men can stop it.
Long Island Memorial – Fletcher & Snyder
Psychological horror
When a catastrophic accident at Brookhaven National Laboratory tears a hole in the fabric of reality, Long Island Memorial Hospital becomes ground zero for something far worse than any medical emergency. The wounded scientists flooding the ER bring more than injuries with them – they bring the power to make belief real. Every fear, every faith, every delusion harbored by the hospital’s staff begins to bleed into the world around them.
Veda Choudhary is a custodian who doesn’t believe in God, ghosts, or anything she can’t mop up. That makes her the only sane person in a building rapidly coming apart at the seams, and possibly the only one who can stop it.
Marcus Albright is the hospital’s brilliant, sociopathic star surgeon, a man whose god complex was always going to be dangerous. In a world where belief reshapes reality, he becomes something genuinely divine. And he has plans.
The Night Crew III: Hunting Ground – Brad Ricks
Supernatural horror – Book 3 of The Night Crew Series
Something is slaughtering people in the Arkansas wilderness, and even the Night Crew may not survive what they’re about to find.
When mutilated bodies begin appearing in the Ouachita National Forest, Chief of Police Roy Henderson knows local law enforcement is out of options. His only hope is to call in the Night Crew: a covert team of supernatural operatives led by Michael, a vampire still learning what it means to live with the monster inside him.
What begins as a hunt for a rogue werewolf quickly spirals into something far more dangerous.
As attacks escalate around the town of Mena, Arkansas, Michael finds himself battling on two fronts. In the real world, a growing supernatural threat is pushing the town toward panic. In his mind, mysterious visions connected through blood are pulling him into a terrifying mystery he cannot explain.
Meanwhile, a grieving father forms a vigilante militia, a local police officer struggles to keep supernatural secrets buried, and a park ranger may hold the key to stopping a massacre before it begins.
The Siren of Groves Peak – Glenn Rolfe
Supernatural horror
Groves Peak, Maine is home to a dark secret. The successful lobstering community is ready for summer, but a murder at sea changes everything. People are dying in the small coastal town, and the lobstermen are on edge.
Only one man knows the truth. His closet of skeletons is about to open, and no one is safe. Not even his daughter or her best friend. As a supernatural fury, homegrown dangers, and buried secrets coalesce into a series of real-life nightmares, friendships are tested, and heroes will fall.
The Siren of Groves Peak reveals the true monsters in us all.
The Summer of the Serpent – Cecilia Eudave
Psychological horror
A surreal, kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on.
Told in colliding voices—children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible—The Summer of the Serpent is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood.
Strange yet deeply human, this brilliantly fragmented novel captures the moment when childhood innocence begins to corrode—and how those memories can coil through a lifetime.
War of the Worlds: Thunder Child – Matthew Hardy and Rob Jones
Sci-fi horror graphic novel
A tale that runs parallel to the events of H.G. Wells’ classic novel, The War of the Worlds.
Follows the exploits of the crew of the eponymous ironclad torpedo ram, the HMS Thunder Child. Sitting alongside the events of Wells’ novel, the story takes place against a backdrop of strange occurrences and creeping terror, all leading up to the Thunder Child’s final heroic showdown with the invaders from Mars.
This is a terrifying and thrilling tale soaked in blood, recriminations, sacrifice and loss, the first act in a new take on the well-known science-fiction classic with a unique cast and its own story to tell.
A story of the horrors and conflicts of the crew as they experience the first desperate days of the Martian invasion and face the possible collapse of the British Empire and civilisation itself – threatened both from the stars… and from within.
