Blood Trail – Matt Query and Harrison Query
Cult horror
A poacher-turned-game-warden is on the hunt for a bloodthirsty cult.
Clark Rickert was once the most prolific big game poacher throughout the Rocky Mountain west but when he lost both his son and his wife, he turned away from hunting. Now a game warden working for the very law enforcement officers that once pursued him so aggressively, Clark is overwhelmingly successful at his job.
So, when there’s a string of disappearances in rural Montana, Clark is selected to join a task force on an operation targeting a mysterious, violent cult in the area. As he works to uncover the truth, Clark begins to be plagued by visions and starts to realize that there is a deeper purpose to his assignment and the cult might up to something far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed.
The Boatman – Alex Grecian
Supernatural horror
He will follow you to the ends of the earth.
Shortly after cruise ship the Maria Calypso embarks on its latest voyage, the passengers and crew notice someone in pursuit: An elegant figure wearing a white suit who somehow keeps pace in his rowboat.
No matter how hard the crew pushes the engines, they can’t escape The Boatman … and it isn’t long before sinister and mysterious events begin to unfold on the Maria Calypso.
Bodies of Work – Clay McLeod Chapman
Supernatural revenge horror
A murderous artist is haunted by the spirits of those he has killed.
At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and that’s it. No friends, no family. When he’s done with work, he returns home – a remote, single room apartment located above a garage – and that is where his true work begins.
Winston Kemper is a collector of voices, and his magnum opus, The Butterfly Girls, is a sprawling epic of untapped imagination. It has no single canvas, no particular frame. It is everywhere, scribbled on the walls, the floor, and countless notebooks.
Winston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his ‘art’ he has been murdering forgotten women. Poor souls who slip through the cracks of society, who no one’s looking for. Mothers, sisters, daughters to someone, but no more.
Winston takes their lives, their voices.
But now he can hear them. They whisper to him. They talk of revenge.
Winston Kemper might not believe in ghosts, but he is about to learn they are very real. And they are very, very angry.
Pumpkin Seeds – Tyler Downs
Supernatural horror
Edward Crane is a private detective who died eleven years ago. But once a year, with the help of his loyal sidekick Sam, Ed’s rotting corpse is reanimated for the last week of October to solve his town’s most devious cases before returning to the grave.
As the pair navigate the supernatural underbelly of Salem in pursuit of a dark entity with a growing body count, Ed and Sam are forced to rely on the haunting visions of a body-swapping ghost for clues to help set things right.
Sarafina – Philip Fracassi
Historical horror
Three brothers go AWOL during one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, but find something much worse waiting in the woods.
Choosing to risk execution rather than be killed in a losing war, three brothers desert their posts and begin a long, arduous journey back home. After weeks of dealing with rough terrain while evading bandits and home guard soldiers – starving, injured, and exhausted – the brothers find a miracle deep in the dark woods. A home.
Living in a remote cabin is a beautiful woman, Sarafina, and her young son, Titus. Sarafina takes the soldiers in, cares for them, feeds them, offers them a place to rest. But the youngest of the brothers is wary; something is not what it seems. After discovering a mysterious creek and a strange underground cavern, he gets a strong sense that the cabin, and the fertile land surrounding it, might be harboring something nefarious, terrifying, and dangerous.
Scream Like a Prayer – S.H. Mansouri
Coming of age horror
1985, San Dimas, California.
When eleven-year-old Samuel McCammon writes five words on the blackboard that kill his sixth-grade teacher, he starts to wonder if something is seriously wrong with his mind.
A trip to the hospital reveals that nothing is physically wrong with him, but he keeps hearing fragments of a song he can’t remember, and keeps seeing flashes of the demon he once saw in his mother’s bedroom mirror.
Maybe there’s a reason why his parents suddenly enrolled him in a religious school, why his mother insists he takes deep breaths and prays when he gets angry, and why his father always seems to keep him at a safe distance.
The only way Sammy will ever discover the painful truth about the worst thing he ever did, is for him to finally face the demon in the mirror.
The Seventh Sister – Dawn Kurtagich
Folk horror
Lost sisters, old gods, and the terrible power of belief left to rot in the woods.
After the tragic death of their parents, the seven Ward sisters are sent to live with their grandmother on the remote forest island of Beltane, a place suspended between time and shadow. What begins as an attempt to mend their fractured lives soon twists into a waking nightmare, where grief bleeds into childhood fantasy and ancient rites awaken a dark and eerie devotion to Daudir, the Forgotten God of the Wood.
When another cruel tragedy strikes, the sisters are left to fend for themselves, learning to live with death as a constant, lurking presence. The fragile world they’ve carved splinters beneath the weight of isolation, and the forest around them grows restless…
Years later, a cryptic letter summons the surviving sisters home. Drawn back into the wild embrace of their dangerous faith, they confront a truth more terrible than memory, and the dreadful secret that waits, silent and sentient, in the depths of the all-seeing trees.
The Stray Man – Mark A. Noble
Western horror collection
Where the West begins … and the familiar ends.
Strap in and take a look at Texas’ past through a new lens, one that reveals the hopes and dreams of its inhabitants, along with horrors you’ve never dared imagine. In this dusty and lawless land, you’ll meet gruesome flesh-eating monsters, uncommon heroes, ancient goddesses, and boneheaded but deadly genies. Not to mention some seemingly upright citizens.
Remember, bad guys don’t always wear black.
An enterprising young man, new to the Wild West, aims to rebuild his fortunes using his supernatural powers. But when he offers aid to a demon-ridden ranch hand, the results are surprising.
When a marginalized woman is gruesomely murdered, it is up to a brave and clever ragpicker and his discerning tracker friend to identify her killer, but the forces that deliver justice may be far darker and more ancient than expected.
When an upstanding butcher is shot by rustlers, his sons seek vengeance. Only one of them is prepared to summon creatures that hunger for flesh of a different sort.
The abandoned young denizens of turn-of-the-century Fort Worth struggle to survive against overwhelming and heartbreaking odds.
An unspeakable act of racial terror against an innocent family reverberates through time to consume the souls of the perpetrators, and perhaps their unwitting descendants.
A mother suspects her infant triplets are not what they seem.
A teenager with a brand new instrument gets lessons from the maestro, but at what cost?
