10pm – Amy Cross
Ghost horror – Book 3 of The Haunting of London
Derek Dunne has been a taxi driver in London for longer than he cares to remember. Every night he heads out to help people get home, but every night he’s also haunted by the memory of a fare from many years earlier.
As a young man, Derek once picked up a terrified woman and took her to a certain house on a certain street. He knew something was wrong, but he didn’t dare to intervene, and the woman was later found murdered and horribly mutilated. And while Derek has always tried to convince himself that he couldn’t have done anything, that the woman’s fate wasn’t his fault, a tiny part of him still fills with dread whenever he has to drive down that road.
And then one night he sees her again.
She looks like the exact same woman and she wants the exact same thing: to be driven to the house where she once met such an awful fate. Derek’s first assumption is that this is all a trick, that someone is trying to make him feel worse. But as the night draws on and the rain continues, Derek starts to wonder whether something else might be happening instead. Is he finally going to get a chance to fix his biggest regret? And what will he find if, this time, he dares to follow the woman into the house where she once died?
Cinder House – Freya Marske
Reimagined fairy tale horror
Murdered at sixteen, Ella’s ghost is furiously trapped in her father’s house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.
Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.
Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.
You think you know Ella’s story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.
You’re halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.
The Descent – Christian Francis
Psychological horror movie novelization
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition.
Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures.
As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale – Joe R. Lansdale
Horror collection
Showcases the best of Lansdale’s terrifying short stories – menacing, astute, and wildly inappropriate.
Mashes up crime, gothic, mystery, fantasy, and science-fiction, filtered through a raw, violent world of dark humor and unique characters.
Discover psychotic demon nuns, a psychopathic preacher, cannibals, 80-year-old Elvis, undead strippers, flying ghost fish, Elder Gods, possessed cars, and the worst evil of all: mankind.
The Fib – Pedro Iniguez
Children’s horror
An allegorical tale about the consequences of lying.
When Pepe struggles to find something exciting for show and tell, he spins a little lie about a magical creature with horns like a ram, claws like a bear, wings like a bat, eyes like an owl, and a tail like a lion. But Pepe and his class soon discover that this harmless fib takes on a life of its own, literally, growing into a giant, uncontrollable monster that threatens to eat the entire school.
As chaos ensues, Pepe learns a valuable lesson: even the smallest fib can spiral out of control, but the truth holds the power to set things right.
The Flesh King – Richard Kadry
Supernatural noir horror – Book 2 of The Discreet Eliminators
Ford, Neuland and Tilda return home after the events of The Pale House Devil to try and make peace with the NYC crime syndicates.
Then they’ll only be welcomed back if they take on a job for free: hunting down, and killing, The Flesh King, a gruesome killer who is stalking the city, leaving a macabre and bloody trail wherever he goes.
Caught up in a twisted set of conspiracies and bloodletting, the monster hunters step up to do what they do best once more: take down the unstoppable evil.
The Gate – Christian Francis
Supernatural horror movie novelization
Best friends Glen and Terry stumble upon a mysterious hole in Glen’s backyard. At first, it seems harmless. Then, strange things begin happening. Terrifying visions, shadowy creatures, and unexplainable events escalate quickly.
By the time they realize the truth, it’s too late. They’ve opened a portal to a demonic realm. What starts as a harmless discovery turns into a nightmare beyond imagination.
With their parents away and the forces of darkness closing in, Glen and Terry must fight to close the gate before the demons consume their world.
Horror in Haddonfield: Halloween’s Untold Stories – Andrew Grevas
Horror movie non-fiction
Scare yourself silly with this look at the Halloween franchise with interviews of the actors who made all the horror film classics that have scared generations.
Unmasks the secrets behind all thirteen of the films in horror’s oldest and longest running slasher franchise.
Combining essays and interviews with the casts and creative teams, Grevas uncomplicates complicated timelines, dishes on the films that were planned but never made it to the screen, and reveals never-heard-before stories about the making of the movies. Evil never dies, and nor does horror fans’ fascination with Laurie Strode, Dr. Samuel Loomis, and of course legendary psychopath Michael Myers.
Includes interviews with actors Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Scout Taylor-Compton, Stacey Nelkin, Dee Wallace, and Tom Atkins; writers Paul Brad Logan, Dan Farrands, Robert Zappia, Shem Bitterman; director Dwight Little; cinematographer Dean Cundey and many more.
If the Dead Belong Here – Carson Faust
Gothic horror
When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family’s secrets.
When six-year-old Laurel Taylor vanishes without a trace, her family is left shattered, struggling to navigate the darkness of grief and unanswered questions. As their search turns to despair, Laurel’s older sister, Nadine, begins experiencing nightmares that blur the line between dream and reality, and she becomes convinced that Laurel’s disappearance could be connected to other family tragedies. Guided by her elders, Nadine sets out to uncover whether laying the ghosts to rest is the key to finding her sister and healing her fractured family.
Carson Faust captivates in this chilling literary debut that confronts the specter of colonization and the generational scars it leaves on Native American families. Steeped in Indigenous folklore and drawing from the author’s own family history, If the Dead Belong Here examines what it means to be haunted—both by the supernatural and by terrors of our own making. Faust crafts a powerful, kaleidoscopic tale about the complicated legacies of violence that shape our present, the importance of honoring our past, and the resilience of a family, and a people, determined to heal from old wounds.
Itch! – Gemma Amor
Body horror
Josie is at rock bottom, living a haunted existence after returning to her isolated hometown on the edge of the Forest of Dean. But the tall, dense pine trees are not the only things casting shadows across her skin.
When Josie stumbles across a decaying, ant-infested body in the woods, she plummets into a downward spiral, facing uncomfortable truths about the victim and her own past – all whilst battling a growing infestation of her mind, and her flesh.
Desperate to solve the case, Josie scratches the surface of an age-old mystery: a masked predator stalks the forest around Ellwood, a place deeply gripped by folklore.
As the village prepares for its annual festival, Josie gets closer and closer to unveiling a monster, and begins to ask herself: Are these dark crawling insects leading her to uncover the truth? Or is she their next victim?
Nowhere Land – Pamela K. Kinney
Supernatural horror
For centuries, legends have been told of a haunted land not far from Gloucester, Virginia. The local tribes had labelled it a place of demons. Wildlife is hardly seen there, and even insects avoid it. Sound fluctuates; nothing above a whisper one moment, only to come back minutes later. Those who dare to cross the land never make it out, mysteriously vanishing.
Parker Burkett and his sister, Lisa Polivka, inherit the land from their grandfather. They bring in a group of investigators to find if the stories behind the property are true. Parker has plans to turn it into a historical attraction and wants to debunk the ghost tales. He finds the paranormal group gone the next morning, except for a finger still wearing a ring lying in the loft of one of the buildings. It is the only evidence they’d been there.
Ben Neilson, who leads the paranormal team, Seekers of Paranormal World, wants to investigate, but first he must convince Parker to let them. He also wants longtime friend and psychic medium Neri Phelan to help his team.
Neri left the group a couple of years ago after the death of her younger sister on an investigation. She has a past with the cursed land, and she doesn’t want anything to do with it. Nightmares and an attack from something dark that destroys her spirit guide help her decide that it’s time to break the curse.
We Are All Dead Anyway – Gage Greenwood
Ghost horror
Gage Greenwood moved to Ohio in the summer of 2000, looking for a fresh start. Desperate to make a name for himself, he sets out to write screenplays for Hollywood. In the meantime, he meets an eccentric group of friends who inspire his art and help him find a new appreciation for life. That is, until they meet Puffin’ Billy.
Puffin’ Billy is a malevolent spirit in the Ohio woods who attaches himself to large groups. Once he’s in, he possesses one member of the group and forces them to kill another member. One by one, Gage’s friends will die, and another one of them will commit the act.
To make matters worse, Gage loses his house and has nowhere to go. Homeless, alone, and desperate, Gage must survive the very people he loves the most. Puffin’ Billy is coming.
Witchkiller – Ashlee Latimer
Reimagined fairy tale horror
Gretel had no choice.
Her brother Hansel was in danger, and she had to kill the witch. Five months later, she is still ripped from her dreams and awoken by the noise of her sword tearing into the witch’s flesh. Her waking hours are no better. Hansel has grown more and more like their monstrous father by the day. The society she now inhabits has trapped her in an endless cycle of balls with nobles who sneer at her family’s new money. And worst of all, her greedy father has issued his newest ploy to increase his wealth. Gretel must marry, and soon.
Devastated at the prospect of a lifetime with an old, decrepit husband, she flees a ball…and runs right into Prince Wilfried. When Gretel divulges the reality of her situation, Wilfried comes up with a solution. He is also being pressured to find a suitable future queen; they can both delay the inevitable by faking an engagement. Gretel agrees, and what starts as a ruse quickly deepens as she finds herself falling for the handsome prince.
But in the quiet of night, still trapped in her castle with her memories, Gretel feels the walls closing in and ventures into the neighboring woods. There, she meets Katharina, a beautiful witch who introduces her to the witch community. But these women aren’t evil — they’re healers, and Gretel is drawn to them.
When information comes to light implicating her family’s involvement in a traitorous plot and endangering the lives of herself and those she’s grown to care about, Gretel must ask herself – did the wrong person die in that cottage? And can the Witchkiller become a witch?
