A Selection of Horror Books Released, 6 to 12 Apr 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, space, serial killer, alien, and killer plant horror
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Table of Contents
Boo – Christy Aldridge
Psychological horror
Joe has everything he’s ever wanted: a home of his own, a fiancée he adores, and a stepdaughter he loves as his own. Life is finally good. But as he settles into his new home, an old friend returns.
When Joe was a boy, he wasn’t alone. Boo was always there; silent, watchful, fiercely protective. Boo listened when no one else would. Boo made the bad people go away.
Joe thought Boo wasn’t real.
He was wrong.
Cold Eternity – S.A. Barnes
Space horror
Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago.
The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram “hosts,” ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.
It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from.
The Cut – C.J. Dotson
Supernatural horror
A woman fleeing her abusive ex finds herself running from more than just her past.
A historic hotel long past its prime and huddled along The Cut, a questionable Lake Erie beach, isn’t Sadie Miles’ ideal place to raise a toddler while also navigating her second pregnancy. After finally fleeing her abusive ex-fiancé, though, Sadie’s new housekeeping position and free room at L’Arpin Hotel are the best she can manage.
On her first night, Sadie runs to help a guest struggling in the hotel’s pool only to find the water calm and empty when she gets there, leaving her with a lingering unease. When a guest then goes missing and her manager insists they simply left without checking out, Sadie suspects he’s covering up darker goings-on in the hotel.
After her ex, Sadie won’t let anyone convince her that what she’s experiencing isn’t real again. So, she keeps digging, quickly uncovering suspicious interactions with the staff, mysteriously vanishing security cameras, more missing guests, and things that go bump in the night, drip in the walls, slither in the tub, and squirm in the halls.
Everything isn’t as it seems within the dim hallways of L’Arpin, but Sadie has nowhere to go and nowhere to hide; she’ll need to keep her wits about her to survive and keep her toddler and unborn child safe.
Doomflower – Jendia Gammon
Killer plants horror
The meanest teen queen in high school might be the world’s only chance against killer plants run amok.
Camellia Dume is the meanest teen queen in her Malibu high school, a rich daddy’s girl thanks to her father’s elaborate scams.
But she might be the only hero for humanity as an extraterrestrial mutation sends plants tearing across the country and through people in bloody fashion.
As if that weren’t enough drama, Camellia just might meet her own personal match or worst enemy, in the new student Wray, as sparks fly and opposites attract.
Only by working together can they uproot a deadly conspiracy that may have torn Camellia’s family apart.
A Nest of Broken Bones – John Ashley
Supernatural horror
She’d rather let the whole world burn than lose her only son. Burning the whole world is exactly what her son was born to do.
Charlotte Mallory has everything she thought she never would: a booming career as a romance novelist, a picturesque ranch home in West Texas, and a child that doctors told her she’d never be able to bear. But what happened that night Malachi was conceived is impossible for her to explain, and the ways in which it changed her life are not all for the better.
Her son is different.
His needs are different.
To provide for him, Charlotte must do things that would make her a monster in the eyes of the world if anyone ever discovered her crimes. But if Malachi ever discovers the world outside the ranch where she keeps him hidden away, the carnage will be even more catastrophic.
What Remains of Teague House – Stacy Johns
Serial killer horror
Three siblings reckon with the darkness hidden within their family after multiple graves are discovered behind their childhood home.
When the Rawlins family matriarch unexpectedly passes, all three adult children rush home. What they find is a house bursting with grief, dark memories surfacing around each corner, and multiple bodies buried deep in the woods. The Rawlins want to believe the discovery points to a crime long past.
But one of the graves behind Teague House is fresh, the earth disturbed just that week, and its inhabitant is a local woman they all knew.
Is the youngest Rawlins sibling with something to hide somehow involved in her murder? Is his sister experiencing false memories of her late father digging near the graves? And why is the Rawlins aunt in such a rush to leave town after her sister’s funeral?
Enter private detective Maddie Reed, who has her own reasons for being curious about the bodies buried behind Teague House. Maddie sets out to unmask a killer. One she may have been hunting all her life.
What Swallows the Light – John Durgin, Gage Greenwood, Andrew Van Wey
Alien horror novellas
Three stories. One terrifying truth: we are not alone!
Suffocating Skies by John Durgin: Working Thanksgiving was supposed to be an escape for Carrie Richardson. But when the sky darkens and the office goes silent, escape becomes a trap.
We Were Who We Were by Gage Greenwood: Sometimes it looks like an accident, until you discover who is really pulling the strings. When Tess visits the man who killed her brother in a drunk driving accident, she discovers the facts were not as they appeared to be, and someone else may have been involved.
Dark Matter Dreams by Andrew Van Wey: An alien vessel powered by dreams. A human nightmare on board. For millennia, the Grays have visited earth, seeing humans as simple and safe. They were wrong. Aboard their living, star-spanning vessel, a forgotten horror awakens.
Published: 12 April 2025
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