A Selection of Horror Books Released, 6 to 12 Oct 2024
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, slasher, gothic, sci-fi, and survival horror
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Table of Contents
Deena Undone – Debra K. Every
Psychological horror
A terrifying nightmare sets off a series of attacks on Deena Bartlett’s five senses, and her eighty-year-old Aunt Agatha is responsible.
But the old woman is not alone. She’s made a monstrous bargain with the Sensu, a malevolent entity whose stock in trade is attacking a person’s senses, one by one. It has promised Agatha health in return for one evil act: the killing of her niece.
Deena has remained loyal to her bitter aunt for years, her self-imposed penance for having neglected her now-dead parents. But Agatha is dying and her insults will soon end… until a string of inexplicable incidents. A sound so piercing Deena’s nose bleeds. A smell so vile her breathing suffocates.
Against all reason, after each attack her aunt’s health improves.
With mounting dread, Deena discovers the bargain her aunt has made.
Last Night of Freedom – Dan Howarth
Survival horror
At a stag party in a remote part of the Lake District, four old university friends are dragged into a bizarre local ritual. Immersed in a fight for their lives – only one of them is guaranteed to make it home.
Fifteen years after graduation, four old university friends get together to celebrate Luke’s stag party. Tucked away in a remote village in the Lake District, they expect a weekend of real ale, log fires and gentle hikes, but a stag party of locals have other ideas.
Unwillingly drawn into one-upmanship and animosity, the four friends find themselves being hunted across unfamiliar ground in a game of deadly consequences. With only one of them guaranteed to survive, old wounds and resentments threaten to tear them apart as much as their pursuers.
No Fair Maidens from Earth to Mars – Rowan Hill
Sci-fi horror collection
Nine stories of terrestrial to interstellar sci-fi horror traveling from pregnant, haunted lands of the dust bowl up to Mars’ basecamps where first contact does not go as planned.
These stories span centuries, planets, and the space between with women as both victims and villains of circumstance.
As humans progress off planet, a singular villain appears, a thread for keen observers to witness one long invasion. It has many forms, but ends with one message that Earth is special, and women more so.
Plan 9 From Outer Space: The Novelization – Bret Nelson
Sci-fi horror movie novelization
The entire universe faces destruction!
So say the alien invaders. Are they here to save us or is this a ruse to conquer earth?! The dead rise! Our weapons are useless! What is their plan?
In 1957, Ed Wood gathered a cast made up of the once-famous, the once-living, and the altogether unknown. Dime-store flying saucers invaded a surreal patchwork of stock footage. The remarkable results did not see a general release until two years later, when Plan Nine from Outer Space finally made it into theaters.
Stay in the Light – A.M. Shine
Supernatural horror – Book 2 of The Watchers
After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. She obsessively researches her former captors, desperate to find any way to prolong the safety of humankind.
When Mina encounters a stranger near her home, she fears the worst. Soon, people she has encountered start to disappear.
Mina knows the Watchers’ power is growing. She flees for her life, but when she reports her fears she finds her sanity questioned.
Terrifier 2 – Tim Waggoner
Slasher horror movie novelization
The nightmarish Art the Clown returns from the dead to continue his murderous and mad spree.
It has been one year since the sleepy town of Miles County survived the murderous spree of demented killer Art the Clown, but little do they know the nightmare is about to begin anew.
Resurrected by a sinister entity, Art is back with an appetite for murder and mayhem, setting his sights on the recently bereaved teenager Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan.
There’s no stopping Art once his sights are set on you…
This Cursed House – Del Sandeen
Gothic horror
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago, and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over.
But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma. Their tenuous hold on reality extends to all the members of their eccentric clan, from haughty grandmother Honorine to beautiful yet inscrutable cousin Fosette. And soon the shocking truth comes out: The Duchons are under a curse. And they think Jemma has the power to break it.
As Jemma wrestles with the gift she’s run from all her life, she unravels deeper and more disturbing secrets about the mysterious Duchons. Secrets that stretch back over a century. Secrets that bind her to their fate if she fails.
Published: 12 October 2024
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