Echoes of the Forgotten: Bargain – Thomas Stewart
Halloween horror
Halloween night turns into something truly terrifying as a group of friends, looking for thrills and curious of legendry, venture into the fabled haunt of Weeping Willow, N.C. known as Farmer Haines’ Harvests, where countless others have gone missing, never to be seen again.
Whatever occurs in that accursed land becomes undeniable when all but one of the party are snatched by those that tread the land, serving forces older than the land itself.
Rescuing them becomes a race against time, and the unthinkable becomes the only solution, as the truth is uncovered behind the age-old nickname, “Hell’s Harvests”.
Echoes of the Forgotten: Blackwood – Angel R. Sanchez
Curse horror
For more than three hundred years, a curse has haunted Jess and Kathy’s bloodline. After their father’s death, they return to Blackwood Hollow expecting grief and old memories, only to find something far worse waiting for them.
At the center of it all is the witch who nearly destroyed their family long ago. Now, with the help of a handful of locals, Jess and Kathy must uncover the truth, break the curse, and face the evil waiting in the shadows.
But Blackwood Hollow was built on buried secrets, and the truth is far more brutal than they ever imagined.
Echoes of the Forgotten: Be Authentic – Matthew Hollis Damon
Psychological horror
Ali Mercer has built a life out of being seen. Millions of followers. Endless attention. A version of herself so refined it feels real, even to her.
When she returns to her small coastal hometown in Maine after fifteen years away, she expects a funeral, some awkward memories, and a quick trip back to Los Angeles.
Instead, she discovers that nothing has changed. The town is still ruled by a mysterious calendar that predicts the future, and people still treat its words as gospel.
On her very first walk through town, a handsome man she hasn’t seen since high school approaches her with a smile and tells her they’re getting married in seven days. According to the calendar, the wedding has already been decided. Because in Cundy’s Harbor, the future is commanded.
Ali was never one to do what she’s told, but she discovers her hometown is teeming with envy and coercion. The harder Ali pushes against the future, the more it seems to be coming for her. Can she escape it?
Echoes of the Forgotten: Curse of the Blue Bloods – Darcie Morin
Vampire horror
Detective Axel Worthington thought he knew his life, but he was dead wrong.
Called to the grisly murder scene of his own father, Axel is hit with a truth more shocking than any crime he’s ever investigated: his parents have been hiding a terrifying secret all along. He’s a vampire. Bound and powerless until now, his supernatural abilities awaken with a vengeance, triggered by his father’s death.
Now, fueled by grief and rage, Axel must hunt a killer while navigating a dark new reality, one where his thirst for blood is as dangerous as the criminals he once pursued. In a world where justice isn’t just about the law, Axel will discover that sometimes surviving the night requires embracing the monster within.
Echoes of the Forgotten: Doomscrolled – James Michael Orr
Psychological horror
What if the algorithm was always watching you?
After the death of his father, Brandon Adkins discovers Friend-Z, a social media platform where becoming a content creator gives him attention, purpose, and just enough income to survive. But as his dependence on the site grows, the strain on his real-world relationships increases, especially when a fellow creator named Destiny and an urban legend known as Doomscrolled begin consuming his time and stability.
When Brandon decides to test the online legend promising a chance to go live in front of the entire platform, he discovers that some viral legends are better left forgotten.
Echoes of the Forgotten: Warden Tree – Tiffany Royster
Psychological horror
Beneath the quiet town of Brindle Hollow, something waits.
A tree older than memory, feeding on secrets, hunger, and the living.
When Rhett returns to find his missing sister, he discovers that the forest doesn’t just take, it chooses.
Echoes of the Forgotten: Web of Malevolence – PD Alleva
Psychological horror
Winter, 1971. Grief drives teenager Michael Tedesco into exile, straight into the arms of a grandfather he barely knows, hidden deep within the sun-bleached isolation of the Florida Keys.
At first glance, the island feels like paradise. But paradise has a memory. The locals watch too closely. Speak too little. And when they do speak, it’s only in hushed warnings-stories of Naia Tomes, a witch who once stalked the island… a woman said to have fed on human flesh before the newcomers put her down. Buried. Forgotten. Or so they claim.
Because something is stirring again. The wind carries whispers that shouldn’t exist. Shadows linger where nothing should stand. And Michael begins to realize the truth the island has been hiding: Naia Tomes is not finished.
As the past claws its way back into the present, Michael is pulled deeper into a suffocating nightmare – one woven from secrets, superstition, and blood.
Headlights – CJ Leede
Psychological horror
Every instinct tells him to run. Every memory tells him he can’t.
Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, it’s his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn in his badge, he’s summoned back to Denver, the city he ran from four years ago, with a chilling message: it’s happening again.
Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got there, wearing the skin of victims they’ve allegedly never met. And they each share one haunting detail: a strand of a stranger’s hair is tied around their tongue.
Now Daniel is pulled back into the gruesome cycle, and every clue leads him deeper into the shadows of his own past. He will have to confront the ghosts of his traumatic childhood and face what’s been hunting him all along― before he and the people he loves become the next victims.
It Came From Neverland – Cynthia Pelayo
Reimagined fairy tale horror
It’s 1914 and Wendy Darling works by day as a school teacher, and by night, she assists soldiers who have returned home from the Western Front. There is one mysterious patient who, despite all the care they’ve given him, is in a deep sleep, unable to wake up. One night, when he murmurs the words “Peter Pan,” Wendy is thrown back to a darker time, one that she wishes she could forget.
When one of her students goes missing, it brings back memories of when children went missing and were later found murdered in London many years ago. Wendy is convinced that Peter Pan, the entity that she believes killed those children, is back. She and her brothers had a close encounter with Peter Pan, after all. But her brothers only remember Peter Pan and Neverland as a fantasy of childhood games.
When another child goes missing and signs start to point to Wendy, Scotland Yard digs into old reports, finding that Wendy knew the names of all the children who had been killed. As Wendy tries to prove her innocence, she also has to find a way to stop Peter Pan once and for all.
Need – Ruth Anna Evans (editor)
Horror anthology
We all hunger. We all desire. We all hope. But more than anything, we all NEED. Need can slice our hearts into pieces like a razor blade. When our need isn’t met, our souls shrivel into a singular agony. It’s all we can think about; pursuing that need is the only thing we can do. In the end, if we need hard enough for long enough, we are extinguished.
This is a book of need. A mother whose children are thirsty, but she has no water, only the blood in her veins. A young man dying for the attention of strangers, for clicks that may never come. A son who will do anything to keep his elderly father alive, even as his flesh decays around him. An addict whose need is killing him over and over, every morning, every day, every night.
Obstetrix – Naomi Kritzer
Cult horror
Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she’s kidnapped.
They’re not just any kidnappers, but a fundamentalist cult, deep in the rural west, without respect for law or decency, and in desperate need of an OB/GYN.
Guarded, isolated, without access to the outside world, Liz nevertheless is treated with respect as the only doctor on the compound, but she is very aware of what happened to the last obstetrician they kidnapped.
She must escape, and bring help to the girls trapped at the compound, if it’s the last thing she does.
Our Sister’s Keeper – Jasmine Holmes
Psychological horror
Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming.
No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It’s a wealthy all-Black Free Town, untouched by white oppression, where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with ghoulish, walking nightmares that only the women can see.
Marah knows the groanings well. She is one of the carriers: women with the ability to pull traumatic memories from men. Populated by men entirely freed of their pain, East Cobb has flourished, even as the remnants of their memories haunt the town’s women.
When an unexpected death drives Marah to discover more about her own power, Thea’s and Marah’s worlds collide. The sisters must confront the rotten core at the heart of East Cobb’s prosperity and choose what, and who, will survive the reckoning.
The Sourdough Compendium: Dark and Dangerous Fairy Tales – A.G. Slatter
Horror collection
A compendium of fantastic tales from the dark gothic heart of the Sourdough universe. Witches, assassins and pirates are brought to life in immersive, sinister and magical prose.
Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on an old lover; the Little Sisters of St Florian devote their lives to knowledge good and bad; a dying forest god is reinvigorated; mermaids and seamstresses make dangerous bargains; changelings bring havoc. Saints slumber, hind-girls dance across the countryside, bears show their true colours, and the fate of the upper and lower worlds rests on the whim of a volatile plague maiden.
The Way It Haunted Him – Laura R. Samotin
Grief horror
A claustrophobic queer dark academia horror set in a demon-infested archive about trauma, grief and the lengths we will go to for love.
Michael Stein arrives at the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies battered and broken, blaming himself for the tragic accident that took his boyfriend’s life. He is haunted by his guilt and grief, but is determined to repent by completing his boyfriend’s research into demonic entities.
But instead of being welcomed by the archivist, Michael is met by Jacob Schechter, the archivist’s enigmatic, brooding grandson, who has inherited the Institute after his grandfather’s death. As Michael explores the archive, delving into cryptic texts and whispered histories, shadows from the past begin to seep into the present. Tormented by demons both real and imagined, Michael’s grief warps into something far darker, an intoxicating, yet increasingly toxic obsession with Jacob, whose own secrets threaten to destroy them both.
Now, Michael must confront the terrible truth behind his boyfriend’s death, and his obsession with Jacob, before the darkness they awaken in each other claims more than just their love, and consumes them entirely.
