Horror
April 2025
Recent Releases
Old Soul
by Susan Barker

A chance encounter between strangers Jake and Mariko leads to disturbing revelations about their respective loved ones' recent deaths -- both had encountered a mysterious woman whose presence has been linked to hundreds of deaths throughout history. But when Jake sets out to find the woman, she always seems to be one step ahead. For fans of: The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes.
Victorian Psycho
by Virginia Feito

In this gruesome and unputdownable riff on American Psycho, a downtrodden governess in 19th-century England turns to murder to sate her dark impulses. For fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones

In 2012, college professor Etsy Beaucarne learns about a 100-year-old diary written by her great-great-grandfather, Lutheran minister Arthur Beaucarne, hoping she can utilize it to secure tenure. Contained within its pages are the confessions of Good Stab, a Blackfeet vampire seeking vengeance for the massacre of his people. For fans of: The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo; Lone Women by Victor LaValle.
At Dark, I Become Loathsome
by Eric Larocca

Grief-stricken by the death of his wife and the disappearance of his young son, bisexual widower Ashley Lutin finds solace in rituals with suicidal clients who pay him to bury them alive for 30 minutes to help them re-gain the will to live. When potential client Jinx enters the picture, the two begin a relationship that could expose the long-buried secrets Ashley has been fighting to keep hidden. For fans of: Poppy Z. Brite.
 
Our Winter Monster
by Dennis Mahoney

En route to a ski trip that they hope will rekindle their troubled relationship, Brian and Holly's car crashes during a blizzard and the pair are pursued by a giant snow monster that crushes everything in its path. Can they survive the night? Try this next: Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan.
Never flinch : a novel
by Stephen King

"From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines-one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker-featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters. When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty" in "an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man," Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are fourteen citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act of retribution? As the investigation unfolds, Izzy realizes that the letter writer is deadly serious, and she turns to her friend Holly Gibney for help."
Rekt
by Alex Gonzalez

After Sammy's girlfriend Ellery dies in a car accident, he spirals with grief and finds distraction in shock-value videos of gore and violence, and when someone messages him a dark web link to footage of Ellery dying, he watches?—?along with the deaths of hundreds of others.
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