Horror
June 2025
Recent Releases
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
by Kylie Lee Baker

Haunted by her sister Delilah's murder in the early days of COVID-19, 20-something Cora Zeng takes a job as a crime scene cleaner in New York City's Chinatown, where she soon discovers a serial killer may be targeting East Asian women. Is there a connection between her sister's murder and these crimes? For fans of: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.
The Cut
by C. J. Dotson

In this chilling supernatural horror novel, a pregnant woman escaping her abusive ex takes a housekeeping job at a crumbling hotel on a bleak Lake Erie beach. Strange occurrences and missing guests make her suspect the hotel hides dark secrets. With nowhere to run, she must protect her toddler and unborn child from the horrors within. For readers of twisty thrillers by Freida McFadden, but with a supernatural spin.
When the Wolf Comes Home
by Nat Cassidy

When aspiring actress Jess finds a terrified five-year-old boy hiding outside her apartment complex, she takes him in, only to discover he's on the run from his father, a violent man with a wolf-like creature in tow. After they're attacked by the creature, the pair try to stay one step ahead of their beastly foe while new threats emerge. For fans of: The Twilight Zone.
Overgrowth
by Mira Grant

Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. â€‹Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Day of the Triffids in this full-on body horror/alien invasion apocalypse.
The Staircase in the Woods
by Chuck Wendig

In 1998 Pennsylvania, five teenage friends on a camping trip found a mysterious staircase in the woods. When one of their number ascended the staircase, it disappeared -- taking him with it. Twenty years later, the staircase reappears, and the guilt-ridden survivors reunite to find their friend, though they'll have to face the horrors hidden within the mysterious structure. For fans of: It by Stephen King; The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill.
2024 Bram Stoker Awards
Midnight Rooms
by Donyae Coles

Faced with limited prospects in 1840 Bristol, England, biracial orphan Orabella accepts a proposal of marriage from the charismatic Elias Bakersby, who whisks her away to his family's country estate with promises of a life of leisure. But not all is as it seems at Korringhill Manor, and Orabella quickly suspects her new husband has ulterior motives for her presence there. Try this next: The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling; This Cursed House by Del Sandeen. 
I Was a Teenage Slasher
by Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones follows up his Indian Lake trilogy with the gruesome and darkly humorous confessional of murderer Tolly Driver, who went on a killing spree as a teen in 1989 Lamesa, Texas. For fans of: The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay.
The Haunting of Velkwood
by Gwendolyn Kiste

Twenty years after surviving a cosmic event that turned everyone in her hometown into ghosts, Talitha Velkwood returns to the site of the haunting to confront past traumas and reckon with horrors both real and supernatural in this character-driven latest from the author of The Rust Maidens. Try this next: The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy.
Incidents Around the House
by Josh Malerman

Bestselling author Josh Malerman's (Bird Box) latest stars eight-year-old Bela, whose relationship with her menacing imaginary friend "Other Mommy" pushes her parents to their breaking point. For fans of: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage.
Bless Your Heart
by Lindy Ryan

In this gruesome and humorous 1st in the Evans Funeral Parlor series, the owners of a funeral parlor in 1999 southeast Texas fight to protect their small town when the recently deceased begin rising from the dead. Try this next: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix; Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker.
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