Horror
August 2025
Recent Releases
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria Schwab

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger. This is a story about hunger, love, rage, and life - how it ends and how it starts. For fans of queer vampire tales like Don't Sleep With the Dead by Nghi Vo and the classic Carmilla by J. S. Le Fanu.  
The Starving Saints
by Caitlin Starling

This medieval horror novel follows three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors. Try this next: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica; His Black Tongue by Mitchell Lüthi. 
The Bewitching
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A graduate student researching a mysterious horror author uncovers dark family secrets and a haunting past linked to witchcraft and disappearances spanning decades in this multi-timeline gothic novel rich with folklore, suspense, and supernatural terror. For fans of: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
Ecstasy
by Ivy Pochoda

In this dreamlike reimagining of Euripides' The Bacchae, recently widowed former dancer Lena accompanies her son and daughter-in-law on a vacation in Naxos, Greece, where she reclaims her power to reject the repressive constraints that have been placed upon her. For fans of: The Change by Kirsten Miller; Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder.
Focus on: Science Fiction Horror
Ghost Station
by S.A. Barnes

Tagging along for an exploration mission to a creepy abandoned planet, psychologist Ophelia Bray tries to make in-roads with the tight-knit crew who seem to be hiding something from her. For fans of: The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling. 
The wishing pool and other stories
by Tananarive Due

Further cementing her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism,  Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. All of them are written with Due's trademark attention to detail and deep characterization.
Meet Me at the Crossroads
by Megan Giddings

From an award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood comes a novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons. For fans of: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow.
The Luminous Dead
by Caitlin Starling

Having lied about her credentials to secure a coveted spot on a cavern-mapping expedition, Gyre Price discovers that her employers haven't been entirely honest with her, either. Gyre's survival depends on her "topside" handler, Em, who reveals little about herself beyond her ability to control every aspect of Gyre's life-sustaining high-tech caving suit. Try this next: Paradise-1 by David Wellington.
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