| Midnight Somewhere by Johnny ComptonIn his disturbing and thought-provoking short story collection that's "good, creepy fun" (Booklist), Bram Stoker Award nominee Johnny Compton (The Spite House) blends supernatural horror and magical realism.
For fans of: Stephen King's Night Shift and the work of Junji Ito |
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| Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeesterUnfolding across three timelines, Kristi DeMeester's fast-paced latest centers on the "Dark Sisters," a pair of vengeful witches whose hold on the women of small-town Hawthorne Springs spans centuries.
For fans of: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth. |
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| Snake-Eater by T. KingfisherIn search of a fresh start after leaving her emotionally abusive fiancé, cash-strapped Selena heads to the small desert town of Quartz Creek, Arizona to stay at her late aunt's abandoned home. But not all is as it seems in Quartz Creek, as she soon discovers she's being watched by the same malevolent creature who targeted her aunt.
Fans of: dark fantasy/horror hybrids |
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| A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. JamesEighteen years after the sudden disappearance of their six-year-old brother, Ben, the Esmie siblings return to their childhood home in upstate New York at the urging of Ben's ghost, hoping to find answers.
For fans of: Model Home by Rivers Solomon. |
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Hellions: Stories
by Julia Elliott
An electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal. A genius at the short-story form, Julia Elliott achieves new highs with the astonishing Hellions. Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal.
What others say: Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times. One of my favorite collections of the past few years.--Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution
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Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora
by Lee Murray
"Soil," "Estuary," "Bedrock," "Roots," and "Air" are the five sections that ground this ambitious anthology of stories, poems, and drawings, which dig into the anger, complications of assimilation, and racist stereotypes from which the volume's Asian folk horror is unearthed. Each section begins with a poem by a foundational author. The stories that follow take readers on an unsettling journey where trigger warnings abound. As readers make their way through, tales of ghosts, shape-shifters, and family dynamics morph into sinister nightmares of violence, body horror, cannibalism, and more.
For fans of: House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias or The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim.
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