Horror
August 2025
Recent Releases
The Country Under Heaven
by Frederic S. Durbin

Former Union soldier Ovid Vesper, who acquired "the sight" from a dimension-tearing blast during the Battle of Antietam, travels the 1880s American West investigating -- and subduing -- supernatural threats. For fans of: cosmic horror/weird western mashups like Victor LaValle's Lone Women.
Bochica
by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro

In 1920s Bogotá, Colombia, Antonia is forced to reckon with her past when her father is charged with the murder of a man killed at a newly opened luxury hotel, the site of her former childhood home where her mother mysteriously drowned. Try this next: The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas.
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.
Beasts of Carnaval
by Rosália Rodrigo

A Puerto Rico-inspired fantasy follows a woman recently freed from slavery as she searches for her missing brother at the Carnaval of Beasts and learns why nobody who enters Carnaval ever leaves
Focus on: Science Fiction Horror
All the water in the world : a novel
by Eiren Caffall

Follows a young girl, Nonie, and her family as they navigate a post-apocalyptic New York ravaged by melting glaciers, as they safeguard cultural history while surviving storms, scarcity and meeting diverse communities in their quest for a hopeful future.
Cold Eternity
by S.A. Barnes

On the run after a political scandal puts her in danger, whistleblower Halley Zwick takes a job guarding the long-abandoned cryogenically frozen bodies of wealthy patrons on the Elysian Fields spaceship. But her quiet refuge becomes a nightmare when she begins seeing -- and hearing -- things that shouldn't be there. For fans of: Caitlin Starling; TV's Severance.
The black orb
by Kim Ewhan

In downtown Seoul, Jeong-su witnesses a massive black orb that consumes his neighbor, then proceeds to multiply and wreak havoc on the city, inciting violence and panic; embarking on a desperate journey to find his elderly parents, Jeong-su must reassess his beliefs as he confronts the unfolding horror.
Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase

When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing—or risk losing everyone.
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