May 2025 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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Blood on Her Tongue
by Johanna van Veen
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's sister, Sarah, is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a recently discovered centuries old corpse. To protect her from a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery of her condition. Then Sarah's behavior takes a turn for the strange.
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow.
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The Haunting of Room 904
by Erika T. Wurth
Paranormal investigator Olivia Becente, struggling with her sister's death and her sudden gift to commune with spirits, investigates mysterious deaths at a Denver hotel, uncovering ties to a cult and dark secrets about her sister's hidden life.
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The Memory Ward
by Jon Bassoff
They say it's always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you'd rather live. The people are friendly and there's no crime to speak of. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. As he begins looking beyond the veneer of his smiling neighbors and their white picket fences, Hank is drawn further and further into a disturbing new reality ...
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Nowhere
by Allison Gunn
A series of disappearances in a small, fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in.
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The Ones Who Got Away: Stories
by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut, immersing you in worlds you think you’ve seen before, but with outcomes you’ll never see coming.
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The Other People
by C. B. Everett
Ten strangers.
An old dark house.
A killer picking them off one by one.
And a missing girl who’s running out of time…
And then there was one.
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Passing Through a Prairie Country
by Dennis E. Staples
For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Spoken of only in whispers as “the sandman,” he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, leeching its patrons’ dreams and preventing the ghosts that linger there from moving on. And Ojibwe Marion Lafournier will barely escape.
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rekt
by Alex Gonzalez
After Sammy's girlfriend Ellery dies in a car accident, he spirals with grief and finds distraction in shock videos of gore and violence. And when someone messages him a dark web link to footage of Ellery dying, he watches—and becomes obsessed with finding the roots of the host site, chinsky.
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Rose of Jericho
by Alex Grecian
Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying.
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The Unworthy
by Agustina Bazterrica
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
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The Vampire Tapestry
by Suzy McKee Charnas
A new edition of the Nebula Award-winning reinvention of the vampire novel. Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected professor but his condition is biological - rather than supernatural. The Vampire Tapestry is a story wholly unlike any you've heard before.
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Vanishing Daughters
by Cynthia Pelayo
Haunted by eerie visions and restless spirits, Briar Thorne investigates a string of murders tied to a Chicago serial killer, uncovering a chilling connection between her nightmares and the key to stopping the killer before she becomes his next victim.
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White Line Fever
by KC Jones
Four friends on a weekend getaway find themselves trapped on Oregon's infamous Devil's Driveway, a 15-mile stretch of road where a routine shortcut turns into a harrowing fight for survival against an unimaginable horror.
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