October 2026 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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And the Sea Gave Up the Dead
by William Friend
Some grief echoes. Some grief knocks.
If the tales are true, something long buried is stirring is Morwenna's family home… and it has been waiting for her family to return. The dead are not done with this house.
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Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II
by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, editors
The bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology returns with a new selection of even more daring and sinister stories. From monsters to mutilation, Never Whistle at Night is back for revenge.
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The Burn Line
by Jonathan Sims
Beneath the streets of London, it hungers…
One fateful morning five travelers find themselves trapped in a tube car deep in the London Underground.
It will change their lives forever.
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The Calamities
by Chuck Wendig
Mourning Mayne knows he’ll one day bear the duty of managing his family’s vast empire of wealth and power. But he has always struggled to accept this legacy of cruelty, domination, and exploitation.... and something even darker. The Fiends series.
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Devil Inside
by Clay McLeod Chapman
A man who’s back from the dead meets a woman who’s from somewhere even worse in this new horrormance about love, possession, and just a little murder.
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The Devil Knows Her Name
by C. N. Vair
The devil was as my mother and grandmother had always described him: polite enough that you might forget yourself, so beautiful that you’d want to, so dangerous if you did.
A hundred years ago, Tess sold her soul to save her life—but now she must stop the devil from collecting his due.
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The Halls of the Dead
by S. M. Hallow
London, December 1849. Irene has dedicated her life to necromancy, a forbidden, reviled art that is passed along through sentient grimoires. Like any magic, it has come at immense cost, but when Irene’s love, Agnes, is hanged for witchcraft, Irene refuses to let Agnes be one more thing that is taken from her.
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The Hill in the Dark Grove
by Liam Higginson
Steeped in Welsh folklore, Carwyn and his wife Rhian, living in the isolated mountains of Snowdonia, stumble upon a buried Neolithic ruin--awakening a mysterious, ancient presence with its own dark designs.
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House of Idyll
by Delilah S. Dawson
A tale of beautiful rock stars, sinister cults, and a magical oasis where dreams come true for musicians... for a price.
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The House That Eats the Dead
by Max Doty
The new house is a fresh start for Claire and her family. Yet as they unpack their boxes, she senses something is wrong. Claire soon must confront the truth: The house is hungry. It's devouring anything that was once alive.
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Reliquary
by Hannah Whitten
Claire is lured to her late fiance's remote island estate--only to uncover eerie family secrets, a haunting past, and a monstrous hunger stirring beneath the sea. And then there's Elias's older brother, insistent on Claire leaving as soon as possible.
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Saint Delilah
by Isabelle Spotts
Delilah is dead. But her story is far from over.
She will find her peace--and give hell to the man who killed her.
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Stay Buried
by Jennifer McMahon
Some towns stay isolated for a reason.
When their grandmother dies, Ashley and Malcolm inherit a property in Boone’s Ferry, VT—a place their grand-mother has always refused to talk about. They find it picturesque, but the townspeople have some unsettling traditions, like leaving offerings to a vengeful spirit four times a year.
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The Sunken, the Adored
by Donyae Coles
A chilling Lovecraftian horror story of a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800s Venice when the mysterious plague that killed her former master appears to have followed her to Italy... and now stalks the canals of the city.
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Tapeworm
by A. P. Thayer
Something is waiting underneath the town of Superstition, California when Victor and his friends arrive--crawling its way in and feeding into their desires. It needs to feed. And it is hungry... for Victor and his friends.
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Them
by W. H. Chizmar
A top-secret government project succeeds in bringing something back from across the universe. Something alive. When a truck hauling a very special container overturns and rolls off the highway, an otherworldly horror is unleashed upon an unsuspecting New England countryside. A horror that cannot be contained…
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These Walls Remember
by Del Sandeen
Do not go into the attic, the note warned. But that’s exactly what sisters Mickie and Delilah do when they inherit a distant relative’s house in Savannah. They intend to sell the property, divide the proceeds, and go their separate ways once and for all.
But 724 Hartford Street has other plans...
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