September 2025 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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American Mythology
by Giano Cromley
The Basic Bigfoot Society's members--both of them--are offered a tantalizing proposition: to join their next Bigfoot expedition with a young documentarian. Now strange things begin to happen that seem to defy rational explanation. Is this a hoax? Or are they on the precipice of the greatest anthropological discovery ever?
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Asylum Hotel
by Juliet Blackwell
When a mysterious figure shows up in the photograph Aubrey Spencer takes of the derelict Seabrink Hotel, ghostly encounters and murder occur, and a sinister force determined to silence her is unleashed.
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Blood Slaves
by Markus Redmond
What if nobody ever freed the slaves…because they freed themselves – 150 years before the Civil War?
In 1710 Carolina, the last surviving member of an ancient African vampire tribe meets an enslaved man desperate for freedom, and together, they lead an army of enslaved people in a blood-soaked battle for freedom and revenge.
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Coyote Songs
by Gabino Iglesias
In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest.
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Grave Birds
by Dana Elmendorf
Hollis Sutherland has an uncanny gift that allows her to see grave birds, manifestations of the dead's unfinished business. When a mysterious bachelor wanders into her small town, bizarre events begin to plague its wealthiest citizens, but Hollis is determined to save her town and the people in it, whatever it takes.
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How to Survive a Horror Story
by Mallory Arnold
When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading. When they arrive at his grand manor, they are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don't, the manor will take one of them for itself.
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It Was Her House First
by Cherie Priest
Ronnie doesn't know it yet, but her fate rests in the hands of the dead. Caught between a vengeful ghost and a ruthless living threat, Ronnie realizes the line between living and dead isn't as sharp as it seems, and in this house survival might be just an illusion.
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The Library at Hellebore
by Cassandra Khaw
The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. On graduation day, the faculty embark on a ravenous rampage, feasting on their students. Trapped in the school’s library, the surviving classmates must do something they were never taught: work together.
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Mayra
by Nicky Gonzalez
It’s been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, but when Mayra calls out of the blue to invite her to a weekend getaway at a house in the Everglades, she impulsively accepts. But exploring the house and the grounds, Ingrid is beginning to lose a sense of the outside world, and herself...
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My Ex, the Antichrist
by Craig DiLouie
We all have bad exes. Lily Lawlor's just happens to be the Antichrist.
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One Yellow Eye
by Leigh Radford
How far would you go to save your marriage? For Kesta Shelley, there is no limit. A brilliant scientist, Kesta desperately searches for a cure after a devastating epidemic, while also hiding a monumental secret—her undead husband.
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Red Rabbit Ghost
by Jen Julian
In Blacknot, North Carolina, nothing is as it seems. It's a town that buries its secrets deep. Jesse will soon discover that this backwater town hides a volatile and haunting place on its desolate edge. The Night House is calling.
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The Unkillable Frank Lightning
by Josh Rountree
Years after resurrecting her husband and unleashing a soulless killer, doctor and occultist Catherine Coldbridge returns to Texas seeking redemption, tracking the now-infamous Frank Lightning. This is Frankenstein vividly reimagined in the Wild West.
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