Horror
April 2021
Recent Releases
Bone chase
by Weston Ochse

After receiving a mysterious box, an unemployed math teacher is chased by the Six-Fingered Man and the Council of David as he and his girlfriend try to get to the bottom of a 10,000-year-old mystery. 35,000 first printing.
The children of Red Peak
by Craig DiLouie

"David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. They grew up in an overbearing religious community on the isolated mountain Red Peak -- and they were a few of the only survivors of its horrific last days. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind. And when a fellow survivor commits suicide, they reunite to confront their past and share their stories. As long-repressed memories surface, they begin to recall different images of that final night. Images that raise questions with no easy, or even believable, answers. Together, they will return to Red Peak. But discovering the terrifying truth might make escaping a second time almost impossible.."
Ink
by Jonathan Maberry

"From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a standalone supernatural thriller Ink, about a memory thief who feeds on the most precious of dreams. Tattoo-artist Patty Cakes has her dead daughter's face tattooed on the back of her hand.Day by day it begins to fade, taking with it all of Patty's memories of her daughter. All she's left with the certain knowledge she has forgotten her lost child. The awareness of that loss is tearing her apart. Monk Addison is a private investigator whose skin is covered with the tattooed faces of murder victims. He is a predator who hunts for killers, and the ghosts of all of those dead people haunt his life. Some of those faces have begun to fade, too, destroying the very souls of the dead. All throughthe town of Pine Deep people are having their most precious memories stolen. The monster seems to target the lonely, the disenfranchised, the people who need memories to anchor them to this world. Something is out there. Something cruel and evil is feeding on the memories, erasing them from the hearts and minds of people like Patty and Monk and others. ink is the story of a few lonely, damaged people hunting for a memory thief. When all you have are memories, there is no greater horror than forgetting"
The Blade Between
by Sam J. Miller

Starring: photographer Ronan, who's just returned to the gentrifying hometown that ostracized him for being gay; Dom, Ronan's ex-boyfriend who’s struggling to gain acceptance as a Black police officer; community organizer Attalah, Dom's wife.

What happens: Teaming up to expose the corporate investors taking over the town, the trio find themselves grappling with horrors both human (racism, homophobia) and supernatural (ghosts, unexplained deaths).

Book buzz: Rife with incisive social commentary, The Blade Between is a compelling addition to the gentrification horror subgenre.
Secret Santa
by Andrew Shaffer

A tale set during the horror genre boom of the 1980s finds a publishing manager ordered to find a superstar author capable of competing with the era’s leading writers, before office hazing implodes a Secret-Santa gift exchange. Original.
Exorcism
The exorcist
by William Peter Blatty

Actress and single mother Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly terrified for her young daughter Regan as a malevolent force takes possession of the child.
Vicious circle
by Mike Carey

Using his psychic abilities to perform freelance exorcisms against the threatening undead, Castor struggles with a possessed friend and a hit contract while working on a seemingly insignificant "missing ghost" case with unexpected ties to a fierce demon. By the author of The Devil You Know.
My Best Friend's Exorcism
by Grady Hendrix

The year: 1988. The place: Charleston, South Carolina. Abby and Gretchen have been BFFs since fifth grade, but now that they're in high school, Gretchen seems different. After a series of bizarre events, Abby realizes that Gretchen has a demon living inside her -- and it's up to Abby to rescue her friend. In My Best Friend's Exorcism, author Grady Hendrix hits a home run with a "spectacularly grotesque and profane" (Kirkus Reviews) exorcism scene. Don't miss this terrifying tale, filled with spot-on 1980s popular culture references and framed at the beginning and end with yearbook-style layouts.
The darkness grows : The Darkness Grows
by Robert Kirkman

"At long last, Simon's story is told. Meanwhile, the darkness is closing in on Kyle Barnes... the end game approaches. Kyle gathers more Outcasts together, and while it does make them stronger, it also brings greater danger."
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