Horror
April 2025

Rekt
by Alex Gonzalez

After Sammy's girlfriend Ellery dies in a car accident, he spirals with grief and finds distraction in shock-value videos of gore and violence, and when someone messages him a dark web link to footage of Ellery dying, he watches?—?along with the deaths of hundreds of others.
Victorian Psycho
by Virginia Feito

In this gruesome and unputdownable riff on American Psycho, a downtrodden governess in 19th-century England turns to murder to sate her dark impulses. For fans of: Maeve Fly by CJ Leede.
The angel of Indian Lake
by Stephen Graham Jones

Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her.
Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes
by Eric LaRocca

"A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s--a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son's death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm... And a man confronts his neighbor when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game"
Hungerstone
by Kat Dunn

Lenore and husband Henry travel to the British moorlands for a hunting party where an accident brings into their lives the mysterious Carmilla, who is weak during the day but vibrant at night, and Lenore must choose between her husband's affection and cravings that Carmilla has awakened.
Wicked Jenny
by Matt Hilton

In 1988, thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends witness the attack on classmate Poppy and the murder of her sister, leading to a suspect's suicide and unresolved guilt; decades later, as Carl's body is discovered by the same water, the friends face haunting memories and a possible vengeful Poppy seeking retribution.
Wake up and open your eyes : a novel
by Clay McLeod Chapman

"When Noah's aging parents stop returning his calls, he travels to their Virginia home and finds it in shambles. They have been violently possessed via the media they watch-and much of the country is succumbing, too. With his nephew-also unaffected-Noah tries to return home to safety"
The lamb : a novel
by Lucy Rose

In their secluded forest cottage, Margot and her mother welcome“strays,” lost travelers whom Mama feeds and ultimately consumes, but when a striking stranger named Eden arrives during a snowstorm, Margot must confront her family's dark practices and assert her own desires.
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