Horror
April 2024
Recent Releases
The invisible hotel
by Yeji Y. Ham

Plagued by dreams of a hotel—a quiet terror she's desperate to escape—Yewon, when she drives a mysterious North Korean refugee to visit her brother at a distant prison, finds her dreams intensifying as the line between reality and illusion begins to blur, revealing an unsettling truth about South Korea's collective heritage.
The House of Last Resort
by Christopher Golden

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden's compelling latest stars an American couple who move to a remote Italian town and purchase an opulent yet abandoned estate that was once owned by the Catholic Church. What secrets lie within its crumbling walls? For fans of: The Chrysalis by Brendan Deneen; The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig.
Mister Lullaby : a novel
by James Markert

As coma patients are trapped in a world full of evil mythical creatures of sleep, which is linked to an old train tunnel around town, one troubled man finally acts upon the voice in his head called Mr. Lullaby who wants him to kill all the coma patients he can find.
What Feasts at Night
by T. Kingfisher

World-weary soldier Alex Easton returns to their family home in Gallacia, where they find the caretaker dead from lung disease and rumors swirling in the village about an entity that steals people's breath. This 2nd creepy entry in T. Kingfisher's bestselling Sworn Soldier series (following What Moves the Dead) will appeal to fans of evocative gothic novels like Marielle Thompson's Where Ivy Dares to Grow.
The Haunting of Velkwood
by Gwendolyn Kiste

Twenty years after surviving a cosmic event that turned everyone in her hometown into ghosts, Talitha Velkwood returns to the site of the haunting to confront past traumas and reckon with horrors both real and supernatural in this character-driven latest from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens. Try this next: The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy.
Midnight showing
by Megan Shepherd

Drawn to Hollywood, Haven, discovering a string of murders that point directly to members of her family, is given shelter by a mysterious benefactor and finds the trail of death ending at a studio from the Golden Age of horror films, where the lines between reality and fiction dangerously blur.
Womb City
by Tlotlo Tsamaase

In a near-future Botswana where consciousness transfers are routine and implanted microchips keep people under constant surveillance, architect Nelah Bogosi-Ntsu occupies a body that used to belong to someone else. When she rebels against her controlling husband, she threatens both her own future and that of her unborn child. Tlotlo Tsamaase's "mind-bending and potent blend of Afrofuturist science fiction and horror" (Publishers Weekly) will appeal to fans of The Perishing by Natashia Deón and Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels. 
In these hallowed halls : a dark academic anthology
by Marie O'Regan

Spinetingling and sinister, this collection of 12 dark academia short stories from such masters of the genre as Olivia Blake, M. L. Rio and Susie Yang finds a lothario lecturer getting a visit from retribution; two graduates exhuming the secrets of a reclusive scholar; and much more.
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