Horror
August 2026
Recent Releases
The Summer Fun Massacre by Craig Dilouie
The Summer Fun Massacre
by Craig Dilouie

It’s 1992, and Camp Summer Fun sits by a crystal-clear Texas lake, surrounded by dense forest. But the camp hides a horrifying past: an ’80s massacre that left only one survivor. Haunted by his personal connection to the tragedy, Tom is plagued by nightmares - until a call reporting screams from the camp brings the nightmare to life.
Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden
Carry Me to My Grave
by Christopher Golden

Maggie Wise will take your eyes. When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it. Now, Maggie is dying, and those same siblings have left Malcolm and his sister-in-law Violet to hold a vigil at her bedside. 
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
by Paul Tremblay

Agreeing to remotely pilot a comatose man (whom she nicknames "Bernie") to Rhode Island, where assisted suicide is legal, disaffected California pro-gamer Julia begins to question the intentions of the tech corporation who hired her for the gig. Meanwhile, "Bernie" struggles to fight back against his programming and remember who he was.
Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer
Obstetrix
by Naomi Kritzer

Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she's kidnapped. Guarded, isolated, without access to the outside world, Liz nevertheless is treated with respect as the only doctor on the compound.. She must escape, and bring help to the girls trapped at the compound, if it's the last thing she does.
Our Sister's Keeper by Jasmine Holmes
Our Sister's Keeper
by Jasmine Holmes

No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town - untouched by white oppression - where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with ghoulish, walking nightmares...
Reliquary by Hannah Whitten
Reliquary
by Hannah Whitten

A young woman 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.
Dark Family Secrets
The haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
The haunting of Alejandra
by V. Castro

Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican Legend, and must summon everything she's inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
Salt Bones by Jennifer Givhan
Salt Bones
by Jennifer Givhan

When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare. As a desperate Mal hunts for answers, her search becomes increasingly tangled with inscrutable visions of a horse-headed woman, a local legend who Mal feels compelled to follow.
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Black Sheep
by Rachel Harrison

Years after surviving a traumatic childhood spent in an oppressive church, Vesper Wright returns home for her cousin's wedding, confronting horrors both human and supernatural. 
The ancestor :  a novel by Danielle Trussoni
The ancestor : a novel
by Danielle Trussoni

Inheriting a noble title, money and a castle in Italy, Alberta “Bert” Monte believes this sudden windfall is a dream come true until she arrives in Italy and unravels a dark legacy of ancestral treasures that is in her very genes.
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