Horror
June 2025

Recent Releases
Eat the Ones You Love
by Sarah Maria Griffin

Single and unemployed Shell Pine moves back in with her parents in the Dublin suburbs, where she takes a job at a flower shop in a run-down mall. When the shop's owner, Neve, catches her eye, she'll have to compete for Neve's attention with a monstrous, possessive orchid that's taken over the mall -- and Neve. For fans of: Little Shop of Horrors, Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell, and But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo.
Cold Eternity
by S.A. Barnes

On the run after a political scandal puts her in danger, whistleblower Halley Zwick takes a job guarding the long-abandoned cryogenically frozen bodies of wealthy patrons on the Elysian Fields spaceship. But her quiet refuge becomes a nightmare when she begins seeing -- and hearing -- things that shouldn't be there. For fans of: Caitlin Starling; TV's Severance.
The Staircase in the Woods
by Chuck Wendig

In 1998 Pennsylvania, five teenage friends on a camping trip found a mysterious staircase in the woods. When one of their number ascended the staircase, it disappeared -- taking him with it. Twenty years later, the staircase reappears, and the guilt-ridden survivors reunite to find their friend, though they'll have to face the horrors hidden within the mysterious structure. For fans of: It by Stephen King; The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill.
The country under heaven : a novel
by Frederic S. Durbin

Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after surviving one of the Civil War's most gruesome battles, the Battle of Antietam. As he travels across the country following those visions,he finds himself in stranger and increasingly more dangerous encounters with other worlds hidden in the spaces of his own mind, not to mention the dangers of the Wild West. Ovid brings his steady calm and compassion as he helps the people of a broken country, rapidly changing but, like himself, still reeling and wounded from the war. He assists with matters of all sorts, from odd jobs around the house, to guiding children back to their own universe, to hunting down unnatural creatures that stalk the night--all the while seeking his own personal resolution and peace from his visions. Ovid's epic journey across the American West with a surprising cast of characters blends elements of the classic Western with historical fantasy in a way like no other.
We Live Here Now
by Sarah Pinborough

A haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong.
2024 Bram Stoker Awards
I Was a Teenage Slasher
by Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones follows up his Indian Lake trilogy with the gruesome and darkly humorous confessional of murderer Tolly Driver, who went on a killing spree as a teen in 1989 Lamesa, Texas. For fans of: The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay.
H. P. Lovecraft's The call of Cthulhu
by Gou Tanabe

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn--"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." Now these nightmares will disturb the sanity of Francis Thurston, a young man pursuing an investigation into the cult of Cthulhu that leads to the most forsaken spot in the vast Pacific... and to Earth's supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh.
Incidents Around the House
by Josh Malerman

Bestselling author Josh Malerman's (Bird Box) latest stars eight-year-old Bela, whose relationship with her menacing imaginary friend "Other Mommy" pushes her parents to their breaking point. For fans of: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage.
Bless Your Heart
by Lindy Ryan

In this gruesome and humorous 1st in the Evans Funeral Parlor series, the owners of a funeral parlor in 1999 southeast Texas fight to protect their small town when the recently deceased begin rising from the dead. Try this next: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix; Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker.
Horror movie : a novel
by Paul Tremblay

The only surviving cast member of a notorious, disturbing 1993 art house horror movie joins the remake, but begins having trouble distinguishing between reality and film in the new novel by the author of The Pallbearers Club.
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