Horror
October 2025
Recent Releases
Lucky Day
by Chuck Tingle

After the Low Probability Event (LPE) kills eight million people in absurd ways, bisexual statistics professor Vera Norrie teams up with Federal LPE Agent Jonah Layne to investigate a Las Vegas casino where the event may have originated, lest further catastrophe strikes. This fast-paced cosmic horror from the author of Bury Your Gays will appeal to fans of Jason Pargin.  
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand
by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene (editors); introduction by Stephen King

Bram Stoker Award-winning authors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene coedited this chilling anthology set within the world of Stephen King's classic 1978 postapocalyptic novel The Stand, featuring 34 original stories by Tananarive Due, Chuck Wendig, Gabino Iglesias, S.A. Cosby, and more. Try this next: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams (and featuring a story by King).
Play Nice
by Rachel Harrison

After her estranged mother's death, influencer Clio moves into her home with the intention of selling it. Clio's mom always claimed the house was possessed, which Clio and her sisters chalked up to their mother's alcoholism. But when she finds a book detailing the house's supernatural anomalies -- the same things she now finds herself experiencing -- Clio realizes her mother may have been telling the truth after all. For fans of: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix; The September House by Carissa Orlando.
The whistler by Nick Medina
The whistler
by Nick Medina

After a ghost-hunting accident leaves Henry Hotard paralyzed, he returns to his reservation and begins experiencing terrifying visions tied to a Native superstition, forcing him to confront buried trauma and the consequences of breaking sacred taboos.
The unseen by Kat Martin
The unseen
by Kat Martin

After two boys unearth a century-old skeleton near Belle Reve mansion, eerie hauntings escalate, prompting Nicole and former priest Lucas to investigate supernatural forces threatening her ailing aunt's life and confront dark secrets tied to the house's violent past.
No rest for the wicked : a novel by Rachel Louise Adams
No rest for the wicked : a novel
by Rachel Louise Adams

In one Halloween-obsessed Midwestern town, everyone's on red alert after a local politician goes missing; little do they know it's only the beginning.
The most unusual haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
The most unusual haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
by Roan Parrish

In haunted-house-loving New Orleans, special effects artist Jamie Wendon-Dale (transmasc they/them) falls for Edgar Lovejoy (cis he/him), a man genuinely haunted by ghosts, and as their bond deepens, both must confront fear, vulnerability and the supernatural truths that could bring them together or drive them apart.
What stalks the deep by T. Kingfisher
What stalks the deep
by T. Kingfisher

Alex Easton investigates the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America.
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