Horror
April 2024
Recent Releases
The Hollow Dead
by Darcy Coates

In this creepy 4th entry in the Gravekeeper series, seer and graveyard worker Keira Collis fights to reclaim her lost memories and stop the shadowy organization Artec from harnessing the energy of the dead. Try this next: the Royal Street novels by Karen White. 
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.
Island Witch
by Amanda Jayatissa

In a 19th-century Sri Lankan village, Amara, the daughter of the local demon-priest, fights to clear her father's name after a series of brutal jungle attacks leave multiple men dead. This atmospheric novel by the author of You're Invited is inspired by Sri Lankan folklore. For fans of: Lone Women by Victor LaValle; Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas.
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.
Your Shadow Half Remains
by Sunny Moraine

Sunny Moraine's suspenseful apocalyptic horror novel centers on a virus in which eye contact causes murderous rage among the afflicted, starring an isolated young woman whose chance encounter with a stranger could threaten the peace she's worked so hard to build. For fans of: The Last of Us; Bird Box by Josh Malerman; The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson.
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. 
Midnight on Beacon Street
by Emily Ruth Verona

In 1993 suburban New Jersey, babysitter Amy and her two young charges grapple with an escalating serious of strange phenomena over the course of a single night. Emily Ruth Verona's fast-paced debut is "a giddy exercise in nostalgia" (Publishers Weekly) that will appeal to fans of Halloween, Grady Hendrix novels, and The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones.
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