Author: L.L. Hunter Two babies, born with the blood of witches. One of darkness. One of light. The magic of each yet to be awakened. Separated at birth, neither knew of the other. Seventeen years have passed, with their strength increasing with every moon cycle. Sacred relics were forged to contain any magic too great […]

Author: Jennifer Bernardini What would you do if you couldn’t remember who you were? Gwenna, Edward, Clarice, and Marcus are locked inside a house with no way out. They can’t remember anything, not even their last names. Doctors watch their every move. How far would they go to get their memories back? What will they […]

Author: Bryan Renaud A man accepts an invite from a long-estranged childhood friend to visit his gloomy and mysterious mansion.

Author: Lucy Leitner Social media reflects our world. Are you not terrified? Satirical and harrowing, Influence is a collection of experimental stories exposing the horror that lurks in modern society. Artificial intelligence for exorcisims, wellness fads gone deadly, lockdown cabin fever, and the dangers of our need to be adored. The Sky is Full of […]

Author: Barbara Hambly A young woman rises from the streets to battle a sinister evil in this magical fantasy adventure by the bestselling author of the Darwath series. Something is amiss with the world’s magic. Spells don’t work the way they used to—when they work at all. Only the powers of the Crystal Mages remain […]

Author: Various Here are twenty Lovecraftian stories—both new and rediscovered—that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today’s masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft’s oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow. Michael Chabon’s “In the Black Mill” […]

Author: Various Storms are the epitome of nature at her most primal, savage, and untamable. They inspire awe and terror in equal measure. When storms unleash their fury, nothing and no one can stand against them. Hurricane Ian was such a storm. When Ian ripped into South Florida in the fall of 2022, homes and […]

Author: Various Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others. With an introduction from Katherine Dunn Ladies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with […]

Author: David Scott Hay Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus. As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their coping mechanisms expand to include on-the-job sex, drugs, and a jellyfish. But […]

Author: Ruth Hyde Gemma Baker is an intensive care nurse by day, and… a sorceress by night. Adept at multitasking, she has managed to keep both her careers entirely separate. Well, maybe not entirely. After all, she can hardly be expected to turn the witch in her off when she’s working in the ICU, especially […]

Author: Various Body horror is best when it comes in little bursts. In this novella-length collection full of gross, grimy, creepy, crawly, bubbling, bursting fun, what you’ll be surprised by is how much heart and story can be packed into such small packages. With twenty up-and-coming authors putting forth their best short works of body […]

Author: Vanessa Nelson If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count? Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure. Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she’s broken all ties to her […]

Author: Various “Are you saying someone anchored their bottom teeth behind the victim’s neck and bit through the arteries at the top of his heart?” “No, man, humans can’t do that.” Can’t they? Detective Lieutenant Lucas Cross, stuck with a rookie partner, a teen-aged Cadet, and a computer he’s not allowed to touch, is ordered […]

Author: Vaughn Ashby You know that part of the movie where they montage to put the heist team together? Well… we’re doing that, as well as… wait… what?… we can’t do that can… can we? After dangling off the front end of a train at the end of a catastrophically failed train job, Angie finds […]

Author: Hazel Black Charmaine Farre is a recently successful artist, living alone in her lovely loft, painting to her heart’s content. She’s always known that she’s insane—it’s written in her blood, after all. But the horrifying creatures she hallucinates have never really bothered her. They always disappear as soon as she looks at them, anyway. […]

Author: William Massa An evil druid terrorizes the Cursed City.

Author: Kathryn Troy The powers of old are fading. A new Age is dawning. Holy relics are all that remain of Theron’s sacred legend. Now those relics, the enchanted weapons forged by the Three-Faced Goddess to help Theron defeat the wicked Sorcerer Argoss, are disappearing. Lysandro knows the village magistrate Marek is responsible, and he […]

Author: Lyndon Ghent The nation of Weastex threatens to tear itself apart. Religious extremism threatens to boil over, and old hatreds continue to simmer as the industrial machine chokes the skies, and the factories pound day and night, creating a great machine of capitalism unlike ever before in history. Anderrus Constantinus is a young man […]

Author: Various Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction—from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others. Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives—but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and […]

Author: D.T. Neal When The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers was first published in 1895, the collection of short stories went on to become an inspirational classic of the macabre, particularly the stories of supernatural horror tied to the fictional play of the same name, said to drive anyone who reads it to […]

Author: Kevin J. Kennedy Praise for Kevin J. Kennedy’s A to Z of Horror ‘This tome by Kevin Kennedy is a veritable cornucopia of macabre entertainment, and a lot of bang for your buck. The author creatively covers all the bases of horror, from the pathological to the apocalyptic to the downright extreme. There’s something […]

Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi A new omnibus collecting volumes seven, eight, and nine of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series! The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind’s nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking […]

Author: Christina Temme When Verona learns of the inheritance demised to her by her great grandparents, she moves to the small rural town of Wintervale with her Aunt Sophie, taking residence as the new young heiress of Hallow-Bane Manor. After her transfer to Bane Academy, she takes a delve into a world where magic and […]

Author: Various What If…There Are No More Happily Ever Afters? For the people of Hollowvale, hope is long forgotten. There are no charming princes, fairy godmothers, or happily ever afters. Here, the villains reign, the bad guys win and the good guys are miserable and alone. Until now. When a sleeping beauty awakens from her […]

Author: Emeth Everley “It should have been a different night. The moon should have turned red with blood. The earth should have shook with rage. Water should have seeped from the mountain and flooded the city below. Yet, it was quiet. The gods did not cause disasters. The people did not rebel. Nor even tremble […]