Babysitter Bloodbath by Regina Watts (2020)

You've played the game, now read the book! The first novelization in Puppet Combo's VHS Terrors Series: Babysitter Bloodbath, puts you right in the middle of a classic 80s SLASHER! Sarah has been feeling happy in her quiet Washington suburb and tonight is a big chance for her: A lengthy babysitting gig and a chance to be alone with her new hunky guy Jack. With any luck this’ll shape up to be a great night for her--- unfortunately that luck has already run out. A brutal atrocity happened 22 years ago in the very same neighborhood, completely forgotten by this small town, but not forgotten by the monster who committed it. Neokalus Burr will be violently released from his long stay in Monroe State Hospital… and Sarah will finally get to meet the long-forgotten horror of her town’s past.

The Masque of the Red Death and Punch Brothers Punch by Edgar Allan Poe (2020)

[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Punch Brothers Punch

What do Nightmares Dream of by Antonija Meznaric (2020)

**There’s someone else living in Sanja’s flat and they don’t pay the rent. But for Sanja, the next time she falls asleep she just might end up paying the ultimate price.** Sanja has already made some hard choices in life. She took out a loan to get her own place for the first time ever, and now she’s repaying it by working at the most ungrateful job in history: elementary school teacher. The last thing she needs is her nightmares to start tormenting her, as if her grandmother’s special breed of childcare wasn’t enough. In a world that doesn’t believe in old wives’ tales, her options are limited. It’s now up to her to deal with her supernatural pest or forever fall asleep trying.

My Lord by L. B. Shimaira (2020)

Benny Rose, the Cannibal King by Hailey Piper (2020)

Blackwood, Vermont has one legend to its name—Benny Rose, the Cannibal King. Every local kid knows him and tells his stories, especially on Halloween. When a new girl moves to town in the autumn of 1987, the legend inspires high school junior Desiree St. Fleur and her friends to pull a Benny Rose-themed prank. A few laughs and screams, and they’ll have a Happy Halloween. But a vicious storm crashes into Blackwood and interrupts the festivities. Soon the girls find themselves trapped and hunted in a strange neighborhood where no one will help them. There’s nothing made-up about Benny Rose this Halloween night. The truth is coming, and it's hungry. Book 3 in the Rewind-or-Die series: imagine your local movie rental store back in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, remember all those fantastic covers. Remember taking those movies home and watching in awe as the stories unfolded in nasty rainbows of gore, remember the atmosphere and textures. Remember the blood.

The Animal Inside by Cameron Trost (2020)

The Animal Inside is a collection of thirteen strange and twisted stories that will take you for a walk along the fine line between insanity and reason, the peculiar and the prosaic, and the animal kingdom and human society, then leave you wondering where one ends and the other begins. These tales will confuse, amuse, shock, and intrigue, but they will also cause you to contemplate your very own animal inside. The Tales: Cleopatra’s Mystery Box The Church of Asag Old Mabel’s Stray Cat Veronica’s Dogs The Crows of Eildon Hill Lauren Milk Horror at Hollow Head Declan’s Fantasy Forgotten Falls Animal Like Sisters It Starts with Insects

Dreadnought by Gretchen Felker-Martin (2020)

At the end of the world, three broken girls entrusted with the piloting of biomechanical monstrosities known as Dreadnoughts are all that stand between humanity and annihilation at the hands of the Lilim, a race of monstrous giant women from another world. As sanity and civilization teeter in the balance, Leah, El, and Kelly struggle to reconcile their hated minds and bodies with the perfect engines of destruction with which they must bond to survive.

Skeleton King by Charity B. (2020)

In this town, I’m free from shame A place where everyone knows my name Glamorizing corpses to feed a need That’s why they call me Skeleton King They all worship me, but they don’t know the real me All they see is my painted face Truth is, I’m terrified, all the hope inside me died Death and cold will forever be my morbid fate Then she showed me something more Somehow stealing deaths allure

Friday the 13th by Unknown (2020)

This is a unofficial strategy guide for the Nintendo Entertainment System {NES} video game "Friday the 13th". It features color screenshots maps of the woods, and houses, and cave. It details many tips, from speed running, to glitches, and other game challenges. There are facts about the game and movies, as well as color screenshots from the movies, and color photographs of contributors whom discuss their experiences with the game. The book originally was a KickStarter book. And contributors were given the chance to include their reminiscences about the game.There are various advertisements for YouTube and Facebook pages about video games. As well as original artwork commissioned for the release of this book, by 5 artists. This book is the first in a projected "The Easy Way" series of books, focusing on completing difficult NES games. It originally sold for $20 in Hardback.

A Tale of Hell and Other Works of Horror (The Gillett Edition) by Phil Slattery (2020)

In this collection of published and previously unpublished stories of horror, Phil Slattery offers a look into the minds of people who perpetrate horrors, from acts of stupidity with unintended results to cold-hearted revenge to pure enjoyment to complete indifference. Settings range from 17th-century France in the heart of the werewolf trials to the Old West to the present and on to alien worlds in the distant future. The short stories contained include: A Tale of Hell: A man with anger issues has a nightmare of being in Hell. Dream Warrior: A young man intent on avenging his girlfriend's death learns the ancient ways of Aztec sorcery from his grandfather. Devil Star's Revenge: A cowboy suffers a horrendous fate after raping the daughter of a powerful Apache medicine man. Shapeshifter: An innocent, starving wolf believed to be a lycanthrope is pursued through a seventeenth-century French town in this black comedy of errors. Wolfsheim: A graduate student in 1970's West Germany researches his thesis on Hitler's Nazi Werewolves post-war resistance program in a remote Bavarian village. Hitchhikers: A newly married couple encounter two mysterious girls late one night while driving through a remote part of the Navajo reservation. Ivan: A young geek bullied by classmates dreams of being a serial killer. Sorcerer: A retired sorcerer named Jack Thurston in New Mexico revives his black arts to avenge the death of his daughter and grandchild in childbirth in horrific fashion. Under the Willow: Jack Thurston returns to New Mexico from living a dissolute life in Central America to help defend his simple, lovable brother against a neighborhood menace. Alien Embrace: An astronaut on a distant planet finds himself trapped in a horror-filled world trapped between dream, nightmare, and reality. This collection also includes three works of flash horror and two of horror microfiction.

Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson) by Edgar Allan Poe (2020)

[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Murders in the Rue Morgue [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Purloined Letter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41065W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)

The Personal Poe Collection (Annabel Lee / Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / Pit and the Pendulum / Raven / System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether / Tell-Tale Heart) by Edgar Allan Poe (2020)

[Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) Hop-Frog [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) Raven System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)

The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard (2020)

A masterful collection of tales from the faded border between our day-to-day world and the horrifying unknown on the other side of midnight. An old woman living alone on the edge of a bog gets an unexpected — and unsettling — visitor, throwing her quiet life into a long-buried mystery. An isolated backwoods family stumbles into good fortune for a time with a monstrous discovery in the lake behind their house, but that time is running short. And a misfit little girl, struggling to make friends, meets an understanding soul one day at the beach: but why will he only play with her alone at night? All these lonely souls — and more — have reached out into the darkness, not knowing what they might find. Around the dark edges of reality lurk unknown beings with unknowable intentions — ordinary objects can become cursed possessions, entities who seem like friends can become monstrous, and those who seem monstrous can become the truest companions. In this collection of evocative, unnerving slice-of-life horror, five stories explore what happens when one is desperate enough to seek solace in the unnatural, and what might be waiting for us at the Crossroads at Midnight.

Straight by Chuck Tingle (2021)

When a strange tear in the cosmos appears within Earth’s annual path, the consequences are disastrous. For one night a year, the vast majority of humans now undergo a frightening mental change, transforming into hateful, rage-fueled zombies who will stop at nothing to satiate their desire for brutality. While not much is understood about this horrific mass hysteria, the demographic it effects is very cisgender straight people. A few years after the first of these tragic events, four friends from across the queer spectrum look for safety in solitude, hunkering down in a remote desert cabin for what is now known as Saturation Day. With a vaccine available for straight people to curb their violent episodes, some predict the worst is over. Others aren’t so sure. As night falls, it becomes clear that survival isn’t guaranteed this Saturation Day. This is the first horror novella from two-time Hugo Award finalist Chuck Tingle.

Itchy, Tasty by Alex Aniel (2021)

This is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Capcom’s horror video game series Resident Evil – one of the most popular, innovative and widely influential franchises of all time. Industry expert Alex Aniel spent two years interviewing key former members of Capcom staff, allowing him to tell the inside story of how Resident Evil was envisioned as early as the late 1980s, how its unexpected and unprecedented success saved the company from financial trouble, how the series struggled at the turn of the century and, eventually, how a new generation of creators was born after the release of Resident Evil 4. Itchy, Tasty narrates the development of each Resident Evil game released between 1996 and 2006, interspersed with fascinating commentary from the game creators themselves, offering unique insight into how the series became the world-conquering franchise it is today.

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson (2021)

*This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . .* Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.

Her Soul for Revenge by Harley Laroux (2021)

After years on the run, a woman sacrifices her soul to a demon who has long hungered for all of her in this dark romantic thriller by TikTok sensation Harley Laroux. Juniper After a cult tried to sacrifice me to their wicked God, I went on the run, doing whatever was necessary to survive. Until a demon offered me a give him my soul and he'll help me claim the vengeance I seek. Blood will be spilled, and the monsters I once ran from will soon be running from me. But damning my soul was just the beginning—it’s my heart the demon wants next. Zane I’ve been hunting souls for centuries, but she’s the ultimate prize—vicious and feral with a broken soul as dark as my own. I thought claiming her would be a simple game, but Juniper is far from simple. I chose to follow her on a path drenched with the blood of her enemies, but it’s our blood that may be spilled next. As an ancient God wakes from its slumber, neither of us may survive.

Something is Killing the Children, Book One by James Tynion IV (2021)

**The definitive collection of Something is Killing the Children's entire “Archer’s Peak” saga collected for the first time in a single deluxe hardcover.** WHAT IS ABDUCTING THE CHILDREN OF ARCHER’S PEAK? When the children in a sleepy Wisconsin town begin to go missing all hope seems lost. Most children never return, and those that do have terrible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. But even monsters fear the mysterious stranger that arrives shortly after. She believes the children and claims to be the only who sees what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. This is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3 by James Tynion IV (2021)

**As the House of Slaughter arrives to clean up the situation by any means necessary, Erica will find that the true threat to those around her isn’t who - or what - she ever expected. And the cost of saving the day may be too high for anyone to pay...** NOT ALL MONSTERS HIDE IN THE DARK. Archer’s Peak is in lockdown, as Erica Slaughter has lost control of the situation and news of the killings has spread outside the town. But as the House of Slaughter arrives to clean up the situation by any means necessary, Erica will find that the true threat to those around her isn’t who - or what - she ever expected. And the cost of saving the day may be too high for anyone to pay...

Satan's Affair by H. D. Carlton (2021)

Every Halloween, Satan's Affair will come to you. We travel the country, offering terrifying haunted houses, thrilling rides and the tastiest food. And with every passing town, I cleanse this world, one execution at a time. I hide within the walls, casting my judgement for those that reek of evil, singing lullabies to their rotting souls. Once you've been chosen, there's no escaping my henchmen—they cater to my every desire. You can run and you can hide, but it only excites me. Come. Take a walk through my dollhouse, where your screams will blend and your cute little pleas will go unanswered. But I can't promise it'll be over quickly...