Sarafina by Philip Fracassi (2024)

During one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, three brothers fighting for the Confederate army decide to go AWOL and make their way home, willing to risk execution rather than be killed in a losing war.  After several exhausting weeks of rough terrain, the brothers find a miracle deep in the dark woods: a homestead. Living in this remote cabin is a beautiful woman, Sarafina, and her young son, Titus. She takes the soldiers in, feeds them, offers them a place to rest. But the youngest brother is wary-something seems off. As the days pass, he discovers a mysterious creek, a strange underground cavern, and a strong sense that the cabin and the surrounding fertile land are not what they seem.  The brothers soon find themselves in a new battle, an escalation of horrors they must somehow fight to survive.Limited run of 750.

On Vacation by Dana Enache (2024)

Cesar and Auri are two tired parents wishing for a tropical vacation. One lucky day, in their pile of trash post, they find an offer that fits their limited budget, promising four days of relaxation on a private island, food and drinks included. Soon they fly out for some well deserved break, away from the children, away from their routine. But what they don’t know is that the island is not what it seems, the hotel workers are keeping disturbing secrets and the monster that lurks in the shadows is always hungry for fresh meat.

Ghost Stories by E. F. Benson (2024)

<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-f-benson">E. F. Benson</a> was a prolific writer of both novels and short stories, but he’s perhaps most famous for his ghost stories. These stories range widely in tone, from the quietly atmospheric country road in “The Dust-Cloud,” to the slick gruesome body horror in “Caterpillars,” to the chuckles elicited in the satirical “Mr. Tilly’s Séance,” to the Gothic terror in what might be Benson’s most famous ghost story, “The Room in the Tower.”</p> <p>These stories were all largely published as one-offs in various magazines before later being compiled into a series of collections by his publisher. Today they from a foundation of the genre, having influenced writers for decades.</p>

Die Geisterhelfer by Tina Blase (2024)

###German-language description: **Auch Geister brauchen Hilfe - Gruselgeschichte mit Spannung, Humor und Tiefgang** *Was wie eine klassische Geistergeschichte beginnt, entpuppt sich schon bald als tiefgründige Erzählung über Mut, Zweifel, Selbstüberwindung und Freundschaft.* (- Die Rheinpfalz, 12.10.2024) Leo Helsing Krüger hat eine außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit: Er kann Geister sehen und mit ihnen sprechen. Von alldem ahnt der schüchterne Zehnjährige allerdings noch nichts, bis er eines Nachts den Geisterfreunden Ferdinand, Agathe und Harry begegnet. Die drei brauchen dringend seine Hilfe. Zwar geht es bei ihnen nicht mehr um Leben und Tod, dafür aber um ihren Seelenfrieden. Und genau der ist in Gefahr, seitdem ein besonders übellauniger Quälgeist ihre Ruhe stört. Doch Leo hat vor allem eins: große Angst! Zum Glück findet er in der unerschrockenen Antonia eine Freundin, die ihm mit Rat und Tat zur Seite steht. Mit ihrer Hilfe geht Leo einen Deal mit den Geistern ein. Ist ihnen wirklich zu trauen? ***Traue sich, wer kann!*** **ist der spannende Auftakt der lustigen** ***Geisterhelfer***-**Reihe rund um die ungleichen Geisterhelfer Leo und Antonia. Mit Glow-in-the-Dark-Effekt auf dem Cover in limitierter Auflage.**

Haunt by A. J. Merlin (2024)

One unforgettable night. One extreme haunt. One chance to push my limits. Armed with a safeword and a waiver, I head into the most viral extreme haunt in the city, ready to embrace the thrill with three friends by my side. As a horror fanatic, I’m confident I can handle whatever twisted scenarios await us. But when the line between fantasy and reality blurs, I quickly realize I’ve made a terrible mistake. What begins as a thrilling challenge soon spirals into a nightmare. The safeword doesn’t work, and I find myself trapped in a dirty warehouse, pursued by two masked men who see my fear as part of their twisted game. They won’t let me go. And as the terror intensifies, I can’t help asking myself…do I really want to escape? Please read the content warnings at the beginning of the book. This book is dark, with content that could bother some readers. HAUNT is a short, spicy Halloween novella. It’s MMF, and doesn’t end with a cliffhanger. It is extremely dark.

Darkest Descent by Hazel Black (2024)

I've woken up in hell. And in that hell I discover things about myself that should make me sick. We've been taken, held against our will, made to do despicable things... Is it wrong that I like it? Deep in the darkest parts of my brain, some of the things he makes us do make me feel good. And in this hell hole, claiming back any joy we can feels more important than what's morally right. As things push further and our boundaries are destroyed, what will kill me first? Darkest Descent is a full length with novel pitch black themes and many, many triggers - you can find them listed in the front of the book.

Haunted by the Devil by Kinsley Kincaid (2024)

My life was normal. Just my mom and I, living in a small town on the East Coast. The eve of my twenty first birthday, it all changed. A father I have never known returned and took me away from all I knew. Trapped and tortured. Destined for something I knew nothing about. Little did I know, my entire life, I’d been haunted by the devil himself. He was always watching and waiting. As leader of an infamous cult in our area, this is no longer a haunting. He is here. And I’m terrified. *This is a very dark horror forbidden romance. Does end with a HEA

Delicious by A. J. Merlin (2024)

When I followed the sound of a chainsaw into the woods, I should’ve known it would end poorly. But when I end up in the killer’s house instead of chopped into little pieces, I don’t know what to think. Not when he promises me that he won’t hurt me, and especially when he tells me that I can’t leave. Not unless he can trust me. He can’t, of course. I’ll tell anyone that will listen that this monster cut up some man in the moonlight, even if he promises that it had been deserved. He’s lying, because there’s no way anyone deserves what he did. Earning his trust is an act, but when the lie starts to fail, I find that the man underneath the terrifying mask is something altogether different than I could ever expect. He’s charming, sweet, and his obsession with me is dangerous enough that I know I should run far and fast before either of us can act on it. Can a monster like him ever love a girl he found in the woods, or am I destined to become Sunday dinner for a recovering cannibal and the family he swears to hate? Delicious is a contemporary dark romance standalone set in the Pleasure & Prey universe. This is an MF romance.

Howl by Lindy Ryan (2025)

***Flesh splits. Bones break. Screams build.*** The synchronicity of woman and wolf has long been buried. Ruled by the moon and her cycles of blood, rage, and transformation, the desire and pull to shapeshift and transmute runs deep beneath her skin. She is a beacon of duality, the divine and the monstrous, the deep glow of wolfsbane and the indent of fresh bite marks on skin. We fear her because we are her: the feral, the wild, the mad. From Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves” to Rachel Harrison's Such Sharp Teeth, women have been dancing with the wolf and teasing it out of the woods for centuries. We feed the untamed, hoping to release the beast inside, giving us strength, sisterhood, and the confidence to howl. The animal releases us from shame and permits us to seek out and accept our truth. With the wolf, we are free; with freedom, we are empowered. In a world where silver is the least of our worries, HOWL seeks to give voice to the wolves and women of contemporary horror as they shed their skin, unhinge their jaws, and bare their teeth for all to see. From award-winning editors Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. Wytovich comes HOWL, a brand-new anthology of original stories and poems from women of contemporary horror who give voices to wolves as they shed their skin, unhinge their jaws, and bare their teeth for all to see.

Uncanny Valley Girls by Zefyr Lisowski (2025)

From Lambda Award-winning poet Zefyr Lisowski, a sharply personal and expansive memoir-in-essays dedicated to the strange and absurd beauty of horror films, exploring the complications of gender, the insidiousness of class ascension, and the latent violence hidden in our own uncanny reflections. This is how it worked: first I loved them, and then I loved myself. At twenty-seven, poet Zefyr Lisowski found herself in the place she feared most: a locked psych ward. While inside, she turned to horror movies—her deepest, most constant comfort. Rather than disturb, scary movies have always provided solace and connection for Lisowski, as they do many others—offering a vision of a world filled equally with beauty and pain, and a reason to reach out to others and hold them tight. After all, as Lisowski argues, what terrifies us most about these movies is our own uncanny reflection—and at the root of that fear, a desperate desire to love and be loved. In these wide-ranging essays, Lisowski weaves theory and memoir into nuanced critiques of films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Saint Maud. From fears about sickness and disability, to trans narratives and the predator/victim complex, to the struggle to live in a world that wants you dead, she explores horror’s reciprocal impact on our culture and—by extension—our lives. Through it all, Lisowski lays bare her own complex biography—spanning from a trans childhood in the South to the sweaty dancefloors of Brooklyn—and the family, friends, and lovers that have bloomed with her into the present. Deeply felt, blood-spattered, and brimming with care and wonder, Uncanny Valley Girls thrusts this seasoned poet to centerstage.

Hello Darkness Volume 3 by James Tynion IV (2025)

Turn out the lights... if you dare! The darkness grows in more of the most frightening tales by today's top horror storytellers. Gangsters, grannies, and ghouls, oh my! Master of horror R.L. Stine and beloved artist Francesco Francavilla spin a yarn of the gripping Life and Death of Lucas Dreamwalker! The Boulet Brothers' and artist Max Fuchs bring their unique sense of humour to horror with Granny Hags from Hell! No matter the fear: isolation, invisible monsters, soul-sucking demons, dating apps, teachers, tech, and more, you'll find something that sends shivers up your spine! Featuring stories by R.L. Stine & Francesco Francavilla, Sarah Andersen, The Boulet Brothers & Max Fuchs, Chuck Tingle & Chris Shehan, Genevieve Valentine & Ming Doyle, Cullen Bunn & Daniel Bayliss, Jordan Thomas & Shaky Kane, David Hazan & Stefano Nesi, Sarah Andersen, Robert Hack, and more. Collects ***HELLO DARKNESS #9-12***.

Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton (2025)

**In this electric horror novel from the author of *The Insatiable Volt Sisters*, an exhausted mother thinks her newborn might be a monster. She’s *right*.**\ \ Thea’s third pregnancy was her easiest. She wasn’t consumed with anxiety about the baby. She wasn’t convinced it was going to be born green, or have a third eye, or have tentacles sprouting from its torso. Thea was fine. Her baby would be *fine*. \ \ But when the nurses handed Lucia to her, Thea just knew. Her baby girl was a monster. Not only was Lucia born with a full set of teeth and a devilish glint in her eye, but she’s always hungry. Indiscriminately so. One day Lucia pointed at her baby brother, looked Thea dead in the eye and said, “I eat.”\ \ Thea doesn’t know whether to be terrified or proud of her rapacious baby girl. And as Lucia starts growing faster and talking more, dark memories bubble to the surface–flashes from Thea’s childhood that won’t release their hooks from her heart. Lucia wants to eat the world. Thea might just let her.\ \ Crackling with originality and dark humor, Rachel Eve Moulton’s *Tantrum* is a provocative exploration of familial debt, duty, and the darker side of motherhood.

Wilted Flowers by Despoina Kemeridou (2025)

Alone Together by S.S. Fitzgerald (2025)

The second entry in the Alone Together universe. > Alone Together: Factions is a brutal, pulse-pounding continuation of the series that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. The world hasn’t just ended—it’s torn itself apart, and what’s left is raw survival.

Alone Together by S.S. Fitzgerald (2025)

Bullets in the Temple by Jono Borden (2025)

(Poetry Collection.) The question of where to begin and where to end blurs and bends toward an oblivion of irrelevance, silenced by threats of the poet’s pen—his masterful voicing of pretend noise, his wordsmith’s lance, his cursive parlance, his furtive glance, his assertive stance—throws from the balance of some pyramidal pinnacle exits extending beyond every extravagance of credibility, into the uncertainty of any candlelit excursion within one’s own head. Dreaming open that domed Pantheon of a temple-*cum*-tomb the inmost *sanctum* of which dreams echo against, hitting and hinting with glimpses of what emerges—with only you as its witness—where reality and fantasy converge: this purge of the subconscious for images words fail is what ordeal this book undertakes. What translation of symbols its rhythm entails. At great pains to heal, as its chapters reveal wounds in the architecture of existence experienced as exhibits of crimes committed artfully by night.

The Real Monster by Angel R Sánchez (2025)

Some monsters wear masks. Others wear your name. When Detective Emily Parker is called to the scene of a ritualistic murder, she expects blood. She doesn’t expect the voice of the dead whispering in her ear—or the symbols carved into the victim’s skin to match those in her sister’s unsolved case. What begins as a hunt for a serial killer becomes a descent into ancient darkness. With the help of a mysterious historian named Van Helsing, Emily unearths a hidden war waged across centuries… and finds herself at its center. But the truth is more terrifying than any myth. Dracula was real. And he was only the beginning. The Real Monster is the first novel in The Mortal Coil Multiverse, a gripping fusion of psychological horror, supernatural mystery, and cosmic dread. This is not just a story about vampires. This is about what’s waiting after them.

Die Geisterhelfer by Tina Blase (2025)

###German-language description: **Ein neuer Fall für die Geisterhelfer** Leo Helsing Krüger hat einen siebten Sinn für Geister – leider, denn gruselig ist die Sache schon. Als ihn das hübscheste Mädchen der Schule um Hilfe bittet, weil es bei ihr zu Hause spukt, sagt Leo trotzdem zu. Aber seine Geisterhelferpartnerin Antonia ist wenig begeistert. Schließlich haben die beiden noch mit einem anderen Fall zu tun: Eine besorgte Geisterdame hat sie beauftragt, ihren Hund Rex zu finden. Ohne Antonia ist Leo jedoch nur ein halbes Team und will es auf keinen Fall mit einem Poltergeist aufnehmen ... ***Ein Knochen kommt selten allein*** **ist der zweite gruselig-lustige Fall für die** ***Geisterhelfer*** **Leo und Antonia.**

Fall by A. J. Merlin (2025)

It didn’t feel real until they showed up at my door—without their masks. When they knock, I let them in. Even though I know I should slam the door in their faces and call the cops. I know I shouldn’t be this curious, especially after what happened at the warehouse. But I can’t bring myself to turn them away. Nor can I bring myself to tell the police what really happened, no matter how many times they ask or how forcefully they press. What started as thrilling quickly turns into something darker. Something I’m not sure I’m ready for. Something I won’t be able to walk away from if I don’t act soon. Too bad they’re willing to do anything to keep me from leaving. They’ll tear down everything in my life until all I have left is them—and the twisted world they’re offering. They’ll threaten my friends, bind me to them in ways I can’t escape. If they get caught, I get caught too. After all, fair’s fair, right? Please read the content warnings at the beginning of the book. This book is dark, with content that could bother some readers. FALL is a short, spicy Halloween novella. It’s MMF, and book 2 in the Fair's Fair trilogy. It is extremely dark.

On the Set of Resident Evil 2 by Norman England (2026)

In 1997, Japanese game developer Capcom paired an unlikely dream team: George A. Romero, the master of zombie cinema, and Resident Evil 2—the hotly anticipated sequel to the preeminent survival horror game. The result was a Japanese TV commercial that would become a cult legend among fans worldwide. Japan-based writer and Romero historian Norman England was invited onto the set, witnessing first-hand the energy, chaos, and artistry as Romero and a young Brad Renfro brought the nightmare of Resident Evil to life. Told through vivid, on-the-spot journal entries, this is an unfiltered chronicle of a one-time-only collaboration between a master filmmaker and a gaming phenomenon. Packed with rare set photos, original production documents, and press coverage from the era, this book serves as both a behind-the-scenes account and a visual archive of a landmark moment in horror and gaming history.