Greetings page turners and finger scrolls, here comes the long-awaited horror fiction new releases enjoy them all as we try for a cross section of materials to entice your imagination.
April 21, 2026
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Summary: Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes a supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater—and more dangerous—than she ever could have imagined.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1982198818
ISBN-13: 978-1982198817
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books
https://www.amazon.com/Caretaker-Novel-Marcus-Kliewer/dp/1982198818/
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Come Sing for the Harrowing by Dan Coxon
Summary: A young man working at a tourist attraction is singled out for unholy transformation, a gang of burglars are ambushed with something unworldly when they attempt to rob a local farm, and a daughter seeks revenge on her abusive father after his death. Invoking the sense of natural surreal found in Midsommar, these stories are always a little to the left of what’s expected. Weaving macabre contingencies into realities, Dan Coxon crafts unsettling and eerie worlds through hauntingly literary prose. Including a featured story from Ellen Datlow’s “Best of Horror” round-up and a foreword from Brian Evenson, Come Sing for the Harrowing will haunt your dreams and gnaw at you during the daylight.
Print Length: 260 pages
ISBN-10: 1968043128
ISBN-13: 978-1968043124
Publisher: CLASH Books
https://www.amazon.com/Come-Sing-Harrowing-Dan-Coxon/dp/1968043128/
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Crossroads by Laurel Hightower
Summary: How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris’s son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris’s life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris’s hand onto her son’s roadside memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window. Only, is it really her son’s ghost, or is it something else—something evil? Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again.
Print Length: 112 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320141
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/Crossroads-Laurel-Hightower/dp/B0G3XMXZ1R/
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May the Dead Keep You by Jill Baguchinsky
Summary: There’s nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family’s unusual historic home, the Heights. She prefers being alone in the forest. People are … complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate’s cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie’s eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands … he captures her heart. Necromancy isn’t the only strange thing happening in the Heights. There’s an unfamiliar face in the mirror. Blood on the floors. Eyes in the wallpaper. And the men around her—including her once-sweet nature boy—are becoming something else. Something possessive and frightening. Something violent. As the Heights’s dark history starts to come to light, Catie discovers that the home she loves is imbued with pain. And even though the pain isn’t her own, it will corrupt her and the people around her all the same—unless she can stop it. A story about breaking cycles of abuse and overcoming generational trauma, May the Dead Keep You is an edge-of-your-seat read—equally horrifying, heart-wrenching, and hopeful.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0316586277
ISBN-13: 978-0316586276
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
https://www.amazon.com/May-Dead-Keep-Jill-Baguchinsky/dp/0316586277/
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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks
Summary: After Caroline Bicks was named the University of Maine’s inaugural Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, she became the first scholar to be granted extended access by King to his private archives, a treasure trove of manuscripts that document the legendary writer’s creative process—most of them never before studied or published. The year she spent exploring King’s early drafts and hand-written revisions was guided by one question millions of King’s enthralled and terrified readers (including her) have asked themselves: What makes Stephen King’s writing stick in our heads and haunt us long after we’ve closed the book? Bicks focuses on five of his most iconic early works—The Shining, Carrie, Pet Sematary, Salem’s Lot, and Night Shift—to reveal how he crafted his language, story lines, and characters to cast his enduring literary spells. While tracking King’s margin notes and editorial changes, she discovered scenes and alternative endings that never made it to print but that King is allowing her to publish now. The book also includes interviews Bicks had with King along the way that reveal new insights into his writing process and personal history. Part literary master class, part biography, part memoir and investigation into our deepest anxieties, Monsters in the Archives—authorized by Stephen King himself—is unlike anything ever published about the master of horror. It chronicles what Bicks found when she set out to unearth how King crafted some of his scariest, most iconic moments. But it’s also a story about a grown-up English professor facing her childhood fears and getting to know the man whose monsters helped unleash them.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0593736729
ISBN-13: 978-0593736722
Publisher: Hogarth
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Archives-Year-Fear-Stephen/dp/0593736729/
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Odessa by Gabrielle Sher
Summary: Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. Stifled by her mother’s anxiety, her father’s rules, and the path that’s been laid out for her, she craves freedom, the edges of which she doesn’t know. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Fear has wrapped itself around their shtetl. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed. Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned—but although she looks the same, she is not the girl she once was. Yetta senses there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the creature lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl―something that may be of her father’s making, and a being that has plans of its own.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0316595853
ISBN-13: 978-0316595858
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
https://www.amazon.com/Odessa-Novel-Gabrielle-Sher/dp/0316595853/
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Older Than Ghosts by Brandon White
Summary: In the middle of the night, Daniel and his mother flee their burning home in Mississippi for a bus bound to Chicago. There they find brief peace and safety at his grandparents’ house. But Daniel’s mother cannot resist the siren call of a tumultuous relationship and soon abandons Daniel to go back to her abusive partner. At thirteen, Daniel believes he’s almost a man. So it’s his responsibility to rescue his mother. When an ancient spirit attached to his family becomes interested in his quest, their partnership will both test and temper the love between family members and the lengths they’re willing to go to save one another.
Print Length: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 1941360971
ISBN-13: 978-1941360972
Publisher: Lanternfish Press
https://www.amazon.com/Older-Than-Ghosts-Brandon-White/dp/1941360971/
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Split Scream: Cursed Places by Alex Ebenstein, Evangeline Gallagher, Echo Echo, & 2 more
Summary: This is not a place of honor. This place is Cursed. These New Weird Horror novelettes by Sonora Taylor and Matthew Pritt are a danger to the Body, and to the Mind, and they can Kill. Sonora Taylor’s Passing Glance: Washington, D.C.’ s sprawling and storied Moore Mansion is built upon intrigue and secrecy, playing host to both political elites and the merely curious alike. Its labyrinthine rooms and passageways, festooned in eclectic art and mysterious mirrors, captivate all who explore them. Dylan arrives at the mansion for her friend’ s 30th birthday party at a crossroads of her own: adrift, eager to reunite with old friends, and seeking to rekindle a long-held lust for one of the group. But tonight she will discover the true terrifying secrets of Moore Mansion: a house built to be a city, and one which unfolds like a trap. Matthew Pritt’s Lash Egg: The people of the Doe’ s country walk in the Balance, attuned to the land and guided by their benevolent nature spirit. For Ben, a refugee who narrowly escaped the madness-infested Bear’ s country to the south, the Doe remains a mystery. Ben has never heard the Doe speak, and marvels at his neighbors’ firsthand experiences with his new home’ s Protector. Fortunately his ten-year-old daughter, Lydia, doesn’t share his struggles, and adapts to life in the Doe with ease. But when a mysterious wasting plague attacks the local wildlife, Ben suspects he is the cause of it. As the plague spreads and threatens to collapse the Doe’ s entire ecosystem, Ben must discover how he has offended the Doe, or risk losing the only safe place he and his daughter have ever known.
Print Length: 148 pages
ISBN-10: 1959790617
ISBN-13: 978-1959790617
Publisher: Tenebrous Press
https://www.amazon.com/Split-Scream-Cursed-Alex-Ebenstein/dp/1959790617/
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Thrall by Rebecca Mahoney
Summary: Lucy Easting has at last broken free from her grim home life and is ready to truly live. But her long-awaited new beginning at Rollins University isn’t what she expected. After attending the first campus party of the year, Lucy awakens the next day with a memory block…and two puncture marks on her neck. She tries to piece together what happened that night, but every lead brings her to another dead end. Until she receives a handwritten note from the campus radio station, inviting her to call. When she does, the host’s soothing voice over the line confirms her worst fear, and the simplest explanation of what’s happening to her: she’s turning into a vampire. Lucy teams up with the show’s host, who narrowly escaped an attack her sophomore year, and a beautiful archery champion who, while exactly Lucy’s type, is as likely to shoot her as kiss her. They believe their “friend with the cold hands” is responsible for the disappearance of several women in town, and they’ve been tracking him via the airwaves since long before Lucy arrived. As the vampire’s sway over Lucy grows and his plans become clear, she realizes she must fight for a future of her own, or she may not have any future at all.
Print Length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 1368113818
ISBN-13: 978-1368113816
Publisher: Hyperion Avenue
https://www.amazon.com/Thrall-Rebecca-Mahoney/dp/1368113818/
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The Urbex Trip by E M Lund
Summary: Eloise Tiller didn’t murder her cheating boyfriend. Too bad nobody believes her. When no charges are brought against her, all she wants is to escape the whispers and start over, so she moves six thousand miles away to teach English in Japan. The only problem? The violent intrusive thoughts she’s been having-knives, blood, betrayal-have come with her. When she’s invited to the tropical island of Okinawa for an eight-person urban exploration, Eloise agrees to the “urbex trip” in the hopes of getting to know her crush better. Their destination is an old resort atop remote cliff that was abandoned in the mid-seventies under shadowy circumstances. Soon, the bad thoughts take over. After a violent storm leaves the group stranded in the resort, they find Eloise’s crush unconscious and brutally injured. And when wakes, he implies it was Eloise who attacked him. As the others seem to turn against her, Eloise begins to have strange visions of a corpse-like young woman appearing throughout the resort. Her only ally is an offbeat backpacker who doesn’t seem to care what anyone else thinks. And, as it happens, he’s also seen dead people in the resort. More members go missing one by one, and Eloise’s only hope of getting out alive is to figure out what’s real, and who to trust-her alleged friends, the mysterious stranger she’s oddly drawn to, or her own broken mind.
Print Length: 392 pages
ISBN-10: 1961967790
ISBN-13: 978-1961967793
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing, LLC
https://www.amazon.com/Urbex-Trip-M-Lund/dp/1961967790/
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April 28, 2026
The Blood Year Daughter: Stories by G.G. Silverman
Summary: Silverman’s women and girls escape smiling captors, draw blood to curse their loved ones, and wield fear to defend themselves in post-apocalyptic worlds. They ignore the insults of rotting Elderwomen filled with flies, resist marriage proposals, and fill themselves—joyfully—with multitudes of snakes. They are murdered and choose to live again. Drawing from folktales, Silverman’s Italian roots, and killers both real and imagined, The Blood Year Daughter’s stories recall Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado. Spare and glittering as a spiderweb, sharp as a needle through a husband’s nose, they establish G.G. Silverman as a formidable voice in feminist horror and magical realism.
Page Length: 222 pages
ISBN-10: 1951971418
ISBN-13: 978-1951971410
Publisher: Creature Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Year-Daughter-G-G-Silverman/dp/1951971418/
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Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce
Summary: The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out. Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents’ vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet. She’s his captive but something has come home with her. Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn’t show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn’t expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn’t counted on Hazel bailing, either. But something isn’t adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can’t be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1250334411
ISBN-13: 978-1250334411
Publisher: Minotaur Books
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-When-Devil-Comes-Novel/dp/1250334411/
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Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart
Summary: A feverishly told, dark and unsettling Scotland-set fairy-tale about a safe haven for women which transforms them into vessels of revenge, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, A. G Slatter and Julia Armfield. Welcome to Hex House: a refuge, a home, a sanctuary. A place that can only be found by those who truly need it; a place that promises to teach Elly how to access a power more incredible – and more terrifying – than anything she could have imagined.
Page Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1835413447
ISBN-13: 978-1835413449
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/Hex-House-Amy-Jane-Stewart/dp/1835413447/
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How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains by Bonnie Quinn
Summary: Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping Experience.” It includes a list of rules to help campers have an enjoyable experience and hopefully survive any encounters with the campgrounds other…inhabitants. With the campground in the throes of a bad year, it will take more than a list of rules to keep everyone safe. Monsters that were previously lying dormant are starting to stir and they’re waking up hungry. Among them is the Lady in Chains, a creature feared by both human and inhuman things alike. Her reappearance creates an upheaval in the balance of power in the campground by renewing an old grudge with the harvesters, who are willing to sacrifice anyone they get their hands on in order to gain an advantage. On top of all this, the man with the skull cap has started taking an unusual interest in Kate. But with the harvesters on the prowl, the Lady in Chains hunting her down, and a sinister spider infestation, Kate is going to need all the allies she can get, even if those allies aren’t actually…human.
Page Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1668096595
ISBN-13: 978-1668096598
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
https://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Camping-Lady-Chains/dp/1668096595/
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Molka by Monika Kim
Summary: Molka: an abbreviation of molrae-kamera, a “sneaky camera” hidden to capture covert images and videos for voyeurs. In an unassuming Seoul workplace, IT technician Junyoung’s network reaches throughout the entire building. He sees every entrance. Every lobby. Every bathroom. The women in this building may be cold and dismissive, but he can always pull up his favorite images of them and remember who holds the real power. Until one, Dahye, sets herself apart from the rest. Dahye, ever the romantic, yearns to be cherished after years of living in the shadow of her perfect older sister, who tragically drowned years ago. Only her boyfriend seems to appreciate Dahye. He’s rich, handsome, and generous—and she’d do anything to hold on to the happiness he brings her. But when a hidden camera scandal rocks the city’s elites, Dahye’s dreams of a fairy-tale romance twist into a grotesque nightmare. Her boyfriend abandons her. Her parents reject her. Her grip on reality begins to shatter as visions of her dead sister suddenly appear. And as Junyoung’s interest in Dahye turns to obsession, and the truths of their troubled lives are revealed, Dahye must go to extreme lengths to bring the truth to light . . .
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1645661261
ISBN-13: 978-1645661269
Publisher: Erewhon Books
https://www.amazon.com/Molka-Monika-Kim/dp/1645661261/
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The Ones We Fear by Robert Welbourn
Summary: We always want to protect the ones we love. They don’t always need it. 15 year old Alex loves football, hates school, and is confused by girls. There’s one particular girl he’s drawn to, but Janet is the school weirdo, living on the edge of Deerborn with her mum in a ramshackle house. When a child goes missing, the accusing fingers of the Deerborn villagers fall on Janet and her mother. Rumors have swirled for years about the strange and disturbing things they do behind closed doors. Alex doesn’t believe the accusations and is desperate to protect Janet, to make sure she’s safe. But Alex doesn’t know who Janet really is. Alex doesn’t know what Janet is capable of.
Print Length: 306 pages
ISBN-10: 191507360X
ISBN-13: 978-1915073600
Pubisher: SRL Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Ones-We-Fear-Robert-Welbourn/dp/B0GH3LNS8N/
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Pixerina: A Haunting by Joanne Anderton
Summary: Something about the old house on the hill has always intrigued artist Rebecca Bell, but she’s always resisted its pull. Until now. She becomes obsessed with the building, its history, its inhabitants―and especially the little girl whose spirit seems to linger in the house and on its grounds. Angelica has been waiting patiently for someone to notice her. For someone to befriend her. For someone to care. Even after her passing.
Meeting Rebecca is a boon for both of them. But while Angelica thinks she’s gaining a friend, Rebecca … well, Rebecca is gaining a muse. Will the two of them come to an understanding, or will the dark history at the heart of Pixerina’s decayed foundations repeat itself?
Print Length: 184 pages
ISBN-10: 196784612X
ISBN-13: 978-1967846122
Pubisher: Bad Hand Books
https://www.amazon.com/Pixerina-Haunting-Joanne-Anderton/dp/196784612X/
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Transcendence by Katrina Kimball
Summary: When a demonic entity seeking revenge starts tormenting her family, a young woman must rediscover their shared past and embrace her own divine power in order to save not only those she loves, but the creature bent on her destruction. If you asked Alexis Ferelli what her biggest challenges are in life, she’d say it’s parenting her daughter, Luna, running her masseuse practice, and deftly avoiding conversations about marriage with her partner, Jack. At least, that was the case before she attended a séance. Now, the spirits are trying to contact her and there’s a demonic entity in her daughter’s closet. Determined to find answers, she turns to the psychic from the séance and the spirit world for help. As she dabbles in the hereafter, she not only discovers another dimension filled with angelic guides, magic, and wonder, but also learns the shocking truth of her connection to the creature tormenting her daughter. As the dark entity grows bolder and sets its sights on Jack as well as Luna, Alexis realizes that to save them all, she has to face the creature she once betrayed to bring it out of the darkness and back into the light.
Print Length: 348 pages
ISBN-10: 1961967804
ISBN-13: 978-1961967809
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing, LLC
https://www.amazon.com/Transcendence-Katrina-Kimball/dp/1961967804/
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April 29, 2026
Summer Camp for Werewolves by Damien Casey
Summary: Something else that’s kind of annoying? When a new girl moves to town and decides your best friend is now her best friend. It’s a total eye roll. The kind of eye roll that only Marsha would have to deal with. The only good thing to come out of it is getting an invitation to a mysterious summer camp. As an aspiring reporter, Marsha isn’t about to pass up the chance to get her first scoop. Too bad no one decided to tell her that this scoop was at a… SUMMER CAMP FOR WEREWOLVES! A book for anyone trying to figure out who they are in this world and how to accept the changes that come with it.
Print Length: 174 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8993318226
Publisher: Squirm Books
https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Camp-Werewolves-Damien-Casey/dp/B0GPS3Z2VN/
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April 30, 2026
The Bizarre Disappearance of Bella Riley by Luna Rey Hall
Summary: Dear viewer, welcome back to another episode of autopsy of the unsolved, today we dive into the bizarre and unsettling real case of Bella Riley’s disappearance. what really happened that fateful morning and who is to blame? but before we begin, let’s hear a word from our sponsor . . .
Print Length: 78 pages
ISBN-10: 1963355504
ISBN-13: 978-1963355505
Publisher: Brigids Gate Press, LLC
https://www.amazon.com/bizarre-disappearance-bella-riley/dp/1963355504/
