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.
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NOVEMBER 3
Basilisk by Matt Wixey
Summary: A terrifying and unputdownable horror-thriller novel of fiendish puzzles, compelling mysteries and paranoia about an enigmatic hacker, a deadly online game, and a cyber weapon that makes people go insane. Perfect for readers of Paul Tremblay, Neal Stephenson, and Mark Z Danielewski’s House of Leaves, and the people who just have to know the answer.
Print Length: 560 pages
ISBN-10: 1803367350
ISBN-13: 978-1803367354
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Matt-Wixey/dp/1803367350/
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Behind the Gate by Amparo Davila
Matthew Gleeson (Translator), Audrey Harris (Translator)
Summary: Written in sharp, impressionistic prose steeped in horror, Amparo Dávila’s stories are tiny nightmares come to life. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who shows, sometimes in just a few pages, that the narrow line between sanity and madness is even finer than it had seemed at first glance, and that anyone could be one false step away from their doom. Gothic, dark, surrealist, atmospheric, this newly translated selection from the author of The Houseguest “casts a delightful and disconcerting spell” (Los Angeles Times).
Print Length: 112 pages
ISBN-10: 0811240584
ISBN-13: 978-0811240581
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: New Directions
https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Gate-Amparo-Davila/dp/0811240584/
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Chimera Skin by Johnny Compton
Summary: Chimera Skin is a new apocalyptic sci-fi short novel from Johnny Compton, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Spite House, Devils Kill Devils, and Dead First. Swanson, a mutated man struggling to maintain his sanity, is civilization’s last hope. Our world has been decimated after a messianic alien unleashes hell on Earth during its failed attempt to “uplift” humanity. But Swanson may have figured out how to fight back, even if his plan forces him to leave the only planet he’s ever known.
Print Length: 264 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320288
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/Chimera-Skin-Johnny-Compton/dp/B0GPDKX79S/
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Clear Water by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Summary: An atmospheric, mesmerizing novel following one woman’s return to her small town, and the secrets of its haunted past, perfect for fans of Liz Moore and Samantha Schweblin. Shatteringly beautiful and bracing, raw with grief and love, Clear Water is the story of a woman undone, who is still determined to avenge her losses. Seamlessly interweaving mystery, noir, myth, and horror, this singular novel is a tour de force and a warning: the lost girls of Brewer will not be forgotten.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1250389771
ISBN-13: 978-1250389770
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Flatiron Books
https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Water-Gabrielle-Lucille-Fuentes/dp/1250389771/
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Dust Engines by Solomon Uhiara
Summary: A young adult speculative fiction novel set in a near-future Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in which sleep-paralytic teenagers with enhanced dreaming abilities are being used to uncover the secrets and origin of the mysterious sandstorm that is flooding the city with strange automatons, bizarre characters, sinister masquerades, and chaos.
Print Length: 166 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8997044138
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Dark Matter Ink
https://www.amazon.com/Dust-Engines-Solomon-Uhiara/dp/B0HPSJQ94F/
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Nordic Nightmares: The Best of Nordic Horror editor by Margrét Helgadóttir
Summary: Twenty nightmarish horror tales featuring folkloric beasts, apocalyptic disasters, and psychological terrors are brought together in a collection sure to keep readers up at night, from the very best voices in contemporary Nordic fiction.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 1837868573
ISBN-13: 978-1837868575
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Solaris
https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Nightmares-Best-Horror/dp/1837868573/
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There Used to Be People Here by Kennedy Cole
Summary: In 1970s Mississippi, a Black detective and his temporary partner are assigned to a case that shifts from murder to paranormal conspiracy with life-altering repercussions. With shades of The X-Files and S. A. Cosby, There Used to Be People Here deftly explores race, queerness, and existing as other in a society that demonizes everything different.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217187119
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Berkley
https://www.amazon.com/There-Used-Be-People-Here/dp/B0GLGJXGLC/
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This Never Happened by Jessica Clem
Summary: When former best friends Sam and Rebecca reunite at their college reunion, they decide to repair their fractured relationship and start over. But then Sam finds out Rebecca is dating Adam, a man she’d had an intense relationship with two years ago. She vows to keep it a secret, lest it sever their newly mended bond. As Sam struggles between loyalty and lust, she realizes that vengeance can make monsters out of all of us.
Print Length: 276 pages
ISBN-10: 1971276030
ISBN-13: 978-1971276038
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/This-Never-Happened-Jessica-Clem/dp/1971276030/
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NOVEMBER 10
Cold Empty Rooms by Andy Marino
Summary: From the dark imagination of underground horror sensation Andy Marino comes a haunted house story like you’ve never read before… Deep in the woods, on the side of a mountain, there sits an old, sprawling manor. Only those who truly need it will find it. Mara and Soren are the latest residents. The two are broke, deeply in love, and desperate for a home. But something is wrong with the house. Soren begins to receive messages from a nameless entity that he has dubbed The Great Other. The first direction is simple: Invite more to this home. The second: Relieve them of their sorrow. Soon more wanderers begin to arrive: a collection of outcasts, drawn in by Soren’s magnetic ideology. Within the shifting walls of this ancient house, something darkly miraculous is unfolding.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0316594148
ISBN-13: 978-0316594141
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Run For It
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Empty-Rooms-Andy-Marino/dp/0316594148/
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Depth Charge by Tyler Jones
Summary: Art world darling Julian Le Sang paints with passion, with abandon, and with his own blood. Inside these blood paintings, Julian sees more than art… he sees the future. From Tyler Jones, author of Burn the Plans (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2022), Heavy Oceans, and Midas, comes a new novel in which the future is written in blood. In fifth grade, Julian is bullied and alienated until Marcy befriends him and learns the strange boy’s dark secret: he sees visions of death in his own blood. Visions that turn out to be eerily accurate. When Julian becomes a famous artist, he inadvertently pulls Marcy and her son into a world of secret government programs, murder, blood soaked canvas, and a terrifying version of the future that’s barreling toward them with all the force of a nuclear weapon. A horror story about fate and how every choice shapes what will become our world.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320189
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/Depth-Charge-Tyler-Jones/dp/B0GPNB62RC/
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Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence comes a new, genre-bending supernatural horror about a vampire brood mother fighting against her own monstrous descent.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1250340780
ISBN-13: 978-1250340788
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: St. Martin’s press
https://www.amazon.com/Milkteeth-Novel-Caitlin-Starling/dp/1250340780/
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Welcome Home, Mariam by Sanchita Mitra
Summary: Left with no memory of her disappearance or the events preceding it, Mariam returns to her rural childhood home with her beloved Mother and Father, or at least a couple claiming to be. Once she arrives at their isolated farmhouse, vivid hallucinations start to fill the void left by her total amnesia. Mariam loses hours sleepwalking from one horror to another. Meanwhile, everyone seems eager to welcome Mariam home—from her parents to the neighbors and townspeople who stand on the property line, just watching. They leave flowers and extravagant gifts on the front step. They pry into her family’s affairs, into her rehabilitation. They pretend not to see Mariam deteriorate in front of them. If this is a haunting, then exhumation will require Mariam to remember who she was before. And once she knocks enough dirt loose, her past self might just claw out of the grave to expose the carnivorous truth underneath the house’s floorboards.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8890035837
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: Page Street Horror
https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Home-Mariam-Sanchita-Mitra/dp/B0FXPFK78J/
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Woodfeast by Meg Ripley
Summary: In the sequel to Necrology, Meg Ripley weaves revolutionary politics and dark fantasy for a blisteringly timely look at the rights, communities, and power of women. As war rages between fundamentalist Freemen and the Dirty, practitioners of outlawed magic, nine-year-old Rabbit and her siblings have no idea how to ensure their culture’s survival. They have nine shards of the Woodfeast, a relic with unknown power, and a host of uncertain allies: Jane, a Dirty woman known to the Freemen as their apostate son; the Warrior, a beast formed from wolves; and Hyena, a storm razing the country and insisting that Rabbit must commit murder to be truly free. To protect Dirt, each other, and the nation, Rabbit and her friends must understand the history of the Freemen–and the women they tried to destroy–before the Freemen can unmake the source of Dirt itself.
Print Length: 324 pages
ISBN-10: 1951971604
ISBN-13: 978-1951971601
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Creature Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Woodfeast-Meg-Ripley/dp/1951971604/
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