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.
January 20, 2026
A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
- Simone St. James, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel, returns with her scariest, most shocking novel yet in this pulse-pounding story about siblings who return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home.
Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town’s roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For the Esmie siblings—Violet, Vail, and Dodie—the final straw was the shocking disappearance of their little brother. It started as a normal game of hide-and-seek. The three closed their eyes and counted to ten while Ben went to hide. But this time, they never found their brother—he was gone and the ongoing search efforts turned up no clues. As their parents grew increasingly distant, Violet, Vail, and Dodie were each haunted by visions and frightening events that made them leave town and never look back. Violet still sees dead people—spirits who remind her of Sister, the menacing presence that terrorized her for years.
And now after two decades running from their past, it’s time for a homecoming. Because Ben is back, and he’s ready to lead them to the answers they’ve longed for and long feared. If the ghosts of Fell don’t get to them first. - https://www.amazon.com/Box-Full-Darkness-Simone-James/dp/0593200411
- Publisher : Berkley
- Print length : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593200411
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593200414
***** ***** *****
Dead Fake: A Bleak Haven Novel by Vincent Ralph
- Welcome to Bleak Haven: The town you won’t (or can’t!) leave… Deep fake murders have taken over the high school, but what happens when they start to become real? Would you Swipe to Die? When the new craze takes over Bleak Haven High, Ava Wilson refuses to join in. As the niece of an infamous murderer, it’s the last thing she needs. The mysterious website allows people to view their own ‘death’ – an AI generated version of their final slasher-movie-moments. But, when some of her classmates’ deepfakes are replicated in real life, Ava can either catch the killer…or be the next victim.
- https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Fake-Bleak-Haven-Novel/dp/1250372127
- Publisher : Wednesday Books
- Print length : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250372127
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250372123
***** ***** *****
January 20, 2026
Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland
- A winter storm ravages a small community in New England, but the residents of one street are unprepared for what the snow brings: an ancient curse, an entity that knows both their sins and their regrets and will stop at nothing to consume what belongs to it. From Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award finalist Rebecca Rowland comes a winter horror novel of cosmic proportions, one in which one neighborhood comes face to face, and ear to ear, with a malevolence as old as the world itself.
- https://www.amazon.com/Eminence-Front-Rebecca-Rowland/dp/1960988859/
- Publisher : CLASH Books
- Print length : 200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1960988859
- ISBN-13 : 978-1960988850
***** ***** *****
January 20, 2026
Night Terror by Vincent Ralph
- Welcome to Bleak Haven: The town you won’t (or can’t!) leave… The second nail-biting novel in the Bleak Haven series, in Vincent Ralph’s signature, terrifying style!
Bleak Haven High’s senior class of 1987 have already survived the town’s most horrifying tragedy to date. As a result, 17-year-old Noah understands everything there is to know about monsters. When the bookstore that Noah works in is held up by masked attackers, he assumes they want cash. But the assailants aren’t demanding a ransom. They are searching for Bleak Haven’s very own urban legend – The Burning Book. After something with a thirst for flesh creeps from the book’s pages, Noah must use his knowledge of Bleak Haven’s terrifying history to help his fellow hostages escape the mall, without turning their town into another bloodbath. - https://www.amazon.com/Night-Terror-Bleak-Haven-Novel/dp/1250372143/
- Publisher : Wednesday Books
- Print length : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250372143
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250372147
***** ***** *****
The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe
- An apocalyptic world turned into a pitch-black sea of nothingness, but smuggler Rosi and her crew of survivors aren’t alone. Something hungry lurks below…
Driving a logging truck through the Romanian mountains, smuggler Rosi and her crew come across a radio signal that hints at impending doom. As the world goes completely dark, their truck becomes a vessel sailing across a sea of nothingness.
But they’re not alone: transmissions trickle in through the radio from similar isolated islands across the country, from amateur radio hobbyists and police cars and customs facilities. Attempting to rescue survivors and find a way out, the group save more lives, but soon discover that something hungry lurks below, and it’s sending up agents – and transmissions – of its own. - Publisher : Flame Tree Press
- ISBN-13 : 978-1787589193
- https://www.amazon.com/Night-Ship-Alex-Woodroe-ebook/dp/B0FJGBVQK7/
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Porcelain Lullaby by Blaine Daigle
- An abandoned orphanage. A buried secret. A dark truth.
- Jake and Nate Shepherd’s world shattered when they were children. After a night of horror, the boys woke to find their home the site of an unspeakable tragedy. One that fundamentally cracked the boys’ psyche and left them orphaned. Two decades after that night, the brothers don’t talk much anymore, the weight of their childhood too heavy for either to confront or bear. But when they receive a message from their long dead mother calling them to an old, abandoned orphanage called Meadowland, they find themselves drawn there. It’s a dark place of lost voices and broken souls. Where little figures lurk in the shadows and the echoes of the past grow louder and clearer by the moment.
The deeper they dig, the more the cracks in their fragile psyche begin to grow and the more their world sinks into a nightmare. Because nothing stays buried forever. Beneath the broken walls and floors of Meadowland lie secrets too dark to keep and truths too horrible to accept. Experience a harrowing psychological horror story filled with twists from Blaine Daigle, the bestselling author of The Broken Places and A Dark Roux. - https://www.amazon.com/Porcelain-Lullaby-Horror-Blaine-Daigle/dp/B0G6JZTCDF/
- Publisher : Independently published
- Print length : 288 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8278379324
***** ***** *****
January 25, 2026
14 Nights In February by Ben Farthing, KH Johnakin
- Each February, one room becomes active per night…Fourteen rooms. Fourteen nights. All leading to Valentine’s Day. The hauntings are very real—restless spirits trapped in unfinished stories. Elizabeth and Fitz decide to help each ghost move on, one room at a time. But a murderer’s ghost still stalks the motel—dangerous, powerful, and furious that someone is freeing his victims. Amid cursed hotel rooms, vengeful ex lovers, and rooms with only one bed, Elizabeth and Fitz will have to decide how much they’re willing to risk for love. 14 Nights in Februaryis a horror/romcom designed to be read one chapter per day, from February 1st through Valentine’s Day—written by two authors living their own real-life love story, Ben Farthing and KH Johnakin.
- Publisher: The Farthing Agency, LLC
- Print length: 206 pages
- ISBN-13: 979-8993217314
- https://www.amazon.com/14-Nights-February-Ben-Farthing/dp/B0GJRHW19C/
***** ***** *****
January 27, 2026
This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud
- Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins.
- Publisher : Kensington
- Print length : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1496755413
- ISBN-13 : 978-1496755414
- https://www.amazon.com/This-House-Will-Maria-Tureaud/dp/1496755413/
Pendergast: The Beginning (Pendergast #23 / 24) by Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston
- Category: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Preston and Child comes the Agent Pendergast origin story—a golden opportunity for longtime fans and new readers to learn about Agent Pendergast’s strange and shocking first case. It only took six months for the life of Special Agent Dwight Chambers to crumble around him. First, he lost his partner, and then, tragically, his wife. Returning to work at the New Orleans Field Office, Chambers is dismayed to find himself saddled with mentoring a brand new FBI agent—a certain A. X. L. Pendergast. As Chambers tries to pull himself together, his enigmatic and exasperating junior partner pulls an outrageous stunt that gets both of them suspended. Pendergast welcomes the banishment, because it gives him the opportunity to investigate a peculiar murder in Mississippi that has captured his fancy. Chambers grudgingly goes along. What starts off as a whimsical quest swiftly turns into a terrifying pursuit, as Chambers and Pendergast uncover a string of grisly, ritualistic killings that defy any known serial killer profile. Thanks in large part to Pendergast’s brilliance and unorthodox methods, they solve the case and find the killer… and that is when the true horror begins.
- https://www.amazon.com/Pendergast-Beginning-Agent-Douglas-Preston-ebook/dp/B0D7ZKQGPX/
- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-13 : 978-1538765777
***** ***** *****
Ballad of the Bone Road by A.C. Wise
- In the glittering city of Port Astor, where fae roads criss-cross human highways and ghosts whisper to the living, nothing is ever as it seems. Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation – and Port Astor decided to forget. Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astor’s wraiths and specters from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancée in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go. While investigating the glamorous and notoriously haunted Peony Hotel, Brix and Belle come across a young couple tangled up in one of the city’s most infamous tales. Jimmy Valentine, silver screen idol and one-time favorite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realize his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.
The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen won’t give up her kingdom so easily. - https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Bone-Road-C-Wise/dp/1835413781/
- Publisher : Titan Books
- Print length : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1835413781
- ISBN-13 : 978-1835413784
***** ***** *****
Funeral Song by Carly Racklin
- No one mourns the living dead. In the isolated town of Cairney, the Angel of Death, under specific circumstances, allows the dead to return to life ― but not always as desired. For Friede Inkerman, pianist to Cairney’s sacred funerals, Death’s gift is a curse, not a blessing. All she wants after being murdered by her wife and resurrected against her will is to finally rest in peace, free from the grief and suspicion that ostracize her from the rest of her death-worshipping town.
On Allhallowsmas, Friede’s hope of passing on to eternal rest is dashed when Death’s sacred relic is stolen and the acolyte who guards it is brutally slain, putting all the dead souls in Cairney at risk of fading into oblivion at sunset. Friede also can’t ignore how much the murder resembles her own ― an echo too haunting to dismiss. Clinging to her last happiness, her oldest friend Bastian, Friede descends into Cairney’s secrets to set things right and see her last wish granted. But Cairney is a town where nothing stays buried forever, and Friede’s search for answers unearths a plot born of ritual magic and twisted devotion that threatens everything she holds dear in her dead heart. An elegantly haunting, visceral work of supernatural horror blending gothic mystery and slow-burn psychological terror about a devout small town’s reckoning with death and the love that transcends it. - https://www.amazon.com/Funeral-Song-Carly-Racklin/dp/1639512292/
- Publisher : Dead Sky Publishing
- Print length : 142 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1639512292
- ISBN-13 : 978-1639512294
***** ***** *****
Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick
- Jasmine Bay is a nurse for an Oakland mental health facility, battling her own demons, caught in a spiral of suicidal despair. Estranged from her brother James and his wife Tilly, who was once her best friend, Jas has chosen self-isolation to protect herself—even if it means denying herself a hopeful future with co-worker and potential love interest Henry Lewis. When her godmother dies, Jas returns to Redceder for the funeral, a logging town where her grandfather William Whipple made a living deforesting the countryside, ripping and raping apart nature’s very foundations for corporate profits. As trees fell to axes and chainsaws, so did dozens of lumberjacks, falling prey to the dangers of their job—and to the ecoterrorism of Jas’s grandfather who was lynched for his crimes. And buried in the haunted woods are even more dark secrets perpetrated by Jas’s family. Unnatural acts giving birth to entities made of human flesh and petrified bark, seeking to avenge the devastation that ravaged their land. It is an inheritance that threatens to consume the remnants of Jas’s family, and her very sanity. . . Celebrated comedy writer Allison Mick’s Humboldt Cutexposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeer’s Annihilation and the psychological horror of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.
- https://www.amazon.com/Humboldt-Cut-Allison-Mick/dp/1645662217/
- Publisher : Erewhon Books
- Print length : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1645662217
- ISBN-13 : 978-1645662211
***** ***** *****
Lost Girls of Hollow Lake by Rebekah Faubion
- After a group of teens visit a dangerous island where three are left behind, the surviving girls realize they must return to confront the sinister force hunting them. This dark YA thriller is perfect for fans of Eight were lost. Five were found. None will ever be free. For Evie Williams, life is about to get a lot more complicated. Haunted by the events of a school trip to Hollow Lake National Park that went disastrously wrong, Evie and her friends returned changed, their lives forever marked by the mysterious Island they encountered—and the three girls they left behind. Now, someone is picking off those who were involved, one by one. Their families, friends, and even online investigators are all caught in a deadly game. The stakes are raised when Evie receives a chilling message: to save her loved ones, she must return to the Island. As Evie and the other “Lost Girls” navigate the treacherous terrain of the Island once more, they must confront the secrets they’ve buried, the horrors they witnessed, and the person—or thing—that’s hunting them. But some secrets refuse to stay hidden, and the Island demands a price for freedom.
- https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Girls-Hollow-Rebekah-Faubion/dp/059390043X/
- Publisher : Delacorte Press
- Print length : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 059390043X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593900437
***** ***** *****
On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield
- In this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut, a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and must contend with ghosts, haints, and most dangerous of all, the truth about herself. When Judith Rice fled her childhood home, she thought she’d severed her abusive mother’s hold on her. She didn’t have a plan or destination, just a desperate need to escape. Drawn to the forests of southern Georgia, Jude finds shelter in a house as haunted by its violent history as she is by her own. Jude embraces the eccentricities of the dilapidated house, soothing its ghosts and haints, honoring its blood-soaked land. And over the next thirteen years, Jude blossoms from her bitter beginnings into a wisewoman, a healer. But her hard-won peace is threatened when an enigmatic woman shows up on her doorstep. The woman is beautiful but unsettling, captivating but uncanny. Ensnared by her desire for this stranger, Jude is caught off guard by brutal urges suddenly simmering beneath her skin. As the woman stirs up memories of her escape years ago, Jude must confront the calls of violence rooted in her bloodline.
- https://www.amazon.com/Sundays-She-Picked-Flowers/dp/1668091216/
- Publisher : S&S/Saga Press
- Print length : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1668091216
- ISBN-13 : 978-1668091210
***** ***** *****
We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone by Ronald Malfi
- Twenty haunting stories from the Bram Stoker Award nominated, and bestselling author of Come With Me. A man leaves rehab and tries to make a new life for himself, only to find the past closing in on him. A married couple on holiday have a bizarre encounter with a shiver of sharks. And, on Halloween night, a young boy learns the truth of the world from the strange and unsettling Mr. Trueheart. From London to Baltimore and many places in between, these stories claw through reality to find the horror deep within.
- https://www.amazon.com/Should-Have-Left-Enough-Alone/dp/183541060X/
- Publisher : Titan Books
- Print length : 362 pages
- ISBN-10 : 183541060X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1835410608
***** ***** *****
We Who Have No Gods by Liza Anderson
- Vic Wood has her priorities: scrape by on her restaurant wages, take care of her younger brother Henry, and forget their mother ever existed. But Vic’s careful life crumbles when she discovers that their long-missing mother belonged to the Acheron Order—a secret society of witches tasked with keeping the dead at bay. What’s worse, Henry inherited their mother’s magical abilities while Vic did not, and he has been chosen as the Order’s newest recruit. Determined to keep him safe, Vic accompanies Henry to the isolated woods in upstate New York that host the sprawling and eerie Avalon Castle. When she joins the academy despite lacking powers of her own, she risks not only the Order’s wrath, but also her brother’s. And then there is the imposing, ruthless, and frustrating Xan, the head Sentinel in charge of protecting Avalon. He makes no secret of wanting Vic to leave. As she makes both enemies and allies in this mysterious realm, Vic becomes caught between the dark forces at play, with her mother at the heart of it all. What’s stranger is that Vic is beginning to be affected by the academy—and Xan—in ways she can’t quite understand. But with war between witches threatening the fabric of reality, Vic must decide whether to risk her heart and life for a world where power is everything.
- https://www.amazon.com/We-Who-Have-No-Gods/dp/0593976312/
- Publisher : Ballantine Books
- Print length : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0593976312
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593976319
***** ***** *****
January 28, 2026
A Veritable Household Pet by Viggy Parr Hampton
- “Brooding and twisted, but beautiful in its honesty, A Veritable Household Petwill chill you to the bone as it simultaneously breaks your heart.” -Paulette Kennedy, bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport. Darla Gregory received a lobotomy at 11 years old … and she was never the same. Based on painfully true history, mixed with family drama, complex characters, and a gut-punch twist.
- https://www.amazon.com/Veritable-Household-Pet-Horror-Novel/dp/B0G19BYGZH/
- Publisher : Horror Humor Hunger Press
- Print length : 314 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8989875580
***** ***** *****
January 30, 2026
The Killing Fields Of The Chupacabra: A Nicole Beretti Thriller by Luka T. Jacobs (Author)
- In the dead of night, bodies are found drained and broken, abandoned in an open field and inside a quiet trailer park. There are no footprints. No tracks. No obvious sign of how the predator arrived or where it went. This is not a creature drawn to livestock or easy prey. It’s focused on hunting humans.
- Print length : 250 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8246189740
- https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Fields-Chupacabra-Beretti-Thriller/dp/B0GKT3BC8Z/