Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Arriving 27 May from writer Anna Orridge and Nefarious Bat Press, Phengaris
There’s something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood. Mark Warner never noticed it before. He’s there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.
Birds sing in the wood. But their rhythms seem wrong somehow. Insects crawl and nest, but not where you’d expect them to. Something in Thurstrop Wood has noticed him. And now it’s seen him – it doesn’t want to let him go…
Surreally beautiful and uncomfortably visceral, Phengaris’ eco-horrors will stay with you long after the final page. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Out now from editor E. R. Vickers, Dancing Through The Shadows, a charity anthology support domestic abuse survivors
Short stories all based on the theme of domestic abuse. No one is safe from domestic abuse as shown within these powerful stories.
From the minds of ten authors, this anthology brings to life the real and so often unseen horrors and deeply kept secrets by those suffering the terrible acts.
All proceeds are going to the Domestic Abuse charity My Sisters Place… this book aims to show what goes on behind many closed doors. Available now in eBook and paperback you can grab your copy here.
Coming 11 March from author Zachary Ashford and Unnerving, Trog
After Aisha is traumatized by a stalker, her parents decide to move to a property in the outback. They say it’s in her best interests.
But they don’t know something dangerous is imprisoned in the subterranean caverns beneath the house. Something that hungers for freedom. And blood.
When three masked thrill-killers assault the property, they open the wrong doors, and Trog emerges. Only blood and chaos will be left in his wake, unless Aisha can fight off the intruders, save her family, and survive the night. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, you can guarantee your copy here.
New from author Premee Mohamed and Psychopomp, One Message Remains
Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril—’The General’s Turn,’ originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself might choose to join the audience… or step onto the stage. Award-winning author Premee Mohamed presents three brand new stories set in this morally ambiguous world of war and magic. In ‘One Message Remains,’ Major Lyell Tzajos leads his team on a charity mission through the post-armistice world of East Seudast, exhuming the bones and souls of dead foes for repatriation. But the buried fighters may have one more fight left in them—and they have chosen their weapons well.
In ‘The Weight of What is Hollow,’ Taya is the latest apprentice of a long-honored tradition: building the bone-gallows for prisoners of war. But her very first commission will pit her skills against both her family and her oppressor.
Finally, in ‘Forsaking All Others,’ ex-soldier Rostyn must travel the little-known ways by night to avoid his pursuers, for desertion is punishable by death. As he flees to the hoped-for sanctuary of his grandmother’s village, he is joined by a fellow deserter—and, it seems, the truth of a myth older than the land itself. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
Available 25 March from writer Johanna Van Veen and Poisoned Pen Press, Blood on Her Tongue
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy’s twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband’s grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister’s condition, but it’s clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.
Then, the worst happens. Sarah’s behavior takes a turn for the strange. She becomes angry… and hungry.
Lucy soon comes to suspect that something is trying to possess her beloved sister. Or is it madness? As Sarah changes before her very eyes, Lucy must reckon with the dark, monstrous truth, or risk losing her forever. Available for pre-order now in eBook, deluxe paperback or audiobook, you can guarantee yours here.
KEV HARRISON
