Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Arriving 9 May from author Christina Bergling and Graveside Press, Red Walls
On the anniversary of her sister’s death, Talia returns home after curfew, bloodied and bruised. She’s desperate to keep it from her parents; she knows what they’ll do. But when Autumn and Colin realize what’s happened to their daughter, they don’t intend to stay idle.
Leaving Talia with friends, her parents go after the monsters who hurt their child … but they never expected to find real monsters. They aren’t prepared for what is behind the urban legends of Red Walls House. Monsters with white eyes, clawed fingers, and sizzling tongues who ate pieces of their daughter. Now it’s Talia and her friends who must return to Red Walls House on a rescue mission. Talia’s just praying she can get everyone out of there alive.
Graphic, gory horror with an emotional heart, Red Walls portrays family trauma as it both unites and almost destroys Talia’s family. Available to pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Coming 3 June from writer and poet Cindy O’Quinn and Brigids Gate Press, Dark Cloud on Naked Creek
After a patient under the care of Afton Sullivan, a nurse at a men’s prison, dies under mysterious circumstances, she blames herself for the prisoner’s death. It isn’t the first time strange things have happened with her patients, and Afton fears it won’t be the last.
Thus begins an odyssey of discovery for Afton, as she ventures into the depths of Appalachia to dig into her family’s history and learn the truth about herself and the cunning folk of the mountain that she’s kin to.
Is she killing people, or does something much darker lurk in the hills and hollers of West Virginia? Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Available 22 July from author Michelle Tang and Ghost Orchid Press, DuMort
Mrs. Mina Braithwaite has never quite fit into Mydalla’s polite society. Her features are so different from the other noblewomen, more like the city’s foreign workers, and she chafes at all the rules. Then there’s the furious entity that has followed her for years, crawling from shadows to hurt her and staining every memory with fear. Desperate for help, Mina crashes a private gathering to see the infamous occultist Alexandre DuMort in action. She doesn’t expect the pull of attraction towards the man, nor his invitation to join him in his work.
But DuMort has enemies, dangerous ones, and they dog his steps as closely as Mina’s entity does hers. Mina must choose between her old life, and the angry spirit that stalks her, or follow the famed occultist down a new path, where even worse things might haunt her.
Like the truth. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Released 10 May from author Brad Thomas and Frightmare Publishing, Pleasant Shade
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KEV HARRISON
