Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Deirdre’s family tree was never something she thought much about. For 24 years it’s just been her and her mother. But when she accidentally gets pregnant her mother insists they go back to their family roots. Now Deirdre is about to discover just what kind of sinister soil her family has sprouted from. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can pick up your copy here.
A father whose son fades away every day unless he passes the boy a bit of his own life. Three robots holding a séance. A man who suffers the effects of an intergalactic portal opening in his stomach.
These stories exist at the intersection of science fiction, horror, and magic and explore both our humanity in the face of the weird as well as our most ordinary and fundamental relationships.
Whether attempting to voyage to a distant star on a generational craft whose destination is so far no living passengers will reach it or whether a daughter’s new friend is teaching her to break the trendiest of dimensional boundaries, the stories press humanity against the macro and the micro scales of the universe—but every one of them shines a light on a little piece of our souls at the core. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
Bata, a young girl tormented by nightmares, wakes up one night to find herself standing sentinel before her cousin’s door. Her cousin is to get married the next morning, but only if she can escape the murderous attack of a ghost-bride, who used to be engaged to her groom.
A supernatural possession helps Bata battle and vanquish the vengeful ghost bride, and following a botched exorcism, she is transported to Ibaja-La, the realm of dead brides. There, she receives secret powers to fight malevolent ghost-brides before being sent back to the human realm, where she must learn to harness her new abilities as she strives to protect those whom she loves. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, you can guarantee your copy here.
Horrors Untold is a first-of-its-kind immersive experience that dares you to explore the history and lore of Universal Orlando Resort’s Halloween Horror Nights while solving a dark and chilling mystery — all packaged in a book form that you’ve never quite seen before.
Told in a found-footage style, Horrors Untold deftly combines journal entries, printed-out articles, an excerpt from a published academic tome, transcripts from public lectures or private interrogations, and a collection of social-media posts to trace a story of mental degradation and deadly torture. Hunter Spivey, the popular blogger behind HauntHunter, has turned his professional sights on Halloween Horror Nights Orlando, cluing his readers into its history, mythology, and spreading international influence; as he does, however, he finds himself the target of an increasingly bizarre series of events that are slowly descending upon Orlando. It’s not long before he vanishes, turning up in the woods as a corpse riddled with strange, witch-like sigils that have been inscribed all over it — symbols that you will have to discover and recreate on an autopsy-like diagram in order to reveal the way forward. Available for pre-order now in hardcover, you can pick up your copy and find out more, here.
KEV HARRISON