Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Out now from author D. Matthew Urban and Cursed Morsels Press, Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces
Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to master the art of annihilation. A girl on the verge of a transformation seeks out a new member for her isolated, inhuman family. A glitching brain implant shatters its owner’s sense of reality. A high-school athlete’s body becomes the vessel of a fleshy apocalypse.
In Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, characters twist in the grip of forces beyond their understanding. Infused with the weird and uncanny, these stories probe the crannies and dead ends where humanity confronts the implacably alien, where even the most familiar faces begin to change, waver, and fade. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Arriving 1 May from writer David Sodergren and Paperbacks and Pugs, Death Spell
“I won’t let death stop me.”
25 years ago, young businessman Ron Jarvis made a sinister deal that changed his life forever. The cost was high… but who can put a price on power?
Now, Ron is the CEO of a global media empire, and one of the richest men in the world. And yet, to help his daughter, Ron will once more seek out the architect of that hideous pact, bringing death, despair, and total destruction to all around him in a jaw-dropping frenzy of outrageous, bloody carnage. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
New from author Adrielle Reina and Graveside Press, A Ballad of Inferno and Ruin
While a second Civil War rages on in the Former United States of America, other countries are embroiled in World War III. Uncertainty and unrest result in an upheaval there’s no escape from. People have a choice: choose a side, or die.
Determined to get vengeance and help salvage what’s left of the world—and herself—Emma Sandalwood joins up with the Motley Rebellion, an independent militant group that cares for displaced victims of both wars and fights to end the bloodshed. Between keeping herself alive and searching for what little remains of her family, the last thing she needs is to uncover a man-made virus that could turn the tides of war.
Betrayal comes in many forms, and the end of humanity is near. Available now in eBook, hardcover and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
Coming 7 April from writer Helena O’Connor and IFWG Publishing International, Willow Close
Kess Hawkins just wants to play video games, eat pizza rolls, and hang out with her cat. But when a determined journalist comes asking about Kess’ past, she is drawn into a thirty-year old mystery. A childhood photo sparks Kess’s memories of an abandoned orphanage called Willow Close, as well as a brother she never knew she had and a boy she once shared a bond with despite his dark and troubled history. Meanwhile, a serial killer dubbed the Family Man is working his way down the coast and Kess’s home of New Haven lies directly in his path. Willow Close is an old-school slasher with two kick-ass, contemporary heroines. A good old-fashioned mystery wrapped in a creepy old orphanage, with cosmic horror, a monstrous killer, and several lovely cats. Available to pre-order now in paperback, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Out now from author Sylvia Morrow and Graveside Press, Dead Emma
It’s hard to feed a ghost.
That’s me, Emma the ghost, but I won’t be one for much longer. Max—my jerk of a stepbrother and the one who’s supposed to feed me—has been missing for months. To be clear, that’s months of living off frozen body parts, and my supply is running low.
When he finally shows up with no explanation of where he’s been or why he left, I want to be angry—but that isn’t what has me so tense when we’re alone. Max is always trying to get up in my personal space—and what’s worse…I want him to be. I haven’t even gotten over my dead ex-boyfriend, Jake. How can I feel things for one guy, let alone two, especially when one is surely dead?
I have bigger things to think about anyway, like going up against the biggest baddies in science and magic who have some wild experiments in the works. If they catch us, I might become Dead Emma for real. Available now in eBook, hardcover and paperback editions, you can grab your copy here.
KEV HARRISON
