Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Releasing 15 January, The Home by Judith Sonnet
In the early ’60s, in a seemingly more “innocent” time, a group of teenagers were lured into a supposedly haunted house. The place on Sycamore Lane has a morbid history, but that’s just hearsay and rumor, isn’t it? His name was Robbie Miller, and he was a killer. Driven mad by the THING that lived in The Home, he now exists to serve. He’ll do whatever the creature that calls itself Mr. Friendlyman asks … He’ll even become a ghost … Now, decades later and much older, they are returning to The Home. A retired fantasy writer, A doting grandfather, and a mysterious old woman who seems to know things she should not … A dark storm is brewing over this wicked house. A storm that will break down the very fabric of reality. A storm that demands blood and sacrifice, and feeds on the ghosts of anyone who dies within it’s premises. Available for pre-order in ebook and paperback, reserve your copy here.
Arriving 15 January from Image Comics and Rick Remender with Paul Azaceta, The Seasons
Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn are the Seasons Sisters, the daughters of the world-renowned Seasons Detectives. Ten years ago, their famous parents disappeared. Left to raise themselves, the sisters formed an unbreakable bond. Now that bond is tested as the sisters fall prey to sinister forces. The youngest sister, Spring, is the last hope of saving them from a fate worse than death. Will Spring be able to piece her shattered family back together before it’s too late for them all? Available for pre-order now in ebook, you can guarantee your copy here.
Forthcoming from Severn House 7 January, Wicked Jenny by Matt Hilton
1988: Thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends—Carl, Brian, Johnny and Gavin—become witnesses to the vicious attack of their classmate, Poppy, and the brutal murder of her sister at a flooded railway line they call the frog ponds. They lead the police to a suspect, a vulnerable older boy whose differences single him out. But when he commits suicide, his guilt is never proven. And the crime goes unpunished, until …
Now: Carl’s body is found beside the same body of water – and the lives of the four remaining friends start to unravel. Is the hag-like woman terrorizing their every waking moment really a grown-up Poppy hellbent on revenge? Or something else … something steeped in childhood nightmares? Something determined to reveal the truth and punish the wicked. Available for pre-order in ebook and hardcover, you can guarantee your copy here.
BOB PASTORELLA
