Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
New from author Micah Castle and Grendel Press, The Women Without Eyes
Cherry Brooke is gripped by fear. With the Southside Killer already stalking the city, leaving a trail of victims in his wake, Detective Wolfe has his hands full. Six months ago, a woman was found murdered in Refleski Park, her eyes missing. Now, another victim has been discovered, bearing the same horrifying signature. Yet another killer is on the loose.
As Wolfe digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling pattern: a series of murders spanning decades, each marked by the ritualistic removal of the victim’s eyes. The only clue connecting the killings is a mysterious symbol branded on the victims’ bodies.
Driven by guilt and a thirst for justice, Wolfe finds himself on the trail of a killer far more sinister than he could have imagined. His pursuit leads him to William Acerieas, a man consumed by his family’s dark legacy and a twisted obsession with an ancient book. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Arriving 25 February from editor Katherine Silva and Strange Wilds Press, Boreal: An Anthology of Taiga Horror
Two sisters huddle in a cabin seeking protection from a dark force. An engineer and an anthropologist search for their lost geologist partner on a derelict expedition. A disgraced tracker investigates a desecrated shrine in a small village.
These are only a few of the stories found within BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror. 22 stories intermingle the dark and lonely forests of the taiga biome with odysseys of sorrow, grief and self-reflection that skirt the boundaries of life and death.
War-ravaged trees, hypnotic glades, and cold desolate mountains await you. Try not to get lost in them. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Out now from writer Drew Huff, Landlocked in Foreign Skin
The Fisherman can’t fathom why anyone would want to be human. Small wonder. The Fisherman’s been ripped from their underwater home under Europa’s ice, and stripped of their skin–the nebulous outer layer that enables them to shapeshift for survival. Imprisoned on a ship that’s hunting for a mad undersea god, they must help the crew find it if they want to retrieve their skin and return home. Dame Isobel, an insane young heiress, owns the ship, desperate to find the god in the hopes that it will heal her mortally-injured girlfriend. The Fisherman is stuck in a female human form and pulled into a toxic, codependent relationship with Dame Isobel– in a world where being LGBT is punishable by death. In the midst of this insanity, it’s quite clear to the Fisherman: Humanity is confusing, inefficient, and messy.
When Isobel reveals that she will never let the Fisherman go, even if they find the mad god, the Fisherman knows: It’s time to get violent. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can pick up yours here.
Coming 25 March from author C S Jones and Grave Disorder Press, Do Not Unlock
There’s something wrong in HMP Endgate.
The arrival of a malevolent force, far exceeding the evils Tom Jones and his fellow prison officers face daily, renders everyone inside trapped and cut off from the outside world. Unsure of what to DO or who to trust, staff and prisoners alike find themselves in a fight for survival.
NOT willing to give up, one by one, they fall victim to the ancient evil UNLOCKed and wandering the prison grounds.
With everyone’s life in the balance, their only hope is to band together against the evil and prevent it from escaping. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Available now from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Robert P. Ottone and Sobelo Books, Nocturnal Creatures
What lurks in the Dunderberg Mountains?
Teenager Cassie, growing up on her family’s apple and peach orchard in upstate New York, was the first to see one of the terrifying, strange creatures from the woods around their property.
Cassie’s crush, El Salvadorian Darwin, thinks it’s a Sisimito, a Central American creature of lore akin to the Sasquatch. Then, the family sees more of the frightening beasts, and it’s not long before the creatures take aggressive action toward Cassie’s family. That launches a life-and-death battle that could have devastating consequences…
Bram Stoker Award winning author Robert P. Ottone is back with this newly revised edition of Nocturnal Creatures. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can grab your copy here.
KEV HARRISON
