Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
You can hardly swing a dismembered deer carcass these days without hitting a “No vampires, no zombies, and no werewolves” sign on an anthology.
Well, to that we say “Pshaw!” And also, “Awooo!”
Because what readers really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible. This book is all gore and no bore. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Three stand-alone novellas connect as one harrowing novel from Splatterpunk Award-nominated and Godless Award-winning horror author Brian Bowyer. Including Road Harvest, Road Narrows, and Grinding Road!
Road Harvest: Two killers leave Los Angeles in a tour bus with a ferocious guard dog. Traveling east, they abduct people from highways and chain them to poles in the back. Along the way, they rescue a mentally-ill woman from a deranged psychiatrist’s basement. When they reach their journey’s end, a shocking revelation threatens the remnants of her sanity.
Road Narrows: A famous novelist and the obsessed fan who stalks her. A traveling musician haunted by the ghosts of his family. A mentally-ill woman and the two serial killers who saved her. A jilted lover who murders her ex-girlfriend for sleeping around. When these worlds collide in the outer darkness of Los Angeles, all that matters is survival.
Grinding Road: Two killers share a compound in Los Angeles. A necrophiliac moves into the main house. A teenage girl commits murder and falls in love with a bloodthirsty woman who lives with the two killers and the necrophiliac. Chaos ensues when the necrophiliac sets his sights on the bloodthirsty woman’s new girlfriend. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can pick up your copy here.
Frankenstein and the young Lilja navigate the world above ground to follow Lilja’s vision, but an ancient and familiar evil follows them wherever they go. Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, and Peter Bergting return to the New World that Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. gave their lives to save. The first volume in this four issue series is available now, here.
Returning to Derby’s Museum of Making, and for the first time online The UK Ghost Story Festival returns
The UK Ghost Story Festival returns for the fifth time in 2025, and this year will see the debut of its online weekend event. Running from the 14 -16 February, the Festival will be serving up three days of workshops, interviews and talks from leading names in supernatural fiction.
Headline interview slots will take in sessions with Essie Fox (The Fascination, The Somnambulist), Sara Gran (Come Closer, The Book of Most Precious Substance), T Kingfisher (The Twisted Ones, What Moves the Dead), AG Slatter (The Crimson Road, The Briar Book of the Dead) and Ashley Thorpe (Director, Borley Rectory).
UK Ghost Story Festival co-ordinator Alex Davis said: ‘I’m delighted to have the opportunity to expand our event in 2025, and the online component allows us to get even more exciting talent involved in our programme, including some fantastic international names! And you can do it all without leaving the comfort of your own home.’
Full online passes are available for £50, with day tickets also available for each of the three days. For more information, and to pick up tickets, visit https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststoryfestival.
KEV HARRISON