Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Coming 13 February from author Alan Baxter and 13th Dragon Books, The Rise
Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.
The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.
A couple of weed dealers give themselves a real headache. A young man finds joy in a secret place with the new love of his life. The children of violent, bigoted parents fight for survival. One of the world’s biggest stars takes time out in Gulpepper’s newest Institution. The return of an old foe threatens the existence of Gulpepper itself.
Five more novellas. Five more descents into darkness. Welcome to The Gulp, where nothing is as it seems. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, you can guarantee your copy here.
Out now from author RC Elllis, Isles of Scilly
They don’t shamble. They coordinate. They hunt.
A cancer cure that promised miracles instead rewrote human DNA, creating the Connected, infected who move as one, adapting, learning, spreading. Within days, Britain fell silent.
Sarah fled to the Isles of Scilly with her children, hoping twenty-eight miles of cold Atlantic would be enough. But isolation cuts both ways. Resources dwindle. Tensions rise. And the Connected are evolving.
When survival means impossible choices, how much of your humanity can you sacrifice before you become the thing you’re running from? Available now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can grab your copy here.
New from author R. Y. Abdulrehman and Lead With Diversity Press, Jinn In The Family
When a Western-trained psychologist returns to Zanzibar, the stories he once dismissed as superstition rise up to meet him-alive, layered, and rooted in blood.
Raised in Canada and shaped by science, he believed identity was a matter of will. But in the heat and hush of his ancestral island, whispers of jinn and witches begin to unearth a deeper truth; one carved by exile, memory, and spirits that do not forget.
Told in two intertwined timelines, “modernity” and “antiquity”, Jinn in the Family blends poetic fiction with cultural myth, weaving Arab, African, and Indian lineages into a haunting tapestry of inheritance. This novel asks what is lost when diasporic people abandon identity and the unseen, and what might be reclaimed when we finally listen to what was never gone.
More than folklore. More than horror. This is the story of what lives in the quiet, and what refuses to die. Available now in eBook, paperback and hardcover editions, you can pick up yours here.
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KEV HARRISON
