Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
In a world plunged into chaos by a devastating disease known as Blanchard Syndrome, the remnants of humanity are confined to a mysterious facility, where teenagers are subjected to horrific experiments under the guise of finding a cure.
Ella has already lost too much. Now trapped inside a crumbling world ruled by fear, cruelty, and impossible choices, she must fight to protect the people she cares about while uncovering the truth about the facility and the man who controls it all.
Dr. Blanchard may claim he is saving humanity, but his methods are brutal, his secrets are monstrous, and the line between science and madness grows thinner by the day. The facility, a microcosm of a crumbling society, is a battleground where morality is tested, alliances are formed, and the will to live is challenged at every turn.
As the fabric of society within the facility begins to unravel, Ella and her friends must confront the harsh realities of their existence and make life-altering decisions. Available today in eBook and paperback, you can grab yours here.
In the near future, a lonely production line worker risks it all to steal the necessary components to build a robot companion. Not only will it save his life, but his new friend will tell him a story he will never forget.
Porter is the sheriff of three neglected housing estates. When an elderly woman is senselessly killed, the community demands action. The sheriffs hands are tied by governmental red tape, but he finds conscience pushing him towards the kind of violence he swore he’d left behind.
Albert bears a generational curse, Forced to carry out executions on behalf of the Halls of the Lands, his plan to escape his life as a pariah are thrown into disarray when a familiar name appears on his latest kill list. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
From Mary Shelley to Tananarive Due and Mariana Enríquez, women writers of horror have long shaped the genre, often without the same recognition as their male counterparts. Yet women live closest to horror’s edge. Forced marriages, lost autonomy, violence, childbirth, and survival—these fears are not abstract; they are lived.
Set across Texas, a land of haunted histories and increasingly restrictive laws that disempower women, these stories rise from the raw intersection of terror and endurance. Written by twelve Texas women writers, this collection is unflinching, urgent, and deeply haunting. These are stories that refuse to look away.
Edited by Carmen Gray, the anthology features the work of R. J. Joseph, Lauren Oertel, L.H. Phillips, Emma E. Murray, and many more. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
Poquoson is an old Algonquian word for Great Salt Marsh. The land here is ancient, shaped by cycles of tide, of things living, feeding, and dying on top of one another.
In this isolated community, those cycles are more than nature – they are rules. Everyone knows when to keep quiet, when to look away, and when something must be given up for the good of the whole. Outsiders feel the tension immediately. Locals call it tradition.
As the seasons turn and old rituals resurface, it becomes clear that something still claims this land – not a beast that hunts, but a hunger that must be fed. Survival depends on obedience, silence, and a willingness to accept loss as necessary.
Hungry Things is a slow-burning work of folk horror about ritual, inheritance, and communal complicity – where the land remembers every offering, and the most terrifying choice is the one that keeps everyone alive. Available now in paperback, with other editions to follow, you can pick up your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON