Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Out today from author Anthony J. Rapino and Crystal Lake Publishing, Precipice of Nowhere
There are only so many living entrails and bodily mutations you can see before reality loses meaning.
Precipice of Nowhere is an unsettling road novel about family, sacrifice, and the unknowable horror of what lies beyond perception.
Clark’s life shatters when a crazed zealot kidnaps his daughter, Sadie, from their small Pennsylvania town days before Halloween. Clues lead Clark and his wife to a hidden cavern deep in the state forest. But before he can save her, Sadie disappears into a reality-bending vortex. Bewildered and heartbroken, Clark vows to find his daughter no matter the cost.
When a mysterious phone call promises Sadie’s location—and delivers him a new, reluctant ally in Tara Sako—Clark’s quest becomes a race against something far bigger than one missing girl. A cosmic entity is spreading, warping reality and infecting everyone it touches, and every mile Clark drives brings him closer to an answer he may not survive learning.
Can he save his daughter before the entity defiles reality forever? Available today in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
Out now from writer Matthew R. Davis and French Press Publishing, One Last Laugh in the Dark
Struggling stand-up comedian Nick Avery has two shows left in his final Adelaide Fringe run and then he’s going to end his life. Alcoholism, obscurity, hallucinations, and a broken heart are bad enough…but since childhood he’s been haunted by a spiteful vision he calls the Boy — a surreal and terrifying twin that only he can see or hear, who demands that Nick surrender control to him. And yet darker plots are unfolding, for death stalks the comedy circuit and Nick has not gone quite as unnoticed as he thinks … Available now in eBook and paperback formats, you can grab yours here.
Winter Haunts returns this November with a packed online day of gothic fiction and ghost stories
Writing Magazine and Alex Davis Events will be teaming up for the fifth running of WINTER HAUNTS in 2026, with the annual online event taking place on the 14th November. With a thread of writing workshops and a thread of author interviews, the day has plenty for readers, writers and fans of all things dark and supernatural in fiction.
Our interview thread on the day will be headlined by Keith Rosson, one of the most exciting emerging stars in horror fiction and author of Coffin Moon, Crone, The Devil By Name and many more. We’ll also be joined by two more international authors for interviews, with Virginia Feito (Victorian Psycho, Mrs March) and Jason Rekulak (Look What The Cat Dragged In, Hidden Pictures, The Last One at the Wedding). Our UK talent for interviews will feature Kat Dunn (Bitterthorn, Rottenheart), Hester Musson (The Beholders, The Night Hag) and Cathryn Kemp (They Can’t Burn Us All, A Poisoner’s Talk).
Our workshop thread will feature a range of insightful and inspiring sessions from some of the UK’s best writers of the Gothic and ghostly, featuring Carly Reagon’s look at Haunted Objects, Barbara Havelocke on Writing Gothic Fiction, JS Barnes exploring the Greatest English Ghost Story Ever Written, Daniel Carpenter on Modernising the Gothic, Laura Mauroe examining Queering Horror and Ally Wilkes looking at Hostile Landscapes to close the day.
Tickets can be purchased for the individual workshop thread, the individual interview thread or a combined tickets. For more information, or to book your place for this online event, visit the official Winter Haunts site, here.
Available now from author Philip Fracassi and Drugstore Indian Press, Overpass
A massive earthquake leaves a group of commuters stranded on a Los Angeles overpass a hundred feet above the ground and cut off in both directions by broken highway. When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the trunk of one of the vehicles, an off-duty policeman must discover who the killer is while praying the teetering stretch of overpass won’t collapse and kill them all.
New from author Matthew Weber, Night of the Jitters
The awkward Oliver Butterman has a date with the girl of his dreams, but it’s a Halloween date from hell when a psychotic cult descends on the city, and an otherworldly evil ascends from below.
Night of the Jitters is a suspenseful and darkly comical Southern-fried romp through romantic turmoil, small-town terror, and creature-feature horror with apocalyptic stakes. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON
