Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Egypt, 1941. A mysterious SS archaeological expedition dispatched by Himmler vanishes into the untamed desert.
Haunted by his experiences beyond the Mountains of Madness, Robert Danforth is recruited by America’s fledging intelligence to uncover the expedition’s goals and motives. His investigation takes him from wartime Cairo to hidden tombs and cities across Egypt and Arabia, where kidnapped innocents are to be sacrificed in a ritual older than civilization.
The closer Danforth comes to the answers, the more a mysterious power reaches into his dreams. It reveals visions no man should witness. It knows his worst fears. It offers answers to every mystery and piece of forbidden knowledge that haunts him—but at a horrifying price.
If the SS succeeds, no Allied secret will remain hidden, and the course of the war may be decided before the next battle begins. Some conflicts are driven by the desire for power and territory. This battle will be fought for the very future of humanity. Available today in eBook, paperback, hardcover and audiobook, you can grab your copy here.
A young woman pulled from a bog. An office worker straying from routine. An author making deals in the dark.
Death comes for everyone, but never strikes the same way twice. In these ten tales, it wears many faces, turns homes into haunted places, and often, it is only the beginning. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other formats to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
A rogue monster. An orphaned child. One hellish journey into the bush.
“While dinosaur attacks might seem fantastic to the reader in our present day, my story comes from a vastly different era before Australia’s Federation; a wild, raw, and dangerous era. I’ll wager you’ve only seen captive-bred dinosaurs in a circus or at the zoo.”
This is the memoir of Edwin Callaghan. In Colonial Australia, 1889, a dinosaur turned man-eater preys upon the people of Smithy’s Creek. Famed lizard hunter, Jim Vandebus, is hired to kill the beast. Haunted by his mother’s violent death, Callaghan wants vengeance and insists on joining the hunting party. What follows is a brutal showdown with the largest and most ferocious dinosaur Australia has ever known. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
The long-awaited second volume of spooky tales to keep you up all night from Black Beacon Books …
The Black Beacon Book of Horror 2 creeps out of the coffin to pick up where the first volume left off. Seventeen scary stories from some of the most disturbing minds writing horror today. These tales of folk horror, psychological suspense, gothic romance, and cosmic terror will take you by the hand and lead into the darkest of worlds. There are possessed puppets, Lovecraftian terrors from the depths, polar predators, unsettled spirits, and most frightening of all, the madness of mankind. You’ll take part in a séance alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, you’ll experience a midnight tryst gone wrong in a moon garden, you’ll discover terror in the trenches during the Great War, and you might just survive a holiday to Fiji if you’re lucky. The settings and themes in this anthology are varied, but each tale has that one particular power in common; the power to send a delicious shiver of fright up your spine before you read the final line. Available now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can pick up your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON