Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Three strangers are invited to the opening of a Manhattan art gallery and find nothing more than a single white sculpture etched with an image of a scorpion.
No other guests. No artist. No explanation.
That night, a woman is found dead in the river, her neck marked with a scorpion tattoo.
The three strangers—women with quiet lives—become the focus of an aggressive detective who thinks they had something to do with the scorpion tattoo murder. More disturbing, they become the target of the gallery artist … who is intent on hunting them down, one-by-one.
The women are drawn into a nightmare of lies, mistrust, and betrayal. They take it upon themselves to find the reclusive gallery artist, who believes that causing pain is the highest form of art. And he won’t stop until he has turned one of them into his most terrifying creation. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
A small southern town surrounded by a living cemetery was the last place Sam Everett expected to find himself after the sudden death of his wife. Desperate to get away from the city and its memories, Sam flees to the tight-knit community of Maylene’s Hollow.
Except the Hollow holds a secret. The town won’t allow its dead to rest. Forced to wander the earth for hundreds of years, the denizens of the woods have had enough.
With the help of a mysterious widow who may also be a murderer, the town’s matriarch who seems to possess magical abilities, and an ornery giant who believes the dead may be right to rebel, Sam must learn to let go of the dead in order to truly live. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
For Ever and a Day is a literary vampire novel unlike any other — a quiet, haunting descent into memory, identity, and the slow erosion of time.
Told through the fragmented reflections of an ancient, nameless being, the story explores what it means to endure, to forget, and to remember again. Rather than bloodshed and horror, it offers melancholic musings on love, decay, artificial intelligence, and the ghosts we carry within us.
The language is poetic. The tone is philosophical. The world is fading.
If you’re drawn to gothic fiction, introspective horror, or speculative tales that defy genre and linger long after the final page, this book was written — or perhaps received — for you. Available now in eBook, with other editions to come soon, you can grab yours here.
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KEV HARRISON