Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
After the tragic death of their parents, the seven Ward sisters are sent to live with their grandmother on the remote forest island of Beltane, a place suspended between time and shadow. What begins as an attempt to mend their fractured lives soon twists into a waking nightmare, where grief bleeds into childhood fantasy and ancient rites awaken a dark and eerie devotion to Daudir, the Forgotten God of the Wood.
When another cruel tragedy strikes, the sisters are left to fend for themselves, learning to live with death as a constant, lurking presence. The fragile world they’ve carved splinters beneath the weight of isolation, and the forest around them grows restless…
Years later, a cryptic letter summons the surviving sisters home. Drawn back into the wild embrace of their dangerous faith, they confront a truth more terrible than memory, and the dreadful secret that waits, silent and sentient, in the depths of the all-seeing trees. Available for pre-order now in eBook, paperback and audiobook editions, you can guarantee yours here.
Exciting Opportunity: Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants Only.
Macy Mullins can’t say why the job posting grabbed her attention—it had the pull of a fisherman’s lure, barbed hook and all—vaguely ominous. But after an endless string of failed job interviews, she’s not exactly in the position to be picky. She has rent to pay, groceries to buy, and a younger sister to provide for.
Besides, it’s only three days’ work…
Three days, cooped up in a stranger’s house, surrounded by Oregon Coast wilderness.
What starts as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare. An incomprehensible evil may dwell on this property—and Macy Mullins might just be the only thing standing between it, and the rest of humanity.
Follow the Rites … Follow the Rites … Follow the Rites … Available for pre-order now in eBook, hardcover, paperback and audiobook formats, you can guarantee your copy here.
Up on Kickstarter Now – The Weird Tales Graphic Novel
From creative James Aquilone and Monstrous, comes the first ever adaptation of legendary magazine Weird Tales into graphic novel format. Weird Tales – A Graphic Novel of Bizarre & Unusual Stories is a 150-page limited-edition hardcover — we won’t be printing any more hardcovers after this campaign — featuring 10 stories. It will be printed in a large format 8.5 by 11 inches and offered in three covers. Already funded with more than forty times the original target pledged, support the kickstarter here to help Monstrous unlock stretch goals and to guarantee your own perks.
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KEV HARRISON