Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Out now from author Patrick Barb and Dark Matter Ink, Abducted
A Mysterious Small-Town Crime with Cosmic Repercussions. In 2005, Police Sergeant Stacy Keppler worked her first big case: the abduction of Matt Freeman, a young boy taken from his bedroom in the dead of night. The only witness to the crime: Matt’s older sister, whose story of “Gray Men” was dismissed by almost everyone, causing the case to eventually go cold. Now, nineteen years later and on the eve of her retirement, Stacy receives news she never expected to get: they’ve found Matt Freeman alive. But the young man who has returned is…different. Changed. And things about his story just aren’t adding up. Skeptical of the official narrative and determined to learn the truth, Stacy heads down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and cover-ups in an effort to finally solve the case that has haunted her for decades. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Arriving 5 September from writer Barry Maher and Crystal Lake Publishing, The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon
It’s 1982. Steve Witowski, a failed songwriter on the run from the law, finds himself caught in a supernatural thriller after an apparently innocent act of heroism—saving a woman from a vicious assault by a seemingly unstoppable wino. The woman, Victoria, is just part of a mystery Steve can’t unravel. Even as he’s looting the decomposing dead for the secrets of a self-proclaimed sorcerer. Even as he plummets into a nightmare of fire and blood and murder. Even then, Steve remains certain the sorcerer’s spells, the occult rituals—the supposed demons and supernatural horror—are simply delusion and fantasy. Steve is wrong.
Victoria, who has just bought a dilapidated church with a haunting past, entangles Steve in a deadly game of dark magic and rituals. As,unknown to him, the demon grows desperate, Steve plunges deeper into a world of crypts, grave robbing, and long-forgotten secrets, all while trying to escape his own haunted past. But when the face of the man Steve killed appears on his arm, the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
Released today by author Jack Finn and Velox Books, The Come When You Sleep
Don’t answer the invitation of slumber…
Your eyelids grow heavy. The bedside lamp flickers. That sound—was it just the house settling? Let author Jack Finn regale you with chilling tales to keep you awake just a bit longer.
A haunted doll’s warning heralds a monstrous feast on Puritan flesh. A cursed gemstone continues a centuries-old cycle of obsession and violence. A desperate night of survival for a family hunted in their home reveals a shocking truth. A ghostly serial killer’s apprentice learns the true price of devotion.
Perhaps you should check under the bed one last time… Perhaps you shouldn’t sleep at all. Available today in eBook, paperback, hardcover and audiobook editions, you can grab your copy here.
New from writer D. W. Gillespie and Delacorte Press, Grin
Danny is spending a week with his Uncle Bill who runs a massive retro arcade called PixelWorks. His only plan is to play as many games as possible from open to close, but he wasn’t expecting to find the Holy Grail of arcade collectors, a gruesome looking game titled Grin.
Anyone who plays the game becomes surprisingly violent, and soon with the help of his friend Jodi and a knowledgeable videogame streamer, Danny realizes that Grin holds the soul of a dead serial killer.
Soon, the killer makes the jump into Bill’s body, and it’s up to Danny to figure out a way to stop him for good. Available now in eBook, hardcover and audiobook editions, you can pick up your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON
