Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
She is ten years old. She loves storybooks, puppies, and murder.
Her mother knows. She has always known. And still she runs with her, steals for her, looks the other way—because she is her little girl. Because somewhere beneath those flat, patient eyes is the child she once rocked to sleep.
Isn’t she?
In the gritty, pre-everything America of the early 1980s, a mother and daughter are leaving a quiet trail of bodies across state lines. When a dangerous man steps into their orbit and the police close in from behind, the mother faces the question she has spent a decade outrunning.
What is she raising? What has she always been raising? And what happens when her daughter decides she’s better off alone? Available today in eBook, paperback and hardcover editions, you can grab your copy here.
We Take Them When You’re Not Looking contains sixteen short stories lurking on the dark periphery of the imagination.
From Polish folklore deities to subterranean Elder Gods… From serial killers hiding in plain sight to a convention of horror authors with something to hide… From the generational trauma of the Second World War to the Devil’s daughter… These are but a taste of the horrors gestating within these pages. Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can pick up your copy here.
Step into a world of fleshly titillation and fresh terror, a dimension of blood and consequence. But buyer beware! Crack the spine and these dark tales are not so easily forgotten. And you may find yourself changing into a beast of insatiable hunger, a tormented sinner, a lunatic on the fringe.
Heed this warning, that what once is read cannot be unread. Turn back now, if you can, or else become one of the … Infernal Tramps! Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee yours here.
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KEV HARRISON