Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Out now from author Graeme Reynolds and Horrific Tales Publishing, By Dawn’s Early Light
Jack Carlton thought he’d left his demons behind. He was wrong.
After crawling out of the bottle, Jack has rebuilt a fragile peace. He’s sober, his private investigator business is ticking over, and he’s working things out with his daughter, Stephanie, in their old family home. But his relentless insomnia and dreamless existence hint that something dark still lingers within him.
When an old police colleague asks for Jack’s help on a chilling case, his carefully reconstructed life begins to unravel. The Witchfinder, the serial killer who drove Jack to leave the force, has returned. This time, the killer’s twisted game feels eerily personal.
As Jack teams up with his former partner to investigate, they uncover disturbing links between the new murders, a missing journalist, and whispers of an ancient, malevolent force operating in the shadows of London. The deeper Jack digs, the more he’s forced to confront the horrors of his past—and the terrifying truth behind his own sleepless nights.
Will Jack have the strength to face the darkness, or will it consume everything he’s fought to save? Available now in eBook, paperback and hardcover editions, you can grab yours here.
Coming 22 September from author Jeneva Rose and Blackstone Publishing, Sometimes I Scare Myself
Three horror stories.
A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop.
You’ll recognize the setup. You won’t recognize what comes next.
Never Kill the Medium – A thirtieth birthday dinner turns deadly after someone hires a medium for a playful séance. When the ritual spirals out of control and the medium dies, the guests cover it up—unaware that leaving the séance unfinished has allowed something dark to cross over.
The Nightmare House – The Dalton family moves into what they believe is their forever home, in the quiet town of Tillington—until the house whispers, the neighbors watch, and no one believes the one person who knows something is wrong. Newly postpartum, Kristin Dalton soon uncovers a horrifying truth: every family who has lived in this house has died or disappeared.
All Curses Are Final – On the way to a remote winter cabin, a group of friends stops at a roadside store with a hand-painted warning: “All items cursed. Curse lifted at time of sale.” They laugh it off—until one of them discovers an item in her bag she never paid for. As the storm traps them inside the cabin and bodies start to pile up, paranoia takes hold and suspicion turns inward. Available for pre-order now in eBook, paperback, hardcover and audiobook editions, you can guarantee your copy here.
Out now from author Stephanie Ellis and Wheelborn, As the Wheel Turns
The Weald is full of strange folk. A rural idyll on the surface, it is home to many a bloody tradition. The novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel, outlined the most horrific of these – or did it?
In these short stories set in that universe, you will find different versions of the Haxey Hood, Plough Monday, the Hobby, and many folk traditions – the thatcher, the blacksmith, the hedgelayer – uniquely their own.
The Wheel never stopped turning. Available now in eBook, paperback and hardcover editions, you can grab your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON
