Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Five friends arrive in Bläckwood for a weekend to disconnect from modern life. Campfires. Beer. Old friends. One last chance to escape the demands waiting beyond the forest.
Instead, they cross into a place older than memory.
Something ancient lives beneath the pines…not a monster, but a judgment. A presence that measures every lie, every betrayal, and every debt carried into its woods. The forest keeps its own accounts.
As ancient forces stir and the Butcher begins its work, the group discovers that Bläckwood isn’t haunted. It’s a court.
Here, innocence offers no protection. Ancient law outweighs human law. Every path leads to a verdict, and survival depends not on innocence, but on what the forest says you owe. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, you can guarantee your copy here.
There are places into which darkness won’t follow you. Places where something worse is already waiting.
Still running, Travis and Leslie take shelter in a crumbling mansion deep in the woods. A place their pursuers won’t approach, which should be reassuring but isn’t.
The house has its own agenda. Its doors don’t open the way they came in. Its walls hold visions of the past that don’t stay past. And somewhere in its rooms, a journal describes a dinner party that ended in a way nobody wrote down.
The King in Yellow is patient. He has been patient for a very long time.
Travis Daniels has survived a cult, a wilderness, and his own unraveling sense of reality. Condemned in Carcosa asks the question none of the previous cases did. What if there’s no getting out of this one? Available now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can grab your copy here.
The Need is a rare genetic disorder. Those who have it must consume human flesh or die. For some, The Need is power. For others, it is a curse.
Talia has been on the run with her two teenagers since the kids were babies, changing names and identities every time someone gets close to discovering her familyʼs tragic secret. Sam is her son, tormented by The Need, unable to stop giving in to his darkest desires, much to his mother’s chagrin. Rosie, his twin sister, whoʼs escaped her mom’s and brotherʼs genetic curse, is desperate for a life of normalcy—like a TikTok account, Homecoming, or a kiss with her mysterious new friend Naomi. But her brother keeps eating people and, frankly, itʼs ruining her life.
Vera, a former supermodel and member of New York City’s elite Armstrong family, lives a life of luxury, haute couture, and eating people. Yes, unlike Talia, the Armstrongs secretly pride themselves on their genetic abnormality. But beneath Veraʼs opulent lifestyle is a woman whoʼs ruthlessly haunted by a mistake from her past. It has corrupted her standing with the Armstrongs, ruined her relationship with her kids, and is slowly unraveling her sanity. Vera will do whatever it takes to correct it.
On the surface, these two families have nothing in common. But Talia is harboring a secret from the twins—one that will bring them crashing into the Armstrongs. And when the truth comes out, no one will ever be the same. Available for pre-order now in eBook, audiobook and hardcover editions, you can guarantee yours here.
A descendant of both African slaves and Celtic Warriors, Quincey Morris was marked at birth as belonging to both the world of men and the realm of spirits. Raised on the brutal Texas frontier, and trained in the ancient ways of magic by his Apache shaman godmother, he is the heir of many bloodlines. Now he travels the world with a Colt “Peacemaker” on his hip and a fated Bowie knife on his belt, destined to hunt the nameless evils that dwell in the dark.
When Quincey’s path takes him to Victorian London, he is asked to join a desperate hunt for the greatest evil he has ever known: Count Dracula. Though his aristocratic companions may view his mixed heritage as a weakness, only Quincey possesses the spiritual sight to see the vampire for what he truly is—not just a beast, but a formidable conqueror who has survived for centuries.
Amidst doubt and danger, Quincey finds an unexpected soulmate in Mina Harker, a woman of fierce intelligence and a spirit that refuses to be tamed. Though she is married, they are soon bound by a love that defies the rules of Victorian society. When Dracula attacks Mina, Quincey must lead the vampire hunters through Europe in a race against time to save the love of his life from eternal night. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON