Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Out now from author Sam Drake and Aethon: Wicked House, The Hollow Dead
The last thing anxious teenager Katie Fielding needs is more problems. As if her only friend Becky Summers moving away wasn’t enough, now she’s suspended from school for a fight she didn’t even start.
While waiting for Becky near a lake in the woods, Katie sees an eerie green light over the water and hears cries for help.
But on her way to help, she is suddenly dragged beneath the surface.
Katie emerges in a nightmarish forest obscured by fog. The trees all bear human features and are stalked by pale, faceless monsters. Desperate for a way home, she forms an alliance with an ancient, deformed creature who warns her that things worse than the dead will be drawn to her soul. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Out now from author and poet Jamal Hodge and Crystal Lake Publishing, I’m Not a Good Person, I’m a New Yorker
From Bram Stoker and Elgin Award winner Jamal Hodge, I’m Not A Good Person, I’m A New Yorker is an exploration of New York’s many paths, a poetry mixtape about race, class, love, loss, and survival that uses a Black man’s lived experience to reveal the cultural architecture of the world‘s greatest city.
This collection channels the spirits of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and other poets of the Harlem Renaissance as it walks the long blocks between beauty and brutality, all beneath the bright lights of the city’s tender grotesqueries, its savage and wondrous togetherness. Available now in eBook, paperback and hardcover editions, you can pick up yours here.
New from author Tracy Fahey and Black Shuck Books, Down We Go Together
Crime casts gothic shadows: obsessed with the past, loss, transgressions, guilt, and regret. In this short collection, Tracy Fahey explores the liminal and uncanny nature of crime, and its effects on the people at the heart of it. Featuring nine short stories, Down We Go Together is volume number forty-two in the Black Shuck Shadows series, by one of the very best voices in modern horror.
Available now in paperback, you can grab your copy here.
Available for pre-order now from author Austin Shirey and Madness Heart Press, Pallbearers
It’s August 2009, and twenty-somethings Darrell Sanchez, his brother Cash, and Riley Weisman are all set to go on a summer road trip with their best friend, Tad Cooper, when Tad unexpectedly dies, leaving the three friends devastated and adrift.
But when Cash presents Darrell and Riley with evidence of a secret government program that can resurrect the dead, they decide to dig up Tad’s freshly buried body and set out for the
haunted desert of Nevada on an absurd cross-country quest to bring their best friend back to life.
Along the way, Darrell, Cash, and Riley will learn to grieve together as they risk their lives for their fallen friend, even as they are pursued by an otherworldly menace intent on stopping them. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, direct from the publisher, you can guarantee your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON
