Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Available now from editor Joe Mynhardt and Crystal Lake Publishing, Hotel Macabre Vol 2
Welcome back to the Hotel Macabre—where nightmares check in, but they never check out.
Step inside for another unforgettable stay in Hotel Macabre Vol. 2, a groundbreaking horror anthology where short stories, novellas, poetry, flash fiction, a dramatic reading, and even comics collide to create a dark literary experience like no other.
Featuring some of horror’s most celebrated voices—Graham Masterton, Nick Roberts, Ramsey Campbell, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jasper Bark, John Durgin, Viggy Parr Hampton, Gage Greenwood, Kyle Toucher, Tom Deady, Robert Ford, Alison Littlewood, John Ward, Jamal Hodge, Leigh Kenny, Jay Bechtol, Karolina Mogielska, Jonathan Gensler, S. C. Fisher, Larry Hinkle, Ben Eads, Matthew Mercier, and Mike Deady—this collection blurs the boundaries between traditional and experimental horror. Includes an introduction by the Bram Stoker Award-winning editor/publisher Joe Mynhardt. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
Arriving 6 March from editors John Ward and Kacey Flynn and Arbutus Studios, Consumed: a horror and dark fiction anthology
Consumed is Arbutus Studios’ first horror & dark fiction anthology, featuring 28 macabre tales on the theme of food and drink.
One deliciously deadly dessert. A family Christmas interrupted by a game of trick-or-treat. A sentient barrel that knows the taste of human flesh. These are just a few of the macabre tales in Consumed, a food-themed horror anthology.
The stories in Consumed explore themes of consumption, bodily autonomy, and the monstrous by putting a unique spin on the familiar and essential act of eating. These spine-tingling tales introduce you to werewolves, mystery meat, murderers, cannibals, monstrous entities, and even lawyers! Consumed is an imaginative anthology of gruesome stories that celebrate food, drink, life, and death. Available for pre-order now in eBook, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee your copy here.
New from author India-Rose Bower and Michael Joseph, We Call Them Witches
Sara and her family must keep moving. Every few months, they’re discovered, and they have to pack up and get out quick.
For the twins it’s all they’ve ever known, for Danny, Noah and Ma, it’s a reminder of all they’ve lost. For Sara, it’s just another day.
In yet another abandoned house, one they surround with Pagan wards – the only thing that protects them – Sara and her family think they might be safe, for a while at least. And then they find a strange girl in the garden.
Parsley can’t remember where she came from or how she got here. The family sees only a threat, but Sara sees hope.
But outside they are waiting. The eldritch creatures. The ones they call Witches. The ones who already stole everything. And now, just days after the Parsley arrives, they steal something even more valuable: Noah.
It’s time to stop running. It’s time to leave the safety of the wards, and try to find Noah in the witches’ lair. It’s just that no-one has ever done that and come out alive … Available now in eBook, paperback, hardcover and audiobook formats, you can pick up your copy here.
Coming 17 March from writer Annie Neugebauer and Bad Hand Books, You Have To Let Them Bleed
The collector hunts the darkness for terrible beauty: macabre and marvelous stories worth displaying in their shadow boxes. Tour these horrors with them, but beware: if you’re not careful, you might find yourself lost in a labyrinth of fear.
A pickup artist is after your skin. A junk drawer opens into the abyss. The twin sons of an ill-fated magician plot against their abusive mother. A man wastes his life dreading an unseen entity. A senior water aerobics class takes a turn for the bizarre…
You Have to Let Them Bleed brings together the best horror fiction by two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and nationally award-winning poet Annie Neugebauer. Together with eight new poems, this nineteen-story collection will draw you into the lovely darkness, lure you deeper into the heartbreaking and gruesome, and leave behind its own collection of horrors to fill the shadows of your mind. Available for pre-order now in paperback, with other editions to follow, you can guarantee yours here.
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KEV HARRISON
