Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
A fallen society where the elite reclaim their youth by feasting upon eyeballs. A pair of glasses that allow a grieving grandfather to explore ‘what if?’ A haunted house in which the ghosts crave ‘the blind spots’. A night shift nurse who discovers what the wicked see in their final hours. A social media influencer who longs to be ‘seen’. And many more unique, often dark, and sometimes terrifying tales, that explore exactly what the word ‘vision’ means to us all.
All proceeds from Seen: A Charity Anthology will benefit The World Blind Union in their mission to empower and advocate for the rights of blind and visually impaired persons across the globe. Seen: A Charity Anthology is an actively inclusive project, which proudly features work from a number of celebrated authors such as Catherine Mccarthy, Nikki Kossaris, Spencer Hamilton, and Stanley Pean. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
When River St. Vincent’s younger sister vanishes on vacation in Thailand, River refuses to wait for answers. Then the news breaks: young women turning up dead, their faces sliced clean of skin. River flies into Southeast Asia to find her sister before she becomes the next headline.
What she doesn’t know is that the woman behind it all is the last person anyone would suspect.
Victoria Park was named the most beautiful woman on earth. She runs a string of exclusive modeling agencies, and beneath the glamour, she’s something far more dangerous—a psychopath who curates her victims with surgical precision. Her partner, a narcissistic cosmetic surgeon, peels the skin from beautiful young faces and grafts it onto his wealthiest clients. Beauty, made to order. Youth, harvested and resold.
When River learns her sister is next in line as a donor, the countdown becomes personal. She must outrun Victoria’s machine of vanity and violence before her sister’s face, and both their lives, are taken for good. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, you can guarantee your copy here.
Robert Bloch (1917–1994) will forever be remembered as the author of Psycho—the novel that inspired one of the most influential horror films of the twentieth century—but his legacy extends far beyond that singular work. A master of imagination and craft, Bloch was one of the century’s most versatile and groundbreaking literary voices, admired for his wit, warmth, and innovation. His influence can be traced through the works of Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, Arthur C. Clarke, and many others.
Spanning six decades, from the depths of the Great Depression to the dawn of the digital age, Bloch’s career produced an astonishing range of work: hundreds of short stories, novels, teleplays, screenplays, and essays across genres as varied as horror, mystery, crime, thriller, and science fiction. His versatility positioned him as a central figure in shaping modern popular fiction. To understand the arc of American genre writing in the twentieth century, one must understand Robert Bloch.
Psycho Century: Robert Bloch, American Horror Master is the first full literary biography of this immensely influential author. It situates Bloch within the larger landscape of twentieth-century horror and suspense while tracing how he continually reinvented his stories for new audiences in television and film. Through these transformations, the book reveals Bloch’s evolving literary sensibilities—ones that both reflected and shaped the shifting tastes of his era. At once a biography and a cultural history, the volume offers a vivid portrait of a writer whose work defined and redefined American genre fiction. Available now in eBook, hardcover and paperback editions, you can pick up yours here.
Feiyu “Theo” Smith doesn’t remember murdering four people. The evidence collected by the DNA-processing drone says otherwise. Now he’s languishing in San Quentin with no contact from family or his former fiancé for three long years.
It’s 2044 and in the dystopian reality of New California Republic, condemned inmates can volunteer for experimental drug testing to avoid lethal injection.
Researchers claim the revolutionary therapy known as the Isochron Treatment will rewrite the man’s immune response. But the vivid, horrific nightmares he experiences while under the drug’s effects lead him to suspect it may be rewriting his past, forcing him to remember things he does not wish to remember. It’s either that, or he’s going insane. Or maybe, just maybe, the drug’s main side-effect is not nightmares, but time travel.
Is there a chance he could prove his innocence by going straight to the scene of the crime? Available today in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON