Stephen Graham Jones’s heart wrenching novel The Only Good Indians follows a group of Blackfeet friends, haunted by a past elk hunting trip. Jones’s horror story rips at your soul, reminding us that mistakes can be deadly and that our forebears’ mistakes return to us. And an animal’s bloodthirsty vengeance— a mother animal’s bloodthirsty vengeance— is a different beast than a human’s.
Read MoreCynthia Pelayo’s collection of 54 bite-sized horror stories— one for every card in the Loteria deck— make terrifying different Latin American beliefs, cultures, folklore, history, and fears.
Read MoreLeopoldo Gout’s 2023 horror novel Piñata is a jaw-dropping contribution to the exorcism story sub-genre, playing with tropes we know and bringing in new scares that distinguish it among its counterparts. It’s about cursed artifacts, colonization, ancestral interconnectedness across time and space, rage, femicide, and sisterhood.
Read MoreFrom Josh Malerman, the author of Bird Box, comes a collection of five spellbinding novellas called Spin a Black Yarn.
Read MoreAcclaimed author Catriona Ward’s most recent novel, Looking Glass Sound, is about murder, the deception, thievery, and magic in the art of writing, witchcraft, the horror of the ocean, and the bonds of friendship.
Read MoreDaniel Kraus’s 2023 novel Whalefall is a survival story with a lot to say about grief that will have you both mesmerized and in tears.
Read MorePart mystery part horror, The Paleontologist is a fast-paced, thought-provoking story about chasing the truth, the expansiveness of geologic time, and the ripples of violence through the eras.
Read MoreTananarive Due’s most recent novel, The Reformatory, is a beyond-horrifying, semi-fictional story about a young man’s torturous imprisonment in the evil Gracetown School for Boys— nicknamed the Reformatory— and his family’s daring efforts in the face of Jim Crow era Florida to free him.
Read MoreChuck Tingle’s Camp Damascus is a thrilling coming-of-age horror story set in rural Montana in a deeply religious community called Kingdom of Pine, which owns and operates the most successful gay conversion camp in the country, Camp Damascus.
Read MoreSilvia Moreno-Garcia’s most recent novel, Silver Nitrate, is about the film industry (a little inside baseball at times), creepy curses & cults, and Mexico City.
Read MoreDivisive and provocative, Tell Me I’m Worthless is Alison Rumfitt’s debut novel about a fascist haunted house terrorizing Alice, a trans sex worker, Ila, an infamous TERF, and Hannah, the third wheel to Alice and Ila’s fucked up dynamic.
Read MoreA Haunting on the Hill is a 2023 sequel to Shirley Jackson’s 1959 classic The Haunting of Hill House, but it is not written by Jackson. Both a disturbing and humorous voice, author Elizabeth Hand introduces us to a totally new cast of characters: a group of friends taking a residency at Hill House to rehearse a play called “Witching Night.” (Unlike the original, Hand’s book includes witches. A very fun addition.)
Read MoreWhat would happen if, suddenly, a large swath of the population saw something that wasn’t there, something that makes them afraid enough to turn to violence deemed necessary?
Read MoreIf you’re looking for a good haunted house story but in a setting that’s not an old, abandoned, Victorian mansion, check out Horrorstor.
Read MoreThis book reminds you why you may have disliked adults as a child.
Read MoreJackson has the uncanny ability to plant horrifying images in your head.
Read MoreRead along as we explore Appalachia and magical realism through two Kentucky texts: the novel, A Woman in Time and the videogame, Kentucky Route Zero.
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