Cynthia 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 MoreThis book is about our expectations, the lies we tell ourselves and others, and how we covet. Early in the book, Hand tells us that Hill House plays with people’s expectations. As readers, we always go in with at least some expectations for what’s to come, and often times we are let down, or even manipulated. Perhaps both. Hill House manipulates, too. It takes our characters’ insecurities, fears, and anxieties, then twists them into reality. Likewise, the book so manipulates our assumptions as readers, dredging up a sense of unease that deepens into captivation.
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