Your Body is a Fever Dream — Edited by Alex Woodroe (Tenebrous Press)

The spiritual sequel to 2022’s wildly successful and acclaimed YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY is here!

It takes forty trans and gender nonconforming creators to weave a Cosmic Horror anthology Weird enough for the Tenebrous faithful, but you can rest assured this one will take you to galaxies you’ve never imagined. 

Proceeds from YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM will go to the Trans Legal Services Network and Trans Doe Task Force.

Featuring stories by cantholichen x variifolius, Alex Hera, Ariel Marken Jack, Ashe Thurman, Avi Burton, Bitter Karella, Dave V. Riser, Elena Sichrovsky, Emilija Vavic, Esther Alter, Faye Hopper, Lauren Coffin, Gabrielle Bleu, H. Marin, Ri Stypula, Helen Whistberry, Jackie Marley, Jef Rouner, Jordan Kurella, Lyd Low, Xosh M. Belanger, Maxim Volk, Morgan Wodring, Prae Obscura, Theresa Jean Tanenbaum, Wren Hearn, and Ziggy Schutz.

October 6, 2026 • Anthology • Cosmic Horror

The Chain House — J.H. Markert (Crooked Lane Books)

A dangerous cult leader, days away from execution, reveals he is the famous author behind a bestselling series. With his death, the final, unpublished manuscript—and the crucial evidence it contains—will never see the light of day.

Days before his execution, notorious mass murderer Sal Batise, known as the Breaker of Chains by his cult followers, grants an unlikely interview to a young filmmaker, Sam Harper.

This interview could launch Sam’s career. But his carefully planned questions—including the one about the recently kidnapped governor’s wife—fall apart when Batise seizes control. 

On live TV, Batise claims that he is Mallard Malone, the anonymous author of a blockbuster thriller series. Stay his execution, and he’ll release the final unpublished manuscript that holds the key to finding his victims’ bodies.  

Meanwhile, a ransom note arrives with a single demand to save the governor’s wife: Batise’s execution must go on as planned. 

Desperate for more information, Sam teams up with Jennifer Daley, a childhood survivor of Batise’s cult, to locate the missing manuscript and uncover the truth behind their own ties to Batise.

As fiction and reality collide, a deadly chain of events leads to a race against time to stop an execution that could have catastrophic consequences on the world.

October 6, 2026 • Novel • Horror Thriller

Amityville Awakens — Robert P. Ottone (CLASH Books)

Two-Time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Robert P. Ottone brings the terror of Amityville back to life with chilling precision in Amityville Awakens.

The Amityville Horror House is demolished, unleashing terror upon the unsuspecting suburban community of North Amityville and its neighboring Village. With the fabled house gone, the two towns begin experiencing an onslaught of unsettling phenomena.

People go missing. A putrid, almost fungal spore-like mold begins festering across lawns. Shadows move and orbs glitter in the night. An unlikely band of characters comes together to battle a supernatural nightmare that threatens to tear all of Long Island apart.

Ottone’s inspired, fresh take on the most famous haunted house in the world is a sprawling supernatural tale of evil as it often comes: where you live, where you sleep.

October 6, 2026 • Novel • Supernatural Horror

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are — Edited by Kapri Psych (Inked in Gray)

Welcome to Ravenscar!

A small remote settlement where the only road going in is the only way out. There’s not much to the place. Nothing but a few government facilities in decrepit buildings, a diner and cafe filled with nosy glass eyed locals with blank stares, a church surrounded by vacant graves, a nearby cul de sac full of abandoned houses and lingering screams. Oh, pay no mind to the blood splatters nestled in every nook of the only public school. Hm? What about the old plaza full of stores that appear vacant during the day? That isn’t the most unusual thing here. You can’t miss the old library housing lost articles and footage of vanishing tourists in the basement or the strange beach on the edge of the woods or the camp ground where numerous teens have gone missing over the years.

From glamorous haunted lighthouses, life altering slaughterhouses, and lovesick shapeshifting monsters to all consuming sacrificial magic, blood soaked Halloween parties, and the horrors of puberty, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are features spine tingling and entertaining masterpieces crafted by Phylicia Walker, L.C. Star, Darshana Sivabalan, Grace E. Ludlow, Jenna Streety, Dyllon George, E.M. Bancroft, Rien Gray, AJ Jones, DC Guevara, Kirsteen Navarro, Ev Datsyk, Elena Greer, R.A. Hunt Jr., Rory G., C.L. Gaines, Alex Abrahams, Alexandra Deianira, Evanaissante, Alx Chan Yee, I.E. Richards, Mike McClelland, and Emalia Hemme. 

October 6, 2026 • Anthology • Queer Horror

Bruja’s Nest — Brenda LaTorre (Creature Publishing)

The Love Witch meets Monstrilio in Bruja’s Nest, where a young woman’s abuse history and ambition erupt into body horror, class war, and monstrous motherhood.

Raised amidst poverty, alcoholism, and sexual abuse, Yolanda is determined to seize control of her future. When she starts work as an indentured servant on the Fernández De la Rosa estate, she realizes she can secure a place as the lady of the house: with a spell from the local bruja, she can trick their naive son into getting her pregnant.

But the fertility ritual—piercing her flesh, tucking a rooster’s heart inside herself—begets more than she expected. Yolanda’s body swells and seethes with infection, her few allies dwindle, and she delivers a massive egg under the watchful eye of Santa Muerte, the Mexican folk saint of death. The hacienda where she’s been promised a permanent home is full of blasphemies, secrets, and bodies, and the family she’s tied herself to is loyal only to wealth and power.

But Yolanda will do anything to protect her child, who deserves the love and safety she never had. Even if everyone insists he’s a monster.

October 6, 2026 • Novel • Horror Fantasy

Winter’s Teeth — R. A. Betzer (Rowan Prose Publishing)

Rae Bennett, a morally ambiguous college student raised by the local ax throwing gym, is doing her best to assimilate into adulthood after a tumultuous upbringing set her back in every way. Then, Fox Winter crashes into her life on an ice float in the creek. He’s a frozen corpse when she finds him, only to violently wake and take off into the woods before she can figure out what’s really going on.

She finds him again two weeks later when her sister goes missing at the rustic wedding venue run by the Winter family. Dragging Fox back into her life against his will, Rae enlists him to aid in the search for her sister. He has only one rule for their tentative new relationship—don’t go into the woods—which she flouts liberally to get to the bottom of things. With a reluctant Fox in tow, she discovers the darkest parts of the forest full of centuries old legends and dangerous secrets surrounding his family.

In the dead of winter, a twisted tradition unfurls with supernatural shifters and their arranged marriages to kidnapped humans—her sister being one of them. Rae fights to rescue her sister before the tradition is complete, all while warring with a traitorous heart that begins to fall for one of the Winter villains. Somewhere along the way, she starts fighting for more than just her sister, hoping to rescue the man she loves, as well.

But in the end, she may only be able to save one of them.

October 6, 2026 • Novel • Romantic Horror

The Stitch Witches — Krissie K. Williams (Quill & Crow Publishing House)

Thirty years after the Salem Witch Trials, a series of sinister deaths plagues Promise Land, Massachusetts, once a safe haven for Puritans. Frightened for their lives, the villagers assume the grisly murders were done by a madman, but soon fear there is something more devilish at play. What are the secrets buried deep in Promise Land, and why are they unearthing themselves now?

Orphelia Dudley’s family has made their fortune through the slave trade, enjoying religious and social status in Promise Land. As the town embarks upon another witch hunt to find the murderer, Orphelia and Settie, a woman enslaved by her family, become intertwined in a mystery to stop the deaths, mania, and fear gripping their town.

October 6, 2026 • Novel • Historical Horror

Gutterspace — Justine Norton-Kertson (Stars and Sabers)

A washed-up artist in Portland, Oregon faces off against a monster that stalks its prey from between the panels of an old, forgotten comic book.

A failed comic artist discovers a cursed lost issue of a forgotten series, only to find that each panel drags him deeper into a reality-warping nightmare where fiction feeds on fact.

October 13, 2026 • Novella • Cosmic Horror

Of Monsters and Menses — Maisie Culver (Shortwave Publishing)

The debut collection from Maisie Culver, screenwriter of ’80s Satanic Panic TV show HYSTERIA!

Includes an introduction by Jamie Flanagan, screenwriter of Netflix’s Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, and more.

Of Monsters and Menses is a collection of short stories that are comedic, feminist, batsh*t takes on classic horror monsters as told by five women hiding in a bar bathroom from a guy who’s a total creep, or maybe something worse…

October 13, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Horror

The Exodontists — Drew Huff (Nefarious Bat Press)

The Exodontists dream of bleach and teeth…and run a free dental clinic out of the abandoned warehouse they call home.

Red, their patriarch, dreads the day his beloved family will ask him exactly where they came from and how they became family…

In this darkly macabre Halloween horror novel, the Exodontists–a family of tooth-loving immortal monsters–must fight to keep their home after a Halloween store takes over the abandoned warehouse they live in.

Worse, still: The warehouse isn’t only their home. It’s also where they’ve run a free dental clinic for the last few decades, serving the needy and the human town they dwell in.

But sharing the warehouse with the Halloween store culminates in an epic grudge match to the death when the Exodontists unwittingly attract the attention of incel employee Garrett.

And things get violent.

October 13, 2026 • Novel • Horror

Penitents — Madeline Blondeau (Ghoulish Books)

Madeline Blondeau’s PENITENTS, a debut trans tribute to New French Extreme cinema and ’70s grindhouse horror set on the rain-slicked coast of the Pacific Northwest, in which a writer runs afoul of a local violent family while attempting to take some space from her partners, set against a backdrop of desperate hook-ups and polyamorous infidelity, this roaring revenge romp spans the course of one blood-soaked weekend around Astoria, Oregon.

“At its heart, PENITENTS is about the walls we put up between each other, and the violent ways in which they are enforced,” says Blondeau, whose work has appeared on The AV Club and TheGamer, amongst other outlets. “It’s one part gory survival thriller, one part allegory on my hope for a better future—for the most wounded among us. Inspired by classic revenge narratives like I Spit on Your Grave and social horror like Frontier(s), I channeled frustrations, fears and dreams into a non-stop roller coaster with lots of blood and sex.”

October 13, 2026 • Novel • Extreme Horror

The Night Parade and Other Stories — Stephanie Feldman (Fairwood Press)

A teenage girl realizes her lifelong best friends are being seduced by a supernatural force, and must choose between being alone and being ensnared together.

A young woman in a troubled relationship finds herself caught between two versions of the same boyfriend—one volatile, and one too good to be true.

A lonely mother fears her young child’s best friend is a witch.

And, in the titular novella, a new widow must decide how far she’s willing to go to steal her husband back from the dead.

In The Night Parade and Other Stories, Stephanie Feldman revisits the mid-Atlantic’s eerie legends and settings to explore complicated friendships, romantic entanglements, motherhood, and grief with a deft hand, a piercing eye, and a feminist twist.

October 19, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Horror

Mercy House — Adam Cesare (Black Crow Books)

Welcome to Mercy House, a state-of-the-art retirement home that appears perfectly clean and orderly . . . but something is turning the residents into monsters. In this thrilling novel from the author of Clown in a Cornfield, you will find little mercy—only a shocking eruption of unfathomable horror.

Harriet Laurel notices the odor the moment she steps inside Mercy House, brought to the retirement home against her will by her son and his wife. In the early stages of dementia, Harriet has grown to resent her daughter-in-law for not providing grandchildren. Yet as she crosses the threshold, she notices her mind begins to sharpen. Then her hate begins to grow. . . .

Arnold Piper, an eighty-five-year-old ex-Marine, has always prided himself on self-reliance. But betrayed by his own body, he’s learning that surviving war-torn Korea was easier than facing the daily indignities of old age. And his worst trials are still to come.

Sarah Campbell, an idealistic nurse, is already stretched thin at the chronically understaffed Mercy House. Now her duties are about to take a terrifying turn. Can she survive the night. . . and her patients?

October 20, 2026 • Novel • Occult Horror • Reedition, first pub. 2015

Sinner Man Hand: And Other Folk Horrors — Tracy Cross (Dark Matter INK)

A collection of African American horrors about monsters, magic, and demonic entities that begins with the first slave ships and spans centuries.

October 20, 2026 • Short Story Collection • African-American Folk Horror

Tatratea — Alex Woodroe (CLASH Books)

From Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor Alex Woodroe, comes an eco-horror novel of hyperactive flora, ancient manors, and the terrifying wilderness of Transylvania.

Tatratea, a manor home reclaimed by nature deep in the Romanian wilderness, has stood in isolation for decades. Researcher Errata’s sole mission is to track down the strange signals coming from inside and uncover why the whole world’s gone insane.

With the doors locking shut behind her, and the local flora very much determined to keep her from leaving, her sanity check protocols, voice recorder, and a bit of camping gear are all she can use to figure out what’s crashed in the hedge maze, and why it’s disrupting reality. Relying on her intuition, Errata must solve the mystery and escape Tatratea before it’s too late.

With an unsettling and dread-filled atmosphere, Woodroe crafts a novel about a researcher trying to make sense of the unexplainable and survive the deadly manor.

October 20, 2026 • Novel • Eco-Horror

Rise From These Dark Waters — Megan M. Davies-Ostrom (Bad Hand Books)

World War Z meets Game of Thrones in this horror-fantasy epic!

Min, royal daughter of the elven-like Yhathlin, was born to be a diplomat. Representing her nation at the joint American-Canadian embassy in her subterranean city, she was good at walking the tightrope between the edicts of blood and birth-order that governed her people, the bewildering emotions of her human colleagues, and the strict rules of the Yhathlani Treaty. Then her city was overrun by an apocalyptic plague, and her ordered world disappeared in a flood of blood, teeth, and hunger. Now, fifteen years later, Min is a refugee in the dying remnants of Washington, D.C.. Alien and alone, with only the voices of those she’s lost to guide her, she has one reason left to live: to protect Sophie, the last living relative of her human diplomats, or die trying.

RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS is an uplifting, genre-blending tale told in an epistolary, novel-in-short-stories format. It weaves between three interconnected storylines. If you enjoy epic political fantasy and love the found-document style and framing narratives of Max Brooks’ DEVOLUTION, this one is for you.

October 20, 2026 • Epistolary Novel • Horror Fantasy

Ghost Lights — Edited by Mark Morris (Flame Tree Press)

Ghost Lights is the seventh volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris.

This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 15 of which have been commissioned from some of the top names in horror, and 5 selected from the hundreds of stories sent to Flame Tree during a short open submissions window.

A delicious feast of the familiar and the new, the established and the emerging.

Featuring stories by Rachel Harrison, Stephen Volk, Montanna Rayne Harling, Josh Malerman, Mo Perkins, Christa Carmen, Eric LaRocca, Stephen D. Koester, Laura Purcell, Ally Wilkes, David Farrow, Ramsey Campbell, Angela Sylvaine, Sally Hughes, Eliza Clark, Michael Rowe, Carl Tait, Robert Shearman, Keith Rosson, and C.J. Tudor.

October 20, 2026 • Anthology • Horror

The Witching House — John Everson (Flame Tree Press)

Angry and alone, Gianna tests urban legend and writes the name Madelyn in blood on the mirror of the Witching House.

When the ghost actually answers, she gains an unexpected friend. But soon Gianna learns friendship isn’t what the dead girl wants the most. Madelyn wants revenge for her murder.

Can Gianna stop her before half the town is dead?

October 20, 2026 • Novel • Supernatural Horror

Happy Hour — Gemma Amor (Shortwave Publishing)

The 9th book in the Killer VHS Series, hailed as “the modern day Goosebumps for Adults” by Horror Obsessive.

Happy Hour is the latest horror novella from Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author Gemma Amor.

The eccentric owner of a ’90s underground London cocktail bar has a unique and disturbing way of keeping an eye on everything and everyone, then disappearing those who don’t behave. Famous politicians, glamorous actresses, and international stars are all dying to get in… and to get out.

October 20, 2026 • Novella • Slasher Horror

Oubliette — L.V. Russell (Quill & Crow Publishing House)

Sylvatica knows only hardship, solitude, and shame. Born into hunger on a rural farm in Norfolk, 1523, she is the unwanted twin. Ignored by her father, resented by her mother. Affection comes only from the aging housemaid who raises her in scraps of kindness…and later, from the dark-eyed stable boy who watches her too closely. From the shadows, he bears witness to every grotesque act, every simmering cruelty.

Sylvatica’s hands are not clean, and her soul is even less so. So when he offers her a terrible choice, she cannot help but listen. Why suffer hunger when she could become it instead?

Rue knows only bloodshed, longing, and isolation. Born centuries later into ancient wealth on the Cornish coast, Rue grows up in a house steeped in rot and haunted by the dead. Twisted specters trail through the halls, whispering her name, the lords and ladies of high society she has delivered for her mother. For feasting.

With blood beneath her nails, and a soul darkening by the day, Rue begins to wonder if there might be something more to crave than violence and decay. Something better than hunger… Or if perhaps hunger is all she was ever made for.

October 23, 2026 • Novel • Gothic Horror

The Porcelain Sisters — Daryl Gregory (Tachyon Publications)

A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant—and literally porcelain—sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. In his newest adventure, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory (We Are All Completely Fine) delivers a dizzying, darkly funny, and surprisingly poignant romp through the horrors of sisterhood.

Ruth Winslow is trying to save up enough money to finish college while looking after her sister, Isabel—who happens to be a haunted doll. When an accident severely damages Isabel’s porcelain body, the sisters have to find the only woman who can fix her, the fearsome witch known as La Fabricante: the Dollmaker.

The sisters head to Marseille, where they take on Le Clan: Chiffon, a red-headed, unkillable assassin; a collection of angry, haunted dolls; plus a pair of demons—one a cigarette-smoking crow, the other a black cat—and their human familiars.

Along the way, the sisters learn that they’ve been lied to their entire lives. Their mother wasn’t just a homemaker who died in a car accident, she was a legendary enforcer in the Le Clan des Sorcières.

While Ruth has to come out of her shell and deal with her own latent powers, Isabel has to grow up in a body that can’t grow. Together they’ll have to outwit and outfight everyone to claim their birthright.

October 27, 2026 • Novella • Horror Comedy

Going to Summertime — Kaaron Warren (Meerkat Press)

Every suburban street holds secrets and ghosts, but Summerland Place holds more than most.

The team from The Red Mullet Hair Salon head to Summerland Place to explore the abandoned houses there, on a prepaid, enter at own risk, explore every nook and cranny team building exercise. They are welcomed by the charismatic Milton, who runs the tours through the cul-de-sac he grew up in.

They find houses filled with malevolent ghosts and tragic ones, with memories of family trauma and family meals. All come out changed by what they see, and what it triggers in them. Some will be lost in Summertime, a euphoric state of mind.

Georgia, owner of the Salon, thinks she is stronger than any of it. She has no past trauma, no secrets; some would say no heart. She didn’t expect to fall in love. Every instinct tells her not to. And yet she is drawn into the disturbing world of Milton and his mother, as she feels the seductive draw of Summertime ever stronger.

October 27, 2026 • Novella • Paranormal Horror

The World Under: Weird Tales — Steve Rasnic Tem (Lethe Press)

Seventeen stories, including one original, representing a range of weird fiction from the subtle to the darkly surreal.

The stories are from a range of publications including The Dark, Nightmare Magazine, Nightmare Abbey, Supernatural Tales, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Cosmic Horror Monthly.

The final piece is a novella, In The Lovecraft Museum, a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award, and long out of print.

October 2026 • Short Story Collection • Weird Horror

Dive — Allison Mick (Tenebrous Press)

DRINK UP WITH THE DREAMERS, THE DESPERATE, AND THE DAMNED!

Welcome to The Liz: a legendary Oakland punk bar with a fiercely loyal clientele of skull-cracked musicians, aspiring comedians, fans, hangers-on, and vampires. 

Learn its sordid history; set some banks on fire; skirt a little too close to radical new film technology; volunteer for experiments that make you physically crave art—and the people who make it; and hear the joke that kills every cop who hears it (don’t worry, you’ll be fine, we think). 

Author & comedian Allison Mick guides you through interconnected horror stories alternately gross, funny, and heartbreaking, and shows you why every story in The Liz makes a killing.

November 8, 2026 • Short Story Collection • Genre-Blending Horror

Washed Away By the Sea — Shauna C. Highcroft (Quill & Crow Publishing House)

Samantha Passmore’s shadow has followed her, twitching and coiling, for ten years. Ever since she survived an attack by an unspeakable beast in a dark cove on Hoal beach. But that monster was impossible. It couldn’t have been real. It couldn’t have torn her apart and feasted on her insides. So the truth was buried, pushed to the corners of her mind.

A decade on, Sam returns to the village for her grandfather’s funeral. But being so close to the place she shouldn’t have survived jars loose memories she’s desperate to keep lost at sea. As she’s plagued by truths she can’t make sense of, the town mirrors her torment: animals are gored, locals grow strange and obsessive, and there’s something dripping in the water. Something floating in the eyes of the villagers.

Something following Sam.

The only way to escape the unfolding nightmare is to face what really happened on that beach, even if it threatens to drown her.

November 8, 2026 • Novel • Cosmic Horror

Infection Points — Elena Pavlova (Ruadán Books)

Urban predators hibernate between November and March. At least, they used to. 

A mytho-ecologist out of Sofia University, recruited into Urban Predators Without Borders, never imagined being one of the only living inhabitants in Block 10—observing a Bulgarian nest while living in a rundown apartment, tranquilizer gun loaded with silver nitrate by his bed. With a species-collapsing outbreak spreading from nest to nest, any variation in local vampires’ habits is extremely bad news.

Science and politics collide as the symbiotic relationship between predator and prey is forever altered. Between a deadly fungus and a system set on extermination, one burning question emerges. Is this infection just biological—or is it institutional?

In this thrilling novella that’s both outbreak and survival horror, award-winning Bulgarian author Elena Pavlova reimagines humanity’s relationship with vampires, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series and The Strain.

November 10, 2026 • Novella • Survival Horror

Nightjar — Santiago Sánchez-Cordero (Lanternfish Press)

As the climate breaks down across the globe and inexplicable comets appear in the sky, artist Lyra Darkwood chats by hologram every night with her genius older sister, Arda. It’s comforting. Arda is a world-renowned scientist. She’d know if anything were really wrong. Wouldn’t she?

But as time passes, the hologram starts to feel uncanny. Lyra finally comes to a horrifying realization: she’s been talking to a deepfake for seven years.

The ensuing search for the real Arda will take Lyra across oceans and continents and even to the virtual-reality depths of outer space, where she will encounter firsthand the terrible truth that sent her sister into hiding–and embark on a desperate mission to tell humanity of the coming danger.

November 10, 2026 • Novella • Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror

Depth Charge — Tyler Jones (Shortwave Publishing)

Art world darling Julian Le Sang paints with passion, with abandon, and with his own blood. Inside these blood paintings, Julian sees more than art… he sees the future.

From Tyler Jones, author of Burn the Plans (one of Esquire‘s Best Horror Books of 2022), Heavy Oceans, and Midas, comes a new novel in which the future is written in blood.

In fifth grade, Julian is bullied and alienated until Marcy befriends him and learns the strange boy’s dark secret: he sees visions of death in his own blood. Visions that turn out to be eerily accurate.

When Julian becomes a famous artist, he inadvertently pulls Marcy and her son into a world of secret government programs, murder, blood soaked canvas, and a terrifying version of the future that’s barreling toward them with all the force of a nuclear weapon. A horror story about fate and how every choice shapes what will become our world.

November 10, 2026 • Novel • Horror Thriller

Welcome Home, Mariam — Sanchita Mitra (Page Street Horror)

Left with no memory of her disappearance or the events preceding it, Mariam returns to her rural childhood home with her beloved Mother and Father, or at least a couple claiming to be. Once she arrives at their isolated farmhouse, vivid hallucinations start to fill the void left by her total amnesia. Mariam loses hours sleepwalking from one horror to another. Meanwhile, everyone seems eager to welcome Mariam home—from her parents to the neighbors and townspeople who stand on the property line, just watching. They leave flowers and extravagant gifts on the front step. They pry into her family’s affairs, into her rehabilitation. They pretend not to see Mariam deteriorate in front of them.

If this is a haunting, then exhumation will require Mariam to remember who she was before. And once she knocks enough dirt loose, her past self might just claw out of the grave to expose the carnivorous truth underneath the house’s floorboards.

November 10, 2026 • Novel • Gothic Horror

Hatchet Hands Harry: The Revenge — Isaac Nightingale (Mad Axe Media)

1982.

A good year for horror.

When Jenna and her friends planned a scary movie marathon in the run-up to Halloween, the last thing they expected was to bring true terror upon themselves.

Undead, unstoppable, and unleashed from a cursed VHS tape, Hatchet Hands Harry brings murder and mayhem to the quiet town of Shady Oaks.

Marked by the curse, Jenna and her friends need to find a way to survive and kill the monster they let loose.

But how do you kill what’s already dead?

November 10, 2026 • Novel • Supernatural Slasher Horror

Small Bites — Eliane Boey (Space Cowboy Books)

Hammie is a mother who has lost her hunger, and her belief that she is, in fact, totally fine.

Until the day she locks herself in the storeroom with a large spider and learns to recapture what she lost; beginning by breaking down everything that now occupies her space, and feeling her appetite return.

November 11, 2026 • Novella • Horror

Ancestral — Ramsey Campbell (Flame Tree Press)

An electrifying new tale from the master of horror, Ramsey Campbell.

Long ago the Bystone and Stanton families were enemies – nobody remembers why. Lou Stanton and Ray Bystone are married with a young son Tim.

It’s his choice to spend a holiday visiting places the families seem to remember although they’ve never been there: the dauntingly dark Boggart’s Grot, Umbrage Cove where the ocean turns voracious, Fay Woods that birds have good reason to avoid, Stalking Edge where the fog feels as solid as flesh…

If he’s driven by inherited memories, what is he bringing home? If the ancestors who summoned what the sites hid couldn’t control them, can anyone?

November 11, 2026 • Novel • Supernatural Horror Thriller

These Hollow Bodies — Z.K. Abraham (Neon Hemlock)

In Z.K. Abraham’s These Hollow Bodies, a ceramicist in search of true inspiration journeys to a fictional African city where she has a dark yet cosmic experience from which there is no turning back. What has been awakened within her?

Delia is an American ceramicist beginning an artist residency in Azurin, on the edge of the Red Sea. But something about the city thwarts her creativity, and her art stagnates, no matter how she or her cousin tries to make her feel more at home. New friends offer her a chance at excitement, and perhaps with their intimacy, an opportunity to inject meaning into her art as well. 

November 11, 2026 • Novella • Cosmic Horror

Don’t Go For the Vault — Edited by A.C. Bauer (Cat Eye Press)

Banks will be robbed. Vaults will be opened. Horrors will be unleashed.

Join a talented crew of writers as they take on their biggest job yet—orchestrating the ultimate horror heist!

Don’t Go for the Vault is an anthology featuring eleven bank robbery stories, but these aren’t your typical stick-‘em-up schemes. No, these stories are about the terror, the horror, and the mysteries that may be lurking inside a heavily fortified bank vault. Beware carnivorous clients, secretive staff, wrathful witches, and more in the third horror anthology from Cat Eye Press.

Includes stories from Max Booth III, Matthew C. Brown, Lor Gislason, KC Grifant, Michael Knost, Jacy Morris, Stanley Péan, Shantell Powell, Zach Shephard, Christina Wilder, and Dave Zeltserman.

November 17, 2026 • Anthology • Heist Horror

There’s No Such Thing as a School for Witches — Laramie Dean (Timber Ghost Press)

Tom and Maggie were best friends, the only queer outcasts in their tiny town of Burke on the windy plains of Eastern Montana. But now, ten years since Tom’s disappearance one dark October night, he has summoned Maggie back to Burke.

Maggie has finally claimed her trans identity and wants nothing more to do with the homophobic population of the hometown she denies . . . but curiosity draws her back.

Tom has a story to tell. The story of how he became a witch and the terrible things he did to accomplish this feat. At the story’s end, he warns her, he’s going to call in a favor . . . one that will impact all the people of Burke.

But the horror he threatens to unleash may destroy him and Maggie both, body and soul.

November 24, 2026 • Novel • Queer Witchy Horror

Can We Look Directly At It, Just For a Second? — Rain Corbyn (Lethe Press)

When the world is ending, what does it mean to be enough?

In a half-drowned future, transfemme writer Sam retreats to the Catskills to grieve and await the apocalypse—only to be drawn into a violent, surreal struggle for survival. Mutant bees, parasitic ticks, and partiers who won’t stop dancing collide with Sam’s body-horror quest for gender affirmation and meaning.

Cursory jokes and queer-theory spirals mix with blood, sex, and algae, as Sam confronts toxic love, climate collapse, and their own anxious creative drive. Raw, unflinching, and defiantly strange, this short novella evokes Burroughs, Brite, and Felker-Martin—warning us not to wait too long to become ourselves. 

November 2026 • Novella • Queer Horror

Motherfucking Sharks — Brian Allen Carr (CLASH Books)

Motherfucking Sharks answers a question as old as time: what would happen to a struggling ghost town if flying sharks attacked it?

On the eve of a hellacious storm, a stranger comes to town with a warning. He juggles skulls, he is tattooed from head to toe, and he talks of magical, murderous sharks that will destroy the unprepared. Of course, no one listens. What happens next is what happens to all places that ignore outsiders—they are decimated by the unimaginable–motherfucking sharks.

Motherfucking Sharks is a weird western and cult classic from Wonder Award-winning author, Brian Allen Carr. A book that is full of humor, bloodshed, lyrical musings, and a lot of fucking death, it’s Cormac McCarthy on crack.

December 1, 2026 • Novella • Weird Western Horror • Reedition, first pub. 2013

Quincey — Lavie Tidhar (NewCon Press)

If Jason Statham drove a hearse…

Quincey drives a hearse. After all, there’s never a shortage of bodies in Los Angeles. 

When a stranger comes up to him in a bar with a proposition: transport a coffin from L.A. to New York, quickly, Quincey is inclined to say no – too dodgy, too far, too little time.

Then he hears how much money is on offer and soon changes his mind. There’s just one stipulation: Don’t Look Inside the Casket.

Quincey has no idea what he’s letting himself in for.

Ideal for fans of John Wick and the Transporter films: action-packed with a seasoning of vampires. Multiple award-winning author Lavie Tidhar lets rip in this novella – a blood-drenched tale of fun and mayhem.

December 8, 2026 • Novella • Horror

Corpse Girl — Steven Pajak (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Five years ago, Staci Mae Graves died for six minutes after a car crash that killed her three best friends. Now she manages a bookstore in Chicago, medicating away nightmares and avoiding the hometown that haunts her—until her teenage cousin Zoey vanishes in Cairo, Illinois.

Returning means facing the place where her life ended and somehow began again. When Staci investigates the abandoned house where Zoey was last seen, her senses sharpen in ways that defy explanation. A homeless woman offers a strange medallion, claiming Staci’s death-marked soul makes her uniquely equipped to find the missing teenagers. But each step toward the truth awakens abilities that blur the line between gift and curse.

Cairo isn’t just dying like so many small Midwestern towns—it’s being consumed. As reality thins and nightmares take solid form, Staci discovers her accident was orchestrated by something ancient and ravenous. It wants to finish what it started five years ago, and it’s using Zoey as bait. To save her cousin, Staci must embrace powers that nearly destroyed her once before and face a terrible choice: sacrifice the new life she’s built, or lose Zoey to the darkness that’s always been waiting.

December 2026 • Novel • Supernatural Horror