All the New Horror Books Coming in February 2024

February’s new horror books include a body-swap YA thriller, home-invasion horrors, a shopping mall horror anthology, a novella about connection in a world where eye contact makes you homicidal, something in the permafrost, and much, much more.

These monthly lists are derived from my annual masterlist, but I’ve gotten a good amount of feedback saying the smaller lists are helpful reminders and easier to digest–they can all be found here. And as always, you can view the full 2024 list right here. Want an email every time I publish one of these lists? Subscribe here!

February 2024’s new horror books:

• Almost Surely Dead, Amina Akhtar (Feb 1, Mindy’s Book Studio): A psychological thriller with a twist, Almost Surely Dead is a chilling account of how one woman’s life spins out of control after a terrifying–and seemingly random–attempt on her life.
• We Ate the Dark, Mallory Pearson (Feb 1, 47North): Four women investigating the haunting murder of their friend discover more than they ever imagined in a terrifying novel about good and evil, love and death, and the spaces between.
• Below, Stuart Lee (Feb 2, Austin Macauley): Drawing inspiration from a chilling, real-life enigma of an airline crash in the Gulf of Mexico, this thriller plunges deep into the heart of the southern U.S. What dark secrets did the passenger on the ill-fated flight harbor, and what unspeakable terror was he transporting? Dive into a tale where every twist beckons a haunting question, pulling you deeper into the mystery.
• A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s, Scott Drebit (Feb 2, McFarland & Company): Horror films have been around for more than 100 years, and they continue to make a large impact on popular culture as they reflect their contemporary zeitgeist. Between the mid-1950s and mid-1980s, drive-in theaters were at their peak of popularity, and each decade brought forward new challenges and themes. This book explores 60 B horror films, divided into 12 fun and uniquely-themed categories. Chapters discuss how the Atomic Age, the Vietnam War, the women’s liberation movement and other current events and social issues affected these films. Films covered include Willard, The Fly, Santa Sangre and many more.
• Very Dark Thoughts, Kyle Harrison (Feb 2, Velox Books): Step into the shadowy corridors of NoSleep sensation Kyle Harrison’s Very Dark Thoughts. A scientist analyzes audio from Mars that reveals mysterious screams. A young man takes a haunted plane flight. An unsettling life-sized doll hides a sinister secret. A man races against time to solve a series of twisted puzzles in a sadistic escape room. An arctic excavation unleashes an attack from an alternate dimension. A man seeks a supernatural wandering campfire in the woods. The tales in this collection serve as grim reminders that often the most terrifying horrors aren’t waiting in the shadows but lurking within our own minds.
• Turn Up the Sun, Tyler Jones (Feb 5, Dark Room Press): Three brand new novellas from Tyler Jones, author of Midas, Heavy Oceans, Almost Ruth, Criterium, and Burn the Plans (one of Esquire’s “Best Horror Books of 2022”). In Turn Up the Sun, Hazard, the eccentric drug dealer from Criterium, is horrified to discover he has a doppelganger who appears at the scene of a grisly murder. In Stridor, a pediatrician is not only haunted by her mistakes, but stalked by them. In Sidewinder, a young musician receives a custom, otherworldly guitar pedal.
• Dinner on Monster Island, Tania De Rozario (Feb 6, Harper Perennial): In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different.
• The Holy Terrors, Simon R. Green (Feb 6, Severn House): Six people locked in a haunted hall. Cameras watching their every move. And then someone dies . . . This first in a spine-tingling new paranormal mystery series from New York Times bestselling British fantasy author Simon R. Green will make you doubt your judgement – and believe in ghosts!
• Mantis, Erica Summers (Feb 6, Rusty Ogre): From the demented author of Vanity Kills & Bad God’s Tower comes a profane, blood-soaked, laugh-out-loud novel full of guts, gore, and good times. A religious, comedic-horror blend of Dogma and From Dusk Til Dawn recommended for fans of Chuck Wendig and Christopher Moore.
• Nightwatching, Tracy Sierra (Feb 6, Pamela Dorman Books): A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder.
• Out of Body, Nia Davenport (Feb 6, Balzer & Bray): A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of friendship and identity, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson.
• The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster, John O’Connor (Feb 6, SourceBooks): From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe? Perfect for readers of Bill Bryson and Douglas Preston and with sharp wit and an adventurous spirit, this heartfelt exploration of a cornerstone of American folklore unpacks why we believe in the things that we do, and what that says about us.
• Your Shadow Half Remains, Sunny Moraine (Feb 6, Nightfire): The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine’s Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley’s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. Somehow, in this world where other people can mean a gruesome, bloody death, Ellis makes her feel safe. As they grow closer, Riley’s grip on reality begins to slip and she can no longer fight her deepest desires. All Riley wants to do is look.
• Those Who Live in Darkness Volume 1, Dan Shrader (Feb 8): These six bone-chilling stories delve into darkness, catering to macabre enthusiasts and those in search of pleasures not of this world. These tales will captivate and thrill while offering a glimpse into the eerie and mysterious. Towers Valley, the darkest of towns, surrounded by the Robin Hood Hills, is home to some of the most chilling and perplexing horrors throughout history. Prepare to unleash chaos in this nightmarish realm, a true embodiment of Hell on earth. This is a repository of dark secrets where the living endures endless torment and the dead flourish.
• Cymbals Eat Guitars, Josh Hanson (Feb 10, Black Hare Press): Three friends take their punk trio into a remote mountain town for an unplanned stop on their Farewell Tour. When the show is interrupted by a catastrophic train derailment, the little resort town is transformed into a landscape of terror, and the three friends must fight for survival against a populace turned suddenly monstrous. But there is more than the infected to worry about, as one of the three carries a dark secret that will test the group’s love, loyalty… and very survival.
• Widow of the Blood, Rebecca Henely-Weiss (Feb 11): Aster, once one of nine brides of a master vampire, now finds herself aimless and destitute after his death. Through an app for vampires and their willing prey, Aster agrees to meet a cool, mysterious woman at her childhood mall for a date, but they both may have more than blood (and sex) on their minds…
• Records of the Hightower Massacre, L. Andrew Cooper & Maeva Wunn (Feb 12): HC3, the Hightower Course Correction Center, “recruits” LGBTQ+ people to participate in a program that will help them get the jobs they need to survive in the dystopic conditions of AMCONS City, center of a post-American territory run by a fascistic military. All they have to do is adopt cisgender, heterosexual identities. Ash, who is black, non-binary, and asexual, meets Aubrey, a white, trans, gay man, at a job fair where they face rejection after rejection… until they get recruited. They wind up in a converted slaughterhouse where the people in charge use brutal conditioning methods as well as the ghastliest forms of torture and murder imaginable to “help” newly recruited prisoners. While the terrors are intense, characters propel the story: Ash and Aubrey form a core of friends within the program who resist and, eventually, learn to fight back.
• Among the Living, Tim Lebbon (Feb 13, Titan): From the New York Times bestseller and author of Netflix’s The Silence comes a terrifying horror novel set in a melting Arctic landscape. Something deadly has lain dormant for thousands of years, but now the permafrost is giving up its secrets…
• The Bedmakers, Chad Lutzke & John Boden (Feb 13, Crystal Lake): After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in search of work out west. But before their last stop, a traumatic event in an empty train car steers their once-hopeful journey into a path of chaos filled with deceit, murder, grave robbing, and dormant secrets.
• The Book of Love, Kelly Link (Feb 13, Random House): In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
• The Briar Book of the Dead, A.G. Slatter (Feb 13, Titan): Set in the same universe as the acclaimed All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns (one of Oprah Daily’s Top 25 Fantasy Novels of 2022), this beautifully told Gothic fairy tale of ghosts, witches, deadly secrets and past sins, will be perfect for fans of Hannah Whitten and Ava Reid.
• Deprivation, Roy Freirich (Feb 13, Meerkat Press): On a razor’s edge between speculation and reality, Freirich’s psychological horror Deprivation tracks the spread of the next epidemic–insomnia. Over a week, as sleeplessness engulfs a New England summer resort island, the hapless Chief of Police struggles to keep order, a blurry doctor searches for the cause and the cure, and a teenage girl competes with her friends in an online game: who can stay awake the longest? Impaired judgment spirals into delusions, the island is cut-off, and hysteria descends into mob rule and murder.
• An Education in Malice, S. T. Gibson (Feb 13, Orbit): Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood.
• Here Comes the Sun, Justin M. Woodward (Feb 13, Death’s Head Press): There had been talk of monsters around the small, quiet town of Fort Whipple for some time before the evening of the brutal massacre. First it was the livestock. Dead, shriveled bodies lined the fields, drained of their blood. But when human bodies begin falling from the sky, a dark protector of sorts is dispatched to minimize the casualties.
• The Hollow Dead, Darcy Coates (Feb 13, Poisoned Pen Press): When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she’d done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men work for Artec, an organization profiting off spectral energy produced by hundreds of chained, tormented souls. Their goal is to spread their macabre cemeteries across the world, using the agony of the dead to extend their power and reach-and only Keira and her loyal group of friends can stop them. But there are still mysteries to uncover in Keira’s foggy memories, and as she prepares to fight for the souls of the tormented dead, what she doesn’t know about her own past may come back to haunt her.
• I Can See Your Lies, Izzy Lee (Feb 13, Dark Hart Books): Fin’s reality is crumbling. Her husband has abandoned her, she’s now a single mom to a nine-year-old daughter, her Los Angeles home is sweltering, and she’s being haunted by disturbing hallucinations that make life a waking nightmare. Are the visions a product of stress, trauma, psychosis, or something else? The answers to those questions become more clear when Fin starts digging up dark secrets connected to her mother’s cold-case disappearance, a once-rising actress who mysteriously vanished in 1979. Will Fin slowly unravel the truth? Or will it remain hidden forever beneath the glitz and glamour of illusion?
• No Transfer, Stephen Walton (Feb 13, Valancourt): At the ultra-prestigious Modern University, only the cream of the crop are accepted, and those who graduate are virtually guaranteed powerful and high-paid positions.  Drinking and sex are allowed, and even encouraged, and everything students need — from classrooms to restaurants to shopping and bars — is self-contained inside the university’s 50-story high-rise tower.  But there’s a catch.  Once you start, you can’t drop out or transfer to another school.  And behind its glossy exterior, the university has a terrible secret, a macabre and horrible way of ensuring its students perform to the best of their ability.  When one young student, Gary Fort, witnesses the unspeakable truth of the school’s “Self-Discipline Plan,” he decides to fight back, and the suspense builds until the book’s chilling conclusion . . .
• Projections, S.E. Porter (Feb 13, Tor): Love may last a lifetime, but in this dark historical fantasy, the bitterness of rejection endures for centuries.As a young woman seeks vengeance on the obsessed sorcerer who murdered her because he could not have her, her murderer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied–or suffer mortal consequence. A lush, gothic journey across worlds full of strange characters and even stranger magic.Sarah Porter’s adult debut explores misogyny and the soul-corrupting power of unrequited love through an enchanted lens of violence and revenge.
• Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall, Catherine Cavendish (Feb 13, Flame Tree): When Grace first sets eyes on the imposing Gothic Mordenhyrst Hall, she is struck with an overwhelming sense that something doesn’t want her there. Her fiancé’s sister heads a coterie of Bright Young Things whose frivolous lives hide a sinister intent. Simon, Grace’s fiancé, is not the man she fell in love with, and the local villagers eye her with suspicion that borders on malevolence. Her friend, Coralie, possesses the ability to communicate with powerful spirits. She convinces Grace of her own paranormal gifts – gifts Grace will need to draw deeply on as the secrets of Mordenhyrst Hall begin to unravel.
• The Warm Hands of Ghosts, Katherine Arden (Feb 13, Del Rey): During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
• What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher (Feb 13, Nightfire): Retired soldier Alex Easton returns in a horrifying new adventure in this follow-up to Kingfisher’s bestselling novella What Moves the Dead.
• In the Valley of the Headless Men, L.P. Hernandez (Feb 14, Cemetery Gates): Nahanni National Park is one of last truly wild places on earth. Accessible only by plane, and only when the weather cooperates, it’s the perfect place for estranged brothers Joseph and Oscar to have an adventure following the death of their mother. Gillian, Joseph’s first love, invites herself along in the spirit of friendship. The park is much more than beautiful. It’s mysterious, with legends of giants and hidden, prehistoric animals. And among its few visitors, an outsized number of violent deaths inspire its second, more seductive name. While dreaming of the future, the group finds themselves confronted by the past. Far from home and far from help. In the Valley of the Headless Men.
• Next of Kin, Elton Skelter (Feb 14, Lethe Press): Even the worst of us need someone to come home to. And Jacob Mallory is the worst of all. Jake, a thrill-seeking psychopathic serial killer, has lived under the radar for years, operating within the city of New York, making kill after kill and emboldened by his lack of capture. But Jake has one big surprise coming his way. When he gets a call from the hospital to pick up a vulnerable patient, one who claims that Jake is his emergency contact, he feels like he’s won the lottery. But is there more to Nathan McGuire than meets the eye? And will this supposedly vulnerable young man make or break the city’s most notorious uncaught killer? 
• Pyramidia, Stephanie Sanders-Jacob (Feb 15, Slashic Horror Press): Harriet hates pyramid schemes—they’re predatory and destroy relationships. So she’s horrified when she moves to a town overrun with them. It doesn’t help that her rental is haunted, her friend has gone missing, and she’s gotten wrapped up in a multi-level marketing scam that may be run by literal vampires. With the help of an oafish gym teacher and the woman she loves, Harriet is forced to scale the pyramid, wooden stake in hand.
• These Things Linger, Dan Franklin (Feb 15, Cemetery Dance): From the author of the acclaimed The Eater of Gods, These Things Linger is a twisting and unforgiving novel of desperation, depression, heritage, and of other hungry, vicious things. 
• Question Not My Salt, Amanda M. Blake (Feb 16, Crystal Lake): Sierra’s first American Thanksgiving promises to be unforgettable when her college roommate, Zoe, invites her to the Samuels family feast. But as the ten-hour banquet unfolds, it becomes clear this is no ordinary holiday gathering. With everyone bound by a chilling rule—eat and drink exactly as served, and enjoy it, or face dire consequences—the traditional celebration quickly takes a dark and macabre turn. Will Sierra survive the Samuels’ sinister hospitality or become part of a feast far more horrifying than she could have ever imagined?
• The Bad Ones, Melissa Albert (Feb 20, Flatiron): New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history. An arresting, crossover horror fantasy threaded with dark magic, The Bad Ones is a poison-pen love letter to semi-toxic best friendship, the occult power of childhood play and artistic creation, and the razor-thin line between make-believe and belief.
• Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors (Feb 20, From Beyond Press): Your favorite suburban hangout has transformed into a site of unimaginable terror in Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors. Killer escalators, murderous mall-walkers, suburban cannibals, and more inhabit this new collection of horror and dark sci-fi stories about one-stop shopping gone wrong. Featuring stories by Connor Boyle, Liam Burke, Pines Callahan, Anjum N. Choudhury, Wendy Dalrymple, Cassandra Daucus, Jude Deluca, Coyote Dembicki, Derek Des Anges, Cyrus Amelia Fisher, Lor Gislason, Eirik Gumeny, Ria Hill, Rick Hollon, Somto Ihezue, Wan Phing Lim, Angela Liu, Avra Margariti, J.A.W. McCarthy, Bram Stoker Award winner Christi Nogle, Jennifer Lee Rossman, and J.R. Santos.
• Island Witch, Amanda Jayatissa (Feb 20, Berkley): Inspired by Sri Lankan folklore, award-winning author Amanda Jayatissa turns her feverish, Gothic-tinged talents to late nineteenth-century Sri Lanka where the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village.
• Lies That Bind, April Yates & Rae Knowles (Feb 20, Brigids Gate): Lorelei Keyes and Adele Hughes are content, if not entirely happy, running a sham seance business in the English tourist town of Matlock Bath. Lorelei’s business savvy and Adele’s gift for mimicry provide for their needs, but the customers are not the only ones deceived. When a mysterious newcomer, Viola, uncovers a secret, .the couple finds their quiet life upended. Viola pulls them onto a transatlantic crossing bound for Adele’s homeland of New York, and the turbulent seas without are nothing compared to the treachery within. Lorelei and Adele face the end of their romance for certain, and may stand to lose much more than that if they cannot discern Viola’s true intentions and rediscover what drew them to one another in the first place.
• My Throat an Open Grave, Tori Bovalino (Feb 20, Page Street): Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away to the Lord of the Wood.
• Webster, Amanda Desiree (Feb 20, InkShares): In the summer of 1974, in a derelict Rhode Island mansion called Trevor Hall, a team of scientists taught American Sign Language to a chimpanzee. They affectionately christened their subject “Smithy.” His official name was Webster. The Smithy Project ended in tragedy, some believing that a dark presence inside Trevor Hall had been disturbed. Webster was acquired by CSAM, a research lab in California run by the iron-fisted Manfried Teague. CSAM had a reputation for sullen staff, gloomy conditions, and cruel experiments. Despite this, two of Webster’s original researchers, Jeff Dalton and Ruby Cardini, followed him west, determined to look after their friend. But another entity followed the chimp as well, and in the waning years of the 1970s, “Webster” became synonymous with a menagerie of inexplicable events, strange social movements, curious legal cases, and chilling courtroom testimonies. All were haunted by the question left unanswered at Trevor Hall: Had Webster not only bridged the gap between man and animal, but between this world and the next?
• Eynhallow, Tim McGregor (Feb 22, Raw Dog Screaming Press): ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes ashore to rent an abandoned cottage, Agnes and the other islanders are abuzz with curiosity. Who is this wealthy foreigner and why on earth would he come to Eynhallow? Her curiosity is soon replaced with vexation when her husband hires her out as cook and washerwoman, leaving Agnes with no say in the matter. Agnes begrudgingly befriends this aristocrat-in-exile; a mercurial scientist who toils night and day on some secret pursuit. Despite herself, she’s drawn to his dark, brooding charm. And who is this Byronic stranger sweeping Agnes off her feet? His name is Frankenstein and he’s come to this remote isle to fulfill a monstrous obligation.
• Bored Gay Werewolf, Tony Santorella (Feb 27, Atlantic): Juno Dawson’s Her Majesty’s Royal Coven meets a Jim Jarmusch movie. A directionless college-dropout deals with sexuality, minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as a modern werewolf.
• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Feb 27, Tordotcom): At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless, foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn—the only one to ever enter the forest and survive—is forced to go back inside to retrieve the missing children of the Tyrant. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of a painful past. One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything.
• Ghost Island, Max Seeck (Feb 27, Berkley): On a secluded island, homicide detective Jessica Niemi must investigate a drowning that is tied to a frightening ghostly legend in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch Hunter.
• A Haunting in the Arctic, C.J. Cooke (Feb 27, Berkley): A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches.
• King Nyx, Kirsten Bakis (Feb 27, Liveright): Set in November 1918 on the opulent, castle-like island estate of an eccentric millionaire, Claude Arkel, this atmospheric, compellingly readable novel reimagines the life of Anna Filing Fort–whose husband, Charles Hoy Fort, was the most famous “anomalist” of the early twentieth century. Settling in as guests on Prosper Island, the young couple find themselves quarantined in a shabby outpost far from Mr. Arkel’s mansion–from which, they learn, three girls have gone missing. After she encounters a figure in the woods that may be the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, Anna resolves to find out who Mr. Arkel really is, and what has become of the missing girls. A contemporary feminist tale with the mood and mystery of a classic gothic novel, King Nyx reintroduces readers, twenty-five years after her acclaimed debut, to one of our most astonishingly imaginative storytellers.
• Mewing, Chloe Spencer (Feb 27, Shortwave Publishing): Vixen would sell her soul to get into the Bleach Babes and, if she isn’t careful, she might just get what she wants. One of the most exclusive influencer co-ops in LA, the Bleach Babes live and work together in one big house where they have it all: popularity, talent, and beauty. Their leader? Supermodel Margo, a woman as sinister as she is sexy. After Margo agrees to take Vix under her wing—and into her bed—Vixen moves in and begins hustling. Success comes hard and fast, but the glitz and glamor comes with a price that may cost her her sanity… and her life.
• Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice (Feb 27, William Morrow): In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a brave scouting party of hunters and harvesters led by Evan Whitesky must venture into unknown and dangerous territory to find a new home for their close-knit but slowly starving Northern Ontario Indigenous community more than a decade after a world-ending blackout.
• My Name Was Eden, Eleanor Barker-White (Feb 27, William Morrow): In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome triggers disturbing changes in her teenage daughter, perfect for fans of The Push and The Undoing.
• Tender Beasts, Liselle Sambury (Feb 27, Margaret K. McElderry): After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother’s name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.
• Tomorrow’s Children, Daniel Polansky (Feb 27, Angry Robot): Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with scrap metal spears and Molotov cocktails. But something new has come to the Island, the first tourist in centuries, and this uneasy equilibrium is about to shatter…
• Violent Faculties, Charlene Elsby (Feb 27, CLASH): A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts.
• Writhe, Erica Summers and H. M. Wohl (Feb 27, Rusty Ogre): Writhe is a hyper-violent, extreme horror novella and is not intended for the faint of heart. This gory splatterpunk tale is brought to you by the twisted real-life sisters behind Vanity Kills, Bad God’s Tower, and The Illuminator Saga.
• Soulless Lonesome, Dan Shrader (Feb 29, Unveiling Nightmares): In the early days of 1984, all of Benjamin’s hard work mysteriously vanishes soon after his best friend/business partner goes missing on New Year’s Day. Faced with limited options and no other way out, he makes a choice that will forever change his fate. With his business on the brink of collapse, an unusual agreement is struck, sealed not only with ink but also with a promise of one’s soul. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a web of abductions, inexplicable suicides, and even murders! As if caught in a twisted game, he realizes the unseen forces manipulating his every move for the Leap Year.
• Bruises on a Butterfly, Chad Lutzke (Feb, Cemetery Dance): A young boy runs away from his abusive home to live in the fort he’s built in the middle of a Michigan cornfield. But when a cosmic discovery late one night warps reality into a mutating nightmare, it’s up to loyal friends to fix what they can… and bury what they can’t. A dark coming-of-age tale that melds Color Out of Space with Stand by Me.
• The Winslow Sisters, Michael Aronovitz (Feb, Cemetery Dance): Serial killer Michael Leonard Robinson murdered thirteen college coeds in early 2018, impaling them on flagpoles and leaving them on highway construction jobsites for the purpose of “haunting the dawn rush hour.” Police called him “The Scarecrow Killer,” until he revealed in an otherwise cryptic note left for police on March 13th, 2018, that he thought of his “dolls” more as “sculptures.”

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