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The Dark Game — Jonathan Janz

TITLE: The Dark Game AUTHOR: Jonathan Janz GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all, he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts. The writers think they are...

Will Haunt You — Brian Kirk

TITLE: Will Haunt YouAUTHOR: Brian KirkRELEASE DATE: March 14th, 2019GENRE: HorrorAGE RANGE: Adult When Jesse decides to read a very disturbing book he’s been hearing strange tales about, he doesn’t expect anything to actually HAPPEN to him. It’s just a book, right? Tell that to the strange men who have kidnapped him, or the terrifying place he’s awoken in, with its awful, cruel doctors and guards. Will you make the same mistake Jesse made by reading this book? Alright, friends,...

The Nightmare Girl — Jonathan Janz

TITLE: The Nightmare Girl AUTHOR: Jonathan Janz RELEASED: February 14th, 2019; Flame Tree Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult When Joe intervenes as a young mother abuses her toddler in a gas station parking lot, he thinks he’s doing the right thing — he has no idea that he’s setting into motion a plot of revenge from a local cult, whose members will stop at nothing to punish Joe for his good deed....

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You — Scotto Moore

TITLE: Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You AUTHOR: Scotto Moore RELEASED: February 5th, 2019; Tor.com GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band on the scene, releasing one track a day for ten days straight. Each track has a mysterious name and a strangely powerful effect on the band’s fans. A curious music blogger decides to investigate the phenomenon up close by following Beautiful Remorse on tour across Texas and Kansas, realizing along the way that the band’s lead singer, is...

Dead of Winter — Kealan Patrick Burke

TITLE: Dead of Winter AUTHOR: Kealan Patrick Burke RELEASED: December 11th, 2018 GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult Winter it’s coming… it’s already here, and with it comes a horror no door can keep out. It’s there in the yard, in the faces of the snowmen a young boy doesn’t remember building. It’s in the oddly empty streets below Santa Claus’s crumbling sleigh. It’s in the unnatural movement of the snow that suffocates a widower’s town, and in the cold eyes of a lonely...

Savage Species — Jonathan Janz

TITLE: Savage Species AUTHOR: Jonathan Janz RELEASED: January 10th, 2019; Flame Tree Press GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult When the local paper assigns Jesse and his coworkers to cover the new Peaceful Valley Nature Park, he thinks it’s a great gig—but nobody could have warned him about the vicious creatures the construction work awakened. Meanwhile, Charly’s trying to make it through another long day in her crumbling marriage when one of those same creatures captures her baby, sending her on a chase to...

Kingdom of Needle and Bone — Mira Grant

TITLE: Kingdom of Needle and Bone AUTHOR: Mira Grant RELEASES: December 31st, 2018; Subterranean Press GENRE: Horror/Sci-fi AGE RANGE: Adult It starts with one little girl, the reappearance of a disease that should have long since been eradicated by vaccines, slowly making its way back into the world as anti-vaxxer movements rise. But this disease has a new strain, and it’s leaving wreckage in its wake—forcing infamous vaccine activist and pediatrician Isabella Gauley to choose between ethics and life. For anyone unaware, Mira Grant is...

Hark! The Herald Angels Scream — edited by Christopher Golden

TITLE: Hark! The Herald Angels Scream EDITOR: Christopher Golden RELEASED: October 23rd, 2018; Anchor Books GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult If there is one horror theme I never get tired of, it’s holiday horror—especially when that holiday is Christmas! When you look at the roots of so many Christmas rituals and celebrations, there really is a dark and fantastical element; when you couple that with the bizarre antics so many are driven to during this stressful and busy time of year, it’s no surprise that...