Category: Horror

Horror comes in all shades of green.

No other kid in Trona will go near the creepy old Searles Mansion, but Camm Smith is obsessed with the need to get inside.

Seven years earlier, as Camm herded a pack of little trick-or-treaters past the mansion, her young neighbor, Hugh, disappeared, becoming one of the many children who have vanished from Trona over the years without a trace. Now a senior in high school, Camm is still haunted by the old tragedy, and is sure the answer to the mysterious disappearances lies hidden somewhere in the decaying mansion.

Joining forces with her best friend, Cal, who also happens to be Hugh’s older brother, Camm naively begins a perilous search for the truth. As things spiral quickly out of control, and others die, Camm and Cal discover it will take all their combined ingenuity to stay alive.

An unseen evil lurking deep within the bowels of the mansion is now hunting them. To make matters worse, they become entangled with hostile federal agents, who will do all they can to keep old secrets permanently hidden. Left with only their wit and seemingly ineffective firearms, Camm and Cal know time is running out. Unless they can make sense of the few pieces of the puzzle they manage to unearth, their lives are in danger, and like so many others before them, they may also disappear without a trace.

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Title: Pitch Green

Author: The Brothers Washburn (Berk and Andy)

Publisher: Jolly Fish Press

Release Date: March 16, 2013

ISBN: 978-0988649125

Size: 280 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, hardcover

Genre: Fantasy/Horror

There is no light at the end of some tunnels…

The New York subway system has:

656 miles of track…

468 stations…

31 thousand turnstiles…

and 1.64 BILLION fares yearly.

For six of those fares, the trip is going to be one they will never forget….

Six strangers will board a subway. But this subway is unlike the others.

This subway doesn’t take you where you want or where you need.

It takes you where you fear.

This subway…is DARKBOUND.

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Title: Darkbound

Author: Michaelbrent Collings

Publisher: CreateSpace (self)

Release Date: January 19, 2013

ISBN: 978-1482016994

Size: 288 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Horror

There are things in the darkness—things much worse than the tracks and abandoned pieces of equipment that trip the children up and gash at their feet and legs—things that brush silently past them, touching their faces before disappearing again . . .

1977: In the sleepy town of Twin Falls, Colorado, what starts as a carefree school picnic ends in tragedy when six children disappear into an abandoned gold mine. Six enter the dark void and days later, only five emerge. After an arduous search, the hunt for the last child is called off and the mine entrance is blasted. Little Frankie is left behind, alone in the darkness.

He is coming.

2011: Police Chief Cal Hunt’s investigation into a recent string of bizarre murders in Twin Falls takes a chilling turn when he learns that each of the victims was a survivor of the Seven Stars Mine incident. Cal realizes that they share a dark secret the truth about what happened to Frankie.

To drag them deeper.

With time running out for the remaining survivors, Cal must face a killer that defies logical explanation. Because no matter how Cal analyzes the facts, there is only one conclusion: A supernatural force is reaching out from the depths to reclaim those who escaped more than thirty years before. And it will not rest until it takes them all . . .

Into the darkness.

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Title: Dark Memories

Author: Jeffrey S. Savage

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: January 2, 2013

ISBN: 978-1621080558

Size: 358 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Horror

Every year, thousands of children are killed…by their own parents.

Now, Shane Wills is about to discover why, as he comes under attack from an evil that has existed since the beginning of time.

An evil that invades loving parents and turns them into something else.

An evil that feeds on the blood and despair of dying children. An evil that most people will never know, because they cannot perceive the APPARITION.

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Title: Apparition

Author: Michaelbrent Collings

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: July 3, 2012

ISBN: 978-1478167761

Size: 424 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Michael Shipman has paranoid schizophrenia; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex, horrific fantasies of persecution. They are as real to him as your peaceful life is to you. He is haunted by sounds and voices, stalked by faceless men, and endlessly pursued by something even deeper and darker–something he doesn’t dare think about.

Soon the authorities are linking him to a string of gruesome serial killings, and naturally no one believes them himself. Hounded on every side, Michael contemplates a terrifying possibility: that some of the monsters he sees are real.

Who can you trust if you can’t even trust yourself? THE HOLLOW CITY is a mesmerizing journey into madness, where the most frightening enemy of all is your own mind.

 

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Title: The Hollow City

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: Tor Books

Release Date: July 3, 2012

ISBN: 978-0765331700

Size: 336 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Horror

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter.

Then, he dies.

Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains the story of his life.

In this haunting existential novella, author, philosopher, and ecologist Steven L. Peck explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

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Title: A Short Stay in Hell

Author: Steven L. Peck

Publisher: Strange Violin Editions

Release Date: March 23, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983748427

Size: 108 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Speculative, Horror

Title: Shadow Valley: A Novel of Horror

Author: Michael R. Collings

Publisher: Borgo Press

Release Date: August 20, 2011

ISBN: 978-1434435217

Size: 196 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Horror

Shadow Valley is an isolated farming community known to few, but in one of its ramshackle farmhouses dwells a power that threatens death and destruction to any who walk within its walls. Now, Lila Ellis arrives to make the final arrangements for a project that will flood Shadow Valley for a reservoir–and the house is not happy. When she enters the old place, she alone must face its terrors–beginning with a pile of seventy boxes of chocolate, one piece missing from each, that have been delivered to the decaying ruin each year on St. Valentine’s Day. Can Lily escape the horror that fills the Stevenson place? Or will the curse continue for yet another generation?

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Title: A Night of Blacker Darkness

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: Fearful Symmetry

Release Date: July 26, 2011

ISBN:

Size: ebook only

Genre: Speculative, Horror

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Wrongly imprisoned, Frederick Whithers is desperate to commit the crime he’s already being punished for: defrauding the bank out of a vast inheritance. He fakes his death to escape, but when he’s seen climbing out of a coffin everyone assumes he’s a vampire; when he shows none of the traditional vampire weaknesses, they decide he must be the most powerful vampire in the history of the world.

Half horror and half farce, Frederick’s tale is an ever-growing avalanche of bankers, constables, graverobbers, poets, ghouls, morticians, vampires, vampire hunters, not to mention some very unfortunate rabbits. With a string of allies even more unlikely than his enemies, can Frederick stay alive long enough to claim his (well, somebody’s) money? And if he can’t, which of his innumerable enemies will get to him first?

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Title: Static!—A Novel of Horror

Author: Michael R. Collings

Publisher: Wildside Press

Release Date: June 24, 2011

ISBN: 978-1434438119

Size: 398 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Horror

Caution: This book may contain objectionable content.*

When Payne Gunnison inherits his great-aunt’s house, he discovers that the entire structure has been wired for video and sound—both to record and to play—and that “The Greer” (as the locals called the elderly recluse) had accumulated a superb library of tapes and DVDs, including some filled with scenes of extreme sex and violence.

Payne quickly befriends his next-door neighbor and tenant, Nick, who becomes concerned when his new buddy becomes obsessed with the video technology. Something strange inhabits this old house—something bizarre and totally evil.

*Author’s Note: Due to its genre and theme—theft and replacement of one person’s identity by another—the book contains materials that may offend LDS readers, specifically, language, sexuality, and violence. However it neither promotes nor celebrates those elements; they are included as part of the horror and to help define reprehensible behavior and/or characters.

Title: I Don’t Want to Kill You (US release)

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: TOR

Release Date: March 29, 2011

ISBN: 9978-0765328441

Size: 320 pages, 5.5×8″, hardcover

Genre: Speculative/Horror

Series: I Am Not a Serial Killer (bk 1), Mr. Monster (bk 2)

Dan Wells introduced us to John Wayne Cleaver in the chilling novels I Am Not a Serial Killer and Mr. Monster. In I Don’t Want to Kill You, Cleaver faces his toughest challenge yet.

John Wayne Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it on the phone—and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them. As he wades through the town’s darkest secrets, searching for any sign of who the demon might be, one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse with a supernatural killer, you are always the mouse.

In I Am Not a Serial Killer we watched a budding sociopath break every rule he had to save his town from evil. In Mr. Monster we held our breath as he fought madly with himself, struggling to stay in control. Now John Wayne Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents and embraced his role as a killer of killers. I Don’t Want to Kill You brings his story to a thundering climax of suspicion, mayhem, and death.

It’s time to punish the guilty.

And in a town full of secrets, everyone is guilty of something.

Title: I Am Not a Serial Killer

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: Headline

Release Date: March 30, 2010

ISBN: 978-0765327826

Size: 272 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: Speculative

This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award in 2010. It was previously released in the UK and is a 2009 Whitney finalist.

John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.

He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.

He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.

Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t demand or expect the empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there’s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat—and to appreciate what that difference means.

Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can’t control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.

Dan Wells’s debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

Book #2, Mr. Monster, has been released in the UK. It will be released in the US in October.

Title: Mr. Monster

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Release Date: March 4, 2010

ISBN: 978-0755348824

Size: 288 pages, 5×7.75″, softcover

Genre: Speculative/Horror

Series: I Am Not a Serial Killer (v1)

Coming to the U.S. via TOR in October 2010.

John Wayne Cleaver has always known he has a dark side but he’s fought hard to oppress it and live a normal life – separating John from Mr Monster to survive. But after confronting and destroying the vicious killer that was terrorizing his town, his inner monster is getting stronger and harder to contain.

And now more bodies are being discovered…

With the police failing to catch Clayton County’s second serial killer John is going to have to use his secret knowledge of the first demon-killer to trap the second…but will he be able to avoid suspicion falling on him, and, in the face of extreme horrors, will he be able to restrain Mr Monster?