Top new horror books in February 2023

New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, delivers a brand new High Fantasy Romance. “It’s taking everything I have not to touch you. Not because I want to make you mine but because every part of me screams that you already are.”A pack of wolves hunt a girl who takes her last breath by a river’s edge.She is found and nursed back to health by the kind-hearted Nhil people.She has no memory...

In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures...

In this apocalyptic finale to the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels, alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and no one will be left unscarred. Noah’s confessions end here.Noah Shaw wants nothing more than to escape the consequences of his choices.He can’t.He’s sure the memories that haunt him are merely proof of a broken heart...

Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life...

What would you do if your son became a stranger overnight?Everything has fallen into place for the Aiken family. Tired of the city, Aaron and Meera relocate to the idyllic village of Little Crake along with their two children, Noah and Uma. The new cottage looks out over the many miles of woodland beyond. It’s a far cry from their cramped London apartment and the perfect fresh start...

A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales--the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada...

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham’s vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know whether Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her...

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky...

The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo...

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.“If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. "—Laura RubyA Most Anticipated in 2023 Pick for BuzzFeed | The Minneapolis Star Tribune“Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters...

In this gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance—and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger—in misty Victorian London.London, 1885...

I never expected to inherit a mysterious, haunted-looking inn.So I definitely never imagined that inn would lead me into a whole multiverse called the Grymm.Now, I carry the ancient keys to all sorts of different realms, and it turns out, there’s an endless amount of money to be made in inter-world trade.No one ever said navigating a magical multiverse would be easy, though...

Now that Inamorato is the new Lord of Hell, its only a matter of time before the situation on Earth takes a turn for the worse. With Wesley Alban being the most powerful Warlock in the world, the task of dealing with Inamorato falls to him.There’s no way to stop Hell’s new ruler. It’ll take magic more powerful than anything even Wes possesses. It’ll take a genie...

The stakes have never been higher as the Twisted Sisters struggle to dish up enough magic to save themselves and their beloved Crescent City... While the Voodoo Queen's loa roams the bayous in search of a new host, the sisters must hunt down the six sources of his power to keep him from ghosting the body he currently inhabits...

Evil waits for the unsuspecting in the small town of Henley’s Edge, Connecticut after a recent string of unexplained disappearances.Lives are interwoven and transformed forever when pacts are drawn, deals are made, and when hatred is left unrestrained.Some will succumb to the darkness that lurks in the cellar of Mr...

After I saved his life and kingdom, Kalyll let me go, choosing duty over the passion that burned between us.Though his death was written in the stars, I found a impossible way to pull him back, to anchor his soul to the world of the living. Still, that wasn’t enough to win his heart...

The Cage of Dark Hours is the second novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter, where the defeat of a serial killer back from the dead has pulled the mask off the myths and magics of a fantastical city.Krona and her Regulators survived their encounter with Charbon, the long-dead serial killer who returned to their city, but the illusions of their world were shattered forever...

Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder.To survive they must evolve.A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways...

A young woman rises from the streets to battle a sinister evil in this magical fantasy adventure by the bestselling author of the Darwath series.Something is amiss with the world's magic. Spells don't work the way they used to--when they work at all...

A ghost hunter. A demon cat. A grim history revealed.Laurel Downing is in a bad spot. She needs to get her Nana out of an abysmal assisted living center, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. With the help of her demon cat, Thickety, she agrees to put her ghost-hunting mettle back to the test after a horrific accident nearly claims the life of her best friend...

The king needs to die. It’s the only way to remove the vile excuse for a man from the throne.Lin has a repertoire of tools at her disposal. She’s got magic, a lifetime of martial training with warrior priests, and a vast array of pointy weapons.She is many things, but she is no assassin. So why has she taken up the mantle to kill the king? Because somebody has to...

Danger threatens to shatter the hope for a new beginning in a world of angels and demons in this explosive paranormal romance by author Brian Feehan, son of legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. After being forced away for seventeen years, Alice is finally home...

Prince Barodane could not hold back the darkness. Not even in himself. He laid an innocent city in its grave and then died a hero.In his absence, war whispers across the land.Power-hungry highborn dispatch spies and assassins to the shadows as they maneuver for the throne, while an even greater threat rises in the South...

Tenshi (a Death Angel) is thrusted into the human world to torment and kill a young woman named Emica. Within moments of his arrival on the surface, everything goes wrong. Injured and with no way of returning to his place of origin, he is forced to face the stain of his existence and failures, including his newfound feelings for Emica...

The residents of Sterling, Indiana don't know who they are. Sixty-one year old Tory Stebbins runs an Identity Verification agency that can help. But, as her town implodes, so does her business. She has fewer clients, stiffer competition, and her methods have become mysteriously ineffective...

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In an Old West overrun by monsters, a stoic gunslinger must embark on a dangerous quest to save her friends and stop a supernatural war. Sharpshooter Melinda West, 29, has encountered more than her share of supernatural creatures after a monster infection killed her mother...

It has been a thousand years since the last Seed abandoned their duty. The mists are closing in. Finally, the Morning Bell tolls. A new Seed is born, but is it too late?The rot eats away at mortals. The Witnesses pray so that they may not turn into one of the forgotten. And the constricting mists infect the lands with fear.But there is more to this tale than just the Elders and their Seeds...

The Darkness cursing Eden's history has festered long enough. The time for change, a Young Revolution, has come.Eden is a world of unrecognized history and potential, potential that is found in the heart of this cycle's prophesied hero, Seth. His mother was historically important to Eden's previous rebirth...

It's a cruel and unforgiving world. Warlords rule, selfishness reigns, and dark things whisper in the secret places. Into this world steps an abandoned girl. Defiant before fate, she crawls into the shadow. There she finds the impossible...a friend. Yet evil things stalk her and caring is a weakness she can ill afford...

“One fool in search of money wins a cursed mountain and a lifetime of nightmares...”When Celeste Foster loses her job with the US Forestry Service, she finds solace in drinking herself stupid every night. But when she sees an ad that says “ADVENTURERS WANTED” and “compensation upon completion”, she pulls herself together to head for the town of Milton...

Ghini Freeman is a single mother who doesn’t know the meaning of the word quit. Even six months after her thirteen-year-old daughter, Jeannie, was taken from a class field trip, she continues to pour everything into finding her daughter.Could monsters be responsible for Jeannie’s abduction? Ghini doesn’t want to believe it...

A city protected by an impregnable shield, its ignorant citizens ruled by a powerful council.A family hiding on a withering farm, fighting for the last scraps the earth offers.In a forgotten cavern, a rebel leader prepares his troops for judgement day.In the shadows, a bloodthirsty enemy awaits the perfect moment to strike.A puppet master controls all - immortality, his only goal...

When Chernobog, an ancient dark god, returns to Earth to destroy mankind, only one thing is standing in his way—four-year-old Annalee Sun. As the descendent of Quan Yin, Goddess of Hope and Compassion, Annalee is man’s last hope. Luckily, Annalee isn’t alone.“The Others” are five descendants of ancestral Gods and Goddesses destined to protect the young heroine...

Inga Alenir is a Swordbearer. She is the latest in a long line of women to inherit a magical weapon called Deathbringer. She's also dead, murdered on her wedding day by the ruthless and covetous noblewoman Yenda Avard, who steals the sword after killing Inga and her entire family.And yet, some secrets won't stay buried...

Shadow is in the grip of a nameless terror: The streets are empty, muses are missing, and Moon Troopers terrorise the night.Flower will sort all that out when she’s good and ready. First, she must convince a bunch of Freakin Fairies to save the shade-struck Muse Champion from an untimely death. Then she’ll go find her king and put an end to all this folly...

Immerse yourself in magic, myths, and witches as you join Sophie and Aiden, whose life journey will show if they can succeed in mastering their powers or if it will destroy them and everything that they hold dear. Sophie, a Moon Goddess, was raised by witches after her parents were savagely murdered, and remains hidden in the safety of the coven...