Top new horror books out this week: 22 Jan - 28 Jan 2023

Soon no one on Earth will have a place to hide in this novel about fears known and unknown by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob’s Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting...

A ghost-hunting reality TV crew gain unprecedented access to an abandoned and supposedly haunted mansion, which promises a groundbreaking thirteenth episode, but as they uncover the secret history of the house, they learn that “reality” TV might be all too real — in Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie's latest heart pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense...

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden follows neighborhood families and a mysterious, lurking evil on one Halloween day.It’s Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling...

A great evil waits for me…And it won’t stop until it swallows me whole.I’ve been ripped from Dark Castle, thrown back into the mortal world where I don’t belong.Here, they think I’m crazy. They’ve locked me up and forced pills down my throat, telling me I’ve lost my mind.And maybe I have…I’ve fallen for three monsters after all...

Bring your soul closer to heaven or hell. Climb past the emotions to pull yourself up to safety. Where is the whisper in the darkness coming from? Discover every fear while you read four new horror adventures and the tales of DEMON KEEPERS...

Glover, Texas has three restaurants, two gas stations, and its very own underground crime syndicate. Other than that, the town’s about as lively as roadkill. That’s been Cake Donaldson’s experience, anyway.Cake flips burgers at the local diner on Route 66 for the same mouths day in, day out. Life is simple. Too simple...

A ghostly novella.'1962, and on Christmas Day at precisely 6pm, a mysterious old man by the name of Silas Finn, calls on the new owners of an ancestral home in Devon, and asks which they'd prefer to hear - a story or a song. Ten year-old Enys Quiller is adamant they must have a story, just as Cousin Beatrice instructed.'I'd be glad if you told me dreckly, what the real story is,' says Beatrice...

When Sabine lost her parents she thought she was destined for a life of foster homes and disappointment, but her luck is transformed overnight when a mysterious and handsome vampire appears offering to take her as his familiar. She now must learn how to hunt for the kind of prey only a vampire desires.Ten years later, Sabine is all grown up, and has the chance to win herself immortality...

Rob “Medusa’s Son” Sonnet was on his way to becoming the next heavyweight boxing champ of the world in 1972. He possesses a stare so intimidating, it freezes the blood of any opponent, much like the mythical creature he was named after.When he is injured at his job, his dreams are now nothing more than a distant memory...

Which side of an epic battle would you join when both sides are rooted in evil?When a sinister band of soldiers ravages the peaceful island of Indus, leaving death and ash in their wake, Noor, a precocious eleven-year-old with a mouth like a sailor and heart as fierce as fire, along with her older brother, Umber, are driven from their home...

In a dark future, people with money live in doomed cities and use the recently deceased as repurposed servants and workers called poppets. Ellie DesLoge is the teen heiress of the company that makes and distributes poppets-your basic reprogrammed flesh robot complete with training chips and kill switches. If Ellie does everything her Aunt Cordelia says, she'll have a life of wealth and power...

All monsters must belong to a house. Good thing I don’t play by the rules.The monsters won’t break me. I’m going to find my sister, and if participating in the Week of Orash is my best chance of finding her, I’ll fight. I’ll face off against the newbloods and let the alphas from the monster houses think they can have me.But I don’t belong to anyone...

Brenna, Franklin, and Jerm are three normal children in Red Fern. Well… they’re as ‘normal’ as things get in Red Fern. They live in Ickne Noir’s Home for Lost Children, but things are not quite as they seem. You see, Ickne Noir’s may be a children’s home, but it’s also the place where neighbouring realms send their young spies and assassins. All the children there are deadly...

Sometimes dreams really do come true…But at what cost?Has-been rockstar David Garrett and his girlfriend arrive for a quiet vacation at an unassuming country bed and breakfast. But after a midnight chat with the inn’s unsettling proprietor, David wakes to find himself living out his wildest fantasies with the other guests inexplicably along for the ride...

Worlds apart, and sliding down the rabbit hole of mental health, two unlikely people collide and create a heart racing sequence of actions that turns their lives and the people they love upside down.Ben a celebrated underworld killer, and Stephen, the spoilt son of a politician, are brought together by a series of events that only fate can pull off...

Travis Merker, former homicide detective, now private detective, and full-time drunk. After a career that found him feeling unfulfilled, and taking matters into his own hand, Merker hunts the scum and sets fire to the trash...

The war reaches its twilight. Amidst monsters and undead, the people of Nevermore have retreated from the tri-battle with the mad carnival troupe Royal Chaos and their barbarian giants. But its the other foe that frightens them most: the Razhod are back.The Razhod are back...

Three stories. One island. No hope. A triptych - three parts of one whole, reflecting human fears. The new boy in school is finally making friends. On an island with centuries-old secrets, the numerous missing persons flyers are the least of Brian's problems as vengeance blurs the lines between then and now in The Sleepover...

Tales forgotten from time where the world was a littlebit more different...

Imagine a world where death, decay, and suffering are the norm.The pressure is on for the nations and the World Space Alliance to transport humanity to a new, habitable rogue planet that promises a better life.But as they race against time to save humanity, they must also contend with a powerful and ruthless cult whose religion warns that the alien planet may not be the paradise it seems to be...