Literary Horror

Tuition is high. The body count will be higher. A masked killer stalks the campus of St. Bernard’s University. A killer who doesn’t simply stalk, slash, and stab. A killer who revels in gore, gut-churning acts of extreme violence, and relentlessly sadistic degradation. Parties on campus are raging, but someone is preparing to commit the ultimate party foul. As the student body becomes aware that they and their classmates have much graver things to worry about than final exams, they begin to suspect one another of unthinkable crimes. In Academia, no one is safe. Not even YOU!

THE NEWEST NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE STARVING SAINTS The only thing more terrifying than a brood's hunger . . . is its mothers. Beatrice is a broodmother. A vampire of blood and nurture, charged with guiding the newly undead through their first, transformational years. Beneath her patron’s...

The sitting month is what completes the cycle. Daughter becomes mother. There is no way to change what has always been true. Jenny Huang has just given birth. Alone in her Upper West Side apartment, she stares at the small creature in the crib, waiting to feel something. Far from miraculously...

Tide is an 'urgent and powerful' (Kiran Millwood Hargrave) novel about motherhood, marriage and the perils of surrendering your own reality, that will appeal to readers who inhaled Soldier Sailor, the edginess of Lullaby and the twisting of truth in Disclaimer. WHAT KIND OF MOTHER IS SHE? In...

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of...

Bestselling author Joanne Harris illuminates the heartbreak and quiet horror of dementia in this beautiful yet haunting ghost story. *** Out on the moor, in the snow, a house stands beneath a pylon. It is a house full of memories, and full of old things. And, in the dark, when the pylon sings in...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House...

A blend of fact and fiction, Growing Up Dead in Texas takes us back to new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones’s hometown and explores a decade-old crime that tore the community apart. Prolific, award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones deftly blends fiction and reality in this captivating...

The author of Sky Full of Elephants returns with an evocative, harrowing novel about the bonds of community and the power of redemption, as the disillusioned son of a preacher returns home and uncovers a supernatural force taking hold. When a sweet, unassuming fifteen-year-old walks into the...

In Dark Property, a woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside. In Contagion and Other Stories, Evenson takes his audiences into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions.

A hypnotic, unforgettable novel about a married woman who finds herself at a crossroads after discovering a mysterious TV channel showing a woman who looks exactly like her—but is living a radically different life It’s the mid-90s, and Paul and Johanna are living a comfortable life in rural...

Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die. Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone’s got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town...

A haunted house tale by the new master of horror, Stephen Graham Jones, in which a mysterious girl in lavender footie pajamas will do anything to keep her house from being sold. Disgraced former teacher Mr. Morning Gun survives on the margins, earning cash by checking on vacant homes waiting to...

Amanda knows she has to answer the questions. Lying feverish and unseeing in her hospital bed, she tries her best to account for how she came to be there. She remembers the lake, the house, and the strange woman next door with her unthinkable confession. She remembers the fear of losing her...

From the award-winning author of Dearborn, a tragicomic story collection that moves between Lebanon and Michigan, exploring migration, war, family, and the enduring pull of home. In a village haunted by unexploded cluster bombs, a chorus of matriarchs obsess over a poet-turned-mayor who...

From the author of Motherthing, an eerie, darkly funny novel about a sudden disappearance in a mysterious town, and a family’s search for answers In the town of Gold River, there is a rumor that a spirit haunts the land. Centuries ago, Druda, the beloved daughter of the settlement’s founder...

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Five Little Indians comes a powerful family saga following three generations of Cree women and the storytelling tradition that connects them to each other. Sometimes I feel that I wasn’t born at all, rather sculpted and formed by the storms of...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House Canada...

Award-winning Keith Rosson delves into notions of family, grief, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with a surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity...

Frankenstein is the name of the maker, but we always think of the monster... And what a monster he is. Frankenstein is a splendid creature, in almost every respect superior to humanity: smarter, stronger, and able to endure extremes of heat and cold that would kill a normal person. He is also...