May is bringing us a respectable amount of bad news in book form.

We've got haunted places, human experimentation, sinister spirits, strange festivals, monstrous transformations, twisted fairy tales, gothic nightmares, and enough questionable life choices performed by unreliable narrators to keep the horror shelves fully stocked.

Here are some of the horror books I'm most excited about coming out this month. 

If you want to see everything coming in 2026, check out my This Year in Horror 2026 release calendar.

May 5

She Waits Where Shadows Gather by Michelle Tang

Some places feel wrong before you can explain why. She Waits Where Shadows Gather promises the kind of unsettling horror where the shadows themselves may be the least of your problems.

If atmospheric, creeping dread is your thing, this one belongs on the May TBR.

I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy

Nat Cassidy is taking us on a road trip and he's not stopping by the World's Biggest Ball of Twine.

This collection brings together Rest Stop and a dozen other dark detours, sending readers through suspicious rest stops, creepy offices, haunted kitchens, bizarre apartments, and other places where you shouldn't be alone after dark. 

Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka

Tennessee Cherish thought moving into her dream house would be a fresh start. Cute house, new town, happy family. 

The kids start acting weird. Her husband is never home. And the house has a few quirks, including a faucet that runs on its own, a creepy doll that keeps appearing in different rooms, and, a human tooth in the floorboards.

Then things get really weird. The family starts repeating everyday actions over and over, with each loop becoming more dangerous than the last.

Tenn needs to figure out what the hell is happening in her new home before the house finishes what it started.

May 8

The Blood Year Daughter by G.G. Silverman

The Blood Year Daughter is a collection of fairytale horror stories filled with murderous brides, strange transformations, ghosts, witches, snakes, revenge, and women who are absolutely done playing by the rules.

Silverman's debut collection mixes horror, magical realism, and twisted fairy tales into something that sounds like it crawled out of a very dark corner of the Brothers Grimm.

May 12

Muntu by Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon brings her particular brand of unsettling speculative fiction to Muntu, a book that promises to be strange, atmospheric, and decidedly not interested in making you comfortable.

This is one for readers who like their horror with a literary edge and plenty of things lurking beneath the surface.

Abyss by Nicholas Binge

Joe always had potential. He just doesn't expect much from himself, so when he lands a low-key admin assistant job at a company he's never heard of, he's hoping it won't expect much from him either.

Then he walks into the offices of Ponos.

Turns out, potential is exactly what they're looking for.

Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda

Two friends head into the Andes for an eight-day music festival at the foot of a volcano. There's mysticism, underground music, altered states, an ancient landscape, and a girl who starts speaking in a voice that isn't her own.

Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun blends psychological horror, supernatural elements, psychedelic imagery, and Indigenous Andean traditions into something wonderfully strange.

Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey

Celia is lonely, grieving, and desperate to belong, so she heads to the mysterious Kindred Cove for its annual Salt Festival. The community promises healing, transformation, and a life without grief.

Sarah Gailey's latest sounds like the perfect combination of creepy island community, questionable self-improvement, and the horrifying realization that maybe becoming a better version of yourself has a price.

Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger

Is it menopause or lycanthropy?

Femme Feral promises a wild, vicious take on womanhood, transformation, and the things lurking just beneath the surface.

May 19

The Dorians by Nick Cutter

Five people are invited to a remote island in the Canadian wilderness with an offer that sounds almost too good to be true: stop aging. Maybe even reverse it.

The secret to restoring their youth comes from an ancient biological agent with one very simple goal: survive.

What could possibly go wrong?

I hope their aren't any turtles. IYKYK.

Decomposition Book by Sara van Os

Savannah retreats to her parents' empty lake house after a disastrous falling-out with her best friend. She's drinking, overthinking, and generally spiraling when she wakes up in the woods beside a dead body. Turns out she's the best friend Savannah could ask for.

The Temptation of Charlotte North by Camilla Bruce

In 1910, Charlotte North lives on a remote island where an ancient tower has been standing guard over something that really should have stayed imprisoned.

Then the tower collapses.

The Temptation of Charlotte North combines gothic horror, dark fantasy, an isolated island, a sinister spirit, and a woman discovering just how dangerous getting what you want can be.

Salomé by Leslie Baird

A dark, strange take on an old story? Yes, please.

Salomé puts a familiar figure into a horror setting and promises to give this particular tale some teeth.

Filth Eaters by Ito Romo

In 1849, vampire Radamés discovers that New World vampires get to live a little more like humans. They marry. They have children. They actually get to build lives. Naturally, he wants that for himself.

His search takes him to Mexico, where he falls for a member of the ancient Filth Eaters and fathers a new kind of vampire. From there, the story jumps across centuries, mixing vampires with empire, greed, climate change, and the very human need to find someone to love.

May 26

House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase

Anaya Sebeya is a brilliant young writer who disappears after attending a prestigious writing residency at Günter Huis, an eerie colonial mansion on Devil’s Peak.

Years later, her sister Ranewa becomes obsessed with a true-crime podcast claiming to reveal what happened to Anaya. As she listens, she starts piecing together a much stranger and more horrifying story.

Because at Günter Huis, Anaya wasn't just struggling to write. The house was getting inside her head, twisting time and reality and demanding a story that apparently wasn't meant to be told.

Bone of My Bone by Johanna van Veen

It’s 1635, the Thirty Years’ War is tearing through Bavaria, and Ursula, a runaway nun, and Elsebeth, a peasant, are hiding from marauding soldiers in the forest.

Then they find a gilded saint’s skull.

Legend says that reunite the skull with the saint’s body and you get a wish. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones interested in the relic. A necromancer wants it, the saint starts whispering at night, and the magic comes with a price.

Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun

A deadly cyanide poisoning kills Hwa-young's mother, but Hwa-young doesn't believe it was an accident. Determined to find the person responsible, she takes whatever work she can get to save enough money to hire a hitman.

Hwa-young is about to become the next victim when a grubby teddy bear starts talking to her.

Now the two team up to uncover the truth, take revenge, and bring the real killer to justice.

Between Nat Cassidy's dark detours, Sarah Gailey's creepy island, Mónica Ojeda's psychedelic festival nightmare, gothic spirits, twisted fairy tales, human experimentation, and several books that appear to have taken the concept of "gross" as a personal challenge, there's plenty here to keep horror readers busy.

Which is great news for us but not so great for our TBR pile.

Happy reading and may your books be creepy, your coffee be strong, and your house remain suspiciously tooth-free.

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Published March 16th 2026 by French Press Publishing

In a galaxy riven by paranoid greed, profane forces marshal to consume humanity…

- On an abandoned ice moon, broadcasts from a long-dead civilization warp both body and soul.

- On a bizarre medical asteroid, a deranged physician discovers a gruesome “cure” for parasitic infection.

- On a deep space derelict, time becomes utterly meaningless and suffering transcends infinity.

- And on Earth itself, a lake transforms into pure blood and becomes infested with the hate-filled, eel-like aberrations known as…

The Hematophages.

With this quartet of short stories, Splatterpunk Award winner Stephen Kozeniewski is delighted to welcome newcomers to the brutal universe Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer calls “the gold standard for the Space Horror subgenre.”

Meanwhile, veteran ink surfers will find a treasure trove of new material to broaden their event horizons, including extensive background information from the author and a never-before-published tale of alien terror.

So, strap on your boom suit, ready your eye spoon, and try to prepare yourself for…

Splatterings.

Stephen Kozeniewski (pronounced "causin' ooze key") is a Splatterpunk Award-winning author and two-time World Horror Grossout Contest champion. His published work has also been nominated for the Voice Arts and Indie Horror Book Awards, among other honors. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and their two cats above a fanciful balloon studio.  

Published May 26, 2026 by Poisoned Pen Press

The year is 1635.

Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying the gilded skull of a saint.

It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing the magic they seek comes at a cost.

At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choice—one that could tear apart everything they know… or bind them to each other forever.

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In Bone of My Bone, the Thirty Years' War is never merely a vague historical backdrop. From the opening pages, van Veen establishes the destruction, fear, and complete upending of ordinary life, giving the horror real weight. It's the kind of historical detail that sends you looking things up afterward.

When the horror elements are firing, van Veen absolutely delivers on atmosphere. The necromancy feels eerie and grounded, rooted in the superstitions and religious anxieties of the period, and the gilded skull is its unsettling grinning centerpiece.  The Bavarian Forest setting drips with menace, and the threats surrounding it feel treacherous and urgent. 

My issues were more with the characters and pacing. The opening pulls you in fast, and the premise is strong, but somewhere in the middle, the momentum just stalls out. It picked back up towards the end, but there were definitely points where I found myself reading more out of commitment than interest. I also wanted more from the characters. Ursula and Elsebeth just didn't click for me the way I wanted them to, so I never felt super invested in what happened to them.  

Ultimately, this one hit differently than Blood on Her Tongue. The relationship between Lucy and Sarah was so tightly wound and emotionally raw that the horror felt deeply personal. The dread and the emotional stakes were completely inseparable, so even the quieter moments felt tense. Bone of My Bone has all of van Veen's signature atmosphere and remarkable sense of dread, but without that emotional core at its center, it didn't stick with me quite as much.

April has arrived with a truly questionable collection of bad decisions.

People are going camping with ancient evils. Moving into haunted houses. Taking creepy Craigslist jobs. Getting followed by men in rowboats. 

Here are the new horror books coming this month, for anyone who enjoys watching fictional people make choices we would never make ourselves. Or would we?

April  2

Monumental by Adam Nevill

A weekend of kayaking and camping goes spectacularly wrong when Marcus and his friends realize they've wandered onto private land. Their only way out is blocked until the tide changes, leaving them twelve hours to survive whatever is lurking in the valley. And apparently, an ancient evil hiding beneath some very bad local folklore wasn't on the itinerary.

Who doesn't like relaxing in nature?

April 7

The Boatman by Alex Grecian

The cruise ship Maria Calypso has a problem. A very elegant man in a white suit is following it in a rowboat. No matter how fast the ship goes, he keeps pace. And then the sinister stuff starts happening.

Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman

Winston Kemper is a lonely janitor with an unusual artistic hobby. He calls it the Butterfly Girls. Other people might call it murder. When the ghosts of his victims start whispering from beyond the grave, Winston's art project takes a very ugly turn.

April14

The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste

Sixteen stories filled with haunted houses, ghosts, body horror, strange women, queer antiheroines, and all sorts of supernatural nastiness. Basically, Gwendolyn Kiste looked at the phrase "home sweet home" and decided it needed more ghosts and considerably less sweetness.

Invasive Species by Ellery Adams

Cold Harbor has its share of monsters, but Mrs. Smith might be the worst. She's beautiful, mysterious, and has been feeding nine human sacrifices to herself in exchange for immortality. Meanwhile, Natalie is just trying to sell a house and prove she can have a career outside the home.

And her twelve-year-old daughter and the family's housekeeper are the ones who realize something is very, very wrong.

Morsel by Carter Keane

Lou heads into the rural hills of Ohio for a work assignment, hoping it'll help her escape generational poverty and finally get ahead. Instead, her truck is sabotaged, she's stranded in the Appalachian woods, and something out there wants to eat her.

These Familiar Walls by C.J. Dotson

Amber inherits her childhood home after her parents are murdered, so naturally she moves in with her husband and kids. Then her reflection stops blinking. A voice starts whispering from the shadows. And the house turns out to be hiding some very old family secrets.

Nothing says "fresh start" like moving into the house where your parents were murdered.

Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill

Nicole has spent her entire life being taught that the mushrooms growing over the women's bodies in her village are dangerous and disgusting. After marriage, she's sent to live with her husband in a decaying mansion where controlling her changing body becomes harder and harder.

Then another rebellious wife shows up.

Their connection starts cracking open the secrets buried beneath generations of unhappy brides. And Nicole may finally decide that following the rules isn't worth it.

April 21

The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer

Three days of work. Competitive pay. A house in the Oregon wilderness.

Sure, what could go wrong?

Macy takes a Craigslist caretaking job because rent and groceries aren't going to pay themselves. But the house comes with strange rules, stranger rites, and something inside it that may be a threat to humanity itself.

...at least the job posting was honest about the pay.

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker

Lee flees New York after killing his college roommate and heads to his father's mysterious house in Japan. The place has a few problems. No animals will go near it. The bedroom window isn't always a window. And a woman with a sword appears outside at night.

Meanwhile, in 1877, Sen is hiding from imperial soldiers in the very same house.

Two people. Two centuries. One haunted house. And one of them is a ghost.

April 28

Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart

Elly is pregnant, wearing a wedding dress, and running from the man she's supposed to marry. Luckily, there's a mysterious house in the woods where lost girls can find refuge.

What starts as a safe haven becomes something much darker, turning wounded women into vessels for revenge. 

How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains by Bonnie Quinn

The campground rules are back, and this time things are getting even worse. Dormant monsters are waking up, the Lady in Chains has returned, and the harvesters are still busy sacrificing people.

Molka by Monika Kim

Dahye's whirlwind romance turns into a nightmare when a spycam video of her and her boyfriend spreads across the internet. Then she discovers the creepy IT guy at work has been secretly filming women too.

Her humiliation turns to rage, and rage turns to revenge.

April is not messing around. We've got folk horror, haunted houses, supernatural revenge, gothic nightmares, body horror, murderous ghosts, creepy camping trips, and enough questionable life choices to keep horror readers very busy.

So fill up your coffee cup, pull up your TBR, and maybe avoid accepting any suspicious Craigslist jobs.

Happy reading. 

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Published September 30, 2025 by Tor Nightfire

The next installment in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark, mysterious depths of a coal mine in America.

Alex Easton does not want to visit America.

They particularly do not want to visit an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a reputation for being haunted.

But when their old friend Dr. Denton summons them to help find his lost cousin—who went missing in that very mine—well, sometimes a sworn soldier has to do what a sworn soldier has to do...

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The third installment in T. Kingfisher's Sworn Soldier series sends Alex Easton somewhere they emphatically do not want to go: America. More specifically, an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia with a unsavory reputation. When their old friend Dr. Denton calls in a favor to help locate his missing cousin, who was last seen heading into that very mine, well, a sworn soldier answers the call.

I've loved following Alex Easton through the crumbling Usher estate and the fog-draped forests of Gallacia, so naturally I was eager to see where Kingfisher would take them next. And I have to say, the setting of What Stalks the Deep is its strongest asset. The darkness is absolute, the walls press in from every direction, and the silence of the mine is almost intolerable. Imagine being underground with tons of rocks between you and the surface. Kingfisher leans into the claustrophobia beautifully, and we experience it alongside Easton.

Kingfisher has always excelled at writing characters who feel lived-in and real, and that hasn't changed. Alex's particular brand of practicality bumping up against the inexplicable never gets old, and watching them navigate the landscape of rural West Virginia with acerbic bewilderment is funny. Angus remains a steadfast, grounding presence, and there's something quietly satisfying about the way these three have settled into each other. If you've come to love these characters across the earlier books, revisiting them is still a joy, even if the horror is light. 

Where What Stalks the Deep loses a little steam, unfortunately, is in the horror itself. The monster at the center of this story never quite reached the level of wrongness that Kingfisher achieved with her possessed hares in What Moves the Dead — that specific, skin-crawling sensation of something familiar twisted just slightly out of true. Once the monster is revealed, it's almost...cute? 

What Stalks the Deep is by no means a bad book. Kingfisher is too skilled a writer for that, and I'll pick up whatever Alex Easton adventure comes next without hesitation. But for me, the Sworn Soldier series has yet to top What Moves The Dead. 

March is here, which means spring is technically happening, but horror authors clearly didn't get the memo. This month's releases bring witches, monsters, haunted roads, murderous mothers, parasites, and enough questionable life choices to keep your TBR pile deeply unhealthy.

So grab your coffee, shut the curtains, and let's see what nightmares are hitting shelves this month.

March 10

Cabaret in Flames BY Hache Pueyo

Guls are brutal creatures, and Ariadne knows that better than most. She lost half her body to them, but she's since turned her experience into a career, treating guls at the specialized clinic she inherited from Erik Yurkov, the mentor who rescued her as a child, taught her medicine, built her prostheses, and then mysteriously disappeared.

Enter Quaint, a charming, tattooed gul who claims to be Erik's oldest friend. Convinced that Erik didn't simply vanish, Quaint teams up with Ariadne to track him down, eventually leading them to Cabaré, an infamous Rio de Janeiro club frequented by the gul elite. As they dig deeper into Erik's disappearance, they uncover a conspiracy tangled up with Ariadne's memories, her complicated past, and the increasingly complicated feelings developing between them.

The Midnight Muse BY Jo Kaplan 

A year after metal band Queen Carrion's lead singer, Brynn Werner, disappears in an Oregon forest, her bandmates return to the cabin where she vanished. They're hoping to remember their friend and figure out how to move forward. Instead, they find strange messages in the guestbook, a pale figure moving through the woods, people in gas masks, and a suspicious fungus growing in the basement. Then Brynn's voice starts echoing through the forest. And when something that looks exactly like her emerges from the trees, the question becomes whether they've found their missing singer or something that has learned how to wear her face. 

Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World BY Daniel Kraus 

If you've ever watched Night of the Living Dead and thought, "I could spend several hundred pages obsessing over every single frame of this," Daniel Kraus has the book for you. His nonfiction debut takes George A. Romero's 1968 zombie classic apart frame by frame, digging into its history, production, cultural impact, and place in horror history. But this isn't just film analysis. Kraus also weaves in his own story, including childhood trauma, rural isolation, and the way the movie helped shape his life and career. Basically, it's a massive love letter to one of horror's most important movies, written by someone who's seen it roughly three hundred times.

Spoiled Milk BY Avery Curran 

It's 1928, and Emily Locke's final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls takes a very unpleasant turn when Violet, the school's dazzling star and the girl Emily would do just about anything for, falls to her death on her eighteenth birthday. Emily and her uptight rival Evelyn agree on one thing: Violet was murdered. They turn to spiritualism for answers, hoping to contact the dead and figure out what really happened. Instead, Violet's ghost appears through Evelyn and delivers a warning. The danger at Briarley is only beginning.

Something is infecting the school. It starts with spoiled food and curdled milk before spreading into something much more sinister, leaving a growing body count in its wake. As Emily fights to survive, she has to question everything she thought she knew about Violet, Evelyn, the school, and herself.

So no, despite the title, this is not a horror novel about an aggressively haunted refrigerator and evil dairy.

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom BY Vincent Tirado

Papi Ramon, patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family, dies and leaves his relatives one final family bonding exercise from hell. His will claims that one member of the family is el bacà, a demon he made a deal with, and orders the others to get rid of them before they're all damned. Naturally, nobody believes him. Then a storm traps the entire family inside the house, giving everyone plenty of time for secrets, accusations, violence, and murder. Xiomara now has to figure out which family member is possessed while also surviving the much more mundane horror of being trapped with her relatives. Honestly, the demon might be the easiest problem in that house.

March 17

Cold Snap BY Angela Sylvaine

The town of Demise, North Dakota, is still trying to recover from the Meteor Murders, a deadly disaster involving hundreds of deaths, alien worms, and a cover-up blaming everything on a doomsday cult. Nineteen-year-old Realene survived it and saved countless lives, but she'd really rather disappear from the world and grieve the people she couldn't save.

Unfortunately, when another piece of the meteor is discovered across the Canadian border, Realene's best friend Nate is suddenly in danger. So she's heading north to find him, where she'll have to contend with rampant alien worms, a covert military operation, and the coldest weather imaginable. Because apparently surviving one alien-worm apocalypse wasn't enough. Realene has to go back for a sequel.

If you like creature features with a healthy dose of 'oh no, not the worms again,' Cold Snap looks like a gloriously nasty time.

Innamorata BY Ava Reid 

Once, an island was ruled by seven noble houses whose power came from the arcane secrets of necromancy. Then a conqueror arrived, burning their libraries, slaughtering their rulers, and wiping out their ancient magic. Now only the House of Teeth remains, with its beautiful heiress, Marozia, and her strange, silent cousin Agnes.

Agnes hasn't spoken a word in seven years, but she's carrying the family's most important secrets. Her mission is to recover the lost death magic, avenge her family's destruction, and arrange Marozia's marriage to the conqueror's heir so she can gain access to his forbidden library. There's just one problem: Agnes finds herself falling for the very prince whose family destroyed hers. Because apparently revenge is much easier when you aren't also developing inconvenient feelings for the enemy.

If you like your gothic fantasy packed with necromancy, forbidden romance, doomed families, and enough beautiful people making terrible decisions to fill a castle, Innamorata should be on your list.

Long Drives & Lonesome Roads BY John Evans

There are more than four million miles of roads in the United States, and apparently a disturbing number of them are trying to kill us. This collection brings together sixteen horror stories featuring ominous hitchhikers, devils, dangerous backroads, other dimensions, and all the other things you really don't want to encounter when you're already miles from home. The stories range from unsettling to macabre to darkly funny, making this one a good choice for readers who like their horror in bite-sized pieces. Just maybe don't read it on your next solo road trip.

Mother is Watching BY Karma Brown 

Art conservator Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson is used to dealing with old paintings and their secrets, but The Mother is something else entirely. The recently discovered work, believed to be the fourth painting by a female surgeon-turned-artist, was damaged in a fire and seems to have a disturbing history of its own. Then Tilly discovers she's unexpectedly pregnant, and things start getting seriously weird.

Insect swarms appear out of nowhere. Her long-dead mother starts paying visits. And sinister whispers begin invading Tilly's mind. As her obsession with the painting grows, so does the horrifying realization that The Mother may be more than a painting. And if Tilly wants to break whatever bond has formed between them, she may have to destroy it before it destroys her.

Only Spell Deep BY Ava Morgyn

Judeth Cole has always had strange abilities, but after a childhood fire destroys her family, she spends seventeen years trying to outrun her past. Now living in Seattle as Jude Clark, she's barely holding things together when a mysterious invitation draws her into a secret magical circle. Their power comes from an imprisoned entity called the Fathom, but Jude quickly realizes that the group's enigmatic leader, Arla, wants that power for herself and is willing to kill for it. With the Fathom threatening to break free, Jude is forced back toward the seaside house she swore she'd never see again. Witchcraft, family secrets, forbidden power, and a creepy old house? Yeah, this one knows exactly what it's doing.

Crawlspace by Adam Christopher

Mission Lead Olivia O’Connor and her team from the Artemis Corporation are preparing for the first faster-than-light test flight, a mission that could change humanity's future and finally open up the universe. Unfortunately, their trip between dimensions comes with a few unexpected complications. Strange voices echo through the corridors, long-lost faces appear, mysterious symbols are carved into the hull, and something ancient is gathering outside the ship.

Now the crew has to survive the journey long enough to uncover the twisted truth behind the mission.

march 24

Wolf Worm BY T. Kingfisher

In 1899, scientific illustrator Sonia Wilson gets a chance to pursue her work when the mysterious Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his collection of insects at his North Carolina manor. Naturally, the isolated house comes with a few complications. Animals are behaving strangely, her predecessor has disappeared, locals are whispering about "blood thieves," and Halder's research is taking a very unpleasant turn. With the help of the housekeeper and a local healer, Sonia discovers that the doctor's entomological experiments involve parasitic maggots that burrow into human flesh. 

T. Kingfisher plus a title like Wolf Worm tells us to expect something deeply unpleasant. And probably fascinating. 

Wretch BY Eric LaRocca 

After the death of his husband, Simeon Link is drowning in grief and desperate for a way to feel close to the person he's lost. Then he discovers the Wretches, a support group offering an unusual and dangerously addictive form of comfort. Their mysterious leader, Porcelain Khaw, claims he can give grieving people one final intimate moment with their dead loved ones. There is, naturally, a price. 

 Eric LaRocca isn't exactly known for sending readers off to bed feeling warm and fuzzy. Wretch promises another nasty little descent into darkness for readers who like their horror bleak, brutal, and uncomfortable.

Another month of horror, another collection of reasons to keep the lights on at midnight. 

Between alien worms, necromancers, haunted paintings, murderous boarding schools, interdimensional space travel, cursed cabins, sinister family secrets, and enough things crawling under the skin to make a person very nervous about leaving the house, March is clearly not interested in letting us have a peaceful spring.

Happy reading. Keep the coffee hot, the lights on, and the basement door very, very closed.

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