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ANTHOLOGY

120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era Nick Mamatas
 
Black Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black Cats Francesca Maria & Mark S. CauseyBlack Cat Publishing
 
Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II Henry HerzBlackstone Publishing
 
Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales Dennis K. Crosby & KC GrifantNo Bad Books Press
 
Effigies and Incantations DC PhilipsIndependently Published
 
Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. WytovichBlack Spot Books
 
In the Eyes of the Hungry Valentina Rojas & Michael TichyCastaigne Publishing
 
Night & Day Ellen DatlowS&S / Saga Press
 
Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream Amanda WorthingtonDragon's Roost Press
 
Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors Wendy Dalrymple, Grace ReynoldsBrigid's Gate
 
Punk Goes Horror William SterlingTRUBORN
 
Red Line- Chicago Horror Stories Michael W. Phillips Jr. From Beyond Press
 
Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora Kristy Park KulskiBad Hand Books
 
Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors Linda HartleyRuadan Books
 
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett, & Craig Laurance Gidney
 
Strange New Moons Kayleigh Dobbs, Stephen KozeniewskiFrench Press
 
The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand Christopher Golden and Brian KeeneGallery Books
 
The Lizzy Borden House Anthology Sephera GironRiverdale Avenue Books
 
The Rack 2: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks Tom DeadyGreymore Publishing
 
This Way Lies Madness - Short Stories from the Edge of Darkness Lee Murray, Dave Jeffery (editors)Flame Tree Publishing
 
Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology : Issue V Olivia Kidula, Somto IhezueLulu.com
 
You, Human, Vol.2 Michael BaileyWritten Backwards
 

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FICTION COLLECTION

13 Ghastly Tales B.D. PrinceGhastly Press
 
A Mythos of Monsters and Madness: Horror Stories by Jeremiah Dylan Cook Jeremiah Dylan CookNew Pulp Tales
 
A Whisper in the Dark Michael Jess AlexanderLost Signal
 
Acquired Taste Clay McLeod ChapmanTitan Books
 
All's Well that Ends Well Vivian KasleyBrigids Gate Press, LLC
 
Bringing In The Creeps Ray Van Horn, Jr.Anuci Press
 
Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment Mo MoshatyTenebrous Press
 
Cultes des Goules Katherine KerestmanWordCrafts Press
 
Cyanide Constellations and Other Stories Sara Tantlinger Dark Matter INK
 
Dark Workings of Wild Women Donna J.W. MunroDragon's Roost Press
 
Goodnight and Sweet Dreams: Seven tales for seven nightmare nights Daniela E. (author), Ivano Mingotti (translator)
 
Haunted Ecologies Corey FarrenkopfJournalstone
 
Heartbeat and Other Tales of the Weird and Macabre Stephanie E. Jensen
 
InhuMANities Andrew RobertsonThe Great Lakes Horror Company
 
It's Dark in Here: Twenty-One Weird Tales and One Poem About Squirrels Frank OretoDragon's Roost Press
 
Let's Cut up Dad! and Other Stories of Transgressive Madness Douglas FordVissaria County Dispatches
 
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions John LanganWord Horde
 
Portalmania: Stories Debbie UrbanskiSimon & Schuster
 
Portraits of Decay Carson WinterSalt Heart Press
 
Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces D. Matthew UrbanCursed Morsels Press
 
Six O'Clock House & Other Strange Tales Rebecca CuthbertWatertower Hill Publishing
 
Some People I Have Killed Ken MacGregorDragon's Roost Press
 
Straw World and Other Echoes from the Void Erik McHattonPublisher ‏ : ‎ Undertaker Books
 
Tales from the Dusty Tiger Joshua Ginsberg
 
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons Hailey PiperTitan
 
Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine Kristina TenStillhouse Press
 
The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions Emma E. MurrayUndertaker Books
 
The Lost Stories - The Tales of Time L. Marie WoodFalstaff Books
 
The Poorly Made and Other Things Sam RebeleinWilliam Morrow/Titan Books
 
These Words Leave Scars Jeremy MegargeeCurious Corvid Publishing
 
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories Thomas Ha Undertow Publications
 
Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts LCW Allingham & River EnoSpeculation Publications
 

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FIRST NOVEL

Abducted Patrick BarbDark Matter Ink
 
Chasing Moonflowers Pauline ChowThis is a novel.Ghastly Goings-On Press
 
Diablo Canyon C. FlemishSelf-Published
 
Disco Murder City Caleb BetheaMaudlin House
 
Her Wicked Roots Tanya PellGallery Books
 
House of Beth Kerry CullenSimon & Schuster
 
Killian Farm L. M. MeehanWhisper Woods Productions LLC
 
Legend Has It DJ SlaterRowan Prose Publishing
 
Listen To Your Sister Neena VielSt. Martin's Griffin
 
Little White Flowers Amber HathawayDeadly Seeds Press
 
Mayra Nicky GonzalezRandom House
 
Moonflow Bitter KarellaHachette
 
Moonflow Bitter KarellaRun For It
 
Our Gifted Hearts Jennifer KennedyAngry Robot
 
Portraits of Decay J. R. BlanesRuadan Books
 
Powder & Poison Julia JacksonSelf-Published under Grave Belles Press
 
Root Rot Saskia NislowCreature Publishing
 
Rule One Michael LuckerWordeee
 
Say Uncle Ryan C. BradleyGhoulish Books
 
Sour Cherry Natalia TheodoridouTin House
 
Spit Back the Bones Teagan Olivia KingTurner Publishing
 
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery Clarence A. HaynesLegacy Lit
 
The Lamb Lucy RoseHarper
 
The Monsters Among Us Priore, Kent Rowan Prose Publishing
 
The October Film Haunt Michael WehuntSt. Martin's
 
The Scald-Crow Grace DalyCreature Publishing
 
The Weight of Fifty-Two Fingers Sofi ClaythornFlying Rat Press
 
Through Other Eyes David RobertsSelf-Published
 
Tick Town Christopher A. MicklosCastle Bridge Media
 
Veil Jeff ClulowThird Eye Press
 
Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm? Blake Myers (author), Faye Lane (art), Kathryn Hall (editor)www.darkveilsociety.comCoffin & Nails Publishing
 

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GRAPHIC NOVEL

Doctor Zomba's Ghostly Tales Lucarelli, DavidAbacab Studios
 
Exquisite Corpses, Vol. 1 James Tynion IV, Pornsak Pichetshote, Michael Walsh, Marianna Ignazzi, Valentine De LandroImage Comics
 
Feral Volume 2 Tony Fleecs, Trish Forstner, Tone Rodriguez, Brad SimpsonImage Comics
 
Feral Volume 3: Nine Lives Tony Fleecs, Trish Forstner, Tone Rodriguez, Brad SimpsonImage Comics
 
More Weight: A Salem Story Ben WickeyTop Shelf Productions
 
Nightmare Tales Miguel Gonçalves (author), Damian Connelly (artist)Nightmare Ink
 
Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business Dan GoldmanAbacab Studios
 
The Sinister Sisters and Other Terrifying Tales Roseanne A Brown (author), Shazleen Khan (Illustrator), Bill Masuku (Illustrator)Abrams Fanfare
 

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LONG FICTION

A Game in Yellow Hailey PiperSaga Press
 
A Strange Case Of Something Familiar Dave JefferyOccult Detective Magazine 11Cathaven Press
 
And Every Thursday We Feed the Cats Sam RebeleinThe Poorly Made and Other ThingsWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins
 
Blood Cypress Elizabeth BroadbentRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
Cerulean Sky David CorseN/APolymath Press
 
Cop Car Nadia BulkinIssues with AuthorityBad Hand Books
 
Cult of Least Resistance Cindy O’Quinn Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and HorrorsRuadan Books
 
Employee of the Month Alex IrvineBourbon Penn 36
 
Enamoured: A Triptych Shelley LavigneHedone Books
 
Eternal Damnation R.J. JosephFour Past Meat NightPandi Press
 
Every Dark Cloud Marisca PichetteGhost Orchid Press
 
Fear Inc. Mia DaliaSmith & Jones
 
Feeding the Wheel Michael BoulericeShortwave Publishing
 
Good Boy Neil McRobertWild Hunt Books
 
Maelstrom R.J. JosephRapture PublishingRapture Publishing
 
Pam Kowalski Is A Monster! Sarah LanganRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
Pam Kowolski is a Monster Sarah LanganRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
Puppet's Banquet Valkyrie LoughcreweTenebrous Press
 
Reap, Sow S. H. CooperS. H. Cooper
 
Reef Mind Hazel ZornTenebrous Press
 
Rootfingers S. Alessandro MartinezWinding Road Stories
 
Seed Kenya Moss-DymeKenya Moss-Dyme
 
Somewhere Quiet, Full of LIght Henry CorriganSlashic Horror Press
 
Squid Teeth Sarah LanganTor
 
Stone Martyrs Erik HofstatterAqueduct Press
 
The Big One Patrick BarbAnuci Press
 
The Blanks Grady HendrixAmazon Original Stories
 
The Cold House A.G. SlatterTitan Books
 
The Eris Ridge Trail Larry HinkleFour Winds Bar Publishing
 
The Jealous Wives of the Sea Alaya Dawn JohnsonStoryteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
 
The Leeds Point Horror John CollinsAlien Buddha
 
The Pulse Remains Rob GrimoireUndertaker Books
 
The Pulse Remains Rob GrimoireUndertaker Books
 
The Red Labyrinth Ben PeekSnuggly Books
 
The Solstice Elaine PascaleTrepidatio
 
The Spotter Josh MalermanYou, Human: An Anthology of Dark Science Fiction, Vol. 2Written Backwards
 
The World Turns Red Tim WagonnerCemetery Dance
 
This House Isn't Haunted But We Are Stephen HowardWild Hunt Books
 
This Is How a Villain Is Made Amanda Headlee
 
Tunnel 17 Tom DeadySinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and HorrorsRuadan Books
 
What Comes Before Molly Macabre (author), William J. Burkhardt (editor), Jelena Gajic (cover artist), Social mediaSelf-Published
 
When He Calls Your Name Catherynne M. Valente Uncanny
 
When September Ends J.G. FahertyGraveside Press
 
White Flight Peter O'KeefeUncomfortably Dark Horror
 
Wolf Moon, Antler Moon A.C. WiseReactor
 
Wolfbane Todd Farmerself-published
 
Writhe Abby VailSobelo Books
 

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MIDDLE-GRADE NOVELS

Broken Dolls Ally MalinenkoHarperCollins
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Choose Your Own Adventure: At the Mountains of Madness Jacopo della QuerciaPenguin Random House
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I know what UFO you did last summer Kevin Jerold Johnson Cover art by Joshua Oram” Excerpt From I Know What UFO Did Last Summer Kevin GaroneTemor Press
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Kim Reaper Gregg StewartGraveside Press
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Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave Ally RussellDelacorte Press
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Pennies Lora SenfAtheneum Books for Young Readers
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The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay Mary AverlingG.P. Putnam's Sons
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The Many Hauntings of the Manning Family Lorien LawrenceAmulet Books
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NONFICTION (LONG)

Cracking Spines: Three Decades of Horror Jason CavallaroIndependently Published
 
Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre Matt RogersonN/A1428 Publishing Ltd
 
He Who Types Between the Rows 3: Requiem Mark SieberCemetery Dance
 
Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse Blumhouse with Dave SchillingSimon & Schuster
 
Just Add Writer: A Complete Guide to Writing Tie-Ins and IP Tim WaggonerGuide Dog Books, an imprint of Raw Dog Screaming Press
 
London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction Clive BloomBloomsbury Academic
 
Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away Coltan Scrivner PhDBookPenguin Books
 
Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture Brandon R. Grafius bookMorehouse Publishing
 
Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) Eleanor JohnsonAtria Books
 
Sick Houses - Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread Leila TaylorRepeater Books
 
Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of Asian UFO Encounters & Lore Yi Izzy Yu, John Yu BranscumEmpress Wu Books
 
That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film Payton McCarty-SimasLuna Press Publishing
 
The Vatican Versus Horror Movies Matt RogersonN/AMcFarland
 
Watching Evil Dead Josh Malerman
 
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature Becky Siegel SpratfordSaga Press
 

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NOVELS

A Twist Of The Lens Elizabeth S. DevecchiWicked House Publishing
 
Acolytes of the Dead W. D. Gagliani and David BentonJournalStone
 
Angel Down Daniel KrausAtria Books
 
At Dark, I Become Loathsome Eric LaRoccaBlackstone Publishing
 
Bad Things Happened in This Room Marie StillRising Action
 
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng Kylie Lee BakerMIRA
 
Below the Grand Hotel Cat ScullyCLASH Books
 
Black Flame Gretchen Felker-Martin Tor Nightfire
 
Blood Tide Brent McGregorDual Crows Press
 
Blood on Her Tongue Johanna van VeenPoisoned Pen Press
 
Breathe In, Bleed Out Brian McAuleyPoisoned Pen Press
 
Broken Things Diane CorsoMuse Literary Publishing
 
Casual Koji A. DaeTenebrous Press
 
Closing Time at the Sunny Side Up David Niall WilsonShotgun Honey Books
 
Coffin Moon Keith RossonPenguin Random House
 
Crafting for Sinners Jenny KieferQuirk Books
 
Demon Song Kelsea YuTitan Books
 
False Prophet Dave JefferyEerie River Publishing
 
Fox Joyce Carol OatesHogarth Press
 
Galloway's Gospel Sam RebeleinWilliam Morrow
 
Ghost Girls and Rabbits Cassondra WindwalkerPolymath Press
 
Girl in the Creek Wendy N. Wagner
 
Gods and Monsters E.E. KingMetastellar Press
 
Hemo Sapiens Emily A. WeedonDundurn Press
 
Honeyeater Kathleen JenningsTor/Picador
 
How to Fake a Haunting Christa CarmenThomas & Mercer
 
How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow Bonnie QuinnS&S/Saga Press
 
Hungerstone Kat Dunn
 
Imperfect Creatures Joe ButlerDiachroneity Books
 
It Was Her House First Cherie PriestPoisoned Pen Press
 
Kill Beth Jon CohnDeadbolt Books
 
King Sorrow Joe HillWilliam Morrow
 
Never Leaving Elford AlleyInfested Publishing
 
One of Us Dan ChaonHenry Holt, and Company
 
Passing Through a Prairie Country Dennis E StaplesCounterpoint
 
Play Nice Rachel HarrisonBerkley
 
Red Rabbit Ghost Jen JulianOrbit/Run For ItOrbit/Run For It
 
Red Walls Christina BerglingGraveside Press
 
Requiem John PalisanoFlame Tree Press
 
Senseless Ronald MalfiTitan Books
 
Sense of Self James LefebureSelf-Published
 
Something in the Walls Daisy PearceMinotaur Books
 
Southern Cross Vaughn A. JacksonFalstaff Books
 
Spread Me Sarah Gailey Tor Nightfire
 
Sundowner's Dance Todd Keislingn/aShortwave
 
Tantrum Rachel Eve MoultonG.P. Putnam's Sons
 
The Bewitching Silvia Moreno-GarciaDel Ray
 
The Brood Rebecca BaumThomas & Mercer
 
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham JonesSaga Press
 
The Carrion King Joseph NassieHarbinger
 
The Clatter Man Janelle SchieckeSocial media Amazon
 
The Country Under Heaven Fredric S. DurbinMelville
 
The Crimson Road A. G. SlatterTitan Books
 
The Film You Are About to See Haley NewlinMad Axe Media
 
The Graceview Patient Caitlin StarlingSt. Martin's Press
 
The Haunting of Room 904 Erika T. WurthMacmillan
 
The Idol Jeffrey ThomasForma Street Press
 
The Knave of Graves S.J. Shank Carthago Nova Press
 
The Nightmare Behind the Door Fabrizio ValenzaSelf-Published
 
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart Christina HenryBerkley/Titan
 
The Red Knot Monique AsherRising Action
 
The Rotting Room Hampton, Viggy Parr
 
The Secret House Gregory FrostJournalStone
 
The Staircase in the Woods Chuck WendigDel Rey
 
The Starving Saints Caitlin StarlingHarper Voyager
 
The Unkillable Frank Lightning Josh RountreeTachyon
 
The Villa, Once Beloved Manibo, VictorErewhon Books
 
This is My Body Lindsay King-Miller
 
To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place C. S. HumbleShortwave
 
To Those Willing to Drown Matthews, MarkWicked Run Press
 
Unworthy L. Marie WoodMocha Memoirs Press
 
Veil Jonathan JanzBlackstone Publishing
 
Victorian Psycho Virginia Feito Liveright
 
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes Clay McLeod ChapmanQuirk
 
We Like It Cherry Jacy MorrisTenebrous Press
 
We Live Here Now Sarah PinboroughFlatiron Books
 
What Remains Corey NilesCrystal Lake Publishing
 
What Stalks the Deep T. KingfisherTor Nightfire
 
When the Wolf Comes Home Nat CassidyTor Nightfire
 
Where Dark Things Rise Andrew K. ClarkQuill and Crow Publishing House
 
Where the Soul Goes Katherine SilvaTruborn Press
 
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Grady HendrixBerkley
 
Words of Christ in Red Robbie DormanRobert Dorman
 
Zombie Mom: A Motherly Horror Eddie J. Morales
 

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POETRY

Cinder Girl Grows Wings Stephanie ParentCurious Corvid Publishing
 
Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus Sumiko Saulson, Emily Loretta Flummox, The Mysterious BackupDooky Zines
 
Everything Endless Linda D. Addison and Jamal HodgeRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
Poetique K.A. SchultzDakeha Taunus LLC
 
Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own Maxwell I. GoldHippocampus Press
 
Spiral Staircase: A Meditation on Alchemy Alyssa SpungenWhite Stag Publishing
 
The Uterus is an Impossible Forest Shannon KearnsRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
The Witch: A Play Thera WebbWhite Stag Publishing
 
Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins Colleen AndersonRaw Dog Screaming Press
 

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SCREENPLAY

Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story Natasha Kermani
 
Bring Her Back Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman
 
Companion Drew Hancock
 
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
 
Good Boy Ben Leonberg, Alex Cannon
 
Hell House LLC: Lineage Stephen Cognetti
 
House of Abraham Lukas HasselJump Rock Pictures
 
It: Welcome to Derry, S1.E1, The Pilot Jason Fuchs
 
It: Welcome to Derry, S1.E5 ,"29 Neibolt Street" Brad Caleb Kane
 
M3GAN 2.0 Gerard Johnstone, Akela Cooper, and James Wan
 
Opus Mark Anthony Green
 
Sinners Ryan Coogler
 
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
 
The Woman in the Yard Sam Stefanak
 
Together Michael Shanks
 
Wayward, Episode 6 "Mirror" Kayla Lorette
 
Wayward, Episode 8: "Leap" Mae Martin & Misha Osherovich
 
Weapons Zach Cregger
 
Wolfman Leigh Whannel, Corbett Tuck
 

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SHORT FICTION

25 Peppercorns Emma BurnettMythaxis MagazineMythaxis Magazine
 
60' Helen GrantSupernatural Tales 60: Winter 2025/26
 
A Mewling Madness Paul A. FreemanBlack Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black CatsBlack Cat Press
 
A Slasher Cozy Selena Chambers120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative EraRuadán Books
 
A State of Emergency Kent PrioreAfter Dark: A Horror and Thriller Anthology, Vol. 1Rowan Prose Publishing
 
A Taste Theodore HillWhisper HouseWhisper House Press
 
After Two Extraordinary Years, I'm Stepping Down as Chief Experience Officer of Murder House Kari ZanderMcSweeny's
 
Another Face Getty HesseStoryteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
 
Appalachian Death Song Todd KeislingWeird Tales #371 - an Undead Issue
 
As Big As A Whale Avra MargaritiFusion Fragment
 
Asking For It Kristi DeMeesterNightmare #154
 
Autogas Ferryman Champ WongsatayanontNightmare Magazine #156Nightmare Magazine
 
Battlefield Seances Clay McLeod ChapmanAcquired TasteTitan Books
 
Bentalou Crush Ray Van Horn, Jr.Dread Mondays AnthologyWhisper House Press
 
Black Thumb Hinkle, LarryThe Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror PaperbacksGreymore Publishing
 
Bodega Barry Marc L AbbottA Future for FeralsESpec Books
 
Body Heat Mirri Glasson-DarlingPseudoPodEscape Artists
 
Cabobble Michael H. HansonJust One Fix: A Literary Salute to William S. BurroughsIndependently Published
 
Counting to 100 Aishatu AdoHeartlines SpecHeartlines Spec
 
Crane Game David LonghornGhosts & Scholars #48
 
Cutting Room NJ Gallegos and Nathaniel J. DarkishDread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror AnthologyWhisper House Press
 
Data Ghost Martha WellsStoryteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
 
Dear New Tennant Jaq EvansFusion Fragment
 
Death Valley '71 Amelia ManganStoryteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
 
Det-415 Jeff ParsonsTales of Galactic Pest ControlExperimenter Publishing Company, LLC
 
Detour Sam RebeleinThe Poorly Made and Other ThingsHarperCollins
 
Devil is Fine Michael BettendorfCosmic Horror Monthly #55CHM
 
Do It Paul Tremblay120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative EraRuadán Books
 
Dust and Shadow Daniel RoopBlack Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black CatsBlack Cat Publishing
 
Dystocia Nuno GonçalvesPUSH! An Anthology of Childbirth HorrorRuth Anna Evans Horror
 
Edgar Addison, the Author of Dévorer (1862-1933) Ben PeekNightmare Magazine #153
 
Find Me Dumped in the Reeds Isla LaderCosmic Horror Monthly #57
 
Grace Tim LebbonThe End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The StandGallery Books
 
Have Axe, Will Travel Anthony M. CaroHORRORific Tales Volume Three: Serial KillersHORRORific Publishing
 
He Has Not Seen a Bird Before SJ TownendBOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga HorrorStrange Wilds Press
 
Headcase Scotty Milder34 Orchard
 
Her Shadow Nailed to the Floor A.C.WiseThree-Lobed Burning Eye #45
 
I'm Not from Here J.M. BaskCosts of Living: A Whisper House Press AnthologyWhisper House Press
 
I Am Not Myself Today Geneve FlynnDarkness Most Fowl The Godmother of Horror Press
 
I Love the Dead Josh MalermanThe End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The StandGallery Books
 
If I am To Earn My Tether Geneve FlynnSilk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora
 
In a Pig’s Eye Joe R. LansdaleThe End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The StandGallery Books
 
Inheritance RJ JosephFull Throttle: A Dark Dozen AnthologyUncomfortably Dark Horror
 
In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful Spencer NitkeyWeird Horror Magazine #10Undertow Books
 
Knife Plus Tracie McBrideFantasy MagazinePsychopomp
 
Krampus Air L.E. DanielsUnderland Press
 
Landline Kelly RobsonReactorTor
 
Lenora Jonathan JanzThe End of the World As We Know ItSimon & Schuster
 
Lucky the 13th Mark S. CauseyBlack Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black CatsBlack Cat Publishing
 
Mantra Sally DarlingPretend You Don't See HerKandisha Press
 
Nesting Marie LestrangePUSH! An Anthology of Childbirth Horror
 
Nothing Good Without a Price Martin CahillWeird HorrorUndertow Publications
 
Old Wells Thomas HaThree-Lobed Burning Eye # 44
 
One Day Jeffrey FordNight & Day: Merciless Sun: Tales of Daytime Horror/Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime HorrorS&S/Saga Press
 
Plague Daughter S.H. CooperGood for Her: An Anthology of Women's RageNefarious Bat Press
 
Poohbear and Smokey Marc L AbbottMore Future for FeralsESpec Books
 
Practical Applications of Fungal Bioremediation H.V. PattersonBOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga HorrorStrange Wilds Press
 
Rusty Memories Steven Van PattenFriends and Foes of ZenobiaEnchanted Flower Productions
 
Saturday L. Marie WoodMidnight & Indigo Literary Journal, Issue 12Midnight & Indigo
 
Selkie's Stew Lauren Lee Smith"Pretend You Don't See Her" AnthologyKandisha Press
 
Sing Yourself Back to Sleep Laurel HightowerOf Shadows, Stars, and SabrersStars and Sabers
 
Stigmata Martyr Michael H. HansonWhite on White: A Literary Tribute To BauhausSelf-Published
 
Stomata L.E. Daniels Darkness Most FowlThe Godmother of Horror Press
 
Superstition Silvia Moreno–Garcia120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative EraRuadán Books
 
That Time of the Month Kayleigh DobbsStrange New MoonsFrench Press
 
The Call Shift N.J. GallegosThe Alien Buddha’s House of Horrors #8Alien Buddha Press
 
The Cartographer of Blades and Stars, of Flesh and Agony John LanganThe Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror PaperbacksGreymore Publishing
 
The Cats of Ulthar: A Tale Reimagined Bruce Brown, Thomas Boatwright and Marco Della Verde Independently Published
 
The Children of the Event Carson WinterPortraits of Decay Salt Heart Press
 
The Creak on the Attic Stairs Tamika ThompsonThe Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror PaperbacksGreymore Publishing
 
The Ecstasy of the Saints J.A.W. McCarthyPseudoPodEscape Artists
 
The Equation LC von HessenChthonic Matter Quarterly: Summer 2025Chthonic Matter
 
The Fever Man Mo MoshatyClairviolence: Tales of Tarot and TormentTenebrous Press
 
The God Bot Tamika ThompsonPenumbric Speculative Fiction MagazineNeomythos Press, LLC
 
The Interior Kristi NogleThree-Lobed Burning Eye #45
 
The Land Belongs to the Cats Francesca MariaBlack Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black CatsBlack Cat Publishing
 
The Last Drive-in Movie B.D. Prince13 Ghastly Tales Fiction CollectionGhastly Press
 
The Legacy C.C. AdamsPS Publishing
 
The Long Flesh of the Law Hailey PiperTeenage Girls Can be DemonsTitan Books
 
The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone Hailey PiperTeenage Girls Can Be DemonsTitan Books
 
The Mummy's Revenge L. Marie WoodWeird Tales Magazine #371 Weird Tales Magazine
 
The Other Reality Tamika ThompsonAndromeda Spaceways Magazine #99Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Incorporated
 
The Picnicker Josh MalermanNight & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight HorrorSaga Doubles
 
The Poppy Cloud Lee MurraySilk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora
 
The Squatters Shawna Yang RyanSilk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian DiasporaBad Hand
 
The Story I Tell is the Story of Some of Us Paul TremblayThe End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The StandGallery Books
 
The Thirty-Fourth World John StadelmanBlack Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, No. 22Hobb's End Press
 
The Tugwort Lincoln MichelNightmare Magazine
 
There Was a Number Seven Patrícia LameidaPUSH! An Anthology of Childbirth Horror
 
This Broken World Mia DaliaChoices: An Anthology of Reproductive HorrorRenaissance Press
 
Tommy 'the Leg' Ain't No Witch Jonathan GenslerCosmic Horror Monthly #63Cosmic Horror Monthly
 
Trick of the Light Brian Evenson Night & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror / Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight HorrorSaga Press
 
Tumulus Frazer LeeHiding Under the LeavesSlab Press
 
Vargsången Mary SanGiovanniStrange New MoonsFrench Press
 
Villa Metrobian Sam DawsonSupernatural Tales 58: Spring 2025
 
We Dwell in Its Many-Chambered Heart A.C. WiseWeird Horror Magazine, Issue 11Undertow Publications
 
Westward I Reach Jennifer Jeanne McArdleBaubles from BonesBaubles from Bones
 
Why We Don't Dig Up Witches John KachubaHippocampus Press
 
Wolf's Clothing Jonathan WoodUnderland Arcana 12
 
Wrong Fucking Place, Wrong Fucking Time C. Robert CargillThe End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The StandHodder & Stoughton
 
You’ll be Home for Christmas Colleen AndersonKozy KrampusUnderland Press
 
[Ir]reversible Anna TaborskaWitches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and EssaysHippocampus Press
 
sharp house Samir Sirk MoratoNightmare Magazine #150
 

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NONFICTION (SHORT)

"Jason Lives" in Rutledge, Georgia Pat CasselsAtlas ObscuraAtlas Obscura
 
"So Much Blood in this Earth: Generational Trauma in Southern Gothic" Eliza BroadbentNighttide MagazineNighttide Magazine
 
A Body Haunted Yaika SabatFrivolous Comma
 
Adapting the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House R.J. JosephNightTide MagazineNightTide Magazine
 
Afterword: Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora Kristy Park KulskiSilk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian DiasporaBad Hand Books
 
Author Functions: Stephen King’s Writers Jeffrey WeinstockTheorizing Stephen KingAmsterdam University Press
 
Coney Island's Last Surviving Haunted Ride Pat CasselsAtlas ObscuraAtlas Obscura
 
Deathwish Wolf Man Patrick BarbInterstellar Flight Magazine
 
Deconstructing How ‘The Skeleton Key’ Depicts African Spiritual Beliefs (and 3 Films That Do It Better) P.M. Raymond Dread Central
 
Horror Delve: A Trick Of Terrifying Treats: 13 Horrifying Halloween Tales Matt CowanNightmare Abbey 9Dead Letter Press
 
In Defense of Gross Girls: Why Horror Needs Unpleasant Female Protagonists Carina StopenskiWhat Sleeps Beneath
 
On Promising Young Women (and the Nameless Men Who Get in Their Way) Pillow, Meg
 
Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism Zachary GillanAncillary Review of Books
 
Recipes for Horror in Graeco-Roman Magic and Medicine Sean CoughlinHorror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts, ed. George Kazantzidis and Chiara ThumigerBloomsbury Academic
 
Reclaiming the Future L. Marie WoodThe Martian TrilogyAmazing Stories LLC
 
Remembering Japan's Silent Film Narrators Pat CasselsAtlas ObscuraAtlas Obscura
 
Sins of the Mother: Complex Generational Trauma in Horror Mo MoshatyNightTide MagazineNightTide Magazine
 
Tender Is the Flesh-Eating: The Literary Cannibal as Exploitation and Desire Wen-yi LeeReactor
 
The H Word: Masks Michael KnostNightmare Magazine, Issue 152Adamant Press
 
The Heyday of Horror Hotlines and Why We Still Love to Fear the Phone Pat CasselsAtlas ObscuraAtlas Obscura
 
The Horror of Australian Literary Censorship Louise Zedda SampsonMidnight Echo #20Australasian Horror Writers Association
 
The Victorian American Ghost Story Jeffrey WeinstockThe Victorian Ghost StoryEdinburgh University Press
 
The ’90s Gothic Film Revival: "Bram Stoker’s Dracula", "The Craft", and Everything in Between Emma ColeReactor Magazine
 
Transformation and Motherhood in "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Omen" Emma ColeNighttide Magazine
 
Transformation and Motherhood in Rosemary's Baby and The Omen Emma ColeNight Tide Magazine
 
Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore Mo MoshatyRoutledge
 
Vampires and Vagabonds: Reveleaing Regional Haunts in Amerian Vampire Lore Mo MoshatyVampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First CenturyRoutledge
 
When 'Eat The Rich' Is Not Enough: Horror Meets Late Stage Capitalism Kirstyn McDermotthttps://ruadanbooks.com/category/thoughts-from-the-writers-desk/Ruadan Books
 
Why We Need More Queer Female Southern Gothic Elizabeth BroadbentGinger Nuts of Horror Ginger Nuts of Horror
 
Women & the Wars of Guillermo del Toro: Blood, Beds, and Monsters in The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, and The Shape of Water Danel OlsonWeird Fiction Review, Volume 13Centipede Press
 

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YOUNG-ADULT NOVEL

And The Trees Stare Back Gigi GriffisHoliday House
 
Eternal Ruin Tigest GirmaHachette
 
He's So Possessed With Me Corey Liu Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
 
Hollow Taylor GrothePeachtree Teen
 
Honeysuckle and Bone Trisha TobiasZando – Sweet July Books
 
I Am Made of Death Kelly AndrewScholastic Press
 
Saving Thornwood Julia Rust and David SurfaceNovelYAP Books - Haverhill House Publishing
 
The Best of All Worlds Kenneth OppelScholastic
 
The Dead of Summer Ryan La SalaPUSH
 
The Devouring Light Kat EllisHarperCollins
 
The Ghost of Black Hill Road Tom DeadyGreymore Publishing
 
The Haunting Between Us Paul Michael WintersMaelstrom Press
 
The Navigator Robert P. OttoneUndertaker Books
 
The Raven's Shadow Michael P. SpradlinMacabre Ink
 
The Scammer Tiffany D. JacksonQuill Tree Books
 
The Summer I Ate the Rich Maika Moulite and Maritza MouliteFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) - MacMillan Publishers?
 
The Veil Eamonn Bradleywww.darkveilsociety.comAmazon
 

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