Last Updated: June 16, 2025
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits.
Why Did God Make the Tree?
by Tammy Gregg
Having abandoned his successful career as a horror novelist to return to his former profession of psychiatry, Dr. Patrick Denny has taken a position at Everston Psychiatric Hospital in Waylingbrooke, New Hampshire. In his attempt to untangle the mysteries of his patients’ troubled minds, Patrick’s own tormented past begins to bleed into his present, and the macabre storyteller that still dwells within him threatens to emerge. As stories seem to birth stories and reality loses its edges, Patrick must question whether his return to psychiatry offers deliverance or signals his final descent into madness.
The Staircase in the Woods
by Chuck Wendig
Twenty years after a childhood friend vanished on a mysterious staircase in the woods, a group of former high school friends reunites to uncover the truth, facing the dark secrets and horrors that await beyond the staircase.
Old Soul
by Susan Barker
In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they’ve both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since. Following traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country gathering chilling testimonies from others who encountered her across the decades–a trail of shattered souls that eventually leads him to Theo, a dying sculptor in rural New Mexico, who knows the woman better than anyone–and might just hold the key to who, or what, she is.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
At the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid-and it’s usually paid in blood.