Tejano Tales to Tell in the Dark

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Released May 27, 2025. Order the eBook and paperback here.

There is a rich Tejano folklore that runs through the heart of Texas. Tales often shared by teens involving La Lechuza and La Llorona, werewolves and Chupacabra, even giant armadillos. But there’s so much more, so many fun, and often sinister, twists…

When sisters go looking for a legend in Caddo Lake State Park, or a group of friends park their car on the local train tracks chasing ghosts, they soon discover there’s more to the story than what has been passed down. Who is the Hot Dog Man? Can a carnival game grant wishes or predict devastation? Should you eat the catfish in Medina Lake?

Find out in V. Castro’s story collection Tejano Tales to Tell in the Dark!

The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion

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Order the eBook and paperback here! Released April 21st, 2025. This is Ivy Grimes’ debut novel.

Ruby is almost happy with her secluded life deep in the forest with her mother and sister Opal. But when her mother gets sick, Ruby decides to provide for her family the only way she knows how: by marrying the enigmatic owner of a bizarre mansion, and dutifully serving as hostess to his strange parties. There’s just one problem: what happened to all his previous wives? The answer is stranger than Ruby could have imagined…

“If you ever wished Kurt Vonnegut and Karen Russell had written a quirky gothic ghost story about complicated histories, family secrets, maze-like mansions, alchemy, and talking possums, then this is the book for you! A fun romp all the way through!”

Corey Farrenkopf, author of Living in Cemeteries

“The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion is somehow as disturbing as it is delightful. An American Bluebeard on shrooms. Ivy Grimes writes with the wry humor of Brautigan and the dream-like disconnectedness of Murakami and always brings something new to the table. You will get sucked right into this strangely familiar or familiarly strange culty community, where two sisters confront and untangle a poisonous local history. It’s a surreal Southern Gothic with one part tender character work and two parts uh oh what the hell was that, and you’re not going to read anything else quite like it.”

Thomas Ha

The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion expertly blends a fairytale atmosphere with contemporary dread and philosophy to create an unforgettable tale. With whimsical anachronisms alongside dashes of magic, humor, and of course glass, this is much more than a reimagining of Bluebeard, but a thought-provoking dissection of identity, loyalty, and love.”

Emma E. Murray, author of Crushing Snails

The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion takes you into its fold of rural castles, child-prophets, and ornery spirits with the graceful weirdness of modern folklore. Disarming, fully-realized, and without compromise, Ivy Grimes continues to bludgeon genre constraints and expectations in this barn-burning debut novel.” 

Matthew Mitchell, author of Chaindevils

Illuminated by fantastical and surreal imagery, with bizarre (and often surprising) turns of event, The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion is a beautiful chimera of fiction, both familiar and somehow entirely unique. Ivy Grimes’ work cannot be categorized, and furthermore, shouldn’t be—it is its own radiant, hybrid thing, free from constraints of genre or expectation, and is all the more radiant for it.

TJ Price, author of The Disappearance of Tom Nero

Melancholy Delusions

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Order the eBook or paperback here! Released Jan 28, 2025.

Melancholy Delusions is Yolanda Sfetsos’ debut story collection. A dark gathering of 17 melancholy horror tales where mothers, lovers, friends and monsters intersect with disastrous and tragic consequences.

A Haunted Holiday

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A Haunted Holiday is the second book in Elford Alley’s Haunted Holidays series. Check out the Halloween book A Cemetery Stroll here.

Ebook and paperback available here! Great for ages 3-9.

“Maybe we’ll see a ghost tonight!”

The first big family holiday in years is here and Hazel is feeling overwhelmed! When she escapes into the chilly night, she finds an old friend in an even older house nearby. They sit by the fire and tell each other ghost stories. What Hazel doesn’t know is her friend is saving the best story for last…

Join Hazel for a haunted holiday!

Mason Gorey

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Order the paperback or eBook here! Released October 8th.

Camp Kaatskill near the small New York town of Wildham was once an idyllic spot for summer and fall getaways. Surrounded by a wild thicket of black walnut, aspen, and evergreen, reflected by the reservoir and overshadowed by its dam. Camp Kaatskill seemed like the perfect destination for young Rachel Starck to spend her summer interning and experiencing the world beyond England.

But this Catskill hamlet harbors a dark secret, a sordid past, and an ancient curse that demands a blood toll each summer. Unbeknownst to Rachel, her own familial history is intricately entwined with that of Wildham, and her arrival will spark a conflagration of murder and mayhem unlike any the town has seen before.

Told in verse and prose poetry, Mason Gorey: A Haunting Catskill Elegy is an epic serial killer yarn; a tragedy; an exercise in monstrosity and brutality that culminates in an achingly human story.

The Nested Man

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Order the eBook and paperback here! Released August 13th.

Frank Hastane is an anthropology professor attempting to decode a notorious grimoire known as the Atrum Res. Frank’s uprooted his family and moved across the country to take up teaching responsibilities at Rawlson University, an institution with a checkered past. Soon he begins to discover the terrifying truth about the grimoire, his supervisors at Rawlson, and his own identity and past connection to the book.

The Nested Man is a supernatural thriller from award-winning novelist and screenwriter Mark Steensland.

Mark Steensland is the author of the award-winning novel Behind the Bookcase (Random House) and winner of Best Script at Shriekfest Horror Film Festival in Thriller and Horror (2021, 2015). He started his professional career at the age of 18, as a journalist, writing about movies for such magazines as Prevue and American Cinematographer. His award-winning work as a filmmaker has been featured in festivals around the world. Mark’s novel for adults, The Special, was published in 2018 and has been made into a feature film. He most recently wrote feature film, Jakob’s Wife, starring Barbara Crampton (Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless), which premiered at SXSW ’21 and has received a positive buzz (recent write up in the Los Angeles Times) and has already won awards. He currently lives in California with his wife and their three children.

There’s Something Sinister in Center Field

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Released June 25th. Order the eBook and paperback here!

There’s Something Sinister in Center Field by Robert P. Ottone was a winner of the 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel, tying with Eden Royce’s The Creepening of Dogwood House. The book is a horror novel about a baseball team that must face ghoulish specters at a creepy ballfield with a cemetery behind center field.

Casey knew the Owera Valley Kingfishers were slated to win it all. With star center fielder Danny surrounded by a motley crew of talented little leaguers, she knew the team was poised to mimic New York’s own Yankees for dominance that season. 

That is until Casey’s dad, the coach of the Kingfishers, made a scheduling mistake which forced the team to practice at a historic and altogether too-creepy ballfield. 

A ballfield with a secret. 

A ballfield with a cemetery just beyond center field.

With Danny’s very soul in the balance, the Kingfishers must face a gang of ghoulish spectres in a winner-take-all best of three series. Can the team come together under Casey’s leadership and win the most important series of their young lives?

Harvesting the Nightmare Fields

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Released September 10th. Order the eBook or paperback here!

xxxx awakes to the nightmare of a broken mind and body, at the mercy of a local farmer with a dark, abominable secret, who pulls him from the twisted wreck of his car.

As he recovers, clawing his way back through tortured memories and twisted nightmares, xxxx realizes the person he fights to remember should have been best left forgotten, buried alongside the truth of his own personal demons.

And those demons are breaking through into reality…

​​​​​​​Harvesting the Nightmare Fields is the latest novel from Bram Stoker Award-nominated author Ross Jeffery.

Words Made of Flesh

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Order the paperback and eBook here! Released July 11th.

New Bedford, 1899

Harrison Quire has a problem. Haunted by memories of his lover, he’s only lingered on the periphery of a life. When he visits the Whisperers’ Club to hear a few horror stories, he never expects he’ll become one.

Late one winter night, Harrison hears old George Burgess tell his tale of an unusual book. The book, Burgess explains, is made of flesh. It is alive. And so hungry. Harrison is soon enthralled by the story, but will he be consumed by it?

Words Made of Flesh is the latest novella from Shirley Jackson Award-winning author R. A. Busby.

The Truest Sense

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Now available in eBook and paperback here! Released June 11th.

From Laura Keating, author of Agony’s Lodestone, come fifteen new tales of terror to torment the senses. In this collection, Horror is…

  • The last moments of a team of doomed archeologists, lost in a cave that defies time, trapped with unspeakable, moving images, and a strange, grinning presence…
  • The white-eyed children gathered behind an abandoned kissing gate, and the ragged-toothed queen no one believes is real…
  • The celebrity demonologists, confident in their abilities and faith – until they meet a grotesque new Adversary…
  • The odd little girl of many skills who is followed by four yellow birds – and a gruesome secret…
  • The mysterious person atop an old lighthouse, searching for salvation and caught in a desperate race from the law – and themself…
  • The town trapped in the thrall of a shadowy, alien force; compelled to forget and to build – by whatever means and material available…

Horror is…

THE TRUEST SENSE