10 Horror Books Coming Out This Month That Will Thrill and Chill

Thirty-five-year-old Kari James is an Indigenous woman living in Denver, CO. She’s spent most of her life willfully ignorant of her past. But everything changes when Kari’s cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother. The bracelet calls up the ghost of Kari’s dead mother, but that’s not all. Something else more sinister and monstrous is awakened as well. Now Kari must dig up her past to discover what happened to her mother all those years ago, even if no one else is able (or willing) to help her.

The Alien movies have always scared the heck out of me, and now, for the first time ever, we’re getting the story of Jenette Vasquez and her children, written by Latina horror author V. Castro. Jenette Vasquez’s children Ramon and Leticia were raised by Jenette’s sister. As adults, Leticia followed in her mother’s footsteps and joined the military. Ramon joined the corporate hierarchy of Weyland-Yutani. But their stories converge when both Ramon and Leticia arrive on an unnamed planet.

Cassandra Khaw, author of last year’s hit horror novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth, is back with a horror short story collection. In the stories, Khaw uses elements of body horror, supernatural horror, and psychological horror to explore the complexities of love, loss, and grief. These 23 bite-sized horror stories might be short, but they’ll stick with you.

In the middle of a snowstorm in a small village, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds the body of a local man, frozen to death. But the details aren’t adding up. It appears as if the man had been hiding from someone when he died. And he’s clutching a knife in his hand. And then there’s the strange mark that’s been etched into the stone beside his body. Then two more people are found dead, and as the storm rises, the body count just grows. And the power has just gone out.

Don’t you just love this cover? It’s like everything you thought you liked about the Baba Yaga. But better. And that’s how all of the stories in this anthology are. Featuring some of the most exciting women horror authors, Gwendolyn Kiste, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Mercedes M. Yardley, Monique Snyman, Donna Lynch, Lisa Quigley, and R. J. Joseph, these stories reimagine the woman, the witch, Baba Yaga.

This modern gothic story is set in the Olympic Hotel in the small village of Strega. Rafa joins eight other young women here to work and live in a dorm together. And yet while their bosses are very demanding, there are hardly ever any guests there. When the guests do finally arrive, there is a wild party, and following the party, one of the young women has disappeared.