Then We’ll Be Safe by Jes Hart Stone is just 99¢ on Kindle until September 4th! A limited-time chance to grab your next dark read for less than a dollar. Set against the stark beauty of 1970s British Columbia, Then We’ll Be Safe is a gripping psychological thriller about childhood pain, abuse, and neglect, and about the lies we tell ourselves in our desperate need to be loved. Crystal Lynn Harsh takes revenge on her mother’s abusive boyfriend’s fingers with a pair of tree loppers. Majorca Fairhaven catches her boyfriend cheating and sends his car sinking into a lake. Two teenage girls. Two violent turning points. Strangers from opposite worlds, they form a fierce bond while fleeing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Their path takes them along the notorious Highway of Tears—one of Canada’s most dangerous and isolated stretches of road—where hitchhiking becomes survival and survival becomes something darker. As their crime spree escalates, the wilderness itself turns hostile: poisonous insects, predatory wildlife, and the psychological weight of what they’ve done. Their only hope is to reach Crystal’s grandmother’s home—because then, they believe, they’ll finally Continue Reading

Today is the release of Flesh of All Sorrows by author Jeffrey J. Mariotte. Daniel Mansfield Jr. has spent his life in the shadow of a legend. His father—the celebrated police chief who ended the reign of The Bookbinder, a serial killer who used the flesh of his victims to bind his books—left Daniel a name to live up to and a department to inherit. Now Daniel sits in that same chair, in that same town of Sossaman, Arizona, carrying that same weight. Then a young woman turns up dead bearing The Bookbinder’s unmistakable signature. The problem is Brian Quintana, the man Daniel’s father arrested, has been behind bars for nearly forty years. Which means either an imitator is at work, or Daniel’s father put the wrong man away. As clues pile up and another victim disappears, Daniel must confront the most dangerous question of his career: what if the legacy he has dedicated his life to protecting was built on a lie? Meanwhile, Johnathan Ottilie is unraveling a secret of his own, one that connects his family directly to The Bookbinder’s dark history in ways he never imagined and cannot outrun. Two families. Two inherited sins. One small Arizona […]

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Pain Is a Chain. Move, and I’ll Hear You by Erik Hofstatter Aqueduct Press (July 2026) Reviewed by Joshua Gage Erik Hofstatter is a prose poet of brutality and elegance. He explores the darkest depths of what we’re capable of without flinching. Born in the wild lands of the Czech Republic, he roamed Europe before … Continue Reading! "Review: Pain is a Chain. Move, and I’ll Hear You"

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The Craven Companion: The Films That Shaped a Generation of Horror Storytellers is edited by Dustin Pinney, and will tentatively be released in April 2027. Introduction by Mick Garris. With essays by Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Nick Roberts, Angela Yuriko Smith, Cameron Chaney, Jamal Hodge, Nikki DeKeuster, Shane Morin, Kevin Lucia, Jessie Earl (aka Jessie Gender), K.L. Young, Ken Reid, Mike Davis, S.C. Fisher, Robert Ottone, Maxwell I. Gold, and Joe Mynhardt. Editor Dustin Pinney is a neurodivergent writer and editor living in Central, NY. He’s worked as a screenwriter, copywriter, entertainment features writer, and ghostwriter for almost two decades. Under his former pseudonym, Mark Guyer, he released the horror novel Nostalgiamares: Phantom Delivery and co-authored Mochi’s Grimoire for Space & Time. Finding pen names more trouble than they’re worth, he recently decided to drop it and return to the plain moniker given to him at birth. Devoting a book to the work of Wes Craven has been a dream of his since middle school and he still can’t believe it actually exists now. He writes a lot about mental health, creat Continue Reading

His Martian Apprentice Chaz Brenchley

Sherlock Holmes is frustrated. His mind is as sharp as ever, but his body, well– old age. His doctors have recommended that he retire to Mars, where the lower gravity will be easier on him, and he’ll be away from the… More

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #465 Denzel Xavier Scott et al.

Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Denzel Xavier Scott and Abhijeet Sathe and cover art by Sam Jumisko.… More

The Tongue I Dream In Sheree Renée Thomas

The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.

This book of poems, stories, and essays draws together examples illustrating a mind immersed in Black legends and white myths, and … More

ROAD TO STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES’ OFF THE RESERVATION: An Obsessive’s Fiction Review Column  by Spencer Hamilton Last time we spoke, I recommended you read my picks for what I called the SGJ Starter Pack—Night of the Mannequins; Killer on the Road/The Babysitter Lives; I Was a Teenage Slasher—and here you are now, ready for more. That, my … Continue Reading! "The Road to OFF THE RESERVATION: An Obsessive’s Fiction Review Column"

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Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Vintage Books (August 18, 2026) Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II, edited by Shane Hawk (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (enrolled … Continue Reading! "Review: Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II"

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A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong.

1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante’s Inferno by heart and fears her mother’s reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby. Madalena is confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will do right by her and propose. But just as she is about to tell him about the baby, a violent storm sends their carriage careening off the road.

Madalena awakens in Leandro’s sprawling, secluded home, under the care of the mysterious and larger-than-life Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there . . . but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He’s silent. Obsessed. Always watching.

Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something—or someone—ghastly in the reflection.

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If you've ever been curious about or wanted to create, edit, and publish an anthology, Brian Keene, Stephen Kozeniewski, Johannah Simon, and LP Kindred take you step-by-step through the process, with real talk about what to do -- and what not to do -- in such an endeavor.

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The paperback and digital editions of BENEATH THE LOST LEVEL are now available for preorder. Release Date is December 15th, 2026 but if you preorder now, you’ll save 30%!

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Charged with another impossible task, with only their wits, weapons, and a group of helpful frog-people to aid them, Aaron and his friends must fight to escape from… Beneath the Lost Level.

After escaping the snake-like Anunnaki and laying waste to their city, Aaron Pace finds that his troubles are far from over. Trapped underground in a cave-in with his companions, Kasheena and Patamoose, the survivors must go deeper to try and find a new way to reach the surface. Little do they know, there’s a whole other world laying in wait.

If being faced with killer robots, dementia-riddled androids, and the last dregs of the civilization of Atlantis wasn’t enough, Aaron an Continue Reading

The German-language edition of the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, Los Angeles Time bestselling, Washington Post bestelling, and yet oddly enough Bram Stoker Award losing anthology THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING’S THE STAND, edited by Brian Keene and Christopher Golden, is now available in both hardcover and for Kindle.

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