Three Mississippian brothers abandon their Confederate posts, only to encounter fresh miseries on the road home, in Philip Fracassi’s riveting horror novel "Sarafina". Ethan, a twin and the youngest of three brothers, tires of the... Read More

Southern Gothic meets feminist, supernatural horror in Allison Cundiff’s thrilling novel "The Mysterious Women of J Road", in which a gifted woman raised on the righteous side of an Ozarks divide is forced toward self-reckoning. The... Read More

Part maternal and filial lament, part horror story, Kirsten Kaschock’s eerie, enrapturing novel follows a biological experiment gone wrong. In a Pennsylvania barn, grief-driven Agnes tinkers with crow DNA, hoping to nurture a specimen... Read More

Bar Fridman-Tell’s aching and alarming novel "Honeysuckle" is part star-crossed love story, part allegory about human attempts to effect dominion over nature. Eight-year-old Rory is distraught when his older sister, Wynne, outgrows... Read More

A vampire invades Woodstock in the entertaining graphic novel "Woodstake". In 1927 in upstate New York, a vampire awakens. Van Helsing helps to put the soul of a bitten woman to rest, but the vampire escapes, hibernating for years until... Read More

"The Returned Child" is a foreboding, lush fantasy novel in which teenagers navigate the mysteries of their home. An ancient evil stalks the woods of rural Maine in Levi Peltier’s chilling horror novel "The Returned Child". There is... Read More

"Bloodletting a Butterfly" is an intricate narrative poetry collection that speaks to the trauma of witnessing human pain. Alec B. Hood’s gothic poetry collection "Bloodletting a Butterfly" probes experiences of trauma. In striking... Read More

A reeking yellow mist of unknown provenance haunts people across periods, assuming familiar, deadly patterns, in the foreboding literary novel "Traverse". The mysteries behind a pungent yellow fog and the unspeakable horrors left in its... Read More