Forget Valentine’s Day! February is for Horror: New Horror Coming Out This Month

Gothic by Philip Fracassi (Cemetery Dance, February 3)

Ever work a communicative astir a haunted desk? This was a archetypal for me. Tyson Parks is simply a fearfulness writer who receives an antique table for his 59th birthday. His spouse Sarah hopes the table volition reignite his creativity. But arsenic Tyson begins to usage his caller desk, helium starts feeling strange, convulsive urges. And his penning is much disturbing than thing he’s ever written before. Publishers are definite his caller publication is going to beryllium a hit, and Tyson volition halt astatine thing to support his newfound success.

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The Black Guy Dies First by Robin R. Means Coleman, PhD and Mark Harris (Gallery/Saga Press February 7)

Here’s a large fearfulness nonfiction book, retired conscionable successful clip for Black History Month. The Black Guys Dies First is the definitive exploration of the past of Black fearfulness films from fodder similar Spider Baby to the Oscar-winning Get Out and everything successful between. This publication is simply a must-read for each fearfulness movie aficionado.

Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (Gallery/Saga Press February 7)

Jade from My Heart is simply a Chainsaw is back. This book is acceptable 4 years after the events of that novel, and Jade is returning to her agrarian water municipality of Proofrock. On that precise aforesaid day, convicted Indigenous serial slayer Dark Mill South escapes from his situation transportation owed to a blizzard. Dark Mill South is coming to Proofrock for his ain reasons, to implicit his revenge killings for the 38 Dakota men who were hanged successful 1862.

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez (Hogarth, February 7)

You whitethorn cognize Mariana Enriquez from her abbreviated communicative collections, Things We Lost successful the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking successful Bed. Our Share of Night is Enriquez’s archetypal caller to beryllium translated into English. In this story, a begetter and his lad are grieving the tragic decease of the woman and parent they some loved. Now, they question unneurotic to the mother’s household home, wherever they larn of the strange, centuries-old concealed nine to which she belongs. The Order is simply a vampiric cult that volition halt astatine thing successful their hunt for eternal life. And present they’re aft Gaspar, the son.

The Spite House by Johnny Compton (Tor Nightfire, February 7)

The Spite House is a debut caller that’s been compared to The Babadook and Head Full of Ghosts. Eric Ross has near his wife, his house, and his mysterious past down and is connected the tally with his 2 daughters. When helium comes crossed an advertisement for a caretaker for the Masson House successful Degener, Texas, Eric thinks helium and his daughters mightiness person yet recovered refuge. But there’s 1 large catch: the Masson House is thought to beryllium 1 of the astir haunted places successful Texas.

Where Darkness Blooms by Andrea Hannah (Wednesday Books, February 21)

This caller is acceptable successful the municipality of Bishop, a spot that’s known for 3 things: recurring windstorms, a ample tract of sunflowers that stretches arsenic acold arsenic the oculus tin see, and women who spell missing. When 3 women spell missing, they permission daughters down who person to prime up the pieces and uncover startling secrets. Something atrocious has happened to their mothers, and they’re definite the townspeople cognize what it was.

Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality by Lindsay Wong (Penguin, February 21)

Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality is a postulation of unusual and often hilarious migrant fearfulness stories. These stories absorption connected women who haunt and person been haunted. Wong uses the supernatural, horror, and mythology to critique modern beingness and analyse what makes america human.

The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Harper, February 21)

Matt Ruff is returning to the satellite of Lovecraft Country for this communicative that’s a premix of humanities fabrication and cosmic horror. In the summertime of 1957, Atticus Turner and his begetter Montrose question to North Carolina to people the centennial of their ancestor’s flight from slavery. Meanwhile, Hippolyta, her lad Horace, and her person Letitia are connected a probe travel to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. Little bash they cognize that Caleb Braithwhite has returned, and he’s hunting for revenge.

Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder (Tor Nightfire, February 21)

From Bram Stoker Award–winning writer Lucy A. Snyder comes Sister, Maiden, Monster, the communicative of 3 women trying to past a nightmare. The full satellite has been ravished by a microorganism that transforms its victims successful horrifying ways. This cosmic fearfulness communicative follows these women’s journeys done this terrifying caller landscape, the planet’s disastrous transformation, and what comes after.

She is simply a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury YA, February 28)

This debut YA fearfulness caller is cleanable for fans of Mexican Gothic. When Jade Nguyen arrives successful Vietnam for a sojourn with her estranged father, each she wants to bash is grin and get on truthful she tin get distant with the assemblage wealth her begetter has promised her. But there’s thing unusual astir the location her begetter is restoring. Every night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls are thrumming. And the shade of a beauteous bride keeps leaving Jade cryptic warnings.

Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury (Margaret K McElderry, February 28)

Daisy sees dormant people, truthful successful navigating beingness successful Ontario, she’s wholly unsurprised by the magnitude of ghosts she sees walking the city. Her fellow breaking up with her? Now that is surprising. So erstwhile her parent inherits a secluded mansion, Daisy jumps astatine the accidental for an flight to a quieter life. But the location — and what’s wrong it — mightiness beryllium much than each of Daisy’s experiences with the supernatural person prepared her for. Flash guardant to 10 years later. Brittney’s hopeless to get distant from her abusive mother, and she’s rather definite that the publication her parent wrote astir a “Miracle Mansion” is simply a full sham. So what does Brittney determine to do? She takes her fashionable web series Haunted on determination to the mansion to find retired what happened determination 10 years earlier and exposure her mother’s lies.