New and Recent Gothic Horror

The Mexican authorities has been overthrown, and Beatriz is astatine a loss. In a man’s world, Beatriz needs to wed arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable to guarantee that she tin beryllium harmless and unafraid moving forward. So erstwhile the precocious widowed Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, she jumps astatine the opportunity. But was it a mistake to determination to Hacienda San Isidro? What really happened to his archetypal wife? Isolated, haunted by voices, it begins to dawn connected Beatriz that possibly this location is adjacent much unsafe than the 1 she near behind.

Content warnings for violence, death, rape, racism, abortion, parental death.

Rose Christie is excited to beryllium the archetypal prosecute successful rather a agelong clip astatine infamous, old-fashioned, accepted Caldonbrae boarding schoolhouse successful Scotland. She gets acceptable to dive into teaching a radical of young women each astir the classics successful her ain feminism-informed way. But past things commencement getting…weird. Caldonbrae’s medication takes connected powerfulness of lawyer for Rose’s parent without asking. People are intelligibly keeping secrets. It seems similar adjacent the girls cognize thing she doesn’t astir the school. As she discovers dark, atrocious secrets astir the school, she has to effort and fig retired if she tin prevention immoderate of her students — oregon if it’s already excessively precocious adjacent to prevention herself.

Content warnings for suicide, intersexual assault, adult/minor relationship, kid abuse, homophobia, racism.

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Lena’s household is connected the verge of collapse. Her begetter was injured and fired, and they request immoderate wealth they tin get to debar implicit ruin. So erstwhile the Verdeau household needs idiosyncratic to travel connected committee arsenic immoderate benignant of caretaker/assistant/servant, she jumps astatine the chance. But astatine their lavish mansion, betwixt caring for a sickly lad and trying to support the family’s screwups retired of the headlines, she starts to unravel a web of secrets that could alteration everything. Will Lena beryllium capable to debar the charms of sexy Audrey Verdeau? Will she beryllium capable to prevention her household without being buried by 1 of the astir illustrious families successful Boston? You’ll person to work to find out!

Content warnings for substance abuse, suicidal ideation, classism, violence, self-harm.

There aren’t capable Edgar Allan Poe retellings successful the satellite — but T. Kingfisher decided to assistance america retired with that occupation with this satisfyingly creepy rendition of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Alex is simply a retired worker who conscionable wants to sojourn a dying puerility friend, Madeline Usher, astatine her household home. But erstwhile Alex arrives, it’s instantly wide that thing is profoundly wrong. Alex and caller friend, mycologist Eugenia Potter, indispensable fig retired what’s incorrect with the location earlier it’s taken implicit from the wrong by a shuddering, atmospheric, fungal horror.

Content warnings for assemblage horror, carnal death, suicide, transphobia.

Charm is simply a necromancer, a witch, imprisoned, caring for the mysterious bony trees astir her property, and moving arsenic the madam of a whorehouse for the almighty nobles of Borenguard (just 1 thing: the whores aren’t exactly…real). And each Tuesday, the Emperor visits, and sleeps with Charm herself. Except for this Tuesday. This time, Charm is forced to sojourn the Emperor connected his deathbed. He wants her to fig retired which of his sons killed him. In exchange, she’ll beryllium released from her prison. As she sets retired to uncover this twisty, tangled mystery, the scholar solves their ain enigma of what precisely the bony trees are, what Charm herself is, and however it volition each travel together.

Content warnings for violence, suicide, pedophilia, rape, forced institutionalization, parental death.

Catherine House is the eventual boarding schoolhouse of the power-hungry. The deal: successful speech for the prestige and occurrence you’ll get aft graduation, you perpetrate to spending not conscionable 4 years there, but each 3 summers. You don’t get to spell home. You volition beryllium with Catherine House until it’s clip to beryllium granted the occurrence they promised you.

When Ines archetypal arrives, she loves it there. She thought it would beryllium rigid and boring, but finds the students person rich, amusive societal lives. She and her somewhat out-of-place, striving-for-acceptance roommate Baby turn close. But erstwhile thing happened to Baby, Ines is forced to instrumentality a harder look astatine Catherine House and its strangeness. Is determination thing darker lurking down its rules?

Content warnings for forced institutionalization, substance abuse, carnal cruelty, suicide.

If I had a nickel for each Sarah Gailey publication I fell successful emotion with, I’d person a nickel for each publication they’ve written. Just Like Home was nary exception. Vera has travel location astatine her mother’s request. She didn’t privation to travel home. After all, her begetter was a serial killer, and she loved him, and she’s ne'er rather dealt with the fallout. Not to mention, the municipality hates her for her transportation to him — and her parent for turning the location into a tourer attraction.

But present Vera’s back, taking attraction of her terminally sick parent and trying to assistance hole the location for vacancy. Except that she keeps uncovering notes successful her father’s handwriting. And she’s beauteous definite that something’s hiding nether her furniture astatine night. Is her father’s shade — oregon that of his victims — really astatine rest? Or are determination much secrets to uncover?

Content warnings for assemblage horror, torture, violence, affectional abuse, parental death.

Mira was blessed to permission her tiny Southern municipality down a agelong clip ago. Now she’s returning location for a bully friend’s wedding, which volition beryllium held connected the rumored-to-be-haunted Woodsman plantation. She’s excited to spot Celine, not to notation Jesse — her aged crush, who she hasn’t seen since the nighttime helium astir got arrested due to the fact that of a dare-gone-wrong. Unfortunately, the 3 of them rapidly find retired that contempt the plantation’s attempts to erase each of its darkest history, the spot is precise overmuch inactive haunted — by modern racism arsenic good arsenic ghosts of the not-so-distant past.

Content warnings for racism, slavery, torture, rape.

Climate catastrophe is worse than ever, and 2 refugees are trying to get retired eastbound to flight the worst of the heat. In desperation, they effort to get down into the mines of a shade town, successful hopes that determination volition beryllium h2o pooling successful there. But past a ladder breaks, and they’re trapped successful the acheronian with thing but breached bones and a mysterious aged diary to read, they statesman to regret their choices. Not to mention, the diary speaks of a clip erstwhile the municipality was haunted by a curse of unusual creatures that sucked radical dry. A curse that came from the excavation itself.

Content warnings for violence, claustrophobia, assemblage horror, kid death, ableism, intersexual assault.

Tough, stubborn socialite Noemí goes to the High Place determined to bring her relative home. Ever since her relative joined into this English household and their mansion up successful the mountains, Noemí and her begetter person been receiving disturbing letters from her astir thing acheronian going connected successful the mansion. Now, Noemí confronts the information of the isolated spot — from the stiff, backstage household occupying the mansion, who importune that her sister is conscionable fine, to her eerie dreams of mushrooms and slime, to a last condemnation that each is decidedly not close astatine High Place.

Content warnings for intersexual assault, racism, assemblage horror, violence.