Spooky season is here! And we’ve got some frighteningly good reads to accompany those long, cold nights, if you’re feeling brave enough … From British horror film recommendations to nail-biting supernatural novels and chilling folk horror, there’s something here for every Halloween fan. Be warned though, you might need to sleep with the lights on after reading… 🎃🎃
Unhallowed Gifts
Edited by Dan Coxon
Dead Ink Books | 9781917792387 | Hardback | £20 | Out now
A spine-tingling collection of objects and curiosities that turn against their owners!
Penned by modern masters of the weird and uncanny, and packaged as a beautiful naked hardback with sprayed edges. Sometimes your possessions own you. Delve into twelve terrifying stories that reimagine a tradition that stretches back over a century to W.W. Jacobs’ ‘The Monkey’s Paw’. Discover the antique brooch possessed by a malignant spirit; the sewing needle that demands a bloody sacrifice; a cardboard cutout animated by the restless dead; a secret so unholy that even its likeness has the power to send people mad.
Unhallowed Gifts proves that fear comes in many forms — and not all gifts are given with your best interests in mind. Featuring stories by: Paul Tremblay, Charlie Higson, Evelyn Hollow, Eric LaRocca, Daisy Johnson, Laura Purcell, Jeremy Dyson, Muriel Gray, Robert Shearman, Lucie McKnight Hardy, John Langan, and Matt Hill.
British Horror Films 2000-2019
By M. J Simpson
Headpress | 9781915316608 | Paperback | £19.99 | Out now
These are not the British horror films you know and this book is your guide to a whole new world of fear.
Welcome to the new blood. Since the turn of the millennium, British horror cinema has enjoyed an unprecedented boom with hundreds of movies produced and released, often to little or no fanfare. This comprehensive guide collects together more than 400 British horror features: the good and the bad, the well-known and the undeservedly obscure. From high profile hits like 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead to backyard indie films shot for a few hundred pounds, British Horror Films 2000-2019 documents a new breed of extraordinary film-making. In an age when movies do not always play in cinemas, but can be distributed through many channels in numerous territories around the world, tracking down a recommended film can be a Herculean task.
This book explores the twenty-first century landscape, not only reviewing each film but also providing accurate credits and production background, as well as release details and availability.
Mothersucker
By Kim Bohyun; Translated by Archana Madhavan
Dead Ink Books | 9781917792417 | Paperback | £11.99 | Out now
A supernatural revenge novel that blends crime and horror in a bloodthirsty ode to female rage!
A chilling Korean revenge novel, blending crime and horror, about a mother whose grief transforms her into a murderous bloodsucker and the detective on her trail, for fans of Kanae Minato, Cheon Seon-ran, and Yoko Ogawa.
A male victim, posing as if in prayer, burnt beyond recognition but otherwise intact. No traces of the assailant. Detective Jin-seon Noh is called to the scene but soon discovers this case is unlike anything she’s seen before. The man was killed with startling force and drained of his blood. Jin-seon learns that the victim had recently been accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend, and as more men turn up murdered, a pattern begins to emerge: all of these men are guilty of heinous crimes against women. Buried underneath a mound of soil on a mountain top, Geum-hong had woken up transformed. Now her senses are vivid, she has phenomenal strength, and her appetite is deadly. The last thing she can recall of her old life is grief. Before losing consciousness, she’d been scattering the ashes of her only daughter, who was brutally murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Geum-hong has no idea how long she’s been simmering beneath the earth, in fact, the confines of linear time no longer mean much to her. All she knows is that despite her transformation, her rage remains… Leaping between a diverse cast of female perspectives, Mothersucker is a propulsive, lacerating exploration of power and bigotry, which examines the monsters that make us and the monsters we become.
Morsels
By Abe Moss
Evil Twin | 9781638935827 | Paperback | £14.99 | Out now
A relentlessly fast-paced supernatural horror from a striking new talent.
Connie can’t deny she’s nervous about meeting her boyfriend’s family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan has already given her fair warning that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles. So when Evan’s mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. Evan’s parents are nothing like he described. They’re so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they’re real. Then, while helping with dinner, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement — what almost sounds like voices calling out for help. Connie doesn’t realise that once the door is opened, it can’t be closed. Or that once she descends those rickety steps into the darkness below… she may never see the light of day again.
Beasts of England
Edited by Nathan Connolly
Dead Ink Books | 9781917792868 | Hardback | £20 | Out now
A collection of frightening folk horror, featuring England’s strangest mythical creatures!
A folk horror anthology of ten terrifying mythical creatures that lurk between England’s borders, from some of the country’s leading authors. Presented in a beautifully illustrated hardback with sprayed edges. From time immemorial, the landscapes of England have stoked the flames of imagination, in which new and evolving terrors have been forged. For the Romans, England was a fog-bound half-mythical island at the edge of the world, a land of terrifying wonders. For Geoffrey of Monmouth it was a place in which giants resided. Glidas saw a sinful island abandoned by God and ravaged by divine judgement, whilst Bede saw a chosen land of miracles and divine intervention.
Covering all four corners of this green and unpleasant land, these ten short stories explore the rich mythology, folklore and urban legend that flourishes here. From ancient forests and the things that lurk in their shadows, to desolate moorland, lakes and cities, these authors will take you on a journey of discovery and introduce you to creatures that will haunt your steps eternally.
In Your Heart a Devil
By Vanessa Santos
Dead Ink Books | 9781917792226 | Hardback | £18.99 | Out now
Rebecca meets Mexican Gothic in Bluebeard’s castle!
Inspired by local Scottish folklore, In Your Heart a Devil is a gothic tale of love and alienation, full of loneliness, yearning, and the unholiest of unions. For years bonfires have been lit by superstitious villagers in the town of S – , intended to ward off the spirit of the man who was once their Laird. His widow still watches from the window of the big empty house on the hill. Isabel has heard the rumours about her husband, but only she knows what went on behind closed doors. Because behind every enigmatic man there is a woman with a heart full of secrets. It was decades ago that she left her grief-shadowed home in Portugal and began her search for her father. As her investigation led her to the rugged landscapes of Scotland, she couldn’t have foreseen the dark heart that was to win over her own. Misled into a loveless marriage and confined to a dark manor so unlike the sun-drenched home she left behind, she quickly came to know the sharp pulse of longing and the deeper wound of nd the deeper wound of rejection. And then He arrived; a man so different from anyone she’d met before, a man the villagers feared, a man who evoked the burning desire in her husband that she had so ached for.
A gothic tale of unrequited longing and unfathomable betrayal, In Your Heart a Devil beckons readers through unforgiving halls where servants whisper and shadows stir, into chambers where forbidden vows are bound in candlelight; and into the heart of a woman who is ready to emerge from her husband’s mythologised shadow to tell her own story.
Fall of the House of Slaughter
By James Tynion IV & Werther Dell’Edera; Illustrated by Tate Brombal & Adriano Turtulici
BOOM! Studios | 9798217384013 | Paperback | £14.99 | Out 27th October 2026
A new era rises from the ashes of the House of Slaughter in this thrilling new chapter!
The House of Slaughter has suffered war, betrayal, and the shattering revelations that brought its legacy to the brink — but in the aftermath of those final events and with the destruction of their house, new threats still await and a dangerous question begins to rise: What happens when the monsters aren’t the only things worth fearing? Eisner- and GLAAD-nominated writer Tate Brombal and cartoonist Adriano Turtulici reveal what’s become of the House and its surviving hunters in this thrilling follow-up to the breakout spin-off series, now available for the first time ever in one complete edition! Collects Fall of the House of Slaughter #1— 4.
The Porcelain Sisters
By Daryl Gregory
Tachyon Publications | 9781616964719 | Paperback | £15.99 | Out 27th October 2026
Two sisters — one a living porcelain doll — must outwit witches, demons, and immortal assassins to claim their birth right!
A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant — and literally porcelain — sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses.
In his newest adventure from the world of Harrison the Monster Detective, Daryl Gregory (Spoonbenders) takes us on a dizzying yet poignant romp through the horrors of sisterhood. Ruth Winslow is trying to save up enough money to finish college while looking after her sister, Isabel — who happens to be a haunted doll. When an accident severely damages Isabel’s porcelain body, the sisters have to find the only woman who can fix her, the fearsome witch known as La Fabricante: the Dollmaker. The sisters head to Marseille, where they take on Le Clan: Chiffon, a red-headed, unkillable assassin; a collection of angry, haunted dolls; plus a pair of demons — one a cigarette-smoking crow, the other a black cat — and their human familiars. Along the way, the sisters learn that they’ve been lied to their entire lives…
