April Will Be the Stuff of Nightmares with These New Horror Releases

S.A. Barnes nails the horror/sci-fi combo every time, and this book is another hit. When she finds herself at the center of a political scandal, Halley hides out in a space barge that houses the cryogenically frozen bodies of some of the world’s wealthiest people. The place should be completely empty aside from the frozen bodies, and yet Halley is certain she here’s something moving around in the dark, slithering in the vents, making strange scratching sounds.

From Ronald Malfi, the bestselling author of Come with Me, comes a new horror novel that is described as “Zodiac with teeth.” Set in Los Angeles, Senseless follows three characters whose stories intertwine. There’s Detective Bill Renney, who is investigating a potential serial killer. There’s Maureen Park, who is newly engaged to Hollywood producer Greg Dawson, whose son Landon she finds deeply unsettling. Then there’s Toby Campen, who becomes obsessed with a woman who loves to bite with her rattlesnake teeth.

Nat Cassidy’s When the Wolf Comes Home is a monster horror novel unlike anything you’ve ever experienced. When struggling actress Jess comes across a five-year-old boy hiding outside of her apartment, the two end up going on the run, fighting to escape the clutches of the boy’s violent father. But everywhere they go, horrible things happen all around them. Now Jess wonders how much of it might be because of the boy.

As horror fans, you’ve probably heard the legends about staircases in the woods. This just makes Chuck Wendig’s latest novel all the more haunting.

This is the story of five high school friends who, while camping in the woods, find a mysterious staircase that leads to nowhere. Then one of the friends goes up the stairs and never comes back.

Now, 20 years later, the staircase reappears, and it’s time for the friends to reunite to discover what happened to the one that disappeared.

Horror author Paul Tremblay calls Kylie Lee Baker’s new novel “a compelling, gory, ghostly romp.” Crime scene cleaner Cora Zeng has seen truly horrifying messes at her job, but nothing comes close to witnessing her sister being pushed in front of a train. The trauma continues to play over and over in her head, especially the words the murder shouted at her before fleeing the scene: “Bat Eater.” She fights to set these thoughts aside to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell open. Still, Cora can’t seem to tell the difference between fiction and reality anymore, and she keeps finding bad carcasses at crimes scenes. It’s almost like a message waiting for her.