Olivie Blake’s Dreamland sends an aspiring actress into a cursed Hollywood dynasty during a Los Angeles summer of murders and Santa Ana winds. A formally daring literary horror novel that fuses the gothic estate with the machinery of modern celebrity, even if the back half loosens its grip.
Juliet Blackwell’s The Séance Garden is a paranormal mystery that builds its horror through accumulated unease rather than cheap shocks. Set in Monterey and centred on a skeptical historian of the occult, this Gothic-tinged supernatural suspense novel asks what happens when the past refuses to stay buried.
Adrian Tchaikovsky has been writing cosmic horror and folk horror under a science fiction badge for years, and most horror readers missed it. His gothic horror novella Preaching to the Choir, out in August from Solaris, is the moment that excuse runs out. Here is why the Terrible Worlds: Transformations author belongs on your shelf.
