Tor Nightfire’s August 2026 debut from Max Doty reinvents the haunted house novel with no ghost at all, only a property that eats the dead and unmakes the record of them. Our review digs into the complicity horror at its core, the class and money threaded underneath, and why this domestic horror lingers long after the last page.
Dark Tide 20: Urban Legends brings together three horror novellas from Leigh Kenny, Dan Franklin, and Nick Roberts, published by Crystal Lake Publishing. Our review breaks down a haunted house, a mother’s dread, and a podcast summoning that all go badly wrong. Three flavours of fear, one frightening finish each.
Jonathan Janz turns a small-town urban legend into a slow-burn gothic nightmare about grief, guilt and the girl everyone was too scared to actually see.
Josh Hanson’s The House on Blood Street is literary haunted house horror with a giallo heart, a story about obsession and grief that makes the house feel like yours before it takes everything away. Here is my full review of the Black Crow Books release, out 29 July 2026.
