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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Occult Horror · Suspense
Our take
In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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Ideal for readers looking for folklore-esque monster romance with dark atmosphere, locked-door fear, and dangerous obsession.
Starve
Horror · Occult Horror · Paranormal Romance
Our take
Starve follows a woman who escapes Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium only to be followed by an ancient, hungry presence that knows her scent and blood, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for folklore-esque monster romance with dark atmosphere, locked-door fear, and dangerous obsession.
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All it took was one time.
One breakdown and I ended up behind the locked doors of Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium.
Something is wrong here.
It whispers through the cracked windows, coils beneath the floorboards, and breathes in the frozen Washington air that never truly warms, even in the summer.
Something hungry.
At night, the screaming starts. I’m locked in like prey, and the dark watches with hollow eyes. When someone—or something—finally sets me free, it isn’t a mercy. Because whatever haunted Bluebone Ridge followed me out. It’s ancient… starving. And now it knows my scent and the taste of my blood.
He doesn’t know whether to devour me or claim me.
But either way, I’m sure I won’t survive unchanged.
STARVE is a MF standalone, folklore-esque monster romance. It does not end in a cliffhanger, and contains quite a few aspects readers should be aware of. For a full list of potential triggers, please check the front of the book.
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The Bad Box is good for readers who like supernatural horror with serial killers, haunted places, and malevolent ancient forces.
The Bad Box
Horror · Occult Horror
Our take
Sarah flees from two murderous stalkers only to find herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare of buried victims, haunted houses, and an ancient evil force, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. The Bad Box is good for readers who like supernatural horror with serial killers, haunted places, and malevolent ancient forces.
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Sarah Temple hopes to find a bit of peace and quiet when she leaves her abusive boyfriend, but instead she finds a world of horror. It’s bad enough that a sadistic serial killer and another maniac are both trying to murder her, but what’s worse is the mysterious Solitary One who controls both of them, a malevolent entity that the serial killer describes as a living darkness, a man and yet not a man, something that’s alive and yet not alive, something that wants to appall the world.
Trying to flee from the two killers, Sarah finds herself running deeper and deeper into a deadly supernatural trap, a place where people are buried alive, where ghastly apparitions mutter in the dark, where demented killers prowl, where a crumbling haunted house can drive its victims mad with terror, and where something buried for a very long time may walk again.
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Kara thought moving into her uncle’s house was a fresh start—until she discovered a hidden portal to alternate realities.
The Hollow Places
Horror · Occult Horror
Our take
Kara thought moving into her uncle’s house was a fresh start—until she discovered a hidden portal to alternate realities. These worlds are filled with terrifying creatures that grow stronger the more she fears them. Now, with reality slipping away, Kara must face her darkest nightmares or risk being consumed by them.
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Kara discovers a portal to alternate realities in her uncle's house, where fear-feeding creatures lurk, blurring the line between reality and madness.
Freshly divorced and moving back to her uncle’s house, Kara is trying to rebuild her life. She’s stuck—until she finds a strange portal hidden behind a wall, leading her to a bizarre underground bunker.
What begins as curiosity spirals into terror when Kara discovers the portal leads to alternate realities. Worse, these worlds are inhabited by nightmarish creatures that feed on fear. The more Kara confronts them, the stronger they become.
With the line between reality and madness blurring, Kara must find a way to escape before her fears consume her entirely.
But can she survive what’s waiting beyond the next portal?
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In the shadowy woods of Connecticut, 1666, an ancient force stirs, feared as a demon by colonists but known as protector to the wildfolk.
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Historical Fiction · Horror · Historical Fantasy · Occult Horror
Our take
In the shadowy woods of Connecticut, 1666, an ancient force stirs, feared as a demon by colonists but known as protector to the wildfolk. For Abitha, an outcast widow, he's her only hope. Their unlikely alliance sparks a clash between Puritan order and untamed power, threatening to engulf the village in ruin.
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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.
Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help.
Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan – one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake.
This terrifying tale of bewitchery features more than two dozen of Brom’s haunting full-color paintings and brilliant endpapers, fully immersing readers in this wild and unforgiving world.
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