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ANTHOLOGY

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
100 Word Horrors Part 2: An Anthology of Horror Drabbles Kevin J. KennedyKJK Publishing
A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods Jennifer BrozekPulse Publishing
And Hell Followed Jarod Barbee & Patrick C. Harrison IIIDeath's Head Press
Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper Steve DillonThings in the Wel
Creep: Anthology of Horror Stories Jay ChakravartiCultureCult Press
Curses & Cauldrons: An Anthology of Witchcraft Microfiction Zoey Xolton
Don't Open The Door: A Horror Anthology Cory MasonTomodachiworks
Full Metal Horror 2: A Bloodstained Anthology Adam Bennett & Sam M. Phillips
Haints and Hollers: New Ghost Tales from Appalachia Jeanne G'FellersMountain Gap Books
Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn DeeringTitan Books
Midnight in the Graveyard Kenneth W. CainSilver Shamrock Publishing
Monsters: A Horror Microfiction Anthology D KershawBlackHarePress
Nox Pareidolia Robert S. WilsonNightscape Press
Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror Eric J. GuignardDark Moon Books
Straight Outta Deadwood David BoopBaen
Tales of the Lost Eugene Johnson & Steve DillonThings In The Well Publications
Terror Politico: A Screaming World in Chaos Cin Ferguson & Broos Campbell (eds.)Scary Dairy Press LLC
The Abyssal Plain: The R'lyeh Cycle William Holloway & Brett J. TalleyJournalStone
The Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous Women Cin Ferguson & Broos CampbellScary Dairy Press LLC
The Seven Deadliest Patrick Beltran & D. Alexander WardCutting Block Books
The Toilet Zone Bret McCormickHellBound Books
The Twisted Book of Shadows Christopher Golden & James A. MooreTwisted Publishing
The Wicked Library Presents: 13 Wicked Tales: A Wicked Library Anthology Daniel Foytik, Nelson W. Pyles, & Scarlett R. Algee9th Story Publishing
Thou Shall Not: A Dark Ten Commandments Anthology Michelle Brown
Wicked Weird: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers Amber Fallon, Scott T. Goudsward, and David PriceNEHW Press

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FICTION COLLECTION

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
12 Tales Lie, 1 Tells True Maria AlexanderCemetery Dance Publications
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone Kat HowardSaga Press
A Lush and Seething Hell John Hornor JacobsHarper Voyager
An Imp of Aether W.H. PugmireHippocampus Press
And Cannot Come Again Simon BestwickChiZine Publications
Bedtime Stories Russell SmeatonQuoin Publishing
Before I Wake David MorrellSubterranean
Black Rock Bay Brianna LabuskesThomas & Mercer
Blood They Brought and Other Stories Ed KurtzJournalStone
Cold Comforts Marianne HalbertMacabre Ink
Deeper, Darker Things: And Other Oddities Steve DillonThings in the Well
Doomsday Furnace Brent Michael KelleyOmnium Gatherum
Final Marianne HalbertMacabre Ink
Full Throttle Joe HillWilliam Morrow
Growing Things and Other Stories Paul TremblayWilliam Morrow
Hell At the Way Station Steven Van Patten & Marc AbbottLaughing Black Vampire Productions, LLC
Keep You Cold: Chilling Tales AJ FranksInkwater Press
Lady Bits Kate JonezTrepidatio Publishing
Monks of a Separate Cloth Darren SpeegleJournalStone
Notches M. EnnenbachDeath's Head Press
Odd Birds Joel ReevesScantic Books
Of One Pure Will Farah Rose SmithEgaeus Press
On the Night Border James ChambersRaw Dog Screaming Press
Out of Water Sarah ReadTrepidatio Publishing
Rare Birds L.S. Johnson Traversing Z Press
Sefira and Other Betrayals John Langan Hippocampus Press
Served Cold Alan BaxterGrey Matter Press
Sing Your Sadness Deep Laura MauroUndertow Publications
Skidding Into Oblivion Brian HodgeChiZine Publications
Song for the Unraveling of the World Brian EvensonCoffee House Press
Strange Company and Others Peter RawlikGehenna & Hinnom Books
Suicide Woods Benjamin PercyGraywolf Press
The Boughs Withered When I Told You My Dreams Maura McHughNewcon Press
The Companion & Other Phantasmagorical Stories Ramsey CampbellPS Publishing
The Last Ghost and Other Stories Marie O'ReganLuna Press Publishing
The Night Doctor and Other Tales Steve Rasnic TemCentipede Press
The Unnamed Country Jeffrey Thomas Word Horde
The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan Caitlín R. KiernanTachyon Publications
This House of Wounds Georgina BruceUndertow Publications
Till the Score is Paid Gemma AmorGiles Press
To Rouse Leviathan Matt CardinHippocampus Press
Under Rotting Sky Matthew V. BrockmeyerBlack Thunder Press
We Live Inside Your Eyes Kealan Patrick BurkeElderlemon Press
Where Carrion Gods Dance Brad C. HodsonWashington Park Press
Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts S. L. EdwardsGehenna & Hinnom Books
World of Hurt Thomas TessierCrossroad Press
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell Nathan BallingrudSaga Press

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FIRST NOVEL

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
A Cosmology of Monsters Shaun HamillPantheon
Catfish in the Cradle Wile E. YoungDeath’s Head Press
Dear Laura Gemma AmorIndependently Published
Doorways to the Deadeye Eric J. GuignardJournalStone
Grind Your Bones to Dust Nicholas DayExcession Press
Inside D.M. Siciliano The Parliament House
Invisible Chains Michelle Renee LaneHaverhill House
Ration Cody T. LuffApex Book Company
Reception Kenzie JenningsDeath's Head Press
Remains Andrew CullIFWG Publishing International;
Shepherd's Warning Cailyn LloydLand of Oz LLC
Spirits Sheri Sebastian-GabrielHaverhill House Publishing
Stoker's Wilde Steven Hopstaken & Melissa PrusiFlame Tree Press
Stone Hill: Shadows Rising Dean RasmussenDark Venture Press
The Bone Weaver's Orchard Sarah ReadTrepidatio Publishing
The Crymost Dean H. WildBlood Bound Books
The Cult of Eden Bill HalpinCosmic Egg Books
Throwback Lynn HortelOmnium Gatherum
Vodou Brandon ScottDevilDog Press
Watchers of the Black Rite Nikki NoirIndependently Published
Weeping Season Sean O’ConnorTroubador Publishing Ltd
Whispers From The Depths C. W. BriarUncommon Universes Press
Whispers in the Dark Laurel HightowerJournalstone

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GRAPHIC NOVEL

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
A Passage in Black Cullen Bunn
Afterlife with Archie: Betty R.I.P. Roberto Aguirre-SacasaArchie Comics
Algernon Blackwood's The Willows Nathan CarsonFloating World Comics
Aliens vs. Predator: The Essential Comics Volume 1 Randy StradleyDark Horse Books
Calcutta Horror Alessandro ManzettiIndependent Legions Publishing
Dr. Herbert West: Astounding Tales of Medical Malpractice Bruce BrownArcana Studio
Gideon Falls Vol. 2: Original Sins Jeff LemireImage Comics
Gideon Falls Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross Jeff LemireImage Comics
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 Mike Mignola & Chris RobersonDark Horse Books
Monstress Book One Marjorie LiuImage Comics
Monstress Volume 4 Marjorie LiuImage Comics
Our Encounters with Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and His Assistant Mr. Knox Mike Mignola & Warwick Johnson-CadwellDark Horse Books
Paper Girls Volume 6 Brian K. VaughanImage Comics
Planet Apocalypse Ben Monroe & Sandy PetersenPetersen Games
Predator: Hunters II Chris WarnerDark Horse Books
Spawn: Dark Horror Todd McFarlane & Darragh SavageImage Comics
Stranger Things: The Other Side Jody HouserDark Horse Books

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LONG FICTION

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
And Cannot Come Again Simon BestwickAnd Cannot Come AgainChiZine Publications
Below Simon BestwickTerror Tales of Northwest EnglandTelos Publishing
Brides of Hanover Block Gregor XaneNew Dollar Pulp
Butchers Todd SullivanNightmare Press
Catfish Lullaby A.C. WiseBroken Eye Books
Clevengers of the Carrion Sea Rena MasonThe Seven DeadliestCutting Block Books
Crawl Mike DukeIndependently Published
December Soul JG FahertyHouses of the UnholyCemetery Dance Publications
Dixon Parade Stephen HargadonBlack Static #71
Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here Michael WehuntNightscape Press
Hollow Heart Ben EadsCrystal Lake Publishing
In The Scrape James Newman & Mark SteenslandSilver Shamrock Publishing
In the Shadow of Spindrift House Mira GrantSubterranean
Into Bones Like Oil Kaaron WarrenMeerkat Shorts
Luminous Body Brooke WarraDim Shores
Notes from the Dog Walkers Paul TremblayGrowing Things and Other StoriesWilliam Morrow
Ormeshadow Priya SharmaTor.com
Power C.S. AlleyneCrystal Lake Publishing
Ring of Fire Richard ThomasThe Seven DeadliestCutting Block Books
Ritual Steve StredIndependently Published
Screechers: A Post-Apocalyptic Novella Kevin J. Kennedy & Christina BerglingAmazon Digital Services LLC
Sinkhole April A. TaylorMidnight Grasshopper Books
Striges Nicola LombardiThe Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, Vol IVAltair
Sycophant Meagan J. MeehanAlban Lake Publishing LLC
The Adversary Gerard HouarnerThe Big Book of BlasphemyNecro Publications
The Atlas of Hell Nathan BallingrudSaga Press
The Bone Cutters Renée S. DeCamillisNew Bizarro Author Series
The Butcher's Table Nathan BallingrudWounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
The Cat Sitter Anna TaborskaShadowcatsBlack Shuck Books
The Cult Called Freedom House Stephanie EvelynIndependently Published
The Faces Douglas CleggAlkemara Press
The Half-Freaks Nicole CushingGrimscribe Press
The Haunting of Josef Fleischer Dan StrawnBluewood Publishing
The House on Abigail Lane Kealan Patrick BurkeWe Live Inside Your EyesElderlemon Press
The Keeper of Chernobyl Alessandro ManzettiOmnium Gatherum
The Night Nurse Sarah LanganHex Life: Wicked New Tales of WitcheryTitan Books
The Painter from Piotrków Glen KrischSKP
The Pale White Chad LutzkeCrystal Lake Publishing
The Quiet Boy Nick AntoscaGuernica
The Rampant Julie C. DayAqueduct Press
The Reattachment Douglas FordMadness Heart Press
The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky John Hornor JacobsA Lush and Seething Hell (book)Harper Voyager
The Surviving Child Joyce Carol OatesEchoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost StoriesGallery / Saga Press
The Uncharted Benjamin PercyFull Bleed
To Be Devoured Sara TantlingerUnnerving
Transfer Terry M. WestPleasant Storm Entertainment
Up from Slavery Victor LaValleWeird Tales #363Weird Tales Inc.
Venio Gemma FilesVastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1Grimscribe Press

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NONFICTION

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country Edward ParnellWilliam Collins
Haunted Charlottesville and Surrounding Counties Susan SchwartzSchiffer Publishing
He Who Types Between The Rows: A Decade of Horror Drive-In Mark SieberCemetery Dance Publications
Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern Michele Brittany & Nicholas DiakMcFarland
InkStained: On Creativity, Writing, and Art John UrbancikDarkFluidity
Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction To Hekate's Modern Witchcraft Cyndi BrannenMoon Books
Masters of Horror: Volume III: Essays on Horror Fiction Don D'AmmassaManagansett Press
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. AndersonQuirk Books
Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame Madelon HoedtMcFarland
Primal Roots of Horror Cinema: Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of Fear Carol L. FryMcFarland
Reading the Bible with Horror Brandon R. GrafiusFortress Academic
Shapeshifters: A History John B. KachubaReaktion Books
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick Mallory O'MearaHanover Square Press
The Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise Ron Riekki & Jeffrey A. SartainMcFarland
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham Leslie S. KlingerLiveright
The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen Mark Valentine & Timothy J. JarvisHippocampus Press
The Threshold of Forever: Essays and Reviews Darrell SchweitzerWildside Press
Thinking Horror: A Journal of Horror Philosophy Volume 2: The Horror Boom s.j. bagleyIndependently Published
Time is a Flat Circle: Examining True Detective, Season One Melissa MilazzoSequart Organization
Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown & Other Haunted Locations Pamela K. KinneySchiffer Publishing

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NOVELS

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
A Penny For Your Thoughts Matt Hayward & Robert FordPoltergeist Press
A Spectral Hue Craig Laurance GidneyWord Horde
Black Heart Boys' Choir Curtis M. LawsonWyrd Horror
Black Mountain Laird BarronG.P. Putnam's Sons
Blood Ink Dana FredstiTitan Books
Blood Sugar Daniel KrausHard Case Crime
Boomtown James A. MooreTwisted Publishing
Bunny Mona AwadViking
Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization Jonathan RaabTurn to Ash Media, LLC
Candy Canes and Buckets of Blood Heide Goody & Iain GrantPigeon Park Press
Canni Daniel O’ConnorBlood Bound Books
Cardinal Black Robert McCammonCemetery Dance
Coyote Rage Owl GoingbackIndependent Legions Publishing
Cricket Hunters Jeremy HeplerSilver Shamrock Publishing
Dark Carnival Joanna Parypinski Independent Legions Publishing
Dead Sky Weston OchseRebellion/Solaris
Demons Well Seasoned Patricia V. DavisHD Media Press
Diabhal: A Novel Kathleen KaufmanTurner
Falling Drew Turneypsi Publishing and Design
Game Changers of the Apocalypse Mark KirkbrideOmnium Gatherum
Ghoster Jason ArnoppOrbit
Ghostland Duncan RalstonShadow Work Publishing
Gideon the Ninth Tamsyn MuirTor.com
Hate the Sin Artyom Dereschuk
Hearthstone Cottage Frazer LeeFlame Tree Press
Highway Twenty Michael J. MooreHellBound Books
If You See Her Ania AhlbornIndependently Published
Imaginary Friend Stephen ChboskyGrand Central Publishing
Inspection Josh MalermanDel Rey
Into The Ashes Lee MurraySevered Press
Lakehouse Infernal Christine MorganDeadite Press
My Heart Struck Sorrow John Hornor JacobsA Lush and Seething HellHarper Voyager
My Pretties Jeff Strand
Netherkind Greg ChapmanOmnium Gatherum
Night Shoot David SodergrenIndependently Published
Ninth House Leigh BardugoFlatiron Books
On This, The Day of the Pig Josh MalermanCemetery Dance Publications
One by One D.W. GillespieFlame Tree Press
One for the Road Wesley SouthardEraserhead Press
Palace of Ghosts Thomas S. FlowersShadow Work Publishing
Ragged Alice Gareth L. PowellTor.com
Shanti: The Sadist Heaven Alessandro ManzettiNecro Publications
Tao of the Viper: A Kate Pomeroy Mystery Linda WatkinsArgon Press
The Bedwetter: Journal of a Budding Psychopath Lee Allen HowardThree First Names
The Damned Place Chris MillerBlack Bed Sheet Books
The Dark Game Jonathan JanzFlame Tree Press
The Dead Girls Club Damien Angelica Walters Crooked Lane Books
The Edge Tim LebbonTitan Books
The Fearing John F.D. TaffGrey Matter Press
The Flock Jeffery X. MartinShadow Work Publishing
The Girl in the Mirror Steven RamirezGlass Highway
The Haunting of Henderson Close Catherine CavendishFlame Tree Press
The Hiding Place C.J. TudorCrown
The Institute Stephen KingScribner
The Invited Jennifer McMahonDoubleday
The Kraken of Cape Madre J.P. BarnettEvolved Publishing LLC
The Laws of the Skies Gregoire CourtoisCoach House Books
The Long Shadows of October Kristopher TrianaGrindhouse Press
The Murder of Jesus Christ John R. LittleBad Moon Books
The Music of Midnight Dallas MullicanCharon Press
The Nightmare Girl Jonathan JanzFlame Tree Press
The October Boys Adam MillardBloodshot Books
The Other Mrs. MIller Allison DicksonG.P. Putnam's Sons
The Reddening Adam NevillRitual Limited
The Remaking Clay McLeod ChapmanQuirk Books
The Saturday Night Ghost Club Craig DavidsonPenguin
The Time Traveler Professor Book Two: A Pocketful of Lodestones Elizabeth CrowensAtomic Alchemist Productions, LLC
The Twisted Ones T. KingfisherGallery / Saga Press
The Widow Rob BlissNecro Publications
The Wolf and the Watchman Niklas Natt och DagAtria Books
The Worst is Yet to Come S.P. MiskowskiTrepidatio Publishing
They Kill Tim WaggonerFlame Tree Press
Twelve Nights at Rotter House J.W. OckerTurner
Unamerica Cody GoodfellowKing Shot Press
Violet Scott ThomasInkshares
Walk the Darkness Down John BodenCrossroad Press
Wanderers Chuck WendigRandom House
What Sleeps Beneath John QuickBloodshot Books
Where The Gods Sleep Mike DukeStitched Smile Publications
Will Haunt You Brian KirkFlame Tree Press

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POETRY COLLECTION

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
(un)poetic: a collection of poetry M. EnnenbachPotter's Grove Press LLC
Beat Your Heart Out Cristina IsabelIndependently Published
Choking Back the Devil Donna LynchRaw Dog Screaming Press
Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning Michelle Scalise LVP Publications
Everything Seems Significant Jan BottiglieriBlazeVOX
Here's to Odd Dreams and Petty Things Cati BrantonAmazon Digital Services LLC
Horror Movie Poetry Tony NewtonAmazon Digital Services LLC
Mary Shelley Makes a Monster Octavia CadeAqueduct Press
My Heart Is A Forest: A Collection Of Poetry Katie MetcalfeIndependently Published
Pan's Saxophone Jonel AbellanosaWeasel Press
PseudoPsalms: Revelation Peter Adam SalomonAmazon Digital Services LLC
Tall Grass Amanda CrumIndependently Published
The Apocalyptic Mannequin: The Definition of Body is Buried Stephanie WytovichRaw Dog Screaming Press
The Configuration Discordant John BaltisbergerThings In The Well Publications
The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems Frank CoffmanBold Venture Press
The Demeter Diaries Marge Simon & Bryan D. DietrichIndependent Legions Publishing
The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities Kyla Lee WardP’rea Press
The Place of Broken Things Linda D. Addison & Alessandro ManzettiCrystal Lake Publishing
The Sun Ships & Other Poems Steven WithrowLulu.com
War: Dark Poems Marge Simon & Alessandro ManzettiCrystal Lake Publishing

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SCREENPLAY

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
Brightburn Brian Gunn & Mark GunnSony Pictures Releasing
Castle Rock, Season 2, Episode 5: The Laughing Place Vince Calandra & Daria PolatinHulu
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Chapter Seventeen: The Missionaries Donna ThorlandNetflix
Crawl Michael & Shawn RasmussenParamount Pictures
Doctor Sleep Mike FlanaganWarner Brothers
Hagazussa Lukas FeigelfeldDeutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Haunt Scott Beck & Bryan WoodsBroken Road Productions
In the Tall Grass Vincenzo Natali Netflix
Into the Dark: All That We Destroy Sean Keller & Jim AgnewBlumhouse Television
Into the Dark: Culture Shock Efrén Hernández, James Benson & Gigi Saul GuerreroBlumhouse Television
Into the Dark: Pure Hannah MacphersonBlumhouse Television
Into the Dark: Treehouse James Roday & Todd HarthanBlumhouse Television
It Chapter Two Gary DaubermanNew Line Cinema
Joker Todd Phillips, Scott SilverWarner Bros.
Knife + Heart Yann Gonzalez & Cristiano Mangione
Marianne, Season 1, Episode 1: "Your Dreams" Samuel Bodin & Quoc Dang TranNetflix
Marianne, Season 1, Episode 5: "You Left Her" Samuel Bodin & Quoc Dang TranNetflix
Midsommar Ari AsterA24
Nightmare Cinema: "This Way to Egress" David SladeNightmare CinemaShudder
Pet Sematary Jeff BuhlerParamount Pictures
Rabid Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, & John SergeShout! Studios
Ready or Not Guy Busick & R. Christopher MurphyMythology Entertainment
Satanic Panic Grady HendrixAperture Entertainment
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Dan Hageman & Kevin HagemanLionsgate
Starfish Al WhiteSpellbound Entertainment
Stranger Things, Season 3, Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt Matt Duffer & Ross DufferNetflix
The Golem Ariel CohenEpic Pictures
The Hole in the Ground Lee CroninSavage Production
The Lighthouse Robert EggersA24
The Perfection Eric C. Charmelo, Richard Shepard & Nicole SnyderMiramax
The Silence Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van DykeConstantin Film
The Wind Teresa SutherlandSoapbox Films
The Witcher Season 1, Episode 3: Betrayer Moon Beau DeMayoNetflix
Tigers Are Not Afraid Issa LópezShudder
Us Jordan PeeleUniversal Pictures
Velvet Buzzsaw Dan GilroyNetflix
Wounds Babak AnvariAnnapurna Pictures

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SHORT FICTION

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
(Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢) Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person Paul TremblayEchoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost StoriesGallery / Saga Press
6/6 Ray CluleyBlack Shuck Books
A Certain Shade S. L. EdwardsWhiskey and Other Unusual GhostsGehenna and Hinnom Books
A Roving in England, No More Brett J. Talley1816: The Year Without Summer - eBook (Unredacted Cthulhu Almanac) Beyond Death Publishing Ltd.
A Song for Wounded Mouths Kristi DeMeesterPseudoPod 641: ARTEMIS RISING 5
A Strange Haze Matthew M. BartlettWicked Weird: An Anthology of the New England Horror WritersNEHW Press
A Touch of Madness Tim WaggonerThe Pulp Horror Book of PhobiasLycan Valley Press
About the O'Dells Pat CadiganEchoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost StoriesGallery / Saga Press
Anniversary John R. LittleDark Tides: A Charity AnthologyGestalt Media
Arabella and the Spiders KT WagnerFactor Four Magazine: Issue 4, January 2019
As Dark as Hunger S. Qiouyi LuBlack Static #72 (Nov-Dec 2019)
Being Emily-Claire Jonathan MaberryThe Secret Guide to Fighting Elder GodsPulse Publishing
Beneath Her Skin KT WagnerThe Twisted Book of ShadowsTwisted Publishing
Biological Imperative Jennifer LoringThe Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous WomenScary Dairy Press
Birds of Passage Gordon B. WhiteTwice-Told: A Collection of DoublesChthonic Matter
Black Matter Vivian ShawPseudopodEscape Artists
Blue M. EnnenbachNotchesDeath's Head Press
Boricua Obituary Cina Pelayo¡Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas!: Latinx Fiction for Puerto RicoDown & Out Books
Burning Bright Carina BissettGorgon: Stories of EmergencePantheon Magazine
Bury Me in Tar and Twine Jess LandryTales of the LostThings In The Well Publications
Cabras S. L. EdwardsWhiskey and Other Unusual GhostsGehenna & Hinnom Books
Chasing the Reaper Brad HodsonWhere Carrion Gods Dance
Come Clean Reuben "Tihi" HayslettDark CornersRunning Wild Press
Compass Wood Mark WestThe WoodsHersham Horror Books
Dancing on the Edge of Eternity D. S. UlleryAlternative ApocalypseB Cubed Press
Deal with the Devil Carol Gyzander Across the UniverseFantastic Books
Desiderium Ben MonroeTales of the Lost Things In The Well Publishing
Detrition of War Kenneth W. CainWhen the Clock Strikes 13In Your Face Books
Effigies of Former Supervisors Matthew M. Bartlett Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1Grimscribe Press
Entwined Colleen AndersonThe Pulp Horror Book of PhobiasLycan Valley Press
Eternal Roots of Lane County J.C. RayeNightscript Vol. V
Fairy Lights Kate JonezLady BitsTrepidatio Publishing
Flatblack Daniele BonfantiBlack Dandy #4Blurb
From These Muddy Waters Patrick C. Harrison IIIRoad Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors Vol. 4HellBound Books Publishing
Go to the Devil Matthew M. BartlettBehold the Undead of Dracula: Lurid Tales of Cinematic Gothic HorrorMuzzleland Press
Hazthrog the Mad God Maxwell I. GoldThe Dark Corner Zine Issue #2
Hester Cohen Brad C. HodsonWhere Carrion Gods DanceWashington Park Press
Husks Paul MooreTales of the LostThings In The Well Publications
I Say (I Say, I Say) Robert ShearmanTales From the Shadow Booth, Vol. 3
I Want Candy Larry HinkleTrickster’s Treats #3: The Seven Deadly SinsThings in the Well
In Darkness, She Sheds Suzanne Reynolds-AlpertThe Final SummonsNew England Speculative Writers
In the Vastness of the Sovereign Sky S. L. EdwardsNox PareidoliaNightscape Press
It Has to Cool First Carol GyzanderStories We Tell After MidnightCrone Girls Press
Kirti Alessandro ManzettiSpace and Time Magazine #135Necro Publications
Last Stop on Route Nine Tananarive DueHex Life: Wicked New Tales of WitcheryTitan Books
Leaving the #9 E. M. MarkoffTales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefitting Wildfire ReliefTomes & Coffee Press
Legends of Claudia S.P. MiskowskiSupernatural Tales 40: Summer 2019
Life Lessons Lisa Diane KastnerThe Blue Mountain Review
Living/Dead James ChambersOn the Night BorderRaw Dog Screaming Press
Lydia Cindy O’QuinnThe Twisted Book of ShadowsTwisted Publishing
Maggie Was a Monster S. L. EdwardsWhiskey and Other Unusual GhostsGehenna and Hinnom Books
Magicland Harrison DemchickPhantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism
Millicent Blackwood's Very Scary Halloween Social & Tea Christa CarmenOutpost 28, Issue 4Elvelon Press
My Mother's Ghosts Priya SharmaGreat British Horror 4: Dark & Stormy NightsBlack Shuck Books
My Name is Ellie Sam RebeleinBourbon Penn
Nautilus Colleen AndersonThrilling Words
No Other Life Isabel CañasNightmare Magazine, July 2019 (Issue 82)
Norwegian Woods Jeremy WagnerThe Big Book of BlasphemyNecro Publications
One Last Time Jeff Parsonshorrorzine.com
One Last Year Without a Summer Brian HodgeSkidding Into OblivionChiZine Publications
Our Lady of Redemption Colleen Anderson Nameless Vol. 2 #4Jasunni Publications
Param Susan SnyderTrigger Warning: Body HorrorMadness Heart Press
Playscape Diana PeterfreundThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2019
Pomegranate Pomegranate Jack WestlakeBlack Static #69 (May-June 2019)TTA Press
Professional Envy Samson Stormcrow HayesInfinite Lives: Short Takes on LongevityThird Flatiron Publishing
Red Mami James ChambersOn the Night BorderRaw Dog Screaming Press
Rest in Blood Paolo di OrazioThe Big Book of BlasphemyNecro Publications
Slipper Catriona WardGreat British Horror 4: Dark & Stormy NightsBlack Shuck Books
Stands Twice and the Magpie Man Stephen Graham JonesStraight Outta DeadwoodBaen
The Beast in the Palace Tom JohnstoneBlack Static #68 - March/April 2019TTA Press
The Black Cheese Matthew M. BartlettTales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza HorrorPerpetual Motion Machine Publishing
The Bleeding Maze: A Visitor’s Guide Kurt FawverNightmare Magazine, August 2019 (Issue 83)
The Bone Ward Kate FolkMcSweeney’s 55McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
The Caged Bird Sings In A Darkness Of Its Own Creation Richard ThomasShallow CreekStorgy Books
The Ceiling of the World Nicole CrucialDiabolical Plots Year FiveDiabolical Plots, LLC
The Coffin, the Ship Mel KasselBlack Warrior Review, Fall 2019 (Issue 46.1)
The Confessional A.K. KuykendallEvolved Publishing LLC
The Coven of Dead Girls L'Erin OglePseudopodEscape Artists Inc
The Dark Down There Lori R. LopezFairy Fly Entertainment
The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary) Gwendolyn KisteNightmare Magazine Nov. 2019 (Issue 86)
The Fluids That Giveth & Those That Taketh Chad StroupShock Totem #11Shock Totem
The Girl and the House Mari NessNightmare Magazine, April 2019 (Issue 79)
The God of Phlegm Maxwell GoldSpectral Realms No. 11Hippocampus Press
The Hope Chest Sarah ReadBlack Static #72 (Nov-Dec 2019)
The House of the Scolopendra Nicola LombardiThe Blood Tomes, Volume 2: CreaturesTell-Tale Press
The Judas Portal John UrbancikThe Big Book of BlasphemyNecro Publications
The Mass of the Greatest Sin Trisha J. WooldridgeWicked Weird: An Anthology of the New England Horror WritersNEHW Press
The Mute Swan Cate GardnerTerror Tales of Northwest EnglandTelos Publishing
The Orange Bati Pamela K. KinneyTrick-or-Treat Thrillers 13 Backyard Monsters NSBS
The Pain-Eater's Daughter Laura MauroSing Your Sadness DeepUndertow Publications
The Past You Deserve, The Future You Deserve K. H. VaughnNox PareidoliaNightscape Press
The Price of Knives Ruoxi ChenThe Dark Magazine, September 2019 (Issue 52)
The Quarry Ben MonroeTales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefitting Wildfire ReliefTomes & Coffee Press
The Salty Virgin Alessandro ManzettiThe Big Book of BlasphemyNecro Publications
The Shadows Beneath the Stone Jonathan MaberryWeird Tales #363
The Squatter David DeanEllery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Survival of Molly Southbourne Tade ThompsonTor.com
The Thirteenth Temple Paul TremblayGrowing Things and Other StoriesWilliam Morrow
The Unexpected Joyce Carol OatesHarper's Magazine
The Uninvited Grave Jeffrey ThomasThe Unnamed CountryWord Horde
The Woman Out of the Attic Gwendolyn KisteHaunted House Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy)Flame Tree Publishing
They Are Us (1964): An Oral History Jack LothianTwice-Told: A Collection of DoublesChthonic Matter
To a Puppet, From a Dummy Jon PadgettMannequin: Tales of Wood Made FleshSilent Motorist Media
Upper Crust Michael Paul GonzalezTales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza HorrorPerpetual Motion Machine Publishing
Urban Moon Mercedes YardleyOther Voices, Other TombsCemetery Gates Media
Watching Tim LeesBlack Static #72 (Nov-Dec 2019)
We've Always Lived in a Colony S. L. EdwardsHell's EmpireUlthar Press
Weary Bones Sonora TaylorLittle ParanoiasIndependently Published
Welcome Home Donna J. W. MunroThe Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous WomenScary Dairy Press
When Calls the Deep Mike DukeWolfgang Anthologies Presents: AbandonedWolfgang Anthologies
Where Gods Dance Ben Serna-GreyApex Magazine
Whiskey and Memory S. L. EdwardsWhiskey and Other Unusual GhostsGehenna and Hinnom Books
White to Black Michael BaileyThe Pulp Horror Book of PhobiasLVP Publications
Widows' Walk Angela Slatter Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of WitcheryTitan Books
Within This Body of Stone I Scream Cassandra SchoeberThe Arcanist

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SHORT NONFICTION

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
Anne Rice and the making of a modern vampire Kellye McBridesublimehorror.com
Decapitations, Corpse Meltings, and Horses: Examining the Weird History Behind Stop Motion Animation Max Booth IIIFangoria
Film's First Lycanthrope: 1913's The Werewolf Kelly RobinsonScary Monsters Magazine
Final Girl, Final Boy: Ash’s Imperiled Masculinity Dale BaileyThe Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film FranchiseMcFarland
From the Books of Wandering: Fin-de-siècle Poetics of a Supernatural Figure Aaron WorthTimes Literary Supplement, December 20-28
Imagining the End of the World: A Biocultural Analysis of Post Apocalyptic Fiction Mathias ClasenEvolution and Popular NarrativeBrill | Rodop
LGBTQ+ Horror Month - Our Common Confusions: Clive Barker's Books of Blood George Daniel LeaGinger Nuts of Horror
Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre Valerie E. WeichFamous Monsters of Filmland, No. 291
Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gwendolyn Kiste Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1Grimscribe Press
Mary Shelley’s Curse Shelley A. Kaehr, Ph.D.Out of This World Publishing
New Pulp Heidi Ruby MillerThe Writer, July 2019
On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women Rachel Eve Moultonlithub.com
Riding Out the Storms Tim Waggonerhttp://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com
Romance as a Panacea and a New Generation of Intellectual Zombies in Warm Bodies and iZombie Tatiana ProrokovaAll Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical ContextsVernon Press
Securing the Borders: Isolation and Anxiety in The Witch, It Comes at Night, and Trump’s America Brandon GrafiusMake America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of FearRoutledge
Tethered to the Closet Terry MesnardGaylyDreadful.com
The Danse Macabre: An Essay Kyla Lee WardThe Macabre Modern and Other MorbiditiesP’rea Press
The H Word: How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror Richard ThomasNightmare Magazine Feb. 2019 (Issue 77)
The H Word: It’s Alive! Nibedita SenNightmare Magazine, March 2019 (Issue 78)
The H Word: On Cruelty Micah Dean Hickshttp://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-on-cruelty/Nightmare Magazine
The H Word: Proof of Afterlife Kaaron WarrenNightmare Magazine July 2019 (Issue 82)
The H Word: What We Talk About When We Talk About Horror Endings Stephen Graham Joneshttp://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-horror-endings/Nightmare Magazine
The H Word: You Really Don’t Want to Do This Lisa MortonNightmare Magazine Sept. 2019 (Issue 84)
The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association: How Fucking Dare You? Thomas F. MonteleoneCemetery Dance #77
The Ramones' “Pet Sematary”: An Oral History Brenna EhrlichTidal.com
The legacy of Hill House: haunted spaces in Shirley Jackson’s novels Kellye McBrideSublimeHorror.com
“Drill-Do Horror”: Abjection, Queer Bodies and Sexual Violence in Murder House, Freak Show and Hotel Tosha R. TaylorGender, Sexuality and Queerness in American Horror StoryMcFarland

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YOUNG-ADULT NOVEL

TITLEAUTHORVENUEPUBLISHER
Alien: Echo Mira GrantImprint
Curse of the Evil Librarian Michelle KnudsenCandlewick Press
Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds Peter Adam SalomonPseudoPsalms Press
Here There Are Monsters Amelinda BérubéSourcebooks Fire
Last Things Jacqueline WestGreenwillow Books
Oware Mosaic NzondiOmnium Gatherum Media
Speak No Evil Liana GardnerVesuvian Books
Stolen Marlena FrankThe Parliament House Press
The Babysitters Coven Kate M. WilliamsDelacorte Press
The Bone Garden Heather KassnerHenry Holt and Co.
The Devil's Tree Susan McCauleyCeltic Sea Publishing
The Grace Year Kim LiggettWednesday Books
The Haunted Danielle VegaRazorbill
The Skin Factory Lucas PedersonLVP Publications
Tunnel of Bones Victoria SchwabScholastic Press

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