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| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| 100 Word Horrors Part 2: An Anthology of Horror Drabbles | Kevin J. Kennedy | KJK Publishing | |
| A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods | Jennifer Brozek | Pulse Publishing | |
| And Hell Followed | Jarod Barbee & Patrick C. Harrison III | Death's Head Press | |
| Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper | Steve Dillon | Things in the Wel | |
| Creep: Anthology of Horror Stories | Jay Chakravarti | CultureCult Press | |
| Curses & Cauldrons: An Anthology of Witchcraft Microfiction | Zoey Xolton | ||
| Don't Open The Door: A Horror Anthology | Cory Mason | Tomodachiworks | |
| Full Metal Horror 2: A Bloodstained Anthology | Adam Bennett & Sam M. Phillips | ||
| Haints and Hollers: New Ghost Tales from Appalachia | Jeanne G'Fellers | Mountain Gap Books | |
| Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery | Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering | Titan Books | |
| Midnight in the Graveyard | Kenneth W. Cain | Silver Shamrock Publishing | |
| Monsters: A Horror Microfiction Anthology | D Kershaw | BlackHarePress | |
| Nox Pareidolia | Robert S. Wilson | Nightscape Press | |
| Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror | Eric J. Guignard | Dark Moon Books | |
| Straight Outta Deadwood | David Boop | Baen | |
| Tales of the Lost | Eugene Johnson & Steve Dillon | Things 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. Talley | JournalStone | |
| The Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous Women | Cin Ferguson & Broos Campbell | Scary Dairy Press LLC | |
| The Seven Deadliest | Patrick Beltran & D. Alexander Ward | Cutting Block Books | |
| The Toilet Zone | Bret McCormick | HellBound Books | |
| The Twisted Book of Shadows | Christopher Golden & James A. Moore | Twisted Publishing | |
| The Wicked Library Presents: 13 Wicked Tales: A Wicked Library Anthology | Daniel Foytik, Nelson W. Pyles, & Scarlett R. Algee | 9th 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 Price | NEHW Press | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| 12 Tales Lie, 1 Tells True | Maria Alexander | Cemetery Dance Publications | |
| A Cathedral of Myth and Bone | Kat Howard | Saga Press | |
| A Lush and Seething Hell | John Hornor Jacobs | Harper Voyager | |
| An Imp of Aether | W.H. Pugmire | Hippocampus Press | |
| And Cannot Come Again | Simon Bestwick | ChiZine Publications | |
| Bedtime Stories | Russell Smeaton | Quoin Publishing | |
| Before I Wake | David Morrell | Subterranean | |
| Black Rock Bay | Brianna Labuskes | Thomas & Mercer | |
| Blood They Brought and Other Stories | Ed Kurtz | JournalStone | |
| Cold Comforts | Marianne Halbert | Macabre Ink | |
| Deeper, Darker Things: And Other Oddities | Steve Dillon | Things in the Well | |
| Doomsday Furnace | Brent Michael Kelley | Omnium Gatherum | |
| Final | Marianne Halbert | Macabre Ink | |
| Full Throttle | Joe Hill | William Morrow | |
| Growing Things and Other Stories | Paul Tremblay | William Morrow | |
| Hell At the Way Station | Steven Van Patten & Marc Abbott | Laughing Black Vampire Productions, LLC | |
| Keep You Cold: Chilling Tales | AJ Franks | Inkwater Press | |
| Lady Bits | Kate Jonez | Trepidatio Publishing | |
| Monks of a Separate Cloth | Darren Speegle | JournalStone | |
| Notches | M. Ennenbach | Death's Head Press | |
| Odd Birds | Joel Reeves | Scantic Books | |
| Of One Pure Will | Farah Rose Smith | Egaeus Press | |
| On the Night Border | James Chambers | Raw Dog Screaming Press | |
| Out of Water | Sarah Read | Trepidatio Publishing | |
| Rare Birds | L.S. Johnson | Traversing Z Press | |
| Sefira and Other Betrayals | John Langan | Hippocampus Press | |
| Served Cold | Alan Baxter | Grey Matter Press | |
| Sing Your Sadness Deep | Laura Mauro | Undertow Publications | |
| Skidding Into Oblivion | Brian Hodge | ChiZine Publications | |
| Song for the Unraveling of the World | Brian Evenson | Coffee House Press | |
| Strange Company and Others | Peter Rawlik | Gehenna & Hinnom Books | |
| Suicide Woods | Benjamin Percy | Graywolf Press | |
| The Boughs Withered When I Told You My Dreams | Maura McHugh | Newcon Press | |
| The Companion & Other Phantasmagorical Stories | Ramsey Campbell | PS Publishing | |
| The Last Ghost and Other Stories | Marie O'Regan | Luna Press Publishing | |
| The Night Doctor and Other Tales | Steve Rasnic Tem | Centipede Press | |
| The Unnamed Country | Jeffrey Thomas | Word Horde | |
| The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan | Caitlín R. Kiernan | Tachyon Publications | |
| This House of Wounds | Georgina Bruce | Undertow Publications | |
| Till the Score is Paid | Gemma Amor | Giles Press | |
| To Rouse Leviathan | Matt Cardin | Hippocampus Press | |
| Under Rotting Sky | Matthew V. Brockmeyer | Black Thunder Press | |
| We Live Inside Your Eyes | Kealan Patrick Burke | Elderlemon Press | |
| Where Carrion Gods Dance | Brad C. Hodson | Washington Park Press | |
| Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts | S. L. Edwards | Gehenna & Hinnom Books | |
| World of Hurt | Thomas Tessier | Crossroad Press | |
| Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell | Nathan Ballingrud | Saga Press | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| A Cosmology of Monsters | Shaun Hamill | Pantheon | |
| Catfish in the Cradle | Wile E. Young | Death’s Head Press | |
| Dear Laura | Gemma Amor | Independently Published | |
| Doorways to the Deadeye | Eric J. Guignard | JournalStone | |
| Grind Your Bones to Dust | Nicholas Day | Excession Press | |
| Inside | D.M. Siciliano | The Parliament House | |
| Invisible Chains | Michelle Renee Lane | Haverhill House | |
| Ration | Cody T. Luff | Apex Book Company | |
| Reception | Kenzie Jennings | Death's Head Press | |
| Remains | Andrew Cull | IFWG Publishing International; | |
| Shepherd's Warning | Cailyn Lloyd | Land of Oz LLC | |
| Spirits | Sheri Sebastian-Gabriel | Haverhill House Publishing | |
| Stoker's Wilde | Steven Hopstaken & Melissa Prusi | Flame Tree Press | |
| Stone Hill: Shadows Rising | Dean Rasmussen | Dark Venture Press | |
| The Bone Weaver's Orchard | Sarah Read | Trepidatio Publishing | |
| The Crymost | Dean H. Wild | Blood Bound Books | |
| The Cult of Eden | Bill Halpin | Cosmic Egg Books | |
| Throwback | Lynn Hortel | Omnium Gatherum | |
| Vodou | Brandon Scott | DevilDog Press | |
| Watchers of the Black Rite | Nikki Noir | Independently Published | |
| Weeping Season | Sean O’Connor | Troubador Publishing Ltd | |
| Whispers From The Depths | C. W. Briar | Uncommon Universes Press | |
| Whispers in the Dark | Laurel Hightower | Journalstone | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| A Passage in Black | Cullen Bunn | ||
| Afterlife with Archie: Betty R.I.P. | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa | Archie Comics | |
| Algernon Blackwood's The Willows | Nathan Carson | Floating World Comics | |
| Aliens vs. Predator: The Essential Comics Volume 1 | Randy Stradley | Dark Horse Books | |
| Calcutta Horror | Alessandro Manzetti | Independent Legions Publishing | |
| Dr. Herbert West: Astounding Tales of Medical Malpractice | Bruce Brown | Arcana Studio | |
| Gideon Falls Vol. 2: Original Sins | Jeff Lemire | Image Comics | |
| Gideon Falls Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross | Jeff Lemire | Image Comics | |
| Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1956 | Mike Mignola & Chris Roberson | Dark Horse Books | |
| Monstress Book One | Marjorie Liu | Image Comics | |
| Monstress Volume 4 | Marjorie Liu | Image Comics | |
| Our Encounters with Evil: Adventures of Professor J.T. Meinhardt and His Assistant Mr. Knox | Mike Mignola & Warwick Johnson-Cadwell | Dark Horse Books | |
| Paper Girls Volume 6 | Brian K. Vaughan | Image Comics | |
| Planet Apocalypse | Ben Monroe & Sandy Petersen | Petersen Games | |
| Predator: Hunters II | Chris Warner | Dark Horse Books | |
| Spawn: Dark Horror | Todd McFarlane & Darragh Savage | Image Comics | |
| Stranger Things: The Other Side | Jody Houser | Dark Horse Books | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| And Cannot Come Again | Simon Bestwick | And Cannot Come Again | ChiZine Publications |
| Below | Simon Bestwick | Terror Tales of Northwest England | Telos Publishing |
| Brides of Hanover Block | Gregor Xane | New Dollar Pulp | |
| Butchers | Todd Sullivan | Nightmare Press | |
| Catfish Lullaby | A.C. Wise | Broken Eye Books | |
| Clevengers of the Carrion Sea | Rena Mason | The Seven Deadliest | Cutting Block Books |
| Crawl | Mike Duke | Independently Published | |
| December Soul | JG Faherty | Houses of the Unholy | Cemetery Dance Publications |
| Dixon Parade | Stephen Hargadon | Black Static #71 | |
| Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen Here | Michael Wehunt | Nightscape Press | |
| Hollow Heart | Ben Eads | Crystal Lake Publishing | |
| In The Scrape | James Newman & Mark Steensland | Silver Shamrock Publishing | |
| In the Shadow of Spindrift House | Mira Grant | Subterranean | |
| Into Bones Like Oil | Kaaron Warren | Meerkat Shorts | |
| Luminous Body | Brooke Warra | Dim Shores | |
| Notes from the Dog Walkers | Paul Tremblay | Growing Things and Other Stories | William Morrow |
| Ormeshadow | Priya Sharma | Tor.com | |
| Power | C.S. Alleyne | Crystal Lake Publishing | |
| Ring of Fire | Richard Thomas | The Seven Deadliest | Cutting Block Books |
| Ritual | Steve Stred | Independently Published | |
| Screechers: A Post-Apocalyptic Novella | Kevin J. Kennedy & Christina Bergling | Amazon Digital Services LLC | |
| Sinkhole | April A. Taylor | Midnight Grasshopper Books | |
| Striges | Nicola Lombardi | The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, Vol IV | Altair |
| Sycophant | Meagan J. Meehan | Alban Lake Publishing LLC | |
| The Adversary | Gerard Houarner | The Big Book of Blasphemy | Necro Publications |
| The Atlas of Hell | Nathan Ballingrud | Saga Press | |
| The Bone Cutters | Renée S. DeCamillis | New Bizarro Author Series | |
| The Butcher's Table | Nathan Ballingrud | Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell | |
| The Cat Sitter | Anna Taborska | Shadowcats | Black Shuck Books |
| The Cult Called Freedom House | Stephanie Evelyn | Independently Published | |
| The Faces | Douglas Clegg | Alkemara Press | |
| The Half-Freaks | Nicole Cushing | Grimscribe Press | |
| The Haunting of Josef Fleischer | Dan Strawn | Bluewood Publishing | |
| The House on Abigail Lane | Kealan Patrick Burke | We Live Inside Your Eyes | Elderlemon Press |
| The Keeper of Chernobyl | Alessandro Manzetti | Omnium Gatherum | |
| The Night Nurse | Sarah Langan | Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery | Titan Books |
| The Painter from Piotrków | Glen Krisch | SKP | |
| The Pale White | Chad Lutzke | Crystal Lake Publishing | |
| The Quiet Boy | Nick Antosca | Guernica | |
| The Rampant | Julie C. Day | Aqueduct Press | |
| The Reattachment | Douglas Ford | Madness Heart Press | |
| The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky | John Hornor Jacobs | A Lush and Seething Hell (book) | Harper Voyager |
| The Surviving Child | Joyce Carol Oates | Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories | Gallery / Saga Press |
| The Uncharted | Benjamin Percy | Full Bleed | |
| To Be Devoured | Sara Tantlinger | Unnerving | |
| Transfer | Terry M. West | Pleasant Storm Entertainment | |
| Up from Slavery | Victor LaValle | Weird Tales #363 | Weird Tales Inc. |
| Venio | Gemma Files | Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1 | Grimscribe Press |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country | Edward Parnell | William Collins | |
| Haunted Charlottesville and Surrounding Counties | Susan Schwartz | Schiffer Publishing | |
| He Who Types Between The Rows: A Decade of Horror Drive-In | Mark Sieber | Cemetery Dance Publications | |
| Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern | Michele Brittany & Nicholas Diak | McFarland | |
| InkStained: On Creativity, Writing, and Art | John Urbancik | DarkFluidity | |
| Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction To Hekate's Modern Witchcraft | Cyndi Brannen | Moon Books | |
| Masters of Horror: Volume III: Essays on Horror Fiction | Don D'Ammassa | Managansett Press | |
| Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction | Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson | Quirk Books | |
| Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame | Madelon Hoedt | McFarland | |
| Primal Roots of Horror Cinema: Evolutionary Psychology and Narratives of Fear | Carol L. Fry | McFarland | |
| Reading the Bible with Horror | Brandon R. Grafius | Fortress Academic | |
| Shapeshifters: A History | John B. Kachuba | Reaktion Books | |
| The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick | Mallory O'Meara | Hanover Square Press | |
| The Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise | Ron Riekki & Jeffrey A. Sartain | McFarland | |
| The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham | Leslie S. Klinger | Liveright | |
| The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen | Mark Valentine & Timothy J. Jarvis | Hippocampus Press | |
| The Threshold of Forever: Essays and Reviews | Darrell Schweitzer | Wildside Press | |
| Thinking Horror: A Journal of Horror Philosophy Volume 2: The Horror Boom | s.j. bagley | Independently Published | |
| Time is a Flat Circle: Examining True Detective, Season One | Melissa Milazzo | Sequart Organization | |
| Virginia’s Haunted Historic Triangle 2nd Edition: Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown & Other Haunted Locations | Pamela K. Kinney | Schiffer Publishing | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| A Penny For Your Thoughts | Matt Hayward & Robert Ford | Poltergeist Press | |
| A Spectral Hue | Craig Laurance Gidney | Word Horde | |
| Black Heart Boys' Choir | Curtis M. Lawson | Wyrd Horror | |
| Black Mountain | Laird Barron | G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| Blood Ink | Dana Fredsti | Titan Books | |
| Blood Sugar | Daniel Kraus | Hard Case Crime | |
| Boomtown | James A. Moore | Twisted Publishing | |
| Bunny | Mona Awad | Viking | |
| Camp Ghoul Mountain Part VI: The Official Novelization | Jonathan Raab | Turn to Ash Media, LLC | |
| Candy Canes and Buckets of Blood | Heide Goody & Iain Grant | Pigeon Park Press | |
| Canni | Daniel O’Connor | Blood Bound Books | |
| Cardinal Black | Robert McCammon | Cemetery Dance | |
| Coyote Rage | Owl Goingback | Independent Legions Publishing | |
| Cricket Hunters | Jeremy Hepler | Silver Shamrock Publishing | |
| Dark Carnival | Joanna Parypinski | Independent Legions Publishing | |
| Dead Sky | Weston Ochse | Rebellion/Solaris | |
| Demons Well Seasoned | Patricia V. Davis | HD Media Press | |
| Diabhal: A Novel | Kathleen Kaufman | Turner | |
| Falling | Drew Turney | psi Publishing and Design | |
| Game Changers of the Apocalypse | Mark Kirkbride | Omnium Gatherum | |
| Ghoster | Jason Arnopp | Orbit | |
| Ghostland | Duncan Ralston | Shadow Work Publishing | |
| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | Tor.com | |
| Hate the Sin | Artyom Dereschuk | ||
| Hearthstone Cottage | Frazer Lee | Flame Tree Press | |
| Highway Twenty | Michael J. Moore | HellBound Books | |
| If You See Her | Ania Ahlborn | Independently Published | |
| Imaginary Friend | Stephen Chbosky | Grand Central Publishing | |
| Inspection | Josh Malerman | Del Rey | |
| Into The Ashes | Lee Murray | Severed Press | |
| Lakehouse Infernal | Christine Morgan | Deadite Press | |
| My Heart Struck Sorrow | John Hornor Jacobs | A Lush and Seething Hell | Harper Voyager |
| My Pretties | Jeff Strand | ||
| Netherkind | Greg Chapman | Omnium Gatherum | |
| Night Shoot | David Sodergren | Independently Published | |
| Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo | Flatiron Books | |
| On This, The Day of the Pig | Josh Malerman | Cemetery Dance Publications | |
| One by One | D.W. Gillespie | Flame Tree Press | |
| One for the Road | Wesley Southard | Eraserhead Press | |
| Palace of Ghosts | Thomas S. Flowers | Shadow Work Publishing | |
| Ragged Alice | Gareth L. Powell | Tor.com | |
| Shanti: The Sadist Heaven | Alessandro Manzetti | Necro Publications | |
| Tao of the Viper: A Kate Pomeroy Mystery | Linda Watkins | Argon Press | |
| The Bedwetter: Journal of a Budding Psychopath | Lee Allen Howard | Three First Names | |
| The Damned Place | Chris Miller | Black Bed Sheet Books | |
| The Dark Game | Jonathan Janz | Flame Tree Press | |
| The Dead Girls Club | Damien Angelica Walters | Crooked Lane Books | |
| The Edge | Tim Lebbon | Titan Books | |
| The Fearing | John F.D. Taff | Grey Matter Press | |
| The Flock | Jeffery X. Martin | Shadow Work Publishing | |
| The Girl in the Mirror | Steven Ramirez | Glass Highway | |
| The Haunting of Henderson Close | Catherine Cavendish | Flame Tree Press | |
| The Hiding Place | C.J. Tudor | Crown | |
| The Institute | Stephen King | Scribner | |
| The Invited | Jennifer McMahon | Doubleday | |
| The Kraken of Cape Madre | J.P. Barnett | Evolved Publishing LLC | |
| The Laws of the Skies | Gregoire Courtois | Coach House Books | |
| The Long Shadows of October | Kristopher Triana | Grindhouse Press | |
| The Murder of Jesus Christ | John R. Little | Bad Moon Books | |
| The Music of Midnight | Dallas Mullican | Charon Press | |
| The Nightmare Girl | Jonathan Janz | Flame Tree Press | |
| The October Boys | Adam Millard | Bloodshot Books | |
| The Other Mrs. MIller | Allison Dickson | G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| The Reddening | Adam Nevill | Ritual Limited | |
| The Remaking | Clay McLeod Chapman | Quirk Books | |
| The Saturday Night Ghost Club | Craig Davidson | Penguin | |
| The Time Traveler Professor Book Two: A Pocketful of Lodestones | Elizabeth Crowens | Atomic Alchemist Productions, LLC | |
| The Twisted Ones | T. Kingfisher | Gallery / Saga Press | |
| The Widow | Rob Bliss | Necro Publications | |
| The Wolf and the Watchman | Niklas Natt och Dag | Atria Books | |
| The Worst is Yet to Come | S.P. Miskowski | Trepidatio Publishing | |
| They Kill | Tim Waggoner | Flame Tree Press | |
| Twelve Nights at Rotter House | J.W. Ocker | Turner | |
| Unamerica | Cody Goodfellow | King Shot Press | |
| Violet | Scott Thomas | Inkshares | |
| Walk the Darkness Down | John Boden | Crossroad Press | |
| Wanderers | Chuck Wendig | Random House | |
| What Sleeps Beneath | John Quick | Bloodshot Books | |
| Where The Gods Sleep | Mike Duke | Stitched Smile Publications | |
| Will Haunt You | Brian Kirk | Flame Tree Press | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| (un)poetic: a collection of poetry | M. Ennenbach | Potter's Grove Press LLC | |
| Beat Your Heart Out | Cristina Isabel | Independently Published | |
| Choking Back the Devil | Donna Lynch | Raw Dog Screaming Press | |
| Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning | Michelle Scalise | LVP Publications | |
| Everything Seems Significant | Jan Bottiglieri | BlazeVOX | |
| Here's to Odd Dreams and Petty Things | Cati Branton | Amazon Digital Services LLC | |
| Horror Movie Poetry | Tony Newton | Amazon Digital Services LLC | |
| Mary Shelley Makes a Monster | Octavia Cade | Aqueduct Press | |
| My Heart Is A Forest: A Collection Of Poetry | Katie Metcalfe | Independently Published | |
| Pan's Saxophone | Jonel Abellanosa | Weasel Press | |
| PseudoPsalms: Revelation | Peter Adam Salomon | Amazon Digital Services LLC | |
| Tall Grass | Amanda Crum | Independently Published | |
| The Apocalyptic Mannequin: The Definition of Body is Buried | Stephanie Wytovich | Raw Dog Screaming Press | |
| The Configuration Discordant | John Baltisberger | Things In The Well Publications | |
| The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems | Frank Coffman | Bold Venture Press | |
| The Demeter Diaries | Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich | Independent Legions Publishing | |
| The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities | Kyla Lee Ward | P’rea Press | |
| The Place of Broken Things | Linda D. Addison & Alessandro Manzetti | Crystal Lake Publishing | |
| The Sun Ships & Other Poems | Steven Withrow | Lulu.com | |
| War: Dark Poems | Marge Simon & Alessandro Manzetti | Crystal Lake Publishing | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| Brightburn | Brian Gunn & Mark Gunn | Sony Pictures Releasing | |
| Castle Rock, Season 2, Episode 5: The Laughing Place | Vince Calandra & Daria Polatin | Hulu | |
| Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Chapter Seventeen: The Missionaries | Donna Thorland | Netflix | |
| Crawl | Michael & Shawn Rasmussen | Paramount Pictures | |
| Doctor Sleep | Mike Flanagan | Warner Brothers | |
| Hagazussa | Lukas Feigelfeld | Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) | |
| Haunt | Scott Beck & Bryan Woods | Broken Road Productions | |
| In the Tall Grass | Vincenzo Natali | Netflix | |
| Into the Dark: All That We Destroy | Sean Keller & Jim Agnew | Blumhouse Television | |
| Into the Dark: Culture Shock | Efrén Hernández, James Benson & Gigi Saul Guerrero | Blumhouse Television | |
| Into the Dark: Pure | Hannah Macpherson | Blumhouse Television | |
| Into the Dark: Treehouse | James Roday & Todd Harthan | Blumhouse Television | |
| It Chapter Two | Gary Dauberman | New Line Cinema | |
| Joker | Todd Phillips, Scott Silver | Warner Bros. | |
| Knife + Heart | Yann Gonzalez & Cristiano Mangione | ||
| Marianne, Season 1, Episode 1: "Your Dreams" | Samuel Bodin & Quoc Dang Tran | Netflix | |
| Marianne, Season 1, Episode 5: "You Left Her" | Samuel Bodin & Quoc Dang Tran | Netflix | |
| Midsommar | Ari Aster | A24 | |
| Nightmare Cinema: "This Way to Egress" | David Slade | Nightmare Cinema | Shudder |
| Pet Sematary | Jeff Buhler | Paramount Pictures | |
| Rabid | Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, & John Serge | Shout! Studios | |
| Ready or Not | Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy | Mythology Entertainment | |
| Satanic Panic | Grady Hendrix | Aperture Entertainment | |
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman | Lionsgate | |
| Starfish | Al White | Spellbound Entertainment | |
| Stranger Things, Season 3, Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt | Matt Duffer & Ross Duffer | Netflix | |
| The Golem | Ariel Cohen | Epic Pictures | |
| The Hole in the Ground | Lee Cronin | Savage Production | |
| The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | A24 | |
| The Perfection | Eric C. Charmelo, Richard Shepard & Nicole Snyder | Miramax | |
| The Silence | Carey Van Dyke & Shane Van Dyke | Constantin Film | |
| The Wind | Teresa Sutherland | Soapbox Films | |
| The Witcher Season 1, Episode 3: Betrayer Moon | Beau DeMayo | Netflix | |
| Tigers Are Not Afraid | Issa López | Shudder | |
| Us | Jordan Peele | Universal Pictures | |
| Velvet Buzzsaw | Dan Gilroy | Netflix | |
| Wounds | Babak Anvari | Annapurna Pictures | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| (Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢) Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person | Paul Tremblay | Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories | Gallery / Saga Press |
| 6/6 | Ray Cluley | Black Shuck Books | |
| A Certain Shade | S. L. Edwards | Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts | Gehenna and Hinnom Books |
| A Roving in England, No More | Brett J. Talley | 1816: The Year Without Summer - eBook (Unredacted Cthulhu Almanac) | Beyond Death Publishing Ltd. |
| A Song for Wounded Mouths | Kristi DeMeester | PseudoPod 641: ARTEMIS RISING 5 | |
| A Strange Haze | Matthew M. Bartlett | Wicked Weird: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers | NEHW Press |
| A Touch of Madness | Tim Waggoner | The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias | Lycan Valley Press |
| About the O'Dells | Pat Cadigan | Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories | Gallery / Saga Press |
| Anniversary | John R. Little | Dark Tides: A Charity Anthology | Gestalt Media |
| Arabella and the Spiders | KT Wagner | Factor Four Magazine: Issue 4, January 2019 | |
| As Dark as Hunger | S. Qiouyi Lu | Black Static #72 (Nov-Dec 2019) | |
| Being Emily-Claire | Jonathan Maberry | The Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods | Pulse Publishing |
| Beneath Her Skin | KT Wagner | The Twisted Book of Shadows | Twisted Publishing |
| Biological Imperative | Jennifer Loring | The Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous Women | Scary Dairy Press |
| Birds of Passage | Gordon B. White | Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles | Chthonic Matter |
| Black Matter | Vivian Shaw | Pseudopod | Escape Artists |
| Blue | M. Ennenbach | Notches | Death's Head Press |
| Boricua Obituary | Cina Pelayo | ¡Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas!: Latinx Fiction for Puerto Rico | Down & Out Books |
| Burning Bright | Carina Bissett | Gorgon: Stories of Emergence | Pantheon Magazine |
| Bury Me in Tar and Twine | Jess Landry | Tales of the Lost | Things In The Well Publications |
| Cabras | S. L. Edwards | Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts | Gehenna & Hinnom Books |
| Chasing the Reaper | Brad Hodson | Where Carrion Gods Dance | |
| Come Clean | Reuben "Tihi" Hayslett | Dark Corners | Running Wild Press |
| Compass Wood | Mark West | The Woods | Hersham Horror Books |
| Dancing on the Edge of Eternity | D. S. Ullery | Alternative Apocalypse | B Cubed Press |
| Deal with the Devil | Carol Gyzander | Across the Universe | Fantastic Books |
| Desiderium | Ben Monroe | Tales of the Lost | Things In The Well Publishing |
| Detrition of War | Kenneth W. Cain | When the Clock Strikes 13 | In Your Face Books |
| Effigies of Former Supervisors | Matthew M. Bartlett | Vastarien, Vol. 2, Issue 1 | Grimscribe Press |
| Entwined | Colleen Anderson | The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias | Lycan Valley Press |
| Eternal Roots of Lane County | J.C. Raye | Nightscript Vol. V | |
| Fairy Lights | Kate Jonez | Lady Bits | Trepidatio Publishing |
| Flatblack | Daniele Bonfanti | Black Dandy #4 | Blurb |
| From These Muddy Waters | Patrick C. Harrison III | Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors Vol. 4 | HellBound Books Publishing |
| Go to the Devil | Matthew M. Bartlett | Behold the Undead of Dracula: Lurid Tales of Cinematic Gothic Horror | Muzzleland Press |
| Hazthrog the Mad God | Maxwell I. Gold | The Dark Corner Zine Issue #2 | |
| Hester Cohen | Brad C. Hodson | Where Carrion Gods Dance | Washington Park Press |
| Husks | Paul Moore | Tales of the Lost | Things In The Well Publications |
| I Say (I Say, I Say) | Robert Shearman | Tales From the Shadow Booth, Vol. 3 | |
| I Want Candy | Larry Hinkle | Trickster’s Treats #3: The Seven Deadly Sins | Things in the Well |
| In Darkness, She Sheds | Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert | The Final Summons | New England Speculative Writers |
| In the Vastness of the Sovereign Sky | S. L. Edwards | Nox Pareidolia | Nightscape Press |
| It Has to Cool First | Carol Gyzander | Stories We Tell After Midnight | Crone Girls Press |
| Kirti | Alessandro Manzetti | Space and Time Magazine #135 | Necro Publications |
| Last Stop on Route Nine | Tananarive Due | Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery | Titan Books |
| Leaving the #9 | E. M. Markoff | Tales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefitting Wildfire Relief | Tomes & Coffee Press |
| Legends of Claudia | S.P. Miskowski | Supernatural Tales 40: Summer 2019 | |
| Life Lessons | Lisa Diane Kastner | The Blue Mountain Review | |
| Living/Dead | James Chambers | On the Night Border | Raw Dog Screaming Press |
| Lydia | Cindy O’Quinn | The Twisted Book of Shadows | Twisted Publishing |
| Maggie Was a Monster | S. L. Edwards | Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts | Gehenna and Hinnom Books |
| Magicland | Harrison Demchick | Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism | |
| Millicent Blackwood's Very Scary Halloween Social & Tea | Christa Carmen | Outpost 28, Issue 4 | Elvelon Press |
| My Mother's Ghosts | Priya Sharma | Great British Horror 4: Dark & Stormy Nights | Black Shuck Books |
| My Name is Ellie | Sam Rebelein | Bourbon Penn | |
| Nautilus | Colleen Anderson | Thrilling Words | |
| No Other Life | Isabel Cañas | Nightmare Magazine, July 2019 (Issue 82) | |
| Norwegian Woods | Jeremy Wagner | The Big Book of Blasphemy | Necro Publications |
| One Last Time | Jeff Parsons | horrorzine.com | |
| One Last Year Without a Summer | Brian Hodge | Skidding Into Oblivion | ChiZine Publications |
| Our Lady of Redemption | Colleen Anderson | Nameless Vol. 2 #4 | Jasunni Publications |
| Param | Susan Snyder | Trigger Warning: Body Horror | Madness Heart Press |
| Playscape | Diana Peterfreund | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2019 | |
| Pomegranate Pomegranate | Jack Westlake | Black Static #69 (May-June 2019) | TTA Press |
| Professional Envy | Samson Stormcrow Hayes | Infinite Lives: Short Takes on Longevity | Third Flatiron Publishing |
| Red Mami | James Chambers | On the Night Border | Raw Dog Screaming Press |
| Rest in Blood | Paolo di Orazio | The Big Book of Blasphemy | Necro Publications |
| Slipper | Catriona Ward | Great British Horror 4: Dark & Stormy Nights | Black Shuck Books |
| Stands Twice and the Magpie Man | Stephen Graham Jones | Straight Outta Deadwood | Baen |
| The Beast in the Palace | Tom Johnstone | Black Static #68 - March/April 2019 | TTA Press |
| The Black Cheese | Matthew M. Bartlett | Tales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror | Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing |
| The Bleeding Maze: A Visitor’s Guide | Kurt Fawver | Nightmare Magazine, August 2019 (Issue 83) | |
| The Bone Ward | Kate Folk | McSweeney’s 55 | McSweeney's Quarterly Concern |
| The Caged Bird Sings In A Darkness Of Its Own Creation | Richard Thomas | Shallow Creek | Storgy Books |
| The Ceiling of the World | Nicole Crucial | Diabolical Plots Year Five | Diabolical Plots, LLC |
| The Coffin, the Ship | Mel Kassel | Black Warrior Review, Fall 2019 (Issue 46.1) | |
| The Confessional | A.K. Kuykendall | Evolved Publishing LLC | |
| The Coven of Dead Girls | L'Erin Ogle | Pseudopod | Escape Artists Inc |
| The Dark Down There | Lori R. Lopez | Fairy Fly Entertainment | |
| The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary) | Gwendolyn Kiste | Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2019 (Issue 86) | |
| The Fluids That Giveth & Those That Taketh | Chad Stroup | Shock Totem #11 | Shock Totem |
| The Girl and the House | Mari Ness | Nightmare Magazine, April 2019 (Issue 79) | |
| The God of Phlegm | Maxwell Gold | Spectral Realms No. 11 | Hippocampus Press |
| The Hope Chest | Sarah Read | Black Static #72 (Nov-Dec 2019) | |
| The House of the Scolopendra | Nicola Lombardi | The Blood Tomes, Volume 2: Creatures | Tell-Tale Press |
| The Judas Portal | John Urbancik | The Big Book of Blasphemy | Necro Publications |
| The Mass of the Greatest Sin | Trisha J. Wooldridge | Wicked Weird: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers | NEHW Press |
| The Mute Swan | Cate Gardner | Terror Tales of Northwest England | Telos Publishing |
| The Orange Bati | Pamela K. Kinney | Trick-or-Treat Thrillers 13 Backyard Monsters | NSBS |
| The Pain-Eater's Daughter | Laura Mauro | Sing Your Sadness Deep | Undertow Publications |
| The Past You Deserve, The Future You Deserve | K. H. Vaughn | Nox Pareidolia | Nightscape Press |
| The Price of Knives | Ruoxi Chen | The Dark Magazine, September 2019 (Issue 52) | |
| The Quarry | Ben Monroe | Tales for the Camp Fire: A Charity Anthology Benefitting Wildfire Relief | Tomes & Coffee Press |
| The Salty Virgin | Alessandro Manzetti | The Big Book of Blasphemy | Necro Publications |
| The Shadows Beneath the Stone | Jonathan Maberry | Weird Tales #363 | |
| The Squatter | David Dean | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| The Survival of Molly Southbourne | Tade Thompson | Tor.com | |
| The Thirteenth Temple | Paul Tremblay | Growing Things and Other Stories | William Morrow |
| The Unexpected | Joyce Carol Oates | Harper's Magazine | |
| The Uninvited Grave | Jeffrey Thomas | The Unnamed Country | Word Horde |
| The Woman Out of the Attic | Gwendolyn Kiste | Haunted House Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) | Flame Tree Publishing |
| They Are Us (1964): An Oral History | Jack Lothian | Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles | Chthonic Matter |
| To a Puppet, From a Dummy | Jon Padgett | Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh | Silent Motorist Media |
| Upper Crust | Michael Paul Gonzalez | Tales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror | Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing |
| Urban Moon | Mercedes Yardley | Other Voices, Other Tombs | Cemetery Gates Media |
| Watching | Tim Lees | Black Static #72 (Nov-Dec 2019) | |
| We've Always Lived in a Colony | S. L. Edwards | Hell's Empire | Ulthar Press |
| Weary Bones | Sonora Taylor | Little Paranoias | Independently Published |
| Welcome Home | Donna J. W. Munro | The Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous Women | Scary Dairy Press |
| When Calls the Deep | Mike Duke | Wolfgang Anthologies Presents: Abandoned | Wolfgang Anthologies |
| Where Gods Dance | Ben Serna-Grey | Apex Magazine | |
| Whiskey and Memory | S. L. Edwards | Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts | Gehenna and Hinnom Books |
| White to Black | Michael Bailey | The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias | LVP Publications |
| Widows' Walk | Angela Slatter | Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery | Titan Books |
| Within This Body of Stone I Scream | Cassandra Schoeber | The Arcanist | |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| Anne Rice and the making of a modern vampire | Kellye McBride | sublimehorror.com | |
| Decapitations, Corpse Meltings, and Horses: Examining the Weird History Behind Stop Motion Animation | Max Booth III | Fangoria | |
| Film's First Lycanthrope: 1913's The Werewolf | Kelly Robinson | Scary Monsters Magazine | |
| Final Girl, Final Boy: Ash’s Imperiled Masculinity | Dale Bailey | The Many Lives of the Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise | McFarland |
| From the Books of Wandering: Fin-de-siècle Poetics of a Supernatural Figure | Aaron Worth | Times Literary Supplement, December 20-28 | |
| Imagining the End of the World: A Biocultural Analysis of Post Apocalyptic Fiction | Mathias Clasen | Evolution and Popular Narrative | Brill | Rodop |
| LGBTQ+ Horror Month - Our Common Confusions: Clive Barker's Books of Blood | George Daniel Lea | Ginger Nuts of Horror | |
| Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre | Valerie E. Weich | Famous 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 1 | Grimscribe Press |
| Mary Shelley’s Curse | Shelley A. Kaehr, Ph.D. | Out of This World Publishing | |
| New Pulp | Heidi Ruby Miller | The Writer, July 2019 | |
| On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women | Rachel Eve Moulton | lithub.com | |
| Riding Out the Storms | Tim Waggoner | http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com | |
| Romance as a Panacea and a New Generation of Intellectual Zombies in Warm Bodies and iZombie | Tatiana Prorokova | All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts | Vernon Press |
| Securing the Borders: Isolation and Anxiety in The Witch, It Comes at Night, and Trump’s America | Brandon Grafius | Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear | Routledge |
| Tethered to the Closet | Terry Mesnard | GaylyDreadful.com | |
| The Danse Macabre: An Essay | Kyla Lee Ward | The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities | P’rea Press |
| The H Word: How The Witch and Get Out Helped Usher in the New Wave of Elevated Horror | Richard Thomas | Nightmare Magazine Feb. 2019 (Issue 77) | |
| The H Word: It’s Alive! | Nibedita Sen | Nightmare Magazine, March 2019 (Issue 78) | |
| The H Word: On Cruelty | Micah Dean Hicks | http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/the-h-word-on-cruelty/ | Nightmare Magazine |
| The H Word: Proof of Afterlife | Kaaron Warren | Nightmare Magazine July 2019 (Issue 82) | |
| The H Word: What We Talk About When We Talk About Horror Endings | Stephen Graham Jones | http://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 Morton | Nightmare Magazine Sept. 2019 (Issue 84) | |
| The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association: How Fucking Dare You? | Thomas F. Monteleone | Cemetery Dance #77 | |
| The Ramones' “Pet Sematary”: An Oral History | Brenna Ehrlich | Tidal.com | |
| The legacy of Hill House: haunted spaces in Shirley Jackson’s novels | Kellye McBride | SublimeHorror.com | |
| “Drill-Do Horror”: Abjection, Queer Bodies and Sexual Violence in Murder House, Freak Show and Hotel | Tosha R. Taylor | Gender, Sexuality and Queerness in American Horror Story | McFarland |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VENUE | PUBLISHER |
| Alien: Echo | Mira Grant | Imprint | |
| Curse of the Evil Librarian | Michelle Knudsen | Candlewick Press | |
| Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds | Peter Adam Salomon | PseudoPsalms Press | |
| Here There Are Monsters | Amelinda Bérubé | Sourcebooks Fire | |
| Last Things | Jacqueline West | Greenwillow Books | |
| Oware Mosaic | Nzondi | Omnium Gatherum Media | |
| Speak No Evil | Liana Gardner | Vesuvian Books | |
| Stolen | Marlena Frank | The Parliament House Press | |
| The Babysitters Coven | Kate M. Williams | Delacorte Press | |
| The Bone Garden | Heather Kassner | Henry Holt and Co. | |
| The Devil's Tree | Susan McCauley | Celtic Sea Publishing | |
| The Grace Year | Kim Liggett | Wednesday Books | |
| The Haunted | Danielle Vega | Razorbill | |
| The Skin Factory | Lucas Pederson | LVP Publications | |
| Tunnel of Bones | Victoria Schwab | Scholastic Press | |