By KEVIN HOOVER
March’s bounty of new books brings flesh blood by way of Allison Gunn’s folklore horror debut, the latest in Jonathan Maberry’s acclaimed Joe Ledger series and a compendium of creepy tales from friend-of-RUE MORGUE, Dark Delicacies proprietor Del Howison.
What Fresh Hell is This?
Del Howison
Crystal Lake Publishing
March 4th – Pre-order Now
Step into the twisted mind of Del Howison with this unflinching collection of dark tales. What Fresh Hell Is This? brings together stories from across Howison’s prolific career, each one exploring the eerie and the macabre, examining humanity’s deepest fears and desires. Drawing on his rich life experiences–from being baptized in a river and attending a private Christian college to his ownership of the famed horror bookstore Dark Delicacies–Howison crafts tales that delve into the darkest corners of the human soul.
Burn to Shine
Jonathan Maberry
St. Martin’s Griffin
March 4th – Pre-order Now
Rogue Team International joins Joe Ledger in a new, tension-filled mission to stop a wave of bioterrorism from devastating the country in the fourth installment of bestselling author Jonathan Maberry’s ongoing series.
Trog
Zachary Ashford
Unnerving
March 11th – Pre-order Now
After Aisha is traumatized by a stalker, her parents decide to move to a property in the outback. They say it’s in her best interests. But they don’t know something dangerous is imprisoned in the subterranean caverns beneath the house.
Something that hungers for freedom. And blood.
Root Rot
Saskia Nislow
Creature Publishing, LLC
March 25th – Pre-order Now
Nine children travel with their families to their grandfather’s vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: Eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people’s faces don’t hang right anymore–except they do, once you look more closely. Transformations warp the children’s sense of time and place, the very land itself seeming to encroach upon them. As The Liar watches the children succumb one by one to an unknown fate, she must make sense of absent stars in the night sky, vials of amber liquid that taste of milk and a funny little rope tied in knots. She’s faced with a choice: join or resist, only the choice is not so simple.
Nowhere
Allison Gunn
Atria Books
March 25th – Pre-order Now
Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut about a series of disappearances in a small, fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in. A haunting family saga and a disquieting horror debut, Nowhere draws from Appalachian folklore to caution us that true terror is what we bury in our own hearts.
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