Surreal Horror

Jake zieht mit seinen Eltern in die scheinbar idyllische Kleinstadt Maplewood Hills – doch die Bewohner beobachten ihn und seine Eltern, hinterlassen rätselhafte Botschaften auf der Türschwelle und scheinen Geheimnisse zu kennen, die er niemals erfahren soll. In einer anderen Kleinstadt Anfang der 90er Jahre soll sich im alten Gemischtwarenladen von Mr. Miller eine Treppe verbergen, die in die unendliche Finsternis führt – und drei Jugendliche wagen den Abstieg, ohne zu wissen, ob sie jemals zurückkehren werden.

From the award-winning director and NYT bestselling author of If Cats Disappeared from the World, the thrilling novelization of his hit film Exit 8, adapting the indie game of the same name. A young man is commuting on a packed Tokyo subway, when he receives a phone call from his ex, with...

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. "Gripping, bloody, and haunting." —Kirkus Reviews South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of...

Welcome to the Murder House. We investigate a Mystery House, one floor at a time. We start at the top. And work our way down through the Life-cycle of the insane house, picking up the jigsaw pieces to work out the deep mystery held within. And the Omega Circle group of friends are back. But terrible things are happening inside. All kinds of body horror and monsters and weird shit. Incredible things in deep bizarro surrealism.

A woman returns to her childhood home to find a house of living nightmares in the Edgar Award-nominated author’s spine-chilling, reality-blurring adult debut. Shirley never wanted to live in the house where her father murdered her mother. For the moment, though, her husband and her don’t...

Evil books, shadowy corporations, and interdimensional monster collide in this dark, masterful tribute to Robert Chamber's cult classic, The King in Yellow. "Dark, elegant, and relentless, The Truth of Carcosa is dossier-horror at its finest--intimate, dangerous, and urgently of now. Rollinson...

A macabre and chilling supernatural gothic horror about a group of teenagers cursed to die on their 18th birthday from the Stoker Award shortlisted author of The Book of the Baku. Perfect for fans of Clay McLeod Chapman, The September House by Carissa Orlando and The Shining Girls by Lauren...

AN AUDACIOUS, INVENTIVE DEBUT AND A CULT CLASSIC IN THE MAKING, FROM A THRILLING NEW TALENT IN FICTION 'CAMPY, EROTIC, PROVOCATIVE AND UTTERLY ESSENTIAL' LUCY ROSE ‘TRANGRESSIVE, GROTESQUE AND TOTALLY COMPELLING' ALICE SLATER 'A TOTALLY ORIGINAL, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD, HORRIFYING WORK OF ART' MARISA...

Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls. Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a...

‘No one writes like Samanta Schweblin’ – Lorrie Moore The strange and explosive new collection from the incomparable imagination of Samanta Schweblin, a master of the short story. A gripping blend of the raw, the astonishing and the tragic, every story is as perfectly unexpected as a snare...

Brilliantly read by a multi-cast of narrators. The International Bestseller 'Just stellar - extreme, uncanny and beautifully controlled' - Anne Enright, Booker Prize winning author of The Wren, The Wren 'These stories are perfect for the times we dwell inside' - Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon...

'Jane Eyre meets American Psycho. Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES ‘Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian...

Deadknobs and Doomsticks is a collection of 13 short horror stories by I'm a Celebrity Get Me out of Here's "King of the Jungle" and one of the UK's favourite comedians, Joe Pasquale. Ranging from the darkly bizarre to the horrifically surreal, many of the stories are laced with a theme of bullying and bullies.

For many years, the Witherby family has been most cruel to animals and insects. But one day Mother Nature says "enough is enough," and unleashes vengeance upon the Witherby family in the form of a giant, man-eating spider. Will any of the Witherbys get out of this tale alive?

One afternoon, young Thomas fails to return home for dinner and is soon reported as missing. His disappearance is told from the points of view of all involved, and what unfolds is a tale of ghosts, murder, grief, magic, and necromancy. It is always certain that Thomas will return...but the nature of his reappearance will haunt the minds of all protagonists involved, and each will be changed forever.

Life gets crowded on the open road. Jason loves the open spaces of the western US. There is contemplative quiet that comes with crossing the endless miles. And that's his job, traveling, doing mobile repair and maintenance work for an office equipment company. When they send him into New Mexico, an overnight stay at a motel that is haunted changes his life. Who knew spirits could be so tenacious or complicate your life so much? A short, fantastic adventure in surreal New Mexico.