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Release Day for Smoke Season by Carrie-Edmund Laben

Smoke Season by Carrie-Edmund Laben

From Carrie-Edmund Laben, author of A Hawk in the Woods comes a new novel in the tradition of Arthur Machen.

Order Smoke Season now from local independent booksellers in the US and Canada (including the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic), many online retailers, or direct from us.

“A mystery that begins with the hazy memory of a forgotten sibling in a cage, spirals outward, entwining dark conspiracy with visions of utopia. Mesmerizing and unlike anything else you’ve read, Smoke Season will challenge your notions of what Weird and political fiction can achieve.” —Paul Tremblay, NYT bestselling author of Horror Movie and Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep

John Langan’s Lost in the Dark Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award!

Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

Super excited to see that John Langan’s Word Horde collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Congratulations, John!

Thanks to all the HWA members and Stoker jurors who recommended it and congratulations to all the other Stoker nominees! It’s an outstanding ballot this year.

It takes a village to make a book, so we’d also like to take this opportunity to give shout-outs to cover artist Matthew Jaffe, cover designer Scott R. Jones, and copyeditor Shannon Page.

Release Day for Notes from Underground by Orrin Grey

Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!

From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes a new collection of seven uncanny tales that together form a linked story sequence of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness.

Order Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic), most online retailers, or direct from us.

“With Notes from Underground, Orrin Grey uses the fantastic imagery of the high strange and the charming weirdness of pulp adventure stories as gateways to deeper, murkier depths. He tunnels deep into the honeycombed caverns of his characters’ interior lives and shines a light on what lurks there. A wonderful collection quite unlike any I’ve read before.” —Trevor Henderson, author of Scarewaves

Cover Reveal: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with thirteen new tales of cosmic horror in Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, featuring gorgeous cover art from Matthew Jaffe!

Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan

Preorder today from Word Horde, and you’ll also receive a bookplate signed by John Langan, and a free eBook.

Here’s just some of the advance praise for Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions…

“This is an author at the height of his powers.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“John Langan’s enviable range encompasses the whole panorama of horror, from the psychological to the cosmic, the monstrous to the deeply and movingly human, the insidiously disturbing to the thoroughly nightmarish. His imagination never falters or flinches, and his flavoursome prose is a literate pleasure to read.” —WHC Grand Master Ramsey Campbell

“There are certain writers who go straight to the top of my reading list, and John Langan is in that company. One of the finest and most surprising writers working in the tradition of the uncanny.” —Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

“John Langan is your guide on a grand tour of the dark corners of the world. A riveting, soul-chilling collection of horror.” —Barbara Cottrell, author of Darkness Below

Cover Art by Matthew Jaffe
Cover Design by Scott R. Jones

Pub Date: August 5, 2025

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1-956252-10-1

Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 978-1-939905-79-6

Release Day for Glowing in the Dark by Orrin Grey

Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore!

From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes a collection of more than a decade of Grey’s best writing on horror films, from Saturday-matinee schlock to award-winning classics, exploring the silver screen through insightful reviews and enlightening essays.

Order Glowing in the Dark now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic), most online retailers, or direct from us.

“In my story ‘Night’s Foul Bird,’ which first appeared in Innsmouth Magazine in November 2013 and was subsequently reprinted in my second collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, I wrote a description of what it feels like to watch a horror movie when it all really works.

‘Terrified, yes, by every creak and flutter, but something else, too. Alive, illuminated. I could feel the beating of my heart, feel the rush of blood in my veins. I felt as if I were glowing in the dark, as if I were giving off light.'” —Author’s Introduction

Release Day for Around Eldritch Corners by Christine Morgan

You never know what you’ll find… Around Eldritch Corners.

Splatterpunk Award-winning author Christine Morgan’s Cthulhu Mythos and Lovecraftian cosmic horror come to life in this arcane volume.

Order Around Eldritch Corners now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic), most online retailers, or direct from us.

“These works have the sure, solid feel of a talented author deeply engaged with her source material and genre.” —Publishers Weekly, on The Raven’s Table (starred review)

Release Day for DRILL by Scott R. Jones

DRILL has been activated… and the Body of God won’t even know what hit it.

Magical mailman kills God in this novel of cosmic horror/occult ritual from Scott R. Jones, the author of Stonefish.

Order DRILL now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic), most online retailers, or direct from us.

“DRILL is like nothing you’ve ever read before. That is, of course, the kind of tired, trite proclamation that gets bandied about complacent critics too hungry or horny for deeper reflection. But you tell me of another book that combines righteous fury, feverish insight, pitch black humour and delirious prose to such compelling effect. I’ll wait. Oh, and I think it might just kill a deity.” —Kenton Hall, musician and filmmaker

Tales of Jack the Ripper – First Reviews

The first Amazon reviews of Tales of Jack the Ripper have started to appear, and it seems that people like our little book. Here are just a few of the things readers have said:

Ellie-and-Jack

“…a truly spellbinding collection…”

“A must have for all Ripper scholars.”

“…what this anthology truly has going for it is its relentlessness.”

“Blood starts to seep from the pages (yes, even on the Kindle), and pools around the words.”

“The ‘Must-Read’ Jack the Ripper Anthology”

“Jack the Ripper stories that will keep you up at night reading (or hiding beneath your covers).”

“These stories will have you feverously flipping pages in a hungry suspense–each holding that ‘one more page’ grip that established readers search for.”

“I suggest cutting into a copy as soon as possible…”

What can we say but, “Wow!”

Even though our official street date isn’t until August 31, Tales of Jack the Ripper is now available to order in Trade Paperback from Amazon, B&N, IndieBound, Powells, and The Book Depository. A Saucy Jack Deluxe Pack is available directly from Word Horde. Tales of Jack the Ripper is also available as an ebook for Kindle and Nook.

Thanks for reading. And if you enjoy the book, please tell your friends.

Put Tales of Jack the Ripper on your bookshelf

August brings with it the 125th anniversary of the Whitechapel murders and the legacy of the most notorious serial killer in history: Jack the Ripper. To mark this sanguine anniversary, Word Horde presents Tales of Jack the Ripper, an anthology of seventeen stories and two poems by many of the most distinct voices in dark fantasy and horror, including Laird Barron, Ramsey Campbell, Ennis Drake, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Joe R. Lansdale, E. Catherine Tobler, and many others.

JTRShelf

Now, you can put Tales of Jack the Ripper on your own bookshelf. Tales of Jack the Ripper is now available to order from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and is coming soon to an independent bookstore near you (ask for Jack by name!). Or you can preorder The Saucy Jack Deluxe Pack direct from Word Horde. The Saucy Jack Deluxe Pack includes one signed Trade Paperback of Tales of Jack the Ripper, one eBook in the format of your choice, and a bloody good selection of Jack schwag. The eBook will be emailed to you when your order is processed, so you can start reading as soon as possible.

Details at: https://wordhorde.com/product/jtr-deluxe/

And if you haven’t had a chance to check out the Tales of Jack the Ripper trailer author Patrick Tumblety made, do yourself a favor and hit play.

Jack’s Back

We’re in the home stretch, with Tales of Jack the Ripper just about ready to go to the printer. To celebrate, how about a little extortion? If one hundred twenty-five of you drop by the Word Horde Facebook page and like and/or share the cover photo below, we’ll show you Jack’s back! That’s right, all you have to do is click through and LIKE or SHARE, and once we hit that magic number, we’ll reveal the back cover. Help spread the word, and help Word Horde show the world Jack’s back!

Tales of Jack the Ripper