Though Fall is, naturally, still the prime release time for horror books, summer continues to gain steam as many of the genre’s biggest names drop new novels and collections while the sun is bright and the beach is calling. We get a great crop of new horror books every summer now, and this year is no different, with exciting debuts, rising stars, and living legends all dropping can’t-miss new releases.
So, from the names you know to the names you will know, here are 20 horror books we can’t wait to read this summer.
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager
Release Date: June 10 from Dutton
Why We’re Excited: Riley Sager’s thrillers make for amazing summer reading pretty much every year at this point, and With a Vengeance sounds like one of his most richly layered page-turners to date. It’s a period drama, a murder mystery and a revenge story all wrapped up in one, which means if you take it to the beach, there’s a good chance reading is all you’re doing that day.
Publisher’s Description: In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution.
Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of thirteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. Justice will at last be served.
But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge—and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.
With time running out before the train reaches its destination, Anna is forced to hunt the killer in their midst while protecting the people she hates the most. In order to destroy her enemies, she must first save them—even though it means putting her own life at risk.
Smile for the Cameras by Miranda Smith
Release Date: June 24 from Bantam
Why We’re Excited: Fans of Paul Tremblay’s Horror Movie and Brian McAuley’s Curse of the Reaper will definitely want to pick up Miranda Smith’s Smile for the Cameras, a narrative about a dark secret hidden in a cult classic horror movie, and the dark fate its stars suffer as they prepare for a reunion. I’m a sucker for Hollywood curses and whodunits, and this one sounds like something you can’t miss.
Publisher’s Description: Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind.
Since her mother’s passing, Ella has decided to return to the silver screen. And with the cast and crew of Grad Night in the process of filming a reunion documentary, Ella has an express ticket back into Hollywood’s good graces. Weighed down by the secret she’s been keeping all these years, Ella apprehensively makes the trip to the original set—a cabin in rural Tennessee—to reunite with her castmates for the first time in more than a decade. But when the actors begin to meet the same gruesome fates as the characters they originally played, falling victim to someone dressed as the Grad Night villain, it’s clear their secret is out.
Now, the question is: Can the final girl survive one last nightmare?
Glass Girls by Danie Shokoohi
Release Date: June 24 from Zando
Why We’re Excited: It’s always nice to feature some debut authors on these lists, because new talents are rising in the horror world all the time, and Danie Shokoohi’s Glass Girls feels like the perfect summer read to get to know a new voice in the genre. The story of a former child-medium whose sister tracks her down and delivers an unlikely supernatural ultimatum, it’s got all the makings of a gripping and dark family saga with a ghostly edge.
Publisher’s Description: Alice Haserot thought she’d escaped the curse. For sixteen years, she’s lived far from her family and the ghosts she used to conjure. But her past isn’t so easily left behind.
When Alice discovers she’s pregnant and her estranged sister, Bronwyn, turns up on her doorstep, her carefully built new life begins to unravel. Bronwyn offers an ultimatum: one of her daughters is trying to possess the other, and only Alice has the power to save them. If Alice refuses, Bronwyn will go to their abusive mother and expose her location.
Forced to confront the terrors of her childhood, Alice returns home to face the inheritance of her family curse. Tautly paced and gorgeously written, Glass Girls explores the deep, complicated bonds of family and the shadows that follow us, no matter how far we run.
The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree
Release Date: July 15 from Tachyon
Why We’re Excited: A Western riff on Frankenstein from the author of The Legend of Charlie Fish, The Unkillable Frank Lightning begins as the story of a woman trying to put down the monster she abandoned, then shifts into something so much more. I read this book in one sitting, and whether you’re a horror fan or a Western fan, it’ll pull you into its dark spell.
Publisher’s Description: Catherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: A doctor, an occultist, and, briefly, a widow.
In 1879, Private Frank Humble, Catherine’s husband, was killed in a Sioux attack. Consumed by grief, she used her formidable skills to resurrect him. But Frank lost his soul after the reanimation, and disappeared after a killing spree. Unable to face her failure and its murderous consequences, Catherine fled to grieve.
Twenty-five years later, Catherine has decided she must make things right. She travels back to Texas with a pair of hired killers ready to destroy Frank. But Frank has remade himself as the Unkillable Frank Lightning, traveling with the Wild West Show.
Reaching for a last chance at redemption, Frank and Catherine are at an impasse. As time runs out, their final choices may result in considerable bloodshed.
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Release Date: July 15 from Del Rey
Why We’re Excited: Silvia Moreno-Garcia is herself a keen student of the history of genre storytelling and the ways in which it’s reflected in our culture. It’s what made her novels like Mexican Gothic and Silver Nitrate so gripping. Now, Moreno-Garcia is back with a meditation on horror literature, and the story of one woman tracking down the origins of a novel with surprising truth at its core. Any new Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel is cause for celebration, but this one feels custom-built for us horror nerds.
Publisher’s Description: “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.
In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: Decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay’s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.
Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.
Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
Release Date: July 15 from Nightfire
Why We’re Excited: Wendy N. Wagner knows horror, which means that any fiction she produces is something that any student of the genre won’t want to miss. Girl in the Creek starts as something simple – a woman on the hunt for her missing brother – and then evolves into the story of a mysterious body in the Pacific Northwest, dark forces surrounding the death of the title girl, and a journey to uncover some very frightening secrets. I can’t wait to get to the bottom of this mystery.
Publisher’s Description: Buried secrets only spread.
Erin’s brother Bryan has been missing for five years.
It was as if he simply walked into the forests of the Pacific Northwest and vanished. Determined to uncover the truth, Erin heads to the foothills of Mt. Hood where Bryan was last seen alive. He isn’t the first hiker to go missing in this area, and their cases go unsolved.
When she discovers the corpse of a local woman in a creek, Erin unknowingly puts herself in the crosshairs of very powerful forces―from this world and beyond―hell-bent on keeping their secrets buried.
Killer on the Road/The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones
Release Date: July 15 from Saga
Why We’re Excited: Stephen Graham Jones returns this summer with a “Saga Double” collecting two short novels, one never before released. The Babysitter Lives was first released as an audio original, and it’s a fascinating riff on the story of a babysitter alone in a dark, strange house. Killer on the Road, a brand-new story, is something else entirely, a road horror novel as only Stephen Graham Jones can do it. Put them together and you’ve got another must-read from one of our modern masters.
Publisher’s Description: The Babysitter Lives. When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won’t help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes.
Charlotte’s last babysitting gig almost ended in tragedy when her young charge sleepwalked unnoticed into the middle of the street, only to be found unharmed by Charlotte’s mother. Charlotte vows to be extra careful this time. But the house is filled with mysterious noises and secrets that only the twins understand, echoes of horrors that Charlotte gradually realizes took place in the house eleven years ago. Soon Charlotte has to admit that every babysitter’s worse nightmare has come true: they’re not alone in the house.
The Killer on the Road. Sixteen-year-old Harper has decided to run away from home after she has another blow-out argument with her mother. However, her two best friends, little sister, and ex-boyfriend all stop her from hitchhiking her way up Route 80 in Wyoming by joining her on an intervention disguised as a road trip. What they don’t realize is that Harper has been marked by a very unique serial killer who’s been trolling the highway for the past three years, and now the killer is after all of them in this fast-paced and deadly chase novel that will have your heart racing well above the speed limit as the interstate becomes a graveyard.
Another by Paul Tremblay
Release Date: July 22 from Quill Tree
Why We’re Excited: Paul Tremblay returns this year with a new novel for younger readers that sounds like a compelling, deeply unsettling riff on the changeling myth. The story of a boy who slowly realizes that his parents might be intent on replacing him, Another looks to have all the ingredients of another great Tremblay chiller, with a built-in reach to an audience of young, new horror fans.
Publisher’s Description: When Casey Wilson’s parents tell him that his friend is coming for a sleepover, he has no idea who that might be. Ever since the Zoom Incident, everyone treats him like a pariah, and his tics are worse than ever.
When Morel appears, he’s not like any friend Casey has ever met. His skin is like clay, and he doesn’t speak. But Casey’s parents are charmed by the strange kid, and it’s nice to have someone to talk to besides his sister, Ally, who is away at college. As his normally loving parents grow distant from Casey, they gush and fawn over Morel. Casey knows something is wrong—but with no end in sight to the sleepover, he’s exhausted. And in the dark, out of the corner of his eye, Morel doesn’t look like a kid at all. . . .
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
Release Date: July 22 from Nightfire
Why We’re Excited: Cassandra Khaw is one of the finest prose stylists in all of horror, but they’re also brilliant when it comes to twisting concepts we think we understand into something. The Library of Hellebore starts with a great hook, the idea of a school where all the world’s monsters are educated and redeemed, then shifts into survival horror mode as the students face being eaten alive. Throw in one of the best minds in horror, and you’ve got something you don’t want to miss.
Publisher’s Description: The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told after she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.
But the Institute is more than just a haven for monsters. On graduation day, the faculty embark on a ravenous rampage, feasting on their students. Trapped in the school’s cavernous library, Alessa and her surviving classmates must do something they were never taught: work together.
If they don’t, this school will eat them alive…
Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
Release Date: July 29 from Atria
Why We’re Excited: Told in one unbroken sentence, Daniel Kraus’ latest novel feels like a spiritual extension of Whalefall in terms of both conceptual and formalist daring, but Angel Down also feels like something much more. It’s a historical drama, a fantasy story, a war story, and a horror story with roots that run deep into the genre’s past. One of the most exciting novelists in horror is back with what might be his most ambitious book yet.
Publisher’s Description: Private Cyril Bagger has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of the Great War through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Man’s Land to euthanize a wounded comrade.
What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together. As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.
Grimdark by Shannon Morgan
Release Date: July 29 from Kensington
Why We’re Excited: Shannon Morgan’s Grimdark has everything I want from a piece of Gothic horror. It’s got a creepy setting, a local legend, whispering relatives who seem to be scheming, and of course, a dark secret tied to a centuries-old witchcraft trial. I can’t wait to read this one, and if you like Gothic stories like I do, you’ll want to get your hands on it too.
Publisher’s Description: Teetering on the edge of the North Sea in Norfolk, Grimdark Hall is both grim and dark in name and nature. When Cló and Jude Honeyborne arrive from Toronto to claim Jude’s inheritance, Cló is unsettled by the foreboding ancient building and the hostility of Jude’s sisters, who stalk her every move.
But Cló is drawn to the strange energy of the treacherous fens and the haunting sadness of a drowned village in the bay where ghostly church bells toll thirteen, sweeping her back into another woman’s memories . . .
In 1645 Euphemia Figgis was accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake, screaming a curse on the Honeybornes as the flames consumed her. Now, flashes of Effie’s life torment Cló at every turn.
Cló isn’t the only one who’s lived before: an odd little girl lurks about Grimdark claiming to be the reincarnation of a notorious pirate, and waiting in the shadows is a darker, vengeful incarnation who has hunted them both through the centuries in search of a medieval treasure.
As echoes of Cló’s past lives converge in present threats, she must confront a final reckoning of old betrayals and relentless greed to end an eight-hundred-year-old quest for vengeance.
We Like It Cherry by Jacy Morris
Release Date: August 5 from Tenebrous
Why We’re Excited: Tenebrous Press is releasing some of the boldest horror books in the game right now, and We Like It Cherry feels like a great continuation of that mission. A combination of indigenous folk horror and arctic survival horror, We Like It Cherry looks to be one of the best small-press releases of the summer, so keep an eye out for it.
Publisher’s Description: Documentarist Ezra Montbanc thinks he’s hit the jackpot when he receives an invitation to document the rites of a mysterious, hitherto unknown tribe: the Winoquin, who reside in the harrowing, inhospitable Arctic.
It’s a shot at the prestigious journalism career he’s long envisioned, and a path out from the borderline-exploitative series detailing the celebrations of Indigenous tribes he’s been mired in with his life and filmmaking partner, Stu.
Buzzing with possibility, Ezra and his crew depart for the home of the Winoquin, only to find themselves in a frozen and bloody battle for survival atop an inaccessible glacier ritual site, where men and mythical horrors hunger for sacrifice.
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Release Date: August 5 from Nightfire
Why We’re Excited: The author of Manhunt and Cuckoo returns with one of my favorite subjects: The story of a cursed film, and the archivist who becomes swept up in its mystery. Anyone who follows Felker-Martin on social media knows that she’s a film buff with a great eye for the kinds of details that make a horror movie infamous, so I can’t wait to read it what Black Flame has in store.
Publisher’s Description: A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret.
The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer―deeply closeted and pathologically repressed―begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her.
As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her―and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.
Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can’t answer but can’t get out of her mind.
Do you want it?
More than anything?
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan
Release Date: August 5 from Word Horde
Why We’re Excited: John Langan is both one of the reigning kings of cosmic horror and one of the finest short story writers currently working in the genre, so it’s thrilling to see that his first new collection since Corpsemouth three years ago is finally making its way out into the world. Billed as a cosmic horror collection, we can expect classic Langan stylings, with new twists on both familiar subgenre elements and new inventions from one of our most beautifully dark imaginations.
Publisher’s Description: A garishly painted figurine contains a terrible curse; the ten-year anniversary of a sensational horror film shot in an abandoned mine reveals stunning secrets; endnotes for a book review uncover a strange high-tech pathogen; a man witnesses something uncanny and unexplained as his friend succumbs to a watery death; a seasick woman aboard a ferry is pursued by a barnacle-covered specter; a professor reveals the mysterious connection between Joseph Conrad and Peter Pan; a man encounters the ghost of his lost sister in a liminal space between the land and sea; an academic meets a mythical creature on a mysterious island…
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. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.
The Fake Ghost by Nuzo Onoh
Release Date: August 12 from Dead Sky
Why We’re Excited: African horror trailblazer Nuzo Onoh returns with a book that sounds…well, like a wild, unforgettable ride based on the premise alone. An American politician reborn as an African child? That’s an amazing hook, but the real beauty is going to be finding out how Onoh explores every wrinkle of that idea and transforms it before our eyes.
Publisher’s Description: The Fake Ghost is a dark farce and a supernatural thriller of rebirth, betrayal, vengeance, occultic magic, mysterious invocations and creepy rituals. Set both in Africa and the USA, it follows the whacky and sinister travails of a powerful American leader that is reborn as a black child in a tiny African hut. With the help of the medicine-man, he must find a way to free his trapped soul and return to the United States to prevent a dastardly plot against him. But first, he must enter a diabolical blood pact, which might return to haunt him with devastating consequences.
A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper
Release Date: August 12 from Saga
Why We’re Excited: Hailey Piper’s been on quite the hot streak with her novels lately, but even with that in mind, A Game in Yellow might be the best thing she’s ever done. Inspired by the work of Robert W. Chambers, it’s an erotic thriller with a cosmic weird fiction edge, and it’s as sexy as it is scary. Do not miss this book.
Publisher’s Description: A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor’s euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare’s edge.
As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Release Date: August 12 from Nightfire
Why We’re Excited: Chuck Tingle’s third major horror novel, after Bury Your Gays and Camp Damascus, sounds like his most ambitious to date. A statistics professor who barely lived through a historical unlucky day for all of humankind now has to investigate a strange casino where luck seems to come to everyone. But where is the luck coming from, and how is it tied to a tragedy that killed eight million people? I don’t know but I can’t wait to find out.
Publisher’s Description: Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it’s not always good.
Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.
When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he’s investigating a suspiciously―and statistically impossibly―lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it’s Vera’s last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.
Because what’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying there, and she’s the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.
The End of the World as We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, ed. Christopher Golden and Brian Keene
Release Date: August 19 from Gallery
Why We’re Excited: One of the buzziest horror books of the year long before anyone had a chance to read any of it, The End of the World as We Know It is a sprawling, epic continuation of Stephen King’s The Stand through the lens of some of the best writers in horror. Whether the horror prowess of editors Brian Keene and Christopher Golden gets you in the door, or you just can’t pass up that table of contents, you won’t be let down by this towering collection.
Publisher’s Description: Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters.
Now for the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand—brilliant, terrifying, and painfully human tales that will resonate with readers everywhere as an essential companion to the classic, bestselling novel.
Featuring an introduction by Stephen King, a foreword by Christopher Golden, and an afterword by Brian Keene. Contributors include Wayne Brady and Maurice Broaddus, Poppy Z. Brite, Somer Canon, C. Robert Cargill, Nat Cassidy, V. Castro, Richard Chizmar, S. A. Cosby, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Meg Gardiner, Gabino Iglesias, Jonathan Janz, Alma Katsu, Caroline Kepnes, Michael Koryta, Sarah Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Josh Malerman, Ronald Malfi, Usman T. Malik, Premee Mohamed, Cynthia Pelayo, Hailey Piper, David J. Schow, Alex Segura, Bryan Smith, Paul Tremblay, Catherynne M. Valente, Bev Vincent, Catriona Ward, Chuck Wendig, Wrath James White, and Rio Youers.
The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas
Release Date: August 19 from Berkley
Why We’re Excited: After tackling Gothic fiction and vampires, rising star Isabel Cañas returns with her third novel, and yet another dive into Central American history. This time around, Cañas heads to 18th-century Mexico, where a young woman named Alba finds herself in the grip of a demon. It’s a historical possession novel from one of the best historical horror writers out there right now, so you’ll definitely want to add it to your to-be-read stack as soon as possible.
Publisher’s Description: In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family’s isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Something wrong.
Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin’s betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can’t help but notice the growing tension between them every time she enters the room…and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon’s thirst for blood gets stronger.
8114 by Joshua Hull
Release Date: August 26 from CLASH
Why We’re Excited: A book that’s been generating serious buzz for months at this point, Joshua Hull’s 8114 promises to put his spin on the perennially popular small town with dark secrets subgenre of horror, and it begins with a mystery most of us can relate to. Hull’s success with stories like Glorious and Mouth proves that he knows how to find every narrow passageway hidden within a concept, and I’m very excited to read what he has in store with 8114.
Publisher’s Description: After returning to his hometown, Paul, the beleaguered host of a small-time podcast, discovers a longtime friend committed suicide in the dilapidated ruins of Paul’s childhood home. Desperate to find answers, Paul interviews friends and locals hoping to find closure. He finds himself in a chilling downward spiral of his memories and the land he grew up on. Has his past caught up with him or is there something far more sinister at play?
Joshua Hull, screenwriter of Glorious, brings an edge of horror film expertise to this story of small-town haunting, trauma, and grief that just won’t let go. 8114 roots out the rot of a small town’s past and unravels the memories we must face to survive the present.
Matthew Jackson is a pop culture writer and nerd-for-hire who’s been writing about entertainment for more than a decade. His writing about movies, TV, comics, and more regularly appears at SYFY WIRE, Looper, Mental Floss, Decider, BookPage, and other outlets. He lives in Austin, Texas, and when he’s not writing he’s usually counting the days until Christmas.