Word Horde

09/29/2025

“Next to Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Langan’s and [Thomas] Ha’s collections would rank as top reads so far this year, whether limiting to horror or talking just in general. They’re all similar in their unsettling brilliance while showcasing unique voices. I’d encourage everyone not to miss out.”

—Daniel Harusser reviews John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions for Skiffy and Fanty

Ultimately I’m hard pressed to write about the individual stories of the collection because they are all so good, but often in very varied ways, and the best thing that I can say is to simply…

09/10/2025

Cover reveal! Here’s your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!

Preorder direct from Word Horde and you’ll also get a signed bookplate and a free ebook!

https://www.wordhorde.com/books/notes-from-underground/

08/29/2025

IT. IS. ON. Join us!

08/13/2025

More copies of ’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions headed out today.

Day 1: ✅
Day 2: ✅

Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!

08/11/2025

Great news! We have started shipping out orders of ’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. 🎉

Day 1: ✅

Is your copy in here? 🙀

Back at again tomorrow. Thanks for your continued patience!

08/05/2025

Happy Book Birthday to Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new collection of cosmic horror from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman, John Langan! 🥳

Shipping of Word Horde preorders is slightly delayed as the signed bookplates make their way across the country. 😅 if you ordered a bundle with an eBook, watch for an email with the download link. It’s a slow manual process, and there are a whole lot of orders (THANK YOU!), but we are making our way through the list in order as quickly as we can.

Word Horde is just two people and we greatly appreciate your patience and understanding once we are able to begin the shipping process.

07/22/2025

Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but rock ‘n’ roll lives on. Black Sabbath meets The Thing in Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth…

From the twisted mind of Tony McMillen comes the hilarious rock and roll horror of An Augmented Fourth, a novel of the Lord of Low End.

07/18/2025

Reactor includes John Langan’s forthcoming collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions in their list of Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025. And gives John’s novel The Fisherman a shout-out. Check out the full list at:

New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...

07/10/2025

In 2019, Word Horde published A Hawk in the Woods, the debut novel from Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Carrie-Edmund Laben. This wry and spellbinding novel about sister witches on the run struck a chord with reviewers and readers, and continues to find its way onto recommended reading lists. 

Now, Carrie-Edmund Laben returns with their novel Smoke Season, a supernatural tale in the tradition of Arthur Machen, in which Justin, a young man searching for his missing sister, finds solace in a free-thinking, free-loving commune in the Montana mountains. Meanwhile, a shadowy government agency is hellbent on destroying everything he holds dear. 

Smoke Season is a cathartic horror novel about collectivism, mutual aid, found family, working outside of established systems, and q***r joy in the face of oppression. We are proud to be publishing it in 2026. 

05/16/2025

If you’re a Weird Fiction fan near Sacramento, CA, we recommend Bloodstone Books! And tell ‘em we sent you!

In this house we stan Weird Fiction 💖

What's Weird Fiction, you ask? It's a subgenre of speculative fiction that blends elements of horror, fantasy, and scifi, to evoke a sense of the uncanny. It prioritizes the experience of strangeness and dread over traditional genre conventions, often exploring the unknown, the spiritual, and the psychological. 

If you're looking for specific recommendations, you can never go wrong with Perdido Street Station by China Meiville or The Fisherman by John Langan.