Horrorsmith Publishing

01/07/2025

🔥🔥HORRORSMITH: The Magazine Now Live!🔥🔥

Check out our interview with horror author Owen King, author spotlight for James Kaine and Joe Scipione, a new reader and author platform created by Joe X Young, indie reviewer Kayleigh Dobbs and Happy Goat Horror, over 70 new releases, and so much more!

Grab your free copy today!

23/06/2025

One community. One dream. One wildfire.

One HORRORSMITH.

On June 30, help us ignite indie horror fiction with Horrorsmith Publishing's new dark fiction publication, HORRORSMITH: The Magazine. Grab your copy of our free monthly .ePub which features author interviews and spotlights, book and movie reviews, exclusive short stories, and so much more across horror, thriller, dark fantasy, and young adult genres!

23/06/2025

Can you hear the voice through the radio? It said your name...

Find out how Angie answers the call on June 24.
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Stillman Ayers would do anything for his wife, Doloris. But when she is about to give birth to their first daughter, Angie, Doloris gives him a very particular set of instructions. Ones only a funeral director would be familiar with...

Specifically, how to feed sweet little Angie from her mother's preserved flesh...

As Angie grows, strange things begin happening around her: abnormal electrical surges and messages being received from a gifted vintage radio.

Despite all his preparations, Stillman is left to wonder exactly what Angie is and what she is capable of.

Who is behind the voice coming across the antique radio waves, whispering to Angie, and will Stillman and Angie survive the answers?
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Angie Baby, by Bradford Tatum, releases tomorrow, Tuesday, June 24! Preorder your copy on our website!

23/06/2025

🔥🔥CREPUSCULAR, by A. A. Pfau PREORDER LIVE. Only on our direct website.🔥🔥

Dylan Fisher and his friends left for summer camp four weeks ago, but their small coastal town is not the same when they return. The phones don't work, and everyone seems to have disappeared.

His brother, Bobby, left him a note: "Don't trust anybody. Not even—"

But not even who?

And where is Bobby now?

Please note, Crepuscular's release date has changed to August 12, 2025!

All readers who preorder will receive their books the Friday before release!

22/06/2025

💀💀ANGIE BABY, by Bradford Tatum, releases this Tuesday, June 24!💀💀

Stillman Ayers would do anything for his wife, Doloris. But when she is about to give birth to their first daughter, Angie, Doloris gives him a very particular set of instructions. Ones only a funeral director would be familiar with...

Specifically, how to feed sweet little Angie from her mother's preserved flesh...

As Angie grows, strange things begin happening around her: abnormal electrical surges and messages being received from a gifted vintage radio.

Despite all his preparations, Stillman is left to wonder exactly what Angie is and what she is capable of.

Who is behind the voice coming across the antique radio waves, whispering to Angie, and will Stillman and Angie survive the answers?

22/06/2025

💥💥Cover Reveal for Damir Salkovic's Blood Ground, releasing August 26! 💥💥

Two men, two expeditions over thirty years apart, one horrifying discovery.

In 1935, Henry Dunbar ventures into the cliffs of Mount Kenya, hoping to make a name for himself as a naturalist.

In 1965, Jim Cole leads another group up Mount Kenya to hopefully find the source of the attacks against a mining camp on the mountainside.

Both expeditions seek answers to the rumors of ghosts within the deep crevices of rock, the truth behind a secretive tribe believed to live on the mountaintop, and the history of a particular set of ruins...

One of them goes missing.

What was waiting for the men on Mount Kenya, and what happened to the ones who disappeared?

Find out August 26!

21/06/2025

For weeks, you've heard our editor in chief mention a surprise something we've been working on. And we just can't keep it to ourselves any longer!

Introducing HORRORSMITH: The Magazine, the brand new free monthly .epub for readers and authors of horror, thriller, dark fantasy, and dark young adult fiction. Issue #1 releases on June 30, only on our direct website.

Each edition will feature original short stories, author interviews and spotlights, non-fiction articles, book reviews from the above-mentioned genres, movie reviews, cool covers, new and upcoming releases, and so much more!

Our first edition features an interview with Owen King and author spotlights with Jon Cohn, Joe Scipione, and James Kaine! And check out that amazing cover image by our incredible illustrator, Amanda Bergloff!

In true Horrorsmith fashion, no author will ever have to pay to have their work featured in our magazine, and we pay for the short stories we print through our continuous short story open call.

We believe in you, and we love our dark fiction readers. What better way to bring us all together!

Be sure to spread the word, grab your copy on June 30, and help us ignite indie horror fiction!

05/06/2025

💀💀New Author Signing💀💀

Horrorsmith Publishing is proud to announce the signing of a new author to our Teen Forge YA dark fiction imprint!

Nicole Wolverton is joining the Horrorsmith family with her novel Meat Sweats, which is set to release in Fall 2026.

Strict vegetarian Violet Nespoli knows how she'll be spending the summer before her senior year of high school: clearing out the house her elderly neighbor and fellow vegetarian, Miss Putterbaugh, left Violet when she died, assisted by Violet's best friend, Nylah.

But when Violet eats the last slice of Miss Putterbaugh's special almond rum, it's more than just botulism that has Violet feeling funky—she develops a near uncontrollable craving for raw meat.

For the good of everyone she loves, Violet must discover Miss Putterbaugh's meaty secrets and discover a cure before she loses control...again.

Nicole M. Wolverton is a fear enthusiast and Pushcart-nominated writer of 50-plus works of short fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as two novels—A Misfortune of Lake Monsters (CamCat Books, 2024) and The Trajectory of Dreams (Bitingduck Press, 2013). She also served as editor of the 2021 anthology Bodies Full of Burning, the first-ever short fiction anthology which centers horror through the lens of menopause (Sliced Up Press). She lives in the Philadelphia area, where she earned a masters in horror and storytelling from the University of Pennsylvania.

29/05/2025

Hmm...now what could it be? Any guesses?

29/05/2025

Lake of Secrets by Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar now has a custom paperback!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I thought this was just a cute story about a teenager who was forced to live somewhere else for the summer. Boy was I wrong. Didn’t see that twist coming at all! Loved the ending the ghost aspect was so different than anything I’ve read before." - Amazon Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This is definitely different from what I normally read. The paranormal is quiet and more active towards the end. It is more of a steady-paced YA mystery that made me cry...I feel that Callie can solve more mysteries, so I hope this becomes a series." - Amazon Review

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Now I know this is Callie's story but it really feels like it actually belongs to Betty. For being a YA story Callie's character development is phenomenal as we slowly get to watch her grow up over the summer. Well, well done." - Goodreads Review

Blurb:

Seventeen-year-old Callie Quinn’s vacation is off to a terrible start. Her parents have forced her to spend the summer before her senior year of high school with an elderly aunt in Deerville, Pennsylvania, where there’s nothing to do but watch old Westerns on TV and read the classics.

But soon, a mystery catches Callie’s attention: the drowning su***de of a pregnant teen during the 1940s. Haunted by dreams of the girl, it doesn’t take much digging before Callie realizes that the story isn’t what it appears to be. Why would a teen bent on su***de make a blanket for a baby who wouldn’t survive?

For help, she turns to her only friend in Deerville, another outsider named Brian. Little by little, he and Callie get closer to the mystery of the girl’s death, following a path that leads them deep into the prejudices of the 1940s. They also become closer with each other.

As Callie begins to open up about her past to Brian, she is forced to face hard truths—not only about a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight, but also the turbulent personal events that led to Callie’s exile to Deerville in the first place.

29/05/2025

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wow. This book was crazy but in a good way. It starts off kind of normal, but then things just keep getting worse (and juicier). There’s lying, cheating, backstabbing, and even murder. I thought I knew where it was going, but I was wrong so many times."

Have you grabbed your copy of the new domestic thriller by Christina Graves? Find out why readers were so excited for its release!

Karla Cooper is spending her first night home from a lengthy psychiatric stay with a full bottle of pills and a hunger for death...until headlights shine on the garage of the house across the street.

New neighbors.

Now Karla has another obsession—watching from afar, learning everything she can about this seemingly perfect family, the perfect wife. And she has a list of strict rules she abides by in order to never get caught.

But sometimes, not everyone is who they seem to be.

The closer Karla gets to Stevie and her family, the more Karla understands that the darkest secrets are often the most dangerous. Just how far will she go to protect her own?

Now available on our direct site and Amazon. Will be available on paperback, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google Books, and Kobo in the next couple of days!

New neighbors. Now Karla has another obsession—watching from afar, learning everything she can about this seemingly perfect family, the perfect wife. And she has a list of strict rules she abides by in order to never get caught. But sometimes, not everyone is who they seem to be. Th