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A publisher of dark fiction—horror, post-apocalyptic, thriller, paranormal, suspense, psychological

03/02/2025

Lake of Secrets, by Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar is Horrorsmith Publishing's newest YA thriller novel, releasing tomorrow, February 4!

Preorder your copy now!
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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.
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03/02/2025

Grab your copy of Still, Dark Places, the paranormal thriller by author Christina Graves, before her new novel, What We Do in Secret, releases in April!
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The Seven Sisters of Still Water. Missing but not forgotten. Memorialized in graveyard stone...

Nora Gray, true crime podcast host, is being called back to her hometown over a decade later by a desperate mother. Another daughter, gone. And Nora knows more than anyone realizes, more than even she remembers.

They call it Skull House, this home back in the woods, rundown, abandoned. And for as long as Nora can recall, the local kids have dared each other to climb the stairs to the top, to brave the ghost of Helaena Barker, who they say waits in the attic behind the door...

But Skull House hides more than tales of ghosts, and it clings tightly to its secrets. Nora is convinced it also holds the missing clues to the Seven Sisters' disappearances and why Nora herself woke up in a field near the house, covered in blood, all those years ago.

While Nora investigates the missing girls, will she be able to trust anyone around her? Will she even be able to trust herself?
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03/02/2025

We just love a new book smell, don't you? So get ready! All Horrorsmith Publishing paperbacks are undergoing extensive custom interior formatting and are being re-released this month.

All paperbacks are also being removed from Amazon as they are updated and loaded onto the IngramSpark platform to take advantage of extended distribution opportunities. The downtime will only be temporary!

Beginning March 1, all paperbacks will also be available on our direct store, where you'll receive some extra swag with each order and have the opportunity to grab book boxes and bundles!

Keep watching this space for all announcements and to find out when your favorite book is updated!
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03/02/2025

Introducing Horrorsmith Candle Company—wax melts and candles handcrafted by Horrorsmith Publishing! Get ready for the new way to ignite indie horror fiction!

Up first is our line of horror- and autumn-inspired wax melts. Enjoy fragrances inspired by your favorite horror books, tropes, and season while you curl up with your newest read.

Our first launch is Still, Dark Places, inspired by Still Water and the Seven Sisters of Christina Graves's novel. Dark blue skulls with shimmering mica will fill the room with notes of citrus, fresh water, cedarwood, lavender, moss, and amber while they melt.

Three to four skulls is equal to about one comparable wax melt square. There are 70 skulls in each bag, allowing you to customize the scent in your room for multiple uses.

Grab your bag today, and be on the look out for more scents to be announced!
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03/02/2025

💀💀New Author Signing💀💀

Horrorsmith Publishing would like to welcome Laramie Dean to our publishing family with his q***r Gothic horror novel, Haunt Me, Then, releasing in 2026.

Laramie Dean is a Montana writer of q***r horror fiction and the director of theatre at Hellgate High School in Missoula. He has recently published several plays from Theatrefolk, including Frankenstein Among the Dead, The Gorgon Sisters, Dracula, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Finding Jo March, a q***red adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. He is also the author of Black Forest and the co-author of Calling All Theatre Teachers! The Ultimate Classroom Playwriting Resource with Lindsay Price.

You can find him on his website at bylaramiedean.com and on Instagram at bylaramiedean.
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03/02/2025

Southern folklore, Boo-hags, and sweet iced tea? Yes, please!

Check out Haint Blue, the new YA horror from William Oswald and Horrorsmith Publishing!
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When their father commits su***de, Louis Lattimore and his sister, Ruby, are forced to move across the country at the behest of their mother, to a secret family estate tucked away among the sea islands of South Carolina.

Louis is soon befriended by his two new neighbors and learns his new home is nothing like his old one in upstate New York. But it's not just culture shock Louis is wrestling. The locals seem convinced the family mansion is haunted.

According to the local Gullah people, the manor is possessed by an insatiable spirit dubbed the Boo-hag. At the insistence of his new friends, Louis reluctantly seeks help from Auntie Caroline, an elderly member of the Gullah community revered to an almost supernatural status, and with good reason.

Is she the only person who can help save Louis and Ruby from the Boo-hag?
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03/02/2025

Ready for a slasher that will keep you on the knife's edge with realistic pacing, gory action, and a whole slew of possible suspects?

Grab your copy of Three Garden Village Today!
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20/01/2025

Excuse us while we fan-girl a bit over Mama Tot sharing one of our author's books!

This is such a huge boost of encouragement for us, for Christina, and for the other authors we work with. We are humbled and grateful!

Thank you to all our readers who have shared, liked, read, reviewed, and added Still, Dark Places to their TBRs!

20/01/2025

When Mama Tot herself shares one of your publishing house's thriller novels...

Excuse us while we fan girl!

And we're so incredibly thankful that Still, Dark Places, by Christina Graves, Author, is being recognized for the suspenseful, jaw-dropping thriller that it is!

Thank you so much, Ophelia Nichols!

18/01/2025

Still, Dark Places by Christina Graves is hitting it out of the park and starting the year off right!

Not only was it nominated for Horror-Nation's top horror book of 2024 award, but it was read by two NYT best-selling authors and chosen to be one of six finalists out of over 60 books. Voting is still going on over at Horror-Nation's page, I think. The winner will be announced tomorrow. Show her some love if you loved Still, Dark Places.

More and more readers are picking it up and giving her debut novel a chance! Now's the perfect time to grab your copy if you haven't already! Don't miss out!

Christina is topping the charts, and she's in great company!

14/01/2025

"A brilliant display of grief horror." - Amazon Review

"I loved the way this book was written. It felt so real to me, like I was reading the innermost thoughts of the main character. The energy is chaotic and melancholy. I was ready to be scared, but I finished this feeling more disturbed than anything (in a good way)." - Goodreads Review

"Marc’s story is gut wrenching and I couldn’t imagine going through that type of loss. The haunted house aspect of this story was absolutely horrifying." - Goodreads Review

What are you waiting for? Grab your copy of Their Hearses, by E. L. Giles, now with a bonus story!
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14/01/2025

"Something about this story just grabbed a hold of me. I did not want to put it down and was annoyed that life kept getting in the way. But each time I picked it up, I got sucked in again. And then that ending... It was NOT what I was expecting." - Amazon Review

If that's not reason enough to grab your copy of A Light on the Bayou, by C. S. Magnuson, then here are a few more!
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14/01/2025

Decades ago, Betty Bryson waded into the lake near her home and drowned. By all appearances, the pregnant teen had committed su***de. And ever since, her story has been allowed to rest as such along the banks of that lake...as forgotten as the tiny baby blanket she left unfinished...

But now, someone wants to know the truth about Betty Bryson and her unborn baby. And they're going to wreck entire families to find out.

Preorder your copy of Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar's riveting new young adult thriller, Lake of Secrets, coming out February 4, 2025!

Preorder the eBook directly from our website and receive your copy three days before everyone else!
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14/01/2025

You love the cover. Wait until you read the book!

Grab your preorder eBook directly from our website and receive your copy three days before everyone else! Only $2.99 until launch day!
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When their father commits su***de, Louis Lattimore and his sister, Ruby, are forced to move across the country at the behest of their mother, to a secret family estate tucked away among the sea islands of South Carolina.

Louis is soon befriended by his two new neighbors and learns his new home is nothing like his old one in upstate New York. But it's not just culture shock Louis is wrestling. The locals seem convinced the family mansion is haunted.

According to the local Gullah people, the manor is possessed by an insatiable spirit dubbed the Boo-hag. At the insistence of his new friends, Louis reluctantly seeks help from Auntie Caroline, an elderly member of the Gullah community revered to an almost supernatural status, and with good reason.

Is she the only person who can help save Louis and Ruby from the Boo-hag?
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14/01/2025

It's chilly in the Pacific Northwest, but in our part of the region, we don't receive a lot of snow. We have an amazing view of a mountain that does, though, and we'd love to hear your favorite wintry horror recommendations!

13/01/2025

💀💀The Preorder is Live!!!💀💀 for Lake of Secrets, by Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar! And you can get it three days early by grabbing it directly from our website!

Find out what really happened to Betty Bryson!
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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.
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13/01/2025

The Seven Sisters of Still Water—young ladies who each disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Nora Roberts was there when her sister was taken, and they found Nora later, covered in someone else's blood. But she can't remember whose or how...

Over a decade later, Nora is back in Still Water, ready to face the memories that have been nagging at her subconscious. Until she finds the body...

Now, Nora is in a race to remember a killer before they remember her.
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Grab your copy of Still, Dark Places, by Christina Graves, today!

13/01/2025

Think you can figure out who is wreaking havoc on Three Garden Village? Grab your copy today to find out!
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Three Garden Village. Luxury apartments, all the amenities, all the style. But the residents are leaving in body bags...

Zoe and the other employees at The Garden suspect something sinister is stalking the property, but local law enforcement and the complex's upper management simply attempt to explain the deaths away.

When the blood starts flowing over the once serene property, will anyone make it out alive?

Better lock your doors...Jack Slash is coming.
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Congratulations to Laura Singh who won Raffle 4 and a year subscription to Horrorsmith Publishing's The Forge Post: The Fear Eater Files, our new interactive murder mystery mailing. Please send us your address so we can add you to the list when the first mailings go out in January!

Congratulations to Christine Frances Venecia for winning Raffle 3 and the paperback by K Trap Jones! Send us your address, and we'll coordinate with SC Mendes at Blood Bound Books to get it to you.

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Dark Things Crawl Out by C. S. Magnuson launched today! Grab your copy! #devourindiehorror #horrorsmithpublishing #horrorsmithediting #SupportIndiePublishers #SupportIndieHorror #horrorbooksarethebest #bookrecommendations #bookstagramhorror

Cover reveal for C. S. Magnuson's Dark Things Crawl Out, releasing April 30. Preorder goes live this weekend. Cover by Debbie with The Cover Collection. #devourindiehorror #horrorsmithpublishing #horrorsmithediting #SupportIndiePublishers #csmagnuson #darkthingscrawlout #SupportIndieHorror #horrorbooksarethebest #booklover #booksbooksbooks #HorrorReads #bookworm

Introducing the cover for Still, Dark Places, by Christina Graves. Preorder will go live on Friday. Release Date: June 25.

Cover reveal for Vincent Heselwood's The Taste of Tiny Bones, our May 28 release! #devourindiehorror #horrorsmithpublishing #horrorsmithediting #booksofhorror #booklover #bookrecommendations #booksbooksbooks #horrorreads

Now live in our store, plus Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Grab your copy now! #horrorsmithpublishing #horrorsmithediting #booksofhorror #getwritinghorror #NewRelease2024 #newreleasebooks

We had a slight malfunction with our YouTube Channel, which we've just managed to figure out. Of course, not before we were locked out of our account for twenty-four hours. 🙈 So while we're waiting for our little ban to be lifted, here's our latest podcast episode with Tiffany Koplin and RJ Roles from the Books of Horror Facebook group! #booksofhorror #horrorpodcast #horrorsmiththepodcast #horrorsmithpublishing #horrorsmithediting #writingpodcast #editingpodcast

💥💥COVER REVEAL💥💥 Their Hearses, by E.L. Giles, coming April 2. Years ago, John Berryman was responsible for the deaths of his two children and their nanny. But John Berryman was never seen or heard from again. He simply...vanished. Now, decades later, someone has finally purchased John Berryman's rambling old house. Marc Larose is no stranger to loss. He hopes to bring the decaying structure to its former glory, a warm place where his family can heal and begin anew, but if these walls could talk, they'd speak of death. Only, Marc isn't listening. Something vengeful still lingers in the shadows of the old willow, and it has its eyes set on Marc. It isn't long before he is caught in the tangles of mystery, fear, and deceit, where forces beyond his control are vying for his very soul. Will Marc figure out who...or what...is haunting his new home before he becomes its next victim?

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