Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for September, October, November, and December 2025. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
(Release date – 9/2/2025)
ARIS WILL BURN
One Empire Rises …
Twins Stiva and Chandris zri Aris learned the rules of deadly court intrigue long before becoming king and queen. To find her way as queen while enemies threaten from both within and without, Stiva must become colder, more cunning, more calculated. But her biggest challenge, and by far the most dangerous, is dealing with her twin. Chandris is determined to forge a new empire, using the forbidden ancient science of the Elders … a technology that destroyed their ancestral homeworld.
… As Another Falls
As Stiva realizes that her brother’s dreams of glory will either bring Aris into a new golden age or leave it in ashes, she fights to protect the Reonih from her twin’s lust for power. But as a new order rises and war rages through the land, she realizes she may also have to protect herself from them. The Zhur, the supernatural elementals that walk between worlds, seem to have their own intentions for Stiva, and the one man who stands loyally beside her, the ice-cold assassin Khirin, may have an agenda of his own. As kingdoms fall and the stakes rise, Stiva finds that the line between ally and enemy is covered in blood and gold.
(Release date – 9/7/2025)
The Western Territories, 1880. For four years, Civil War veteran and former U.S. Cavalry Captain Jonas P. Hollister has been rotting in a prison cell at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His crime: lying about the loss of eleven soldiers under his command… who he claims were slaughtered by a band of nonhuman, blood-drinking demons.
But now a famous visitor, the detective Allan Pinkerton, has arrived with an order for Hollister’s release. The brutal murder of a group of Colorado miners in a fashion frighteningly similar to the deaths of Hollister’s men has leant new credence to his wild tale. And suddenly Jonas Hollister finds himself on a quest both dangerous and dark—joining forces with Pinkerton, the gunsmith Oliver Winchester, an ex-fellow prisoner, a woman of mystery, and a foreigner named Abraham Van Helsing, who knows many things about the monsters of the night—and riding hell for leather toward an epic confrontation… with the undead.
by John McCarty
(Release date – 9/9/2025)
The suspenseful tale of a vengeful criminal long believed dead, set against the backdrop of turbulent post-World War 1 France and Roaring Twenties Hollywood, where Universal’s super-production of a horror classic starring Lon Chaney is being sabotaged at every turn.
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“Gets right down to business from the first page and rapidly develops into an inventive re-invention of The Phantom of the Opera. A mix of the real and the unreal, tied together with a magic thread, this is a must for lovers of both the classic story and silent Hollywood.” – David McGillivray, actor, producer, playwright, screenwriter and film critic
“This gripping fiction blends seamlessly with Hollywood fact in the 1920s as a tense murder melodrama centers around a psychopath long thought dead and the French inspector nemesis on his trail – with vivid bit parts for a feisty entertainment reporter, an innocent ingénue, and the “man of a thousand faces” himself: Lon Chaney Sr. A thoroughly enjoyable read.” – Elias Savada, co-author of Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, “Hollywood’s Master of the Macabre
“Masquerade is a wonderful thriller that transports you from Paris, France to Hollywood during the glory days of silent film. Only a movieland insider like John McCarty could convincingly introduce us to stars like Lon Chaney while maintaining an iron grip of unrelenting suspense. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough, while loving every one of them!” – Joseph A. Citro, author of The Gore, Shadow Child, and Lake Monsters
(Release date – 9/16/2025)
Titus Andronicus.
William Shakespeare’s first—and bloodiest—play.
It’s a real killer.
1590s London: Two friends and playwrights, Will and Kit, battle demonic creatures throughout the city, armed with only their wits and their words.
Modern-day New York: Small theater director and would-be playwright Sunil Nair decides to put on an abbreviated version of Titus Andronicus. But as rehearsals begin, accidents start to occur among the cast and crew. Each one forces Sunil to adjust his plans, but each adjustment somehow makes things worse.
As the calamities pile up, Sunil begins to realize that some dark force is afflicting those around him—and it seems to be centered on the play. Can he figure out what is going on and stop it before it claims the lives of everyone involved . . . and then spills out into the wider world?
The play’s the thing, wherein to catch . . . something.
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A chilling new supernatural thriller from bestselling novelist Aaron Rosenberg, author of the OCLT novels Incursion, Digging Deep, and Focal Point!
(Release date – 9/20/2025)
Rejoice, for the Earth is His.
Detective Hunter will do anything to prove Dean Tyler’s innocence. The question is, is he willing to sacrifice his family to Cthulhu to do it?
All it takes is a single glance at a screen for the voices to take control. For idle hands to make things the human mind wasn’t meant to see. And for it to spread like wildfire.
Will he succumb to the virus plaguing the San Bernardino Valley and beyond?
Or can he find the will to stop it?
Please Don’t Tell My Parents I Bought Super Powers
(Release date – 9/23/2025)
Imagine you’re a flamboyant teenage girl convinced that super powers are the social edge you need. Imagine you convince a mad scientist to give you those powers. They always need test subjects, right? Imagine those powers come with a big drawback, like they always do.
Congratulations, you’re Stella Deetz, the best dressed and most popular fear eating monster in LA.
And you forgot to keep a secret identity. Oops.
(Release date – 9/23/2025)
Washington DC, 1824.
A new president is about to be sworn in after a contentious election. Among the celebrants who descend upon the city, are three young men from different backgrounds, arriving there for different reasons. Unknown to them, an evil presence has also made its way to the capital. A presence that will one day be revealed to the world as a powerful and ancient evil. And he aims to destroy the young republic. His name is Count Dracula.
These three young men, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln must join together and stop the count before he wreaks havoc on the new nation. With the help of a mysterious stranger named Reynolds Van Helsing, this team of heroes uncovers the Count’s deadly plot. Only time will tell if they can muster the strength to stop a nearly unstoppable force before it destroys them all.
(Release date – 9/25/2025)
IF DELIVERANCE SCARED YOU…
IF LORD OF THE FLIES SHOCKED YOU…
YOU’RE READY FOR A TRIP INTO THE TERROR OF…
THE WILDS
A remote forest hidden high and deep in the Sierra Nevada….The Donner Party died here. Now fourteen campers are about to enter that savage sanctuary. They think their “survival weekend” will be a blast, a real party-adventure into the unknown.
But before nightfall, someone will make a fatal mistake. Before daybreak, man’s most primitive instincts and nature’s most brutal forces will be unleashed. Without warning, the happy outing will become an orgy of horror where nothing is what it seems and survival means escaping the engulfing evil of…
THE WILDS
by Julie Hyzy
(Release date – 10/11/2025)
Meet Grace Wheaton, lover of history and mystery—both of which can be found in her hometown’s palatial Marshfield Manor…
Everyone wants a piece of millionaire Bennett Marshfield, owner of Marshfield Manor, and letters are coming in daily from those claiming to be poor relations. The elderly, reclusive heir trusts no one but his aged curator, Abe. But when Abe is killed in a case of mistaken identity, the tide changes…
Although shaken by the murder, Grace Wheaton, whose lifelong dream has been to work at the manor, steps up to the challenge of assuming Abe’s job. But now some of the letters arriving for Bennett have taken a nasty turn, demanding millions—or else. When an uninvited stalker shows up at the manor and at Grace’s home, she and handsome groundskeeper Jack Embers must protect their dear old Marshfield. But to do this, they’ll have to investigate a botched Ponzi scheme, some torrid Wheaton family secrets—and sour grapes out for revenge…
The Web of La Sanguinaire and Other Arachnid Horrors
by Ronald Kelly
(Release date – 11/12/2025)
Where do the spiders go at night?
Do they creep and crawl through the bushes and trees?
Up the porch posts and across the eaves?
Do they scramble inside? Skitter soundlessly down the hall?
Do they enter your bedroom, climb the bedcovers and wall?
Do they drop from the ceiling, shivering and cold?
Do they find your mouth open and think
“What a lovely abode…”
Hidden or in plain sight, eight-legged creatures are everywhere. Where you expect them to be, or least expect them. In the dark swamps of Louisiana. On a beach with a mysterious past. In the dimly-lit tent of a carnival sideshow. In the cell of a long abandoned prison. Down deep in an underground cavern where the sun never shines. Or, perhaps, even inside your own body…
Ronald Kelly, the master of Southern-fried horror, brings you eight, spine-tingling tales of spiders invading your comfort zone and behaving badly.
by C. T. Phipps
(Release date – 11/17/2025)
“So, we’ve got an army.”
“Yes. All of the Southern Kingdoms are united for our big battle with Veles.”
“Except, he’s not fighting us. He ran to Earth.”
“Yeah, I didn’t see that one coming.”
It is the time for the final battle between Veles and Aaron’s heroic band of misfits. Except Veles doesn’t show up. Unfortunately, this leaves Aaron holding the bag as the various factions he’s united have ended up divided. Worse, Aaron is slowly metamorphisizing to becoming a god and will soon no longer be able to be among mortals. Can his relationship to his loved ones’ survive? Can he defeat Veles before he’s bound by ridiculous rules against stopping him? Can he stop Jon from making incest jokes?
WIZARDS OF DRAGON KEEP is the third volume of the Dark Undermaster Saga, a humorous send up of dark fantasy like Game of Thrones, The Witcher, and Dark Souls. It is a progression fantasy LitRPG that follows the adventures of video game computer programmer, Aaron Bartkowski as he is hurled bodily into the world of his favorite author, Larry C.C. Weis. Unfortunately, Weis turns out to have been much better at stealing from other, better, authors than he was in giving his heroes a break.
(Release date – 11/12/2025)
A slashed female corpse…a footprint, a tire track…a trail of blood in a crowded shopping mall. Even the most jaded cops are horrified by the carnage. But to seasoned FBI profiler Ulysses Grove, the evidence spells out a much more personal message—a threat that speaks to Grove alone…
Meticulous Killer…
He chooses his victims with care. He plans their murders with painstaking precision; he studies the most notorious slayers. He’s gone to extremes to achieve his goals—committed to fulfilling his destiny as history’s greatest serial killer…
With precious lives at stake, and his very soul on the line, Grove throws himself into the chase—and into a trap from which there’s no escape…
(Release date – 12/02/2025)
On the heels of personal tragedy and career disappointment, a young woman stumbles on brutal violence and eldritch secrets in an old Louisiana mansion.
Will the residue of magick and powerful unfinished rituals fuel fresh terror?
Bryn Hudson’s lost her job, her baby and her husband. Rather than let despair destroy her, she’s seized an opportunity she might have once disdained: paranormal journalist.
Along with videographer Reyes Segarra, she’s spent a summer chasing reports of ghosts and cryptids across the South.
After a breakdown leads the pair to Lovegrove Farm, an investigation of a routine haunting is interrupted when a fierce storm traps them within the mansion’s dark walls.
They soon discover they’re in no ordinary haunted house. As Bryn turns up clues to a forgotten and forbidden ritual, brutal events unfold.
Is there any hope that she and Reyes can survive a night of unexpected violence and otherworldly horror?
A Disturbance of Shadows is a thrilling, atmospheric tale of suspense, mayhem, magick, and the thin line between life and death from the author of Gnelfs.
by L. L. Soares
(Release date – 12/05/2025)
SAM WAYNE is a specialist in anger management, and business is good. He devours the rage around him greedily, blurring the line between man and demon.
A violent murderer is on the loose, tearing people apart with his bare hands. Anyone who sees him cannot seem to make out his face, except…
COLLEEN, a broken young woman who tries to run as far as can and meets up with VIV, who has an insatiable hunger for human souls, and feeds on them like Sam feeds on anger.
As the murders multiply, the rage begins to spread like an epidemic. Everywhere, people start attacking each other. Viv, her brother Grif, and Colleen race against time to stop Sam before his rage devours the world.
But not everyone will survive the fury of LIFE RAGE!
(Release date – 12/16/2025)
Six men. One night. A ravenous evil. No way out.
Lost in a remote wilderness, a group of old friends trapped in a relentless blizzard are stalked and hunted by a pack of predators like no other. In one bloody and horrific night, in a dark forest of ice and snow, beneath an unforgiving full moon, the brutal fight for their lives against the elements and the evil, ravenous horde stalking them has begun…
Winter bites…
As the night unfolds and comes alive all around them, their fight for survival begins, and the realization of what they’re dealing with drives them deeper into the dark, frozen forest, deeper into themselves, their longstanding relationships, and the lengths they’re willing to go to survive not just for themselves, but each other. For any chance at survival, they must fight their way through miles of dark forest and treacherous frozen land, all the while being pursued and hunted by an enormous pack of predators that until then they have always believed lived only in folklore and fantasy. When they uncover the true nature of what’s happening, and the rituals and history behind those hunting them, it’s nearly too late to stop what has already been put in motion. What has existed in the shadows dating back centuries is not only defending their territory and secret way of life, but their literal hunting grounds.
PACK ANIMALS (similar to Gifune’s highly-successful novel of island terror, SAVAGES) is an homage to the survival horror novels of the ’70s and ’80s, and the exploitation films and drive-in movies of the same era. Classic survival horror, with a folk horror twist and a new take on a timeless archetype, it’s also a story of friendship and heartache among a group of middle-aged friends, a blend that makes it perfect for fans of such modern horror masterpieces like DOG SOLDIERS and THE DESCENT.
by Ronald Kelly
(Release date – 12/30/2025)
Within this dark crypt, lie stories long untold…
These are the forgotten fables… tales that have suffered the fate of premature burial. Shrouded and unceremoniously laid to rest. Stories that languish in deep shadow and tattered cobweb, abandoned and unread.
Within these pages, you will find ten such yarns of Southern horror. Novellas, novelettes, and short stories that appeared briefly in limited editions and bygone periodicals, then faded into obscurity and became relics of the past.
In this volume, Ronald Kelly lifts the shroud to give you a peek underneath. Like the good Doctor Frankenstein, he has sewn these lost tales together and resurrected them into a palpable and bone-chilling collection, to live and breathe, unnerve and horrify once again.