These are the books on pre-order that will be released within the next few months. Click the book title links to purchase your copy today.
(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.
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!
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 – 11/25/2025)
In the aftermath of a vicious sea battle with the Chinese fleet that ends in a nuclear blast, the presidential project submarine Silversides is dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission against the resurrected submarine Panther, recently converted by the Iranians to fire hypersonic electrical grid-killer missiles at the U.S. East Coast.
Anthony Pacino, the Silversides’ chief engineer, is forced to abandon his mourning the loss of the love of his life and driven to fight to the death for his country, the mission and the crew. Returning also are the rich characters of the Silversides and former admiral and current Vice President Michael Pacino in this epic tale of undersea warfare.
(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.