Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for April through September 2026. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
(Release date – 4/1/2026)
ABSENT COMPANY collects two of Steve Rasnic Tem’s early books of ghostly, supernatural tales: the 33 stories in The Far Side of the Lake combined with his haunting exploration of the intersection of reality and delusion, the novelette Among the Living. “It’s not uncommon to believe yourself awake when you are, in fact, sleeping. Far less common is to believe yourself sleeping when you are, in fact, awake.”
Among the stories included are:
“Crutches” — “an unforgettable surrealistic nightmare” —Washington Post Book World
“The Sky Come Down to Earth” — “No one has written so well of the inward spirit of the unwanted child since Shirley Jackson.” —Stephen King
by Julie Hyzy
(Release date – 4/2/2026)
Revolutionary War reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble, but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.
Jack Embers, the groundskeeper, falls under suspicion when he’s linked to the death of Zachary’s brother years ago. But there were others out for Zachary, actors who can be very convincing when the coveted role of “general” is on the line. Grace feels responsible for finding the murderer. Can she come to the rescue of her friends without putting herself in danger’s way?
(Release date – 4/2/2026)
It began on a happy day. The small town of Collier had gathered on the Fourth of July to watch the fireworks. But in the middle of the celebration, the shocked spectators witnessed something almost beyond comprehension, something too horrifying to believe. The lucky ones were killed immediately. They escaped the true terror that was yet to come, terror that would come from an even more surprising source…
It’s quiet now in Collier. The townspeople are waiting, resting, gathering their strength. They know what will come. They know the quiet will soon be shattered. They know the screaming will soon begin. But they don’t know what will be left when the screaming stops.
Permuted: The Collected Works of Marge Simon
by Julie Hyzy
(Release date – 5/12/2026)
Revolutionary War reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble, but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.
Jack Embers, the groundskeeper, falls under suspicion when he’s linked to the death of Zachary’s brother years ago. But there were others out for Zachary, actors who can be very convincing when the coveted role of “general” is on the line. Grace feels responsible for finding the murderer. Can she come to the rescue of her friends without putting herself in danger’s way?
Balak: A Novel of Cosmic Horror
(Release date – 6/2/2026)
Two years ago, Claire Challis’s four-year-old son disappeared without a trace. Now, on a cold winter morning, a neighbor’s child vanishes outside her apartment. The subsequent police investigation turns up no clues.
Claire encounters a strange priest. An ancient church that seems to be the site of unspeakable rituals. A shadowy figure that seems to appear and disappear at will. And now, Claire finds herself at the center of a web of intrigue—and in fear for her life. Still, she is determined to learn the truth behind the abductions and learn once and for all the fate of her missing son.
As she delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, Claire realizes that her quest may lead her not to the truth she seeks, but to a place of madness, horror, and agony beyond her wildest imaginings.
This revised edition of Stephen Mark Rainey’s first novel, Balak (originally written in 1992), offers a cleaner version of the text and includes some alterations to unify it with numerous other works that define the author’s unique, four-decade-old mythos.
(Release date – 6/11/2026)
There are rumors that Golden Cove is haunted. That’s why Joe Bierden and his crew are hired to take a group of scientists to the area for a month of research. For Joe, it’s easy money. He plans to do a little fishing, some relaxing, and simply enjoy the easiest gig of his life.
At least that’s the plan. Sometimes easy money isn’t as easy as you expect. There are things moving in the water, and ghostly apparitions which seem undeniably real.
Joe’s problems get worse when he and his crew save a drowning girl who disappears only minutes later, and the scientific team captures an aquatic monster that appears almost…human. They drag it aboard and take it back to shore for experimentation, realizing only too late that the monster has a family who wants it back.
A very, very big family.
All the whispers about Golden Cove and its strange inhabitants are as true today as they were when the little fishing village had a different name and a truly dark reputation. Those who thought that the horror in Innsmouth had been vanquished one-hundred years ago were wrong.
And it just might cost Joe and his colleagues their lives.
Deeper: Sometimes there’s nowhere to go but down.
(Release date – 6/24/2026)
Peter Delmonico is on the run.
Wanted in multiple murders and reeling from the discovery that his father is a serial killer, Peter hits the road with Lily Dahl, the one person who still makes him believe there might be a future worth fighting for. Their destination: Lily’s parents in Las Vegas, on the other side of the country, where Peter hopes they’ll find protection, peace, and a chance at the normal life he’s always wanted.
But Peter’s past is moving faster than he is.
His unstable wife, Jolie, and her ruthless lover, Greg Strand, have taken his daughter Rachel, and they’ll do anything to get the half-million dollars Peter stole before vanishing. As a true-crime podcast turns his nightmare into a national obsession, every mile brings Peter closer to exposure, betrayal, and the terrifying possibility he may already be the monster he’s hiding from behind the walls of other people’s homes.
by Mark Morris
(Release date – 6/25/2026)
Welcome to the Horror Club: a world of werewolves and poltergeists, psychopaths and shape changers, the unquiet and the living dead…
A fantasy world, of course, for Richard, Robin, and Nigel, the club’s members are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre in films and videos, books, and comics. And then they admit a fourth member to their club — Toady, a far-from-ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life. From the moment he lures the others into a nerve-jangling séance in a house with a chilling reputation, their lives are blighted by worse horror than they have ever imagined.
In a fusion of nightmare and reality, terror stalks the familiar streets of a sleepy seaside town and waits to invade the safest home. The pervasive stain of evil spreads like ripples on a pond, leaving a trail of sacrilege and death in its wake. One by one the members of the Horror Club are overcome and forced into a netherworld, halfway between illusion and reality. It is up to the final member to fight alone against the evil they have unleashed — until, in the final battle, he is joined by an unexpected ally.
(Release date – 6/30/2026)
Complete in one volume, both books in the Subject Seven series!
SUBJECT SEVEN
In a hidden lab, a dangerous experiment has gone awry, unleashing a force beyond imagination.
Impossibly strong, brutally violent, and smarter than his captors: SUBJECT SEVEN HAS ESCAPED
Years ago, a private corporation developed the ultimate military weapon: deadly sleeper assassins housed within the bodies of teenagers. Now, Subject Seven, the dangerous alter ego living inside a fifteen-year-old boy, has escaped the lab and is on a mission. His objective? To seek out others like him and build an army capable of destroying their creators.
Hunter, Cody, Gene, Tina, and Kyrie: Five teenagers leading typical lives, until the day they each receive a call from a mysterious stranger—and learn that their destinies are intertwined.
Subject Seven holds the key that connects them all. And a battle for the truth—and their lives—is just beginning.
RUN
In this sexy, action-packed follow-up to Subject Seven, the Failures are on the road and heading toward the only person with the answers that can save them.
THE FAILURES: A team of genetically altered, mutant teenagers. Joe Bronx and his allies are the results of an experiment gone horribly awry, and now they want answers from their creator—and revenge for the wrongs they’ve suffered.
THE SUCCESSES: They’re everything the Failures are … minus the flaws. Brutally strong, ruthless, hungry for blood. Reliable, able to be controlled. They have one mission from their creator: Destroy the Failures that came before them.
What happens when they collide?
“A page-turner to the max and once all the pieces start falling into place … WOW!”—Thomas E. Sniegoski, New York Times bestselling author of The Fallen
“Subject Seven takes apocalyptic fiction to a dizzying new height. Highly recommended!”—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rot & Ruin and Marvel Universe Vs. The Punisher
by Frazer Lee
(Release date – 7/21/2026)
Mike Carter and his girlfriend Helen, along with their friends Alex and Kay, travel to a remote loch side cottage for a post-graduation holiday. But their celebrations are short-lived when they hit and kill a stag on the road.
Alex’s sister Meggie awaits them in the cottage, adding to the tension when her dog, Oscar, goes missing. Mike becomes haunted by a disturbing presence in the cottage, and is hunted by threatening figures in the highland fog. Reeling from a shock revelation, Mike begins to lose his grip on his sanity.
As the dark secrets of the past conspire to destroy the bonds of friendship, Mike must uncover the terrifying truth dwelling within the walls of Hearthstone Cottage.
“Lee creates an atmosphere of unease and foreboding that culminates in explosive violence and terror. Rife with frightening imagery, ghosts, and visceral horror, this tale will please the most ardent of horror fans.” – Booklist
(Release date – 8/7/2026)
Winner of the 2014 Bram Stoker Award
It’s a dark Southern Gothic vision of ghosts, witchcraft, secret powers, snake-handling, Kudzu, Melungeons, and the Great Depression, set in the southern Appalachians of the U.S., alternating between the 1930s and the present day.
Blood Kin is told from the dual points of view of Michael Gibson and of his grandmother Sadie. Michael has returned to the quiet Appalachian home of his forebears following a suicide attempt and now takes care of his grandmother—old and sickly but with an important story to tell about growing up poor and Melungeon (a mixed-race group of mysterious origin) while bedeviled by a snake-handling uncle and empathic powers she but barely understands.
In a field not far from the Gibson family home lies an iron-bound crate within a small shack buried four feet deep under Kudzu vine. Michael somehow understands that hidden inside that crate is potentially his own death, his grandmother’s death, and perhaps the deaths of everyone in the valley if he does not come to understand her story well enough.
“Superbly structured and gracefully paced… It’s a bloody good book, to be sure.” – Reactor
“Steve Rasnic Tem is the kind of writer other writers want to be, and Blood Kin is a masterful example of his craft.” – This Is Horror
by Frazer Lee
(Release date – 8/8/2026)
Nineteen-year-old Emily’s acute dissociative disorder causes her to be institutionalised—again—at Greyfriars Reformatory for Girls. Caught in the crossfire between brutal Principal Quick and cruel bully Saffron Chassay, Emily befriends fellow outcast Victoria.
When the terrifying apparition of the mysterious “Grey Girl” begins scaring the inmates to death, Emily’s disorder may be the one thing that can save her.
Book 10 of the Books of Cthulhu
(Release date – 8/18/2026)
Something ancient lurks beneath the waves…and it is waiting for you…
H.P. Lovecraft’s Dagon is the giant amphibious horror who spawned Deep Ones, hybrids which look human early in life but gradually take on their sire’s monstrous form. Lovecraft created the mythology surrounding these beings in his stories “Dagon” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, and the nightmarish fish-people have been inspiring weird fiction ever since.
In The Book of Dagon, seven Neo-Mythos writers known for cosmic horror explore aquatic terrors: C.T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon), Matthew Davenport (The Adventures of Andrew Doran), David Niall Wilson (The Call of Distant Shores) David Hambling (the Harry Stubbs series), David J West (Let Sleeping Gods Lie), Andrea Pearson (Mosaic Chronicles) and Philip Hemplow (Sarcophagus, Exoteric).
The stories revisit Innsmouth itself, and the events leading up to and following its destruction. Others range wider, chronicling encounters in the Wild West, and in seemingly peaceful South London. There is horror out on the ocean, and on a routine business trip to a small town in Utah.
The Book of Dagon is the latest in the acclaimed Books of Cthulhu series inviting you to face the terrifying creatures that lurk just beyond the edge of human understanding.
by Julie Hyzy
(Release date – 8/23/2026)
Revolutionary War reenactors have set up camp on the grounds of Marshfield Manor. The group is very believable, especially when the unrest spills out of the barracks and inside the sumptuous mansion. Grace Wheaton, the curator and manager of the manor, manages to settle a minor squabble, but loses the war when actor Zachary Kincade is found stabbed to death.
Jack Embers, the groundskeeper, falls under suspicion when he’s linked to the death of Zachary’s brother years ago. But there were others out for Zachary, actors who can be very convincing when the coveted role of “general” is on the line. Grace feels responsible for finding the murderer. Can she come to the rescue of her friends without putting herself in danger’s way?