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New dark-fantasy, folk-horror novel, Trail of Shadows, by Mike Allen, uncovers the power of spirits and nightmares in Appalachia. Publishing October 7, 2025.

Two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen spins a tale of spirit beings, serial killers, and supernatural horrors.

Nathan's freshman year in college delivers alternative rock, relationship adventures, and a plague of waking nightmares. He flees campus for the Appalachian Trail, hoping to leave his personal demons behind. But a scream ...

Interested in 22 short horror reads on the cheap? For just one more day, the Horror Short Reads StoryBundle is available (through February 27). This is a terrific book bundle deal with deliciously twisted books from both Broken Eye (including Pretty Marys All in a Row, Catfish Lullaby, and The Obsecration) and other wonderful publishers.

Snag your copies today!

​Broken Eye Books is publishing the collected fiction of S.P. Miskowski’s Skillute Cycle. This omnibus edition collects four previously published works—the novel Knock Knock and the novellas Delphine Dodd, Astoria, and In the Light—along with a brand-new novelette.
 
Late 1960s in the backwater town of Skillute, WA. Three bored young girls unwittingly unleash a malevolent spirit. The girls and the townsfolk will never be the same.
 
The Complete Skillute Cycle by S.P. Miskowski will be available in...

Broken Eye Books is publishing the novel Better Living Through Alchemy, an occult mystery set in the strange, rainy streets of Seattle, by Evan J. Peterson. Coming this summer.

Kelly Mun is a private detective... with an uncanny sense of smell. She runs Non-Linear Investigations with her cousin Critter, using psychic and esoteric methods to try to earn a living. When a mysterious businesswoman hires them to find the source of a deadly new street drug called bardo, Kelly's life gets even stranger...

Our upcoming year is shaping up to be amazing with these four new titles. The Obsecration is at the printer now, and the others will be soon to follow. All are available for pre-order.

The Obsecration by Matthew M. Bartlett
It’s Leeds. It's 2018. And the patrons in the Look Diner await their meals, drawn by something greater than hunger, something stronger than the need for shelter from the oppressive heat and humidity of summer. Waitresses hustle. Cooks sharpen knives and light burners, giving b...

​New weird fiction novel from Edward Morris, Alphabet of Lightning, tries to fix our war-raged future by diving into our shadowy past. Centuries to come, humanity has blown itself off the map with nuclear weapons but has slowly rebuilt. Those who rule from the megalopolis of the former American Eastern Seaboard have created a perpetual, clean energy source that could eliminate war. But one rogue soldier, drummed out of the service, hacks the device for personal gain—to travel through time and b...

Two new anthologies from Broken Eye Books, bringing you wonderfully weird short stories from so many delightful authors. 

I Am the Revolution. Repeat!
Whether Change brings you revolutionary tales of resilience and growth, defiance and upheaval from

WC Dunlap • Rachel Pollack • Nick Mamatas • Evan J. Peterson • Rena Mason • S.B. Divya • Gerald L. Coleman • Mary Anne Mohanraj • Craig Laurance Gidney • Nadia Bulkin • Bogi Takács • Margaret Killjoy

Tomorrow is here! Superpowered nationalists, CRISPR b...

Broken Eye Books is publishing Orrin Grey’s cyberpunk horror novel Neon Reliquary as a serial on Eyedolon. Part 1 is available now to patrons.
 
You are Soma Caldwell, an operative for Eidolon, the corporation that is the only employer, the only government, the only law in a city where the sun never shines, surrounded by an endless expanse of darkness that is peopled by unstoppable monsters. It's been this way for as long as you can remember. For as long as anyone can remember. The city is a perf...

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for our forthcoming witchy ​folk horror novel from Stoker Award–winning Gwendolyn Kiste, Boneset & Feathers, with luscious cover artwork from Gawki.

And the very first reviews are coming in:

From Sci Fi and Scary: "Kiste enchants as she juxtaposes witches and power with vulnerability and community."

From S.J. Budd: "I don't want to give out spoilers but it's spectacular! Gwendolyn Kiste takes the magical and makes it real, makes beautiful the macabre. I really lo...

We've got a couple of really great anthologies lined up for you with Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird  (weird tales of the revolution) and Cooties Shot Required: There Are Things You Must Know  (tales of the weird lives of kids). But there're also several new titles announced...

There are 12 new books on the schedule from now through 2021. And each one can be pre-ordered on the Kickstarter. So you've got lots of options!

Fall/Winter 2020 Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird  (...