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Bloody Disgusting’s Best Books, Onward to 2026

One last post for 2025!

I’m so excited to share that A Game in Yellow is back in Bloody Disgusting, this time for “The Best Horror Books of 2025”, joining a fantastic assembly of new horror from this year, some of them favorites of mine, others I’m still eager to read.

Perhaps the gutsiest conceptual leap from a major horror writer this year, Hailey Piper’s latest novel is a riff on Robert W. Chambers’ revered collection The King in Yellow, a foundational weird fiction book that gets an unexpected expansion through A Game in Yellow. The book follows a lesbian couple in a BDSM relationship whose limits are tested when they read pages from a mysterious play that’s said to drive you mad, and even beyond the ties to cosmic horror history, it’s a phenomenal showcase in character study from one of the best horror writers working right now.”

And that’s a wrap on 2025 for me. 2026 is shaping up to be a busy new year, with lots of events, and more releases to come.

January 23-25: MystiCon in Roanoke, VA

February 3: Teenage Girls Can Be Demons releases in audiobook

March 3: No Gods for Drowning returns to print from Bad Hand Books

June 4-7: StokerCon in Pittsburgh

September 15: This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want releases from Titan Books

October: … it hasn’t been announced yet, but there will be another book coming. Stay tuned!

Have a Happy New Year!

3-book deal + A Game in Yellow cover reveal

A giant monster battle of news landed last week, so there’s a bit of ground to cover here, but I’ll keep it short and snappy!

Titan Books announced a three-book deal with me, with titles releasing over the next three years. First up will be Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, a collection of coming-of-rage horror including new stories, among them two new novelettes, and some returning favorites about our teenage years and the monsters within them such as Benny Rose the Cannibal King. That releases on September 16, 2025. In 2026, a new novel releases, This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, followed by a TBA novel in 2027.

Also coming in 2025, my erotic cosmic horror novel A Game in Yellow from Simon and Schuster, and now it has a wonderful cover by Caroline Teagle! It’s up for pre-order at the usual places, and releases August 12 next year!