No Gods for Drowning

Set in an alternate reality which updates mythology to near-modern day, NO GODS FOR DROWNING is part hunt for a serial killer, part noir detective story, and unlike anything you’ve ever read before.

Let Not Your Sorrow Die

NOMINATED FOR A SPLATTERPUNK AWARD

Macabre desire.
The grotesque unease of longing.
Violence anticipated, violence realized.

Featuring sixteen pieces of short fiction—including three previously unpublished stories—Let Not Your Sorrow Die shows us what the darkest places reveal about what it means to be truly human.

All the Stars Die

Modern horror's King of Pain, the World Fantasy Award-and Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff, joins Bad Hand Books with a collection of cosmic-horror novellas: All the Stars Die.

Silk & Sinew

From lengths of muscle and vein, ground bones, endless ropes of sinew...it is with our bodies folk horror is woven.

Edited by Bram Stoker Award-nominee Kristy Park Kulski, this stunning anthology features contributions from some of the most acclaimed authors of the Asian Diaspora.

My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast

Featured on the Associated Press’s 2024
Holiday Gift Guide!

International bestseller Zoje Stage brings us a charming book for younger readers.

First depicted in the international sensation Baby Teeth, a novel for adults, My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast is a quirky and charming story about a girl with a most unusual way of making new friends.

The Atropine Tree

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sarah Read returns with a stunning new vision of gothic terror.

Aldane Manor is an ancient home of low-beamed ceilings, crumbling walls, poison gardens, and deadly secrets.

When Alrick Aldane returns to his family's house, he expects to simply inherit his father's land and title.

Instead, he discovers that he is also heir to the property's disturbing history--one full of witchcraft--and a ghostly mystery that could condemn him to a fate worse than death.

Cranberry Cove

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper joins Bad Hand Books with a supernatural crime novella. What’s been happening at Cranberry Cove? It’s unspeakable. It’s unspoken. Emberly Hale is about to take a dark journey inside the derelict hotel—and inside her own past—to find out the horrible truth.

Root Rot & Other Grim Tales

BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE

Within Root Rot and Other Grim Tales, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sarah Read delivers cautions and disturbances across 18 grim tales.

Prepare to inherit stories of fossil-haunted houses, of doorways to the afterlife. In the woods, learn of vengeful wolves and women. In the water, discover shipwrecks stuck in time, Devonian monsters, and islands where your father loved to fish—and where your future hangs in balance.

The End In All Beginnings

Prepare to embark upon your final, terrifying journey. It's a disturbing trip through the ages in five novellas exploring the painful horrors of life, love and loss.

Dead Red & Razor

NYT-bestselling author Tim Lebbon joins Bad Hand Books with a new crime novella!

Haunted by the voice of her dead lover, assassin “Dead” Red Virgilio is out for vengeance against former colleague, “Razor” Bill McClintock. And she's driving into the heart of the Nevada desert to get it.

Not a Speck of Light

NAMED ONE OF 2024’S BEST HORROR BOOKS BY
THE NEW YORK TIMES, ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, and NPR

Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre.

Bring a flashlight and a book of matches.

Where we’re going, there’s not a speck of light.

Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners

Coming this fall. Co-edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey. Featuring Chuck Palahniuk, Clay MacLeod Chapman, Zoje Stage, Alex Grecian, Eugen Bacon, Anna Taborska and more.

The Inconsolables

NOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD

In his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voice--a poetic, resonant force of darkness and unique terrors. He returns with The Inconsolables, a chilling selection of stories sure to brighten this star of literary horror.

Inside, meet masterfully rendered characters who grapple with desires as powerful and personal as the monsters that stalk them from the edges of perception.

The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors

WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD

The horror is closer than you think. From Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Doug Murano and today's biggest names in dark fiction comes a new vision of terror. It's lurking under the surface. It's waiting around every corner. It's hiding under your bed. it's buried in the backyard. It's whispered, implied, unspoken. This is The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors.

Father Gaetano’s Puppet Catechism

From Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, and NYT-bestselling author Christopher Golden, Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism is an illustrated novella that brings Twilight Zone originality to the written page

Nira: A Constance Evermore Story

Thomas Sniegoski (author of the bestselling The Fallen series of novels), and Jeannine Acheson (co-author of Vampiverse comics) bring the world of Constance Evermore to Bad Hand Books in a dark-fantasy novella. Fully illustrated by Thomas Brown.

Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal

They're not your average heroes, but they still want justice.

In this beautifully illustrated 1930s-pulp-style novel, two dark characters created by bestselling authors Tom Sniegoski and Mike Mignola team up to fight supernatural evil--and discover the mystery of Grim Death's past.

Kill Your Darling

The acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother is coming to Bad Hand Books with a new novella (nearly 40,000 words).

This devastating story explores how love, grief, and storytelling can change our lives in equal measure.

The Wind Began to Howl

ONE OF TOR.COM’S BEST OF 2023

Laird Barron's acclaimed crime saga makes a triumphant return in The Wind Began to Howl, an all-new story set after the events of Worse Angels.

They Were Here Before Us

ONE OF PASTE MAGAZINE’S
BEST HORROR BOOKS OF 2022

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were Here Before Us, a novella written in pieces, designed to be consumed as a single, thematically cohesive work.

The only thing more brutal than nature is love.