4 Terrifying New Releases from Indie and Small Presses in November 2025

Patricia's whole life fell apart at the sound of a whistle.  Now, two decades later, she is still haunted by its awful sound.

Her father's unsolved death pushes her to risky behavior in pursuit of answers. She'll do anything—even break into mausoleums in the dead of night—to figure out the truth.

When a group of novice cryptid hunters shows up in town, Trish jumps at the chance to find some clarity. Together they search in a sealed, abandoned mine, twisting through tight, dark tunnels brimming with mysterious creatures.

Only darkness lies ahead, but Trish isn't turning back until she knows the truth.

This book is available now from Shortwave Publishing!

Set in the near future, England is in the midst of the hottest summer in living memory. When an an environmental scientist is given the job of evaluating the impact of a heavily disputed new wind farm in the West Yorkshire moors, she camps out there by the base of Turbine 34.

All alone, she is set up by the most remote of the turbines, which were constructed atop an ancient peat bog. As she passes her days collecting samples, she starts to notice the negative consequences of the wind farm.

And then she starts to see things—impossible things. 

She has given everything to protecting the moor. Will the moor return the favor?

This book is available now from Wild Hunt Books!

This epistolary novel of cosmic dread follows Atticus “Finch” Davani, who very much does not want to be an astronaut. He hates space, despises the ship, and tolerates his fellow crew members even less.

In his letters to Aku, his corporate-assigned penpal back on earth, Finch makes all of his negative feelings very clear.

Before long, Aku becomes so much more than just a penpal. But when the crew engages in hyperdrive, Aku's regular letters start to come at random intervals.

Finch and the others aboard the ship realize that time has begun to pass differently for them.

While the crewmates' penpals die rapidly of old age, Finch turns to Aku with a broken heart. Aku who, despite the passage of a century, still remains.

This book is now available for pre-order and will be released on November 11th by Tenebrous Press!

Like every other city in America, Chicago was build on a foundation of death. As such, it's not shocking that the police dismiss it as a strange murder-suicide when a devoted couple in a low-rent apartment end up cannibalizing each other.

Cameron Ciris is a local fixer and recovering addict who offers to look into the case for their neighborhood. But Cameron is no normal problem solver.

A year ago, Cameron overdosed on a party drug and ended up possessed by a strange entity—one that forces them to perform bloody rituals. Now as more cannibalized victims pop up around the neighborhood, so too does an eldritch doppelganger of Cameron's old dealer.

As Cameron is hunted through nightmares and hallucinations, they try to track this dealer and the malicious growth spreading through Chicago. But Cameron's body is barely their own, and they must ask themselves, what separates those getting devoured from those who get to feast?

After all, Cameron is feeling very hungry…

This book is now available for pre-order and will be released on November 15th by Slashic Horror Press!