One deal with the devil makes a fool. Two? A villain... A year ago, Elle made a deal with the devil to save her sister. Now, they live on a desolate spit of land beyond Halifax harbor. Elle, as lighthouse keeper, steers unsuspecting sailors to their destruction; those are the terms of her bargain. Liney need never know the cost. Her safety is worth every drop of blood. But a sinner’s pact is not so simple. When the devil returns, demanding more – more shipwrecks, no survivors – Elle knows what she must do to keep Liney safe... Another ship. Another crew killed in the devil’s name. Then a woman washes ashore. Is she a soul to be sacrificed, or part of a darker design? As Liney and the stranger grow closer, Elle faces an impossible choice: kill, and break Liney’s heart, or forfeit her own soul. Danger arises from all sides: the merciless sea, ruthless men on the mainland, and the infernal bargain itself… Souls and sisterhood, fate and fire – what must be sacrificed for the devil to get his due?

In this propulsive new thriller from the author of the break-out debut The Quiet Tenant, a reunion between estranged siblings is interrupted when a woman is found murdered at their luxury vacation resort, dredging up memories from a shared childhood they’ve tried to keep buried in the past.Frida and Gabriel arrive seeking a fresh start at the stunning Ara Hotel in the secluded desert of Escalante, Utah. Once so close they were able to finish each other’s sentences, they’ve grown apart in recent years after a sudden, unspeakable tragedy. Now, at the luxe resort, they are ready to reconnect between dips in the pool and hikes on spectacular desert trails. It all feels like paradise—until the dead body of a beautiful young woman who was vacationing at the Ara with her powerful, much older husband is discovered. When the local police arrive and put the resort into lockdown, Gabriel and Frida are forced to revisit memories from their upbringing in a cloistered cult in upstate New York, led by a charismatic and fanatical leader. It was their dramatic, fiery escape from his control fifteen years earlier that bonded them for life—or so Frida thought.Alternating between past and present timelines, Our Last Resort builds toward a shattering climax that uncovers the fate of the murdered Ara guest and reveals the shocking secrets Gabriel and Frida have been hiding for years. Taut, gripping, and intense, Clémence Michallon’s sophomore suspense novel is a nail-biter until the last page, cementing her status as a major new talent in the genre.

THE UNMISSABLE GOTHIC HORROR EVENT OF 2026A LIFE IN LIMBO. A SIN SO SWEET. AN IMMACULATE DECEPTION.I feel the bond that has been created between me and him - this one made of shadows, the one who pulses in my depths and who promises to fulfil my yearning...Pernambuco, Brazil, 1877. Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante's Inferno by heart and fears her mother's reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a marry or surrender the baby.Confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will propose, Madalena sets off to his sprawling estate. After a storm wrecks her carriage, she awakens in Leandro's crumbling mansion, tended to by the magnetic Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there... but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He's silent. Obsessed. Always watching. Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something - or someone - ghastly in the reflection. Leandro is unravelling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one she's living in...

A sensuous, vivid and unsettling modern gothic tale about a couple who move to the seaside town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist over whom the shadow of former town resident Aleister Crowley looms large. Ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley or Francine Toon. Exhausted by the pressures of life in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings. With Adam's failed career as an artist and a recent miscarriage causing rifts in their marriage, Justine wants this to be a fresh start for them. As they try to settle into their new seaside home, they find a bolted door in their basement, behind which is a cave. Adam feels a strange but enchanting pull to the cave while apprehension begins to claw at Justine. Inside the cave, they find a witch bottle and with this discovery, the couple begin to uncover disturbing rumours about the home's previous owner, John Malachy. A sinister figure, Malachy was known for his obsession with chaos magic, and association with Sacred Disease - a band that rose to fame in the 80s that supposedly experimented with blood magic and occult forces and was made a scapegoat in the media due to their association with satanism. Justine and Adam seek answers from James Blackwood, a local occultist and former member of Sacred Disease. He warns them to leave things be and not to tamper with ancient rituals, dark magic and secrets long buried in the past. But John Malachy is long dead and surely everything the media said about him was only superstition? Despite Blackwood's warning, Adam can't resist opening the witch bottle. With this, a sinister chain of events begins to unfold. Justine notices that Adam's behaviour changes and the obsession he once had with his art is reignited but begins to veer into something unnatural. Justine herself wakes night after night, haunted by the screams of a young woman that seem to come from the cave beneath the house. When Justine once again finds herself pregnant, and people in the town begin to turn up dead or missing, the lines between truth, reality and the mystical all begin to blur. The ghosts of John Malachy and the one and only Aleister Crowley himself loom large and a dark sacrificial reckoning closes in on both Justine and Adam.

This story was originally published in Day One , a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers. Ashley, a recent college graduate, is living at home with her mother and brother. Which means it’s inevitable that her traumatized mom will drag her to a support group, where she’ll be forced to hear about her uncle’s descent into mental illness. Triggered by facts she’d rather not know, Ashley can’t help but wonder what—if anything—stands in the way of her meeting a similar fate. And so she decides that the only recourse is to test the limits of her sanity herself. After twenty-four hours without sleep, Ashley’s behavior becomes more and more irrational. And as her experiment unfolds, the line between sanity and insanity, between reality and delusion, begins to blur.