Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Release Day Today for HORROR LIBRARY, VOLUME 9!

Perpetually working through the kinks of publishing, but today is Publication day for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ VOLUME 9 through Dark Moon Books!

So absolutely proud of this anthology, perhaps the best one in the series so far!!!
https://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_9.html

Table of Contents:

Introduction to +Horror Library+ Volume 9 by Eric J. Guignard
“Afterimage” by R. E. Rule
“Baghdad, 1259” by
Tanvir Ahmed
“Found You” by
Poppy Z. Brite
“Third-Floor Windows” by LH Michael
“The Second Candlestick” by
Nigel Brown
“False Witness” by
Charlie Hughes
“Eyes Without Their Lids” by
Jo Kaplan
“Dumb Insolence” by
J. L. Rifkin
“The Edge of the Earth” by
Iain Rowan
“Before His Time” by
Bentley Little
“The Luckiest Man” by
Gina Easton
“Accounting for Eternity” by
Charles Wilkinson
“Jane” by
Garick Cooke
“In the Evening Red” by
Brian Evenson
“Elizabeth by the Pea Patch” by
J. Edward Gregal
“Head Over Heels” by
Ana Nelson
“I Don’t Wanna Go to Mexico No More, More, More” by Gabriela Santiago
“The Drowning Kind” by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
“The Hearing Booth” by
Tom Johnstone
“The Seller of Cast-off Destinies” by
Michael Kelly
“It Moves On” by
Colin Leonard
“Dear Good, Kind Soul” by
Delilah S. Dawson
“Mask Off” by
KC Grifant
“Kernel of the Flesh” by
Dare Segun Falowo
“A Deeper Nothing” by
Dexter McLeod
“Headlights” by
Mercedes M. Yardley
“I Send You a Kiss” by
Rex Burrows
“You Know How This Will End” by
Nicholas Jay
“Absolute Power” by
Henry Herz
“Merlin’s Vicious Trick” by Trevor James Zaple
+Horror Library+ Presents: Special Guest-Artist’s Gallery of Michael A. Livolsi

Published February 3, 2026 by Dark Moon Books
With Cover art by Alexander Nazolkin
Format: Available in TRADE PAPERBACK and EBOOK

The +Horror Library+ anthologies are internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories—relevant to the moment and stunning in impact—from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.

Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as to what truly lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live in.

Shamble no longer through the banal humdrum of normalcy, but ENTER THE HORROR LIBRARY!


“Excellent stories of the highest caliber.” —Dread Central

“Uniformly well-crafted and original.” —Rue Morgue Magazine

“Impactful tales that throw the rules of both reality and genre fiction out the window.” —Fearnet (Chiller TV)