Keith Rosson lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of the novels The Mercy of the Tide and Smoke City. His short fiction has appeared in Cream City Review, PANK, December, the Nervous Breakdown, and more.
Ravenous (2026) Dax Dagger "Fun, bloody and ambitious, Ravenous pays homage to cosmic horror and the pitfalls of the writer's life in equal measure. Had a hell of a good time with this one."
Monstera (2026) Delilah S Dawson "Dawson writes of brutality and tender first loves with the same sure, graceful hand. Monstera's roots run deep and bloody."
The Calamities (2026) (Fiends, book 1) Chuck Wendig "The Calamities is a twisting, winding river of darkness - part ink-black Gothic tale, part brutal family saga, and housed in a demonic nesting doll of a dark fantasy novel. Taken as a whole, it reminds me yet again of Wendig's wildly lethal range and versatility when it comes to horror. The guy is, simply put, unstoppable."
Secret Lives of the Dead (2025) Tim Lebbon "A propulsive, imaginative, page-turning heist-to-horror novel in which no one is safe. I absolutely burned through this book."
When the Wolf Comes Home (2025) Nat Cassidy "When the Wolf Comes Home is a wildly inventive horror novel, and a ripping, bloody page-turner. But that's not all it is-in its beating heart there's a fierce, moving treatise about love, parenthood, and notions of familial indebtedness. I loved it."
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes (2025) Clay McLeod Chapman "Surreal, hypnotic, unrelenting, profoundly claustrophobic, and an absolutely scathing sendup of the pitfalls of American divisiveness."
American Rapture (2024) CJ Leede "American Rapture has its finger on the bloody, fevered pulse, fearlessly addressing notions of love, sex, faith, redemption, individuality. You won't read anything else like it."
All the Hearts You Eat (2024) Hailey Piper "Piper writes about the big, overarching things here-love, loss, desire, belonging-with the same nuance and precision she brings to this novel's haunting, braided narratives. All the Hearts You Eat has the insistent pull of a fever dream."
A Mask of Flies (2024) Matthew Lyons "Cinematic, gruesome, hyper-violent, and fun as hell, A Mask of Flies fits perfectly in that nexus between propulsive crime fiction and scream-your-head-off horror. I loved every page of it."
What Grows in the Dark (2024) Jaq Evans "Through mounting dread, with every turn of the page, What Grows in the Dark explores - terrifyingly so - the notions of family, indebtedness, and how the past never really lets us go."
Smoke Kings (2024) Jahmal Mayfield "As tightly plotted as the best thriller, the true power of Smoke Kings lies in its pointed, nuanced rage. Rage at an America that steadfastly refuses to acknowledge - much less address - the brutal treatment of its earliest Black inhabitants, and how that refusal and its attendant violence echoes throughout the centuries to right now, today, this moment. With Mayfield's fearless, incandescent prose, I was hooked from page one."
