Cynthia Gómez’s debut novel Muñeca is due to hit shelves this June. Having read her prior short story collection, The Nightmare Box and Other Stories from Cursed Morsels, as well as her earlier novelette, The Shivering World from Dread Stone’s Split Scream (later, Tenebrous), I was thrilled to get my hands on this one. Told through the traditions of magical realism, the novel is a passionate queer romance that seamlessly blends horror, history, and music.

If there really were angels, special magical beings living over us, would we want to worship them? Author Chris Panatier seems to have asked himself that question before. In Rapture Publishing’s upcoming novel Daytide our world sits opposite the firmament. On the other side is Olea, the world of Jugularis, or what we would call angels. Make no mistake, Olea is not Heaven, and the drunken, selfish, violent, pop culture-obsessed “gleaners” that inhabit it are anything but holy. The book...

“How do we know who we are without others to reflect our personhood back at us?” Literary author Quan Barry’s new novel The Unveiling is a psychological horror story set on an abandoned Antarctic island, where the surreal unsetting sun and blistering white environment slowly strips the cast of marooned vacationers of their identities. Past blends with present, time becomes meaningless, and reality becomes as slippery as the ice. The Unveiling gestures at an unsettling solipsism that is...