A female werewolf attempted to control her own destiny in ancient Rome in Alice Borchardt’s historical dark fantasy The Silver Wolf. Borchardt is the sister of Anne Rice, who of course blurbed her sibling’s book.

Shadow of the Beast was a first novel by Margaret L. Carter, about a werewolf roaming the dark streets of a town in Maryland, while Julie Anne Parks’ Storytellers involved a bestselling horror author menaced by a legendary Native American evil. Both books were published by Designlmage Group.

Michael Marano’s ambitious debut novel Dawn Song followed the lives of a gay man in 1990s Boston and a body-hopping succubus from Hell intent on stealing twenty male souls. The city was soon caught up in a supernatural struggle between two of Hell’s demonic rulers against the backdrop of the Gulf War.

Respected short story author Caillm R. Kiernan made her novel debut with the paperback original Silk, about an emotionally disturbed woman named Spyder who invited the members of a struggling rock band into her world of blood rituals and vengeful spirits.

Published in the Do-Not Press’ FrontLines series, Head Injuries by Conrad Williams was about a group of old friends reunited at a British seaside town during the off-season who were forced to confront the ghosts of their past.

A man suffering from a strange neurological disease repaired a sinister house and investigated the chain of deaths surrounding the property in Daniel Hecht’s first novel Skull Session. Elizabeth Cody Kimmel’s debut novel In the Stone Circle was a young adult ghost story set in a haunted house in Wales, while King Rat by China Mieville was described as “urban Gothic” and set in London.