Calling all horror writers!
Dust off your manuscripts, because Nightfire will be open for un-agented submissions from June 15th to June 22nd 😈
While you get your manuscript ready, check out our submissions guidelines:
We are actively looking for submissions from BIPOC authors. As a reminder, we are going to open for one week to un-agented subs starting July 15th. *Please note this will specifically be for BIPOC folks only.* We will share the link to submit on July 15.
We are deliriously excited to share the cover for NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH by
@casskhaw
, on sale 10.19.21 from Nightfire! 🔥
Pre-order now and find out more here ➡️
The end of the world is nuts🍒
Feast your eyes on the cover of
#Manhunt
by
@scumbelievable
, a fast-paced body horror that examines a post-apocalyptic world through the lens of trans women and men trying to survive 🏹
Coming 2.22.22, pre-order now:
Feast your eyes upon the cover of Cuckoo, a searing new novel from Manhunt author
@scumbelievable
⛺☀️
Five kidnapped kids try to stay true to themselves while serving time in a conversion camp from hell...
🪺Coming 3.19.24 🌄
Art: Sarah Sitkin
Design:
@esthersarahkim
🍄COVER REVEAL🍄
#WhatMovesTheDead
by T. Kingfisher (
@UrsulaV
) is a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Coming 7.12.22, read more:
Growing up as a horror-loving kid isn't always easy, especially for non-white children.
But it's getting better - read
@AllyOutThere
on why we should encourage kids should stay spooky.
T. Kingfisher fans rejoice!
Check out the cover for What Feasts at Night, the sequel novella to USA Today bestseller What Moves the Dead by
@UrsulaV
🏚️👻
Alex Easton returns on 2.13.24 🐎☠️
Cover art by Christina Mrozik
Pre-Order your copy today🔪
We are actively looking for submissions from BIPOC writers. We understand that this is a difficult time, particularly for Black writers, so we are going to open for a second week to un-agented subs starting July 15th. *Please note this will specifically be for BIPOC folks only.*
Drumroll please...
Announcing What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
@UrsulaV
, a sequel to the bestselling What Moves The Dead 🏚️☠️🔪
👻🐎 Coming March 2024🧶✂️
Head to our website to learn more about the return of Alex Easton...
Behold, the cover for A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES, a contemporary Southern Gothic by bestselling author T. Kingfisher
@UrsulaV
Grandma's ghost haunting your house will be the least of your worries🏠🏚
On sale 3.28.23
Artist:
@strautniekas
Designer:
@esthersarahkim
🔥BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT🔥
We're delighted to announce that another horror novella from
@casskhaw
is coming your way!
THE SALT GROWS HEAVY – a sharp and hungry mermaid tale full of creeping dread and delicious gore – coming May 2023 🧜♀️
Unagented horror writers, the time has finally come! 🔥
Nightfire is open to unagented submissions for a week, from June 15th to June 22nd!
Review our guidelines and submit your manuscript here:
Nightfire presents the glorious cover of BURY YOUR GAYS, a new heart-pounding story from USA Today bestselling author
@ChuckTingle
🎥 You can make a killing in Hollywood🔨
Art:
@GalactixyI
Design: Katie Klimowicz
Coming July 2024🩸Pre-Order today!
When Easton travels to Gallacia, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence...
Pre-Order What Feats At Night, sequel to What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
@UrsulaV
🏚️☠️🔪
Here's a sneak peek of the beautiful endpaper art inside What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher, illustrated by the author
@UrsulaV
💡
Pre-Order your copy of Alex Easton's return👻🐎
🚨🍄ANNOUNCEMENT🍄🚨
Nightfire is pleased to share that we will publish a brand-new novella,
#WhatMovestheDead
, by the one and only
@UrsulaV
in Summer 2022! Find out more about this Poe reimagining here:
From
@hangsawoman
, author of Tell Me I’m Worthless, comes BRAINWYRMS 🪱🧠
Behold the cover of this shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy novel🩸
Coming just in time for spooky szn 🕯️ 10.10.23
Cover art by David Palumbo🪱
Pre-order your copy 🖤
🚨Writers, dreamers, scribblers of horror novels & novellas! 🚨
Nightfire will be open to unagented submissions during the following window: 9:00 AM ET 6/15/21 -
9:00 AM ET 6/22/21
More here:
Feast your eyes upon the cover for the paperback of A House With Good Bones, T. Kingfisher’s haunting Southern Gothic Horror
@ursulav
🏚🦷
Stunning Cover art by Christina Mrozik🥀
Out May 2024, wherever books are sold. Pre-Order your copy today!
Missing people, unidentifiable fungi & an eerie PNW forest that devours all who enter...
Behold the cover of GIRL IN THE CREEK by Hugo Award winner
@wnwagner
, a cli-fi cosmic horror arriving 2.18.25🍄
Art
@GregRuth
Design
@LesleyAWorrell
Pre-Order today!
Feast your eyes upon the cover for THE SALT GROWS HEAVY by bestselling author
@casskhaw
💀🧜♀️
This dark and deliciously twisted mermaid novella slithers onto shelves 05.02.23.
Artist: Morgan Sorensen
Designer:
@esthersarahkim
Here’s the cover for GHOST STATION, a heart-pounding space horror from
@staceykade
, author of Dead Silence! 🚀🩸
On 1.23.24 get ready to stay alive on an eerie and abandoned planet…
Cover art by
@Timo_Noack
Design by
@KJKlim
Pre-order your copy🛸
Most of us would like to think we'd be the Final Girl, but if the past two years have taught us anything, it's that we should've been kinder to Wendy and Barbra all along. Join
@GwendolynKiste
as she revisits the traumatized women of horror:
🔥COVER REVEAL🔥
We're delighted to share the cover of
#SisterMaidenMonster
by
@LucyASnyder
, a story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation & told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare.
Coming 2.21.23:
We’re giving away a bag full o’ swag because we’re so dang glad you’re here. HOW TO ENTER: follow us, tag a friend and RT using the hashtag
#NightfireSwagBag
. Full rules in bio.
We are thrilled to share that Nightfire has acquired three more projects from acclaimed Manhunt author
@scumbelievable
!
Black Flame is set to publish in 2025, promising a bright future ahead for queer horror🕯
More here:
Next Summer, Chuck Tingle packs you off to camp and has the exclusive cover reveal!
CAMP DAMASCUS is
@ChuckTingle
's horror debut novel. Get your camping gear ready for Summer 2023 ⛺🌈🪰
Bestselling authors
@Richard_Kadrey
&
@casskhaw
have teamed up to deliver a dark new story with magic, monsters & mayhem
The Dead Take the A Train is a full-throttle thrill ride straight into NYC’s magical underbelly coming 10.3.23 🚉🗽
Pre-Order today!
We have another cover for you🚨
TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS by
@hangsawoman
is a vital work of trans fiction examining the devastating effects of trauma and how fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other.
A debut like no other coming January 2023🏚️🏳️⚧️
✨COVER REVEAL✨
Feast your eyes on the cover of
#LittleEve
by
@Catrionaward
, a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist, set against the backdrop of an island off the wildest coast of Scotland 🏴
Coming 10.11.22, read more:
We are thrilled to announce
@heedgmon
’s haunting adult debut HOLLOW IS THE HEART, a queer native folk horror that blends the legend and lore of classic monster horror with the secrecy of dark academia.
Coming early 2026 with a second novel to follow!
Your Shadow Half Remains by
@dynamicsymmetry
is a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage 👁️🐦⬛
🫣 Coming February 2024 🫣
Cover art by
@seidmanart
Design by Russell Trakhtenberg
Read all about it⬇️
🔥BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT🔥
We're delighted to announce that we'll be publishing the US edition of TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS by Alison Rumfitt (
@hangsawoman
)!
Coming January 2023:
Greed, corruption, and selfhood weave the stickiest of webs🕸
Lay your eyes upon the wicked cover for
@NBallingrud
’s novella Crypt of the Moon Spider
Art by
@SamArayaArt
, Design by
@CFoltzer
Crawling onto shelves 8.27.24🕷 Pre-Order your copy today!
#NothingButBlackenedTeeth
by
@casskhaw
is on sale today wherever books are sold!🎉
Don't miss this gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.
Behold the cover for LOOKING GLASS SOUND, the newest twisty psychological horror novel by award-winning author
@Catrionaward
🌊 🚤
📖✍️It begins 8.22.23. 📖✍️
Chilling Cover designed by
@KJKlim
Pre-order below:
Welcome to Villa Taccola. She's been waiting for you....
Behold the hauntingly beautiful cover of DIAVOLA by Jennifer Thorne a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story coming 3.26.24👻
Design:
@esthersarahkim
Art: Judy Chung
Pre-Order your copy!
Tim Jacobus's iconic cover art shines in this comprehensive history of
@RL_Stine
's Goosebumps series–it's more fun than a day trip to Horrorland! Read
@allyoutthere
's full review:
Feast your eyes upon the cover of A Mask of Flies,
@cannibalghosts
' gritty, heartfelt meditation on death, family, and the ever-changing monstrous nature of grief🪰
Illustration:
@deadthicket
Desig:
@esthersarahkim
Coming 8.6.24 💰 Pre-Order your copy!
🚨
@silviamg
news🚨
Announcing the resurrection of NPR Book of the Year ('16) &
@Locusmag
Award Finalist
#CertainDarkThings
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia! We're thrilled to republish this neo-noir vampire novel, set in Mexico City.
Hear from Silvia herself here:
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES by T. Kingfisher gets a STAR from
@libraryjournal
⭐️
"Highly recommended for lovers of Southern gothics, readers who like their horror to sneak up on them, and anyone who appreciates the voice of Kingfisher...no matter what genre she’s currently writing."
All the horror to read in 2021:
~We take a broad view of what counts as horror fiction – alongside traditional horror, here you’ll find all things gothic, dark, weird, and thrilling––and, hopefully, your next favorite scary book.~
🔥BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT🔥
We're delighted to be publishing
#TheSpiteHouse
by
@ComptonWrites
, a Black Southern Gothic in which a father on the run with his two daughters agrees to move into a house to prove whether it is haunted 👻
Coming Feb. 2023!
A very happy book birthday to WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT, sequel to What Moves the Dead by bestselling author T. Kingfisher
@UrsulaV
🏚️👻🐎
Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. Grab your copy wherever books are sold☠️🔪
🔥COVER REVEAL🔥
We're beyond excited to share the cover of
#Sundial
by
@Catrionaward
, where a dusty desert cocktail of secrets, broken trust, and strange dogs awaits.
Coming 3.1.22, you can pre-order now:
We are thrilled to share more details on
@wnwagner
’s The Creek Girl, a tense cli-fi cosmic horror novel set in a rural Oregon forest that consumes any who enter, publishing in 2025
Check out our blog for the full announcement🌲
Horror has had a fatphobia problem for way, way too long. Today on the site,
@nicobellfiction
and
@sonorawrites
, editors of Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology, lay out why we need better fat representation in horror, and how to do it right.
Welcome to the Deptford, one of NYC's most revered apartment buildings where creepy babies and bloodsucking neighbors reside.
Preorder
#Nestlings
, a new horror novel from
@natcassidy
—coming on the scariest of days 10.31.23 👶🏻🩸
It's a STARRED review from
@bookpage
for A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
@UrsulaV
⭐️
"Kingfisher isn’t afraid to embrace the weird: A House With Good Bones’ climax is strange, scary and unforgettable."
⭐️🚪Happy Publication day to WHERE BLACK STARS RISE by
@Nadia_Shammas_
and
@so_engery
!!⭐️🚪
@LibraryJournal
calls it "An impressive graphic novel...[featuring] life in the diaspora, an inclusive retelling, and a strong, cosmic horror tale."
Journey into Carcosa today...
A ghost ship. A salvage crew. Unspeakable horrors. 🚀👻
Feast your eyes on the cover of
#DeadSilence
by S.A. Barnes (
@StaceyKade
)!
Titanic meets The Shining in this chilling sci-fi horror novel, coming to a bookstore near you on 1.25.22!
Pre-order:
Happy pub day to the perfect summer read-it-in-an-afternoon gothic novella, What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
@UrsulaV
. May your lake never rot, nor your ancestral home be full of possessed wildlife. 🍄🍄