Joseph Nassise’s On Her Majesty’s Behalf was the second volume in the “Great Undead War” series set during an alternate zombie First World War, while Jonathan Maberry’s Fall of Night was a sequel to Dead of Night.
A virus turned people into flesh-eating zombies in Omega Days and Ship of the Dead, the first two books in a trilogy by John L. Campbell, and Zombie, Indiana was the second in a series by Scott Kenemore.
Dana Fredsti’s Plague World was the third book in the “Ashley Parker” zombie series.
D.J. Molles’ series The Remaining, The Remaining: Aftermath, The Remaining: Refugees and The Remaining: Fractured were originally self-published as e-books. The first volume included a “bonus novella” set in the same zombie series.
John Ringo’s To Sail a Darkling Sea was a sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky and second in the “Black Tide Rising” zombie apocalypse series. It was followed by Islands of Rage & Hope and the final volume in the series, Strands of Sorrow.
Peter Clines’ Ex-Purgatory was the fourth in a series that pitted zombies against superheroes.
Three Bayou siblings with unworldly powers teamed up to track down the monstrous serial killer that murdered their father in Deadroads, a first novel by Robin Riopelle (Elizabeth Todd Doyle).
Girls were disappearing along a Canadian highway in Adrianne Harun’s debut A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain.
Martin Rose’s debut mystery novel, Bring Me Flesh, I’ll Bring Hell, was about an undead private investigator, and Lauren Owen’s The Quick was about Victorian vampires.
A girl discovered her new boarding school held dark secrets in The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant by new writer Joanna Wiebe.
A troubled boy discovered the titular creature in the attic that was hungry for stories in Simon P. Clark’s young adult debut novel Eren, while Mary: The Summoning was the first book by Hillary Monahan and the first in the author’s “Bloody Mary” trilogy.
Cruel Beauty, a first novel by Rosamund Hodge, was a YA retelling of ‘Beauty and the Beast’.
In June, the 7th Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that the thirty pre-1923 Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were in the public domain, despite attempts by the author’s estate to have copyright protection extended backwards from the remaining ten stories written between 1923-27.
Edited with a Foreword and Notes by Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft was a predictably hefty volume from Liveright Publishing. It came with an Introduction by Alan Moore and featured numerous illustrations and photographs.
Published in limited editions of 500 copies as part of the “Centipede Press Library of Weird Fiction”, H.P. Lovecraft contained twenty-four stories, while Algernon Blackwood featured twenty-two stories. William Hope Hodgson collected twenty-one stories plus the short novels The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Ghost Pirates (1909), and Edgar Allan Poe brought together thirty-eight stories, twenty-one poems and the short novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838). All four volumes were edited with Introductions by S.T. Joshi.
Published by California’s Stark House, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories/The Listener and Other Stories was an omnibus edition of two early 1900s collections by Algernon Blackwood with Introductions by Storm Constantine and Mike Ashley.
From the same publisher, The Slayer of Souls/The Maker of Moons was an omnibus of two collections by Robert W. Chambers that dropped three non-supernatural stories. Gregory Shepard supplied an Introduction.
Translated from the original French by Brian Stableford and published in three hefty print-on-demand volumes by Black Coat Press, The Mysterious Doctor Cornelius 1: The Sculptor of Human Flesh, 2: The Island of Winged Men and 3: The Rochester Bridge Catastrophe reprinted all eighteen instalments of the mad doctor serial by Gustave Le Rouge.
From the same imprint and also translated by Stableford, The Vampires of London reprinted the 1852 French novel by Angelo de Sorr (Ludovic Sclafer).
The Sorcery Club was a special Centenary Edition of the 1912 occult novel by Elliott O’Donnell from Ramble House/Dancing Tuatara Press. The book included an Introduction by editor John Pelan, a short essay by Gavin L. O’Keefe and original illustrations by Phillys Vere Campbell.
The same PoD imprint also published Death Rocks the Cradle and Other Stories, the second volume in the “Weird Tales of Wayne Rogers”, the pulp author whose real name was Archibald Herbert Bittner and who also wrote under the pseudonyms “Grant Stockbridge”, “Curtis Steele” and “A.H. Bittner”.
The first volume in the “Weird Tales of Arthur J. Burks” series was Cathedral of Horror, which reprinted eleven stories by the pulp author.
The second volume in the “Selected Stories of Russell Gray” series, My Touch Brings Death and Other Stories, collected ten pseudonymous stories by the pulp author Bruno Fischer, while The Corpse Factory and Other Stories, containing eight stories, was the second volume in the “Selected Stories of Arthur Leo Zagat”.
Editor John Pelan also supplied Introductions for reprints of Edmund Snell’s rare Borneo-set novels The Crimson Butterfly (1924) and The Back of Beyond (1936).
Laughing Death reprinted Walter C. Brown’s 1932 novel, and The Tomb of the Dark Ones was a reprint of the 1937 novel by J.M.A. Mills.
Also from Ramble House, Vampire of the Skies and The Ghost Plane were reprints of the novels by James Corbett, originally published in the UK in 1932 and 1939, respectively, while Food for the Fungus Lady and Other Stories collected ten pulp stories by pulp author Ralston Shields.
Editors John Pelan and D.H. Olson supplied the Introduction for Echo of a Curse, a reprint of the 1939 novel by R.R. Ryan.
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies from Penguin Classics collected eighteen stories, seventeen prose poems and forty-two poems by Clark Ashton Smith, edited with an Introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi.
To celebrate the centenary of Robert Aickman’s birth, Faber & Faber reissued the author’s collections Dark Entries, The Unsettled Dust and The Wine-Dark Sea in attractive new editions with cover quotes by Neil Gaiman, S.T. Joshi and Kim Newman, while Cold Hand in Mine included a new Foreword by Reece Shearsmith.
A 40th Anniversary edition of James Herbert’s The Rats included a new Introduction by Gaiman.
Robinson reprinted two classic supernatural novels by “Jonathan Aycliffe” (Denis MacEoin), Whispers in the Dark (1992) and The Vanishment (1993), in new trade paperback editions.
The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult featured fifteen early horror stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Aleister Crowley, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and others, along with a historical Introduction by editor Lon Milo DuQuette.