Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Halloween Reads: The Black Beacon Book of Horror 2

The long-awaited second volume of spooky tales to keep you up all night from Black Beacon Books...

The Black Beacon Book of Horror 2 creeps out of the coffin to pick up where the first volume left off. Seventeen scary stories from some of the most disturbing minds writing horror today. These tales of folk horror, psychological suspense, gothic romance, and cosmic terror will take you by the hand and lead into the darkest of worlds. There are possessed puppets, Lovecraftian terrors from the depths, polar predators, unsettled spirits, and most frightening of all, the madness of mankind. You'll take part in a séance alongside Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, you'll experience a midnight tryst gone wrong in a moon garden, you'll discover terror in the trenches during the Great War, and you might just survive a holiday to Fiji if you're lucky. The settings and themes in this anthology are varied, but each tale has that one particular power in common; the power to send a delicious shiver of fright up your spine before you read the final line.