PREVIEW: Two Upcoming Horror Titles From CRYSTAL LAKE PUBLISHING

EDITOR'S NOTE: I'll be posting reviews of both these books on this site. Stay tuned.

In The Dollhouse We All Wait by Amanda M. Blake will be released April 10th. Pre-order is live! An extreme horror novel of privilege, cruelty, and survival—splatterpunk at its most unflinching. “In the dollhouse, if you don’t play with Annie…she plays with you.” Sam Frain thinks she’s found the perfect escape: a live-in nanny position in a sprawling mansion owned by one of the wealthiest families in the country.

The job seems simple: Take care of Annie Lange. Annie may look like a grown woman, but she lives inside a world built for a little girl—frilly dresses, scripted games, rigid rules, and what seems like every doll in the world. As Sam learns the true nature of Annie’s games, she's forced into a waking nightmare of psychological domination, grotesque excess, and carefully curated cruelty. In this gilded cage where money erases morality, survival means choosing whether to resist—or become part of the performance. Blending the social unease of The Nanny Diaries with the ruthless brutality of Hostel II, In the Dollhouse We All Wait is a harrowing work of extreme horror that explores power, complicity, and the terrifying truth that the rich really are different.

Pre-order In The Dollhouse We All Wait HERE!

Little Things Big by David Salkin will be released April 17th. Pre-order is live!   When a lab leak unleashes genetically engineered skin mites, survival becomes a nightmare. Global Tech believes it has solved world hunger. Using revolutionary genetic engineering, the powerful Big Ag corporation has created livestock the size of elephants—cattle, pigs, and sheep engineered to feed the planet and make billions in the process.

To secure political support, Global Tech hosts an exclusive showcase at its rural Pennsylvania headquarters, inviting senators, congressmen, and investors to witness the future of agriculture. But not everyone believes Global Tech should control the food supply. When eco-terrorists attack the facility, their sabotage triggers a catastrophic accident inside the research labs. What they release isn’t just dangerous—it’s monstrous. From the earliest days of Global Tech’s experiments come the forgotten failures: genetically altered skin mites that grow, multiply, and swarm with horrifying speed. Within minutes, the party becomes a battlefield. Scientists, Secret Service agents, and trapped guests must fight their way through a nightmare of crawling flesh-eating parasites spreading through the complex. And the deeper they push into the facility, the more terrifying the truth becomes. Fast-paced, terrifying, and chillingly plausible, this biotech horror thriller blends corporate conspiracy, genetic engineering gone wrong, and relentless creature terror for fans of Jurassic Park, The Food of the Gods, and Michael Crichton–style science thrillers. The lab leak was only the beginning.

Pre-order Little Things Big HERE!