In Rebecca Netley’s The Whistling, Elspeth Swansome seeks a new start on a remote Scottish island as a nanny for young Mary, still grieving the loss of her twin brother. But Elspeth can’t ignore the sense that there’s something she’s not been told.

In Dracul, a prequel to the 1897 horror classic, written by J. D. Barker and his great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker must survive the night in an abbey’s tower as a cunning, bloodthirsty monster lingers mere feet away.

In this work of short fiction from new American horror master Chuck Wendig’s The Book of Accidents, the fireflies are behaving oddly – extremely oddly.