Vibe: A Chicana possession novella that's as much about generational trauma and culture as it is about a demon in a teenage girl.

Five friends hold a séance for fun before graduation, and quiet, academic Fernanda starts acting like someone — something — else. As Lourdes investigates what's taken hold of her friend, the story becomes a possession tale layered with Mexican-American identity, faith, and the things young women aren't allowed to say out loud.

Origin: United States

Content warnings: Human trafficking, self-harm (brief), graphic body horror, sexual content, gun violence, misogyny, religious bigotry.

Vibe: A cozy small-town museum hides a hole into a genuinely wrong other-world in this modern Algernon Blackwood homage.

Newly divorced Kara moves into her uncle's oddball taxidermy museum, and while patching a strange hole in the wall, she and a friend step through into a world of endless, hostile willow trees. What starts whimsical curdles fast into cosmic dread as they try to find their way back before whatever lives out there notices them.

Origin: United States

Content warnings: Body horror, gore, torture, death of a child, animal death, gun violence, cannibalism, forced institutionalization, ableism.

Vibe: A grief-soaked, gory mystery following a crime-scene cleaner who can't tell anymore what's real and what's the Hungry Ghost Festival catching up with her.

Cora Zeng cleans up after violent deaths in Chinatown for a living, still reeling from her sister's murder and the killer's parting slur: "bat eater." As she keeps finding dead bats at crime scenes tied to East Asian victims, and the Hungry Ghost Festival closes in, the line between anti-Asian violence, grief hallucination, and something genuinely supernatural blurs.

Origin: United States

Content warnings: Graphic violence and gore, anti-Asian racism/hate violence, animal death, death of a sibling, psychological distress.