Purchase

Amazon

Kindle

Barnes & Noble

Kobo

Apple Books

Google Play

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Mallory Arnold:

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die, July 2026
Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook
Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die (Deluxe Edition), July 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
How to Survive a Horror Story, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
How to Survive a Horror Story, July 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book

HOW TO SURVIVE A HORROR STORY
By: Mallory Arnold

(Deluxe Edition)

Poisoned Pen Press
July 2025
On Sale: July 8, 2025
Featuring: Mortimer Queen
368 pages
ISBN: 1464227403
EAN: 9781464227400
Kindle: B0DHW441QN
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Add to Wish List

Other Editions
Hardcover (July 2025)

Horror | Thriller

Seven authors enter the manor

Can they survive the story within?

When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered, and they've been waiting for their chance to step into the author's shoes for some time.

Instead, they arrive at his grand manor and are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don't, the manor will take one of them for itself.

You see, the Queen estate was built on the bones of Mortimer's family, and like any true horror story, the house is still very, very hungry.

With the clever, locked-room thrills of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone with the ghostly horror of The Fall of the House of Usher, How to Survive a Horror Story is a bright, biting, thrill-ride that begs us to contemplate how the best horror stories come to be.