Just in time for Halloween 2025, it's Shadow Lab, Volume Two!In Gibbett Hill by Faith Merino, Virginia has moved with her husband to the town of Gibbet Hill, where they plan to raise their three-month-old daughter. But as a Gold Rush reenactment festival begins to blur the line between real and imaginary, Virginia finds herself the target of the town's strange hanging ritual.In Forty Weeks by Adam Godfrey, Sarah is transformed into a vampire after her husband's research team finds a dormant virus buried in the arctic permafrost. When her husband is killed by his employers, Sarah flees in search of someone else who's infected, operating on the rumor that their death would trigger an antibody surge that could save not only her, but her unborn child …In The Retreat by Gemma Amor, a troubled military veteran tries to get her life back in order by taking an office job, and soon finds herself on the fast track to success. But when she's invited to a corporate retreat in the middle of the wilderness, she encounters dark and mysterious forces at work, and she must use all of her skills to survive.Find these and more horrifying tales in the second Shadow Lab anthology from Blackstone Publishing.
