Horror readers judge a cover faster than almost anyone else in fiction: they scan for dread before they can name it. Get a cover built for your subgenre, supernatural, psychological, gothic, paranormal, creature, or slasher, designed from scratch to deliver that unease on first glance.
From supernatural and gothic to psychological, paranormal, creature, and slasher horror, every cover here was built from scratch for its subgenre. Click any cover to view it full size.
Horror readers decide faster than almost any other genre buys. They scan for wrongness, the sense that something is off before they can explain it, and a cover that spells out the threat too plainly kills that feeling before the story gets the chance to build it.
The strongest horror covers never show the threat directly. A figure at the edge of frame, a light on in a house that should be empty, something almost normal that isn’t quite. What the reader’s imagination fills in is scarier than anything rendered in full.
Near-black backgrounds with one point of unnatural light, a lit window, one bright eye, a pale hand against night, do more work than a busy composition ever could. Horror covers earn their dread through restraint.
Clean, polished type on a horror cover undersells the genre. Distressed serifs, cracked letterforms, and blood-red or bone-white type against black make the title feel like part of what’s wrong, not a label sitting on top of it.
Your cover comes built for your subgenre, supernatural, gothic, psychological, paranormal, creature, or slasher, with the atmosphere, palette, and typography that signal it correctly, and every file you need to publish across formats.
Straight answers about pricing, revisions, files, and copyright before you get started.
$199, tax included. That covers a custom design built for your subgenre, a realistic mockup, and unlimited revisions until you approve the final cover. It’s the front cover only, delivered with source files and full copyright, within 14 days.
Your first concept arrives within 5 working days of your brief. Final files follow within 10 working days, depending on how many revision rounds you use.
Yes. Send us your series title and how many books you’re planning, and we’ll build a shared template, typography, layout, and palette, that carries across every volume.
No. Licensed stock imagery is included in your package. If you have your own imagery or textures you’d rather use, we’re happy to work with those instead.
Supernatural, psychological, gothic, paranormal and occult, creature, and slasher/survival horror. Tell us your subgenre and tone in your brief so we can pitch the atmosphere correctly from the first concept.
Yes. Full commercial rights transfer to you on final payment. Use it on every retailer, in print, and in advertising, with no restrictions.
Horror covers create dread and unease, often through the supernatural or existential. Thriller covers create tension and urgency, with a threat that’s human and immediate. If your book centers on detectives, crime, or investigation, our mystery/thriller page is the better fit.
Horror shoppers judge atmosphere, contrast, and typography before they read a single word of your blurb. Get a cover built by a team that knows exactly what your subgenre needs to say.
