Greetings page turners and finger scrolls, here comes the long-awaited horror fiction new releases enjoy them all as we try for a cross section of materials to entice your imagination.
May 19, 2026
The Dorians by Nick Cutter
Summary: On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause—forever, perhaps. The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing of an ancient and extraordinary biological agent…one with no conscience, yet possessed with a single-minded purpose that has helped it persist for eons: the will to survive. The dark heart of unbridled human ambition finds its apex in an unholy experiment that now tests the limits of both creator and subject, eclipsing all bounds of morality and sanity….
Print Length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 1668079569
ISBN-13: 978-1668079560
Publisher: Gallery Books
https://www.amazon.com/Dorians-Nick-Cutter/dp/1668079569/
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Filth Eaters by Ito Romo
Summary: Granada, 1849. After centuries of scrounging in the shadows, the vampire Radamés discovers an ancient Aztec codex that reveals the vampires of the “New World” live a more “human” life—they marry, they give birth. Spurred on by tantalizing promise of a fuller existence, Radamés glamours and schemes his way onto a ship headed for Mexico. There, in the underbelly of the forgotten city of Teotihuacán, the Andalusian vampire falls in love with a member of this ancient sect of vampires who call themselves Filth Eaters. From their union, the mestizo vampire Doro is born. Hopping back and forth in time from the Indus River Delta in 1099 to the Muslim Spanish empire of the 1400s to a flooded cyberpunk New York City of the future, Filth Eaters pulls at the threads of empire, greed, and climate collapse, but the beating, bloody heart of the story is our very human desire for the love that gives life meaning. The debut novel from a celebrated writer of “Chicano Gothic” stories, this surprising, gory saga turns a new page for a centuries-old genre.
Print Length: 125 pages
ISBN-10: 164605430X
ISBN-13: 978-1646054305
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Filth-Eaters-Ito-Romo/dp/164605430X/
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Magician by Tracy Lynne Oliver
Summary: First, he is a Boy, born to a Mother who cannot abide his existence. Despite her torments, the Boy finds a way to survive and create a small space for himself in the world. The Boy endures unspeakable cruelties, saved only by a mysterious magic that intervenes in moments of need: magic he learns is his to command. When he finally escapes the Mother, a beguiling circus troupe welcomes him into their family and the Boy begins to imagine a life beyond survival, one where circus lions roar and enchanted forests spiral far into the distance. For the first time, he discovers chosen family, community, and love. He eagerly apprentices under the circus’s conjurer—only to realize his gifts far outstrip his mentor’s. Thus the Boy becomes the Magician. But as ambition bends his power, a primal threat stalks, determined to destroy not just the Magician, but all he holds dear.
Print Length: 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0802167187
ISBN-13: 978-0802167187
Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
https://www.amazon.com/Magician-Tracy-Lynne-Oliver/dp/0802167187/
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Salomé by Leslie Baird
Summary: A gothic-tinged fever dream that reimagines the young American in France, Salomé follows an adrift journalist who accepts an alluring stranger’s invitation to stay at her home in a small French town, only to uncover a dangerous family history that could bend the course of humanity. Don’t open your eyes… Courtney notices Salomé the moment she steps onto the plane. She’s magnetic, quicksilver, and, best of all for incurable Francophile Courtney, French. So, when Salomé invites Courtney to her mother’s town in northwestern France, Courtney doesn’t even have to think about it.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217045938
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
https://www.amazon.com/Salom%C3%A9-Leslie-Baird/dp/B0FN34BGXN/
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The Temptation of Charlotte North by Camilla Bruce
Summary: A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life. The handsome but married priest who has caught her eye. And the resolute schoolteacher who values science above all. In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, the fates of Charlotte North, Jasper Hill, and Ruth Russel are perched on the edge of a cliff, and a strange wind is blowing. . . . When an ancient tower—rumored to have once imprisoned a witch—crumbles, it releases something powerful: a restless spirit that knocks inside the walls and sends household objects flying. A spirit that seems to be drawn to Charlotte, who sees in it a potential for power and change. But first she must overcome Jasper’s piety and Ruth’s fierce determination to banish the terrifying entity. Only then will she gain the power to claim the life that she desires.
Print Length: 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0593724976
ISBN-13: 978-0593724972
Publisher: Del Rey
https://www.amazon.com/Temptation-Charlotte-North-Camilla-Bruce/dp/0593724976/
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Until Death by Mary Berman
Summary: If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is worse. So, when she meets Luke—the man of her mother’s dreams—marriage suddenly doesn’t seem so crazy. But none of Ophelia’s obsessive scrolling on wedding forums can prepare her for the nightmare of planning her own. Why is her mother-in-law going crazy over every detail? Why is Luke’s family so eager to host the wedding in their vineyard’s ancient chapel? And what exactly will Ophelia have to sacrifice if she and her mother both hope to survive her special day?
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0316597171
ISBN-13: 978-0316597173
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
https://www.amazon.com/Until-Death-Novel-Mary-Berman/dp/0316597171/
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May 26, 2026
A Dark and Wild Wood by Sarah Nicole Lemon
Summary: Ever since she was a child, Salomé has been plagued by visions of spirits and dangerous powers she can’t control. After watching her foster mother burn as a witch, she and her beloved sister Rochelle are raised together in a convent, a grim and dreary existence. Until one day, Rochelle vanishes. Determined to find a way to save her, Salomé runs: first to a brothel, and then, after a terrible accident, away from the village and into the woods. Deep amongst the trees of the wild Black Forest, she comes face-to-face with Lord Death. Rather than taking her life, he brings her to his home at the heart of the woods, a strange manor full of locked rooms and mysterious corridors, crumbling one moment, magnificent the next. He promises to make her his apprentice and teach her how to harness her mind and magic. His words are as seductive as his presence—but should one trust Death? A swirling mirage of gothic fairy tale and historical fantasy, A Dark and Wild Wood is a novel best devoured all at once. But proceed with caution, as everything is not what it seems…
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0063441586
ISBN-13: 978-0063441583
Publisher: Harper Voyager
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wild-Wood-Novel/dp/0063441586/
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Bone of My Bone by Johanna van Veen
Summary: The year is 1635. Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying man: the gilded skull of a saint. It is said that if you reunite the saint’s skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic’s power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing truth: the magic they seek comes at a cost. At the journey’s end, they’ll face an impossible choice―one that could tear apart everything they know… or bind them to each other forever.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1615957324
ISBN-13: 978-1615957323
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-My-Johanna-van-Veen/dp/1615957324/
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Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir (Author)
Mary Robinette Kowal (Translator)
Summary: Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat’s wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavík night, Ásta and her pet slip into Unnur’s life. It’s unexpected, but welcome. Unnur likes the company, and she begins to rely on Ásta in turn. But like a black cat, trouble has been tailing her new friend, and Unnur is the only one there for Ásta when things take a violent turn. The two women quickly learn: nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands.
Print Length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 1250329299
ISBN-13: 978-1250329295
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Weight-Hildur-Kn%C3%BAtsd%C3%B3ttir/dp/1250329299/
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Forlorn Harbor by Jim Doran
Summary: Squeaky-clean Martina Ramirez is about to commit her first crime with a group of six schoolmates-breaking and entering into an abandoned movie theater. But the trespassers soon find themselves trapped inside, and while desperately trying to discover a way out, a projector starts playing a film introduction to a vintage episode of a horror series named Forlorn Harbor. When the introduction ends, one of the group becomes imprisoned within the film. The only method of escape is to survive the episode, but Forlorn Harbor doesn’t play fair. As the terrifying night wears on, the projector displays more episodes, ensnaring the others one by one. And as Martina’s turn arrives, she must face her own ominous trial…alone.
Print Length: 268 pages
ISBN-10: 1961967847
ISBN-13: 978-1961967847
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing, LLC
https://www.amazon.com/Forlorn-Harbor-Jim-Doran/dp/1961967847/
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The Hollow One by Corinne Westbrook
Summary: In the quiet of a rundown house at the edge of town, a young girl named Ellie carries more than any child should. With a mother who is barely present and a baby brother who depends on her for everything, Ellie survives by staying small, silent, and unseen. But something has started to knock at the window. The figure lurking outside looks like her father, talks like him, remembers the lullabies he used to sing, but Ellie knows better than to trust too easily. Still, something in her aches to let him in—and once she does, he keeps coming back. Told through the eyes of a child trying to make sense of a world that’s forgotten her, The Hollow One is a literary horror story about longing, memory, and the quiet danger of being unseen. Atmospheric, intimate, and deeply unsettling, this is a ghost story where the scariest things are not what lurk in the dark, but what’s already inside the house.
Print Length: 264 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8895655993
Publisher: Permuted Press
https://www.amazon.com/Hollow-One-Corinne-Westbrook/dp/B0FWZZ3LB3/
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House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Summary: Anaya Sebeya is missing. Before her disappearance, Anaya was a brilliant writer: a rising star. Invited to a prestigious writing residency at Günter Huis, an eerie colonial mansion on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, Anaya was supposed to craft the next great African literary masterpiece—and so were four other young, emerging writers, all competing for the grand prize. But Anaya never made it home. When a sensationalized true crime podcast about Anaya emerges, claiming to reveal everything that happened at Günter Huis, her sister Ranewa is both skeptical and furious. But with each surreal episode, Ranewa begins to piece together a truth worse than she ever could have imagined… At Günter Huis, Anaya’s nightmares consume her. Time slips away from her. Günter Huis inflicts distorted visions and terrible supernatural visitations, pushing Anaya to tell a story no one dares. But exorcising the house’s endless cycle of evil requires a sacrifice that neither Anaya nor her fellows are ready to make. In House of Margins, award-winning Motswana author Tlotlo Tsamaase delivers a mesmerizing story of a young generation facing colonialism’s cultural legacy in Africa.
Print Length: 432 pages
ISBN-10: 1645661040
ISBN-13: 978-1645661047
Publisher: Erewhon Books
https://www.amazon.com/House-Margins-Tlotlo-Tsamaase/dp/1645661040/
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I’ll Watch Your Baby: A Novel by Neena Viel
Summary: 1974. Lottie Turner is already infamous. Running a wheel of schemes and scams, she’s willing to work for what she wants in…creative ways. But no business is more lucrative than desperate families looking to adopt a child―and there’s only one way to procure children quickly. And the only way to take what’s owed you is to cross the line no one else is willing to cross.1994. Bless has finally found the family she deserved. After suffocating slowly with lackluster parents and a non-starter past, she’s found the friends that means everything to her. That she’d live and die for. As they make their way across the country, one smash and grab at a time, Bless is used to acting fast and thinking on her feet. But someone is playing a long game. Someone has unfinished business. Soon Bless is trapped in a web of horrors past and present, where the only escape hatch is a path only she can walk, if she finds the courage to take it.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1250906342
ISBN-13: 978-1250906342
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Watch-Your-Baby-Novel/dp/1250906342/
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Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun (Author)
Sung Ryu (Translator)
Summary: A young woman and a possessed teddy bear set out on a revenge quest unlike any other in this stylish slasher from Cho Yeeun, a rising star in Korean horror. When the fledgling coastal town of Yamu is rocked by a mass-poisoning attack at the Seaview Parc, a luxury high-rise apartment, Hwayoung is one of many who lost family members. Except, she has never believed that her mother was poisoned. Now, fueled by grief and a desire for revenge, Hwayoung spends her time hustling to save every penny and bring those responsible to justice. Across town, Doha wakes up in a teddy bear and realizes something sinister has taken his body. When fate brings Hwayoung and Doha together, the two team up for a revenge quest that will shake the city’s shiny façade to its rotten core.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0316601241
ISBN-13: 978-0316601245
Publisher: Run For It
https://www.amazon.com/Teddy-Bears-Never-Die-Yeeun/dp/0316601241/
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That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic by Keala Kendall
Summary: For the world’s wealthiest, Kōpaʻa Island Resort is more than a destination. It’s the ultimate escape. With no cell service or Wi-Fi, the Hawaiian island is a coveted wellness retreat renowned for its persimmon orchard and promises of rejuvenation. But their dream vacation is Lehua’s nightmare. When her twin sister, Ohia, goes missing, Lehua follows her trail to Kōpaʻa to find her. Instead, Lehua is cut off from civilization—and help—after the island’s boat leaves without her, stranding her with the resort’s lavish guests and enigmatic staff. As Lehua investigates Ohia’s disappearance, she discovers her missing sister isn’t the island’s only mystery. Kōpaʻa’s rich exterior and sweet persimmons hide its dark plantation past. And Lehua can’t ignore the dreams haunting her each night—nor the warning telling her to leave the island at once. To uncover what happened to Ohia, Lehua will have to unearth the island’s bloody history and face the horrors that lurk within its sugarcane fields—or risk being consumed by them. Sharply observed and gorgeously written, That Which Feeds Us explores the true cost of paradise as Lehua must fight to reclaim the land, the stories, and the very souls of her people.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217117963
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
https://www.amazon.com/That-Which-Feeds-Us-Hawaiian/dp/B0FR8JHNL5/
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We Could Be Anyone by Anna-Marie McLemore
Summary: Lola and I grew up hearing that we could become anything, but our parents hadn’t meant it the way gringo parents did. They meant it as a warning. Lola and Lisandro are actors during Hollywood’s Golden Age, but you won’t see them on any silver screen. Instead, these siblings use their talents to scam the rich and famous out of their ill-begotten cash. They have their act down to a science: Lola plays the tragic ghost who haunts the mansions of the wealthy, and Lisandro plays the brave spiritualist who will help her soul find peace. For a small fee, of course. The siblings have their sights set on their next target: The Coterie, the opulent estate of newspaper tycoon Bixby Fairfax and his famous mistress Blythe Bell. A score this big will allow them to move… well, anywhere but here. But this job requires them to do something they’ve never done before: switch roles. And as strange things keep happening at The Coterie… things that even Lola and Lisandro can’t explain. As they are drawn deeper into The Coterie’s gleaming façade and tensions rise between brother and sister, one question looms over them. Will they be able to pull off their act? Or will this be their last performance?
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1250370582
ISBN-13: 978-1250370587
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
https://www.amazon.com/We-Could-Anyone-Anna-Marie-McLemore/dp/1250370582/
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