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.
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June 1, 2026
Grief Eater by Emma Osborne
Summary: When Kristina rises from her violent death, she’s not the same fragile woman her family once abandoned. She’s rageful, powerful, and hungry-for the blood of the ones who were supposed to love her. With a newfound craving to see vengeance and grief served, she launches into a once-in-an-undead-lifetime journey across blood-slicked highways to the scorched Australian bush and her hometown. As her body fails and her mind fractures, she’s left with one final question: Is she here to forgive, or to feed?
Print Length: 94 Pages
ISBN-10: 1953736599
ISBN-13: 978-1953736598
Publisher: Interstellar Flight Press
https://www.amazon.com/Grief-Eater-Emma-Osborne/dp/1953736599/
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June 2, 2026
Backstabbers by Eliza Jabore
Summary: When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217095360
Publisher: Bantam
https://www.amazon.com/Backstabbers-Novel-Eliza-Jabore/dp/B0FPJTR5MR/
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The Children by Melissa Albert
Summary: An intoxicating, haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic.
Print Length: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0063487438
ISBN-13: 978-0063487437
Publisher: William Morrow
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Novel-Melissa-Albert/dp/0063487438/
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Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller
Summary: 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job, a bed in a halfway house, and—delightfully— some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at The Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can’t resist this hodgepodge family. But as Sue’s behavior and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry—for food—and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging, carries out her friend’s terrible dare. And, for this, Ursula finds herself literally haunted. Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentarian, Emma Zahini who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula’s whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1963108728
ISBN-13: 978-1963108729
Publisher: Tin House
https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Thirst-Novel-Claire-Fuller/dp/1963108728/
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Marion by Leah Rowan
Summary: A twist on Hitchcock’s iconic classic Psycho—where the leading lady doesn’t die, but instead turns the knife on Norm, kicking off a crime spree that turns the silver screen victim into a heroine for our times.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1250416469
ISBN-13: 978-1250416469
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
https://www.amazon.com/Marion-Novel-Leah-Rowan/dp/1250416469/
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Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez
Summary: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
Print Length: 176 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217047574
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
https://www.amazon.com/Mu%C3%B1eca-Cynthia-G%C3%B3mez/dp/B0FPKYNSYW/
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The Secret Attic: A Novel by Chelsea Conradt
Summary: Addison Lowe knew her mother-in-law despised her, but inheriting Barb’s massive estate after her death feels less like closure and more like a trap. Barb’s hoarded rooms aren’t just filled with clutter―they’re filled with secrets. And it’s Addison’s job to unearth them while Luke grieves the loss of the mother he could never let go of. But Luke grows stranger with every box they open―restless, secretive, cruel in ways Addison has never seen. And the house itself seems to breathe with Barb’s presence. Dolls stare from the shadows, labeled with names Addison doesn’t recognize―until she does. One doll bears the name Cassidy Warren, a girl who vanished years ago. And the more Addison uncovers, the more Barb’s legacy seems tied to the streak of “bad luck” that has haunted Rockside Bay for decades.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1464229198
ISBN-13: 978-1464229190
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Attic-Novel-Chelsea-Conradt/dp/1464229198/
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June 9, 2026
Headlights by CJ Leede
Summary: FBI agent with an uncanny ability to sense danger must hunt down a serial killer through the wilderness of Colorado, in this tense and gripping thrill ride perfect for fans of The Shining and Longlegs.
Print Length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 1250857953
ISBN-13: 978-1250857958
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
https://www.amazon.com/Headlights-CJ-Leede/dp/1250857953/
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It Came From Neverland: A Novel by Cynthia Pelayo
Summary: 1914. Wendy Darling works by day as a school teacher, and by night, she assists soldiers who have returned home from the Western Front. There is one mysterious patient who, despite all the care they’ve given him, is in a deep sleep, unable to wake up. One night, when he murmurs the words “Peter Pan,” Wendy is thrown back to a darker time, one that she wishes she could forget. When one of her students goes missing, it brings back memories of when children went missing and were later found murdered in London many years ago. Wendy is convinced that Peter Pan, the entity that she believes killed those children, is back. She and her brothers had a close encounter with Peter Pan, after all. But her brothers only remember Peter Pan and Neverland as a fantasy of childhood games. When another child goes missing and signs start to point to Wendy, Scotland Yard digs into old reports, finding that Wendy knew the names of all the children who had been killed. As Wendy tries to prove her innocence, she also has to find a way to stop Peter Pan once and for all.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8892424448
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
https://www.amazon.com/Came-Neverland-Novel-Cynthia-Pelayo/dp/B0FQHSWMQN/
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Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer
Summary: From the Hugo award-winning author Naomi Kritzer comes a tense portrait of a future we desperately hope to escape. Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she’s kidnapped. They’re not just any kidnappers, but a fundamentalist cult, deep in the rural west, without respect for law or decency, and in desperate need of an OB/GYN. Guarded, isolated, without access to the outside world, Liz nevertheless is treated with respect as the only doctor on the compound, but she is very aware of what happened to the last obstetrician they kidnapped. She must escape and bring help to the girls trapped at the compound, if it’s the last thing she does.
Print Length: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1250423376
ISBN-13: 978-1250423375
Publisher: Tordotcom
https://www.amazon.com/Obstetrix-Naomi-Kritzer/dp/1250423376/
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The Other by Annie Neugebauer
Summary: It’s not a sequel. It’s next in the sequence… A couple on an outdoor retreat meet their doppelgangers on a hiking trail and are soon tested on how well they truly know each other.
Print Length: 176 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320240
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Outsiders-Sequence-Annie-Neugebauer/dp/B0GKPPJ5JY/
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Our Sister’s Keeper by Jasmine Holmes
Summary: East Cobb is a wealthy all-Black Free Town where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with ghoulish, walking nightmares… that only the women can see. Marah knows the groanings well. She is one of the carriers––women with the ability to pull traumatic memories from men. Populated by men entirely freed of their pain, East Cobb has flourished, even as the remnants of their memories haunt the town’s women. When an unexpected death drives Marah to discover more about her own power, Thea’s and Marah’s worlds collide. The sisters must confront the rotten core at the heart of East Cobb’s prosperity and choose what–and who–will survive the reckoning.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1967967105
ISBN-13: 978-1967967100
Publisher: Bindery Books
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Sisters-Keeper-Jasmine-Holmes/dp/1967967105/
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The Sourdough Compendium: Dark and Dangerous Fairy Tales by A.G. Slatter
Summary: Award-winning stories from the world of All the Murmuring Bones and The Briar Book of the Dead, this is a compendium of fantastic tales from the dark gothic heart of the Sourdough universe. Witches, assassins and pirates are brought to life in immersive, sinister and magical prose.
Print Length: 688 pages
ISBN-10: 1835415997
ISBN-13: 978-1835415993
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/Sourdough-Compendium-Dangerous-Fairy-Tales/dp/1835415997/
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The Way It Haunted Him by Laura R. Samotin
Summary: A terrifying and claustrophobic queer dark academia horror set in a demon-infested archive about trauma, grief and the lengths we will go to for love.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1835412319
ISBN-13: 978-1835412312
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Haunted-Him-Laura-Samotin/dp/1835412319/
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June 15, 2026
Autistic Ghost Stories and Other Chilling Situations by Sarah Kuntz
Summary: Autistic Ghost Stories and Other Chilling Situations is the possession of a mind, whose host summons an explorative seance. An exorcism of thought, where misconceptions and misunderstandings are lured into metaphorical stories and investigated for the means of re-marrying the artistically lost and macabre expression of the neurotype. This short story collection is made for others, interested in autistic and disabled pursuits that are written and explored through gothic themes.
Print Length: 244 pages
ISBN-10: 1963869753
ISBN-13: 978-1963869750
Publisher: Running Wild Press
https://www.amazon.com/Autistic-Ghost-Stories-Chilling-Situations/dp/1963869753/
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