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 16, 2026
Alicia is in the Basement by Santiago Eximeno
Summary: One summer afternoon, Santi and Maria’s daughter disappears from a public park without a trace. After months of agony and fruitless investigation that only serves to tear his life even further apart, Santi learns of a being that unleashes an entirely new kind of horror on the young family’s life: “He Who Does Not Speak With Children.”
Print Length: 114 pages
ISBN-10: 1959790633
ISBN-13: 978-1959790631
Format: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Tenebrous Press
https://www.amazon.com/Alicia-Basement-Santiago-Eximeno/dp/1959790633/
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A Dash of Demon by J-F. Dubeau & Amy Frost
Summary: Miriam DuFour is at the end of her rope. Kicked out of cooking school and living in her ex-boyfriend’s apartment, nothing in her life seems to be going right. That is until she inherits the estate of her dead great grandaunt: a little café in the forgotten town of Achewillow. Intent on selling the business and using the money to make a fresh start, Miriam visits Achewillow and discovers a town with a cloud worshipping cult, a widow with a ghost husband, immortal raccoons, and something killing young women in the alleys. Demons, coffee, witchcraft and baking; those are the ingredients that make up Achewillow.
Print Length: 338 pages
ISBN-10: 1950301834
ISBN-13: 978-1950301836
Format: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Inkshares
https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Demon-Achewillow-1/dp/1950301834/
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Inhalation by Michael Boulerice
Summary: Retired auto body mechanic Milo St. Laurence is dying of cancer in a California hospital. He has weeks left to live. Instead of wasting away in a hospice, Milo travels to New England, wishing to spend his remaining time in the long-abandoned house his parents and all but one of his nine brothers and sisters died in. Some of his memories of home have become muddled over the years, but Milo can’t shake the feeling that he needs to do something important before he checks out, but can’t seem to figure out what, or why. While Milo lays in a hospital bed in the half-rotten structure he once shared with his family, his memories begin to return, and he finally unlocks the repressed memory of night he ran screaming from the house and never returned.
Print Length: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 1639512330
ISBN-13: 978-1639512331
Format: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Death’s Head Press
https://www.amazon.com/Inhalation-Michael-Boulerice/dp/1639512330/
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The Summer Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie
Summary: Surviving the massacre is just the beginning in this razor-sharp take on the summer camp slasher from horror master Craig DiLouie.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 031657824X
ISBN-13: 978-0316578240
Format: Audiobook/Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Run For It
https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Fun-Massacre-Slasher-Season/dp/031657824X/
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Vervain Hollow by Catriona Silvey
Summary: Two years ago, Laura was in a cult. But when the sprawling house in the hollow burned down with Vervain, their strikingly handsome and magnetic leader, trapped inside, Laura had nowhere to go but home. Brokenhearted, she finds herself longing for their lost leader–despite the trauma of that strange and terrifying year, she knows the power he promised her was real. But when her estranged friend, Aliyah, calls to tell her that Daniel, one of the other acolytes, has been lured back to the hollow by a message from Vervain, Laura only hears one thing: He’s still there. As Laura and Aliyah venture back to the house of their nightmares to find the truth, Laura soon realizes that not everything she remembers can be trusted–and that the darkness will do anything to get her back.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1454965126
ISBN-13: 978-1454965121
Format: Audiobook/Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
https://www.amazon.com/Vervain-Hollow-Catriona-Silvey/dp/1454965126/
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Going to the Six by A.C. Hessenauer
Summary: “When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four–person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka—a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior—he believes he’s chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger. Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen’s own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two timelines: the ill-fated expedition, and the haunted present. Just as the record fractures, too does Owen’s grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel.
Print Length: 300 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1964780610
Format: Kindle
Publisher: Cemetery Dance
https://www.amazon.com/Going-Six-C-Hessenauer-ebook/dp/B0GX36VTRP/
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June 23, 2026
Slasher Summer: A Novel by E. L. Chen
Summary: In this campy love letter to the slasher films of the 1980s, seven friends reunite for a weekend of fun—only to be hunted down by a cold-blooded killer. But the real horror is not being able to escape who you were in high school…
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217089628
Format: Audiobook/Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Crown
https://www.amazon.com/Slasher-Summer-Novel-L-Chen/dp/B0FX3SG222/
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Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh
Summary: A dark and utterly original literary horror debut, following a priest whose bloodthirsty life has extended far longer than any mere human’s—and is upended when a stranger comes to town.
Print Length: 256 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217060825
Format: Audiobook/Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Viking
https://www.amazon.com/Tillinghast-Novel-Clare-Cavenagh/dp/B0FSCHXG6Y/
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Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night: Another Halloween Horror Anthology by Stephanie Rose
Summary: Return to the streets where fall leaves crunch underfoot and the glow of a harvest moon lights your way. From the new trick-or-treaters to the big kids who know which houses give out the full-size bars, these tales deliver all the thrills of Halloween night in bite-sized pieces. In the tradition of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, each author brings their own deliciously twisted take on the season. Some stories will make you squirm; others will send an icy chill down your spine. Whether you crave the nostalgia of flickering jack-o’-lanterns or the shock of something moving in the shadows, this collection invites you to savor Halloween every night of the year because for some of us, October never lets go.
Print Length: 196 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8998852961
Media Format: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Death by Tbr Books
https://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Tales-Tell-Night-Halloween/dp/B0FTFQYG4V/
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June 25
The House That Screamed by Alex Hunter
Summary: The Fleming family, recovering from a terrible loss, believe they’ve found a fresh start in sleepy Harrowridge. But at 1123 Jefferson Street, something is waiting. Within weeks, whispers turn into screams. Family ties unravel. Blood is spilled. The Flemings flee, leaving the house behind. Or so they think. Now, decades later, after the family’s story has been transformed into a bestselling book and a film franchise, a team of podcasters reopens the door to America’s most infamous house, determined to separate truth from legend. To their horror, they begin to uncover what the legends got wrong. Because at the house that screamed, not everything that hungers is dead.
Print Length: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1685137628
ISBN-13: 978-1685137625
Media Format: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Screamed-Alex-Hunter/dp/1685137628
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June 30, 2026
Bad Things Happen Here by Mark Morris
Summary: In 2004 a group of six students, who have newly arrived at university and quickly become friends, are beset by supernatural forces, which seem to center around a 5th floor room in an otherwise innocuous student hall of residence. So insidious and terrifying is their ordeal that one of the six commits suicide, an act which drives an irreparable wedge between the rest. Twenty years later, the five friends are gradually drawn back together when their lives begin to fall apart. What happened to them two decades ago seems to be seeping back into the present, affecting not just them this time, but their children, their partners, their loved ones. As the terrifying visions, the violence and the madness escalate, they must mobilize forces and once again confront the horror in Room 55.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1805520075
ISBN-13: 978-1805520078
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
https://www.amazon.com/Things-Happen-Here-Mark-Morris/dp/1805520075/
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Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
Summary: There are some things only your mother can teach you . . . in this spine-tingling Victorian gothic with the psychological dread of Shirley Jackson and the feminist body horror of Her Body and Other Parties. Strange, intense, and darkly beautiful, this haunting gothic novel from award-winning author Heather Parry is a story of mothers and daughters, and the dual capacity for both great kindness and unfathomable cruelty.
Print Length: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1805680552
ISBN-13: 978-1805680550
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: Pushkin Press
https://www.amazon.com/Carrion-Crow-Heather-Parry/dp/1805680552/
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Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
Summary: Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 006339846X
ISBN-13: 978-0063398467
Media Format: Audiobook/Hardcover/Kindle/MP3 CD
Publisher: William Morrow
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-but-Dreaming-Electric-Sheep/dp/006339846X/
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Fetty on the Switches by David Simmons
Summary: In this debut crime-horror story collection, David Simmons drags you into a phantasmagoric Baltimore where the dead refuse to stay dead and the living claw for meaning. In these stories, love arrives wearing the mask of addiction and absurdity. If Brian Evenson and Ottessa Moshfegh wrote for The Wire you’d get the unique style of David Simmons. Fans of body horror, transgressive fiction, and literary surrealism will find themselves unable to look away as Simmons explores the intersections of violence and dark humor with a razor-sharp voice.
Print Length: 198 pages
ISBN-10: 196804311X
ISBN-13: 978-1968043117
Media Format: Kindle/Paperback
Publisher: CLASH Books
https://www.amazon.com/Fetty-Switches-David-Simmons/dp/196804311X/
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The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (Author), Robin Myers (Translator)
Summary: Guadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half-oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on. Told in colliding voices—children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible—The Summer of the Serpent is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood.
Print Length: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 1641295821
ISBN-13: 978-1641295826
Media Format: Audiobook/Hardcover/Kindle/MP3 CD
Publisher: Soho Press
https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Serpent-Cecilia-Eudave/dp/1641295821/
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The Siren of Groves Peak by Glenn Rolfe
Summary: Groves Peak, Maine is home to a dark secret. The successful lobstering community is ready for summer, but a murder at sea changes everything. People are dying in the small coastal town, and the lobstermen are on edge. Only one man knows the truth. His closet of skeletons is about to open, and no one is safe. Not even his daughter or her best friend. As a supernatural fury, homegrown dangers, and buried secrets coalesce into a series of real-life nightmares, friendships are tested, and heroes will fall. The Siren of Groves Peak reveals the true monsters in us all.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1787589854
ISBN-13: 978-1787589858
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
https://www.amazon.com/Siren-Groves-Peak-Glenn-Rolfe/dp/1787589854
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War of the Worlds: Thunder Child by Matthew Hardy, Rob Jones, & Kevin Castaniero (Illustrator)
Summary: A dramatic tale that runs parallel to the events of H.G. Wells’ classic novel, The War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds: Thunder Child follows the exploits of the crew of the eponymous ironclad torpedo ram, the HMS Thunder Child. Sitting alongside the events of Wells’ novel, the story takes place against a backdrop of strange occurrences and creeping terror, all leading up to the Thunder Child’s final heroic showdown with the invaders from Mars. This is a terrifying and thrilling tale soaked in blood, recriminations, sacrifice and loss, the first act in a new take on the well-known science-fiction classic with a unique cast and its own story to tell. A story of the horrors and conflicts of the crew as they experience the first desperate days of the Martian invasion and face the possible collapse of the British Empire and civilization itself – threatened both from the stars… and from within.
Print Length: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 1787749592
ISBN-13: 978-1787749597
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Titan Comics
https://www.amazon.com/War-Worlds-Thunder-Matthew-Hardy/dp/1787749592
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Kingsburg by Jim Donohue
Summary: Roger Daniels is called back to Kingsburg, where he fled 25 years earlier after the town killed his parents. And now it wants him. The last in his bloodline. See, the Daniels Men have a debt to pay to the town of Kingsburg, and it won’t be settled until it has taken every last one of them. That is, unless the last of the Daniels men can stop it.
Publisher: Jim Donohue Books
Format: Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/Kingsburg-Jim-Donohue-ebook/dp/B0H2WWHBDF
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Requiem of the Unclaimed by Alyson Hasson
Summary: Sybil’s entire life was spent scraping the bottom of the barrel, sneaking scraps, and making do with what little money her brother Walter could smuggle back to London from Nassau. But as time passes and the last delivery from her brother becomes more distant, she soon realizes that she might finally be on her own. With nowhere left to go she ventures out across the ocean, desperately hoping to retrace her brother’s footsteps. And what she uncovers is that the trail leads directly to a pirate ship filled with a conniving crew that knows more than they pretend to. Her last hope lies in unearthing her dark family legacy and making it to her brother’s last known location, a cursed island in the middle of the ocean…
Print Length: 212 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1069634412
Media Format: Kindle
Publisher: Alyson Hasson
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