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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AUGUST 4
Meat Bees by Dane Erbach
Summary: By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn’t know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally checked herself into a hospital to take care of her mental health, leaving Scarlett alone with her dad all summer. After he insists that she get a job, Scarlett accepts a position at nearby Stovetop Outfitters, hoping to spend as much time away from him as possible. She doesn’t expect to trip over a skeletonized corpse beneath the zip-line during one of her shifts—and definitely doesn’t expect to be thrown into a Netflix-style true crime investigation. The local sheriff’s department is so overwhelmed by these unsolved deaths that when one of the Stovetop Outfitters employees disappears next, Scarlett and her co-workers set out to find him on their own. They discover something much more horrifying: a swarm of yellow jackets stripping the meat off his body. Scarlett never signed up to solve a disgusting mystery, but in order to protect her friends and family, she must defeat the mountain’s darkness and all these godforsaken wasps.
Print Length: 290 pages
ISBN-10: 1968043055
ISBN-13: 978-1968043056
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: CLASH Books
https://www.amazon.com/Meat-Bees-Dane-Erbach/dp/1968043055/
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The Residency by C.D. Major
Summary: The opportunity of a lifetime, or the worst mistake of your life? Life in London is hard for Ginny as a single mother barely scraping by. Once she was a promising artist with a glittering future ahead. On a whim, she applies for an artist’s residency – all expenses paid – and is astonished to be accepted. Soon, Ginny is on a boat to a remote Scottish island, her daughter by her side. But was she too hasty, attracted by the promise of security and a chance to make art again? Locals she meets are tightlipped about the man who is Ginny’s benefactor, but she senses underlying fear. Her contract contains odd rules about avoiding the gallery at the vast property where she is living, and there is an undeniable eeriness to the place. If she didn’t know better, she’d swear she could hear whispers, and that the people in the paintings were changing overnight… By the time Ginny realizes what a grave mistake she has made, she is stranded. Accepting the invitation has sealed her fate and the only way to survive is through escape – or sacrifice.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217269495
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Canelo
https://www.amazon.com/Residency-gothic-suspense-remote-Scottish/dp/B0FZS83Q9M/
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The Unknown by Riley Sager
Summary: One hundred years after a group of women vanished from an island on Lake Faraday, actress Marin Keane is prepping to star in a movie about the harrowing mystery. But as the cast arrives on the remote island, more disappearances occur, and Marin discovers the haunting truth about Lake Faraday.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217044092
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Dutton
https://www.amazon.com/Novel-Riley-Sager/dp/B0FZSB66TM/
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Goosebumps House of Shivers: What We Do At Night #7 by R.L. Stein
Summary: When Noah Baumgardner starts a new school in Georgia, he has a hard time making friends. Everyone already has their groups, and the school year is almost over. Noah is worried he’s doomed to be the “new kid” forever. But then Noah meets a group of kids who call themselves the Night Birds. They stay up late and hang out in a vacant lot near his house. The Night Birds seem a little strange, but Noah really wants to fit in with them. However, the Night Birds have a secret. Will making new friends end up being the last thing Noah ever does?
Print Length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 1546166041
ISBN-13: 978-1546166047
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1546166041
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Small Town Slasher by Stephanie Rose
Summary: Woods Bay is a quiet Montana town known for its clear lake, dense forest, and the kind of beauty that makes it easy to forget what came before. Jenna Willcot rarely leaves home, her world narrowed by years of severe anxiety. When she discovers that her partner, who tragically died in a car accident, secretly booked her a stay at a horror-themed rental cabin in Woods Bay, she can’t bring herself to cancel it. The trip feels like a final gift. A last push forward. Twenty-five years ago, eleven people were killed on the very land where Jenna’s cabin now stands. The truth was never fully uncovered, and Woods Bay moved on the way small towns do quietly. Jenna’s arrival coincides with the discovery of a new body just outside town. Then another. As fear spreads and old secrets resurface, Jenna teams up with locals Erica and Steve to survive what’s unfolding and uncover what still lingers in Woods Bay.
Print Length: 276 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8218635510
Media Format: Kindle
Publisher: Death by TBR Books
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Town-Slasher-Stephanie-Rose-ebook/dp/B0F1W8QYZ8/
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AUGUST 11
Godfestation by Jendia Gammon
Summary: Deep in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia comes a strange journey of grief, horror, and wonder. Following the death of her father, Ivy “Fern” Fernberg encounters monstrous beings and strange people. Initially brushing them off as hallucinations brought on by grief, she soon realizes that she is not the only one experiencing these things, and her father could somehow be involved.
Print Length: 120 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1957941301
Media Format: Kindle
Publisher: Sley House Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Godfestation-Jendia-Gammon-ebook/dp/B0H7TLPH3L/
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Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman
Summary: A man who’s back from the dead meets a woman who’s from somewhere even worse in Clay McLeod Chapman’s new horrormance about love, possession, and just a little murder.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0778306216
ISBN-13: 978-0778306214
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: MIRA
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Inside-Clay-McLeod-Chapman/dp/0778306216/
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Dreamland by Olivie Blake
Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes a tantalizing story of power, seduction, and the omens you’ll ignore when everything you’ve dreamed of feels just within reach. The headlines are calling it the “summer of exsanguination” in LA—girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy into the city, and all signs point to fire season.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1250368936
ISBN-13: 978-1250368935
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Tor Books
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-Olivie-Blake/dp/1250368936/
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The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson
Summary: In this gripping debut, steeped in Welsh folklore, a husband and wife living in the beautiful but isolated mountains of Snowdonia stumble upon a buried Neolithic ruin—awakening a mysterious, ancient presence with its own dark designs. Enthralling and atmospheric, Liam Higginson’s The Hill in the Dark Grove expertly weaves together myth, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror, heralding a sparkling new literary talent.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217154166
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Hogarth
https://www.amazon.com/Hill-Dark-Grove-Novel/dp/B0G1Y3DXNG/
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The Last House on Earth / Death Walks South Boston by Christoph Paul
Summary: The Last House on Earth: An abducted couple, who love each other more than life itself, find themselves under the thumb of nearly omnipotent aliens. These aliens use a group of humans to navigate a celestial haunted house said to hold the secrets of life and death. Can the couple survive the house and the aliens to finally find peace in their love? Death Walks South Boston: A crew of outcasts, including a drug dealer and a struggling YouTube streamer, face an ancient ancestral evil that has come back from the dead to take over the world of the living. If they can’t stop it, Death will walk through the entire world and make it into its image. Across both short novels, the editor-in-chief of cult indie press CLASH Books, Christoph Paul, paints a dark world where the super-rich (human and non-human) own technology, and it’s up to humanity to stop them from spreading evil.
Print Length: 224 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320202
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/House-Earth-Death-Walks-Boston/dp/B0G6LFBHQT/
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Nest of Tongues by Randy Ribay
Summary: A lyrical, fantastical YA horror about vampires from the Philippines and a hunter on their tail. Two siblings fight to protect their secrets, their community, and most of all, each other, in this evocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Patron Saints of Nothing
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217024346
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
https://www.amazon.com/Nest-Tongues-Randy-Ribay/dp/B0G1YD68H2/
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Penitents by Madeline Blondeau
Summary: A debut trans tribute to New French Extreme cinema and ’70s grindhouse horror set on the rain-slicked coast of the Pacific Northwest, in which a writer runs afoul of a local violent family while attempting to take some space from her partners, set against a backdrop of desperate hook-ups and polyamorous infidelity, this roaring revenge romp spans the course of one blood-soaked weekend around Astoria, Oregon.
ISBN-13: 978-1-963801187
Media Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ghoulish Books
https://ghoulish.rip/product/penitents/
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A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young
Summary: While waiting for a train to Haewon, an isolated Korean seaside village, bodyguard Mu-young gets a disaster alert on her phone. TVs throughout the station report breaking news of a massive earthquake on the eastern coast. Despite the danger, Mu-young boards the train with her niece: she’d rather face the earthquake than leave the girl in her mother’s care. That choice haunts her for the rest of her life. Three years later, Haewon Village is home to horrors. The earthquake unleashed an ancient plague that transforms its victims into fishy monsters, and the government’s lockdown has cut off any hope for help. Mu-young’s niece is dead, and all that’s left for her is to hunt villagers who break isolation. When an officious bureaucrat from Seoul arrives in the village, he stirs up even deeper trouble. Will Mu-young survive? Does she even deserve to?
Print Length: 112 pages
ISBN-10: 1250380758
ISBN-13: 978-1250380753
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
https://www.amazon.com/Plagued-Sea-Kim-Bo-Young/dp/1250380758/
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Reliquary by Hannah Whitten
Summary: A young woman is lured to her late fiancé’s remote island estate–only to uncover eerie family secrets, a haunting past, and a monstrous hunger stirring beneath the sea in this deliciously atmospheric horror debut from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 031657953X
ISBN-13: 978-0316579537
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Run For It
https://www.amazon.com/Reliquary-Hannah-Whitten/dp/031657953X/
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Saint Delilah by Isabelle Spotts
Summary: Delilah is dead. But her story is far from over. In this feminist supernatural suspense novel, she will find her peace—and give hell to the man who killed her. When Delilah wakes, all she remembers is the pain and the anger. She knows she isn’t alive anymore. She knows someone hurt her. She can’t remember who. Frightening creatures stalk Delilah in the space between life and death, eager to feed upon her suffering until her soul is reduced to a poltergeist. She can’t pass on until the balance has been restored—a life for a life: the death of her killer.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217189816
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Berkley
https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Delilah-Isabelle-Spotts/dp/B0G1Y1GTC8/
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She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth
Summary: After surviving a shadowed childhood, Mallory Webb is ready to start fresh as a theater major at her mother’s alma mater, a sanitarium turned liberal arts university in Rhode Island. Landing the lead role in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet feels like a dream—until the blood-soaked wraith that caused her mother’s death resurfaces after years of quiet. With nothing to go on but cryptic symbols in an old college notebook, Mallory hopes the reason behind her mother’s haunting lies somewhere on campus and resolves to find answers before she meets the same fate.
Print Length: 432 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217046522
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Dutton
https://www.amazon.com/She-Haunts-Me-Still-Novel/dp/B0G1Y64H3G/
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Stay Buried by Jennifer McMahon
Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Children on the Hill comes a queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and superstition to learn the truth about her mother’s death.
Print Length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 1668069458
ISBN-13: 978-1668069455
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: Gallery Books
https://www.amazon.com/Stay-Buried-Novel-Jennifer-McMahon/dp/1668069458/
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Them by W.H. Chizmar
Summary: The solo debut from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting, a post-apocalyptic/survival horror novel written in the bestselling traditions of Stephen King’s The Mist and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box.
Print Length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1668204908
ISBN-13: 978-1668204900
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: Gallery Books
https://www.amazon.com/Them-Novel-W-H-Chizmar/dp/1668204908/
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