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 17
There Was No One There by Marc E. Fitch
Summary: A disturbed young man is haunted by the photograph his father took of a serial killer years ago; a social recluse begins to see the woman from his favorite snuff film in a cafe; a scholar travels to the deep south to uncover the origins of song only to be met by a new god, and a hedge fund partner hides from a federal investigation in his beach house only to witness a ghostly child drown in the ocean night after night. Across fifteen dark and unsettling stories previously featured in publications such as Best Horror of the Year, author Marc E. Fitch deftly turns the tables on the reader to illustrate the real-life horrors we confront every day. Containing two new, previously unpublished stories, There Was No One There weaves a world in which individuals must confront the uncanny, ghastly, and monstrous in their lives or risk becoming a monster themselves.
Print Length: 278 pages
Media Format: Kindle
Publisher: Dark Ink
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1FL1ZTD
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AUGUST 18
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead: A Novel by William Friend
Summary: For fans of Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend’s stunning novel, following a young woman’s return to her family’s crumbling chateau to stay with her aging aunt – but grief, mystery, and something undead haunts her family, and soon, a dark history will repeat itself.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 146425995X
ISBN-13: 978-1464259951
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Gave-Up-Dead-Novel/dp/146425995X/
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The Calamities by Chuck Wendig
Summary: The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power, in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.
Print Length: 592 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217091812
Publisher: Del Rey
https://www.amazon.com/Calamities-Fiends-Chuck-Wendig/dp/B0G8X1ZF95/
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Ghosts of Chanterlands by Catherine Cavendish
Summary: Pamela Courtney is evacuated to Chanterlands – the home of her aunts: Jilly, the eccentric one, who dreams of her days as a star of the silver screen, and Bunny, the pragmatic one. But Chanterlands is home to more than just the living. There’s the spectral lonely boy whose room Pamela sleeps in and, in the long-neglected attic, she discovers a sinister secret of this once-great house. But greater danger awaits Pamela during that summer long ago when war raged all over Europe and the safety her mother had wished for her took a dark and fatal turn.
Print Length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1787589919
ISBN-13: 978-1787589919
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Chanterlands-Catherine-Cavendish/dp/1787589919/
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The Halls of the Dead by S. M. Hallow
Summary: A queer, gothic horror romance set in a necromancy-tinged London, sure to entrance fans of The Death of Jane Lawrence and Mexican Gothic.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0063446987
ISBN-13: 978-0063446984
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: Harper Voyager
https://www.amazon.com/Halls-Dead-S-M-Hallow/dp/0063446987/
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The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty
Summary: A family moves into their dream home—only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger—in this dread-laced and darkly outrageous domestic horror novel.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217092239
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Bantam
https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Eats-Dead-Novel/dp/B0G2X63QLK/
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In Vacuo by Andrea Morstabilini
Summary: A queer gothic coming of age novel about a young boy confronting the ghosts of the past and the restless, obsessive pursuit of immortality. Perfect for fans of Susannah Clarke and Kelly Link.
Print Length: 560 pages
ISBN-10: 1803369779
ISBN-13: 978-1803369778
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/Vacuo-Andrea-Morstabilini/dp/1803369779/
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Lights! Camera! Frendo! by Adam Cesare
Summary: Let the killing continue in Lights! Camera! Frendo! It’s the fourth installment of Adam Cesare’s Bram Stoker Award-winning series, and this time Frendo goes Hollywood – with all the blood, guts, and mayhem you’d expect from the series that spawned the blockbuster motion picture.
Print Length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 006332508X
ISBN-13: 978-0063325081
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: HarperCollins
https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Camera-Frendo-Cornfield-Hollywood/dp/006332508X/
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Marla by Jonathan Janz
Summary: From beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, Marla is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can’t forget. Turn the page–if you dare.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8228749887
Media Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Marla-Jonathan-Janz/dp/B0G36H6Q7C/
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The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen
Summary: For fans of Tár and The Piano Teacher, this gruesome and unsettling psychological drama is a darkly lucid portrait of a classical composer’s descent into madness. Drawn from the author’s own experiences as an adoptee and classical musician, The Minimalist is a harrowing examination of loss, torment, mental illness, self-harm, and artistic self-destruction.
Print Length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1250328276
ISBN-13: 978-1250328274
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
https://www.amazon.com/Minimalist-Kailee-Pedersen/dp/1250328276/
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The Sleeping Sisters by Jennifer Givhan
Summary: A threatened mother and relentless detective collide in this mesmerizing novel from a rising voice in literary horror, perfect for fans of Gabino Iglesias, Carmen Maria Machado, Augustina Bazterrica, and Stephen Graham Jones.
Print Length: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0316581550
ISBN-13: 978-0316581554
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Sisters-Novel-Jennifer-Givhan/dp/0316581550/
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Tapeworm: A Vampire Novel by A. P. Thayer
Summary: From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Thing in this debut horror novel, where a group of friends must confront questions of identity, aging, and desire during a vampire infestation in an isolated Californian desert.
Pring Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1638933456
ISBN-13: 978-1638933458
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Evil Twin
https://www.amazon.com/Tapeworm-Vampire-Novel-P-Thayer/dp/1638933456/
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These Walls Remember by Del Sandeen
Summary: When two estranged sisters inherit a home possessed by the horrors of its dark past, they must work together to survive in this viscerally chilling Southern gothic novel from the critically acclaimed author of This Cursed House.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0593955668
ISBN-13: 978-0593955666
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Berkley
https://www.amazon.com/These-Walls-Remember-Del-Sandeen/dp/0593955668/
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AUGUST 25
Blood Rising by Markus Redmond
Summary: In a brilliantly terrifying blend of supernatural horror and alternate history for fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, a vengeful vampire tribe formed of formerly enslaved Africans wages war across the Southern colonies in the ultimate battle of blood and betrayal.
Print Length: 432 pages
ISBN-10: 1496753194
ISBN-13: 978-1496753199
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Dafina
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Rising-Saga-Markus-Redmond/dp/1496753194/
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The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
Summary: From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… One fateful morning five travelers find themselves trapped in a tube car deep in the London Underground. It will change their lives forever. By the time they leave the train they will be bound together as witnesses to a single horrific event. Something terrible, irreversible, and monstrous. Something hungry. But they can’t remember what it is. On their own, they each begin to experience strange dissociative events. Time gets lost. Friends disappear. Something stalks them in the shadows. They make an unlikely team, but to remember what they encountered that day on the train, they will have to work together. Because now it’s up to them to understand what horror they saw – and stop it in its tracks before it drags everyone else down below.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1464258538
ISBN-13: 978-1464258534
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Poisoned Penn Press
https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Line-Novel-Jonathan-Sims/dp/1464258538/
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The Devil Knows Her Name by C.N. Vair
Summary: A hundred years ago, a witch sold her soul to save her life—but now she must stop the devil from collecting his due in this gripping and nuanced debut horror novel.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217188758
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Berkley
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Knows-Her-Name/dp/B0G42WT45J/
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The I Scream Truck by I. M. Eerie
Summary: Asking too many questions about the new ice cream truck puts a boy on thin ice in this entry in the bone-chilling middle grade horror series An Eerie Tale, perfect for fans of Goosebumps and Christopher Pike.
Print Length: 160 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8347107995
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Aladdin Books
https://www.amazon.com/Scream-Truck-Eerie-Tale/dp/B0GPPB8F7N/
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Last Day of a Prior Life by Andrés Barba, trans. Lisa Dillman
Summary: In this contemporary “ghost story without a ghost,” award-winning author Andrés Barba eerily explores how the past can hold us captive, as a woman encounters a compelling unblinking boy in an empty house.
Print Length: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0063352052
ISBN-13: 978-0063352056
Media Format: Hardback/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: HarperVia
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Day-Prior-Life-Novel/dp/0063352052/
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Netherwood by Jake Arnott
Summary: Exhausted by the pressures of life in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings. As they try to settle into their new seaside home, they find a bolted door in their basement, behind which is a cave. Adam feels a strange but enchanting pull to the cave while apprehension begins to claw at Justine. Inside the cave, they find a witch bottle and with this discovery, the couple begin to uncover disturbing rumors about the home’s previous owner, John Malachy. A sinister figure, Malachy was known for his obsession with chaos magic, and association with Sacred Disease – a band that rose to fame in the 80s that supposedly experimented with blood magic and occult forces and was made a scapegoat in the media due to their association with satanism. Justine and Adam are warned not to tamper with ancient rituals, dark magic and secrets long buried in the past. But John Malachy is long dead and surely everything the media said about him was only superstition?
Print Length: 256 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1835416594
Media Format: Hardback
Publisher: Titan Books
https://titanbooks.com/72922-netherwood/
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The Night Pool by Lauren Lee Smith
Summary: The Night Pool is a blood-soaked, page-turning horror set in the Gold Rush West, where three women must battle monsters both human and inhuman to survive–perfect for fans of Alma Katsu’s The Hunger and Victor LaValle’s Lone Women.
Print Length: 354 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8228356092
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Pool-Lauren-Lee-Smith-ebook/dp/B0GP91G7N8/
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The Sunken, the Adored by Donyae Coles
Summary: A chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 Venice finds the mysterious plague that killed her former master may have followed her to Italy . . . and now stalks the canals.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0063458624
ISBN-13: 978-0063458628
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: Amistad Books
https://www.amazon.com/Sunken-Adored-Novel-Donyae-Coles/dp/0063458624/
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Tracking Death by Nikki R. Leigh
Summary: The 8th book in the Killer VHS Series and the latest horror novella from author Nikki R. Leigh. Final Destination meets Sinister as a group of young adults discover their deaths predicted in a series of scenes from their favorite cult horror VHS tape.
Print Length: 192 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320394
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/Tracking-Death-Killer-Nikki-Leigh/dp/B0GM16KB84/
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The Unheld by Luke Larkin
Summary: A girl in the Montana territory sets out to find her father after he is carried off by an otherworldly creature in this unsettling and soulful horror novel about loneliness, human connection, and how we find each other in a world that seems designed to alienate. With this assured debut, Luke Larkin marks his arrival in the genre and proves the American frontier still harbors untapped stories in its shadows.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 136811721X
ISBN-13: 978-1368117210
Media Format: Hardback/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Hyperion Avenue
https://www.amazon.com/Unheld-Novel-Luke-Larkin/dp/136811721X/
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The Woods by Jessica Hamilton
Summary: We Used to Live Here meets The Amityville Horror in this haunting novel about Alice, a frustrated wife and grieving mother whose life is turned upside down when she moves her family into a secluded house sheltered by ancient woods.
ISBN-13: 978-1668236376
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
https://www.amazon.com/Woods-Novel-Jessica-Hamilton-ebook/dp/B0GPJ7SR7N/
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AUGUST 29
Crimson Rain by John Ashley
Summary: A world ruled by merciless vampires is the only thing those born in the Crimson Empire have ever known. For almost a millennium, darkness has shrouded the sky, and the Empire’s human occupants have lived like livestock, relentlessly harvested for the precious resource flowing through their veins. When Lyric Wexler is selected for harvesting and taken to the vampirine city of Ravenheart, a swift death is her only hope. But not all who are taken there are slaughtered right away, and she soon finds herself embroiled in the dangerous games of the second most powerful vampire House in the Empire. Dorian Ravenheart is the son of the city’s founder and the heir to the highest seat on its Council. But he isn’t content with serving as his father’s puppet for the next two centuries. His reckless effort to change his station puts him on a collision course with a group of human freedom fighters known as the Daybreak Resistance—and one former vamp hunter for the Daybreakers with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. War has been brewing for centuries. For the first time since the Long Night began, it’s a war that humanity might actually have a hope of winning.
Print Length: 452 pages
Media Format: Kindle
Publisher: Panacea Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H787B8TS
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