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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SEPTEMBER 1
As the Snow Gathers by Mere Joyce
Summary: The forest doesn’t just take what it’s owed—it takes whatever it wants. Dominic was born in Aplin Shade, a remote Canadian town built on the bones of another that vanished without a trace. Bookish and quiet, he never asked to lead his family, but after a carriage crash kills his father and leaves his sister forever changed, he has no choice. The only person who truly sees him is Lex, a logger in the camp near town and the love Dominic must keep secret. Together they dream of escaping Aplin Shade, a place where isolation breeds judgment and every kindness hides a cost. But the forest is no refuge. The Fanteur dwell there—shadowed beings who come at night to drain the dead of their blood and return them for burial by dawn. They’ve never touched the living. Until now.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1464258430
ISBN-13: 978-1464258435
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
https://www.amazon.com/As-Snow-Gathers-Mere-Joyce/dp/1464258430/
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Blacktail by Scott Hawkins
Summary: The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. His world is besieged by men. Soon his territory will be overrun, and then there will be nowhere left to go. When his mate, a house dog, is killed, Blacktail rebels. He invades the house of her owners, seeking vengeance. Blacktail’s fury catches the notice of an ancient and terrible feline witch, who makes an offer. What if Blacktail could end the human race responsible for the death of his family and for the destruction of the natural world, altogether? To do so, Blacktail must find and wake the Forest God. Only He might stand against the plague of men. Blacktail knows that his north woods are dwindling to nothing. He sees no other choice. As Blacktail journeys farther from his wild home and deeper into the world of man, he encounters strangers—animal, mortal, and otherworldly—who, for their own reasons, want to help Blacktail rid the world of humans. Along the way, it becomes clear that he is more than just a wolf. The Forest God is sleeping, yes. But what will be the price of waking him?
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217089963
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Crown Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Blacktail-Novel-Scott-Hawkins/dp/B0G7CDYFFN/
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The Eye of Goliath by Diego Muzzio (Author), Rahul Bery (Translator)
Summary: In this deliriously inventive twist on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Argentine powerhouse Diego Muzzio conjures a haunting story of shattering war trauma and the disturbing proximity of sanity and madness in his English-language debut. With an ingenious structure that creates doubling and uncertainty at every turn, The Eye of Goliath is a masterfully tense novel that unites classic gothic atmospheres with disturbingly modern psychological horror.
Print Length: 192 pages
ISBN-10:1805680366
ISBN-13: 978-1805680369
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Pushkin Press
https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Goliath-Diego-Muzzio/dp/1805680366/
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An Immaculate Deception by Isabela Livino
Summary: A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217048373
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Dutton Press/Penguin
https://www.amazon.com/Immaculate-Deception-Novel-Isabela-Livino/dp/B0G4SSTHFZ/
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Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison
Summary: A recently divorced young woman attends the wedding of close friends only to find herself trapped as a perpetual wedding guest in a time loop of carnage and horror that only she can break.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217188574
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Berkley Publishing/Penguin
https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Slay-Replay-Rachel-Harrison/dp/B0FSK5G8GS/
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Mothersucker by Kim Bohyun (Author), Archana Madhavan (Translator)
Summary: A chilling Korean novel of literary horror, following a grieving mother’s transformation into a vampire that targets men who have harmed women—in the present, past, and future—and the female-led task force entrusted with solving the murders.
Print Length: 208 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217008384
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Vintage Press
https://www.amazon.com/Mothersucker-Novel-Kim-Bohyun/dp/B0G4SVJV5M/
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The Nudge Joseph Fink (Author), Kevin R. Free (Narrator), Cecil Baldwin (Narrator)
Summary: A new horror novella from the creator of Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead. On the open road, evil doesn’t chase you. It waits . . . Late one night, a wounded man checks into a remote roadside hotel. He’s running from something he can’t explain or escape. And over the course of a night, he’ll tell the hotel’s proprietor how his life fell apart. It started with his wife. Subtle changes. Smiles that didn’t belong to her. Then violence—sudden, intimate, almost casual. Therapy offered hope. Recovery seemed possible. Until it wasn’t. He believes a hidden influence has attached itself to him, one that never forces, never commands. It whispers. It suggests. Nudges people toward their worst impulses. Now the man wanders the country as a fugitive, hoping to break free from the evil that’s wormed its way into him. But as our narrator’s story unfolds, he begins to question whether he’s fled far enough . . . Tense, atmospheric, and chilling, The Nudge is a slow-burn tale of suspense that will linger like a whisper in the dark, long after the story is over.
Print Length: 144 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8347042159
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Podium Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Psychological-Thriller-Joseph-Fink/dp/B0GFD5VZ1M/
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The Patron Saint of White Menageries by Lauren T. Davila
Summary: In her debut magical-realism collection The Patron Saint of White Menageries, Pushcart-nominated author Lauren T. Davila cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams. In a sticky diner, a waitress fits wisps of cloud into coffee mugs, trying to solve her patrons’ problems. A motherless girl defies her father’s rules, rubbing fish scales from her eyes and learning her mother’s half-remembered Spanish. Spectral ballerinas haunt alleys and dance studios, and red bumps rise on the arms of an assistant whose employer has been alive too long. The prophet Cassandra, exhausted from reincarnating and never being believed, tries one last time to escape her fate. For lovers of White Cat, Black Dog and whoever haunts the Pacific Coast Highway, The Patron Saint of White Menageries is a guide to magical LA by one of its native daughters.
Print Length: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 1951971450
ISBN-13: 978-1951971458
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: Creature Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Patron-Saint-White-Menageries-Stories/dp/1951971450/
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Precious Children by Mary G. Thompson
Summary: A wealthy family trying to cheat death is overmatched—by a stubborn teenager hiding in a body that looks like their son. In this taut tale of genetics and entitlement, nature vs. nurture goes horrifyingly wrong.
Print Length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1616964650
ISBN-13: 978-1616964658
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
https://www.amazon.com/Precious-Children-Mary-G-Thompson/dp/1616964650/
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Scratch Moss by David Barnett
Summary: A devastating, five-timeline tale centered on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year.
Print Length: 352 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217270422
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Canelo Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Scratch-Moss-original-horror-Withered/dp/B0G9HY4YWH/
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Thorns by Gregory Bastianelli
Summary: Dr. Monica Cucinotta works on the front lines of a hospital in Cassino, Italy, dealing with a deadly contagion that causes thorns to erupt along the surface of the body. When Monica becomes infected with the virus and must leave the hospital, she begins a journey across the dark landscape of a pandemic world where she meets the best and worst of humanity that tests her belief in science and faith as she struggles to return home to her loved ones.
Print Length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1787589978
ISBN-13: 978-1787589971
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Flame Tree Press
https://www.amazon.com/Thorns-Gregory-Bastianelli/dp/1787589978/
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We Are for the Dark by Gretchen McNeil
Summary: What starts as a missing person investigation morphs into something much darker when an FBI-agent-turned-Catholic-priest and a junior constable arrive on a remote Newfoundland island. This murder-mystery-turned-nail-biting-horror is perfect for fans of religious horror like The Possession of Alba Díaz and the cult-classic movie The Wicker Man.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0756400244
ISBN-13: 978-0756400248
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Daw Books/Astra Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Dark-Gretchen-McNeil/dp/0756400244/
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SEPTEMBER 8
Acid Green Velvet by Grace Krilanovich
Summary: The breathtaking and consequential first novel in nearly two decades from the award-winning author of the cult sensation The Orange Eats Creeps. In the late 19th century on the central California coast, two wayward young hoboes — Paulette and Kenneth — threaten to kill a menacing man who wronged them: Paulette’s father, Rodney Eligon. A handful of years later, the town of Anzar has become the stomping grounds for all manner of cults, eccentrics, earth religions, and communal living. Presiding over the town from the luxe frivolity of their family manor, the Hasleys have ruled Anzar for generations. Their grip on the town is threatened by the rise of the working class, and their union with the itinerant population. Meanwhile, Paulette has taken up residence in the home of Johnny Hasley, a wealthy faux-socialist poseur, hoping to become his wife. Her plans are complicated by boot-prints in the garden signaling the arrival of Kenneth, who carries with him a dark secret that poses a grave threat to both of them.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1953387659
ISBN-13: 978-1953387653
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
https://www.amazon.com/Acid-Green-Velvet-Grace-Krilanovich/dp/1953387659/
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All Hallows Eve by Christopher Golden
Summary: A chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year. Presented by Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, and featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix as well as many more.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1835415431
ISBN-13: 978-1835415436
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/All-Hallows-Eve-Christopher-Golden/dp/1835415431/
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Daughter of Rot by Rios de la Luz
Summary: When the Velasquez family moves into a quaint adobe home surrounded by forest, it’s the beginning of Isela’s dream life. Isela Velasquez is a pathological liar with strange impulses that terrorize her at night. She wants the perfect family, but she regrets becoming a mother. Olivia Velasquez is four-years-old when she first meets the house. Spending most of her days alone, Olivia befriends the house and looks after it. At night, the house whispers into Olivia’s dreams, creating a bond between them. The house takes on a maternal role when a brand new room is born. An immaculate conception turning the two-bedroom house to a three-bedroom home. This new room lures Isela inside and shows her pieces of herself that she’s refused to look at in her adult life. It agitates her. It teases her. It haunts her. When Olivia gathers the courage to enter the newly born room, she finds warmth and safety. The room creates lush, vibrant ecosystems right before her eyes.
Print Length: 143 pages
ISBN-10: 1940885760
ISBN-13: 978-1940885766
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Broken River Books
https://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Rot-Rios-Luz/dp/1940885760/
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Driven by Mason Coile
Summary: A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of Exiles and William—this time set in a cutting-edge autonomous car.
Print Length: 224 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217177103
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Mason-Coile/dp/B0G5WN2Q3G/
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Hearsepower by Stephanie Sanders-Jacob
Summary: Kayla’s 1963 Cadillac hearse is the only thing that still feels like hers—a way to escape the weight of a dying family business and the shadow of her father’s death. Behind the wheel, the world goes quiet. Behind the wheel, she almost feels whole. But lately, the hearse has a mind of its own. The horn blares without warning. Headlights flicker in daylight. The brakes fail at the worst times. And under the hood, something hungry is waiting. As the engine’s curse unravels generations of family secrets, Kayla has to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice: her future, her friends, or the only piece of her father she has left.
Print Length: 216 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8993318219
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Squirm Books
https://www.amazon.com/Hearsepower-Stephanie-Sanders-Jacob/dp/B0GWQ89G6X/
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How to Survive Camping: The Ancient Things by Bonnie Quinn
Summary: Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping Experience.” In it is a list of rules to help campers have an enjoyable experience and hopefully survive any encounters with the campground’s… other… inhabitants. A new entity has come to the campground, bearing an old grudge against one of the inhabitants. Its malevolent designs will put the entire land at risk – unless Kate can stop it.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1668096676
ISBN-13: 978-1668096673
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: S&S/Saga Press
https://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Camping-Horse-Eater-3/dp/1668096676/
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It Pierces: A Folk Horror by Jack Finn
Summary: In the frostbitten autumn of 1935, four Marine veterans of the Small Wars in Latin America reunite for a weekend hunt in the remote Adirondacks. Their ritual of brotherhood curdles into terror when they trespass against the forest’s ancient sanctity. What begins as a hunt becomes a descent into supernatural horror, as they awaken something older than the mountains and bound to the land itself. Atmospheric and unsettling, It Pierces is a chilling tale of guilt, folklore, and the consequences of the violence in men’s hearts.
Print Length: 229 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8184786742
Media Format: Hardcover/Publisher/Kindle
Publisher: Crow Street
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Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files
Summary: The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, “one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts). These seventeen tales take readers into the uniquely twisted mind of “one of Canada’s most promising new horror writers” (Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation between a security guard and inhuman squatters, from who can be found at an all-night laundromat to what lies in wait at the bottom of the sea, from undead addictions to all-consuming obsessions, Kissing Carrion is “a journey through some of the most beautifully rendered visions of darkness and death to be published this past year. . . .
Print Length: 280 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320479
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: Shortwave Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Carrion-Stories-Gemma-Files/dp/B0GPFP3CNF/
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A Mother’s Rage by John Evans
Summary: Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, a wrong has been committed. After a severely injured mother loses her two kids to arrogant hunters, she slowly goes crazy and fixes her sites on revenge. But what’s a little murderous rampage when you have nothing left to lose?
Print Length: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1961967979
ISBN-13: 978-1961967977
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Rage-John-Evans/dp/1961967979/
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Pictures of You: A Novel by Josh Malerman
Summary: A woman becomes the subject of an artist’s mysterious experiment in this intense and dreamlike supernatural thriller from Josh Malerman, bestselling author of Incidents Around the House.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0593723155
ISBN-13: 978-0593723159
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Del Rey Publishing/Random House
https://www.amazon.com/Pictures-You-Novel-Josh-Malerman/dp/0593723155/
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The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston by Nick Wallin
Summary: From the biting social satire of Bunny to the dark coven horror of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls and the relentless slasher thrills and queer awakening of The Angel of Indian Lake—The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston blends toxic friendship and ritual magic into a nightmare you won’t forget.
Print Length: 432 pages
ISBN-10: 1998672263
ISBN-13: 978-1998672264
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Rising Action Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Resurrection-Sister-Evelida-Livingston/dp/1998672263/
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We Turn Gruesome At Night by Eric LaRocca
Summary: Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out. When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isn’t long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1803369558
ISBN-13: 978-1803369556
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/We-Turn-Gruesome-At-Night/dp/1803369558/
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The Worm in Every Heart by Gemma Files
Summary: Finally, back in print! The second collection from Gemma Files, the multi-time Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning author of Experimental Film, and whose stories “overwhelm the reader with a true sense of wonder, awe, and horror” (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World).
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320486
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: Shortwave Publishing
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