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.
May 1, 2026
Into The Darkening Dust by Katherine Silva
Summary: Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. Janet thought she had left behind the legacy of her parents, Hugh and Amos. After bringing them back over and over into the bodies of dead animals, she knew it was time for them to rest and for her to start trying to live again in the Deadlands. After all, that’s what her new friend, Mark, thinks is best for her: to find the scraps of good still left in the world and make them worth living for. It’s hard when there are still men focused on bringing misery to those left behind, men who deserved what judgement came for them. Janet wants to be that judgement, still feeling that flame of retribution inside of her to enact a swift and painful justice. It’s who she is, who she’s made herself. But when she discovers a lost journal belonging to Amos that tells her of his estranged brother and his ties to blood magic, Janet becomes enamored with the thought of finding someone like her again, finding someone who might understand what she’s been through. As the dust storms grow more violent around the land, Janet realizes the only way to find her lost kin is to dig into her own past in search of answers. That means revisiting old haunts, places she swore she’d never return. Not sure what she’ll find when she gets there, Janet knows that in leaving things behind, there’s a chance they will become lost to the dust as well. Into The Darkening Dust follows the continuing story of Janet from The Deadlands (Undead Folk, Dead Folk, and Nothingland) into a new adventure where the past never stops clawing for you.
Print Length: 114 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8992350968
Publisher: Strange Wilds Press
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Darkening-Dustlands-Katherine-Silva/dp/B0GV8WPFDY/
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May 5, 2026
Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka
Summary: When documentary filmmaker turned stay-at-home mom Tennessee Cherish moves into the dream house her husband bought for her, a brighter future seems to be on the horizon. Even if her husband is frustratingly absent due to his new high-paying job. Even if their two young children begin acting out in strange ways. Even if she feels lonelier than ever. Distracted by the endless details that come with moving into a new town, a new house, and new schools, Tenn doesn’t notice when odd things begin happening at home. The faucet that runs at all hours. The creepy doll that seems to show up in every room. The human tooth they found in the floorboards. As the kids’ outbursts and the strange events start to escalate, the family finds themselves increasingly caught in loops, repeating everyday actions with dangerous—and then devastating—effects. Tenn realizes she must find the source of what is haunting her family before it kills them all. Taut and twisty, scary and searing, Aimee Pokwatka’s Accumulation lays bare the high price women pay for the promises of domesticity and motherhood, and the many ways in which families can be haunted.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217047628
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
https://www.amazon.com/Accumulation-Aimee-Pokwatka/dp/B0FLD42T2Z/
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Body Count by Codie Crowley
Summary: Seven years ago, Sundae Valentine made a deal with a monster she met at the bottom of a motel pool. She didn’t know the wishes he offered had a price—or that the third wish, the one she still hasn’t made, will cost her life. Back then, she barely escaped Wildwood alive. Now, the cheerleaders and football players are headed to the Jersey Shore for prom weekend—leaving Sundae no choice but to return to the scene of her sun-bleached nightmares. Sundae tries to forget, throwing herself into the rides on the pier, the tequila-fueled dance parties, and the guitar-strumming girl she can’t quite look away from. She hopes the beast has forgotten, too. But there are eyes like silver coins watching from the shadows, and teeth like a rusty saw glinting in the light of the boardwalk. Because Sundae still owes a debt. And whatever it takes, whoever he has to kill, this time the monster’s determined to collect.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1368101429
ISBN-13: 978-1368101424
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Count-Codie-Crowley/dp/1368101429/
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But Won’t I Miss Me: by Tiffany Tsao
Summary: In a world where drastic measures have averted the global environmental crisis, humans too are now subject to great transformation. Vivi should be happy she’s pregnant. But she’s troubled by a looming reality that seemingly bothers no one else: having a baby also means birthing an identical, nearly indestructible self who will eat her and take her place. “Rebirth” is simply a fact of life—nature’s way of equipping women for the challenges of motherhood. But as Vivi’s unborn child develops, so does her fear. In a rare turn of events, Vivi emerges from rebirth weakened rather than strong. When her husband cannot tolerate her defects, they divorce and Vivi relocates to the country with her baby to work for her old boss. Chronically exhausted, mentally struggling, and on her own, Vivi must move on—for her own and her son’s sake. But just as with her failed rebirth, swapping old for new isn’t as straightforward as it seems. When Vivi finally discovers what went wrong during childbirth, it will rewrite her life utterly: future, present, and past. An inspired blend of Nightbitch and The Substance, as enthralling and incisive as The School of Good Mothers and The Need, But Won’t I Miss Me is a gripping and profound exploration of the physical and psychological tolls of motherhood, with a speculative horror spin. Tiffany Tsao imaginatively reveals the macabre hidden in the mundane and asks us to consider what we lose of ourselves when we leave our broken parts behind.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 0063448491
ISBN-13: 978-0063448490
Publisher: HarperVia
https://www.amazon.com/But-Wont-Miss-Me-Novel/dp/0063448491/
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
Summary: When Mercy Chan washes up on the shores of Hong Kong with no family, no money, and no memories, the only refuge she finds is the infamous, ghost-infested slum of Kowloon Walled City. Since then, she has rebuilt her life, working for the local triad as a ghost talker and dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt the district. The filthy gutters and cramped alleyways of Kowloon have become her home. But the past Mercy can’t remember isn’t done with her. An unusually powerful ghost has infested Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. It claims to know Mercy―and secrets from her past that are best left forgotten. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realize that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1250810213
ISBN-13: 978-1250810212
Publisher: Tor Books
https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Thousand-Faces-Sunyi-Dean/dp/1250810213/
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I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy (Author),
Stephen King (Introduction)
Summary: There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back. A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes… A doctor’s office, where a bottle of booze and a tear-stained folder wait on the desk… A tech millionaire’s haunted kitchen… A Bible-quoting ventriloquist’s dingy apartment… A yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming… These locations and more are your destination and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Featuring the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, critically acclaimed novella Rest Stop (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2024), along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a travelogue down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes… and teeth. Let’s hope you make it home in one piece.
Print Length: 512 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8897320165
Publisher: Shortwave
https://www.amazon.com/Know-Place-Rest-Other-Detours/dp/B0G154CNHZ/
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The Library After Dark by Ande Pliego
Summary: Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled—she lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a bookseller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith in love by indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well. As a Valentine’s Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive, after-dark tour of the Daedalus Library—the grandiose establishment famed for its immersive genre-based reading rooms and, more notoriously, its rumored hauntings. While Aria normally loves all things ghastly, this place holds more dark secrets than she’d prefer Jasper to know. Like that the last time she was here, she left a body behind. But when the automatic-door entry malfunctions and Aria, Jasper, and the five other people in their tour group become trapped in the library, they are forced to venture through the storied rooms and hidden passageways of the Daedalus in search of escape . . . and Aria quite literally has nowhere to hide from the shadows of her past. Then the group learns there’s a murderer in their midst. Now, as she tries to break out of the library’s intricate reading rooms, Aria has to decide who she can trust—and what secrets are best kept buried—if she wants to make it out alive.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 059387160X
ISBN-13: 978-0593871607
Publisher: Bantam
https://www.amazon.com/Library-After-Dark-Novel/dp/059387160X/
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Medusa: A Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror (60) (Tales of the Weird) by E.H. Visiak (Author),
Aaron Worth (Introduction)
Summary: Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, young Will Harvell joins a sea voyage in search of a mariner’s missing son which gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean in E. H. Visiak’s classic novel, which returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth. Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror—all delivered in Visiak’s high literary style—Medusa remains a distinctive, influential and still exciting work in the history of early twentieth-century weird writing
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0712355723
ISBN-13: 978-0712355728
Publisher: British Library Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Medusa-Mystery-Ecstasy-Strange-Horror/dp/0712355723/
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Not Your Final Girl by Mikayla Randolph
Summary: Darcy and her high school friends haven’t gathered together in seven years. After a tragic murder on prom night, the group graduated and never looked back. But when the lakeside cabin they spent their summers at is put up for sale, they reunite for one last hurrah. Darcy hopes it will be an inspiring weekend that will help them all move on from their shared trauma. But Ashley, her biggest tormentor and the group’s manipulative self-appointed leader, is sure to stir up trouble. After a first day filled with jealousy, heartbreak, and unexpected guests, tensions are bursting, and the feud between Darcy and Ashley resurfaces. The reunion takes a sinister turn when a masked killer slaughters one of their own. Cut off from the outside world with the death toll rising fast, the terrified friends turn on each other and uncover long buried secrets. Someone is seeking justice for their past betrayals and with friends like these no one is safe in this dark-femme slasher for fans of Maeve Fly by CJ Leede and The Indian Lake Trilogy by Stephen Graham Jones.
Print Length: 316 pages
ISBN-10: 1968043063
ISBN-13: 978-1968043063
Publisher: Clash Books
https://www.amazon.com/Your-Final-Girl-Mikayla-Randolph/dp/1968043063/
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One Leg on Earth by ‘Pemi Aguda
Summary: Something is haunting the pregnant women of Lagos. Across the city, they are walking into water . . . and drowning. Twenty-three-year-old Yosoye arrives in Lagos ready to start her life. Working for a slick architectural firm, she finds a city of adventure and opportunity. Her new world is one of fancy gallery openings, glamorous friends, and all the shiny potential of the future, encapsulated in projects like Omi City, the ultra-luxury development her company is building, a symbol of the dawn of a brighter Lagos. But Yosoye’s idyllic vision of Lagos soon begins to seem naive, and its darker, stranger layers trouble her. Something is not right about Omi City, and as construction speeds ahead, stories of strange deaths in the city’s open waters reach a fever pitch. And then, after a chance encounter, Yosoye discovers she is pregnant . . . a revelation which puts her on a collision course with an inexplicable force that is as seductive as it is deadly. A masterwork by a writer hailed as “an astonishing talent” (Lauren Groff), One Leg on Earth is an ambitious novel like no other: a coming-of-age story, an uncanny exploration of motherhood, and a chilling vision of the dark side of progress.
Print Length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1324065877
ISBN-13: 978-1324065876
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
https://www.amazon.com/One-Leg-Earth-Pemi-Aguda/dp/1324065877/
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She Waits Where Shadows Gather by Michelle Tang
Summary: Avery and Carlos Tam have built their lives on logic, not legends. Carlos, the host of a hit reality show that exposes paranormal hoaxes, has made a name disproving the supernatural. But when they travel to his ancestral home in the Philippines, darkness clings to every corner. The mirrors are shrouded. The housekeeper won’t stay in the house alone. And no one will speak of the tragedies the family has seen. Then a brutal car crash leaves Carlos trapped in his own body―silent, helpless, and utterly vulnerable. As Avery tends to him, the house begins to stir. It watches. It listens. And it speaks―in a voice only Carlos can hear―offering a twisted kind of comfort. And as the lies buried by Carlos and his family begin to surface, Avery must confront the truth: if the past won’t rest, their future may never begin. Some inherit memories. Others inherit monsters.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1464251045
ISBN-13: 978-1464251047
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
https://www.amazon.com/She-Waits-Where-Shadows-Gather/dp/1464251045/
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Spider, Spider: ‘Revenge takes root as poison blooms’ by L. C. Winter
Summary: Young Nancy Ratcliffe is on the run. Her father had sought refuge for his family with the Brethren, led by the charismatic but dangerous Prophet. But now her father is gravely ill, and even the sooty streets of Victorian London hold less terror for Nancy than the brutality of Brethren Hall. Meanwhile, Spider is biding her time. Wrapped in dreams and visions, she paces the dark corridors and hidden staircases of the crumbling house she grew up in. The man who murdered a part of her disappeared many years ago, but still she hopes for revenge. Jet-black and thrilling, Spider, Spider is an unforgettable tale of a woman who has lost herself in the poison of vengeance, and the knife-sharp girl who might just bring her back.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0715655825
ISBN-13: 978-0715655825
Publisher: September Publishing (UK)
https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Revenge-takes-poison-blooms/dp/0715655825/
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May 12, 2026
Abyss by Nicholas Binge
Summary: Severance meets Lovecraft in this surreal tale of corporate horror and existential dread. Joe always had potential, but he doesn’t expect much, and he hopes that his new job as an admin assistant won’t expect much of him. But when he enters the offices of Ponos―a company he’s never heard of and knows nothing about―he discovers that potential is exactly what they want from him. A feverish dive into the inhumanity of both late-stage capitalism and the crippling anxieties of modern life, Abyss adds a new level of meaning to ‘wage slave.’
Print Length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 1250373883
ISBN-13: 978-1250373885
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
https://www.amazon.com/Abyss-Nicholas-Binge/dp/1250373883/
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The Bone Door by Frances White
Summary: When Hop awakens in an ancient labyrinth, he has no memory of his life, or how he got here. He does not recognize the mysterious girl trapped with him. And he certainly cannot identify the shadowy figure stalking him, whispering terrible things… But there is one thing he is certain of: He must escape. The only way out of the labyrinth is through The Bone Door. But it lies behind a series of locked doors hidden across an array of strange realms. To open the way, Hop must complete impossible tasks before his time runs out. As Hop travels deeper into the maze, he discovers that he and his companions may be more connected to the place and its horrors than he could ever imagine. Unless Hop is able to unravel the true mystery of the labyrinth, and his own role within it, the Bone Door and any hope of escape will be lost forever.
Print Length: 704 pages
ISBN-10: 1335002359
ISBN-13: 978-1335002358
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Door-Large-Print-Standalone/dp/1335002359/
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Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda (Author),
Sarah Booker (Translator)
Summary: In the near future, best friends Noa and Nicole flee their home in Guayaquil, Ecuador to attend the Solar Noise Festival, a week-long, retro-futuristic gathering at the foot of an active volcano. While Noa fully embraces the haze of narcotics and hedonism in an effort to obscure her true reason for attending, Nicole senses something darker at play behind the festival’s so-called “celebration of life.” Amid technoshamanic poetry, collective hallucinations, and ritualistic dances, each girl navigates her own path in an effort to escape her past and reclaim her right to a future. Vivid, terrifying, and celebratory, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun blends the primal with the supernatural, solidifying Mónica Ojeda as one of the most singular and exciting voices in Latin American and world literature today.
Print Length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1566897556
ISBN-13: 978-1566897556
Publisher: Coffee House Press
https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Shamans-at-Festival-Sun/dp/1566897556/
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Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger
Summary: The head of a company she started from the ground-up, the worried mother of a troublingly secretive daughter, and the wife of an easy-going man who always has her picking up the slack—Ellie is already juggling too much. So, it’s an inconvenient time to find herself beset by strange physical changes: hair sprouting in new places, running hot, trouble sleeping, losing time, finding bloodstains in all her clothing. And underneath it all, a boiling rage that threatens to disrupt the life she’s worked so hard to build. Her doctor diagnoses perimenopause. But it’s another twenty-eight-day cycle that’s taking hold, one that involves fur, teeth, and a not-insignificant amount of howling at the moon—and that gifts Ellie incredible strength and speed. Her new power’s thrilling, as is releasing the anger she’s suppressed for years—especially as it turns out that there are some problems that can be solved with violence: The terrible new hire who is sabotaging her careful plans. The creep who’s stalking her daughter. Only, the beast within isn’t easy to control, and its bloody trail is getting harder to hide. With an obsessive hunter on her trail and a growing fear of what she’s becoming, Ellie must find a way to yoke her fury before she tears through the people she loves. A deeply gratifying, highly addictive and provocative read, Femme Feral is an exhilarating expression of feminine rage, with a warning: If you swallow your anger, it’s sure to come back with a bite.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0143138944
ISBN-13: 978-0143138945
Publisher: Penguin Books
https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Feral-Novel-Sam-Beckbessinger/dp/0143138944/
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The House of Whispers by Tom Carter
Summary: After the death of his estranged mother, Jimmy Manning returns to his hometown of Broadoaks for the first time in twenty years. He hasn’t come back to pay his respects, but to make sure she is finally gone for good. That, and the fact he’s inherited the family home he hasn’t set foot in since he was sixteen. With his older brother, Jason, missing, and his younger brother, Thomas, the permanent resident of a mental facility, the arrangements all fall on Jimmy. He would like nothing more than for the house to be gutted and burned down, but when he experiences strange goings on, he wonders if it’s his emotions getting the better of him, or if something paranormal is happening in the house that caused him so much misery. Then he hears it. The Whisper. Dig. Jimmy has a decision to make. Turn and leave like he did twenty years ago or listen to the whisper and trawl through the chaos of his youth to discover the demons buried there.
Print Length: 350 pages
ISBN-10: 1961967820
ISBN-13: 978-1961967823
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing, LLC
https://www.amazon.com/House-Whispers-Tom-Carter/dp/1961967820/
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Hunger by Choi Jin-young (Author), Soje (Translator)
Summary: On an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles him home, disinfects each inch of skin—and sits down to begin. As he witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices—living and dead—lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labor in a society that devours everyone whole. But the woman is no longer willing to bow before law, God, or money. In an act of love and rebellion, she transforms his body into her own, entombing him within her flesh so that he may live again. Raw, furious, and unflinchingly intimate, Hunger is the Korean underground phenomenon that indicts capitalism, mourns lost love, and pushes the boundaries of what the body can endure for justice and survival. A psychologically and philosophically thrilling novel, it cuts to the core of how we are consumed by the world—and how we might consume it back.
Print Length: 208 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8889661849
Publisher: Europa Editions
https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Novel-Choi-Jin-young/dp/B0FPWQKQTJ/
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In the Blood by April Henry
Summary: Adopted as a newborn, Tessa has always wondered who her biological parents are. After turning eighteen, she takes a DNA test in hopes of finding the answers. With best friend El and lab partner Victor, Tessa uses the results to start building her family tree. But they find more dead ends than answers. Her biological mother, who was raised in a religious cult, has cut all ties with her controlling family. And her biological father remains a complete mystery, at least until the police show up. For fifteen years, they’ve been trying to identify a serial killer known as the Portland Phantom. Tessa may be the link they’ve been waiting for. April Henry delivers a twisty thriller about the families who choose us—and the ones we’re born into. Biology does not have to dictate one’s destiny.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0316586218
ISBN-13: 978-0316586214
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-April-Henry/dp/0316586218/
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Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey
Summary: Celia is so tired of being alone. All she wants is to have a family―to belong to someone. That’s why she’s going to Kindred Cove for the annual Salt Festival held by the secluded community that lives there. They promise that healing is possible. They promise that transformation is inevitable. There is no grief at Kindred Cove because there is no suffering. Nothing is ever lost. Celia knows that, at that mysterious island surrounded by that impossible, ever-growing reef — she will find herself. She’s ready to be healed. She’s ready to be transformed. She’s ready to believe.
Print Length: 432 pages
ISBN-10: 1250851750
ISBN-13: 978-1250851758
Publisher: Tor Books
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Me-Better-Sarah-Gailey/dp/1250851750/
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Muntu by Eugen Bacon
Summary: It is a muntu―a trapped spirit in the island of the dead. This creature of legend becomes a deadly reality when a killer strikes the heart of Sydney.
The victims seem unconnected, yet Investigating Officer Ivory Tembo is convinced the killings are anything but random. The case soon leads Ivory into places she never imagined. In order to stop the killings and save the life of the man she loves, she must reach deep into her past, uncover secrets of her heritage, break a demon’s curse, and somehow unify two worlds.
Print Length: 154 pages
ISBN-10: 1967846251
ISBN-13: 978-1967846252
Publisher: Bad Hand Books
https://www.amazon.com/Muntu-Ivorys-Story-Eugen-Bacon/dp/1967846251/
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The Saw Mouth by Cale Plett
Summary: When Cedar was a child, fragmented, tortured souls woke up in the world’s most complex machines, destroying them and pushing technology back decades. A fall. The Fall, some said, and they called it Autumn. Ten years later, following a family tragedy, Cedar moves to the nowhere town of Sawblade Lake only to find something hunting them. A long, bent shadow that reeks like rot and has the mouth of a deep crevice. It’s after Cedar, and it’s willing to go to any lengths to break them, including preying on Cedar’s new queer family. The closer it circles, the more it seems to weave through Cedar’s whole life. It might stretch back to their mother’s gruesome, inexplicable death, to the murk of their missing family, to the house they grew up in. Back and back and back to the first day of Autumn. Cedar thought they understood how their world had changed, but they’re far from dredging the bottom.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217025701
Publisher: Delacorte Press
https://www.amazon.com/Saw-Mouth-Cale-Plett/dp/B0FR8YP7D6/
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