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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July 21, 2026
Carry Me to My Grave: A Novel by Christopher Golden
Summary: Maggie Wise will take your eyes. When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it. Now, Maggie is dying, and those same siblings have left Malcolm and his sister-in-law Violet to hold a vigil at her bedside. But they’re not as alone as they think they are. A dark figure waits and watches from beneath the willow tree across the street. Hundreds of miles away, an ancient evil stirs in its burrow under a farmer’s cornfield. Across the country, other buried things begin to dream in anticipation of Maggie’s demise. On her deathbed, the old woman elicits a promise from Malcolm, her youngest child―when she dies, he and Violet must return her body to her birthplace in Shediak, Maine. From the moment she takes her last breath, before her remains are even loaded aboard the baggage car of the Imperial Limited, there are forces trying to stop Malcolm from fulfilling that promise. Violence erupts on the train, evil preys on its passengers, and once the sun goes down, those long-buried things are coming to make Maggie Wise pay for her past. God help anyone who stands in their way.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 1250404525
ISBN-13: 978-1250404527
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250404525
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Funerals Are for the Living by Sami Ellis
Summary: A month ago, Junie Daniels was in a car crash that left her with a dead sister, fragmented memories of the accident, and a mother too checked-out to plan a funeral. The cheapest grave plot Junie can find is in the next town over. Sure, Williamsville is still proudly named after a slave master who was rumored to dabble in dark magic―but this is North Carolina, after all. When unexplained occurrences start happening at the graveyard, though, Junie and her best friend, Omari, investigate. And it’s not long before Junie and Omari are taken… Williamsville wants both Daniels girls. But Junie will do anything to protect her sister―even if it’s only her corpse.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1419784730
ISBN-13: 978-1419784736
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Amulet Books
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1419784730
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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/dp/1787589978
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We Sent Them Down Singing by Libby Edwardson
Summary: In the small coal camp of Jubilee, West Virginia, Phinnie “Skinny” Caldwell has been plagued with nightmares of the last time she ever saw her mama alive and the man responsible for stealing her away: Zell Dorsey. When Zell Dorsey returns thirteen years later, alone, Skinny is determined to find out what really happened. As she uncovers disturbing truths about her mama’s fate and Zell’s sinister plan, she turns to Happy Walker, her school bus driver and the closest thing she has to a father. However, nothing can prepare them for what they find: Behind Zell Dorsey’s charming veneer, is a creature both older and far more evil than any devil, and he’s hellbent on turning everyone Skinny loves into oil-slicked monsters. This book is a testament to the resilience of grieving mothers and the tenacity of the beautiful people of Appalachia, a place where the accents sing rather than talk and the tea is always sweet.
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8890034731
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Page Street Horror
https://www.amazon.com/We-Sent-Them-Down-Singing/dp/B0FH122SHG/
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The Winter Folk by Jen Julian
Summary: This is the story of Moth, who earned her name working for the Winter Folk. Every year, the mythical Winter Folk gather at a secret lodge, a place known only as Deerhaven. Moth was a housekeeper there once. A trusted confidant of Mr. Oslin, the enigmatic master of the house. But Deerhaven is dangerous. The rules are exacting. The consequences for break them are dire. Moth has not been allowed back in decades. Still, she feels its call. She will finder her way back. She needs to see him again. No matter the cost.
Print Length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 031658049X
ISBN-13: 978-0316580496
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Run For It
https://www.amazon.com/dp/031658049X
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July 28, 2026
A Penance for Crows by Shannon Morgan
Summary: Off the southern tip of the Beara Peninsula lies Beanna Dubh, an island of savage beauty, its jagged cliffs lashed by Atlantic winds and infested by thousands of crows. Untouched by 21st-century advances, the islanders live under the strict rule of the church, while clinging to old superstitions of the crows as harbingers of disaster. To this desolate, unforgiving place Grizela Urquhart fled, seeking sanctuary from brutal bullying in her native Glasgow. 40 years on, Grizela still remains an outsider—the eccentric painter viewed with distrust and barely tolerated. The feelings are mutual, for she has discovered there are as many secrets on Beanna Dubh as there are crows. When she stumbles upon the body of a young priest with a diabolical symbol drawn on his chest, the crows darken the skies, and Grizela is plagued by demonic whispers only she can hear. The islanders’ suspicions fall on her, but she fears the answers lie in her tortured past. As mass hysteria grows, Grizela scrambles to protect the innocent—a quartet of young girls she has taken under her wing. When she uncovers dark truths behind the girls’ mysterious midnight gatherings, her grip on reality unravels and she is faced with an impossible choice: do the unthinkable to protect the girls as the whispers urge or come out of hiding to face the sins of her past.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 149675798X
ISBN-13: 978-1496757982
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: Kensington
https://www.amazon.com/dp/149675798X
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The Séance Garden by Juliet Blackwell
Summary: When Professor Harper Grae loses a bet with a friend, she finds herself on a local nighttime tour of “haunted” locations in Monterey. Harper’s a lifelong non-believer in the occult, though her academic career is devoted to the historical and societal significance of witchcraft, ghosts, and medicinal poisons of all sorts. But her skepticism immediately gets tested when the tour stumbles on the body of local artist Delilah Mason—who’s found murdered on the grounds of a nearly two-hundred-year-old mansion, once home to the infamous Perles family. On the night Mason’s body is found, Harper catches sight of something in the house that she can’t shake, something that’s impossible to explain, at least not rationally. Soon the murder investigation reveals that this is the second time a woman has been found murdered beneath a sprawling cypress tree in the gardens of the Perles Mansion. And when Harper’s closest friend is questioned by the police, Harper fears the authorities will fail to uncover the real killer. As Harper asks questions around town and digs deeper into the supernatural speculation and rumors surrounding the murders—two women killed in similar circumstances, separated by nearly two centuries —she sees evidence she can’t ignore that the notorious mansion truly is haunted by the ghost of Isabel Perles. What will it cost Harper to rethink everything she’s always believed to admit that the veil between the living and the dead might actually be crossed?
Print Length: 400 pages
ISBN-10: 0593638263
ISBN-13: 978-0593638262
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Berkley
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593638263
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July 29, 2026
Calliope Street by Josh Hanson
Summary: Calliope Street is a psychedelic horror novel reminiscent of Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco, T. Kingfisher’s A House with Good Bones, and Dario Argento’s surreal horror film Suspiria. Jack and Avery’s new home on Calliope Street is a fixer-upper’s dream. The lurid collage of pornographic clippings on the basement wall seems like a quirky (and campy) feature. But once the house awakens, what seemed harmless becomes as horrifying as the blood seeping from the carpet. The house is alive. It is intelligent. And it demands homage. Inspired by the surreal and graphic films of the Italian maestros as well evokes the myth of Orpheus and Euridice, mixing art, love, and death into a modern take on the haunted house.
Print Length: 360 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8988815471
Media Format: Paperback
Publisher: Moonstruck Books
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX4ZTTKH
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July 30, 2026
Bats by Christian Francis
Summary: Its bloody! It’s fun! It’s The Bats Novelization! Based on the screenplay to the 1999 film Bats by John Logan.
After a series of savage attacks in a quiet Texan town, the CDC recruits bat specialist Dr. Sheila Casper and her assistant Jimmy to investigate. Teaming up with Sheriff Emmett Kimsey, Sheila soon discovers the killings are being carried out by genetically altered bats. Predators engineered to be smarter, faster, and far more aggressive than nature ever intended. As the bats spread through the town in massive, coordinated swarms, the town descends into blood-soaked panic. With the military preparing to wipe out the entire area to contain the outbreak, Sheila and Emmett race to locate the bats’ underground roost and stop the creatures before they escape into the rest of the country.
Media Format: Paperback
Publisher: Echo On Publications
https://echohorror.com/books/bats/
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The Forsaken by Christian Francis
Summary: Based on the original screenplay of the cult classic vampire film The Forsaken by J.S. Cardone.
Sean’s job is simple: drive a Mercedes from Los Angeles to Miami without a scratch-and under no circumstances pick up hitchhikers. Then he meets Nick. Armed, dangerous, and relentlessly hunting a deadly breed of vampires known as the Forsaken, Nick pulls Sean into a nightmare on the open road. After a brutal attack leaves Sean infected, he discovers that vampirism is a fast-spreading virus, and there is only one cure: destroy the vampire responsible. With time running out, the Forsaken closing in, and the infection taking hold, Sean and Nick race across America in a desperate fight for survival. Packed with horror, action, and early-2000s supernatural grit, The Forsaken is a blood-soaked novelization of the cult vampire road movie.
Print Length: 204 pages
ISBN-10: 191836320X
ISBN-13: 978-1918363203
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle
Publisher: Echo On Publications
https://www.amazon.com/dp/191836320X
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July 31, 2026
Whispers of the Pale Witch (Beckett Coven) by S a Sizemore
Summary: Some secrets just can’t stay buried. After the sudden death of her great-aunt, Kylie Beckett lands her dream job as a forensic photographer in the small seaside town where she was born. But once there, a series of murders and the dark truth about her family’s past forces Kylie to harness unconscious powers to protect her newfound family from the murderous Pale Witch of Salem, Massachusetts, and keep a dangerous relic from the unstable witch before she unleashes a demon on Salem once again. Shall we begin?
Print Length: 398 pages
ISBN-10: 1961967995
ISBN-13: 978-1961967991
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Rowan Prose Publishing, LLC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1961967995
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