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 15
10 Things I Hate About Zombies by Hazel Graves
Summary: A scarily good rom-com, perfect for fans of The Last of Us, Morbidly Yours, and Netflix’s Love and Monsters!
Print Length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 000879670X
ISBN-13: 978-0008796709
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Avon Books/Harper Collins
https://www.amazon.com/Things-Hate-About-Zombies-Fairbanks/dp/000879670X/
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American Nightmare by Kelly McWilliams
Summary: In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217087204
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Crown Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/American-Nightmare-Novel-Kelly-McWilliams/dp/B0G7CJS8K1/
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I Am the Monster Under the Bed: A Novel by Emily Zinnikas
Summary: A reclusive painter, the only survivor of an unsolved teen massacre, returns to her hometown and confronts her stalker with the help of her childhood boogeyman and the possessed forest that surrounds her haunted house.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1250454786
ISBN-13: 978-1250454782
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
https://www.amazon.com/Am-Monster-Under-Bed-Novel/dp/1250454786/
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In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts by Gwendolyn Kiste
Summary: Stoker winner Gwendolyn Kiste holds up a dark, queer mirror to The Great Gatsby in this haunting exploration of the obsession and control at the edges of an American classic. In 1955, Daisy Buchanan is found dead in an abandoned West Egg mansion, but her daughter Mel knows she’s really been gone for years. No one knows whether Daisy was murdered, or if it was a simpler, slower death: her yearslong spiral of alcohol, abuse, and helplessness. But when Mel enters the estate, she finds Daisy’s ghost, somehow frozen at twenty-five, and a charming, bleeding phantom that used to be Jay Gatsby. To free her mother, Mel must carve a path through family secrets and decaying revelers: deep into Gatsby’s starving house as it gorges itself on unfulfilled love and grows stronger every night.
Print Length: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1951971485
ISBN-13: 978-1951971489
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Creature Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/These-Gilded-Ghostly-Hearts/dp/1951971485/
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Mystery James Returns from the Grave by Ally Russell
Summary: The second book in a creepy duology about Mystery James, who was found as a baby in a cemetery, lives in a funeral home, and can smell ghosts. This time, spring break takes a terrifying turn when Mystery suspects a ghost has entered her home… and refuses to leave.
Print Length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0593896955
ISBN-13: 978-0593896952
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Delacorte Press
https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-James-Returns-Grave-Russell/dp/0593896955/
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Normal for the Spider by Hank Schwaeble
Summary: Sienna Shaw is an apex predator. She kills without remorse when it suits her purposes, steals from those she judges undeserving of what they have, lives by her own set of rules. Just don’t call her a serial killer. She knows what she is and what she always will be–a survivor whose governing creed is simple: Trust No One. Or so Sienna believes, until the day she encounters a shadowy group that calls itself the Book Club. A small, well-funded, highly secret society united by their shared taste for the macabre and a desire to instill fear among entrepreneurs, industrialists, politicians–any who imagine themselves in charge of civilization–to remind them who is really at the top of the food chain. Sienna soon finds herself a reluctant guest on a remote and supposedly haunted island where the Book Club plans to unleash hell upon its next target and usher in a new chapter of its horror-inspired mission.
Print Length: 322 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8228364806
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
https://www.amazon.com/Normal-Spider-Hank-Schwaeble/dp/B0FXY82L6L/
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Observer: A Novel by Nicholas Russell
Summary: A disquieting, atmospheric debut horror novel about a young woman investigating her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Mariana Enriquez.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-10: 0063452391
ISBN-13: 978-0063452398
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook/MP3 CD
Publisher: Ecco Publishing/Harper Collins
https://www.amazon.com/Observer-Novel-Nicholas-Russell/dp/0063452391/
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Rooted by Leopoldo Goût
Summary: Leopoldo Goût follows his horror debut Piñata with Rooted, where one woman’s return to Mexico City digs away the layers of her forgotten past and the Aztec gods she awakened.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1250781523
ISBN-13: 978-1250781529
Media Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
https://www.amazon.com/Rooted-Leopoldo-Go%C3%BBt/dp/1250781523/
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The Rouse by China Miéville
Summary: From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making—a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur’s life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur’s obsessions and who is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces. So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets—and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.
Print Length: 1,260 pages
ISBN-10: 0399181091
ISBN-13: 978-0399181092
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Del Rey Publishing/Random House
https://www.amazon.com/Rouse-China-Mi%C3%A9ville/dp/0399181091/
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This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper
Summary: In 1994, three girls went into their small-town movie theater for a limited screening of an elusive B-movie. Only one came out. 30 years later, the survivor discovers the movie isn’t done with her yet. The hunt for answers may be her only way out, or it could doom her to the same fate as the girls she knew decades ago.
Print Length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1835411487
ISBN-13: 978-1835411483
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook/Audio CD
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/This-Movie-Doesnt-End-Want/dp/1835411487/
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A Thousand Monstrous Forms: A Novel by Saratoga Schaefer
Summary: A young ceramic artist moves into her new wife’s isolated manor and gets drawn into dark discoveries that stain her marriage—and her very soul. From the author of Serial Killer Support Group and Trad Wife comes a new sapphic horror inspired by the tale of Bluebeard.
Print Length: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8892427395
Media Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Monstrous-Forms-Novel/dp/B0G7BZDZN7/
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Unearthed by ed. Dan Coxon & Philip Fracassi
Summary: Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prizing open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.
Print Length: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 1835413099
ISBN-13: 978-1835413098
Media Format: Paperback/Kindle
Publisher: Titan Books
https://www.amazon.com/Unearthed-Philip-Fracassi/dp/1835413099/
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The Need: A Novel by Megan Mostyn-Brown
Summary: Wealth. Power. And a consuming desire for cannibalism: Meet the Armstrongs, an obscenely rich, glamorous, and murderous family, in this smart and provocative horror debut. Every family has its secrets. But in this electric, dizzyingly fast-paced horror debut, some families have: the Need.
Print Length: 288 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8217093984
Media Format: Hardcover/Kindle/Audiobook
Publisher: Del Rey Publishing/Random House
https://www.amazon.com/Need-Novel-Megan-Mostyn-Brown/dp/B0G7CLGY7J/
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