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Updated May 4, 2024
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Holly
King, Stephen.
#1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Book of the Year Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a...
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SILVER NITRATE
MORENO-GARCIA, SILVIA.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers. ...
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September house
Orlando, Carissa.
"Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and...
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Haunting on the Hill
Hand, Elizabeth
From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House--a "scary and beautifully written" (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present...
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Out There Screaming An Anthology of New Black Horror
Peele, Jordan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling...
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MAEVE FLY
LEEDE, CJ.
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of the Year! An Indie Next Pick! "This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and...
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BLACK RIVER ORCHARD
WENDIG, CHUCK.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents. "This masterful outing should continue to earn Wendig comparisons to...
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Reformatory
Due, Tananarive.
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner and a New York Times Notable Book "You're in for a treat. The Reformatory is one of those books you can't put down. Tananarive Due hit it out of the park." --Stephen King A gripping, page-turning...
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BLACK SHEEP
HARRISON, RACHEL.
Nobody has a 'normal family', but Vesper Wright's is truly... something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back - mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she could never return. But then the envelope arrives on her doorstep....
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Hemlock island a novel
Armstrong, Kelley
A standalone horror novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the...
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VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE
CAN?AS, ISABEL.
As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters - her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead....
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Never whistle at night an indigenous dark fiction anthology
NATIONAL BESTSELLER .BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question- "Are you ready to be un-settled?" "Never failed to surprise, delight, and shock." -Nick...
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BEAST YOU ARE STORIES
TREMBLAY, PAUL.
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World. Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push...
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Handyman method a story of terror
Cutter, Nick.
A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor...
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MILITIA HOUSE
MILAS, JOHN.
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize "An extraordinary novel about the quiet and not so quiet horrors of war." --Roxane Gay Stephen King meets Tim O'Brien in John Milas's The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly original...
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EVERYTHING THE DARKNESS EATS
LAROCCA, ERIC.
An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving...
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Becoming the Boogeyman
Chizmar, Richard
The "worthy and frightening sequel" (Stephen King) to the acclaimed and "unforgettable" (Harlan Coben) New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman. Back in the summer of 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of...
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Only One Left
Sager, Riley.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." --...
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EDENVILLE
REBELEIN, SAM.
"[A]n essential read for horror enthusiasts." --Booklist An unsettling, immersive, and wildly entertaining debut novel from "a major new talent!" (R.L. Stine), for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones. "[A] delightfully gooey blend of gothic, cosmic, folk and body horror...
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Let Him in
Friend, William.
"Let Him In is a feast of a novel." -- Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author An October Library Reads Pick! "Daddy, there's a man in our room..." Alfie wakes one night to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed, claiming there's a shadowy figure in their bedroom....
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Burn the Negative
Winning, Joshua.
Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It's started. Because the series she's reporting on is a remake of a '90s horror flick. A cursed '90s horror flick,...
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Dead of winter
Coates, Darcy
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * JULY 2023 LIBRARYREADS SELECTION Eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when...
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What Feasts at Night
Kingfisher, T.
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead. ...
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Schrader's Chord
Leeds, Scott.
Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord, Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead. I told you they were real. After his estranged father's...
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Dead Eleven
Juliano, Jimmy.
"An ominously slow burn...Keep the lights on for this one."--A PEOPLE MUST-READ FOR SUMMER "Very creepy...you've been warned."--R.L. STINE "Gripping."--ANA REYES On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a...
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Darker shade of noir new stories of body horror by women writers
While the common belief is that 'body horror' as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the 'quintessential emblem of female body horror.' In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by...
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LIGHT MOST HATEFUL
PIPER, HAILEY.
Mona Awad's Bunny meets Stranger Things when a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town, unleashing a monstrous power that threatens to bend reality, from the Bram Stoker award winning author of Queen of Teeth. Three years after running away from home,...
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Where the dead wait
Wilkes, Ally.
"Haunting...Ominous." --The New York Times Book Review A "wonderfully chilling" (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) polar gothic about a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate-and redemption-from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of...
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FEVER HOUSE
ROSSON, KEITH (NOVELIST).
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all. "Rosson's novel plays out like a nightmare-one that's nearly impossible to put down."-Tor "The unsettling darkness of...
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LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM
STARLING, CAITLIN.
Last to Leave the Room is a new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from Caitlin Starling, the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research...
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What kind of mother
Chapman, Clay McLeod
A New York Times Book Review Best Horror of 2023 selection. "Packed with profoundly unsettling scenes that'll slither under your skin and stay there long after you turn the last page."--Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home ...
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Midnight Showing
Shepherd, Megan.
Discovering her father's strange final manuscript has brought only mayhem and darkness to Haven Marbury's life. In Book Two of the Malice Compendium, what has leapt off the page threatenseverybody. "Gripping, chilling, creepy, and enthralling . . .Malice Housechannels Shirley...
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SPIN A BLACK YARN NOVELLAS
MALERMAN, JOSH.
Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box AN ESQUIRE AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories-...
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YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE TONIGHT
BAYRON, KALYNN.
Instant New York Times bestseller! At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night? This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street...
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My darling girl
McMahon, Jennifer
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Children on the Hill, a psychological thriller "that delivers both chilling scares and genuine emotion" (Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author) about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother,...
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Murder road
St. James, Simone
A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn....
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Red rabbit
Grecian, Alex
"Impossible to put down." --Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble A ragtag posse must hunt down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts--where death is always just around the bend--in this new supernatural horror by...
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Ordinary Violence
Chartrand, Adriana
Terrible things happen side by side with the ordinary. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. But when Dawn's seemingly perfect life in the big city implodes, she is forced to return to her childhood home and the prairie...
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Pale House devil
Kadrey, Richard
A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives--one dead, one living--hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross and Lucy A. Snyder. ...
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Stranger upstairs
Matlin, Lisa.
Most people wouldn't buy an infamous murder house to renovate for fun . . . but Sarah Slade is not most people. "This debut novel deftly explores our shadows-the dark parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. I couldn't stop reading."-Julia Bartz, New York Times...
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House of last resort
Golden, Christopher.
The next high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them,...
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NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US
MOHAMED, PREMEE.
Here there be gods and monsters - forged from flesh and stone and vengeance - emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is tested to the limits. These are...
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NIGHT'S EDGE
KERIN, LIZ.
"Complex and fully realized, Kerin's vampire apocalypse has a palpable beating heart."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six Night's Edge by Liz Kerin takes a bite out of vampire lore in this blood-soaked novel about the darkest...
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NESTLINGS
CASSIDY, NAT.
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building. Best Adult Books 2023--<...
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Paleontologist
Dumas, Luke.
USA TODAY BESTSELLER A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is faced with a terrifying and murderous spirit in this chilling novel. Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return...
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Spirit bares its teeth
White, Andrew Joseph
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature! A blood-soaked and nauseating triumph that cuts like a scalpel and reads like your darkest nightmare. New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White...
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NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER
WINTERSON, JEANETTE.
A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless...
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EDGE OF SLEEP
EMANUEL, JAKE.
An original survival-horror novel set in the world of the hit podcast The Edge of Sleep (which stars markiplier; 34million followers on YouTube) where everyone who falls asleep dies. What if the whole world fell asleep...and didn't wake up again? Dave Torres, a...
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