2026 Horror Fiction We Are Looking Forward To

 FEBRUARY 10th:🗓
Dead First by Johnny Compton
A private investigator is hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can’t die.

Maria The Wanted by V. Castro 🦇
Maria is a wanted woman. She’s wanted by an Aztec trafficker, a cartel boss, the people she fights for, and now the devil she can’t resist. A would-be immigrant turned vampire, Maria is forced to leave her home and family and embark on a journey across Mexico.

FEBRUARY 24th: 🗓
Dollface by Lindy Ryan💅🔪
 Barbie meets Scream with a 90s nostalgia twist

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward⛰️
Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies.

MARCH 1st: 🗓
Carnalis by Tiffany Morris👄
Do you need any description besides sapphic cannibalism??

MARCH 3rd:🗓
No Gods For Drowning by Hailey Piper🗡
The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times. In the midst of the chaos, a serial killer has begun ritually sacrificing victims, their bodies strewn throughout the city.

Strange Buildings by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion 🧩
From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. Each building is a part of a puzzle. Everything. Is. Connected. 

When I Was Death🗡 by Alexis Henderson
A group of girls does Death incarnate's bidding in this haunting speculative young adult novel by the author of The Year of the Witching.

MARCH 10th:🗓
The Midnight Muse by Jo Kaplan🎸🤘🍄

 When a metal band's lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they're letting on in this mycelium-metal horror novel from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Jo Kaplan.

The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White🔪🦇👄
An obsession with an immortal serial killer entangles a vampire hunter’s daughter in a sapphic romance in this enthralling gothic fantasy

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado
Demons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family.

MARCH 24th🗓
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher🌲🪵🩸
Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods. Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about “blood thiefs?”

Wretch by Eric Larocca
From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.

APRIL 2nd🗓
Monumental by Adam Nevill🏕
A novel of pagan terror from the author of The Ritual and The Reddening. Disaster strikes quickly and without warning. What should have been a glorious weekend of kayaking and camping, in a secluded beauty spot, is transformed by a scream. The first crisis, initiating a deadly momentum that accelerates as the valley reveals itself to Marcus and his five companions.

APRIL 7th🗓
Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman 👻🔪🎨
A murderous artist is haunted by the spirits of those he has killed in this surreal and chilling supernatural revenge novella.

Mrs. Jekyll by Emma Glass😃😡
Rosy Winter is dying. Her husband, Charlie--sweet but out of his depth--tries to be supportive. Her sister-in-law, Sally, is too distracted by her own problems to help. Her students, once a source of delight, are now a daily reminder of Rosy's mortality. So, Rosy succumbs to anguish, allowing a force--murderous, sensual, feverish--to awaken and stir within her. An embodiment of her rage, a twisted joie de vivre, ripping recompense from the world around her.

A powerful feminist retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic classic, Mrs. Jekyll is a brilliant, evocative, and lyrical story of one woman's refusal to yield her passion for life, even as her body betrays her.

Sarafina by Philip Fracassi🪖🌲
From Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes a historical horror novel where three brothers go AWOL during one of the most violent battles of the Civil War, but find something much worse waiting in the woods

The Seventh Sister by Dawn Kurtagich🧚‍♀️📚🔪
 From the author of The Madness comes a haunting folk horror fable of lost sisters, old gods, and the terrible power of belief left to rot in the woods.

We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower🧙‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🔪
For fans of The Watchers and T. Kingfisher comes a queer, post-apocalyptic horror following one woman's journey across a merciless wasteland to save her brother and confront the dark truth behind the monsters that ravaged the world - with the help of a woman she's not sure she can trust but can't help falling for.

APRIL 14th 🗓
Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill🍄🔪🏳️‍🌈
Sorrowland meets Manhunt in this literary horror debut in which an isolated newlywed—covered in mushroom growths like all the other wives in her community—strikes a precarious balance between following her husband’s strict rules and pursuing an intense connection with a woman who makes her question everything.

The Hive by Ronald Malfi
An epic, otherworldly horror novel in the vein of Black River Orchard and American Elsewhere about a wave of collective obsession and paranoia taking over an American suburb. From the Bram Stoker award-nominated and bestselling author of Come with Me.

APRIL 21st🗓
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer💻
A supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater, and more dangerous, than she ever could have imagined.

Come Sing for the Harrowing by Dan Coxon 
From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman. A young man working at a tourist attraction is singled out for unholy transformation, a gang of burglars are ambushed with something unworldly when they attempt to rob a local farm, and a daughter seeks revenge on her abusive father after his death. Invoking the sense of natural surreal found in Midsommar, these stories are always a little to the left of what’s expected.

Crossroads by Laurel Hightower 🩸👻
How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris’s son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris’s life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris’s hand onto her son’s roadside memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window. Only, is it really her son’s ghost, or is it something else—something evil? Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again.

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds.

October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn't remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge--his father's new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.

October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father's face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.

One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.

Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.

Odessa by Gabrielle Sher🧙‍♀️🔪🇷🇺
In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back from the grave. Yetta is a bright, quick teenage girl with a wild, searching spirit. But her family has reason to be cautious and restrictive. Jews are mysteriously disappearing, and there are whispers of an impending Gentile attack. When violence comes to their door, Yetta is killed. Her father, in his grief, fumbles through his nascent knowledge of ancient texts and old magic to bring her back. By some miracle, Yetta is returned–but although she looks the same, Yetta is not the girl she once was. She knows there is a secret her family is keeping from her. The answer resides, in part, in the monstrous being stalking the villagers and their enemies, lurking in the woods beyond the shtetl, something that may be of her father’s making, and a being which has plans of its own.

Older Than Ghosts by Brandon White👻❤️
In the middle of the night, Daniel and his mother flee their burning home in Mississippi for a bus bound to Chicago. There they find brief peace and safety at his grandparents’ house. But Daniel’s mother cannot resist the siren call of a tumultuous relationship and soon abandons Daniel to go back to her abusive partner. At thirteen, Daniel believes he’s almost a man. So it’s his responsibility to rescue his mother. When an ancient spirit attached to his family becomes interested in his quest, their partnership will both test and temper the love between family members and the lengths they’re willing to go to save one another.

APRIL 28th🗓
The Blood Year Daughter: Stories by G.G. Silverman 🧚‍♀️📚🔪
In G.G. Silverman’s debut fairytale-horror collection, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cinnamon-scented pieces of their mother, and a charming doctor’s murdered brides whisper warnings to his newest wife. Drawing from folktales, Silverman’s Italian roots, and killers both real and imagined, these stories recall Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado. Spare and glittering as a spiderweb, sharp as a needle through a husband’s nose, they establish G.G. Silverman as a formidable voice in feminist horror and magical realism.

Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce 🌲🇬🇧
The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in doesn’t come out. Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in the English countryside for years. Now returned in the wake of a traumatic divorce and crumbling personal life, her simple plans are to lay low at her parents’ vacated house, reconnect with her prickly sister Cathy, and slowly get back on her feet. Cathy is surprised when Hazel doesn’t show. Their relationship strained from a fallout half a decade ago, she didn’t expect them to get back into a sisterly rhythm…though she hadn’t counted on Hazel bailing, either. But something isn’t adding up. Other people in town whisper of a threat that can’t be shaken. The woods are known for being restless. And Cathy knows the old saying: If you go looking for trouble, you just might find it.

How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains by Bonnie Quinn🏕🔪👻🦇
Campground manager Kate returns in this supernatural, campy, and cozy horror tale filled with thrilling adventures, mysterious monsters, and spine-chilling encounters, perfect for fans of Welcome to Night Vale and Chuck Tingle.

Molka by Monika Kim🔪👄💅
From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original,” a provocative journey into a perilous world of voyeurism, scandal, female rage, and vengeance . . . pursued with a very sharp kitchen knife.

MAY 5th
The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean🧚‍♀️📚🗡👻
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes a stunning Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive.

I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy🛣🔪
The first collection from USA Today bestselling author Nat Cassidy, featuring his unique blend of gleefully terrifying short fiction. 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.

Not Your Final Girl by Mikayla Randolph💅🔪👄
A feminist slasher novel fueled by female rage and haunted by gruesome murders. In this contemporary reimagining of Tess of the D’Urbervilles there can only be one Final Girl.

MAY 12th🗓
Abyss by Nicholas Binge 💻🗓🔪
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’.

Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun⛺️🎵🎸🍄 by Mónica Ojeda translated by Sarah Booker 
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.

Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger🐺👩🌙🔪
Hyper-competent Ellie thinks she’s going through perimenopause, but discovers she’s actually turning into a werewolf in this feminist, dark-comedy debut. 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.

Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey 
An eerily seductive look at the desire for community connection and self-improvement—and the darkest places inside us all. Urgent and yet timeless, this read is perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Ari Aster, and Patricia Highsmith. 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.

Muntu by Eugen Bacon👻
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.

MAY 19th🗓
The Dorians by Nick Cutter 🏝🌲🇨🇦
The all-new novel of terror from the writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause—forever, perhaps. The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing of an ancient and extraordinary biological agent…one with no conscience, yet possessed with a single-minded purpose that has helped it persist for eons: the will to survive. The dark heart of unbridled human ambition finds its apex in an unholy experiment that now tests the limits of both creator and subject, eclipsing all bounds of morality and sanity….

Filth Eaters by Ito Romo🧛‍♀️🦇🔪🩸
A high-strung and inventive literary horror that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Mariana Enriquez, Ito Romo’s debut novel traces the thousand-year lineage of a new kind of vampire–the mestizo Filth Eater.

MAY 26th🗓
Bone of My Bone by Johanna Van Veen 
Bram Stoker Award-nominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de force–perfect for fans of The Witch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull’s grin is eternal

Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir translated by Mary Robinette Kowal 🇮🇸 🔪🩸
An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs – or even bodies – in this gruesomely cathartic horror thriller from the author of The Night Guest.

I’ll Watch Your Baby by Neena Viel
A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory from “addictive” (Publishers Weekly) horror author Neena Viel. I’ll Watch Your Baby is a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor–known as the original Welfare Queen—pursued, scrutinized, celebrated and vilified, and the impact her image has had for generations.

That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall🏝🔪
A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise, in 

JUNE 2nd🗓
Backstabbers by Eliza Jabore🔪🔪
When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher.

Marion by Leah Rowan
A twist on Hitchcock’s iconic classic Psycho—where the leading lady doesn’t die, but instead turns the knife on Norm, kicking off a crime spree that turns the silver screen victim into a heroine for our times.

JUNE 9th
Headlights by my favorite queen of unhinged horror (author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture) CJ Leede 🏕🔪🩸
An FBI agent with an uncanny ability to sense danger must hunt down a serial killer through the wilderness of Colorado, in this tense and gripping thrill ride perfect for fans of The Shining and Longlegs.

It Came From Neverland by Cynthia Pelayo 
1914. Wendy Darling works by day as a school teacher, and by night, she assists soldiers who have returned home from the Western Front. There is one mysterious patient who, despite all the care they’ve given him, is in a deep sleep, unable to wake up. One night, when he murmurs the words “Peter Pan,” Wendy is thrown back to a darker time, one that she wishes she could forget. When one of her students goes missing, it brings back memories of when children went missing and were later found murdered in London many years ago. Wendy is convinced that Peter Pan, the entity that she believes killed those children, is back. She and her brothers had a close encounter with Peter Pan, after all. But her brothers only remember Peter Pan and Neverland as a fantasy of childhood games. When another child goes missing and signs start to point to Wendy, Scotland Yard digs into old reports, finding that Wendy knew the names of all the children who had been killed. As Wendy tries to prove her innocence, she also has to find a way to stop Peter Pan once and for all.

Our Sister’s Keeper by Jasmine Holmes
East Cobb is a wealthy all-Black Free Town where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with ghoulish, walking nightmares… that only the women can see. Marah knows the groanings well. She is one of the carriers––women with the ability to pull traumatic memories from men. Populated by men entirely freed of their pain, East Cobb has flourished, even as the remnants of their memories haunt the town’s women. When an unexpected death drives Marah to discover more about her own power, Thea’s and Marah’s worlds collide. The sisters must confront the rotten core at the heart of East Cobb’s prosperity and choose what–and who–will survive the reckoning.

JUNE 16th🗓
Agnes, We’re Not Murderers! by Jessica Alexander
Lesbian vixens from another dead world thread through moon-drenched cornfields and opulent drawing rooms in this literary horror remix of iconic gothic sagas. Written partially through footnotes and with a mystery of interwoven red text, Agnes, We’re Not Murderers! is an atmospheric gothic vampire journey for fans of Kathe Koja and Mark Z. Danielewski.

Vervain Hollow by Catriona Silvey 
Two years ago, Laura was in a cult. But when the sprawling house in the hollow burned down with Vervain, their strikingly handsome and magnetic leader, trapped inside, Laura had nowhere to go but home. Brokenhearted, she finds herself longing for their lost leader–despite the trauma of that strange and terrifying year, she knows the power he promised her was real. But when her estranged friend, Aliyah, calls to tell her that Daniel, one of the other acolytes, has been lured back to the hollow by a message from Vervain, Laura only hears one thing: He’s still there. As Laura and Aliyah venture back to the house of their nightmares to find the truth, Laura soon realizes that not everything she remembers can be trusted–and that the darkness will do anything to get her back.

JUNE 23rd🗓
Slasher Summer by E.L. Chen🏕🔪🩸
In this campy love letter to the slasher films of the 1980s, seven friends reunite for a weekend of fun—only to be hunted down by a cold-blooded killer. But the real horror is not being able to escape who you were in high school…

Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh
A dark and utterly original literary horror debut, following a priest whose bloodthirsty life has extended far longer than any mere human’s—and is upended when a stranger comes to town.

Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night: Another Halloween Horror Anthology
edited by Stephanie Rose
Return to the streets where fall leaves crunch underfoot and the glow of a harvest moon lights your way. From the new trick-or-treaters to the big kids who know which houses give out the full-size bars, these tales deliver all the thrills of Halloween night in bite-sized pieces. In the tradition of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, each author brings their own deliciously twisted take on the season. Some stories will make you squirm, others will send an icy chill down your spine. Whether you crave the nostalgia of flickering jack-o’-lanterns or the shock of something moving in the shadows, this collection invites you to savor Halloween every night of the year because for some of us, October never lets go.

JUNE 30th🗓
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.

JULY 7th🗓
Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle🎹🏳️‍🌈🩸
From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice. Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon—unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up. Now, Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

The Red Sacrament by Sara Hinkley🦇🧛‍♀️
A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth Kostova.

JULY 14th🗓
Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die by Mallory Arnold🏕🥾🔪🩸
From the USA Today bestselling author of How to Survive a Horror Story comes a biting slasher following three women who lure their cheating boyfriend to a remote mountain cabin, only to realize that darkness lurks within the very walls, waiting to pick them off one by one.

Scary Movie Night by Miranda Smith🎬🩸🔪
In this nail-biting thriller, a horror-themed birthday party turns deadly when guests start disappearing—and the birthday girl realizes that she must face a long-buried secret to make it out alive.

The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager🌊💀
Trapped in an underwater cave, a group of academics must face a series of deadly, supernatural trials–each one demanding they confront their darkest sins–in this chilling aquatic cult horror debut from Megan Bontrager.

JULY 21st
I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men by Rae Wilde🏳️‍🌈🩸🔪
Rae Wilde’s I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men is a collection of standalone sapphic horror short stories, a quadrilogy of connected stories, and an interactive pick-a-path novelette.

JULY 28th🗓
Run to Beat the Devil by Drew Huff🔥🔪
At seven years old, H can lure, kill, and gut a human being. Held captive by her mother, a pyromaniac serial killer, she’s learned fast. But when her mother locks her in a burning gas station and plays dumb, H knows: if she can’t outwit her mother or escape, she’ll die. Fifteen years later, adult H is waiting for her incarcerated mother to finally get the death penalty. She’s dragged her long-time boyfriend, Gooch, on a cross-country road trip where she’s reliving her past in the bloodiest way possible. As a stalker begins hunting H and Gooch down, and H begins sprouting teeth in the worst possible areas of her body, and the media frenzy drags her into a self-destructive spiral, H wonders: Can you ever truly escape your past?

AUGUST 4th🗓
Meat Bees by Dane Erbach⛰️
By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn’t know this yet. After he insists that she get a job, Scarlett accepts a position at nearby Stovetop Outfitters, hoping to spend as much time away from him as possible. She doesn’t expect to trip over a skeletonized corpse beneath the zip-line during one of her shifts. The local sheriff’s department is so overwhelmed by these unsolved deaths that when one of the Stovetop Outfitters employees disappears next, Scarlett and her co-workers set out to find him on their own. They discover something much more horrifying: a swarm of yellow jackets stripping the meat off his body. Scarlett never signed up to solve a disgusting mystery, but in order to protect her friends and family, she must defeat the mountain’s darkness and all these godforsaken wasps.

The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston by Nick Wallin🔪🩸🏳️‍🌈
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

AUGUST 11th🗓
Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman 💕💀
A man who’s back from the dead meets a woman who’s from somewhere even worse in Clay McLeod Chapman’s new horrormance about love, possession, and just a little murder.

Godfestation by Jendia Gammon⛰️
Deep in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia comes a strange journey of grief, horror, and wonder. Following the death of her father, Ivy “Fern” Fernberg encounters monstrous beings and strange people. Initially brushing them off as hallucinations brought on by grief, she soon realizes that she is not the only one experiencing these things, and her father could somehow be involved.

A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-Young🇰🇷🩸🔪
While waiting for a train to Haewon, an isolated Korean seaside village, bodyguard Mu-young gets a disaster alert on her phone. TVs throughout the station report breaking news of a massive earthquake on the eastern coast. Despite the danger, Mu-young boards the train with her niece: she’d rather face the earthquake than leave the girl in her mother’s care. That choice haunts her for the rest of her life. Three years later, Haewon Village is home to horrors. The earthquake unleashed an ancient plague that transforms its victims into fishy monsters, and the government’s lockdown has cut off any hope for help. Mu-young’s niece is dead, and all that’s left for her is to hunt villagers who break isolation. When an officious bureaucrat from Seoul arrives in the village, he stirs up even deeper trouble. Will Mu-young survive? Does she even deserve to

AUGUST 18th🗓
The Calamities by Chuck Wendig😈
The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power, in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

The Minimalist by Kailee Pederson 🎹 🎶🩸
For fans of Tár and The Piano Teacher, this gruesome and unsettling psychological drama is a darkly lucid portrait of a classical composer’s descent into madness. Drawn from the author’s own experiences as an adoptee and classical musician, The Minimalist is a harrowing examination of loss, torment, mental illness, self-harm, and artistic self-destruction.

Lights! Camera! Frendo! by Adam Cesare🤡🎬🔪🩸
Let the killing continue in Lights! Camera! Frendo! It’s the fourth installment of Adam Cesare’s Bram Stoker Award-winning series, and this time Frendo goes Hollywood – with all the blood, guts, and mayhem you’d expect from the series that spawned the blockbuster motion picture.
AUGUST 25th🗓
Blood Rising by Markus Redmond
In a brilliantly terrifying blend of supernatural horror and alternate history for fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, a vengeful vampire tribe formed of formerly enslaved Africans wages war across the Southern colonies in the ultimate battle of blood and betrayal.

The Sunken, The Adored by Donyae Coles🇺🇲🇮🇹💀🩸🤒
A chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 Venice finds the mysterious plague that killed her former master may have followed her to Italy . . . and now stalks the canals.

The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims🇬🇧🩸🔪
From the dark and twisted mind behind the podcast sensation The Magnus Archives comes a suffocating, socially charged nightmare that reveals how fear festers in the cracks of everyday life… One fateful morning five travelers find themselves trapped in a tube car deep in the London Underground. It will change their lives forever. By the time they leave the train they will be bound together as witnesses to a single horrific event. Something terrible, irreversible, and monstrous. Something hungry. But they can’t remember what it is. On their own, they each begin to experience strange dissociative events. Time gets lost. Friends disappear. Something stalks them in the shadows. They make an unlikely team, but to remember what they encountered that day on the train, they will have to work together. Because now it’s up to them to understand what horror they saw – and stop it in its tracks before it drags everyone else down below.

SEPTEMBER 1st
Blacktail by Scott Hawkins🩸🐺🗡
A wolf sets out on an epic journey of revenge in this one-of-a-kind dark fantasy—the long-awaited second novel from the author of The Library at Mount Char, hailed as a “major talent” (The Wall Street Journal).

Mothersucker by Kim Bohyun translated by Archana Madhavan🇰🇷🩸🦇💀
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.

SEPTEMBER 8th🗓
All Hallows Eve edited by Ellen Datlow
 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.

How to Survive Camping: The Horse-Eater by Bonnie Quinn🏕💀🐾🔪👻🩸
The third book in Quinn’s r/nosleep spinoff series.

Pictures of You by Josh Malerman🎨🩸
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

We Turn Gruesome At Night by Eric LaRocca
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.

SEPTEMBER 15th🗓
Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison🕒💒💍🔔🩸🔪
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

The Need by Megan Mostyn-Brown 🔪🤑💲🩸💀
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.

Rooted by Leopoldo Goût 🇲🇽 💀🩸
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.

This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want by🎬🩸 Hailey Piper
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.

SEPTEMBER 22nd🗓
Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
The bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology returns with a new selection of even more daring and sinister stories. From monsters to mutilation, Never Whistle at Night is back for revenge.

Banquet for the Damned by Adam Nevill👻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Few believed Professor Coldwell could communicate with spirits. But in Scotland’s oldest university town something has passed from darkness into light. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are visited disappear. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned-out explorer have of surviving their entanglement with an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it? A chilling occult thriller from award-winning author Adam Nevill, Banquet for the Damned is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacey modern tale of Devil worship and witchcraft.

Incarnate by Alma Katsu
A modern reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alma Katsu’s Incarnate is an illuminating, haunting tale of algorithmic worship and beauty that can kill.

Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm 🇵🇸
There is something haunting Nuhad’s childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have been known to disappear entirely in its walls without a trace. Our Cut of Salt is an unflinching, sinister and moving take on the haunted house novel, from a bold new Palestinian voice. Perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and The Haunting of Hill House.

SEPTEMBER 29th🗓
Crone by Keith Rosson
A haunting, fearsome story of a father searching for his missing daughter and finding darkness—both human and not—at every turn, from the author of the “exciting, suspenseful, horrifying” (Stephen King) Fever House.

The Man of Wind and Moss by Alex Gonzalez🏕🔪🩸
The Blair Witch Project meets Cabin in the Woods by way of Grady Hendrix in this gruesome, mythology-inspired storm of witchcraft, demon curses, and millennial-age angst all wrapped in a folk horror tale about six college friends who go on a weekend getaway in the woods—and the supernatural deals they make to survive.

Mercy House by Adam Cesare👵🧓💀🔪🩸
Welcome to Mercy House, a state-of-the-art retirement home where residents can spend their golden years in comfort—if they don’t succumb to the horrors that lie within. A thrilling new adult novel from the author of Clown in a Cornfield.

The Ship of Death by Kyle Winkler🎲🎮💀
Horror Movie meets The Blair Witch Project in this supernatural chokehold of a book told entirely through found documents: the cursed story of an unwitting couple ensnared by a mysterious tabletop role-playing game, who are commanded, as the game’s intentions become clearer, to do the unthinkable.

OCTOBER 6th🗓
Carrying by Samantha Josephs 
In this electrifying horror debut that’s equal parts funny and harrowing, a stealth trans woman desperate to maintain her picture-picture life discovers that she’s seemingly—impossibly—pregnant.

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong
Final Destination meets The Cabin at the End of the World in this supernatural horror from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, in which a series of car accidents traps a group of strangers at a dive bar.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter by J. S.👻🗡 Barnes
In 1850, only one man stands between the living and the dead; only one man can uncover the secrets of the afterlife. His name? Ebenezer Scrooge. An uncanny festive sequel to the classic novel, written in the tradition of Charles Dickens, perfect for fans of Laura Purcell and Kate Griffin.

Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw🐕🐾💀🔪
A hauntingly beautiful new novella from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, in which a young woman wakes up one day and finds the black dog of death at her front door.

Quaint Folk by Bitter Karella 🏳️‍🌈🩸🔪💀
The Wicker Man meets The Twisted Ones in Bitter Karella’s Quaint Folk–a queer folk horror novel that peels back the idyllic veneer of a seemingly perfect island town to reveal the rot beneath.

Portrait of a Haunting by  Madison Tyler Nelson
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the Sight—her ability to see spirits—has always been more of an affliction than a gift. Inheriting the power from her mother, Amarina, an infamous artist known for murdering her lover and using his blood for her final painting, Tatum has been reluctant to step into her talent or even get close to the man she loves. She’s been able to find a safe space to hide her Sight with the largest witch coven in Manhattan and her best friend, Mischa. But when Mischa is murdered, a crime that’s eerily connected to Amarina’s, a traumatized Tatum must reckon with the loss and the sudden surge of spirits vying for her attention and her life.

What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good. Petra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void’s upper levels, where the dangers are better understood, while Jade wants to risk a descent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go, the better the payout, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra’s whole world, and Jade’s approval means everything–so Petra agrees to do it Jade’s way. When their job goes wrong and Jade is lost in the Void, Petra must plunge deeper than she’s ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn’t know the truth of the Void . . . or what really waits for her in its depths.

OCTOBER 13th🗓
The House of Cursed Daughters by C.J. Cooke
Three brilliant women. An ancient curse. And one last chance to break the cycle. The House of Cursed Daughters knits together seven centuries and three unforgettable heroines as it explores female power and the way it can forge bright pathways through indescribable darkness, from the acclaimed author of The Last Witch.

It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda🐾🔪💀 Zeller
 A propulsive, grab-you-by-the-throat, Indigenous horror debut, by Mathilda Zeller, that expertly blending folklore and supernatural chills to explore all the fearsome monsters that emerge when we turn our backs on the land and each other.

Look What the Cat Dragged In by Jason Rekulak🐈‍⬛️🔪🩸
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Pictures and The Last One at the Wedding comes a new supernatural thriller about a young woman pet-sitting a cat with a mysterious secret, featuring more than sixty pages of illustrations.

Monstera by Delilah S. Dawson🌱👭❤️🔪
A reclusive young woman moves into what seems like the perfect apartment and is obsessively drawn to her reclusive neighbor, who keeps a lush garden and is hiding a deadly secret… Eat the Ones You Love meets Wilder Girls in this sensual, sapphic, botanical horror novella from the New York Times-bestselling author of Bloom and House of Idyll.

Stormraven by Kelsea Yu👻
Mexican Gothic meets Get Out with this Rebecca-inspired gothic horror rooted in Chinese American history, as a gifted artist uncovers a haunted mansion’s chilling secrets that threaten to make her dream life a living nightmare.

‘Twas the Night by Kevin Johnson🎄🎅🔪
Yuletide cheer is served with a double dose of horror in Kevin Johnson’s gripping debut, in which a young reporter follows a string of disappearances into the middle of a terrifying Christmas cult inspired by our favorite holiday classics.

OCTOBER 20th🗓
The Turning of Sally Mae by Nuzo Onoh 
A historical African-Wild West horror story of supernatural vengeance and terrifying occultic magic from the winner of the Bram Stoker Award® for Lifetime Achievement. Two fearsome deities battle each other for the souls of white twins destined to either bring vengeful devastation or salvation to their community in Texas, USA, for a great injustice done to their mother.

We Are Good People by Danger Slater 🏠🩸🗡
An over-the-top body horror social satire in which two privileged, self-described “good people” may not be as good as they think they are when they inexplicably become biologically bonded to their own house, and blood is the only thing that can sustain this new symbiotic organism.

What the Forest Devours by Elaine Vilar🌧🌳🗡🩸 Madruga translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn
In this award-winning horror novel from Latin America, a community of women and children—and one man—fight for survival in a harsh and terrifying Cuban rainforest where the gods require appeasement through brutal sacrifice. A Caribbean-flavored novel of gothic horror from one of Latin America’s most exciting young writers, What the Forest Devours is a macabre examination of what women must sacrifice to survive in a society with the power to destroy them at any turn.

When the Night Comes Knocking by⛰️🐾 Katherine Daniel 
In this Appalachian horror novel, two estranged siblings become trapped in a convenience store under attack by a monster from the mountains who feasts on guilty hearts.

In the Woods They Wait by Carrie Lee South🌲🌳💀
A park ranger in Devil’s Den becomes obsessed with the case of a missing child—a case that mirrors the disappearance of her own brother, whom she lost in the woods many years ago—and the possibility that both were taken by something vicious and unnatural that lives deep in the Ozarks.

NOVEMBER 3rd🗓
There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs by Jason Pargin (John Dies At The End Book 5) 🦀

New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s nightmarishly hilarious John Dies at the End series is back to entertain all who dare enter.