Looking for the best new horror books releasing this month?
From gruesome creature features and terrifying haunted houses to gothic horror, vampire novels, supernatural thrillers, historical horror, and unsettling dark fantasy, this month's new horror releases offer plenty of ways to scare yourself silly.
So grab your reading list, lock the doors, and take a look at the horror books coming this month.
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Scarlett Sutton heads to the Smoky Mountains for a summer of family drama and a new job, but instead finds herself caught up in a true-crime mystery involving skeletonized corpses, missing coworkers, and a swarm of yellow jackets with a serious taste for human flesh. As Scarlett and her coworkers investigate a string of gruesome deaths, they discover that the mountain's biggest threat may be small, loud, and very, very angry.From there? A blood-soaked trip through Palm Springs, supernatural chaos, and a whole lot of fabulousness.
Harper Westbrook spends her summers like any normal teenager: cheering, falling for a boy, and killing terrible men with a throwing axe. As one of the Blood Bound, Harper has spent three years hiding a curse that gives her an irresistible bloodlust, but keeping her secret becomes much harder when the boy she loves starts investigating the mysterious death of his father, whom Harper killed in self-defense. As Grayson follows the clues into a hidden world of mythical beasts and monster-hunting men, Harper must stop him before he uncovers the truth and puts her family in danger.
august 11
A government experiment designed to transport matter across the universe succeeds in bringing something back, but unfortunately, “something alive” turns out to be a very bad sign. When a mysterious shipping container crashes in New England, the alien creatures inside quickly turn humanity from the top of the food chain into a distant memory. Years later, a lone survivor travels through the ruins of the East Coast, searching for other humans while navigating a terrifying new world filled with monsters, isolation, and the ever-present question of whether there’s enough humanity left in anyone to save.
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Mallory Webb heads to a former sanitarium turned college campus hoping for a fresh start, but instead finds herself cast as Juliet, haunted by the same blood-soaked wraith that killed her mother, and drawn into a mystery involving cryptic symbols, buried secrets, and a centuries-old bargain made during the New England vampire panic. As Mallory, her enigmatic director Ezra, and an understudy with an eerily similar past begin to uncover how their histories are connected, they find themselves caught in a tragic supernatural love story where Shakespeare's warning about violent delights may be less metaphor and more survival advice.
Delilah is dead, but she has one last thing to do before she can move on: find the man who murdered her and make sure he pays. Trapped between life and death, with terrifying creatures feeding on her suffering and her soul slowly slipping away, Delilah turns to Magda, a spirit medium, and a mysterious stranger who can see and feel her. Together, they must solve Delilah's murder before Halloween, when the veil between the living and the dead drops and she gets one final chance to walk among the living.
When Mu-young boards a train toward an isolated seaside village during a massive earthquake, she thinks she is choosing the lesser of two evils. Three years later, that decision has left her trapped in a quarantined nightmare where an ancient plague has transformed villagers into fishy monsters, her niece is dead, and Mu-young hunts anyone who breaks isolation. But when a bureaucrat from Seoul arrives and starts stirring up trouble, the village's horrors begin to surface, forcing Mu-young to confront not only the monsters around her, but the question of whether she deserves to survive.
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When Dr. Monica Cucinotta is infected by a deadly contagion that causes thorns to erupt from the body, she is forced to leave the hospital where she has been fighting the pandemic on the front lines. As she crosses a darkened, devastated Italy in search of her loved ones, Monica encounters both the best and worst of humanity, forcing her to question everything she believes about science, faith, and survival.
august 18
Sabrina Alvarez goes from nobody to the star of a blockbuster movie about the Kettle Springs Massacre, stepping into the role of Quinn Maybrook, the ultimate Final Girl. But when she arrives in Kettle Springs, the town's violent history starts feeling less like movie material and more like a warning. With mysterious deaths piling up, an unhinged director calling the shots, and a community still fractured by tragedy and rage, Sabrina discovers that filming a horror movie in the town where the real horror happened might be a terrible idea.
Tippi is ready for a fresh start after escaping her controlling ex, so what better way to celebrate her thirty-fifth birthday than with a lavish horror-movie-themed party in a secluded mansion? But when terrifying messages from her supposedly cross-country ex begin appearing and party guests start disappearing, Tippi realizes someone knows the secret she was determined to take to the grave. With deception closing in from every direction and the killer possibly hiding among her closest friends, Tippi must figure out who she can trust before the night ends.
Claire thinks her family's new suburban home is the perfect fresh start, but the house has other plans. Flowers wilt, eggs are found hollow, toys disappear, and Claire soon realizes the impossible truth: the house is hungry, and it feeds on anything that was once alive. When she discovers she can use the house's power, Claire forms a dangerous bond with it, but as its appetite grows, so does the threat to everyone around her.
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In Victorian London, necromancer Irene Shallcross Haley has spent her life protecting forbidden magical knowledge alongside her undead husband, St. John. But when the woman she loves is hanged for witchcraft, Irene refuses to accept death as the end of their story and attempts the impossible: resurrecting Agnes. Unfortunately, Agnes returns with an appetite for raw flesh and a malignant ghost attached to her soul, leaving Irene to restore her lover's humanity while navigating complicated feelings, avoiding the man responsible for Agnes's death, and trying not to attract the attention of the authorities.
When Morwenna takes her family to visit her ailing aunt at a crumbling seaside chateau in France, she expects an uncomfortable week surrounded by grief, old family secrets, and a village convinced her aunt had something to do with her husband's disappearance. Instead, she discovers that the house is steeped in ancient magic, the land remembers what happened there centuries ago, and something that once died may be waiting to return. As the chateau begins to change her family, Morwenna must uncover the truth about her uncle's disappearance before the dark history of the house repeats itself.
Fortuna Miércoles has moved her family across the Rio Grande in hopes of escaping a generations-old curse, but the past is not so easily left behind. When a body turns up in her backyard and a killer known as the Reaper appears to be hunting women once again beneath the ominous Sleeping Sisters, Fortuna finds herself drawn into a deadly mystery alongside Detective Jeanette Palacio, who has spent decades pursuing the ghosts of the women she couldn't save.
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When estranged sisters Mickie and Delilah inherit a house in Savannah, they plan to sell it, split the money, and go their separate ways. Unfortunately, the house has other plans, especially after the sisters ignore the ominous warning not to go into the attic. As the home's dark history begins bleeding into the present and Delilah's behavior grows increasingly disturbing, Mickie realizes selling the property is no longer an option. She must uncover what lurks inside 724 Hartford Street and save her sister before the house's hunger consumes them both.
When Victor heads to the isolated California desert town of Superstition for his friends' annual getaway, he hopes the trip will help him reconnect with the group and figure out who he is after separating from his wife. Instead, the friends stumble into a strange and seductive vampire infestation that feeds on their desires and threatens to turn their weekend of bonding into something much more sinister. As the town's mysterious Welcoming Committee draws Victor deeper into its orbit, he and his friends discover that Superstition's hospitality comes with a horrifying price.
Hot Dog is an invisible teenage ghost with a stitched-up mouth, a love of hot dogs with banana peppers, and a desperate desire to be seen as a real girl. When a Ouija board accidentally summons her to a Florida house party, she meets Logan, a grieving artist who can see her and wants to be her friend. But something sinister lurking inside Logan's house knows Hot Dog doesn't belong among the living and is determined to drag her back into the darkness.
The team behind Never Whistle at Night is back with twenty-one brand-new stories from both established and emerging Indigenous writers, proving once again that horror is very much alive and ready to bite. From psychological terror and supernatural nightmares to gruesome monster hunts, Never Whistle at Night, Part Back for Blood explores both the horrors of the unknown and the everyday horror of living under colonialism.
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Every small town has a ghost story, but King's Branch has Marla Gorman. The reclusive young woman living in a creepy Gothic house is rumored to be a prisoner, a witch, or something even stranger. When two men are murdered and Detective Carl Lancaster spots Marla at the exact moment of each death, he becomes convinced she's connected to the killings. Meanwhile, a social worker with a mysterious connection to Marla and a lonely college student are drawn into her orbit, unaware of the terrifying truth about the woman at the center of the town's legends.
In 1940, Pamela Courtney is evacuated to Chanterlands, the home of her Jilly and Bunny, expecting a summer away from the dangers of war. Instead, she finds a lonely ghost haunting the room where she sleeps and a sinister secret hidden in the neglected attic of the once-grand house. But as the summer unfolds, Pamela discovers that the greatest danger at Chanterlands may not be the war raging beyond its walls, but the dark history lurking inside them.
august 21
In 1986, children across Beaumont, Texas, begin disappearing without a trace, lured away by the mysterious light of candles only they can see. When fifteen-year-old Matthew Dean accidentally tears open a gateway to the world of the fae, he brings something ancient and hungry back with him, forcing his secretive witch mother to confront the history she's spent centuries hiding. As a skeptical detective investigates the growing number of missing children, reality itself begins to unravel around him.
august 25
Kwadzo Okoro has helped build a new Ramanga tribe and establish the Crimson Plantation as a haven for formerly enslaved Africans and their Native allies, but freedom is anything but secure. As powerful slaveholders rally the surrounding community against them, a sun-walking vampire builds an army of her own, and Kwadzo's own blood father turns against him, the fragile rebellion is pushed toward an all-out war.
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London is sweltering, the Underground is unbearable, and five strangers on one unlucky Tube carriage are about to have a very bad day. When a horrific event leaves them with fractured memories and a shared connection they can't explain, a weary driver, disillusioned civil servant, ambitious trader, overwhelmed hotel worker, and unhoused young man must put aside their differences to figure out what happened before the heat, the city, and whatever is coming for them become impossible to survive.
Twelve-year-old Charlie is used to a lonely life in the woods, spending her days helping her unpredictable father skin the strange animals he hunts. But when the forest's already bizarre creatures begin growing even stranger and a nightmarish beast drags her father into the wilderness, Charlie sets out to find him with the help of an occult-connected Englishman and a disgraced Northern Cheyenne policeman. As the unlikely trio prepares to face the monster, Charlie must decide whether the father who has always kept her at arm's length is worth saving.
After the devastating death of her teenage daughter, Alice moves her family from the city to a secluded bungalow beside ancient woods, hoping a fresh start will help them heal. But the house comes with a horrifying history: years earlier, a woman murdered her family after claiming they had been replaced by imposters and that her real family had been taken by the woods. As Alice's family begins to fracture and strange figures appear outside, her husband disappears into the forest and returns hours later wearing different clothes with no memory of what happened. Soon, Alice must figure out whether grief and stress are playing tricks on her or whether something ancient and malevolent is reaching out from the trees.
In the isolated Appalachian town of Burrsville, Tess Wynne has spent a century protecting her wildlife sanctuary and the delicate balance between nature and humanity after making a deal with the devil to remain in the only home she's ever known. Every autumn, the devil returns with an offer of more power, and every autumn, Tess refuses. But when a new pastor arrives and begins turning the townspeople against her while setting his sights on her sanctuary, Tess is forced to push her ancient magic toward its darkest limits.
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John knows curiosity can be dangerous, but that has never stopped him from poking his nose where it doesn't belong. So when the neighborhood ice cream truck suddenly changes from the cheerful Mr. Dandy's to the sinister Mr. Twisty's horror-themed vehicle, John can't help but investigate. Why did Mr. Dandy supposedly retire to Florida? Why is Mr. Twisty making mysterious deliveries to the neighbors at two in the morning? The deeper John digs, the more he realizes that this new ice cream man may be serving up something much more disturbing than dessert.
After moving from London to Hastings in hopes of saving their strained marriage, Justine and Adam discover a bolted door in the basement that leads to a mysterious cave containing a witch bottle. Their curiosity draws them into the dark history of the house's previous owner, a chaos-magic-obsessed musician with alleged ties to blood magic and the occult. Despite warnings to leave ancient rituals alone, Adam opens the bottle, unleashing a sinister chain of events that sends his artistic obsession spiraling into something unnatural while Justine is haunted by screams from beneath the house. As she becomes pregnant and people in town begin disappearing or turning up dead, Justine must untangle the truth from the supernatural before the ghosts of the past, and a dark sacrificial ritual, claim them both.
In the Gold Rush town of Coloma, California, three women from very different worlds are drawn together after witnessing something terrible lurking in the Night Pool. As mining men are brutally murdered one by one and violence threatens to consume the town, Clara, Mei, and Haloke must set aside their differences and join forces against the monsters and men endangering their lives.
When Mercy arrives in 1700 Venice as the sole survivor of a slave ship, she carries little more than a letter, a mysterious camera, and a desperate need to build a new life. Her path leads her to an anatomist, a decadent aristocratic household, and an unexpected career photographing the dead, giving her a taste of freedom and a new circle of friends. But something dark and hungry has followed her across the sea and now stalks the canals of Venice, threatening everyone Mercy has come to care about.
So, which of these new horror releases will be joining your TBR?
Whatever you choose, I hope you find something perfectly horrifying to read this month. Just remember: if your new book starts whispering or asking you to open a mysterious door, maybe that's enough reading for the night.
Happy reading, and stay spooky!
Looking for the best new horror books releasing this month?
From gruesome creature features and terrifying haunted houses to gothic horror, vampire novels, supernatural thrillers, historical horror, and unsettling dark fantasy, this month's new horror releases offer plenty of ways to scare yourself silly.
So grab your reading list, lock the doors, and take a look at the horror books coming this month.
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Scarlett Sutton heads to the Smoky Mountains for a summer of family drama and a new job, but instead finds herself caught up in a true-crime mystery involving skeletonized corpses, missing coworkers, and a swarm of yellow jackets with a serious taste for human flesh. As Scarlett and her coworkers investigate a string of gruesome deaths, they discover that the mountain's biggest threat may be small, loud, and very, very angry.
From there? A blood-soaked trip through Palm Springs, supernatural chaos, and a whole lot of fabulousness.
Harper Westbrook spends her summers like any normal teenager: cheering, falling for a boy, and killing terrible men with a throwing axe. As one of the Blood Bound, Harper has spent three years hiding a curse that gives her an irresistible bloodlust, but keeping her secret becomes much harder when the boy she loves starts investigating the mysterious death of his father, whom Harper killed in self-defense. As Grayson follows the clues into a hidden world of mythical beasts and monster-hunting men, Harper must stop him before he uncovers the truth and puts her family in danger.
august 11
A government experiment designed to transport matter across the universe succeeds in bringing something back, but unfortunately, “something alive” turns out to be a very bad sign. When a mysterious shipping container crashes in New England, the alien creatures inside quickly turn humanity from the top of the food chain into a distant memory. Years later, a lone survivor travels through the ruins of the East Coast, searching for other humans while navigating a terrifying new world filled with monsters, isolation, and the ever-present question of whether there’s enough humanity left in anyone to save.
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Mallory Webb heads to a former sanitarium turned college campus hoping for a fresh start, but instead finds herself cast as Juliet, haunted by the same blood-soaked wraith that killed her mother, and drawn into a mystery involving cryptic symbols, buried secrets, and a centuries-old bargain made during the New England vampire panic. As Mallory, her enigmatic director Ezra, and an understudy with an eerily similar past begin to uncover how their histories are connected, they find themselves caught in a tragic supernatural love story where Shakespeare's warning about violent delights may be less metaphor and more survival advice.
Delilah is dead, but she has one last thing to do before she can move on: find the man who murdered her and make sure he pays. Trapped between life and death, with terrifying creatures feeding on her suffering and her soul slowly slipping away, Delilah turns to Magda, a spirit medium, and a mysterious stranger who can see and feel her. Together, they must solve Delilah's murder before Halloween, when the veil between the living and the dead drops and she gets one final chance to walk among the living.
When Mu-young boards a train toward an isolated seaside village during a massive earthquake, she thinks she is choosing the lesser of two evils. Three years later, that decision has left her trapped in a quarantined nightmare where an ancient plague has transformed villagers into fishy monsters, her niece is dead, and Mu-young hunts anyone who breaks isolation. But when a bureaucrat from Seoul arrives and starts stirring up trouble, the village's horrors begin to surface, forcing Mu-young to confront not only the monsters around her, but the question of whether she deserves to survive.
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When Dr. Monica Cucinotta is infected by a deadly contagion that causes thorns to erupt from the body, she is forced to leave the hospital where she has been fighting the pandemic on the front lines. As she crosses a darkened, devastated Italy in search of her loved ones, Monica encounters both the best and worst of humanity, forcing her to question everything she believes about science, faith, and survival.
august 18
Sabrina Alvarez goes from nobody to the star of a blockbuster movie about the Kettle Springs Massacre, stepping into the role of Quinn Maybrook, the ultimate Final Girl. But when she arrives in Kettle Springs, the town's violent history starts feeling less like movie material and more like a warning. With mysterious deaths piling up, an unhinged director calling the shots, and a community still fractured by tragedy and rage, Sabrina discovers that filming a horror movie in the town where the real horror happened might be a terrible idea.
Tippi is ready for a fresh start after escaping her controlling ex, so what better way to celebrate her thirty-fifth birthday than with a lavish horror-movie-themed party in a secluded mansion? But when terrifying messages from her supposedly cross-country ex begin appearing and party guests start disappearing, Tippi realizes someone knows the secret she was determined to take to the grave. With deception closing in from every direction and the killer possibly hiding among her closest friends, Tippi must figure out who she can trust before the night ends.
Claire thinks her family's new suburban home is the perfect fresh start, but the house has other plans. Flowers wilt, eggs are found hollow, toys disappear, and Claire soon realizes the impossible truth: the house is hungry, and it feeds on anything that was once alive. When she discovers she can use the house's power, Claire forms a dangerous bond with it, but as its appetite grows, so does the threat to everyone around her.
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In Victorian London, necromancer Irene Shallcross Haley has spent her life protecting forbidden magical knowledge alongside her undead husband, St. John. But when the woman she loves is hanged for witchcraft, Irene refuses to accept death as the end of their story and attempts the impossible: resurrecting Agnes. Unfortunately, Agnes returns with an appetite for raw flesh and a malignant ghost attached to her soul, leaving Irene to restore her lover's humanity while navigating complicated feelings, avoiding the man responsible for Agnes's death, and trying not to attract the attention of the authorities.
When Morwenna takes her family to visit her ailing aunt at a crumbling seaside chateau in France, she expects an uncomfortable week surrounded by grief, old family secrets, and a village convinced her aunt had something to do with her husband's disappearance. Instead, she discovers that the house is steeped in ancient magic, the land remembers what happened there centuries ago, and something that once died may be waiting to return. As the chateau begins to change her family, Morwenna must uncover the truth about her uncle's disappearance before the dark history of the house repeats itself.
Fortuna Miércoles has moved her family across the Rio Grande in hopes of escaping a generations-old curse, but the past is not so easily left behind. When a body turns up in her backyard and a killer known as the Reaper appears to be hunting women once again beneath the ominous Sleeping Sisters, Fortuna finds herself drawn into a deadly mystery alongside Detective Jeanette Palacio, who has spent decades pursuing the ghosts of the women she couldn't save.
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When estranged sisters Mickie and Delilah inherit a house in Savannah, they plan to sell it, split the money, and go their separate ways. Unfortunately, the house has other plans, especially after the sisters ignore the ominous warning not to go into the attic. As the home's dark history begins bleeding into the present and Delilah's behavior grows increasingly disturbing, Mickie realizes selling the property is no longer an option. She must uncover what lurks inside 724 Hartford Street and save her sister before the house's hunger consumes them both.
When Victor heads to the isolated California desert town of Superstition for his friends' annual getaway, he hopes the trip will help him reconnect with the group and figure out who he is after separating from his wife. Instead, the friends stumble into a strange and seductive vampire infestation that feeds on their desires and threatens to turn their weekend of bonding into something much more sinister. As the town's mysterious Welcoming Committee draws Victor deeper into its orbit, he and his friends discover that Superstition's hospitality comes with a horrifying price.
Hot Dog is an invisible teenage ghost with a stitched-up mouth, a love of hot dogs with banana peppers, and a desperate desire to be seen as a real girl. When a Ouija board accidentally summons her to a Florida house party, she meets Logan, a grieving artist who can see her and wants to be her friend. But something sinister lurking inside Logan's house knows Hot Dog doesn't belong among the living and is determined to drag her back into the darkness.
The team behind Never Whistle at Night is back with twenty-one brand-new stories from both established and emerging Indigenous writers, proving once again that horror is very much alive and ready to bite. From psychological terror and supernatural nightmares to gruesome monster hunts, Never Whistle at Night, Part Back for Blood explores both the horrors of the unknown and the everyday horror of living under colonialism.
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Every small town has a ghost story, but King's Branch has Marla Gorman. The reclusive young woman living in a creepy Gothic house is rumored to be a prisoner, a witch, or something even stranger. When two men are murdered and Detective Carl Lancaster spots Marla at the exact moment of each death, he becomes convinced she's connected to the killings. Meanwhile, a social worker with a mysterious connection to Marla and a lonely college student are drawn into her orbit, unaware of the terrifying truth about the woman at the center of the town's legends.
In 1940, Pamela Courtney is evacuated to Chanterlands, the home of her Jilly and Bunny, expecting a summer away from the dangers of war. Instead, she finds a lonely ghost haunting the room where she sleeps and a sinister secret hidden in the neglected attic of the once-grand house. But as the summer unfolds, Pamela discovers that the greatest danger at Chanterlands may not be the war raging beyond its walls, but the dark history lurking inside them.
august 21
In 1986, children across Beaumont, Texas, begin disappearing without a trace, lured away by the mysterious light of candles only they can see. When fifteen-year-old Matthew Dean accidentally tears open a gateway to the world of the fae, he brings something ancient and hungry back with him, forcing his secretive witch mother to confront the history she's spent centuries hiding. As a skeptical detective investigates the growing number of missing children, reality itself begins to unravel around him.
august 25
Kwadzo Okoro has helped build a new Ramanga tribe and establish the Crimson Plantation as a haven for formerly enslaved Africans and their Native allies, but freedom is anything but secure. As powerful slaveholders rally the surrounding community against them, a sun-walking vampire builds an army of her own, and Kwadzo's own blood father turns against him, the fragile rebellion is pushed toward an all-out war.
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London is sweltering, the Underground is unbearable, and five strangers on one unlucky Tube carriage are about to have a very bad day. When a horrific event leaves them with fractured memories and a shared connection they can't explain, a weary driver, disillusioned civil servant, ambitious trader, overwhelmed hotel worker, and unhoused young man must put aside their differences to figure out what happened before the heat, the city, and whatever is coming for them become impossible to survive.
Twelve-year-old Charlie is used to a lonely life in the woods, spending her days helping her unpredictable father skin the strange animals he hunts. But when the forest's already bizarre creatures begin growing even stranger and a nightmarish beast drags her father into the wilderness, Charlie sets out to find him with the help of an occult-connected Englishman and a disgraced Northern Cheyenne policeman. As the unlikely trio prepares to face the monster, Charlie must decide whether the father who has always kept her at arm's length is worth saving.
After the devastating death of her teenage daughter, Alice moves her family from the city to a secluded bungalow beside ancient woods, hoping a fresh start will help them heal. But the house comes with a horrifying history: years earlier, a woman murdered her family after claiming they had been replaced by imposters and that her real family had been taken by the woods. As Alice's family begins to fracture and strange figures appear outside, her husband disappears into the forest and returns hours later wearing different clothes with no memory of what happened. Soon, Alice must figure out whether grief and stress are playing tricks on her or whether something ancient and malevolent is reaching out from the trees.
In the isolated Appalachian town of Burrsville, Tess Wynne has spent a century protecting her wildlife sanctuary and the delicate balance between nature and humanity after making a deal with the devil to remain in the only home she's ever known. Every autumn, the devil returns with an offer of more power, and every autumn, Tess refuses. But when a new pastor arrives and begins turning the townspeople against her while setting his sights on her sanctuary, Tess is forced to push her ancient magic toward its darkest limits.
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John knows curiosity can be dangerous, but that has never stopped him from poking his nose where it doesn't belong. So when the neighborhood ice cream truck suddenly changes from the cheerful Mr. Dandy's to the sinister Mr. Twisty's horror-themed vehicle, John can't help but investigate. Why did Mr. Dandy supposedly retire to Florida? Why is Mr. Twisty making mysterious deliveries to the neighbors at two in the morning? The deeper John digs, the more he realizes that this new ice cream man may be serving up something much more disturbing than dessert.
After moving from London to Hastings in hopes of saving their strained marriage, Justine and Adam discover a bolted door in the basement that leads to a mysterious cave containing a witch bottle. Their curiosity draws them into the dark history of the house's previous owner, a chaos-magic-obsessed musician with alleged ties to blood magic and the occult. Despite warnings to leave ancient rituals alone, Adam opens the bottle, unleashing a sinister chain of events that sends his artistic obsession spiraling into something unnatural while Justine is haunted by screams from beneath the house. As she becomes pregnant and people in town begin disappearing or turning up dead, Justine must untangle the truth from the supernatural before the ghosts of the past, and a dark sacrificial ritual, claim them both.
In the Gold Rush town of Coloma, California, three women from very different worlds are drawn together after witnessing something terrible lurking in the Night Pool. As mining men are brutally murdered one by one and violence threatens to consume the town, Clara, Mei, and Haloke must set aside their differences and join forces against the monsters and men endangering their lives.
When Mercy arrives in 1700 Venice as the sole survivor of a slave ship, she carries little more than a letter, a mysterious camera, and a desperate need to build a new life. Her path leads her to an anatomist, a decadent aristocratic household, and an unexpected career photographing the dead, giving her a taste of freedom and a new circle of friends. But something dark and hungry has followed her across the sea and now stalks the canals of Venice, threatening everyone Mercy has come to care about.
So, which of these new horror releases will be joining your TBR?
Whatever you choose, I hope you find something perfectly horrifying to read this month. Just remember: if your new book starts whispering or asking you to open a mysterious door, maybe that's enough reading for the night.
Happy reading, and stay spooky!
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