What’s scarier than saying goodbye to summer? These horror reads, for starters! From haunted houses to hauntings and body horror and more, you don’t want to miss out on the best horror books releasing this fall. Add to your TBR if you dare!
How Bad Things Can Get by Darcy Coates
Prosperity Island is the perfect place for an online influencer and hundreds of his fans to have a five day party. Ruth is the sole survivor of an infamous cult and is hoping she can not draw any attention to herself. When the dark history of the island is revealed and it’s connected to Ruth’s past, guests start to go missing and everyone left standing begin to question what they were really invited to.
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Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley
The invite to a restorative spiritual retreat in Joshua Tree couldn’t come at a better time for Hannah. She’s been haunted by nightmares of her dead fiancé ever since he died during a wilderness trip. No one knows what happened the day he died and Hannah is fine holding onto the truth. At the retreat, Hannah’s peace is violently put to a stop when a killer begins to murder attendees and now Hannah fears the only way to survive is to finally confront what happened the day Ben died.
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The Whistler by Nick Medina
Henry Hotard was almost famous with his ghost-hunting videos, but now he has a completely different life and is in a wheelchair living back on the reservation with his grandparents. Henry thinks he is being haunted, but his girlfriend Jade is convinced the trauma of his accident is playing tricks on his mind. With no other choice, Henry thinks the only way to get rid of the phantom haunting him is to finally confront his past.
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Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby
In present day Seoul, Aly is an antiques dealer who has just gotten her hands on Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a trio set. Elizabeth is an eighteen-century London modeled after real sex workers used to get male medical students to study female anatomy, the waxed figures known as slashed beauties. Now, Aly must go to England to rid herself of the cursed connection to the Venuses. In London, 1763, Eleanor and Emily have been taken under the wing of the esteemed Elizabeth, but when Eleanor is tangled in a web of men and materialism and money, she begins to realize Elizabeth isn’t who she seems.
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Body of Water by Adam Godfrey
Glen Masters lost his wife in a car accident six years ago. In an attempt to reconnect with his teenage daughter, Lauren, he plans a road trip through the Appalachian mountains where the three once spent time as a family. During the trip, the two stop at a diner and three armed men come in talking about a mysterious “living water” that has attacked people up the road. Now, Glen, Lauren, and the other patrons of the diner are being held hostage by the men and soon they are about to witness for themselves just how dangerous this entity is.
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Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting by Richard Chizmar and W.H. Chizmar
Those who’ve lived on Harper’s Cove all agree on one thing: the Widow’s Point Lighthouse is either haunted or cursed. When it was built in 1838, three workers were killed and there was no explanation for their deaths. For decades since, two dozen people lost their lives in or around the lighthouse until it was closed for good in 1988. From two harrowing incidents in 2017 and 2025, those looking for evidence of the supernatural find themselves cut off from the outside world yet not alone.
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The Hong Kong Widow by Kristen Loesch
Mei is a young refugee of the Chinese Communist revolution in Hong Kong in the 1950s who has just received an invitation for a competition in one the city’s most haunted houses. Six spirit mediums will compete over six nights holding six seances. Mei wants to decline but the hostess is the wife of the man who ruined her life and now, Mei is dead set on revenge. Decades later, the final night of the competition is now an urban legend. Legend has it there was a massacre and all fingers point to Mei.
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The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry
On a seemingly ordinary street in Chicago, there is an abandoned house said to be haunted. Jessie didn’t think anything bad would happen to her younger brother, Paul, when she dared him to go into the house. Paul never came out and two of his friends said the house ate him. While the adults thought Paul was abducted, Jessie knew better. Now as an adult, Jessie has a child of her own and lives on the same street as that house, only this time, she’s waiting for the darkness from that house to emerge.
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