Nothing says summer like a brand-new horror story that you can dive into. When the sun goes down and the campfires roar, shadows dance along the trees, and something eerie could go bump in the night. It’s the perfect time to pick up some of these chilling horror novels guaranteed to give you goosebumps throughout the whole summer!
The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry (5/14)
Harry Adams has been a horror movie buff for as long as she can remember and now she has a job cleaning the house of famous movie director Javier Castillo. The house is filled with props and costumes from his movies he made until a scandal forced him to leave the movie industry. Javier demands privacy and the job means Harry can afford to take care of her son, so the two have always gotten along, but when Harry hears noises from behind a locked door that sound like someone calling for help, she soon realizes something more sinister may be at play.
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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen (5/14)
Roos Beckman has a spirit companion that no one else can see but her. Ruth, the corpse-like spirit was the light of Roos’ life until she met the young widow, Agnes Knoop. When Agnes takes Roos to her crumbling estate that she inherited from the death of her husband, Roos finds an ill woman haunts the halls, smells something strange in the night, and notices mysterious stone statues in the family chapel. When someone is murdered, Roos is the number one suspect and in order to clear her name, she will have to confront and expose an evil entity.
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You Like It Darker by Stephen King (5/21)
How could you have a horror list without mentioning Stephen King? In this new collection of twelve stories, King writes “You like it darker? Fine, so do I.” Featuring new stories and even a sequel to Cujo titled Rattlesnakes, King is sure to bring the terror this summer in this collection featuring some never-before-published stories combined with fan favorites.
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youthjuice by E.K. Sathue (6/4)
Sophia Bannion has just begun her new job working for the Storytelling team at the luxury skincare and wellness company, HEBE. Although she is close to thirty, Sophia feels that something is amiss at HEBE, she still longs for more to life and to break her habit of biting her nails. Before she knows it, Sophia is addicted to the HEBE lifestyle, especially their new moisturizer she has been testing called “youthjuice.” When Sophia finds out what the secret ingredient is, she is horrified but finds herself questioning how far she will go to keep her beauty.
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Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay (6/11)
In 1993, a group of filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, an infamous and disturbing horror movie, only for three of the films scenes to be released to the public. With a cult following, three decades later, Horror Movie is up for a big-budget reboot. Only one cast member is still alive, and he will never forget the filming experience and the tragedy that struck the movie. Now, he will stop at nothing to revisit the past in order to help remake the movie.
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Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin (6/11)
During the summer of 1995, seven queer kids who had been sent to a remote conversion camp looked evil in the face and survived. While they all left a different person, sixteen years later, the survivors of that terrifying summer are joining together to put an end to the evil that lurks in the desert before it’s too late.
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Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (6/25)
Bela is an eight-year-old whose family means the world to her. She has Mommy, Daddy, Grandma Ruth, and the Other Mommy. Other Mommy is an entity who asks, “Can I go inside your heart?” every single day. When horrible incidents start to happen around the house, Bela finds that if she doesn’t say yes soon, it could only get worse.
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The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim (6/25)
Ji-won feels like she’s lost it all in the aftermath of her Appa’s affair. Her mother is distraught, her sister is hurt, and her grades are suffering. When Ji-won begins to have dreams she is walking through bloody rooms full of blue eyes, eyes that look just like George, her Umma’s new boyfriend. George brags about his job and ogles Asian waitresses while treating Ji-won and her sister poorly and is not deserving of her Umma’s love. As the victims begin to accumulate around campus, Ji-won realizes that nothing will get in the way of her rage and hunger.
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Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle (7/9)
Being successful in Hollywood can be quite a challenge, but Misha has finally made it with an Oscar nomination. TV executives now want Misha to take his career to the next level with his streaming series by killing off the gay characters in the season finale. When Misha refuses, he finds himself the target of the monsters from his horror movie days that are stalking him and his friends.
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I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones (7/16)
In 1989, Tolly Diver lives in a small Texas town and is seventeen and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. This is a story in which Stephen Graham Jones writes about the Texas he grew up in , what it was like for him being an outsider, and featuring the slasher genre he loves so much from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography.
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The Drowning House by Cherie Priest (7/23)
When a violent storm hits the Pacific Northwest, a house washes up on the beach and stops the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. When her grandson goes missing in the aftermath, he leaves behind two of his childhood friends to search for answers. Although its been decades since they were close, Melissa and Leo have to set their differences aside to see if they can save the one person who brought them together, all while learning about the sinister history of this mysterious house.
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Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning (7/30)
Willow is a famous sitcom actress who has now been sent to Camp Castaway following some infamous tweets and a drunken incident with a swimming pool. Located in upstate New York, Camp Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are trying to leave their old lives in the past. Upon arriving, Willow finds herself hanging out with her favorite actress and other famous people. When one of the campers disappears and Willow finds a mutilated doll in her room with a threatening message, she finds that this is only the beginning of something sinister and horrifying.
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House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias (8/6)
Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo are childhood friends who have survived the worst together including hurricanes, car accidents, and gang violence. When Bimbo’s mother is shot dead, they agree to go after the men responsible. Bimbo begins to change as his investigation takes him to the conclusion his mother was shot by two men working for the drug kingpin of Puerto Rico, whom no one has ever gone against and lived to talk about it. As the friends try to come up with a plan, a hurricane begins, carrying evil spirits that are left ashore.
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Through The Midnight Door by Katrina Monroe (8/13)
The Finch sisters used to spend their summers exploring abandoned properties that lay in their dying town. When they found a home with an endless hall of doors and three keys, they stepped inside their chosen rooms and experienced unspeakable horrors that were never mentioned again. Years later, the youngest sister, Claire has been found dead in that very house. Haunted by their sister’s suicide, Meg and Esther face their rocky relationship and must do what they can to survive before they are next.
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