Wrap up those poolside reads because fall is on its way and you will want to be inside with these thrillers! Welcoming back the pumpkin spice and cooler weather with a candle and a thriller is the perfect way to celebrate fall! If you’re looking for some spine-tingling thrillers to add to your TBR this fall, you don’t want to miss out on these thirteen tales of thrills and chills!

Buried in the Woods Below by Daniel G. Miller (9/1)

Charlotte Hoffman’s career has imploded overnight and now she’s escaping to Big Island, Minnesota, her childhood best friend’s home where her life fell apart years ago. Eighteen years ago, Charlotte blamed herself for the night that ended in bloodshed. Now back at the home of her childhood best friend, Olivia Parker, something isn’t right. The Parkers’ twin girls talk about ghosts in the trees, threatening notes are found on doors, and every night the island claims a victim. Did something or someone bring Charlotte here for a reason?

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We Already Dug the Grave by Emma C. Wells (9/8)

Milly’s life has been bleak lately and now, she can’t even divine the future with her tea leaves. Milly’s estranged sister, Francis, is thriving miles away with a new marriage and everything she could dream of. After what happened a decade before, Milly doesn’t blame Francis for wanting nothing to do with her. When Francis shows up at Milly’s with a black eye, Milly turns to the tea leaves and they realize if they don’t kill Francis’s husband, he will kill her. Now, in order to plan a murder, they must return to a place they left behind where another body is buried.

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Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror by Jeneva Rose (9/22)

Jeneva Rose returns with not one terrifying story for you this fall, but three in this collection of short stories. In “Never Kill the Medium”, a dinner party turns deadly when the hired medium dies during a séance and the party guests cover it up only to discover something dark has crossed over in the meantime. In “The Nightmare House”, a family moves into what they believe to be their forever home and shortly find out that every family who has lived in that house is either dead or missing. In “All Curses are Final”, a group of friends stop at a roadside store that warns shoppers “All items cursed. Curse lifted at time of sale.” Thinking it’s a joke, one friend discovers an item in her bag she didn’t pay for and a storm approaches as bodies begin to pile up in the cabin.

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It’s Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh (9/22)

Nadeeka believes that Jamie is having an affair because all of the signs are there…and this isn’t the first time. She’s determined to catch him in the act. When Nadeeka comes home to confront Jamie, he can’t explain himself and now the house is a crime scene with Jamie dead. If you think you know how this story ends, you’re dead wrong.

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Mazywood by Tananarive Due (9/22)

Johnny is a filmmaker and the grandson of Black actress Mazelle Washington. Hoping for a quiet retreat, he brings his family to Mazywood, the California mountain lodge left behind by his grandmother. Shortly after arriving, he discovers a legacy of terror that has haunted his family for generations. From there, we follow Johnny in present day as he dives into Mazelle’s life along with flashbacks to Hollywood’s Golden Age.

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Witch Trial by Harriet Tyce (9/29)

When eighteen-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in a park, the city of Edinburgh is shocked when the police charge her two best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with murder. As rumors and theories swirl online, the town all want front row seats to the trial. As the trial begins and the girls’ lawyers provide their defense, one jury member, Matthew Phillips, begins to question everything provided in the court and finds himself having strange visions that make him question if witchcraft could be a factor in this trial.

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Killing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar (10/6)

Serial killer Joshua Gallagher AKA the Boogeyman as the media calls him, has escaped from prison leaving behind a haunting message stating “IT’S TIME” with a hangman puzzle. Within days, bodies are turning up around Gallagher’s confidante Richard Chizmar’s home that are a dead ringer for the Boogeyman’s signature killings. As the police search for a killer, Gallagher’s online fanbase celebrates as Chizmar prepares to come face-to-face with a killer.

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The Witch by Freida McFadden (10/6)

After losing her job and her apartment, Julie Barlow decides to officially stay with her aging grandmother who lives in her family’s seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts called Pemberton. Unofficially? She’s looking for a place to disappear. Shortly after arriving, Julie is forced to dive into the dark history of the house when she hears a voice crying for help outside of her bedroom door, lights flicker for no reason, and the grandfather clock stops at 3:41AM. After finding the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692, she begins to question if the house is haunted.

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This B Just Won’t Die! by Tanya Pell (10/13)

Barbra Jacobs is a former scream queen who has been stuck in the genre since starring in the Mirror horror franchise twenty yeas ago. While this role started her career, no one would take her seriously as an actress since. Now, at forty years old, she makes ends meet by doing meet and greets at horror conventions. When a producer gives Barbra the opportunity to hose a new horror docuseries, she jumps at the change…until fans around her begin dying in the same way as characters have in the mirror films.

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Monster in the Mirror by Janasha Prabhu (10/20)

When Jiah Rai was found holding her dead girlfriend Georgia’s body, the whole town thought she killed her. Although there wasn’t enough evidence to charge her, the town won’t forget. Jiah’s uncle was a serial killer whose reputation bled onto Jiah and her sister, who never fit in with the insular white community. Years later, Jiah is stunned when Georgia’s brother threatens her and soon after her best friend goes missing. When text messages lead Jiah to discover another body on the beach that looks similar to one of her uncle’s victims. Now, Jiah is dragged into a game of cat and mouse as she hunts for a killer.

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Missing Molly by Natalie Barelli (10/20)

Rachel has a great life in London with her daughter, partner, and a job at the local paper. When the paper decides to launch a true-crime podcast, the first case is the disappearance of twelve-year-old Molly Forster, who vanished after her family was murdered twelve years ago. Rachel knows all about this case as she is Molly and has been hiding from the person who murdered her family since that night. When the story goes viral, new evidence proves that the real killer is still free and is coming after Rachel.

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There Used to be People Here by Kennedy Cole (11/3)

In Wenton, Mississippi, a man enters the bathroom of a local gay bar and is later found cold and on the floor facing the wall with no explanation as to what happened. Wenton’s only Black detective, Samuel Barkley, is assigned the case with his new temporary partner, Harvey, who Samuel doesn’t know how to feel about. When his investigation leads to the case being connected to a plane crash cover-up, Samuel realizes it wasn’t a plan but there are others in Wenton who like it there and will do whatever it takes to stay.

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All the Little Secrets by May Cobb (11/17)

In the sequel to All the Little Houses, we return to Longview following the death of the town’s queen bee and the aftermath. Pinning a murder on someone is never easy but you might get away with it when the suspects include an ambitious daughter, a trad wife, and many more to add to the list.

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