Looking for some frights this October? Here's a roundup of some new and notable horror releases from 2022. From sci-fi horror to haunted houses and middle grade to adult, you're sure to find something to scare you!
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Jackal : a novel
by Erin E. Adams ADULT: A Black woman returning to her Rust Belt hometown for a wedding uncovers a sinister pattern of black girls going missing from the area when her friends daughter disappears from the reception, leaving behind only a bloody piece of fabric. |
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The stars are not yet bells
by Hannah Lillith Assadi ADULT: Fifty years after Elle Ranier came to Lyra island with her husband to find the source of mysterious lights, she looks back on her life on the mysterious island and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. |
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Dead silence
by S. A. Barnes ADULT: Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark. |
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The hacienda
by Isabel Cañas ADULT: In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solrzanos proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his first wifes death. |
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Just like home
by Sarah Gailey ADULT: Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house, finding out just how deep the rot goes. |
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House of hunger
by Alexis Henderson ADULT: Escaping the slums, Marion applies for the position of Bloodmaid and is swept into a world of lust, blood, and dark debauchery presided over by the feared Countess Lisavet, who enlists her into a vicious game of cat and mouse. |
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The weight of blood
by Tiffany D. Jackson TEEN: While at Springville Highs first integrated prom, Maddie, a constantly bullied biracial teenager, is tormented by her classmates until her secret is revealed--one that will cost them their lives. |
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Don't Fear the Reaper
by Stephen Graham Jones ADULT: Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho. Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over. Don’t Fear the Reaper is the page-turning sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones. |
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What moves the dead
by T. Kingfisher ADULT: When his receives world that his childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, retired soldier Alex Easton races to the House of Usher where he, after encountering a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, recruits a British mycologist and a baffled American doctor to unravel the truth. |
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes
by Eric Larocca ADULT: A Bram Stoker Award finalist presents three dark and disturbing horror stories, one in which two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s succumb to their most horrifying desires as darkness threatens to forever transform them. |
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Cherish Farrah : a novel
by Bethany C. Morrow ADULT: Being faced with her home’s foreclosure, one of only two black girls in a wealthy gated community manipulates her way into her friends’ household where she starts noticing strange things happening and her suspicion of the seemingly-perfect family grows. |
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Man made monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers TEEN: Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period. |
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The Clackity
by Lora Senf MIDDLE GRADE: When her aunt, a paranormal expert, disappears, Evie makes a deal with The Clackity, a creature who lives in an abandoned slaughterhouse, which puts her very soul in danger as she enters into a strange otherworld to find her. |
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Stinetinglers : All New Stories by the Master of Scary Tales
by R. L. Stine MIDDLE GRADE: The master of middle-grade horror presents a new collection of 10 terrifying tales guaranteed to keep readers up all night. |
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Trouble the waters : tales from the deep blue
by Sheree R. Thomas ADULT: Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water. |
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Burn down, rise up
by Vincent Tirado TEEN: When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process. |
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The Pallbearers Club
by Paul Tremblay ADULT: A volunteer pallbearer for poorly attended funerals, Art Barbara, a 17-year-old loner in the 1980s, meets a cool girl who has an obsessive knowledge of strange, terrifying things that he tries to make sense of years later while writing a book that she begins making cuts to. |
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Sundial
by Catriona Ward ADULT: Rob is forced to make one last trip out to Sundial, her parents property in the wild Mojave desert where dark secrets are buried, when a frightening accident in her home reveals a disturbing discovery in her oldest daughters bedroom. |
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The restless dark
by Erica Waters TEEN: When a true-crime podcast hosts a contest to find the Cloudkiss Killer's bones, three girls seek answers, new identities and a place to bury their secrets, discovering that sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind. |
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Hell followed with us
by Andrew Joseph White TEEN: Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him...Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot...Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens...Benji accepts Nick's terms...until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. |