As the weather gets colder and Halloween approaches, it's a great time to pick up some scary titles to read. Horror is great fun all year round but if you're like me the days getting colder and shorter is a great excuse to curl up with a hot cup of tea and something spine-chilling. Here are some recent releases in teen, adult, and graphic fiction that will scratch that creepy itch!
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Infidel
by Pornsak Pichetshote, Jose Villarrubia, and Aaron Campbell A horror tale for the 21st century, Infidel follows an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities fueled by xenophobia. |
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We Sold Our Souls
by Grady Hendrix A has-been heavy metal artist discovers that her failed band's lead singer sold their souls in a Faustian exchange for his solo-career fame and fortune. By the award-winning author of Horrorstör. |
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Alice Isn't Dead
by Joseph Fink Spotting her late wife in news-report backgrounds, truck driver Keisha Taylor stumbles into an otherworldly conflict on the nation's highway systems. By the New York Times best-selling co-author of It Devours! and the podcast "Welcome to Night Vale." Adapted from the podcast of the same name. |
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Unbury Carol : a novel
by Josh Malerman A woman prone to secret temporary comas that make her appear to be dead receives protection from a redemption-seeking former lover who would save her from being buried alive by her fortune-hunting husband. By the best-selling author of Bird Box. |
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Her body and other parties : stories
by Carmen Maria Machado Bordering psychological realism and science fiction, a collection of stories explore the reality of women's lives and the violence inflicted upon their bodies. |
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The Good Demon
by Jimmy Cajoleas Clare, miserable since an exorcism took away the demon that was like a sister to her, discovers the occult roots of her small Southern town and must question the fine lines between good and evil, love and hate, and religion and free will. |
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods
by Laird Hunt A Puritan woman goes missing deep in the woods of colonial New England, and soon must face the supernatural horrors that her people had only imagined up until then. |
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The outsider
by Stephen King In the aftermath of a boy's brutal murder in Flint City, a local detective is forced to arrest a popular Little League coach who, in spite of an alibi, presents with open-and-shut evidence that is called into question when the suspect's true nature. |
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Sawkill Girls
by Claire Legrand From the New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn comes a breathtaking and spine-tingling novel about three teenage girls who face off against an insidious monster that preys upon young women. |
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The merry spinster : tales of everyday horror
by Daniel Mallory Ortberg Adapted from the author's "Children Stories Made Horrific" series, a collection of darkly whimsical stories based on classic fairy tales updates familiar favorites with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity and feminist mischief. By the best-selling author of Texts from Jane Eyre. |
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Victor Lavalle's Destroyer
by Victor Lavalle, Dietrich Smith, Joana LaFuente, and Michaela Dawn On a dreary November night in 1792, Victor Frankenstein used natural-- and unnatural-- science to reanimate the dead. Victor eventually died, but the monster never did. It hid away in Antarctica and thought itself free of humanity. But the world isn't done with the monster and one descendant of the Frankenstein bloodline yet lives... |