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Nick Cutter’s latest novel delivers some truly unsettling body horror. Set over a single, tension-filled day, the story follows Margaret, a teenage girl uncovering harrowing truths about her missing friend Charity.  Her day leads to devastating revelations with far-reaching consequences and connections to millionaire tech pioneer, Rudyard Crate, whose childhood flashbacks are wild and horrifying.

Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory (2023) is a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece of historical fiction that lingers in your soul long after the final page. Set against the backdrop of a racially segregated South in 1930s Florida, the novel is both a riveting exploration of systemic injustice and a hallucinatory journey into the supernatural.

Imagine this, if you will, you and thirteen other contestants have been chosen to take part in a week-long game of 'Hide and Seek' in an abandoned amusement park ala Mr. Beast-style. Each day there are two participants that are taken out, the game is active from Dawn until Dusk, and every night you sleep alongside your fellow contestants forging alliances and creating rivalries. The sole winner earns $50,000, AND the game might even become televised so you have the potential to be an internet celeb just by playing. 

If you love horror, an unreliable narrator and a story that makes you want to scream at the characters, We Used to Live Here is a perfect read.  Fast paced and full of suspense, Marcus Kliewer has written a horror story about a queer married couple renovating their new hom

Josh Malerman (Bird Box) brings a realistic and scary imagining about every child’s nightmare-  a very real and very scary monster in the closet. After the usual routine 'Good nights' from her parents, a voice oozes from the closet… “Can I go inside your heart,” says the Other Mommy to 8 year old Bela.

Magdalena Herrera has a secret. 

The Witchstone (2024) by Henry Neff is a crazy, funny and fabulous horror read that leaves you cheering for...everyone? Laszlo, an eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s laziest Curse Keeper, oversees the miserable Drakeford Curse from his office under Midtown.

On a stormy night, off the coast of Washington, an elderly woman is terrified to death when she sees a house washed up on the beach, one she recognizes from her nightmares. When Melissa tries to contact the woman's grandson, Simon, a police officer answers his phone, revealing that Simon is missing. Desperate to find him, Melissa and Leo, once close childhood friends but now estranged, reunite on the island to uncover dangerous secrets that could hold the key to Simon's fate.

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones is a fast-paced read for fans of the Scream franchise. High school, revenge, slashers, and a small, quiet town.

Dwellings by Jay Stephens is a graphic novel that blends cute and cartoonish art with dark and disturbing tales of horror set in a fictional Canadian town. Despite its whimsical appearance, each of the 6 stories packs a punch, giving us a peek into the eerie depths of the human (cartoon?) psyche.

Horror Movie (2024) by Paul Tremblay is my favorite book of the summer, but I'm biased as I'm a dedicated fan of his and got to meet him and have him sign my copy in June. (He left with a WPL pen).

When their son, Ewan, tragically dies, Richard and Juliette Willoughby fall into desperate grief and cannot let him go.  While Richard digs into the dirt of their field in an attempt to connect to Ewan, Juliette brings a team of mystics into the house to attempt to contact the child's spirit.  Their bucolic farm becomes dark, menacing and eerie as an evil folklore bogeyman dominates their daily lives.