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The Haunting of Moscow House, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (Berkley; September 3, 2024)
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The Hitchcock Hotel, by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley; September 24, 2024)
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Horror Stories: Shocking Tales of Unspeakable Terror (Arcturus Gilded Classics) (Sirius; September 3, 2024)
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In the Garden of Monsters, by Crystal King (Mira; September 24, 2024)
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Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives, by Tim Major (Titan Books; September 3, 2024)
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Memory and Bone, by J.S. Bailey (September 24, 2024)
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The Mesmerist, by Caroline Woods (Doubleday; September 10, 2024)
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The Midnight Club, by Margot Harrison (Graydon House; September 24, 2024)
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Next Stop, by Benjamin Resnick (Avid Reader Press; September 10, 2024)
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The Night Guest, by Hildur Knútsdóttir (Tor Nightfire, September 3, 2024)
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Out of the Drowning Deep, by A.C. Wise (Titan Books; September 3, 2024)
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Pay the Piper, by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus (Union Square & Co; September 3, 2024)
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Perfectly Wicked, by Lindsay Lovise (Alcove Press; September 17, 2024)
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The Shadow Key, by by Susan Stokes-Chapman (Harper; September 10, 2024)
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Sleep Tight, by J. H. Markert (Crooked Lane Books, September 10, 2024)
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So Thirsty, by Rachel Harrison (Berkley; September 10, 2024)
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Valley: The Glacian Trilogy, Book III, by Stacey McEwan (Angry Robot; September 10, 2024)
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The Vampire of Kings Street, by Asha Greyling (Crooked Lane Books, September 17, 2024)
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The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society, by C.M. Waggoner (Ace; September 24, 2024)
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William, by Mason Coile (GP Putnam’s Sons, September 10, 2024)
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We Came to Welcome You, by Vincent Tirado (William Morrow; September 3)
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The Witch of Colchis, by Rosie Hewitt (Sourcebooks Landmark; September 10, 2024)
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An Academy for Liars, by Alexis Henderson (Ace; September 17, 2024)
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American Ghoul, by Michelle McGill-Vargas (Blackstone Publishing; September 3, 2024)
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Bitter is the Heart, by Mina Hardy (Crooked Lane Books, September 17, 2024)
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Bright I Burn, by Molly Aitken (Knopf; September 10, 2024)
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Bringer of Dust (The Talents, book 2) by J.M. Miro (Flatiron Books, September 17, 2024)
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Dearest, by Jacquie Walters (Mulholland Books; September 17, 2024)
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The Devil by Name, by Keith Rosson (Random House, September 10, 2024)
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Devils Kill Devils, by Johnny Compton (Tor Nightfire, September 24, 2024)
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Elusive, by Genevieve Cogman (Tor UK; September 3, 2024)
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Evil in Me, by Brom (Tor Nightfire; September 17, 2024)
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The Fallen Fruit, by Shawntelle Madison (September 3, 2024)
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French Quarter Fright Night, by Ellen Byron (Severn House; September 3, 2024)
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Gorse, by Sam. K. Horton (Solaris; September 12, 2024)
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Graveyard Shift: A Novella, by M. L. Rio (Flatiron Books; September 24, 2024)
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Grimm Retold, by Tanith Lee and other authors (Speculation Publications, September 24, 2024)
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Guillotine, by Delilah S. Dawson (Titan Books; September 10, 2024)
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Haunt Sweet Home, by Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom; September 3, 2024)
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A is for Alien Little Golden Book (July 9, 2024)
The not-gory adventures of Ripley and her cat Jonesy. Even little Chestburster makes an appearance. It’s an ABC book.
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Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf, by Deke Moulton (Tundra Books, July 2, 2024)
Benji is being bullied at school, but he’s actually a werewolf. His family runs a wolf sanctuary as cover.
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Boo the Library Ghost, by Becky Paige (Dolphin Books, July 16, 2024)
The library is Poppy’s favorite place to go, but it’s currently haunted by a ghost named Boo. Poppy thinks she knows why Boo is acting out – he can’t read! She determines to help him.
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The Creepening of Dogwood House, by Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press, July 30, 2024)
A Southern gothic book for the middle grade readers. Hoodoo and a creepy house.
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The Cryptid Club #4: You Don’t Know Jackalope, by Michael Brumm (HarperAlley, July 9, 2024)
Graphic novel; grades 1-5.
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Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Welcome to Halloween Town! By Autumn B. Heath (Studio Fun International, July 9, 2024)
An interactive lift-the-flap pop-up book tour of Halloweentown.
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The Ghostkeeper, by Johanna Taylor (GP Putnam, July 23, 2024)
A gothic graphic novel for grades 7-9. Dorian, who can see ghosts, helps the spirits try to recover the Key to Deaths Door that has been stolen, so that they can move on.
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Ghostly, Ghastly Tales: Frights to Tell at Night, by Anastasia Garcia (Gibbs Smith, July 30, 2024)
Spooky short stories for grades 3-7.
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The Ghosts of Nameless Island, by Carly Anne West (Andrews McMeel, July 23, 2024)
Gus can see ghosts and helps them “move on.” His dad goes missing and his mom moves them to Nameless Island to help renovate a house called Rotham Manor.
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Griselda Snook’s Spectacular Books, by Barry Timms (July 2, 2024)
Griselda runs a Halloween themed bookstore that caters to Halloween characters. Can Henry find the right book for him?
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Guess Who? Boo to You! By Katie Woolley (Nosy Crow, July 2, 2024)
A lift-the-flap picture book where characters take turns “booing” at each other’s houses.
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A Halloween Mystery: Scooby Doo and Friends Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024)
Daphne and Velma try to figure out who sabotaged the haunted house.
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How to Be a Ghost – A LEGO Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024)
Another Halloween spooky book for little ones.
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How do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat? By Jane Yolen (Scholastic Press, July 2, 2024)
A rhyming book about the mischief a dinosaur might get into on Halloween.
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I Am Sally and I Am Jack (Nightmare Before Christmas) Little Golden Books (July 2, 2024)
Of course Sally’s book is mostly about a love story and Jack’s book is full of adventure and Christmastown and Santa. I Am Santa doesn’t come out until September, sheesh.
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I Am Wednesday (Addams) Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024)
The entire plot of the first season of the Netflix show, in just a few cute pages. And yes, she does the Wednesday Dance!
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I Got the Spooky Spirit, by Connie Schofield-Morrison (Bloomsbury, July 23, 2024)
A picture book with carving pumpkins, leaves crunching underfoot, and a ghostly dance party.
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Into the Goblin Market, by Vikki VanSickle (Tundra Books, July 30, 2024)
Preschool to grade 3. A picture book based on Christina Rossetti’s famous poem.
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It Came from the Trees, by Ally Russell (Delacorte Press, July 30, 2024)
A Bigfoot retelling in which a girl and her scout troop leave the safety of their camp to search for their missing friend Reese.
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Kill the Beast, by Serena Valentino (Disney Villains Book 11) (Disney Hyperion, July 30)
Gaston wants very badly to be the hero who kills the Beast in this Beauty and the Beast reimagining.
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The LEGO Halloween Games Book: Ideas for 50 Games, Challenges, Puzzles, and Activities (DK Books, July 2, 2024)
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Little Ghost Makes a Friend, by Maggie Edkins Willis (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024)
Adorable picture book about a shy ghost who wants to make friends with the new neighbor girl next door, so he invites her over to a Halloween party. What should he wear so she’ll want to be friends with him?
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The Little Green Witch, by Linda Blackmoor (Caledonia Forest, July 22, 2024)
A little witch named Wren has a talent for herbal medicine, lives in the forest and conjures spells in her kitchen.
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Markless, by C.G. Malburi (Levine Querido, July 23, 2024)
A dark fantasy for grades 7-12, featuring a society where a mark on your palm determines your magic and your worth in the society.
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Meesh the Bad Demon #2: The Secret of the Fang, by Michelle Lam (July 23, 2024)
Meesh banded together with a fairy princess to save the underworld. Now an evil force wants to destroy all fox-kind. Can it be stopped? It’s a graphic novel.
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Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden, by Christy Mandin (Orchard Books, July 2, 2024)
For ages preschool to grade 3. Millie comes to town and finds their gardens boring, so plants things like Fanged Fairymoss and Sneezing Stickyweed. The townsfolk call her garden poison. But some come around. The message is to be yourself, even if you’re weird.
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Mind Over Monsters, by Betsy Uhrig (Margaret McElderry, July 16, 2024)
Monsters are invading Cranberry Bog Middle School!
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The Night Librarian, by Christopher Lincoln (Dial Books, July 30, 2024)
Twins Page and Turner investigate a world they never knew existed, and it has something to do with their dad’s copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and characters missing from the pages of books. Middle grade series.
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The Old Willis Place, by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books, July 16, 2024)
A ghost story graphic novel with a creepy house.
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Prunella, by Beth Ferry (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024)
Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents. She prefers corpse flowers to carnations and poison ivy to petunias. Her creepy garden scares all the other kids away, until one day a peculiar weed takes hold in her garden..
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The Quacken, by Justin Colon (Simon and Schuster, July 16, 2024)
A monstrous duck terrorizes Cucumonga Campground.
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Stranger Things Inside, Outside, Upside Down Funko Pop Little Golden Book (July 9, 2024)
Funko pop versions of Eleven, Dustin, Max, Erica, Lucas, etc. have adventures.
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Supernatural: An Official Spooky Picture Book, by Micol Ostow (Running Press Kids, July 16, 2024)
Sam and Dean Winchester go check out the haunted Waverly Hills Boarding House after reading about it in their dad’s journal. Preschool to grade 3.
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The Tale of the Twisted Toymaker (Are You Afraid of the Dark Volume 2) by Danielle Valentine (July 23, 2024)
About a twisted doll who wants something from you. Ms. Mabel’s Doll Emporium can make a doll that looks just like you. But when Layla stashes the doll in her closet, she hears creepy whispering coming from it at night.
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Trick or Treat on Scary Street, by Lance Bass from Nsync (Union Square Kids, July 23, 2024)
Thirteen trick-or-treaters wander down Scary Street on Halloween.
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Trunk or Treat, by Chris Ayala-Cronos (Clarion, July 16, 2024)
A picture book for kids preschool to grade 3 about the community trunk-or-treat tradition.
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The Twisted Tower of Endless Torment #2 (The Horrible Bag Series), by Rob Renzetti (Penguin Workshop, July 23, 2024)
Middle-grade horror series about a horrible bag and the spine chilling world hidden within. Action packed.
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¡Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos: A Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebration, by Raul the Third (Versify, July 16, 2024)
Little Lobos celebrates both holidays in a festive manner. Preschool to grade 3.
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Welcome to Scare School (1) (Scare School Diaries), by Jarrett Lerner (Aladdin Publishing, July 16, 2024)
A chapter book about Bash, a ghost who isn’t good at “ghost stuff” so he has to go to ghost school.
Wolfgang in the Meadow, by Lenny Wen (Clarion Books, July 16, 2024)
A ghost loves being in the meadow, hugging trees, stargazing etc, but also wants to become the Great Spirit of the Dark Castle and haunt it. Yet that would mean leaving his beloved meadow.
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Memories of the Lost, by Barbara O’Neal (Lake Union Publishing, July 30, 2024)
Months after her mother dies, an artist sees a painting in a gallery that makes her lightheaded and dizzy. A handsome stranger comes over to help her. She later discovers a document in her mother’s papers that makes her realize her whole life has been a lie. She enters into a fugue state, finds a lead to the painting that started it all, and retreats to a remote seaside village to discover the source of her uncanny inspirations.
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Midnight Rooms, by Donyae Coles (Amistad, July 2, 2024)
In 1840s England, the orphaned daughter of a white man and black woman is offered marriage by a wealthy stranger. She accepts the opportunity, and is whisked off to his surprisingly decaying family manor. The servants are skittish, and she’s never allowed to be outside unaccompanied. Her husband is kind, but she begins getting drowsy at dinners, having macabre nightmares and waking up hearing screams in the night. In the morning, she finds bruises on her body.
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The Moonlight Market, by Joanne Harris (Pegasus Books, July 2, 2024)
I am a huge fan of Joanne Harris and I’m extremely excited for this book. It’s set in London, where young orphaned photographer Tom walks around the city photographing interesting things. He meets Vanessa. He followers her into a mysterious secret alternate world that’s hiding in plain sight on the streets and rooftops of London. It’s inhabited by strange colorful beings who are at war with each other – one nocturnal, and one in the light.
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My Mother Cursed My Name, by Anamely Salgado Reyes (Atria Books, July 30, 2024)
Felicitas finally meets her estranged grandmother, who turns out to be cold, strict, and dead. The grandmother decides the only way she can cross over is to make sure her daughter is in a better place in life (work, husband, God, etc) and the only person who can hear the grandmother is Felicitas.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Mother-Cursed-Name-Novel/dp/1668038005/
Nicked, by M.T. Anderson (Knopf/Doubleday, July 23, 2024)
Set in Italy in 1087, where a pox is sweeping through the city. A lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams; and a charismatic treasure hunter seeks the monk’s help to steal a mysterious liquid from Saint Nicholas’ grave to cure the plague.
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Pink Slime, by Fernanda Trias (Scribner, July 2, 2024)
Dystopian. An algae bloom has poisoned the air and a city is ravaged by plague. A mysterious corporation makes the only food people can safely eat, a disgusting pink paste made out of who-knows-what. A woman struggles to stay and survive in the city and keep her few tenuous relationships alive.
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State of Paradise, by Laura van der Berg (Farrar Strauss Giroux, July 9, 2024)
In Florida, a mysterious illness arrived, made people sick, then disappeared. Weird things start happening, and a company called Electra starts handing out a mind bending virtual reality device. A ghostwriter for a thriller author notices weird things happening, and then her sister disappears after a violent rainstorm.
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Toward Eternity, by Anton Hur (HarperVia, July 9, 2024)
In a near-future world, a new therapy is eradicating cancer by replacing the body’s cells completely with nanites. A man who has received nanotherapy vanishes into thin air, then comes back and is changed. Nano humans thrive and begin to replicate. Sci fi book.
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We Burn Daylight, by Bret Anthony Johnston (Random House, July 30, 2024)
Star-crossed lovers fiction based on a true story at the Branch Davidian cult compound.
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The West Passage, by Jared Pachecek (Tordotcom, July 16, 2024)
“When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded.
Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer, foretelling the coming of the Beast. The too-young Mother of Grey House and the Guardian's unnamed squire set out to save their people.”
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Wilderness Reform, by Matt Query and Harrison Query (Atria Books, July 2, 2024)
When naughty thirteen year old Ben is sent to a remote wilderness reform program, he immediately senses an undercurrent of menace in the too-cheerful counselors. He and the other boys in his cabin team up to make it out alive. Surprisingly this isn’t a YA book.
https://amzn.to/45MOYVm
The X-Files: Perihelion, by Claudia Gray (Hyperion Avenue, July 30, 2024)
Mulder and Scully are still reeling from the death of their son William. The FBI calls to ask their help finding a serial killer in Washington DC. The serial killer targets pregnant women, and has an uncanny power of electricity, which is why they call in Mulder and Scully.
https://amzn.to/3zA0A1K
Adult Fiction July 2024 part 1
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The Astrology House, by Carinn Jade (Atria Books, July 16, 2024)
A group of wealthy, successful Manhattanites goes to an astrology-themed retreat in this page-turning thriller. The astrologer has a dark plan for her guests, and not all of them will leave the house alive. A “beach read” type book for those of us on the darker side of life.
https://amzn.to/3VOIQam
The Bang Bang Sisters, by Rio Yoeurs (William Morrow, July 16, 2024)
Brea, Jessie and Flo are members of a cool rock band. But they’re also secretly vigilante assassins who drive their tour bus around the country dispensing justice to criminals who slipped the system. They’re tracking a serial killer known as “The Wren” and only one of the sisters will survive the next 48 hours in this action packed thriller.
https://amzn.to/4clmCUN
The Black Bird Oracle, by Deborah Harkness (Ballantine Books, July 16, 2024)
The fifth book in the ‘All Souls” series featuring scholarly witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew de Clermont. A previously unknown aunt, Gwyneth, sends Diana a note, “It’s time to come home.” Diana and Matthew test their twins, Pip and Rebecca, for magic. Diana’s determined not to spellbind them.
https://amzn.to/3VJ84ad
Briefly Very Beautiful, by Roz Dineen (The Overlook Press, July 2, 2024)
Dystopian fiction where a mother flees the city with her three children during a destabilizing time of near societal collapse due to bad air, wildfires, floods, supply shortages and homegrown terror. The seemingly peaceful costal commune the family ends up at has a dark undercurrent.
https://amzn.to/3RTaSAv
Bright Objects, by Ruby Todd (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024)
A woman searching for her husband’s killer meets a mystic who believes that a recently discovered approaching comet has a divine message.
https://amzn.to/3xKwet1
Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire, July 9, 2024)
An LGBTQ+ horror novel set in Hollywood, with the producer of a streaming series being pressured to kill off his two gay characters “for the algorithm.” And monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends!
https://amzn.to/45KehaE
The Deading, by Nicholas Belardes (Erewhon, July 23, 2024)
A hidden evil emerges from the ocean and infects the residents of a small fishing town. Sea snails wash ashore, infecting the residents, who die and then come back changed, as “Risers.” The town is isolated, and survivors have to find a way to get out of the isolated village.
https://amzn.to/3RPOt7d
The Dissonance, by Shaun Hamill (Knopf/Doubleday, July 23, 2024)
Three students of the eccentric Professor March have been trained in a system of magic called ‘The Dissonance,’ which works by harnessing negative emotions such as anger and pain. Twenty years later, they’re called back to their hometown to help after an idiot teenager’s séance summoned a murderous entity.
https://amzn.to/3RQMXBL
Dracula (Arcturus Ornate Classics) by Bram Stoker (Sirius, July 2, 2024)
A stunning edition of the classic vampire book. Beautiful for your bookshelves.
https://amzn.to/3RQ4Lgp
Echoes of Memory, by Sarah Driscoll (Kensington, July 23, 2024)
A woman with post-traumatic attack amnesia witnesses a murder in the alley and writes it all down carefully in her notebook so she can remember It the next day. But by the time the police arrive, there’s no body and no crime scene. The next day, she starts having flashbacks, and realizes the killer knows she’s a witness..
https://amzn.to/4eHO14N
The Family Experiment, by John Marrs (Hanover Square Press, July 9, 2024)
A dystopian thriller set in the future UK, where the world population is soaring, but in the UK nobody can afford to start a family. For families desperate to have a child, you can pay a subscription service for access to a virtual child via a VR headset. A reality show called “The Substitute” will follow ten couples as they raise their virtual children from “birth” to age 18 though an artificially condensed nine month period. They compete to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a “real” baby to keep.
https://amzn.to/4bpfnK0
Folk Tales of the Night: Stories for Campfires, Bedtime and Nocturnal Adventures, by Chris Salisbury (The History Press, July 2, 2024)
A master storyteller from the UK rewrote and respun these folk tales of stars, sea, creatures and ghosts. They’re ideally shared around a campfire late at night.
https://amzn.to/3RQ3w0u
Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales of the Supernatural (Arcturus Gilded Classics) (Sirius, July 2, 2024)
A stunningly beautiful gift edition of fifteen ghost stores by Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, etc.
https://amzn.to/3XPdvHA
The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books, July 2, 2024)
In this thriller set in 1975, a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk in the cabin. A girl, Barbara, has gone missing. She’s the daughter of the camp’s owners, but the disturbing part is, her older brother also went missing fourteen years before, never to be found.
https://amzn.to/4eLcPcc
The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish, by Paula Braxton (St. Martin’s Press, July 23, 2024)
Part 1 in a series. Set in England in 1881. Hecate Cavendish is about to become assistant librarian at Hereford Cathedral, which houses a chained library, and a map of the medieval world. Hecate sees ghosts, and some need her help, and some are threatening her very existence.
https://amzn.to/4ePh72k
Heads Will Roll, by Josh Winning (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, July 30, 2024)
A troubled TV actress is sent to a summer camp for adult celebrities to take a break and leave their mistakes behind. There’s no phones allowed, so the campers have no way to call for help when one of them goes missing and others start to lose their heads (literally).
https://amzn.to/4cH8sgu
Her Cruel Dahlias, by Candace Robinson (Crooked Heart Publishing, July 11, 2024)
Cricket Wakefield was brutally murdered, but the dead don’t always stay dead. She’s awoken from the dead a year later by a necromancer, and she joins a carnival. More women turn up dead, and they all still have the same black dahlias on her body. She must find and stop her killer before she dies again.
https://amzn.to/4eQrrXC
House of Shades, by Leeanne Dillsworth (Harper, July 16, 2024)
A Black female doctor in 1830s Victorian London moves to a dark and foreboding house to try to cure its owner. But it’s not that simple, and she begins to unearth secrets.
https://amzn.to/3L9pB6x
I Was a Teenage Slasher, by Stephen Graham Jones (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024)
A teenager in a small town in Texas is cursed to kill for revenge. This is their autobiography.
https://amzn.to/3RRwltM
Look in the Mirror, by Catherine Steadman (Ballantine Books, July 30, 2024)
Nina’s father dies, leaving her an estate in the British Virgin Islands she hadn’t known existed. It’s a modern high-tech house with glass and marble. She’s not sure how he got the money for it and why he kept it a secret. Meanwhile medical student Maria is a nanny for the super rich. She travels to a fancy house to start work, but her employers haven’t arrived yet. Their only message is “Don’t go in the basement.” Reminds me of Bluebeard?
https://amzn.to/3W3M2R3
The Lost Story, by Meg Shaffer (Ballantine Books, July 16, 2024)
In this Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grownups, two boys go missing in a West Virginia forest, only to reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d been or what happened. Fifteen years later, one is an artist with no memory of what happened, and the other a missing persons investigator who does remember the magical realm they’d gone to. They’re called on to find Emilie’s missing sister, lost in those same woods.
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Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #187: Dark Young Adult Fiction Books Coming Out April 2024
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Against the Darkness (Buffy: The Next Generation), by Kendare Blake (April 9)
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The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories, by Desiree S. Evans (Editor), Saraciea J. Fennell (Editor), Tananarive Due (April 2)
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To a Darker Shore, by Leanne Schwartz (April 30)
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Dark Parts of the Universe, by Samuel Miller (April 23)
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Draw Down the Moon (Moonstruck, 1), by P. C. Cast (Author), Kristin Cast (Author)
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The Kill Factor, by Ben Oliver (April 16)
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Kill Her Twice, by Stacey Lee (April 23)
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The Merciless King of Moore High, by Lily Sparks (April 20)
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Merciless Saviors: A Novel (The Ouroboros, 2), by H.E. Edgmon (April 16)
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Off With Their Heads, by Zoe Hana Mikuta (April 23)
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Otherworldly, by F.T. Lukens (April 2)
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Your Blood, My Bones, by Kelly Andrew (April 2)
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Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #186: Dark Adult Non Fiction Coming Out April 2024
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The Complications: On Going Insane in America, by Emmett Rensin (April 23)
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The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination, by Eileen M. Hunt (Apr 16)
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Houseplant HortOCCULTure: Green Magic for Indoor Spaces, by Devin Hunter (Author), Juliet Diaz (April 8)
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs, by Sabrina Sholts (Author), Lonnie G. Bunch III (April 9)
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Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen (March 26)
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers, by James Patterson (Author), Matt Eversmann (April 8)
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Sociopath: A Memoir, by Ph.D. Patric Gagne (April 2)
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Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #185: Dark Adult Fiction Coming Out April 2024 (Part 2/2) #podcast
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The House on Biscayne Bay, by Chanel Cleeton (April 2)
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The Hungry Dark, by Jen Williams (Apr 9)
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I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger (Apr 2)
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Immortal Pleasures, by V. Castro (April 16)
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Indian Burial Ground, by Nick Medina (April 16)
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The Murder of Mr. Ma, by SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee (Apr 2)
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Myrrh, by Polly Hall (Apr 9)
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Oracle, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Apr 30)
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Sanctuary, by Valentina Cano Repetto (Apr 16)
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World, by Douglas Westerbeke (Apr 2)
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by John Wiswell (Apr 2)
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This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances, by Eric LaRocca (April 2) https://amzn.to/4b9J5DS
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, by Molly X. Chang (April 16)
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Dark Side of the Library Podcast Episode #184: Dark Adult Fiction Coming Out April 2024 (Part 1/2)
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Bless Your Heart, by Lindy Ryan (Apr 9)
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The Book of Thorns, by Hester Fox (Apr 2) https://amzn.to/496QIcI
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder, by Asako Yuzuki (Apr 16)
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Camp Zero, by Michelle Min Sterling (Apr 4)
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Death in the Details, by Katie Tietjen (Apr 9)
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The Garden, by Clare Beams (Apr 9)
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The Gathering: A Novel, by C. J. Tudor (April 9)
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Ghost Station, by S.A. Barnes (April 9)
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The Hemlock Queen, by Hannah Whitten (Nightshade Crown, 2) (Apr 9)
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Home Is Where the Bodies Are, by Jeneva Rose (April 30)
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Dark Side of the Library Minisode #119: "Come Closer: A Novel" by Sara Gran
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