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The Horror That Lizzy is Excited For

Lizzy has a never ending wishlist and a TBR that will keep her reading til the day she dies, but here are some of the horror books coming out soon that she is excited to get distracted by! 

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Fawn
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ByC.N. Vair

A viscerally dark, literary folk horror set in isolated Appalachia for fans of Lucy Rose, Francine Toon and Andrew Michael Hurley. 'People did not expect such a thing, from a woman or a fawn; we were both meant to be prey.' In the hills of Appalachia, Tess Wynne lives in precious quiet. She tends her wildlife sanctuary, honours old rituals and survives what comes for her each year. Then she finds a doe split open. And the fawn who survived. Red-mouthed. Full set of teeth. Hungry. Nature knows what must be done. The town watches to see if Tess will do it. She does not. Whispers spread. Old bargains strain. Something primal stirs within Tess—anger, appetite, the slow understanding that prey is only prey for so long. A...

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Our Cut of Salt
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Our Cut of Salt

ByDeena Helm

THE HOUSE IS WAITING FOR YOU. From a bold new Palestinian voice comes Our Cut of Salt - an unflinching, sinister and moving take on the haunted house novel, perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians and The Haunting of Hill House. 'Lyrical and haunting, Our Cut of Salt explores the horrors of occupation via the lens of three generations of women as well as a one-of-a-kind haunted house. A disturbing, mesmerizing read' — Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie There is something haunting Nuhad's childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have been known to disappear entirely in its walls without a trace. Although Nuhad has not returned to her home since the Nakba...

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You Did Nothing Wrong
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You Did Nothing Wrong

ByCG Drews

A relentless and disturbing haunted house horror for fans of PLAY NICE and WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS, by No.1 New York Times bestselling author CG Drews. 'Visceral, haunting, and blisteringly raw' – AVA REID 'Suspenseful and gripping, with ratcheting tension that crawls under your skin' – MONIKA KIM The walls are closing in on her perfect new life. Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect. Then Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are 'hurting' the house....

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Acquired Taste
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Acquired Taste

ByClay McLeod Chapman

They're feeding on you too. A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one. From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns, from the claustrophobia of the COVID-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own. Packed full of humanity, humour and, above all, relentless creeping dread, Acquired Taste is a timely descent into the mind of one of modern horror's finest authors.

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Off the Reservation
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Off the Reservation

ByStephen Graham Jones

A spine-tingling and terrifying road trip across America as four ragtag activists repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy sent to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School, battling terrible supernatural forces in this follow-up to The Only Good Indians. From the bestselling, multiple-award-winning modern master of horror, and author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Five years after the massacres on the Blackfeet reservation in The Only Good Indians, survivor Nate Yellow Tail finds himself in hospital after a terrible accident that should’ve killed him, and has left his best friend Sebby on the brink of death. So when he is given the chance to reset his life, and maybe save Sebby in the process, Nate steps up again. This time into a camper van that’s as run down...

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Dead Weight
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Dead Weight

ByHildur Knútsdóttir

Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat's wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavík night, Ásta and her pet slip into Unnur's life. It's unexpected, but welcome. Unnur likes the company, and she begins to rely on Ásta in turn. But like a black cat, trouble has been tailing her new friend, and Unnur is the only one there for Ásta when things take a violent turn. The two women quickly learn: nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands. Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir explores the depths of friendship and the lengths to...

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I Am the Monster Under the Bed
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I Am the Monster Under the Bed

ByEmily Zinnikas

TIME ONLY MAKES THE NIGHTMARE MORE REAL. Something lives under Willa's bed. As an adult, her fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity under her bed who taught her how to read. Now thirty-two, Willa is a reclusive but successful painter until a bombshell news report exposes her identity as the controversial survivor of the unsolved Rapture Mystery Slayings, a small-town tragedy that splashed across headlines during her senior year of high school. Six teenagers died in the woods while Willa walked free, and everyone thinks she killed them. When an old classmate calls about a funeral, Willa reluctantly travels to her sleepy hometown, where the possessed forest that stole her friends looms. The trees whistle for her attention, but she knows better than to listen. And...

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Slewfoot
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Slewfoot

ByBrom

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION - this stunning edition of the USA Today bestselling Slewfoot features: Beautiful new endpapers illustrated by the author A crimson ribbon bookmark Special stenciled edges More than two dozen paintings by Brom Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan - one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake. "If it is a devil you seek, then it is a devil you shall have!"

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From the Library of Jurgen Leitner
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From the Library of Jurgen Leitner

ByPremee Mohamed and Jonathan Sims

A brand new standalone gothic horror novel based on the internet sensation and popular podcast drama The Magnus Archives, perfect for fans of Welcome to Night Vale. Enter the library of an enigmatic collector, where occult books are guarded and researched at a fatal cost, with this uncanny eldritch horror novel from Nebula Award-winning author Premee Mohamed and The Magnus Archives' Jonathan Sims. Fear comes before the fall. In the winding, perilous corridors of Jurgen Leitner's private library, you never know what you'll find. A starving cookbook. An ancient scroll that casts cool, predatory breezes. A cloth-bound hardback that compels you to DIG, DIG, DIG, DIG. Free, these books are more than simply unnerving—they're deadly. But the library keeps their dangers in check and their would-be readers safe......

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Something Is Killing the Children
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Something Is Killing the Children

ByKiersten White and James Tynion IV

The first original novel set in the blockbuster Something Is Killing the Children universe: supernatural horror from a globally successful franchise and two award-winning authors. Welcome to the dark. It has very sharp teeth. Based on the internationally bestselling comic series, with millions of copies in print, the first full-length novel from the terrifying world of Something Is Killing the Children is a stunning collaboration between Eisner-winning co-creator James Tynion IV and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White. As a Black Mask, Erica Slaughter has a very straightforward job: find the monster, kill the monster, then do it all again. But when she arrives in Badwater, Idaho, nothing is simple. She can't determine whether the horrific killer of a twelve-year-old was a bear, a person, or...

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The Bone Singer
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The Bone Singer

ByAbigail Owen

Riverdale meets The Craft in this fantasy series from the Number 1 New York Times bestseller. Enter a town where secrets don't stay buried and the dead won't stay quiet . . . The dead chose her. Now she has to figure out why. Eighteen-year-old Thalia Cross has spent her whole life invisible in the mountain town of Wilder, Colorado, following her grandfather's rules to stay isolated and stay safe. But when her only friend turns up as a stripped skeleton on her mountain, and the bones start whispering her name, Thalia discovers she's something called a Bone Singer—and that the dead have been waiting specifically for her. Now she's the prime suspect in a murder, falling for the deputy who arrested her, and uncovering a secret that...

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The Scarlet Ball
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The Scarlet Ball

ByNghi Vo

A dark and magical tale of ballrooms and bloodshed in the Gilded Age, from multi-award winning fantasy author Nghi Vo. Judith Ban - convent girl, courtesan, and failed thief - is looking for her next identity. She's no stranger to wealth or danger, but the glitter of New York's Gilded Age hides a darkness even she has never imagined. Here, the city's elite maintain their grip through opulent balls, whispered rituals, and marriages with demons hungry for human devotion. When she crosses paths with the formidable matriarch of the Howard family, Judith is offered an irresistible bargain: to take the place of a missing debutante in the coming season. With Miss Iphigenia Marshall's face stitched over her own, Judith becomes white, rich, and ready to risk it all....

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Nightjars
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Nightjars

ByMichael Wehunt

One rainy night on a first date, Luke Oshel's new crush never comes back from the restroom. But she leaves an old photograph under her napkin—Luke as a child, a dead body in the shadows of his bedroom, and a terrifying masked man. He has no recollection of this event. Then more photos disrupt his life—Luke posing with murder victims, covered in blood—and he falls back into the deep paranoia and repressed memories he's tried to leave behind. All the drugs and alcohol, therapy, and hypnosis sessions have never conquered his deepest fear—that he hasn't escaped the hidden legacy of his father, who killed his victims by exsanguination before his own death. But now there is a new string of serial killings, and the evidence all points to...

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Don't Leave Her Alone
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Don't Leave Her Alone

ByDesirée de Fez

Don’t Leave Her Alone seamlessly blends humour with grounded body horror. It tells the story of a mother and two sisters—each also a mother to young children—linked by the tentacles that live inside them. Alba has spent her life unable to be alone, clinging to the presence of others to silence the anxieties she refuses to face. But when she wakes up on the floor of a shopping mall, covered in blood and with only fragmented memories of how she got there, she is forced to confront the truth she has long avoided. Meanwhile, her sister Diana struggles to balance the pressures of motherhood and work, drowning in guilt and anxiety, while their mother, Carmen, remains trapped in an endless cycle of sacrifice and duty, caring for her...

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The Art and Craft of Stephen King
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The Art and Craft of Stephen King

ByGuy Astic and Frank Lafond

The first complete, in-depth examination of every work published in the immense oeuvre of the "King of Horror," Stephen King, which serves as the ultimate illustrated resource of the development of a literary great. Stephen King is perhaps the most well-known author across horror, thriller, science fiction, and mystery genres, with more than 350 million books sold. Stephen King All the Stories examines in extensive detail how each novel, novella, and short story was created, developed, published, and adapted into successful films, television, and other media. At 648 pages, Stephen King All the Stories is filled with the most popular titles like Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, and Carrie as well as the lesser-known ones like Joyland and Revival. This illustrated account contains more than 300 photographs that complement...

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