Top new horror books in August 2022

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours...

It’s been three months since Ollie made a deal with the smiling man to save her friends’ lives and vanished without a trace. Coco, Brian, and Phil are beginning to worry if they’ll ever see Ollie again when they find a mysterious note, possibly from Ollie, on a poster for a traveling carnival set to arrive in town...

Bloody Fool for Love from New York Times best-selling author William Ritter marks the beginning of an all-new series that explores prequel stories about fan-favorite Buffy characters.Spike just wants to enjoy the spoils of his new badass reputation. He’s now a legendary slayer-killer, and he’s returning to London—the greatest city in the world...

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times--a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored...

The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either rich...or dead.Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since...

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins.But the night before the big game, one of the players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances...

"A tense ride from the start...terrific." —Richard Kadrey, New York Times bestselling author of Sandman Slim She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from the driver, trusting that everything is fine. She wakes up chained in the stranger’s basement...

From comic-book superstars SCOTT SNYDER and GREG CAPULLO (Batman, Batman: Last Knight on Earth, Dark Nights: Metal & Death Metal) comes a new blockbuster series of biblical proportions. Since the very dawn of man, legends have been told of the conflict between angel and demon-kind. Lam Lyle, a woman of science, dismissed these stories as just that -- fiction...

A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces.Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip -- the one thing that gets Alice through the school year...

From the author of the “dark and devious...beautifully written” (Stephen King) Mirrorland comes a richly atmospheric thriller set on an isolated Scottish island where nothing is as it seems and shocking twists lie around every corner. A remote village. A deadly secret. An outsider who knows the truth...

There is something strange about Goblin Slayer when he proposes a new adventure to the party—they are to travel north across snow-capped mountains into a country of darkest night. There, they encounter an indigenous epic, a strange new language and culture, and the beautiful woman who governs it all. It is said that ghosts lurk in the sea to the north, and no ships return to port...

Celebrate over forty years of the modern classic Bunnicula with this fang-tastic graphic novelization!Beware the hare! Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household—a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits…and fangs! Could this innocent-seeming rabbit actually be a...

Bad Moms meets My Best Friend's Exorcism in this comedic horror novel about a group of women in the Chicago burbs, whose cul-de-sac gets a new neighbor: a demon. Amy Foster considers herself lucky. After she left the city and moved to the suburbs, she found her place quickly with neighbors Liz, Jess, and Melissa, snarking together from the outskirts of the PTA crowd...

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr...

What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions under their belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a new generation of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals of criminal history. From initial canvasing to home entry, the reader is complicit in every strangling and shattered window...

Years ago, mysterious beings only known as kihei appeared without warning and overran the world. To confront this strange menace, the Twilight Academy was established to train students in black magic and how to battle the otherworldly invaders. Graduates of this school are no strangers to death and many meet their doom while fulfilling their duty to protect humanity...

Death was everywhere. They all stared at me, bumping into one another and slowly coming forward.Sixteen-year-old Zharie Young is absolutely certain her mother morphed into a zombie before her untimely death, but she can't seem to figure out why. Why her mother died, why her aunt doesn't want her around, why all her dreams seem suddenly, hopelessly out of reach...

A deviant kid tires of his absent father's antics and summons a curse that will kill him the moment he tells one of his tired zingers. Little does he know that this time, his dad has left for good. The curse spreads. Dads are dying all over town and nobody knows how to stop it. Meanwhile, the wayward father kills time at a strip club and meets a dancer whose body hungers for wayward men...

The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the war, and never let your guard down during October...

Arcea Vale had a good life. Her mother was the head of the government and her father a professor at the University she attended. Life was good, if dull. That is, until war came to her doorstep. An old family friend entrusts her with a mission: find the most dangerous Weapon in the world to assassinate the most dangerous man in the world...