Top new horror books in June 2022

It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving. . . .Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to her family's lake house in Vermont...

13 hours, 30 minutes From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s past. A small town hides a big secret…Who killed Emily Vaughn?A girl with a secret…Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom...

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in...

THE SUBURBS, RIGHT NOW . . .Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events...

Return to the Lone City with an eagerly anticipated new story in the New York Times bestselling series that started with The Jewel. From acclaimed young adult author Amy Ewing comes the gripping tale about Lucien’s past and how he went from elite lady-in-waiting to the leader of a revolution...

In every person's story, there is something to hide...The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained...

A haunting songA deadly danceAn explosive finaleAllemar may be dead, but his cause festers in the dark. Strange beasts stalk the night as haunting music corrupts the fog. When morning comes, nothing but dust remains. Rumors are quick to spread, with many speculating that Allemar had a son … and the evil sorcerer’s heir wants blood...

Dr. Vivian Wei is juggling multiple life changing events when her aging mother witnesses a violent death on the thirteenth tee. The only problem? There doesn’t seem to be a crime to go along with the witness. 
As an empath, Vivian knows her mother is telling the truth, but feelings don’t prove a murder...

"They say time heals all wounds. They lied."Synopsis:After recovering her memories at great personal cost, Quinn MacKenna finds herself reliving those moments she thought lost forever...

No light. No air. No escape.Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course..

From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a suspenseful Dark Fantasy, Wall Men: Book Two, a Vow Broken.MARRYING A GIANT IS ONLY THE FIRST OF HER MISTAKES…Here’s a terrifying fact: monsters live in a world only a step away from ours. And they love eating people. I’d know because I was taken prisoner by one, the Blood King. Vampires. Blech! Steer clear of those...

"Forget a good night's sleep. Aurora is epic, but personal and poignant, horrifying and darkly funny, and flat-out suspenseful...

Her body seems to hover above the forest floor. Arms and legs torn away from the trunk. A bloody stump mounted upright on a skewer.Not just a corpse. A warning.The most recent body was discovered in the woods just beyond a logging cabin. Dismembered. Put on display. Ghostly pale skin stark against the forest's green.Before that, two campers were found a few miles off. Cut apart. Impaled...

The journey of survival continues in book two of the bestselling Lone Survivor saga… Four months ago, an EMP brought the power grid down and crippled the country, leaving ferry pilot, Landon Gray and off-the-grid teen, Beth ‘Bluebird’ Sullivan alone on a North Carolina mountain, scrambling to survive. The unlikely duo escaped death, but are far from safe...

The last book in the Academy for Villains series where Zara and her guys must defeat the Titan Cronos if they’re to save the academy and live happily ever after.Villains are the least of Zara’s worries, for now…Academy for Villains is a Hades/Persephone retelling with a Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance twist featuring various kinds of mythology in an academy setting. 18+...

A girl detective. A boy genius. A warrior princess. A young magician. Four young people with extraordinary gifts.For years, they solved mysteries, caught crooks, and slayed monsters. They were secret heroes, keeping an idyllic small town in the middle of America safe from the things that lurked in the dark.Then, the year of their high school graduation, the darkness came for them...

A gorgeous dark gothic fairy tale from award-winning author Angela Slatter. Should delight readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern. Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that...

Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder. Bode Locke, a six-year-old survivor of the tragedy that claimed his father, is about to get a crash course in death when he walks through an impossible door that separates his spirit from his body...

The Locke family plays houseguest to Sam Lesser, just in from the West Coast, and ready to kill them one at a time to get what he came for: the key that will set his master loose. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with Gabriel Rodriguez handling art duties...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the biggest psycho of them all? Could it be budding serial killer Sam Lesser? Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show) handling art and cover duties...

Knowledge is power, knowledge is safety, knowledge is happiness... But sometimes, ignorance is bliss.Taryn and his closest allies safely acquired the dragon core and left Haven City behind, departing for lands unknown. They were content with the knowledge that life would go on without them, and few, if any, would miss the itinerant cultivators...

For Dracula lovers and fans of Diana Urban’s All Your Twisted Secrets, this spine-tingling thriller follows seven horror buffs as their dream trip to a remote Romanian castle turns into a nightmare when they begin to be killed one by one.Alex Rush is ready for the trip of a lifetime...

The werewolves and vampires are on the brink of war, and Fiona and Gabriel are powerless to stop it. After Sigrid’s brutal attack on the local packs, the alphas are on the warpath, and a dangerous coalition of vampires has been slaughtering innocent mortals.Gabriel’s old handler Elias has disappeared, but he knows Fiona’s secret...

You can never leave Mountain Shadow for good...In the small town of Mountain Shadow, Fiona and Eleanor have always been "the weird Grimes sisters." Fiona never had any intention of moving back home, but when her parents are killed in a fire, she's drawn back to the rambling old house that's been in her family for generations...

Things in Ordrya, the capital of the shifter kingdom, are still a little tense after the recent attacks and the illness of the king. But as the newly crowned prince of this kingdom, and the fabled Ulvant, it’s up to me to bring peace to the land. To do that, I must find six talismans to fulfill a prophecy. And the bear talisman is the one I’ve set my sights on next...

ONE GEEK STUCK IN A WORLD OF HURT.Gamer, geek, and legendary vampire Bill Ryder isn’t having a great day. His girlfriend is lost in another dimension, his apartment’s been staked out by werewolves, and to top it all off he’s flat broke.Too bad there’s no rest for the wicked...

With the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…Garden of the GodsGOTG RegistryName: Vera and Shane LemmonsCouple #: 0001Occupation: Fashion Designer and the Main Board Member of GOTGSlave preference: Blank slate MaleRecruiter #: 23200571ExperienceWife: Beginner ⌧Husband: Experienced ⌧Main Master Notes:Jealousy? Anger? Secrets?Vera’s done nothing but love her husband through the good...

From International Award-Winning Author Stuart James, Six Chilling Short Stories.The Intruder.When Marcia Graham is attacked in her home and loses her memory, her only solace is a man she can't remember, claiming to be her husband. As she experiences flashbacks, Marcia is certain she has a daughter...

As a reject continually tossed into uncertain circumstances, I learned to fight for my own survival long ago. But now, thanks to an Alpha with a tender heart, I’m beginning to understand that I’m so much more than a fragile butterfly.I'm a Monarch — an Alpha-born female — and I’ve been trained to handle drug wars, mafia deals, and kidnappings...

When the high king died, his wife banished me. The halfling bastard she always hated. To feed myself, I became a thief. A criminal. A shadow.For months I've been slipping into the palace, risking my life to give my brother life saving elixirs, but the sickness eats away at him more and more every day. I had no choice. I had to make a deal...

Take one crazy Crow who knows she's not a Raven. Add the best Flock ever given wings by the Great Goddess. Mix it up with an Ancient Greek Dino, a group of goofy gobsmacks who thinks he walks on water, and don't forget the Almighty Shifter Wanker – and you've got one heckuva mystery only the Maidens of Mayhem can solve...

I made my choice, and it wasn’t him. But Kingston Farrell won’t take no for an answer, and I’m not sure I want him to.Noah gave me his mark, made me his, and vanished all in the same night. Kingston used that moment to claim me and bind me to him irrevocably. What he couldn’t know was by sealing our bond, he set something in motion none of us can stop...

I was protected by the monsters under my bed when I was a kid in the foster system. I have a feeling I could use them again.My time in the foster system wasn’t great. Maybe they were imaginary, but when things got bad, the boogeyman and an imp always came to my aid. If I needed to run, a beautiful white stag would appear at my window to let me know to get out of there. I’ve touched the stag...

Screams From the Dark is a chilling anthology featuring 29 all-original tales of monsters from bestselling and award-winning authors, edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the top editors in horror.From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror...

A power to gain. Prices too high to pay. No one cheats death forever.Digby finally has everything he wants: the heist went off without a hitch, the shards of the Heretic Seed are in his possession, and Autem is in disarray. All he has to do is unlock the power he’s stolen. But it seems that restoring the Seed to its former glory is easier said than done...

In the nation’s Capital, someone is re-enacting the murders from a series of grisly horror books, and all the evidence points towards the author as the perpetrator.The big problem with that? He died a year ago.In suspicious circumstances.There were rumours of murder, but no arrests followed the original investigation...

The skeletons in the closet have nothing on the one in your backyard.Freshly divorced and grieving the death of her father, Josie Lauer has caged herself inside her home. To cope with her losses, Josie follows a strict daily routine of work, playing with her dog, Po, and trying to remember to eat a decent meal—and ending each night by drinking copious amounts of vodka...

The Tutorial has progressed in unexpected ways as Jake is soon forced to confront reality…Jake has finally found a personal goal of his own as he gains a quest to defeat three more Beast Lords before he can face the final opponent of the Tutorial: The King of the Forest...

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In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featuring an introduction by Amal El-Mohtar, queer infatuation, inevitable heartbreak, and brutal revenge seamlessly intertwine. Whether innocent, guilty, or not even human, the boys, beasts, and men roaming through Miller’s gorgeously crafted worlds can destroy readers, yet leave them wanting more...