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Readers who enjoy graphic creature horror and a city under attack should find plenty to like here.
The Rats
Horror
Our take
A bestselling horror novel called “Splatterpunk deluxe” by Stephen King, The Rats follows high school teacher Harris as giant, flesh-eating rats attack London. A student’s rat bite draws him into the crisis as the creatures’ intelligence makes the threat increasingly dangerous. Readers who enjoy graphic creature horror and a city under attack should find plenty to like here.
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A special 50th anniversary edition of the classic bestselling horror novel The Rats.
‘Splatterpunk deluxe. Not only great, gory fun but a prime example of what was once called "the British nasty." I loved it then, love it still‘
– Stephen King
The first victim was a former paper salesman drinking himself into oblivion down by the docks. Next a child and her beloved dog, then six drifters fighting over a bottle of gin - all devoured by a black, writhing mass of giant rats.
As London descends into panicked chaos, high school teacher Harris is pulled head-first into the nightmare when a student arrives with a rat bite on his hand. And he quickly realises that this is no ordinary creature, nothing like anyone has ever seen before.
With their intelligent, wicked-looking eyes and razor-sharp teeth, the balance of power between man and rat has suddenly - shockingly, horribly - shifted.
The rats have had their first taste of human blood.
And they're hungry for more . . .
‘Lean, mean, and nasty as punk, The Rats are here! Capable of inciting riots and causing bloodshed‘
- Grady Hendrix, bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
‘A seminal work from a king of British horror‘
– Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
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This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
The Swarm
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called “Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark” by Gabino Iglesias, this horror novel follows Detective Vicky Paterson and two private investigators as an off-cycle cicada emergence becomes a deadly invasion. A bizarre murder, a missing girl, and a shadowy cult intersect as survivors try to uncover the swarm’s purpose. This will appeal to readers who want apocalyptic insect horror with criminal investigations and a band of unlikely allies.
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From the bizarre and audacious imagination of horror author Andy Marino comes a harrowing tale of the insect that will herald the apocalypse …
"The literary equivalent of swallowing a wasp that's crawled inside your Coke can. Do yourself a favor and read this book." —Nick Cutter, author of The Troop
"Creepy, crawly, and endlessly dark, this is Marino's best novel yet." —Gabino Iglesias, Bram Stoker award winning author of The Devil Takes You Home
It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When a bizarre murder case lands on the desk of Detective Vicky Paterson, it's just the start of her nightmare. On the same day, her young daughter, Sadie, is swarmed by cicadas emerging off-cycle from their seventeen-year pattern. Sadie barely survives, and her condition is critical.
Across town, Will and Alicia, two dysfunctional private investigators, are on the trail of a missing girl and the shadowy cult involved in her disappearance. But after the first wave of insects hit, they are forced to barricade themselves in a motel where they must work together with a group of strangers to outlast the invasion.
Soon the infestation is impossible to contain. Humanity rests on the knife's edge of extinction. And there is a terrible purpose behind the emergence —one that Vicky, Will, Alicia, and a small group of unlikely allies must unravel if they are to survive.
"Marino's work is unlike any other's in the genre—horrifying, complex, fascinating, and utterly unique." – Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of the Wilderwood series
"Relentless, brutal, and brilliant. An apocalyptic tour de force." —Craig DiLouie, author of How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
"Marino has taken the safety of sensations away from me. Every prickle along my arm, the slightest buzz anywhere near my ear—it's all fodder for nightmares now. Suggesting your skin will crawl after reading this unnerving novel doesn't come close. Your flesh will fly away." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
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This will appeal to readers who want near-future horror about artificial intelligence with dark humor.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Horror · Mystery
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Former professional gamer Julia Flang accepts a well-paid assignment from her estranged mother: escort a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. He has an AI mind implanted in his head, while a man without memories awakens inside a shifting, monstrous reality. This will appeal to readers who want near-future horror about artificial intelligence with dark humor.
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"Paul Tremblay is on fire. . . . As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as this novel can be, it's emotionally wrenching and truly scary."
—Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
To sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word, yes. But he’s not dead dead.
Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember.
Using a cell phone modeled after a video game controller, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
"Creepy and unexpectedly humorous. . . . A master storyteller, Tremblay's b(l)ending of genres here truly is a perfect beach read."
—NPR
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dual timelines, haunted houses, Japanese folklore, samurai history, and gory Gothic horror.
Japanese Gothic
Horror
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A USA TODAY bestseller, this horror novel follows Lee Turner in 2026 and Sen, a young samurai in 1877, as the two discover a door connecting their worlds through the same unsettling house. Their stories intertwine Japanese mythology, family secrets, violence, and supernatural horror. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dual timelines, haunted houses, Japanese folklore, samurai history, and gory Gothic horror.
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USA TODAY Bestseller
New York Times Most Anticipated Book for 2026
USA TODAY Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Book Riot "Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026"
From the critically acclaimed, USA TODAY bestselling, New York Times Top 100, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng and Hell to Pay, a lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, following two people living centuries apart who discover a door between their worlds.
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn't always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.
October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.
One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.
Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
For readers who love:
- Grady Hendrix and Stephen King
- Japanese mythology
- Friendship and family themes
- Terrifying, gory stories
- Horror with heart
- A new take on the classic haunted house trope
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Ideal for readers looking for creature horror with wilderness survival, mutated predators, and an escalating ecological threat.
The Invasive
Horror
Our take
Bishop and his wife Angela leave Chicago for Montana only to become trapped in Apex Valley, where mutated wildlife and mysterious creatures with countdown tags hunt them. With Angela injured and their exits blocked, Bishop and an unlikely ally must survive long enough to stop an ecological threat from spreading beyond the valley. Ideal for readers looking for creature horror with wilderness survival, mutated predators, and an escalating ecological threat.
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Bishop and his wife Angela traded the concrete jungle of Chicago for the pine forests of Montana, but Apex Valley has no intention of letting them go.
Deep in the wilderness, the laws of nature have been rewritten. Monstrous birds mimic human cries from the canopy. Leaf-shaped predators hunt in dark glades. And in the shadows, creatures with blinking red tags creep and scurry—counting down to something lethal.
With an injured wife to carry, a cryptic stranger named Colbrick as his only ally, and every exit blocked by blood-streaked wrecks, Bishop is no longer just lost. He’s prey. As the "tags" begin to blink faster, Bishop realizes they aren't just fighting for their lives—they're the last line of defense before an ecological nightmare goes global.
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Readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with cold cases, an older protagonist, punk-rock history, and fractured memories should find plenty to like here.
Hear the Dead
Horror · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
Our take
Retired punk photographer Elena Altieri is pulled back into her New York past when she begins hearing the final screams of murdered women, including her long-dead best friend. It has a 3.9-star average from more than 70 Goodreads ratings. Readers who enjoy supernatural mysteries with cold cases, an older protagonist, punk-rock history, and fractured memories should find plenty to like here.
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"Full of twists and turns with just the right hint of the supernatural...a rollicking ride into the heyday of the New York City punk scene." — Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and Stay Buried
From award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she's desperate to forget.
One woman. A string of unsolved murders. Only she can hear the victims.
For more than forty years, Elena Altieri has been hiding from the tragedies of her New York City punk rock youth. Tragedies that left her best friend, Sin, dead, and other women in their orbit missing. Now, the past is catching up with her in more ways than one. Not only is she hearing strange noises under the hum of her tinnitus, but the photographs she took of a recently deceased musician are going viral, thrusting her back into a world she hoped would remain locked away forever.
When Elena begins to hear the screams of a woman ringing in her ears, she becomes convinced that she's somehow hearing Sin's murder. Desperate for answers, she has no choice but to revisit her past, and what she'll uncover will not only force her to reckon with her own fractured memories, but might prove that Sin, and other innocent women from their youth, were the victims of an unspeakable crime that only she can solve.
Old punks never die, and Elena's going to prove that.
Edgy, mysterious, and full of heart, Hear the Dead is at once an inventive and biting story following one aging woman desperate to solve crimes from her past, and a thought-provoking meditation on friendship, justice, and what it means to remember who we are.
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This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
Fitcher’s Bird
Horror · Gothic Horror · Occult Horror
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Three sisters survived the fire that destroyed their childhood home, but years later Chloe and Zoe disappear, leaving Dido to revisit their shared past and discover whether something else survived the blaze. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 50 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
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Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire… Years later, one of them disappears and then another and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived… A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the multi award-winning author of The Cold House.
When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent to live with the local doctor’s family: mother, father and three sons. Soon after, however, Ashwood Farm burned to the ground, and only the three young girls survived.
Years later, the sisters live very separate lives, each dealing with their painful past in different ways. But when first Chloe, and then Zoe disappears, it’s left to Dido to rake through their history and find out if her sisters are still in the world or paying the price for what happened that long ago summer night.
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Best for readers who want dark fantasy adventure with parallel worlds, longtime characters, and connections to Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe.
Other Worlds Than These
Horror · Thriller · Suspense
Our take
Jack Sawyer returns for the final Talisman novel, facing infected teenagers and the forces of the mysterious Gullet as threats from America-side and Mid-World put multiple worlds at risk. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 20 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who want dark fantasy adventure with parallel worlds, longtime characters, and connections to Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe.
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Jack Sawyer, a beloved and enduring King protagonist, returns in the final book in the Talisman Trilogy, the #1 New York Times bestselling collaboration between “master craftsmen” (The Washington Post) Stephen King and Peter Straub.
“I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name.” —Stephen King
This is Stephen King and Peter Straub’s epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King’s iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a magnificent stand-alone novel, that will appeal to new readers, as well as to King’s Constant Readers.
Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet (echoing the world of Roland) is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible.
Magnificent, riveting, full of heart, and humor, Other Worlds Than These is a spectacular, propulsive adventure, and features thirty-six exclusive black-and-white illustrations by artist Gabriel Rodriguez. The title instantly announces to readers who already know these other worlds that King has returned to them. Other Worlds Than These will appeal to new King readers and his Constant Readers.
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Kevin’s new job at a powerful New York law firm looks like the break of a lifetime.
The Devil’s Advocate
Horror
Our take
Kevin’s new job at a powerful New York law firm looks like the break of a lifetime. Then he notices that its guilty clients keep walking free. Neiderman’s supernatural legal thriller inspired the 1997 film starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino.
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The inspiration behind the major motion picture starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino, an unputdownable legal thriller about a lawyer who discovers that he’s become a defender of the damned.
When Kevin Taylor joins the Manhattan criminal law firm of John Milton & Associates, he’s hit the big time. At last, he and his wife can enjoy the luxuries they’ve always dreamed of—a chauffeur and a limo, a stunning high-rise home. Then Kevin is assigned to one of the most notorious cases of the year, with a file that had been put together prior to the crime. Throwing himself into his work, Kevin begins to see a pattern of sinister evil emerging from behind the firm’s plush facade. Acquittal after acquittal, every criminal client walks free, and Kevin’s suspicions slowly give way to terror.
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This novel adaptation of the film is a strong match for readers drawn to isolated settings and folk horror.
The Wicker Man
Horror
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Sergeant Neil Howie travels to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle while searching for a missing girl. This novel adaptation of the film is a strong match for readers drawn to isolated settings and folk horror.
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First published in 1978, five years after the release of the classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man by director Robin Hardy and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, is a gripping horror classic.
A novelization of the haunting Anthony Shaffer script, which drew from David Pinner's Ritual, it is the tale of Highlands policeman, Police Sergeant Neil Howie, on the trail of a missing girl being lured to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle. As May Day approaches, strange, magical, shamanistic and erotic events erupt around him. He is convinced that the girl has been abducted for human sacrifice. Yet he is soon to find that he may be the revellers' quarry . . .
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After their friend’s mother is murdered, five young men in Puerto Rico set out for revenge just as a devastating hurricane closes in—and something far more sinister arrives…
House of Bone and Rain
Horror
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After their friend’s mother is murdered, five young men in Puerto Rico set out for revenge just as a devastating hurricane closes in—and something far more sinister arrives with the storm. From Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award winner Gabino Iglesias, this brutal blend of crime and supernatural horror was a 2024 Goodreads Choice Award nominee.
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In this "stunningly visceral" (New York Times Book Review) novel, a group of young men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican slum; STAND BY ME with a haunted, obsidian-dark heart.
A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of the Year
A Locus Award Finalist
For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe’s grandmother’s refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We’re gonna kill the guys who killed her Bimbo swears. And they all agree.
Feral with grief, Bimbo has become unrecognizable, taking no prisoners in his search for names. Soon, they learn Maria was gunned down by guys working for the drug kingpin of Puerto Rico. No one has ever gone up against him and survived. As the boys strategize, a storm gathers far from the coast. Hurricanes are known to carry evil spirits in their currents and bring them ashore, spirits which impose their own order.
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This will appeal to readers who want YA zombie horror with brutal survival choices and a protagonist willing to put others at risk.
If We Survive the Night
Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
If We Survive the Night follows sixteen-year-old Quinn, a resident at a treatment center for troubled girls, when a zombie apocalypse traps her and her best friend Keisha in a fight to escape. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 800 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want YA zombie horror with brutal survival choices and a protagonist willing to put others at risk.
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It's kill or be killed in this heart-pounding apocalyptic horror. The first book in a new series, If We Survive the Night combines the ruthless zombie perils of The Last of Us with the every-woman-for-herself angle of Yellowjackets. What type of person does it take to survive the end of the world?
Sixteen-year-old Quinn is used to being told that what she feels inside isn't quite right. After getting kicked out of multiple foster homes and narrowly escaping juvenile detention, she's undergoing therapy at a residential treatment center for "troubled" girls. Looking for a night of freedom, Quinn sneaks onto the roof with her best friend Keisha, and what she sees changes everything…
She witnesses the start of the zombie apocalypse.
As zombies, or "carriers" as the news calls them, infiltrate the treatment center, escape becomes crucial. Quinn and Keisha make a pact to leave together, but several unexpected complications screw up their plans.
As the girls battle the carriers and wrestle with their doubts about each other, Quinn realizes she has never felt more alive. Maybe this is exactly the kind of world she was built for. And part of thriving in this cutthroat environment means cutting off the dead weight – even if that means putting other lives at risk…But even if she's willing to sacrifice everything, can anyone really outlive the apocalypse?
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