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Horror
August 2023
Recent Releases
Holly
by Stephen King

Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle

From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy. And they’ll scare you straight to hell.
The Only One Left
by Riley Sager

In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at the decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family's massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

In 1993 Mexico City, Montserrat Curiel works as a sound editor while her friend Tristán Abascal toils away as a soap opera actor. A chance encounter with Abel Urueta, the pair's favorite cult director, leads to their involvement in helping him finish one of his films. Urueta claims his unfinished film was cursed by a Nazi occultist, and that completing it will finally bring him the success he was promised. But once the trio finish their work, a terrifying magic is reawakened that threatens to consume them all.
An Evil Heart
by Linda Castillo

Painters Mill Police Chief Kate Burkholder investigates the violent, cross-bow shooting death of a hardworking, engaged young Amish man as her own wedding date draws near, in this fifteenth novel of the series following "The Hidden One."
Cutting Teeth
by Chandler Baker

Ten preschoolers develop an unsettling medical condition that leaves them craving blood and are implicated, along with their mothers, in the murder of their young teacher, in this new novel from the author of "Whisper Network."
The Last Word
by Taylor Adams

After posting a one-star review for a poorly written—but gruesome—horror novel, Emma Carpenter is dragged into an online argument with the author himself, but when disturbing incidents start happening at night, Emma digs into his life and work, discovering a sadistic man who is capable of anything.
Beware the Woman
by Megan. Abbott

A pregnant woman undergoes a health scare that brings up whispered conversations about her husband's complicated family history and long dead mother in this new novel from the award-winning author of "Give Me Your Hand."
The Quiet Tenant
by Clemence Michallon

A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: His 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend--and the one victim he has spared. Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New York town where he lives. "The Quiet Tenant" explores the psychological impact of Aidan’s crimes on the women in his life—and the bonds between those women that give them the strength to fight back.
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