August 2025 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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The Farmhouse
by Chelsea Conradt
They should have asked why the farm was for sale...
Every woman who has lived on this farm has died. And Emily just moved in.
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Glass Girls
by Danie Shokoohi
Alice Haserot thought she'd escaped the curse. For sixteen years, she's lived far from her family and the ghosts she used to conjure. But her past isn't so easily left behind.
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The Gospel of Z
by Stephen Graham Jones
It’s been nearly a decade since Z Day, when a plague turned humans into the voracious undead. Jory Gray struggles to stay human in a world that uses survivors as pawns in a hell on earth where zombies are the least of the creatures to be feared.
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It's Not the End of the World
by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
It's 2044 and life is bleak for many Americans, but not for Mason Daunt. Safe in his Los Angeles mansion, Mason can remain blissfully unaware. When a potentially apocalyptic event hits LA on the day of his party though, Mason is thrust into the mounting chaos, threatening the lives of everyone he holds dear.
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The Least of My Scars
by Stephen Graham Jones
When a serial killer hits the top of his game, where does he go from there? William Colton Hughes is about to find out. Not interested in notoriety, Hughes just wants to do what he’s good at: torture and murder. It never occurs to him that he could make a living at it...
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The No-End House
by Jeremy Bates
Haunted by his wife's death, Joe Hadfield enters a notorious escape-room challenge in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, where nine terrifying rooms prey on his fears, forcing him to confront his past and uncover the sinister secrets of The No-End House before it consumes him entirely.
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Of Flesh and Blood
by N. L. Lavin & Hunter Burke
A forensic psychiatrist’s investigation into an infamous Louisiana serial killer leads him down a dangerous path of obsession as he discovers they share the same cursed blood.
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Of Monsters and Mainframes
by Barbara Truelove
Demeter, an interstellar ship shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri, keeps having her passengers murdered. It all started when an ancient and nasty vampire decided to come along for the ride. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must stop this vampire stalking her corridors.
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Smile for the Cameras
by Miranda Smith
An actress desperate to reclaim her fame must survive the real-life plot of the horror movie that made her famous in this psychologically twisted locked-room thriller influenced by nineties slasher films.
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Strange Houses
by Uketsu
From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan--unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms--a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house's warped and unsettling floor plans.
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Ten Sleep
by Nicholas Belardes
On a Wyoming cattle drive, Greta Molina and her friends face terrifying supernatural threats, while the land's dark history and hidden secrets turn their 10-day journey into a desperate fight for survival.
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The Thorns
by Dawn Kurtagich
Years after surviving a toxic childhood friendship at an African boarding school, disabled author Bethany Sloane is drawn back into Stacey Preston's sinister games, forcing her to confront buried memories, dangerous rules, and the haunting consequences of their shared past.
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Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth: Stories
by Stephen Graham Jones
Take a deep dive into the delightfully twisted mind of Stephen Graham Jones with these twenty short stories. The perfect summer beach read—good for any time you want to cool things down with chilling short fiction.
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