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The Bewitching
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Minerva, a graduate student researching the history of horror, is haunted by her great-grandmother's stories of witches. While studying the obscure author Beatrice Tremblay, Minerva discovers that Tremblay's famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by the mysterious disappearance of her roommate decades earlier on the very campus where Minerva now studies. As Minerva delves into the manuscript, she senses the same malign force that stalked Tremblay and her great-grandmother is now threatening her in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career is one thing, but witchcraft is deadly.
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Hungerstone
by Kat Dunn
Ten years into a loveless marriage, Lenore, wife of steel magnate Henry, moves to the imposing Nethershaw manor with her husband, whose hunt preparations are haunted by a terrible secret from his past. When a mysterious, vibrant woman named Carmilla arrives after a carriage accident, she stirs a deep hunger in Lenore—just as local girls begin to fall sick with a bloody affliction. Torn between her distant husband and Carmilla’s growing presence, Lenore must confront the darkness in her household before it consumes her. Hungerstone is a compulsive, feminist reworking of the classic vampire story, Carmilla, the book that inspired Dracula.
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The Witch's Orchard: A Novel
by Archer Sullivan
Former Air Force investigator and current P.I. Annie Gore returns to her roots in the Appalachian mountains to take a cold case: Ten years ago, three little girls vanished from a small town. While one was found, the others were never seen again. Annie, an outsider who understands mountain life, must navigate a decade of secrets, folklore of witches and crows, and a town that prefers to forget. But her arrival stirs someone into action, forcing Annie to confront a painful past she tried to escape.
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Alchemised
by Senlinyu
In this dark fantasy, former alchemist Helena Marino is a prisoner of war with suppressed abilities and crucial missing memories. Her enemies—the corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers who won the war—suspect her lost past hides the key to the vanquished Resistance's final plan. To uncover the truth, Helena is sent to the ruthless High Reeve, one of the new world's most powerful necromancers. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena's fight to protect her lost history and unearth the secrets of her captor is just beginning.
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Something In The Walls: A Novel
by Daisy Pearce
Struggling child psychologist Mina is stuck in a heatwave and anxious about her upcoming marriage until journalist Sam Hunter offers her a case: Thirteen-year-old Alice Webber claims a witch is haunting her in the remote, superstitious village of Banathel. Eager for experience, Mina takes the job, certain she can help Alice. But instead of improving, Alice's symptoms become inexplicable and intense. Mina soon realizes the secretive town doesn't expect outsiders to understand their deep history of witchcraft, and their dangerous methods for "dealing with it" may put everyone at risk.
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Elphie: A Wicked Childhood
by Gregory Maguire
The Wicked Witch of the West, known here as Elphie, starts as a very peculiar and relatable young girl. Shaped by her promiscuous mother and pious father, she suffers typical childhood jealousies after the arrival of her sister, Nessarose, and brother, Shell. Elphie navigates her first bruising attempts at friendship, witnesses the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, and displays the cunning and amoral behaviors that mark her green-skinned destiny. Her tumultuous childhood culminates with her arrival at Shiz University, where she is about to meet the radiant Galinda.
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
by Victoria Schwab
This feminist vampire epic follows the lives of three women across five centuries, all of whom are irrevocably changed by a desperate choice and the promise of immortality. In 16th-century Spain, María seeks escape; in 19th-century London, Charlotte is swept away by forbidden desire; and in modern-day Boston, Alice hunts for revenge. Their stories weave together, exploring the hunger, rage, and love that define them as they navigate a world that would rather see them buried.
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is unveiled is a slow massacre, a nearly forgotten chain of events that goes back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow, told in the transcribed interviews with Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar and unnaturally long life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story, captured in the vivid voices of the time, by one of the new masters of literary horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
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Soul Searching
by Lyla Sage
When out-of-work Collins Cartwright returns to Sweetwater Peak under false pretenses and moves in above a shop haunted by ghosts who won't speak to her, she clashes and connects with the new upholsterer Brady, whose own buried reasons for relocating may be just as haunted. Original.
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Never Flinch: A Novel
by Stephen King
When the police receive a disturbing letter threatening to "kill thirteen innocents and one guilty," Detective Izzy Jaynes calls on Holly Gibney for help. Simultaneously, Holly takes a job as a bodyguard for controversial women's rights activist Kate McKay, who is being targeted by a relentlessly bold and wrathful stalker. These two seemingly separate narratives—a cryptic mass murder threat and the escalating stalking of an outspoken woman—converge in a chilling and spectacular conclusion orchestrated by an unforgettable, murder-addicted villain.
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Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things: A Novel
by Breanne Randall
In the small town of Gold Springs, Calliope Petridi and her two sisters secretly wield a powerful magic that costs them their memories—a price Calliope gladly pays to forget her painful past. But when an ancient evil awakens, their magic begins to fade. In a desperate move, Calliope accidentally binds herself to the annoyingly handsome leader of a ruthless rival coven. Now, Calliope must confront her sisters, dark family secrets, and the very memories she tried to bury, battling a sizzling, untrustworthy new ally to save everything she loves.
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When the Wolf Comes Home
by Nat Cassidy
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first, Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined. And that when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.
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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
by Sangu Mandanna
Exiled witch Sera Swan, having lost most of her powers after resurrecting her great-aunt, now reluctantly runs an enchanted inn in Lancashire alongside her aunt and a semi-villainous talking fox. Longing for her lost future, Sera learns of an old spell that could restore her magic. Help arrives in the form of Luke Larsen, an icy but handsome magical historian who arrives on a dark winter night. Though Luke wants nothing to do with the inn's madcap chaos, he agrees to help Sera with the spell. As they work together and their undeniable chemistry thaws Luke’s walls, Sera realizes that reclaiming her lost magic might not be as important as the weird, wonderful family she’s found.
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The Manor Of Dreams: A Novel
by Christina Li
Upon the death of Vivian Yin, the trailblazing but reclusive first Chinese Oscar winner, her family gathers expecting to inherit her sprawling Southern California estate. Instead, a last-minute will change grants the house to another, long-estranged family. Both families move into the mansion to stake their claim, igniting a bitter, paranoid reunion. While Vivian’s daughters race to uncover the truth about her final weeks, they realize they are being haunted by a sinister force tied to the painful, secret-filled summer they all spent in the house years ago—a truth that may expose the rot beneath their American dream.
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Greenteeth
by Molly O'Neill
Beneath the still surface of a lake lurks a monster with needle sharp teeth. Hungry and ready to pounce. Jenny Greenteeth has never spoken to a human before, but when a witch is thrown into her lake, something makes Jenny decide she's worth saving. Temperance doesn't know why her village has suddenly turned against her, only that it has something to do with the malevolent new pastor. Though they have nothing in common, these two must band together on a magical quest to defeat the evil that threatens Jenny's lake and Temperance's family, as well as the very soul of Britain.
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Mate
by Ali Hazelwood
Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her a target, prey to the ruthless political machinations between Weres, Vampyres, and Humans. With her enemies closing in on her, she has only one option left—if he’ll have her. As Alpha of the Northwest pack, Koen Alexander commands obedience. His authority is so absolute, only a fool would threaten his mate. It doesn’t matter if Serena doesn’t reciprocate his feelings, nothing will stop him from keeping her safe. But power-hungry Vampyres and Weres are not the only threats chasing Serena. Sooner or later, her past is bound to catch up with her—and Koen might be the only thing standing between her and total annihilation…
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The Haunting of Room 904: A Novel
by Erika T. Wurth
After her sister Naiche dies unexpectedly, Olivia Becente inherits the family gift: the ability to commune with the dead. Now Denver's most in-demand paranormal investigator, Olivia is hired to crack a disturbing case at the landmark Brown Palace hotel, where a girl is mysteriously found dead in Room 904 every few years. As the past and present collide, Olivia's investigation forces her to confront a dangerous cult, betrayal by her friends, a vindictive journalist, and shocking secrets about her lost sister's life.
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Hit Me With Your Best Charm
by Lillie Vale
At the annual Fall Festival, Nova Marwood is still grieving the disappearance of her hiker father years ago—a loss that makes her cling to disbelief in the town's magic. She tries to ignore her secret crush on Kiara Mistry, the "luckiest girl in town" who Nova pretends to hate. But when Nova lays an unintended hex on Kiara, a series of misfortunes swiftly threatens Kiara's life. To save her, Kiara’s exes recruit Nova—the only person who can lead them to the miraculous, secret wishing well. To succeed and perhaps find her father, Nova must finally believe in herself.
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Victorian Psycho: A Novel
by Virginia Feito
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning.
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A Resistance of Witches
by Morgan Ryan
Against her expectations, the plainspoken Lydia Polk is accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches just as Britain's coven joins the war effort. Lydia is tasked with a vital mission: use her magic to hunt down ancient relics before Hitler can. When a Nazi witch's devastating infiltration leaves her coven exposed, Lydia, alone but determined, follows the trail of the destructive Grimorium Bellum to occupied France. There, she reluctantly teams up with a fierce Resistance fighter and a handsome Haitian American art historian. Stalked by both natural and supernatural enemies, Lydia must find and subdue the dark grimoire before the Third Reich's witches can exploit its power.
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Nowhere: A Novel
by Allison Gunn
After the tragic loss of their son, police chief Rachel Kennan and her estranged, alcoholic husband, Finn, struggle to hold their family together. Rachel throws herself into her work in a tight-knit Virginia town, but a disturbing crime there draws her into an investigation. When an ominous force in the forest begins calling to the town's children, fear turns into hate, and the Kennan family is caught in the crossfire. Forced to rely on each other, Rachel and Finn must face down both the external threats and the buried grief that threatens to destroy them.
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Witchcraft For Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
In 1970, pregnant, terrified, and alone, fifteen-year-old Fern is sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, a facility designed to hide "wayward girls" and force them to give up their babies and forget. Under the strict control of Miss Wellwood, Fern befriends other girls, including the rebellious Rose and the silent, barely fourteen-year-old Holly. When a librarian gives Fern a book on witchcraft, the girls seize power for the first time in their lives. But as they soon learn, power is never free—and the price they must pay is usually paid in blood.
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Blood On Her Tongue: A Novel
by Johanna van Veen
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum...Lucy soon comes to suspect that something is trying to possess her beloved sister. Or is it madness? As Sarah changes before her very eyes, Lucy must reckon with the dark, monstrous truth, or risk losing her forever.
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