Some people crave sunny skies and sand between their toes. Others would rather crawl back under the blanket until summer is over. Luckily, there’s no shortage of horror novels out there to keep us busy until the days grow darker and the nights longer.
10 horror novels to scare up some chills for your summer book reading
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As the cover says, “never meet your heroes.” Especially if they’re dead. Poppy is a fashion influencer AND a grave robber. Yes, you read that right. She’s been hired to steal the body of a rockstar and queer icon, but well, he just woke up. Travel with her as carnage and camp spill out across Palm Springs in the latest from Tingle. (Tor Nightfire/TNS)
If you could restore your youth, would you? What about living forever? That’s the question Cutter — the pen name of author Craig Davidson — asks in this novel that pays homage to Oscar Wilde’s classic “The Picture of Dorian Gray” with its title. “The Dorians” follows five elderly volunteers as they undergo an experiment in the Canadian wilderness to stop the clock, but at what price? (Gallery Books/TNS)
We’ve read it before: a woman takes a caretaking job that turns out to be far different from what she expected. Except this time, Kliewer delivers a unique take and draws readers into the waking nightmare main character Macy must now undertake, and she might just save the world while doing so. Follow the rites and save humanity? (Simon & Schuster/TNS)
A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes... A doctor’s office, where a bottle of booze and a tear-stained folder wait on the desk... A tech millionaire’s haunted kitchen... A Bible-quoting ventriloquist’s dingy apartment... A yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming...These locations and more are your destination and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Featuring the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, critically acclaimed novella Rest Stop (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2024), along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a travelogue down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes... and teeth. (Shortwave/TNS)
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