An unforgettable list of new horror books to celebrate the cruelest month.
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”―T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Lone Women: A Novel by Victor LaValle
*A Top LibraryReads Pick!*
Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.
“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country’s divides.”—Los Angeles Times
“Enthralling . . . The combination of LaValle’s agile prose, the velocity of the narrative and the pleasure of upended expectations makes this book almost impossible to put down . . . Lone Women deftly weaves history, horror, suspense and the perspectives of those rarely recorded in the West.”—The New York Times
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How to Sell a Haunted House: A Novel by Grady Hendrix
*A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!*
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
“Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre . . . By weaving violence, family trauma and humor, Hendrix creates a texture that engages the reader emotionally and viscerally . . . [a] gripping, wildly entertaining exploration of childhood horrors.”—The New York Times
“A delight . . . Hendrix, with relentless efficiency—and a bit of humor—forces us to confront our fears.”—The Washington Post
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The Only One Left: A Novel by Riley Sager
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
“Riley Sager’s spellbinding The Only One Left captures you in its snares from its first tantalizing pages. A Gothic house of horrors, it carries you along effortlessly before delivering a symphony of twists so shocking it took my breath away.”—Megan Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Beware the Woman and The Turnout
“Always master of suspense, Sager had me gasping out loud and listening for sounds in my house. I loved this book and it may even be my new favorite of Sager’s.”—Mystery and Suspense Magazine
Available June 20th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Our Share of Night: A Novel by Mariana Enriquez; Illustrated by Pablo Gerardo Camacho; Translated by Megan McDowell
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post
“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times
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The Haunting of Alejandra: A Novel by V. Castro
*A LibraryReads Pick!*
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review).
“Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet.”—Paste
“V. Castro charts a terrifying legacy of tears with The Haunting of Alejandra, an empathic epic that maps out the birth of a curse and tethers itself to the very ancestry of its tragic protagonist.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
Available April 18th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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Sisters of the Lost Nation: A Novel by Nick Medina
*A LibraryReads Pick!*
A young Native girl’s hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe’s reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut.
“Gripping, heartbreaking, and vital, this is a novel you won’t soon forget, and Anna Horn will no doubt become one of your most cherished fictional characters.”—Paul Tremblay, national bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club
“Sisters of the Lost Nation weaves Native folklore with truths that we feel in our bones to create a story that is as beautiful as it is sad, as powerful as it is frightening, as familiar as it is otherworldly.”—Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor and The Hunger
Available April 18th in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions.
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The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca
A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.
“These stories are body horror at its best . . . I loved them and also my jaw dropped at how daring they are, how far they go. Eric La Rocca is not only good: there’s courage in his literature.”—Mariana Enriquez, author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
“This collection is sublime grounded horror . . . Every story is unique in the way it builds aching tension. I read it in one day. Definitely a must read.”—V. Castro, author of The Queen of the Cicadas and The Haunting of Alejandra
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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall: A Novel by Katie Lumsden
A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Victorian fiction.
“Who doesn’t love a cursed manor house in the remote English countryside, especially one with an entire abandoned wing? I’m looking forward to diving into this modern gothic that also promises some Lady Chatterly’s Lover action (there is a handsome gardener!).”—CrimeReads
“This book delivers HUGE Jane Eyre vibes, gothic and mysterious Victoriana. I LOVED it.”—Sophie Irwin, author of A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting
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Passersthrough: A Novel by Peter Rock
A father and his estranged daughter reconnect to try to understand a decades-old trauma in this haunting novel, part ghost story, part lyrical exploration of family, aging, and how we remember the past.
“Passersthrough touches upon the unique trials and rewards a paternal connection brings, with added ingredients including spirit possession, moving lakes full of bones, and murder house—just for good measure . . . Mourning things both alive and dead and accepting hard truths resonate deeply in these pages and will utterly chill you . . . but contentedly so.”—Fangoria
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