12 Must-Read Horror Books Coming Out This Month

Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates (Poisoned Pen Press, September 6)

It feels due to commencement disconnected the period with a moody, atmospheric haunted location novel. So let’s footwear this happening disconnected with Gallows Hill, the latest from Darcy Coates. The Hull household has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their vino is precise successful, but determination are besides whispers that the household location is cursed. Margot Hull is returning to her puerility location for the archetypal clip successful a decennary to hide her parents and reconnect with the winery that is her household legacy. But unsocial successful the large, bare home, Margot volition beryllium forced to travel look to look with the horrors of her past.

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Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz (Algonquin Young Readers, September 6)

Whatever your favourite monsters are, from zombies to cannibals, you volition find them successful this collection, featuring immoderate of the astir fascinating Latine voices successful YA fiction. Our Shadows Have Claws features monster stories from Chantel Acevedo, Courtney Alameda, Julia Alvarez, Ann Dávila Cardinal, M. García Peña, Racquel Marie, Gabriela Martins, Yamile Saied Méndez, Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, Claribel A. Ortega, Amparo Ortiz, Lilliam Rivera, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Ari Tison, and Alexandra Villasante.

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen Books, September 6)

This Carrie retelling is 1 of my astir anticipated books of the year, and it’s yet here! The Weight of Blood follows precocious schoolhouse pupil Madison Washington. Springville High is simply a tiny precocious schoolhouse successful small-town Georgia wherever Madison has ever been the people of bullying. But Madison has a secret: she’s biracial and has been passing arsenic white, astatine the behest of her achromatic begetter Thomas Washington. When Madison’s concealed is revealed and a video highlighting the racism astatine Springville goes viral, the students cognize they person to rehabilitate their image. Their solution? Hosting the school’s archetypal integrated prom. But the students inactive person a fewer surprises for Maddy. And erstwhile Maddy reveals different 1 of her well-kept secrets, she’ll person a large astonishment of her own.

Full Immersion by Gemma Amor (Angry Robot, September 13)

Full Immersion is a fearfulness phantasy caller from Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer Gemma Amor. Just erstwhile Magpie thinks her beingness can’t get immoderate worse, she finds a dormant assemblage partially buried successful the mudbank of a river. But this isn’t conscionable immoderate dormant body. It’s her own. Next to her assemblage is simply a antheral who looks familiar, but she can’t retrieve however she knows him. In fact, she can’t retrieve anything. Now she indispensable uncover the information astir what happened to her, each portion she is unknowingly being observed successful immoderate unusual experiment.

It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames (Page Street Kids, September 13)

In this YA fearfulness thriller, Riley Kowalski uses her wintertime interruption to spell connected a probe travel to Antarctica, on with 5 pupil volunteers, a chaperone, and an impartial scientist. The group’s extremity is to beryllium that biology integrative contamination has reached each the mode to Antarctica, but they are successful nary mode prepared for what they volition observe instead. When Riley archetypal notices their expedition leader, Greta, is acting strange, she writes it disconnected arsenic her overactive imagination. But past Greta snaps and tries to termination Riley earlier disintegrating. Clearly thing has infiltrated their camp, and it could travel for anyone successful the group.

The Stars Did Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy (Balzer + Bray, September 13)

This mediate people fearfulness caller is acceptable successful 1980s Oregon. Maybe Archie Coomes has been watching excessively galore fearfulness movies, but it feels similar adjacent the astir mean things successful the sleepy seaside municipality of Seaham person go acheronian and sinister. But arsenic much and much of the adults successful municipality commencement acting strangely, Archie and his friends person to admit thing is earnestly wrong. An ancient, long-buried evil has been unleashed upon the community, and the kids volition person to halt it earlier it’s excessively late.

Direwood by Catherine Yu (Page Street Kids, September 20)

Direwood is a gothic fearfulness caller acceptable successful the 1990s. Even aft a drawstring of unusual events successful 16-year-old Aja’s idyllic suburban town, the adults stay successful denial that thing sinister is astatine play. Then Aja’s sister Fiona goes missing. And different teens commencement to spell missing too. When Aja meets Padraic, the vampire liable for each the unusual occurrences, she knows she shouldn’t spot him. But helium tells Aja everything she wants to hear. And pursuing him into the woods mightiness beryllium the lone mode to find Fiona.

The Getaway by Lamar Giles (Scholastic Press, September 20)

In The Getaway, Jay is surviving his champion beingness astatine Karloff Country, 1 of the world’s astir celebrated resorts. He’s got bully friends, a large family, and a occupation helium loves, moving aft schoolhouse astatine the property’s main taxable park. Outside, the satellite mightiness beryllium falling apart, but wrong the resort, radical tin flight from their problems. But down this cleanable assemblage are acheronian secrets. When the richest and astir almighty families get and don’t leave, employees observe that the edifice has been selling shares successful an end-of-the-world oasis. The satellite whitethorn beryllium ending, but the astir almighty radical volition stay safe. Now Jay and the remainder of the resort’s employees volition beryllium the ones to attraction for them, whether they similar it oregon not.

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman (Quirk Books, September 20)

Ghost Eaters is an breathtaking caller fearfulness caller from Clay McLeod Chapman. Erin and Silas person been successful a tumultuous, on-again, off-again narration for years. Erin knows that her narration with Silas is toxic, truthful she decides to interruption up with him for good. After their breakup, Erin learns that Silas has died of an overdose. What’s more, Silas had discovered a cause that would let him to spot the dead. Erin doesn’t judge successful ghosts, but successful her grief and guilt for abandoning Silas, she agrees to a pill-popping “séance” to easiness her pain. But the cause is precise real, and arsenic Erin attempts to instrumentality to the existent world, her visions of the dormant garbage to fto her go. Maybe the bloody and brutal visions are each after-effects of the drug, but possibly thing overmuch much unsafe is happening.

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson (Ace, September 27)

Marion Shaw was raised successful poorness and longs to flight the difficulties of metropolis life. But she sees nary mode out. That is, until she comes crossed a unusual paper ad: “WANTED — Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must person a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of anemic volition request not apply.“ Although she knows small astir the presumption oregon the acold northbound wherever she volition person to travel, she applies, hoping this could beryllium the accidental for alteration she’s been hoping for. Soon, Marion becomes the newest bloodmaid astatine the notorious House of Hunger, wherever Countess Lisavet who presides implicit a tribunal of hedonism. Marion is anxious to delight her mistress, who is some charismatic and terrifying. But erstwhile her chap bloodmaids statesman to spell missing, Marion realizes she indispensable larn the rules of House of Hunger oregon her ain beingness volition soon beryllium astatine risk.

We Spread by Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout Press, September 27)

Penny is an creator who has lived successful the aforesaid flat for decades. Now her longterm spouse is dead, and caring for herself unsocial successful her location is becoming much of a struggle. Thankfully (or possibly not truthful thankfully), unbeknownst to her, arrangements person been made. So, Penny is moved to an assisted surviving facility, wherever astatine archetypal things look to beryllium going well. She rapidly finds a spot for herself successful the tiny community, and she adjacent starts to overgarment again. But something…just seems off. As the days commencement to blur, Penny loses way of clip and feels uncertain of everything (and everyone) astir her. Is she experiencing the destructive effects of aging, oregon is thing much unsettling going connected astatine the facility?

The Butcher by Laura Kat Young (Penguin Random House, September 27)

The Butcher is being described arsenic Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go meets West World. Pretty chaotic combination, but it works! After Lady Mae turns 18, she’ll inherit her mother’s occupation arsenic the Butcher, dismembering Settlement Five’s residents who perpetrate petty crimes. But 1 Lady Mae’s parent is called upon to butcher a 6-year-old boy, and erstwhile she refuses to bash it, she is murdered for for refusing her duties. Now unsocial successful the world, Lady Mae indispensable instrumentality her mother’s place.