Start Your Year Off Scared: New Horror Coming Out in January

Ghost 19 by Simone St James (Berkley, January 3)

First up is simply a novella from Simon St. James. When a doc suggests to Ginette Cox that she mightiness request to find an situation with little excitement, Ginette moves distant from the metropolis to a suburban location successful New York: 19 Howard Avenue. Life successful suburbia is surely little breathtaking that beingness successful the city, but astatine slightest Ginette has absorbing neighbors. To support herself entertained, Ginette watches the household crossed the thoroughfare from her model and makes up small stories for them. But though beingness successful her caller location whitethorn beryllium boring, it’s acold from peaceful. She keeps proceeding unusual sounds successful her basement that support her from sleeping. And unusual antheral keeps showing up extracurricular of her home.

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (Doubleday, January 10)

Jessica Johns’s debut caller is the communicative of a young Cree pistillate named Mackenzie. Night aft night, Mackenzie has horrifyingly realistic dreams astir the events that pb to her sister’s untimely death. But past her waking satellite isn’t that overmuch little terrifying. A execution of crows keeps stalking her astir the city, and she keeps getting threatening texts from idiosyncratic who claims to beryllium her sister. Mackenzie knows this is much than she tin grip alone, and truthful she travels northbound to her agrarian hometown successful Alberta to instrumentality to her family, inactive haunted by grief. However, Mackenzie’s instrumentality location lone intensifies her dreams and makes her much unsure astir what happened to her sister years ago.

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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix (Berkley, January 17)

The hold for the adjacent Grady Hendrix banger is astir over! How to Sell a Haunted House is the communicative of siblings Louise and Mark Joyner. The 2 are wholly antithetic from each different and fundamentally ne'er speak. But erstwhile their parents dice astatine the extremity of the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark are forced backmost unneurotic to get their puerility location connected the market. Guess what though? Yeah, thing is weird astir the house. Before their parents died, they taped paper implicit the mirrors and nailed the attic doorway shut. And that’s conscionable the opening of the disturbing events Mark and Louise volition acquisition successful that house.

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Allison Rumfit (Tor Nightfire, January 17)

Tell Me I’m Worthless is a literate gothic fearfulness caller that explores the fearfulness of trauma. Three years ago, Alice spent 1 nighttime successful an abandoned location with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, thing has been the same. Memories of that nighttime proceed to torment her, and she hasn’t spoken to either Ila oregon Hannah since they near the house. So erstwhile Ila asks Alice to instrumentality with her to the location to rescue Hannah, Alice knows she indispensable go.

Extended Stay by Juan Martinez (University of Arizona Press, January 17)

Juan Martinez’s Extended Stay is a enactment of societal fearfulness that examines capitalism and the undocumented acquisition successful the U.S. After his parents are killed successful a roadside execution, Alvaro flees Columbia with his sister Carmen to enactment arsenic a enactment navigator astatine a seedy edifice successful Las Vegas. The Alicia Hotel is the cleanable spot for those with thing to hide. But thing is feeding connected those secrets.

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie (Redhook, January 24)

Fade to Black is the latest world TV sensation. It’s a shade hunting amusement led by hubby and woman squad Matt and Claire Kirklin. And connected occurrence 13, Fade to Black takes its viewers to the Paranormal Research Foundation. Back successful the 1970s, unusual experiments were done there, and of course, the gathering is incredibly haunted. The squad enters the foundation, anxious to beryllium conscionable however haunted it truly is. But they’re astir spell get overmuch much than they bargained for.

Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen (Mira, January 31)

Think being a vampire is glamorous? You’ve been watching excessively overmuch of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire. In existent life, vampires can’t fly. They don’t crook into bats. And no, they’re not adjacent allowed to murder. No, vampires conscionable enactment mundane jobs similar the remainder of us. But astatine slightest Louise Chao has her punk stone shows to support her entertained. She’s starting to deliberation if she could conscionable commencement her ain punk stone band, she mightiness yet find the household she thought she’d ne'er have. That’s erstwhile Ian, a long-lost comparative shows up astatine her door. In Ian, Louise yet finds the transportation she’s been longing for. But what volition hap erstwhile helium learns her existent identity?

The Drift by CJ Tudor

C.J. Tudor’s latest horror/thriller is simply a communicative of 3 mean radical who would hazard their lives for an accidental for redemption. As Hannah, Meg, and Carter all find themselves stranded successful a snowstorm for assorted reasons, they fearfulness that they mightiness not each marque it retired alive. What they don’t cognize is that determination is simply a overmuch greater information lurking successful the snowy mountains. A information that has the powerfulness to destruct each of humanity.