It’s ghosts & ghouls season the perfect time for horror & things that go bump in the night. If you’re looking for something to curl up with, grab a flashlight, your favorite blanket and try these new titles ….
A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents.
It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something else is changing in the town besides the season.
Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: Strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black.
Take a bite of one of these apples and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.
This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples… and what’s the harm, if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful?
And even if buried in the orchard is something else besides the seeds of this extraordinary tree: a bloody history whose roots reach back the very origins of the town.
But now the leaves are falling. The days grow darker. And a stranger has come to town, a stranger who knows Harrow’s secrets. Because it’s harvest time, and the town will soon reap what it has sown.
A standalone horror novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.
Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it’s the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who’ve fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet, as though someone tried to claw their way out…and failed.
When Laney shows up to investigate with her teenaged niece in tow, she discovers that her ex, Kit, has also been informed and is there with Jayla, his sister and her former best friend. Then Sadie, another old high school friend, charters over with her brother, who’s now a cop.
There are tensions and secrets, whispers in the woods, and before long, the discovery of a hand poking up from the earth. Then the body that goes with it… But by that time, someone has taken off with their one and only means off the island, and they’re trapped with someone—or something—that doesn’t want them leaving the island alive.
Read my review: Hemlock Island
A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this thoroughly enjoyable, twisty, and layered debut novel.
When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.
Margaret is not most people.
Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.
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A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a nightmarish short story about fatherhood dreams by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.
Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.
Joe Hill’s The Pram is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.
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Lisa Mandina (Lisa Loves Literature)
Kelley Armstrong is an author I like. I’ve read one or two of Joe Hill’s, and this one sounds good too. Thanks for sharing these!
Bookworm
These all sound good, I just finished The Pram and enjoyed it.
Kimberly
I listened and enjoyed it as well.
Katherine
I like spooky light so I’m planning on reading some Heather Graham this October but I definitely want to try Kelley Armstrong too! I will keep the rest of this list in mind for if I get feeling brave.
Kimberly
Graham is good for spooky light 🙂 I think you’d also like There Should Have Been Eight.
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Kimberly
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Ethan
Great recomendations! A good deal of these are already on my TBR. I’m happy that I like spooky reads all year round because there is no way I could fit all these into a single month haha
Kimberly
LOL, I read horror all year long 🙂
Sophia Rose
I’ve enjoyed reading spotlights and reviews for each of these. Great picks, Kimberly!
Kimberly
Thanks Sophia.
Lover of romance
These definitely have super creepy vibes and I can see how these would be prime recs for thriller fans. Not sure any would be for me unless there is a romance in these lol There is something about reading a solid creepy story though especially for this time of year.
Kimberly
Hemlock Island has a romance thread..lol
Angela @ Simply Angela
Great recommendations, Kimberly! I have a few of these on my tbr pile and I’m adding Black River Orchard!
Kimberly
I am currently listening to it.
ailyn koay
omg i’m picking up black river orchard for sure!
Kimberly
It’s my current listen 🙂