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A "genuinely scary" horror debut written in "prose so beautiful you won't want to rush" about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in every form he takes (Ana Reyes). Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung.

She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final memories together. Except Bronwyn is miserable. Her grandmother is dying, everyone is standoffish, and she can't even go swimming. All she hears are warnings about going in the water, despite a gorgeous lake.

One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely—smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty.

"Astonishing." —Claudia Dey, author of Daughter. A hallucinatory horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a changed and frightening world. Our protagonist comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative.

Recommended by Gillian Flynn on the Today Show • A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first—and she may not be the last. “I read this thriller that is Get Out meets The Vanishing Half in one night.” —BuzzFeed. “Extraordinary... A terrifying tale of fears and hatreds generated by racism and class inequality.” —Associated Press. Edgar Award finalist • Bram Stoker Award finalist • Shirley Jackson Award nominee • Phenomenal Book Club pick.

Instant National Bestseller • One of Kobo CA's top horror ebooks and top horror audiobook of 2024. A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest. A BookPage and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said. And after Libby’s recent bipolar III diagnosis and the tragedy that preceded it, Libby knows she and her family need to find a new normal. But Libby’s new home turns out to be anything but normal.

One of *Esquire's* Best Horror Books of 2024 • One of *Crime Reads'* Best Gothic Novels of 2024. In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it. In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see.

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, *The New York Times*). “Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors… A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.” —*Los Angeles Times* “As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.” —*Minneapolis Star-Tribune*.

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Barnes and Noble -- BuzzFeed -- GoodReads -- Book Riot -- CrimeReads -- Ms. Magazine -- SheReads -- Amazon Editor's Pick -- Tor.com and more! A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's reservation leads her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder.