Horror reveals what truly scares us, or provides an escapism as powerful in its own way as any work of portal fantasy. See our picks for top new horror books in July 2022.
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Type: Novella
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Release date: July 12
Den of Geek says: T. Kingfisher is a master of many arts and genres, and this book’s unsettling cover promises mystery and and terror.
Publisher’s summary: When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable...
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Type: Novella
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Release date: July 12
Den of Geek says: T. Kingfisher is a master of many arts and genres, and this book’s unsettling cover promises mystery and and terror.
Publisher’s summary: When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.
Aided by a redoubtable...
- 7/17/2022
- by Megan Crouse
- Den of Geek
Where horror meets speculative fiction you’ll find inventive fears and chilling uncertainty. Here are some of the horror books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming…
Top New Horror Books in April 2021 Whisper Down the Lane by Clay Chapman
Type: Novel
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release date: April 6
Den of Geek says: A quasi-historical novel dissects memory and moral panic. What could be a flat story about mistrust has set itself apart with positive reviews praising both the fun and the terror.
Publisher’s summary: Inspired by the McMartin preschool trials and the Satanic Panic of the ‘80s, the critically acclaimed author of The Remaking delivers another pulse pounding, true-crime-based horror novel.
Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, and a quiet but pleasant life as an...
Top New Horror Books in April 2021 Whisper Down the Lane by Clay Chapman
Type: Novel
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release date: April 6
Den of Geek says: A quasi-historical novel dissects memory and moral panic. What could be a flat story about mistrust has set itself apart with positive reviews praising both the fun and the terror.
Publisher’s summary: Inspired by the McMartin preschool trials and the Satanic Panic of the ‘80s, the critically acclaimed author of The Remaking delivers another pulse pounding, true-crime-based horror novel.
Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, and a quiet but pleasant life as an...
- 3/23/2021
- by Megan Crouse
- Den of Geek
While a pregnant Veronica Phillips’ husband is overseas, she stays connected to him through a series of beautiful photographs.
Due to limited rights, Phillips is unable to say when or where Brandon, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, was deployed. But he left their Homestead, Florida, hometown around the time they found out the sex of their baby boy.
“All I can say is that I miss him,” Phillips, 29, tells People. “I wanted to honor my husband, and even though we are a far distance from each other, we are close in this picture.
“It symbolizes our love and commitment from afar.
Due to limited rights, Phillips is unable to say when or where Brandon, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, was deployed. But he left their Homestead, Florida, hometown around the time they found out the sex of their baby boy.
“All I can say is that I miss him,” Phillips, 29, tells People. “I wanted to honor my husband, and even though we are a far distance from each other, we are close in this picture.
“It symbolizes our love and commitment from afar.
- 5/18/2017
- by Rose Minutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
The full scope of the watchful gaze Big Brother has upon the world has been revealed.
Nobody is safe, there is no privacy. Nobody is immune, and Colony Season 2 Episode 4 feels more relevant than ever.
The real world has been screaming for a re-read of 1984, and after this hour, it's a must. Anything to find some solace from the pain I'm suffering beside the incredible performance offered by Kathleen Rose Perkins as she brought to live the last days of Jennifer McMahon.
The big picture came into play as Helena traveled around the world to answer for the state of affairs in Los Angeles.
In her role as Governor General, all of the good and bad lands at her feet. The Los Angeles bloc was under threat of "total rendition." Now I don't know what that means in these circumstances, but it can't be good.
When you're talking about terror suspects,...
Nobody is safe, there is no privacy. Nobody is immune, and Colony Season 2 Episode 4 feels more relevant than ever.
The real world has been screaming for a re-read of 1984, and after this hour, it's a must. Anything to find some solace from the pain I'm suffering beside the incredible performance offered by Kathleen Rose Perkins as she brought to live the last days of Jennifer McMahon.
The big picture came into play as Helena traveled around the world to answer for the state of affairs in Los Angeles.
In her role as Governor General, all of the good and bad lands at her feet. The Los Angeles bloc was under threat of "total rendition." Now I don't know what that means in these circumstances, but it can't be good.
When you're talking about terror suspects,...
- 2/3/2017
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Released a few years back, New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McMahon’s supernatural thriller Don’t Breathe a Word has garnered a whole lot of praise from both fans and critics alike, being called one of the scariest books in recent years.… Continue Reading →
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- 8/24/2015
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
While I'll be watching the "True Detective" season finale tonight, this week was relatively television free, though it made for time to watch a couple movies. First there was 300: Rise of an Empire (which I've already reviewed), then The Grand Budapest Hotel, for which I offered up some thoughts, but will have a full review this week. I will say this about Grand Budapest, I could watch it again right now. At home I watched Criterion's new Blu-ray release of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which I will have a review for this coming week and just last night I watched Zatoichi the Outlaw, the sixteenth Zatoichi film, as I continue to make my way through Criterion's wonderful presentation of the entire Zatoichi collection of films. Finally, I finished reading "The Winter People", a ghost story by Jennifer Mcmahon that I really enjoyed. Weaving the narrative of a...
- 3/9/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Don’t Breathe A Word
Paperback | Kindle
By Jennifer McMahon
HarperCollins
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In Don’t Breathe A Word, a 12-year-old girl named Lisa disappears without a trace. Fifteen years later, Lisa’s younger brother, Sam, is in a relationship with a woman named Phoebe. Sam gets a mysterious phone call that sends him and Phoebe on a crazy journey to find out what really happened to his sister fifteen years prior.
When I started on Don’t Breathe A Word, I was very apprehensive about reading it. A story about fairies was something I was not really looking forward to reading. The description of the book started to really sell the book for me. A story of a young girl disappearing in the middle of the night without a trace intrigued me a little. The cover also caught my interest. The girl on the cover said something about...
Paperback | Kindle
By Jennifer McMahon
HarperCollins
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In Don’t Breathe A Word, a 12-year-old girl named Lisa disappears without a trace. Fifteen years later, Lisa’s younger brother, Sam, is in a relationship with a woman named Phoebe. Sam gets a mysterious phone call that sends him and Phoebe on a crazy journey to find out what really happened to his sister fifteen years prior.
When I started on Don’t Breathe A Word, I was very apprehensive about reading it. A story about fairies was something I was not really looking forward to reading. The description of the book started to really sell the book for me. A story of a young girl disappearing in the middle of the night without a trace intrigued me a little. The cover also caught my interest. The girl on the cover said something about...
- 5/18/2011
- by Willie Gillis
- Geeks of Doom
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