Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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These inventive horror stories offer readers plenty of new frights and delights.

E. L. Chen, Slasher Summer (Crown)
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Max Doty, The House That Eats the Dead (Bantam)
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Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II (Vintage)
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Cynthia Gómez, Muñeca (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
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A. P. Thayer, Tapeworm (Zando)
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