Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Horror writers explore the many ways to experience terror, with vampires, cosmic entities, and the depths of the human soul.

Josh Malerman, Pictures of You (Del Rey: Penguin Random House)
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Markus Redmond, Blood Rising (Dafina: Kensington)
Learn more about this book: penguinrandomhouselibrary.com/book/?isbn=9781496753199

Also featuring:
Johanna van Veen, Bone of My Bone (Deluxe Edition) (Poisoned Pen Press: Sourcebooks)
Libby Edwardson, We Sent Them Down Singing (Page Street Horror: Page Street)
Cynthia Pelayo, Something Followed Us Home (Atria/Primero Sueno Press: Simon & Schuster)

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