You don’t want to miss this one, especially with an adaptation currently in the works. It’s a bleak thrill ride with no easy answers and no easy outs for any of its characters until its bittersweet end. More ingenious is how the author uses his deeply flawed protagonist to immerse the reader and confront them with social commentary. Iglesias uses a fresh perspective to cast an unflinching eye on social issues, racism, and feelings of Otherness.
It’s part horror, part crime thriller, pure terror. An inciting tragedy transforms a protagonist into a ruthless killer, sending him on a dangerous journey with threats real and fantastical. The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias – August 2Ī compelling genre-bender fueled by unbridled and sometimes righteous wrath. Because of the level of detail in the true crime formatting, this one is best enjoyed with a physical copy. But Kraus digs deep to uncover the paranormal truth in an engaging novel that blends supernatural spookiness with the humorous absurdity of a poltergeist interfering with a burger joint.
It examines the bizarre case of a Burger City fire that claimed the lives of multiple victims and implicated another as the murderer.
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Penned as a true crime novel that assembles interviews, evidence, footnotes, and accounts of a fast food haunting, The Ghost That Ate Us is full of surprises. The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist by Daniel Kraus – July 12 Moreno-Garcia’s lush worldbuilding and cultural perspective make familiar material feel fresh and gripping. The authors latest gives a new take on the Island of Doctor Moreau, set in nineteenth-century Mexico. Moreno-Garcia shifts through genres, blends, and reimagines them through a Mexican lens, from gothic romance to vampire noir and beyond. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia There they find weird fungal growths, possessed animals, and Usher family members behaving strangely. When retired soldier Alex Easton receives word that their friend Madeline Usher is dying, they rush to the Ushers’ countryside home.
Kingfisher’s ability to weave vivid, haunting tales of cosmic and Lovecraftian horror makes for a unique reimagining of Poe’s story. Mike Flanagan isn’t the only one taking on twisted retellings of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” T. This should do the trick if finishing “Stranger Things” left a gaping hole in your summer entertainment.
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Paper Girls is nostalgia meets grim reality, presenting a more nuanced and complex adventure sci-fi series that’s available now in its entirety. The teens learn that their future selves are at the front lines of a war threatening the fate of humanity. Four young paper girls find themselves on a time-hopping journey on the morning of November 1, 1988, when they discover a strange device in a basement. The Eisner Award-winning sci-fi comic series has a series adaptation on the way via Prime Video, making now the perfect time to get acquainted. Here are eight horror books to keep you busy in the scorching summer months that pave the way to Halloween. Brand new editions of familiar tales, true crime horror twists, slasher sequels, contemporary retellings of Gothic classics, and must-read genre-benders round out this summer’s reading list of the top horror books. Whether nestled inside or stretched out under the sun, there are plenty of horror stories worth reading this summer for all ages and tastes.
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