Mariana Enriquez’s highly acclaimed novel Our Share of Night is a rich, lengthy, family saga, horror story about a young man and his inheritance: an estate, a cult, and a magical strength all his own. Set in Argentina from the 1960s to the late 1990s, just before, during, and after military dictatorship, Enriquez’s sweeping novel is a dedication to disappeared people and the violence they face, wrapped around the story of a family and the terrifying God they worship.
Read MoreIsabel Cañas’s debut novel The Hacienda is a gothic, supernatural, haunted house story set in 1823 rural Mexico following the Mexican War of Independence. Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca, others have said, which is a strikingly accurate comparison. The Hacienda is about indigeneity, mother-daughter relationships, colorism and caste, witchcraft and the Inquisition, budding (and forbidden) love, and the determination needed to survive being home.
Read MoreVictor Lavalle’s seventh book, The Changeling (2017), is a surprising and deeply horrifying fairy tale planted firmly in modern day New York City about a family torn apart and the drive to piece it back together again.
Read MoreIn Julia Bartz’s The Writing Retreat, we follow a small group of young women writers taking a month-long residency in an old, country manor, hosted by an (in)famous author, Roza, whose motivations begin mysterious but evolve to be sinister. It’s a book about writers and the act of writing. With notes of Shirley Jackson and Hill House, The Writing Retreat is a thrilling, psychological ride about broken friendships, the creative process, queer desire, and scary stories.
Read MoreAn entrancing sequel to S.A Harian’s Briardark, Waywarden is a survival horror story set in a wilderness that does not adhere to the rules of physics.
Read MoreS.A Harian’s Briardark is the first book in a horror series about a haunted wilderness— the Deadswitch— where space and time bend and darkness follows a group of researchers, there to study a glacier. An alluring horror read, Briardark is also a fascinating take on climate change, the science of life on earth, guilt, breakups, self purpose, and being lost.
Read MoreCarmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties is an ingenious read about boundaries and betrayals, queer desire and intimacy, stories with forgotten endings, strange contagions, the doubts of parenthood, invasion of the body, and our smallness in the universe.
Read MoreSilvia Moreno-Garcia’s sixth novel Mexican Gothic is The Haunting of Hill House meets The Last of Us— a spell-binding and surprising story with depth, terror, and charisma.
Read MoreStephen Graham Jones’s heart wrenching novel The Only Good Indians follows a group of Blackfeet friends, haunted by a past elk hunting trip. Jones’s horror story rips at your soul, reminding us that mistakes can be deadly and that our forebears’ mistakes return to us. And an animal’s bloodthirsty vengeance— a mother animal’s bloodthirsty vengeance— is a different beast than a human’s.
Read MoreCynthia Pelayo’s collection of 54 bite-sized horror stories— one for every card in the Loteria deck— make terrifying different Latin American beliefs, cultures, folklore, history, and fears.
Read MoreLeopoldo Gout’s 2023 horror novel Piñata is a jaw-dropping contribution to the exorcism story sub-genre, playing with tropes we know and bringing in new scares that distinguish it among its counterparts. It’s about cursed artifacts, colonization, ancestral interconnectedness across time and space, rage, femicide, and sisterhood.
Read MoreFrom Josh Malerman, the author of Bird Box, comes a collection of five spellbinding novellas called Spin a Black Yarn.
Read MoreAcclaimed author Catriona Ward’s most recent novel, Looking Glass Sound, is about murder, the deception, thievery, and magic in the art of writing, witchcraft, the horror of the ocean, and the bonds of friendship.
Read MoreDaniel Kraus’s 2023 novel Whalefall is a survival story with a lot to say about grief that will have you both mesmerized and in tears.
Read MorePart mystery part horror, The Paleontologist is a fast-paced, thought-provoking story about chasing the truth, the expansiveness of geologic time, and the ripples of violence through the eras.
Read MoreTananarive Due’s most recent novel, The Reformatory, is a beyond-horrifying, semi-fictional story about a young man’s torturous imprisonment in the evil Gracetown School for Boys— nicknamed the Reformatory— and his family’s daring efforts in the face of Jim Crow era Florida to free him.
Read MoreChuck Tingle’s Camp Damascus is a thrilling coming-of-age horror story set in rural Montana in a deeply religious community called Kingdom of Pine, which owns and operates the most successful gay conversion camp in the country, Camp Damascus.
Read MoreSilvia Moreno-Garcia’s most recent novel, Silver Nitrate, is about the film industry (a little inside baseball at times), creepy curses & cults, and Mexico City.
Read MoreDivisive and provocative, Tell Me I’m Worthless is Alison Rumfitt’s debut novel about a fascist haunted house terrorizing Alice, a trans sex worker, Ila, an infamous TERF, and Hannah, the third wheel to Alice and Ila’s fucked up dynamic.
Read MoreWhat would happen if, suddenly, a large swath of the population saw something that wasn’t there, something that makes them afraid enough to turn to violence deemed necessary?
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