Kealan Patrick Burke’s short story Sour Candy is an immediately-scary nightmare of non-consensual parenthood about chance encounters, the ravages of being a parent, and the terror of being stuck and helpless.
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Victor 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.
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Carmen 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.
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Leopoldo 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.
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Part 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.
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What 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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If you’re looking for a good haunted house story but in a setting that’s not an old, abandoned, Victorian mansion, check out Horrorstor.
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This book reminds you why you may have disliked adults as a child.
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