Thank you PRH Audio for the ALCs and Dutton and Berkly Pub, #partner for the e- galleys in exchange for my honest reviews. I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again…the debut game is strong this year!! Both these were great debuts & I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for what these authors write next!! THE HOUSE BUILT ON ALLIGATOR BONES by Sophia Huneycutt Published:…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press and Crooked Lane Books, #partner for the physical copies in exchange for my honest reviews. I love a good retelling and when you add in some horror elements, I’m all in! Both of these came highly recommended and one was even a debut!! MARION by Leah Rowan Published: June 2, 2026, St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Audio for the ALC and Poisoned Pen Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press / Sourcebooks Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: One isolated cabin. One cheating boyfriend. One plan to get even. When Nora, Ruby, and Cham discover that they’ve each been dating the same man, what starts…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of Please Remain Seated in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: September 22, 2026 Summary: From the author of the horror sensation We Used to Live Here and The Caretaker comes a bingeable and perfectly unsettling audio collection of three brand new short stories, taking listeners all the way from a nightmareish flight through unfriendly skies to a submarine…
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Thank you Libro.fm / PRH Audio for the ALC and Dutton, #partner, for the finished copy of An Immaculate Deception in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / Penguin Audio Published: September 1, Summary: A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner for the advanced copy of You’ll Be Sorry in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: August 4, 2026 Summary: A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a horrific decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors…except they don’t. For…
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Thank you Fringe Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Hail Holy Queens in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Fringe Press Published: July 28, 2026 Summary: It’s 1887. High in the snow-swept Berkshires sits an old Romanesque convent where the nuns turn out bottles of their potent Italian amaro. They pray. They work. They pray some more. It’s an isolated place where little gets in the way of…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Kensington Published: January 27, 2026 Summary: Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Bantam Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Scary Movie Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Books / Random House Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: In this nail-biting thriller, a horror-themed birthday party turns deadly when guests start disappearing—and the birthday girl realizes that she must face a long-buried secret to make it out alive. Tippi is…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Secret Attic in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: The Secret Attic Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: The past isn’t just haunting her—it’s hunting her. Addison Lowe knew her mother-in-law despised her, but inheriting Barb’s massive estate after her death feels less like closure and more like a trap. Barb’s hoarded rooms aren’t just filled with clutter—they’re filled…
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Thank you Bantam #partner, for the advanced and finished copies of Backstabbers in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook from one of my subscriptions. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher. Never turn your back…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of I’ll Watch Your Baby in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory, I’ll Watch Your Baby is a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor -known as…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Crown #partner, for the finished copy of The Beheading Game in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: March 24, 2026 Summary: Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC of Dead Weight in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Tor Nightfire / Macmillan Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs—or even bodies—in this gruesomely cathartic horror thriller from the author of The Night Guest. Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. Trying to do the…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Bantam #partner, for the advanced and finished copies of The Library After Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems, in this…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Is When the Devil Comes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: Unrelentingly scary and thrilling, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an ambitious and chilling novel from acclaimed horror author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Crown #partner, for the finished copy of A Gift Before Dying in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / Random House Audio Published: January 20, 2026 Summary: In a hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with ice—and blood. After a botched high-profile murder…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Caretaker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 21, 2026 Summary: Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin…
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Thank you Chris Bucci and St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for the advanced copy and finished copy of These Familiar Walls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 14, 2026 Summary: A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward. In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of…
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Thank you Dutton #partner, for the finished copy of Mother Is Watching in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: An internationally bestselling author’s chilling horror debut in which an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life. Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Nothing Tastes As Good in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: March 31, 2026 Summary: The acclaimed author of the “disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new…
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Thank you PRH Audio, #partner, for the ALC of A Box Full of Darkness in exchange for my honest review. I received the print copy from a friend. Publisher: Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: January 20, 2026 Summary: Siblings return to the house they fled eighteen years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request to come home. Strange things happen in Fell,…
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Thank you Highbridge Audio for the ALC and Lauren Cerand PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Daughters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mysterious Press / Highbridge Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: Reeling from the dual deaths of her estranged father and ex-fiancé, Genevieve Tompkins has dropped out of her PhD program in New York City and is looking for a chance to start over…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the finished copy of You Did Nothing Wrong in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: A relentless, horror-inducing psychological suspense for fans of The Push and Baby Teeth by New York Times bestselling author CG Drews. Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Bone Queen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: A chilling horror-thriller debut where a mother’s search for her missing daughter battles against the shadows of a historic, dangerous legend. Single mother Jenna arrives on the tranquil shores of Athelsea fueled…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: July 8, 2025 Summary: Nola Strate, a late night call-in radio host in Portland, Oregon, listens to stories of hauntings and cryptic sightings for a living. But one foggy, wet evening, when a caller describes an eerie scene that triggers memories of Nola’s escape from a serial…
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I purchased the book for my own collection and borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: S&S/Saga Press / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: March 18, 2025 Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians comes a tale of the American West, writ in blood. This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as…
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Thank you to RB Media for the ALC and MBC Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Gothictown in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington / Recorded Books Published: March 25, 2025 Summary: A restaurateur lured by pandemic-era incentives moves her family to a seemingly idyllic town in Georgia. The email message that lands in Billie Hope’s inbox seems like a gift from the universe. For $100 she…
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Thank you Scribner, #partner, for the finished copy of After Midnight in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: September 30, 2025 Summary: Introduced by international bestseller Stephen King, a stunning new hardback collection of Daphne du Maurier’s darkest stories Amid the reflections and twisting alleyways of Venice, a grieving couple are haunted by the past. On…
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Thank you Simon Maverick, #partner, for the ALC of Forget You Saw Her in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Maverick Audio Published: November 4, 2025 Summary: A missing girl. A frantic mother. A desperate search. Across the country, notes taped to restroom stalls read, “On a date that isn’t going well? Ask for Andrea at the bar. We’ll make sure you get home safe.” But Andrea—the girl behind…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the finished copy of The Farmhouse in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press / Sourcebooks Published: June 17, 2025 Summary: Every woman who has lived on this farm has died. Emily just moved in. When Emily Hauk’s mother dies, it’s time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner, for the advanced copy of Body of Water in exchange for my honest review. I got the audiobook via one of my audio subscriptions. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: September 23, 2025 Summary: For fans of Stephen King’s The Mist and the HBO hit show The Last of Us comes a wildly inventive, sinister thriller following an estranged father and daughter who find themselves trapped in a diner by a living…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Graceview Patient in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: October 14, 2025 Summary: Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC of Mapping the Interior in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the print copy for my own collection. Publisher: Tor Nightfire / Macmillan Audio Published: April 29, 2025 / June 25, 2025 Summary: Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and Berkley Pub, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Play Nice in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / PRH Audio Published: September 9, 2025 Summary: A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house. Clio Louise Barnes leads a…
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Thank you Crooked Lane Book, #partner, for the advanced copy of Spider to The Fly in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: September 2, 2025 Summary: A true crime author helps in a desperate hunt for a killer in this dark and twisted thriller from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.” Perfect for fans of cat and mouse…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Nowhere in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: March 25, 2025 Summary: Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut about a series of disappearances in a small, fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in. After losing her young son in an accident, Rachel Kennan throws…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: November 1, 2022 Summary: White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother’s spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Ghostwriter in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: June 3, 2025 Summary: June, 1975. The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Man Made of Smoke in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 13, 2025 Summary: The latest gripping serial killer thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Alex North. Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with…
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Thank you Simon Maverick, #partner, for the ALC of Ask for Andrea in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Maverick Audio Published: March 25, 2025 Summary: The classic blockbuster thriller about three women who refuse to let death itself stop them from seeking justice on the man who took their lives… “Hands down, one of my favorite reads of the year!” —Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid Meghan, Brecia,…
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Thank you Libro.fm/PRH Audio for the ALC of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the book for my own collection. Publisher: Berkley / PRH Audio Published: January 14, 2025 Summary: There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden…
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Thank you to Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar for the advanced copy of We Live Here Now in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar Published: May 20, 2025 Summary: After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something about it feels…
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Thank you HTP Audio for the ALC and HTP / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: MIRA / Harlequin Audio Published: April 29, 2025 Summary: Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner—but the bloody messes don’t bother her, not when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in…
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Thank you Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Unworthy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books Published: March 4, 2025 Summary: The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. From her cell in a mysterious convent,…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Something in the Walls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 25, 2025 Summary: Newly minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead she aimlessly spends her days…
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Thank you to the author for the print copy of The Prey in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook of The Night Guest for my collection. Both these books were readalong picks for the #NordicNoir bookclub I’m part of and I am so glad we chose them! One was by a beloved author–Yrsa Sigurdardottir– and one was by a new-to-me to–Hildur Knutsdottir. THE PREY…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Recorded Books, partner for the ALC of Exposure and Berkley /PRH Audio, partner for the e-copy and ALC of Indian Burial Ground in exchange for my honest reviews. I purchased a print copy of Indian Burial Ground for my collection. As I mentioned in an earlier post, November was Native American Heritage Month. I shared a stack of books I was hoping to get…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Summary: A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start.…
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Thank you Berkley Pub, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Murder Road in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Berkley / PRH Audio Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re…
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