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Must-Read Monday: Horror

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Dive into this spine-tingling selection of new horror reads—filled with eerie mysteries, dark humor, and haunting tales that will keep you up all night.

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Book cover for "Spread Me" by Sarah Gailey, featuring a dome with dark, tentacle-like roots on an orange background.

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

A routine probe at a research station turns deadly when a team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.

Book cover for "Midnight Timetable" by Bora Chung, featuring a sheep in a surreal, colorful hallway.

The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung

During eerie night shifts at a mysterious research institute, a new employee encounters cursed objects, ghost-chasing live streamers, and a vengeful cat, among others, whose unsettling stories intertwine to reveal the exploitation and cruelty of the haunted machinery of modern life.

A pale lizard curls around a woman's hand as she pulls back a white sheet; book title reads "Acquired Taste.

Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman

This chilling collection of 25 darkly witty stories explores addiction, paranoia, and cultural rot, from a Vietnam vet with a monstrous hunger to a haunted news network, offering a terrifying, timely glimpse into the horrors beneath everyday life.

Book cover for "Play Nice" by Rachel Harrison, featuring a gothic purple house encircled by a black and red tail.

Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

Clio’s mother Alex lost custody of Clio and her sisters when Alex wrote a book saying their house was possessed; after Alex’s sudden death, the house passes to the sisters, and as the home makeover begins and Clio finally reads the book, the presence in the house becomes real and sinister.

Book cover of "Fiend" by Alma Katsu, featuring a dark cloud over a city building at sunset with a purple sky.

Fiend by Alma Katsu

When the powerful Berisha family’s long-standing “blessing” starts to unravel, three siblings begin plotting against each other, exposing a deadly pact and revealing the dark forces that helped build their fortune and that may now be demanding a price.

Book cover with large red text stating "The End of the World As We Know It" over a dark background and a rabbit.

The End of the World as We Know It by Christopher Golden

Set during and after the events of The Stand, this authorized anthology gathers original stories from acclaimed writers who expand on the novel’s apocalyptic world, exploring survival, morality, and human resilience amid civilization’s collapse and the uncertain rebuilding that follows.

Book cover for "The Possession of Alba Díaz" shows a woman in a red dress leaning back dramatically in a dim room.

The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas

In 1765, as plague ravages Zacatecas, Alba seeks refuge in her fiancé’s remote mining estate but soon spirals into convulsions and darkness, forcing her into a dangerous alliance with his cousin Elías as demonic forces, buried secrets, and forbidden desire close in.

Book cover: "Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng" by Kylie Lee Baker, with a bat and flowers in the background.

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

Haunted by her sister’s murder and the whispered words “bat eater,” Chinatown crime scene cleaner Cora Zeng confronts grief, paranoia and disturbing occurrences, including bat carcasses at crime scenes and bite marks that appear on her coffee table.

Book cover for "Coffin Moon" featuring a skull, a winding road, and bold red and yellow text.

Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson

In 1975 Portland, a haunted Vietnam vet and his teenage niece set out on a violent quest for vengeance after a brutal murder, chasing a killer across the Northwest, in the new novel by the author of Fever House.

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