With August upon us, the summer is swiftly and (for many) sadly coming to an end. But with the dew point dropping and the days growing ever longer also comes the promise of spooky season. Of course, we have a couple of months to go before October and Spooky Season, but any time is a good time to read a scary book.
Below you’ll find a collection of horror novels coming out during the month of August.
The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson
Fans of folk horror will be thrilled to read Leslie J Anderson’s deeply unsettling and suspenseful new novel, The Unmothers.
In the wake of her husband’s tragic death, a journalist by the name of Marshall travels to a small, remote town to investigate a rumor that sounds like it’s straight out of the pages of the Enquirer: a horse has given birth to a human baby.
Hum by Helen Phillips
From the author of The Need comes a new dystopian horror novel, Hum. Set in a near future in a city that has been taken over by intelligent robots, a young woman named May struggles with her day-to-day life after losing her job to artificial intelligence.
Desperate for time away from the city, she splurges on a three night stay at the Botanical Garden: one of the last remaining green spaces. But things between May and her family become fraught when she insists that they leave their technological devices behind.
House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
Gabino Iglesias scared the pants off of readers with his novel, The Devil Takes You Home, and now he’s back to do it again with House of Bone and Rain.
House of Bone and Rain is a different kind of ghost story. Set in Puerto Rico, it tells the story of five teenage boys who decide to exact their revenge after one of their mother’s is shot and killed. But as they strategize against the drug kingpin who gunned her down, a deadly storm begins to manifest itself off the coast, posing a very different kind of threat to their lives.
Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons
From the author of A Black and Endless Sky and The Night Will Find Us comes a new, gripping horror novel about a bank robbery gone horribly wrong.
Anne Heller has been a criminal for her entire life. When a job goes sideways, she finds herself on the run with her badly wounded partner and the police officer they’ve taken hostage. She has no choice but to lay low at her family’s cabin, but the more time they spend there, stranger and stranger occurrences begin to happen.
The Devil By Name (Fever House #2) by Keith Rosson
The second in the Fever House series by Keith Rosson picks up five years after the first book took place. John Bonner keeps an eye on activity beyond the walls of the “Fever House” in Portland, Oregon while Katharine Moriarty has made way for the east coast. Meanwhile, overseas, a young girl begins to exhibit unimaginable power.
Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy #1) by Nathan Ballingrud
If you’re afraid of spiders, you might want to skip this one.
The year is 1923 and Veronica Brinkley has just arrived at the Barrowfield Home for Treatment of the Melancholy, located on the surface of the moon (though not necessarily the one you’re thinking of). Treatment for said melancholy is strange to say the least; a bit of spider silk attached to the brain.
Little does Veronica know that the caves beneath Barrowfield once housed an enormous spider and that its silk granted followers great power.
