Today through Friday (April 19th), Barnes & Noble is running their semi-annual preorder sale – B&N Rewards members get 25% off all pre-orders, and Premium members get an additional 10% off physical books. If you haven’t preordered Horror For Weenies yet and you’re a B&N Rewards member, now is your time!
And if you need help filling your cart, naturally I have a few more suggestions for you:
- Ghostroots, ‘Pemi Aguda (May 7): Aguda’s debut collection is a haunting, beautiful, hauntingly beautiful set of stories set in Nigeria.
- The Z Word, Lindsay King-Miller (May 7): I’m calling it now, The Z Word is one of the best books of 2024. Do not miss the boat on this electrifying queer zombie novel.
- youthjuice, E. K. Sathue (June 4): A buzzy debut about a young woman working at a skincare company with a sinister secret.
- Cuckoo, Gretchen Felker-Martin (June 11): Felker-Martin’s newest is set at a conversion camp with something very, very evil at its heart.
- The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim (June 25): An unforgettable tale of rage, hunger, and serial murder.
- Midnight Rooms, Donyae Coles (July 2): A Black woman in Victorian England marries the heir to a crumbling estate in this debut from Coles.
- The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, Cynthia Gómez (July 9th): A queer, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist story collection set in Oakland.
- I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones (July 16): A new standalone slasher novel from living horror legend SGJ.
- It Came from the Trees, Ally Russell (July 30): Ally Russell’s debut middle grade novel is chilling, thrilling, and full of heart.
- Stay on the Line, Clay McLeod Chapman (July 30): Chapman is an auto-buy for me (as he should be for you), and this spooky novelette about a grieving town is already sending chills up my spine.
- House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (August 6): New Gabino Iglesias is always cause for celebration – this one’s about a group of Puerto Rican teens who vow to take revenge on the people who murdered one of their mothers.
- A Mask of Flies, Matthew Lyons (August 6): Brutal, blood-soaked crime-horror about a bank robbery gone wrong and a desperate attempt to survive a shapeshifting nightmare creature.
- The Unmothers, Leslie J. Anderson (August 6): A brilliant folk horror debut about a small town’s troubled relationship with the Thing in the Woods.
- So Thirsty, Rachel Harrison (September 10): Harrison’s newest is about two friends who find themselves drained and changed after a wild night out – vampires are back, baby!
- This World is Not Yours, Kemi Ashing-Giwa (September 10): I’m so intrigued by this novella about a messy polycule on a haunted planet, and I’m gonna need you to click through and look at the terrifying cover for this one right now.
- Devils Kill Devils, Johnny Compton (September 24): Compton’s follow-up to The Spite House follows a woman whose guardian angel unleashes a particular kind of hell on her life.
- The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister (October 1): A dreamlike, folk horror-inflected novel about an insular family in rural West Virginia who care for a mysterious bog.
- Coup De Grâce, Sofia Ajram (October 1): NB to fans of Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi: you want this book and you want it right now.
- This Cursed House, Del Sandeen (October 8): A Southern gothic debut about a Black woman who takes a job with a cursed family in 1960s New Orleans.
- American Rapture, CJ Leede (October 15): Leede’s follow-up to Maeve Fly is a bloody, horny, deliciously sacrilegious post-apocalyptic road trip.
- All the Hearts You Eat, Hailey Piper (October 15): Nobody’s doing it like Hailey Piper, man. This coastal small-town gothic novel is full of ghosts and folklore.
- Dead Girls Don’t Dream, Nino Cipri (November 12): You had me at “Voynich Woods.”
Need even more suggestions? The 2024 new releases list has you covered.
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