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HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEN!! We're still a few months off, but for my upcoming picks, we're moving into the Fall, so I will take the excuse to celebrate my favorite holiday season. FOUND is an anthology collected by Stoker Award Winner Gabino Iglesias & Andrew Cull, paying homage to a beloved subgenre in horror: Found Footage. Along with Analog Horror, found footage is a subgenre that I love and this collection is PERFECT for watchers and readers alike.
Emily Carroll's triumphant return to the world of horror is a decadent, queer, and terrifying new standalone story that flips gothic haunted house tropes on their head to only then blow them away with a giant fan. If you were a fan of the Eisner award-winning Through The Woods, then you will just about devour this tale of identity and survival.
Lost films, haunted directors, nazi occultism—oh my! Silvia Moreno-Garcia is back with another genre-busting novel to send shivers up your spine. When two childhood friends meet an enigmatic former Hollywood director, they are dying to ask him about his final horror movie, Behind the Yellow Door. Legend has it the book has been lost to time, ending the careers of just about everyone involved. However, there's a darker tale to tell, and these intrepid film fans find themselves swept up in a dangerous bid to raise the past from the dead...
Romantic, pulse-pounding, and chilling, Silver Nitrate is Moreno-Garcia telling us that her powers are only growing from here.
Chuck Tingle is an internet legend. Many know and love him. More self-serious people hate his guts. What has always been true of Chuck is his incredible writing, whether it's surreal sci fi erotica or his debut horror novella from a few years ago, Straight. This year, he's made his traditional publishing debut novel, with Camp Damascus. A terrifying and heartfelt novel about a devote young woman in an extremely religious small town. She's soon to be graduating (despite being well past the age of high school) and has been noticing some strange things around town. Specifically, she's been noticing strange demons, dressed in summer camp attire...Even when you think you know where this book is going, you truly don't. This takes the trope of conversion camps and completely changes the game. This is absolutely one of the best books to come out this year.
