Horror Books We’re Looking Forward to This Year
Scary stories aren’t just for around the campfire or during Halloween. The familiar haunted house story gets turned on its head with these fresh, sinister angles that reimagine the spooky. Outside, a virus wrecks chaos on humanity, propelling survivors to use everything in their arsenal to survive. Parasitic monsters need to be tamed if a city wants to continue living. But these creatures and circumstances may not be the most fearful. Instead, these books are going to show characters tested to their limits and reckon with the darkest parts of themselves if they want to make it out alive. Here are some upcoming horror novels that will keep you up late at night and continue to haunt you beyond these pages.
Matt and Claire Kirklin are the husband and wife duo in the newest ghost hunting reality TV show, Fade to Black. They investigate weekly hauntings with a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts. For episode thirteen, they explore every ghost hunter’s holy grail—the Paranormal Research Foundation, a brooding mansion that holds secrets about bizarre experiments that took place in the 1970s. It’s also famously haunted. With their scientific techniques and high-tech gear, the team hopes to prove it. Told in broken pieces, tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is a story about how this episode went horribly wrong and that proof of an afterlife may not be what they dreamed of.
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Emily Hoang is a writer and editor, who is obsessed with haunted houses, ghosts, and dreams. More info can be found on her website.