The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Type: NovelPublisher: BerkleyRelease date: July 13 Den of Geek says: This bloody play on horror tropes sounds like it channels the spirit of The Cabin in the Woods. Publisher’s summary: Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Buy The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
Type: NovelPublisher: G.P. Putnam’s SonsRelease date: July 6 Den of Geek says: Alternate universes meet serial killers in what looks like a twisty sci-fi horror story. Publisher’s summary: “I love you. In every world.” Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her. The man, a stranger, seems to know far too much about her, and professes his love–shortly before he murders her. Soon, Felicity senses her entire universe has shifted. No one remembers Madison May, or Felicity’s encounter with the mysterious man. And her cat is missing. Felicity realizes that in her pursuit of Madison’s killer, she followed him into a different dimension–one where everything about her existence is slightly altered. At first, she is determined to return to the reality she knows, but when Madison May–in this world, a struggling actress–is murdered again, Felicity decides she must find the killer–and learns that she is not the only one hunting him. Traveling through different realities, Felicity uncovers the opportunity–and danger–of living more than one life. Buy The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry.
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Type: NovelPublisher: Del ReyRelease date: July 22 Den of Geek says: Known for his irreverent style and tactile prose, Wendig turns to horror with this literary-flavored dark magic jaunt. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic. This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family—and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this battle: their love for one another. Buy The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig.
