Best New Horror Books in July 2022

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason

Type: Anthology
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Release date: July 19

Den of Geek says: After enjoying Screams From the Dark so much last month, we’re on the hunt for the next great horror anthology … and it might be this one. Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due are among the varied list of authors.

Publisher’s summary: Offering new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Terrors will provide the ultimate reading experience for horror fans who want to examine fear of “the other.”

Be they of a different culture, a different background, a different sexual orientation or gender identity, a different belief system, or a different skin color, some people simply aren’t part of the community’s majority—and are perceived as scary. Humans are almost instinctively inclined to fear what’s different, and there are a multitude of individuals who have spent far too long on the outside looking in. And the thing about the outside is . . . it’s much larger than you think.

In Other Terrors, horror writers from a multitude of underrepresented backgrounds have created stories of everyday people, places, and things where something shifts, striking a deeper, much more primal, chord of fear. Are our eyes playing tricks on us, or is there something truly sinister lurking under the surface of what we thought we knew? And who among us is really the other, after all?

They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

Type: Novella
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Release date: July 12

Den of Geek says: That title promises something monstrous and spooky in this novella praised by Jennifer McMahon and Booklist as a women-centered Gothic treat.

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