Another Stoker Award winner, Gwendolyn Kiste’s debut novel spins the tale of a Cleveland neighborhood’s brush with an unsettling disease in the summer of 1980. The girls of Denton Street are changing into something inhuman. No one can escape the news of their transformations. As outsiders flock to see the “Rust Maidens,” the purpose of her former friends’ metamorphosis slowly dawns on a young woman who’s desperate to save her cousin from a grisly fate.

Copenhagen police have just discovered a connection between two recent murders — each of which bears a strange hallmark — and a high-profile kidnapping. A doll made from chestnuts and matches awaits them at each gruesome crime scene. One bears the fingerprints of another victim — a girl who has been dead for a year. With a mysterious killer preying closer and closer to their homes, two detectives enter a deadly game of cat and mouse, in The Chestnut Man.

Catriona Ward’s Shirley Jackson Award-winning sophomore novel gets its first U.S. release in 2022. Little Eve follows its eponymous heroine as she prepares for a ritual that will usher in the apocalypse. The Adder will only spare the faithful, and Eve intends to receive the god’s powerful blessing. Meanwhile, an investigator journeys to a remote island off the coast of Scotland…only to find the settlement drenched in blood.

Queer victims of abuse often find themselves passed over in discussions about domestic violence, despite its pervasiveness across the country. Carmen Maria Machado’s experimental memoir, In the Dream House, leans on horror tropes as it recounts the devastating abuse she suffered at the hands of her ex-partner.

A Brooklynite angered by the sprawl of gentrification teams up with one of her neighborhood’s newest arrivals to create a walking tour that will preserve the community’s rich history. As Sydney and Theo launch their endeavor, however, they soon learn that rising housing costs may not be the only reason Sydney’s old neighbors left Brooklyn for the ‘burbs.

Circumstances beyond her control forced Lena to drop out of college. To pay off her family’s massive debt, Lena goes to work for a pharmaceutical company in Lakewood, Michigan. She doesn’t have to worry about paying for housing or health insurance, and her salary easily supports her family. The company’s medical experiments could be total game-changers. As Lena spends more time in town, however, she begins to suspect that all is not as it seems in Lakewood.

A vengeful spirit is out to get Ricky, Lewis, Gabe, and Cass. Years ago, the four Blackfeet men chased elk onto their elders’ game reserve in the midst of a hunting trip. There, they committed a transgression for which they have never atoned. Now, something is hunting the hunters and their families, and it won’t rest until it has its revenge.

Taking inspiration from Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows, T. Kingfisher’s The Hollow Places tracks one woman’s excursions into a parallel reality. Kara works for her uncle at his roadside attraction: the Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy. When her uncle is hospitalized, however, Kara becomes the museum’s caretaker and uncovers its weirdest secret: a portal into another world, where the trees talk…and know more than they should.

Sixty years after Milagros’ unsolved murder, locals say she still haunts the south Texas town where she died. All you have to do to summon her is call for La Reina de Las Chicharras — the Queen of the Cicadas. After he purchases the plantation where Milagros died, Hector, a lapsed curandero, begins teasing out the mystery of her murder. Something big is brewing beyond the mortal realm, however, and soon, everyone will know Milagros’ story.

Twenty years ago, Jena’s parents and siblings died in a fire. Her grandmother sent her away in the aftermath. Now, Grandmother Rose is on her deathbed, giving Jena the perfect opportunity to find out what happened to her family. Aided by Rose’s caregiver, Jena dives into the dark history of her family’s property — only to come face-to-face with a murderous entity that wants them all dead.

Thiago never dreamed that his wife would die so soon. He certainly didn’t expect the media to politicize her death. Unable to bear life in their old home any longer, Thiago escapes to a remote cabin, looking for a little peace and quiet. But whatever spirits haunted his Chicago apartment have followed Thiago to Colorado, and now he has nowhere left to run.

A chilling horror novel in the vein of Rebecca and Mexican Gothic, The Hacienda follows a blushing bride as she travels to her new husband’s palatial home, Hacienda San Isidro, for the first time. For Beatriz, who was recently orphaned, marrying Don Rodolfo Solórzano provides a measure of security that’s difficult to find. Sure, questions linger about the death of her husband’s first wife. It’s even a little odd that her new sister-in-law refuses to stay the night at Hacienda San Isidro. But surely Beatriz is safe in her new home. Surely.