Fall books tend to be some of the best books. After a summer full of breezy beach reads, it's time to dig into something more substantial. But with so many literary novels coming out in September, October, and November, it's easy to forget Halloween is the season of horrors — the perfect time to crack open a creepy, crawly tale you could stay up all night reading. Something that's convenient when you're wondering if you'll ever sleep again.
Ahead, we rounded up a few of 2022's most disturbing pages — from page-turning thrillers and horror books to mysterious whodunits to true crime so graphic you'll wish it was fiction. Grab a PSL and your coziest throw blanket. You'll need all the comfort you can get.
The Best New Horror Books And True Crime Reads To Try This Season
Just Like Home
When Vera comes home to the house she grew up in — the one where her serial killer father buried all the bodies — she thinks she knows everything she needs to about its dark history. Yet, somehow, new secrets are revealed.
Reluctant Immortals
From award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a horror book inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature, from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre‚ as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.
The Butcher and the Wren
Written by the host of the true crime podcast Morbid, this New York Times best seller has two narrators: a serial killer and the medical examiner following his trail. Together, they tell the story of a series of murders in the Louisiana bayou.
Killers of a Certain Age
What do four women who've worked as elite assassins do when they reach 60? Not become coastal grandmothers. After being targeted by fellow assassins on a blowout trip to celebrate their retirement, they quickly find themselves back in the game.
Daisy Darker
Set in a rundown Gothic house on a rocky coast, Daisy Darker tells the story of an estranged family's reunion that takes a murderous turn — and then another and another.
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
Twelve authors take on the iconic late author and mystery queen, embodying her voice, wit, and style in each of these short stories about Jane Marple — an elderly British sleuth who travels the world while solving crimes.
Spells for Forgetting
After her boyfriend was accused of murdering her best friend, Emery thought she put the worst behind her. But as one strange thing after another happens on the remote island she lives on, the past seems to find her.
Travel tip: Don't ever go to a remote island.
A Lovely Girl
This true crime story takes on the brutal murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1950s Santa Barbara and the trial that followed, which resulted in California's last execution of a woman.
The Other Side of Night
When a disgraced police officer trying to redeem herself takes an interest in the mysterious death of a father, things get complicated when she suspects her ex — whom she still considers the love of her life — is the killer.
Malice House
A woman goes to her late father's remote beach house to clean it out when she discovers an unpublished manuscript of short horror stories, which she decides to have published. But when people start turning up dead in the woods and an actual monster appears under her bed, the stories become all too real.
Lavender House
When the matriarch of a secretly queer family in 1952 dies mysteriously, a recently fired police officer comes to their estate to help the family find answers. He falls in love with the free lives everyone behind its gates lives but quickly gets pulled into its darker side.
A Haunted Road Atlas
The hosts of the podcast And That's Why We Drink take readers on a tour of America's spookiest, most disturbing locations — crime scenes, haunted buildings, and places known for their supernatural sightings — in this interactive travel guide.
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