Marching into Spring with New Horror Book Releases

We’re kicking off March with a new YA horror novel from Trang Thanh Tran, the author of She is a Haunting. Mercy, Louisiana, has been completely devastated by hurricane damage. Red algae has taken over the town and the water levels continue to rise. Noon and her mother search their submerged town looking for those they have lost. Noon’s mother is convinced their family has died and come back as sea creatures. Noon herself is beginning to feel like a monster is hiding underneath her skin.

From the author of the viral horror hit Tender is the Flesh comes an imaginative new horror novel The Unworthy. In this novel, our narrator is a lower member of the Secret Sisterhood. Although she has been deemed an unworthy, the woman dreams of rising in the ranks to become one of the Enlightened. Meanwhile, the world outside is falling apart. Electricity, internet, everything… gone. Outside people are struggling to survive. Then one of them makes their way inside the convent walls.

This dark gothic novel is set in England in 1904. Adelaide and Victoria are mirror twins whose lives are completely intertwined. But while Adelaide wishes she could spend the rest of her life in Harewood Hall, Victoria craves adventure and romance. Enter Lord Stanley, a wealthy and mysterious man who promises a life of luxury in New York. But he doesn’t promise it to Victoria. It’s Adelaide he wants to marry. As Adelaide takes the life Victoria wanted, Victoria descends into a deep, vengeful darkness.

Here’s another scary story about twins, this time set in The Netherlands in 1887. Lucy’s twin sister Sarah has been diagnosed with temporary insanity. Sarah is mumbling nonsense and refuses to eat. Sarah’s behavior is enough to get her sent away to an asylum, and in a desperate attempt to avoid that fate, Lucy will stop at nothing to unwrap the mysteries of Sarah’s condition. But it’s clear Sarah isn’t telling Lucy everything and her behavior is starting to get violent.

If horror has taught us anything, it’s probably this: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Clearly, Billie Hope hasn’t read enough horror novels. When she gets an email offering up a Victorian home in Juliana, Georgia, she jumps at the opportunity. At first, Juliana is everything Billie and her husband could have hoped for, and it seems like the perfect spot for her to open up her new restaurant. But the longer Billie spends in the seemingly cozy southern town, the more she wonders if Juliana’s charm hides something sinister…and if she will ever be able to leave.

Allison Gunn’s debut horror/thriller is described as Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider. This novel follows Rachel Kennan, the police chief in a small town in Virginia who has completely thrown herself into her work following the death of her son. Everything at home is not going well. Her husband Finn, whose reckless behavior is responsible for the accident that killed their young son, is fighting against his demons in the hopes of redeeming himself. Their two daughters harbor secrets of their own. Meanwhile, a strange force is calling children into the woods, and fear overtakes the town.