Horror Isn’t Just For Us Old People

Coming out tomorrow is a new one from Gillian Flynn’s imprint, Wen-Yi Lee’s YA horror novel The Dark We Know. After Isadora Chang’s abusive father dies, Isa returns to the mining town where she grew up, despite how oppressive the place had always felt to her. She tells herself she’ll only stay long enough to collect her father’s inheritance, but then she’s confronted by her former friend Mason. Mason says their friends were killed by a supernatural force, and now he needs her help to destroy it before it comes for them all.

Here’s a new horror novel for adults! The only one included in this week’s newsletter! But it’s worth getting off theme for a moment to bring this one to your attention. Set in Puerto Rico, this novel is about teenage friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo who seek vengeance after Bimbo’s mother is shot and killed. On their mission for revenge, the boys encounter gang violence and supernatural forces.

This first middle grade horror novel is an all-time fave! Ophie’s Ghost is set in Pittsburgh in the 1920s. Young Ophelia (Ophie) Harrison can see ghosts. So when Ophie gets a job as a maid at the old Daffodil Manor, of course she sees ghosts everywhere. She even befriends a ghost whose life was tragically taken too soon, and Ophie starts to wonder if there’s anything she can do to help. But not all ghosts are friendly, and Daffodil Manor is filled with secrets.