8 of the Best New Horror Books Coming Out April 2023

After her mother and father’ lives are perpetually modified by a debilitating accident, our narrator in Natural Beauty is compelled to go away behind her life as a younger, promising musician to discover a job and assist her mother and father. And so she begins working at Holistik, a high-end wellness and wonder store in New York City recognized for its distinctive procedures. She quickly falls in love with the world of Holistik, particularly Helen, the niece of Holistik’s proprietor. But beneath the shiny floor of the magnificence model lies one thing darkish and sinister.

Linghun is a chilling horror novella set in HOME, a neighborhood inhabited by ghosts. HOME, which stands for Homecoming of Missing Entities, is a spot the place the ghosts of liked one stay, propelled by the grief that refuses to let their survivors go. Wenqi and her household transfer to HOME in the hopes of reuniting with Wenqi’s brother, who died a number of years in the past. But what awaits them in HOME is just not what they anticipated.

To everybody round Alejandra, she is the identical lady she’s at all times been: a spouse, a mom, a daughter. But inside Alejandra, a darkness is threatening to eat her, and she or he’s haunted by visions of a lady crying. When Alejandra goes to see a therapist, she begins to unpack the historical past of her household and realizes that the darkness she feels inside of her begins together with her ancestors. And the crying lady is La Llorona, who refuses to go away till Alejandra follows her grandmother, mom, and all of the ladies who got here earlier than her into the darkness.

The Wishing Pool is the first ebook from horror and Afrofuturist writer Tananarive Due in seven years. This assortment of 14 tales pulls collectively all of the genres Due does finest — thriller, horror, sci-fi, and suspense — to inform really terrifying tales full of monsters each supernatural and actual. This ebook consists of many beforehand unpublished tales and a supernatural horror novelette, “Rumpus Room,” which tells the story of a lady in Florida struggling together with her demons.

When ladies start disappearing round her reservation’s on line casino, Anna Horn searches for solutions. She’s sure the secret’s related to the legends of her tribe’s previous — and the anonymous, disembodied spirit who haunts her, following her each step. When Anna’s little sister Grace goes lacking, Anna will do something to carry her sister again. Even if it means uncovering horrifying secrets and techniques from the rez’s previous.

Ever felt pressured to have youngsters? Read The Vile Thing We Created. Married couple Lola and Ian thought that they had all the pieces they wanted. After all, that they had a contented, comfy way of life full of holidays, wonderful eating, and plenty of intercourse. But when their childless marriage marks them as outsiders of their social circles, they resolve to take the pure subsequent step. But kids aren’t at all times blessings, and theirs threatens to destroy all the pieces.

The Marigold is an eco-horror novel a few luxurious condo complicated referred to as (you guessed it) the Marigold. The Marigold hasn’t offered in addition to anticipated. In truth, the constructing is simply half full. And subsequent to it lie the unfinished stays of the Marigold II that by no means was. But the true terrors lie beneath the Marigold II. And when public well being inspector Cathy Jin investigates the poisonous mould rising in the constructing, she discovers simply how horrifying the development round the Marigold(s) is.

This Delicious Death is a sapphic horror novel set two years after half of the inhabitants underwent a change referred to as “the Hollowing.” Those affected can now solely survive by consuming human flesh. To fight this illness, scientists created Synflesh, artificial human meat to fulfill the hole individuals’s starvation. Zoey, Celeste, Valeria, and Jasmine are 4 hole women simply seeking to have a bit enjoyable earlier than commencement. So they head to a music competition with a cooler full of seltzer, vodka, and Synflesh. All they need is an efficient time, however on the first evening of the competition, Val goes feral and kills one of the band members. And as competition visitors begin dying throughout them, the women understand somebody is focusing on their type.