New Horror Releases Out in February 2024

If you like Tiffany D. Jackson, then give Out of Body a learn. This genre-bending novel mixes sci-fi, horror, and thriller parts to discover identification and the which means of friendship. Seventeen-year-old Megan desperately desires to discover a group of pals, however she doesn’t actually really feel like she suits in with anybody. Until she meets LC. Everything with LC appears really easy, and the 2 rapidly change into finest pals. Then, someday, Megan wakes as much as uncover she’s now not in her personal physique and that the whole lot she thought she knew about her pal is definitely a lie.

In Your Shadow Half Remains, the world has been contaminated, and when you look into anybody’s eyes, you’ll virtually actually face a violent demise. Riley hasn’t checked out a human face for a very long time, however her need for connection has her curious, particularly when a brand new neighbor strikes in down the road. Ellis looks as if the sort of girl Riley may actually take pleasure in attending to know. But the nearer Riley will get to Ellis, the extra her paranoia begins to take over.

In the Arctic, one thing terrifying has remained dormant beneath the frost for 1000’s of years. But when a gaggle of explorers reveals minerals deep in the caves of an Arctic island, unexpected horrors are unleashed on the world. Now Dean and Bethan, two former pals working for rival groups, should come collectively in the event that they wish to make it out alive. And in the event that they wish to save the world from full destruction.

If you want your horror novels queer and gothic with an enormous serving to of darkish academia, decide up An Education in Malice this February. From the very first day Laura Sheridan enters Saint Perpetua’s College, she finds herself in an intense and surprisingly passionate rivalry with fellow scholar Carmilla. But rivalry turns into obsession as the 2 change into deeper entrenched in one another’s lives and that of their unusual and darkly mysterious poetry professor, De Lafontaine.

From Katherine Arden, the bestselling creator of The Bear and the Nightingale, comes the supernatural historic horror novel The Warm Hands of Ghosts. During the First World War, Laura Iven is a fight nurse who’s discharged solely to search out out shortly after that her brother Freddie died in fight. Only, Laura is certain it isn’t true. Searching for the reality, Laura returns to Belgium in search of her brother. Everywhere, individuals whisper about ghosts in the trenches. Laura wonders if her brother actually remains to be alive, or if one thing else has occurred to him.

In 2022, everybody was speaking about T. Kingfisher’s retelling of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” What Moves the Dead. Now, in 2024, everybody might be speaking about its sequel, What Feasts at Night. Retired soldier Alex Easton has escaped the Usher manor and heads to their household’s searching lodge in the nation of Gallacia. But once they arrive, nothing is accurately. The caretaker has died, and there may be speak in the village of a horrible monster who has taken residence there.

Carrie meets The Exorcist meets Sri Lankan folklore in Amanda Jayatissa’s gothic horror novel Island Witch. Amara is the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon priest. Normally, her father is who everybody turns to when something supernatural occurs in the village. But now, one thing is attacking individuals in the jungle, and everybody thinks Amara’s father is behind the assaults. As Amara works to clear her father’s title, she additionally uncovers unsettling truths about her personal previous.

Here’s one other horror sequel you gained’t wish to miss this month! Waubgeshig Rice’s thrilling sequel to the award-winning Moon of the Crusted Snow follows a neighborhood of Anishinaabe individuals who work to outlive off of the land after the collapse of society. But assets are beginning to run low, and Evan Whitesky should lead a gaggle of volunteers on a harmful mission to reclaim their ancestral house. The land is merciless, and journey might be arduous, however there’s way more to concern out in the wilderness other than the weather.

We’re getting not one however two darkish academia horror novels in February, and Liselle Sambury’s Tender Beasts is kind of a deal with. When a classmate is murdered at Sunny Behre’s personal faculty, everybody seems to Sunny’s youngest brother, Dom, who was beforehand discovered responsible of second-degree homicide. Dom swears he’s harmless, and whereas Sunny isn’t positive she believes him, she promised her mom she would handle her little brother. Together, Sunny and Dom race to show his innocence, a mission that turns into all of the extra pressing as an increasing number of useless our bodies are found.