New horror books coming to your shelves in July 2026

Chuck Tingle is back with another hair-raising camp-horror novel. Thinking Beetle Juice With the thrill and bloodshed of To drive. By day, Poppy Stringer is just your average mom and aspiring fashion influencer. But since Fashion isn’t paying the bills, Poppy earns money by robbing graves at night. When rock star Eddie Michaels dies unexpectedly, Poppy is sent to retrieve the body. He hopes that capturing the remains of a strange icon will give him enough money to get out of this business forever. She didn’t expect to come back into Eddie’s life.

This genre mash-up is the perfect summer read: a little mystery/thriller, a little horror, a little romance, and a whole lot of fun. True crime podcaster Ella Takeda returns to her hometown in disgrace after falsely identifying an innocent man as a serial killer dubbed the “Cancelled Killer”. She soon finds herself entangled in three different romantic possibilities. There’s sexy nerd Jude, hot detective Aaron and Hollywood stunt double Mateo. But are they all interested in romance? Or is there a real canceled killer targeting him?

Speaking of boyfriends and bad intentions! In Cross my heart, I hope you die, Three women discover that they are all dating the same man and they decide to take revenge on him. So they take him to a remote cabin in the snowy woods. The plan is to return, but it fails when the women find their lovers dead in the cabin. Now they have started living together and becoming suspicious of each other. Is one of them a killer? Or is there anyone else in the house?

Kelly McWilliams’s latest YA Gothic horror is set in 1921. Four newcomers are invited to compete to win a vast inheritance at the crumbling Greystone Manor. Each girl has her own motive for competing. Dorothea wants to know what happened to her mother, who disappeared at Greystone Manor years ago. Birdie feels that divine forces have led her to this moment. Vaughn is attempting to regain her social standing. And Elspeth has the special ability to see things that other people can’t, like all the strange things happening at the manor (and the sinister secrets hidden within its walls).

if you love uketsu funny pictures series, then you’ll love this new graphic novel adaptation with manga art by Kikou Aiba. Like novels, this graphic novel uses puzzles to draw readers into the deeper mystery of the story. Each image holds clues to shocking crimes, and readers can uncover mysteries with the investigators in the stories. This is the first of what is expected to be five volumes. The second volume will come in September.

Abigail Rose-Marie’s latest novel is a haunting, atmospheric coming-of-age story. Eleven-year-old Penelope Willows lives with her grieving mother in a yellow house on the side of a cliff. To help cope with her father’s sudden disappearance, Penelope sticks to a counting routine to keep her world in order. But she also has the support of an unexpected ally: the ghost of Sylvia Plath, who once lived in the same house.

If you’re like me and love ghost-hunting YouTube videos, you’ll love this YA horror novel. Georgia Perry and Jules Park are girlfriends and co-hosts of a ghost-hunting YouTube channel, which is really just a facade for their art theft. But when a robbery takes place at the De Lys Manor, Jules is killed, and Georgia wakes up covered in blood with no memory of what happened. Months later, Georgia and her crew are forced to return to the crime scene to finish the job they started. But what really happened at that manor months ago? Maybe ghosts are real after all.