Hot July Releases in HORROR
Hi folks! As I’ve mentioned, I am part of a collab channel on youtube called BookishDays. At the end of the month one of the things we do is go over what all’s coming out the next month. My genre is horror, of course. So here is my list of what to look for during the month of July. I imagine I missed a few, I was having to sneak and make my video (was supposed to be “on vacation”). So if you know of anything else “scary” coming out in July – feel free to leave it in the comments!
Books mentioned in this video:
The Sin Eater by Sarah Rayne
Release Date: 2012-07-01
The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense. – When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather’s North London house, it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the strange glimpses that revealed the darkness in his family’s past, through which runs the grisly thread of an old legend about a chess set believed to possess a dark power. And when Michael Flint, meeting Benedict in Oxford, starts to research his story, chilling facts begin to emerge – facts that suggest the old legend contains a disturbing reality. Could the chess set’s malevolence be reaching out to the present?
NO OF PAGES: 272 | BUY ON AMAZON 
Magistrates of Hell by Barbara Hambly
Release Date: 2012-07-01
James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . . October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless Undead – the Others that even the vampires fear – have begun to multiply in the caverns of the hills west of Peking. Alongside his old vampire partner, Don Simon Ysidro, Asher embarks on a sinister hunt, while somewhere in the city’s cold gray labyrinth lurk the Peking vampires, known as the Magistrates of Hell – with an agenda of their own . . .
NO OF PAGES: 256 | BUY ON AMAZON
House of Bells by Chaz Brenchley
Release Date: 2012-07-01
A haunting tale of terror from a master of the genre. – When she is offered an undercover assignment by newspaper editor (and her former lover) Tony Fledgwood, professional party girl Grace Harley jumps at the chance to disappear from London and escape the scandal that threatens to engulf her. Her mission at the great house formerly known as D’Esperance is find out what goes on within this so-called commune and what happened to the journalist originally sent to investigate, who has disappeared without trace. But it’s not long before Grace experiences a series of strange and increasingly menacing incidents . . .
NO OF PAGES: 240 | BUY ON AMAZON
Hedge End by Peter Mark May
Release Date: 2012-07-03
Creatures trapped for centuries, free at last…to kill!
The forest has always been there, and the high hedge around it has stood since Roman times. No one remembers anymore why the hedge was built, and bit by bit, as houses and modern life advance, the ancient barrier is being torn down. Slowly, creatures that have been trapped within for centuries are creeping through the gaps in the wall, hungry for revenge for their long imprisonment. As murder and horror spread through the nearby town of Hedge End, a stranger arrives, eager to give the residents a May Day celebration they will never forget..
NO OF PAGES: 328 | BUY ON AMAZON
Succulent Prey by Wrath James White
Release Date: 2012-07-03
Could serial killers be victims of a communicable disease?
Fifteen years ago, Joseph Miles was attacked by a serial child murderer. He was the only one of the madman’s victims to survive. Now he himself is slowly turning into a killer. He can feel the urges, the burning needs, getting harder and harder to resist.
Can anything stop him—or cure him—before he kills the only woman he’s ever loved? Or before he infects someone else?
NO OF PAGES: 320 | BUY ON AMAZON
This Dark Earth by John Hornor Jacobs
Release Date: 2012-07-03
The land is contaminated, electronics are defunct, the ravenous undead remain, and life has fallen into a nasty and brutish state of nature. Welcome to Bridge City, in what was once Arkansas: part medieval fortress, part Western outpost, and the precarious last stand for civilization. A ten-year-old prodigy when the world ended, Gus is now a battle-hardened young man. He designed Bridge City to protect the living few from the shamblers eternally at the gates. Now he’s being groomed by his physician mother, Lucy, and the gentle giant Knock-Out to become the next leader of men. But an army of slavers is on its way, and the war they’ll wage for the city’s resources could mean the end of mankind as we know it.
Can Gus become humanity’s savior? And if so, will it mean becoming a dictator, a martyr . . . or maybe something far worse than even the zombies that plague the land?
NO OF PAGES: 352 | BUY ON AMAZON
The Hollow City by Dan Wells
Release Date: 2012-07-03
Dan Wells won instant acclaim for his three-novel debut about the adventures of John Wayne Cleaver, a heroic young man who is a potential serial killer. All who read the trilogy were struck by the distinctive and believable voice Wells created for John.Now he returns with another innovative thriller told in a very different, equally unique voice. A voice that comes to us from the realm of madness.Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That’s bad enough. But what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real?Who can you trust if you can’t even trust yourself? The Hollow City is a mesmerizing journey into madness, where the greatest enemy of all is your own mind.
NO OF PAGES: 336 | BUY ON AMAZON
Shadow of Night: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness
Release Date: 2012-07-10
Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, Book One of the magical All Souls Trilogy and an international publishing phenomenon. The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont; together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782.
Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.
Deborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season.
NO OF PAGES: 592 | BUY ON AMAZON
Becoming by Brooke Burgess
**GRAPHIC NOVEL**
Release Date: 2012-07-17
When a troubled student at a remote university challenges his professors to teach him real knowledge, he is drawn into a horrifying game of life and death. To play, he must learn that the only rule is pain… and that the only key to salvation is the will to overcome!
NO OF PAGES: 96 | BUY ON AMAZON
Freaks of the Heartland by Steve Niles
**GRAPHIC NOVEL**
Release Date: 2012-07-17
Trevor’s monstrous little brother lives in the barn behind the house. The boy’s only six years old, but he towers over his older brother, and possesses incredible strength.
For years, Trevor has looked after his baby brother, keeping him from the light, but now that’s all about to change. His family’s secret is about to be revealed, uncovering the horrible truth of the small midwestern town the boys have grown up in.
Collected in a deluxe hardcover edition and sized at a generous 9" x 12", Freaks of the Heartland has now been redesigned to perfectly display Ruth’s stunning artwork.
NO OF PAGES: 160 | BUY ON AMAZON
21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden
Release Date: 2012-07-17
The Stoker-award winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead, and an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death and resurrection… with ZOMBIES!
The stellar stories in this volume includes a tale set in the world of Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse, the first published fiction by Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, and a tale of love, family, and resurrection from the legendary Orson Scott Card. This new volume also includes stories also from other award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors, such as: Simon R. Green, Chelsea Cain, Jonathan Maberry, Duane Swiercyznski, Caitlin Kittredge, Brian Keene, Amber Benson, John Skipp, S. G. Browne, Thomas E. Sniegoski, Hollywood screenwriter Stephen Susco, National Book Award nominee Dan Chaon, and more!
NO OF PAGES: 352 | BUY ON AMAZON
Trust by David Moody
**David Moody is the guy that wrote the HATER series. He is kind of awesome. Just sayin’…
Release Date: 2012-07-23
The most important event in human history takes place in the middle of nowhere. Perspectives are altered. Perceptions are changed. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Is this a moment of deliverance for the human race, or the beginning of its end? Tom Winter thinks he knows, but if he’s right, then seven billion other people are wrong.
NO OF PAGES: 298 | BUY ON AMAZON
Locke & Key Volume 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill
**GRAPHIC NOVEL**
Release Date: 2012-07-24
The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the ‘whispering steel’ thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey.
Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed before the sixth issue ends!
NO OF PAGES: 152 | BUY ON AMAZON
Hellboy Library Edition Volume 5 by Mike Mignola
Release Date: 2012-07-24
Hellboy has racked up multiple Eisner Awards, numerous spinoffs, a novel line, video games, cartoons, and two feature films.
Hellboy Library Volume 5 collects two complete trade paperbacks: Darkness Calls and The Wild Hunt, the short story The Mole, as well as an extensive selection of previously unreleased sketches and designs.
NO OF PAGES: 408 | BUY ON AMAZON
Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel by Dean Koontz
Release Date: 2012-07-31
The stallion reared over me, silently slashing the air with the hooves of its forelegs, a creature of such immense power that I stumbled backward even though I knew that it was as immaterial as a dream. . . .
The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose gift—or curse—it is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can. This mission of mercy will lead Odd through realms of darkness he has never before encountered, as he probes the long-held secrets of a sinister estate and those who inhabit it.
ODD APOCALYPSE
Once presided over by a flamboyant Hollywood mogul during the Roaring ’20s, the magnificent West Coast property known as Roseland is now home to a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants. And, at least for the moment, it’s also a port in the storm for Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, the inscrutably charming Annamaria, the Lady of the Bell. In the wake of Odd’s most recent clash with lethal adversaries, the opulent manor’s comforts should be welcome. But there’s far more to Roseland than meets even the extraordinary eye of Odd, who soon suspects it may be more hell than haven.
A harrowing taste of Roseland’s terrors convinces Odd that it’s time to hit the road again. Still, the prescient Annamaria insists that they’ve been led there for a reason, and he’s promised to do his best for the ghost on horseback. Just how deep and dreadful are the mysteries Roseland and her masters have kept for nearly a century? And what consequences await whoever is brave, or mad, enough to confront the most profound breed of evil? Odd only knows. Like his acclaimed creator, the irresistible Odd Thomas is in top-notch form—as he takes on what may well be the most terrifying challenge yet in his curious career.
Watch the Odd Apocalypse cover come to life! See what Odd sees with this special augmented reality Odd Apocalypse book cover! Using Dean Koontz’s mobile application or your computer webcam, you can watch one of Odd’s visions come alive.
NO OF PAGES: 368 | BUY ON AMAZON
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Release Date: 2012-07-31
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s World-Fantasy Award nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison. Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, intoxicating prose to the task of retelling fairy tales, spinning sensual post-Lovecraftian yarns, and blurring the lines between pain and pleasure. Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful, and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre, and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.
NO OF PAGES: 328 | BUY ON AMAZON
Creepy Presents Richard Corben by Various Author
Release Date: 2012-07-31
Over 300-pages of timeless terror from a master storyteller! Horror comics visionary and coloring pioneer Richard Corben has been a voice of creativity and change for over four decades. For the first time ever, Corben’s legendary Creepy and Eerie short stories and cover illustrations are being collected into one deluxe hardcover! With an informative foreword by artist and comic-book colorist Jose Villarrubia – who also provides color restoration – this volume features Richard Corben’s original stories, Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, and collaborations with comic-book writers Bruce Jones, Bill DuBay, Doug Moench, Gerald Conway, and others!
NO OF PAGES: 320 | BUY ON AMAZON
Hope you see something that interests you! If I missed something you know is coming out in July, feel free to leave it in the comments below and make sure to subscribe to my channels on youtube. The BookishDays channel is a collab with me and 6 other people. Its more of a “discussion” type channel. And then my personal is www.youtube.com/bunnycates I do book hauls, tags, wishlist posts, etc… fun stuff, check it out!