{"id":56387,"date":"2025-09-18T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=56387"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:35:17","slug":"new-horror-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/new-horror-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horror Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"

What genre do you seldom read? For me, it’s horror! While checking the new shelves this month, I found quite a few new titles that caught my eyes in the new horror section. Below are four new horror titles that I wanted to share with you all. As of this writing, all of these titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Cold Eternity<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by S.A. Barnes<\/p>\n

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth\u2019s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram “hosts,” ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld\u2019s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there\u2019s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from\u2026.<\/em> – Tor Nightfire<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Senseless<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ronald Malfi<\/p>\n

What do you see\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n

When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can\u2019t deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media outlets are quick to surmise this is the work of a budding serial killer, but Detective Bill Renney is struggling with an altogether different scenario: a secret that keeps him tethered to the husband of the first victim.<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you hear\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n

Maureen Park, newly engaged to Hollywood producer Greg Dawson, finds her engagement party crashed by the arrival of Landon, Greg\u2019s son. A darkly unsettling young man, Landon invades Maureen\u2019s new existence, and the longer he stays, the more convinced she becomes that he may have something to do with the recent murder in the high desert.<\/em><\/p>\n

What do you feel\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n

Toby Kampen, the self-proclaimed Human Fly, begins an obsession over a woman who is unlike anyone he has ever met. A woman with rattlesnake teeth and a penchant for biting. A woman who has trapped him in her spell. A woman who may or may not be completely human.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Ronald Malfi\u2019s brand-new thriller, these three storylines converge to create a tapestry of deceit, distrust, and unapologetic horror. A brand-new novel of dark suspense set in the City of Angels, as only \u201chorror\u2019s Faulkner\u201d can tell it.<\/em> – Titan Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Staircase in the Woods<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Chuck Wendig<\/p>\n

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere.<\/em><\/p>\n

One friend walks up\u2014and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.<\/em><\/p>\n

Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy\u2014and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .<\/em> – Del Rey<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>When the Wolf Comes Home<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Nat Cassidy<\/p>\n

One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy’s father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n

As they attempt to evade the boy’s increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them\u2014the boy can turn his every fear into reality.<\/em><\/p>\n

And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.<\/em> – Tor Nightfire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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