First, let me admit my bias here: my short story “You Are My Neighbor” will be published in this anthology.

I have ordered you new book from Cemetery Dance, so it is an anticipated book for me next year!

Bentley Little’s fiction is weird as shit. Sign me up.

This new book, Mexican Gothic, is being advertised as “a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico.” The front cover is also very attention-grabbing. However, I’ve already been paid for the publication and do not stand to profit any further, so from a financial standpoint I don’t really care if it sells any copies. It's a weird one. His upcoming novel through Cemetery Dance, The Bank, looks exactly like the kind of thing Bentley Little would write, which makes sense, considering his name’s on the front cover. Authors Share Advice. The Boatman’s Daughter sounds like a witchcraft-fueled nightmare set deep in the bayou, and I couldn’t be more ready for it. Ask Nick: Publishing 201 — Do I Need to Attend Conventions or Conferences? Turns out this one looks pretty good! First, the title. I want to read a Sasquatch Massacre book very much, so thank you, Max Brooks, even if people have often mixed up our names in social gatherings. But that’s not all he told me, folks. Painful, yes, but so very much worth it. "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (June 30) 05. Now, with that said, I do believe this will very much be a book worth reading, from the introduction by Alma Katsu (more about her in a second), to the new fiction from folks like Victor LaValle, Josh Malerman, Nadia Bulkin, and so on.

So there you have it. I don’t think so. It might be a wise idea to do a sequel article in the summer of 2020, after more books have fallen across our radar.
Also, probably more like early 2021. Also consider it’s already received blurbs from people like Clive Barker, Stephen Graham Jones, and Paul Tremblay? Double holy crap. Continuing 2020’s trend of occult horror, Ramsey Campbell has a brand-new book for us through Flame Tree Press.

Take Word Horde, for example; a very fine horror press planning to release a science-fiction-horror novel by Scott Jones titled Stonefish and a new viking collection from Christine Morgan titled The Wolf’s Feast. I’ve had a long, stupid history with hotels and motels, which makes me extra attracted to any media containing them. The product description on the actual purchase page goes into deeper detail, but I don’t want to spoil anything here.

Remember World War Z? 20 upcoming horror books I’m very excited to read.

Ottessa Moshfegh is one of the most interesting writers I’ve ever experienced.

I pre-ordered this the second it became available. Her upcoming novel, Death in Her Hands, promises an extremely intriguing premise by opening with its narrator discovering a strange note while walking her dog.

The Sun Down Motel sounds like it will interweave between the years 1982 and 2017 as it attempts to solve a mysterious disappearance that occurred at the titular establishment. 01.

Recently I obtained an ARC of his 2020 release, The Only Good Indians, and here is what I’ll tell you: holy fucking shit, you are gonna want to pre-order this book immediately. There’s no other way to describe it.

Of course, there were other titles I couldn’t include in the listicle besides ones I stand to profit from. And now Josh Malerman has written a sequel to his debut novel, this one titled Malorie.

It wasn't me. I read Tribes by Samuel Brook-Williams recently and it was both horrifying and beautiful. Every sentence in this novel’s description makes me excited. I know, I know. Most small presses aren’t going to have every title prepared for pre-order at this point. From the author of Baby Teeth.

It’s a slasher about four dudes haunted by a mistake made during an elk hunt from their younger years. Or Dazed and Confused meets Shivers. has me very excited for this one. Nothing has changed. People sure loved that one, didn’t they? So, that Bird Box adaptation kind of blew up on Netflix, didn’t it? That’s just a rule of life right there. Anyway.

​Max, you don't have to continuously plug my book to keep your job here. Everybody ate that one up, and for good reason: it ruled.

I can’t wait to see this book in the flesh. Get ready for it. I don’t want to spoil anything else. His next novel, Survivor Song, feels like it might be straddling a zombie-outbreak narrative, but in a way only Tremblay can pull off. So, before writing this article, I reached out for an update on his next book.

So, to hear she has a new collection of short stories coming out soon, one could say I am somewhat excited.

Then the front cover. I doubt I need to rehash any specific details. Wealth comes with a price, and that price is usually horrific misery. The title was the first thing to spark my interest on this book.

Below, unofficially, is a quick pitch from Jeremy Robert Johnson himself: Unofficially it's a mutant merger of 80's King/Crichton/Cronenberg with a hint of Junji Ito. All of his books are extremely fun and extremely weird and I love them to death. I will have to check out some of the others in your list.

His last collection, Entropy in Bloom, ruled, and I’ve been hungry for his next release ever since. For one thing, I have a new novel coming out next year through Cemetery Dance, a violent mashup of Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre titled Touch the Night, which you can pre-order here. Things get...really fucking crazy. "Wonderland" by Zoja Stage (June 16) He informed me it would be titled The Loop and readers can expect it sometime in the second half of 2020.
"Malorie" by Josh Malerman (July 21) 03. Are those the only horror books worthy of our attention in 2020? We spent nearly a half hour talking about slashers. Andy Davidson’s debut novel, In the Valley of the Sun, dropped back in 2017, yet it feels like an entire decade has passed since the world was blessed with new fiction from this author. Anyone who has kept track of my previous articles on this website will not be surprised to hear I am a big Kathe Koja fan. Plus, through my own small press, Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, we’ll be releasing several kickass titles I couldn’t exactly include in the above listicle due to an obvious bias, but you can look forward to the debut book by Michael David Wilson (The Girl in the Video), the second volume of George Daniel Lea’s Born in Blood (read volume one here), Michael Allen Rose’s Jurassichrist, and Jessica Leonard’s debut novel, Antioch. Max Booth III is the Editor-in-Chief of Perpetual Motion Machine, the Managing Editor of Dark Moon Digest, and the co-host of Castle Rock Radio, a Stephen King-themed podcast. Every December I make a long list gushing over the horror we have to look forward to in the new year, so guess what?

I’m totally on board with this direction and can’t wait to check out Campbell’s novel.

The fact that it’s Paul Tremblay and the book’s about a rabies-like virus making everybody crazy is plenty enough for me. Plus, word on the street is CLASH will be releasing Joshua Chaplinsky’s novel, The Paradox Twins, sometime in 2020. There are a few innovative writers out there but most new novels seem incredibly derivative. Everything she puts out is worth reading—but slowly, I’d say, taking your time to let every sentence properly digest. Sound off in the comments. This is going to be a special one, I can feel it. "Survivor Song" by Paul Tremblay (July 7) 04. Big surprise, Max, including Stephen King on a list of anticipated horror. Stephen Graham Jones is no stranger to LitReactor.

But I will recommend you check out my interview with SGJ on my podcast, Ghoulish. Jeffrey Ford’s upcoming book, Out of Body, takes sleep paralysis and somehow evolves it into something more sinister. You need to be reading her fiction. There’s a lot to love about Adam Cesare’s new novel, Clown in a Cornfield. Check out my interview with Andy back in 2017. Holy crap. I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of sleep paralysis, something I’ve been fortunate enough to have never encountered myself, but I’ve certainly witnessed it displayed in countless books and movies. Molly Tanzer is a badass writer.

Triple holy crap.

Her vampire novel, Certain Dark Things, hit me in just the right way back in 2016. The description is mostly vague, thankfully, but here’s what we know about Wonderland: there’s a family living in a secluded area of town, and in the surrounding woods something is calling to them. To leave a comment Login with Facebook or create a free account. The title you clicked on is an accurate description of what you can expect to find here. The 20 Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2020.

In this new book, a mysterious bank opens up in a small town and starts making everybody’s life hell.

© 2016 LitReactor, LLC | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service. He’s one of the most entertaining writers working today and I look forward to every one of his releases.

In a horror novel, it’s never good news to receive a mysterious inheritance. It’s like being lost in a nightmare. That’s exactly what I’ll be doing in this article, as well. "Clown in a Cornfield" by Adam Cesare (August 25) 02. I’m a big fan of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s work.