You Feel That Chill? That’s New September Horror in the Air

September is a good month for vampire fiction, and we’re kicking off the month with this debut. Lavinia has been recently freed from enslavement when she meets Simone, a white woman who also happens to be an undead vampire. The two form a friendship and head north together, but Lavinia soon discovers that teaming up with a vampire is a lot more trouble than she bargained for. And as bodies start piling up around them, people are getting suspicious.

Love ghost hunting shows? Love home makeover shows? Then you would love the reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, which is a little bit of both. When Mara joins the show as the night-shift production assistant, at first it’s all smoke and mirrors and tricking homeowners into believing they have ghosts. But then weird things start happening on set. And Mara is forced to ask herself who she’s really been tricking all this time.

Vincent Tirado’s adult fiction debut is The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar. After a difficult year, things are looking up for Sol Reyes and her wife, Alice Song, when they buy a house in Maneless Grove. It’s a beautiful, gated community where everyone is welcome and the neighbors are all friendly. Too friendly, actually, if you ask Sol. Alice, however, is convinced that they’re just being neighborly. But then Sol discovers the journal of a resident who disappeared a few years ago, and disturbing secrets are revealed.

Were you hoping for more vampires? Here they are. Kidan Adane’s sister, June, is the only living family member she has left. So when June goes missing, Kidan will stop at nothing to find her. Even when that means infiltrating the elite Uxlay University, a school where humans and vampires coexist. She suspects the one responsible for her sister’s disappearance is the vampire Susenyos Sagad. As cruel as Susenyos may be, however, he is equally alluring.

This new AI horror story is a book you won’t be able to put down. After countless hours of work, engineer Henry has finally done it. He’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness, which he names (you guessed it) William. But no one knows about William, not even Henry’s pregnant wife, Lily. When Henry finally decides to introduce William to the world, starting with Lily and her friends and coworkers, things go terribly wrong.

This horror thriller about a serial killer has twists and turns you won’t expect. Disguising himself as a priest, Father Silence once preyed on the rural town of Twisted Tree, and when the police finally uncovered his “House of Horrors,” there were 19 dead and only one survivor. Now, two decades have past, and the morning after Father Silence is put to death, the detective responsible for putting him behind bars is found dead, and a new serial killer who calls himself The Outcast is taking responsibility for the murder.