Summer Scares

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A reading program designed to introduce new horror authors to readers & to help librarians with horror RA. Titles include adult, YA, & MG. Time to get scared!

A collage with all of the 2026 Summer Scares titles: A Botanical Daughter, by Noah Medlock; Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst; Maeve Fly, by CJ Leede; What We Harvest, by Ann Fraistat; Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, by Linda Cheng; Our Shadows Have Claws, ed. Yamile Saied Méndez & Amparo Ortiz; Garlic and the Vampire, by Bree Paulsen; It Came from the Trees, by Ally Russell; and This Appearing House, by Ally Malinenko
A collage of the covers of the Summer Scares Middle Grade fiction selections: Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen, This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko, and It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell
A collage of the covers of the Summer Scares YA Fiction titles: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng, Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Méndez & Amparo Ortiz, and What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat
A collage of the book covers for the Summer Scares adult fiction selections: A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock, Maeve Fly by CJ Leede, and Never Whistle at Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
(alt text: Graphic with book cover images from Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca; Reprieve by James Han Mattson; The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling; Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist; The Getaway by Lamar Giles; Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons; Eerie Tales from the School of Screams by Graham Annable; Ravenous Things by Derrick Chow; Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon)
(alt text: A graphic showing the book covers for the three titles listed above.)
(alt text: A graphic showing the book covers for the three titles listed above.)
(alt text: A graphic showing the book covers for the three titles listed above.)