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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Good Boys Don’t Bite by L.A. Barron

August 11, 2026 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Good Boys Don’t Bite by L.A. Barron, an Adult Horror novel with lesbian and trans rep releasing October 13, 2026 from Contrarian Publishing! Here’s the story:

It’s Rowdy Dawes’s last year at Harcourt Autumn, a month-long sleepaway camp in Oregon for fledgling vampires. Unable to be trusted on their own, Rowdy and her fellow campers are supposed to take the month to strengthen bonds between clans, practice their various gifts, and better manage their often uncontrollable thirst.

But Rowdy’s final Harcourt Autumn will not be a bittersweet hurrah. After the death of her best friend, Leena, Rowdy’s only goal is to bring her abuser to justice. The only problem? The person responsible for Leena’s taking her own life is the camp director.

In the months leading up to camp, Rowdy’s collected every scrap of evidence she can find, from a worn copy of Leena’s suicide note to all the texts and photographs she sent documenting the abuse, in the hopes of confronting the director. But when a human girl is found drained of all her blood in the lake wearing one of Rowdy’s shirts, she quickly discovers this Harcourt Autumn is not something she could ever have prepared herself for.

And here’s the chilling cover by Amber Claus!

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L.A. Barron grew up in the dusty border lands of southern Arizona where the only escape from the heat was to write new worlds and give life to the invisible, sordid underbelly of the suburbs. Their love of escapism quickly grew into piles and piles of composition notebooks full of vampires, ghosts, and all things creepy.

Now located in the Pacific Northwest, they can be found wandering Saturday markets with an armful of flowers or hiding away in the dark corners of indie bookstores.

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Upstairs Room by Dana Mele

July 13, 2026 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of The Upstairs Room by Dana Mele, a horror thriller coming from Sourcebooks Fire April 20, 2027! Here’s the story:

A summer of nannying takes a terrifying turn when Blair discovers a legacy of mysterious deaths connected to her employer’s sprawling summer estate…but the secrets Blair is harboring may be just as deadly.

The last place Blair Carver wants to spend the

summer is on the remote Pearl Island. Still, nannying for the reclusive Hathorne family off the coast of Maine is hardly an escape from a complicated junior year and home life—especially with all the rules that must be followed.

Stepping onto the island is like traveling back in time. Raven’s Nook, the Hathorne’s estate, sprawls around a century’s-old lighthouse. A cemetery on the property conceals family secrets, a creepy collection of dolls won’t stay put, and a forbidden upstairs room seems to hold the key to what the family is hiding.

The Hathorne children are cold and standoffish, and when they start hazing Blair with a series of escalating—dangerous—pranks, the town’s whispers about the Hathorne curse grow louder. Postcard perfect Pearl Island conceals a sinister history. Blair has dark secrets too, family secrets that have been been passed down for generations, and if Blair’s not careful, this summer will be their last…

And here’s the creeptastic cover by Jana Heidersdorf!

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Dana Mele is a Pushcart-nominated author of short stories and YA novels including THE BEAST YOU LET IN. A graduate of Wellesley College, Dana holds degrees in theatre, education, and law.

Dana’s debut, PEOPLE LIKE US, was shortlisted for the 2019 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel and is an ALA Rainbow List Selection. Dana’s sophomore novel, SUMMER’S EDGE, was a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Selection and a New York Public Library Best Books for Teens title. Up next is THE UPSTAIRS ROOM, a YA supernatural thriller forthcoming from Sourcebooks Fire, slated for publication April 20, 2027. Dana lives in Upstate New York with their family.

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Forest Bleeds by Rachel Kitch

April 13, 2026 Dahlia Adler 1 Comment

Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of The Forest Bleeds by Rachel Kitch, a Sapphic Horror debut releasing October 13th from Union Square Books! Here’s the story:

Inspired by Appalachian and Southeast Asian folklore, a witch and her classmates are kidnapped by a handsome pharmaceutical billionaire and told to heal him or die, in this speculative horror debut with a sapphic romantic twist.

Saige Chambers, Arcane Bioengineering student and blood witch, is constantly anxious and chronically over-prepared. When Saige and her fellow witch doctoral candidates depart for a conference, she plans and anticipates every last detail. Except – she’s not prepared for the moment their bus turns off the highway and takes them to a remote mansion in the Appalachian Mountains, the gates sealing shut behind them.

The mansion’s owner, Arius Medea, issues a simple mandate: fix his injured, rotting leg or die. But it’s no ordinary injury – the flesh melts off the bone, emitting waves of foul magic that set Saige’s blood alight. Saige’s colleagues want to fight back and escape. Saige thinks their best chance is to fix him fast and get out. As tensions rise, Saige finds herself growing closer to Vaishnavi Sri, a poison witch and Saige’s long-term crush. But first impressions can be misleading, and as Saige’s reluctant attraction to Arius grows, she begins to wonder if there’s a better life waiting for her in the walls of this mansion.

But, as one by one, Saige’s colleagues start to disappear, Saige realizes that dying may not be the worst option – because there are far worse fates lurking in the woods.

And here’s the creeptastic cover, designed by Beth Steidle!

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RACHEL KITCH is a mixed-race Thai American speculative horror author with a love of writing unsettling, creepy books that still have a spark of light. Rachel has her master’s in design from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s from West Virginia University. As a generation 1.5 immigrant, Rachel loves to blend her heritage and incorporate Thai and Appalachian folklore into her projects. When not writing, she can be found designing author brands and websites, or reading books on her Kindle that would kill a Victorian child. Keep up with her at www.rachelkitch.com or follow her on Instagram @rachkitchwrites.

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Fave Five: Queer Black YA Horror

March 24, 2026 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

I Feed Her to the Beast by Jamison Shea

Dead Girls Walking and Funerals Are for the Living by Sami Ellis

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

DOE by Rebecca Barrow

Bonus: These are all novels, but you can find even more in All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology ed. by Circe Moskowitz

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: We Were Never Here by Sophia Hannan

October 23, 2025 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment

Today on the site I’m delighted to welcome Sophia Hannan to reveal the cover of her debut, We Were Never Here, a lesbian YA Horror releasing July 28, 2026 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers! Here’s the story:

In July, Georgia Perry and Jules Park—secret girlfriends, covert art thieves, and cohosts of a popular YouTube ghost hunting show—step into a haunted house to steal a priceless painting. A few short hours later, there’s a knife in Jules’s chest and Georgia is waking up in a pool of blood with no memory of how she got there.

Now it’s October, and Georgia is underwater. She hasn’t been to class in weeks, she’s avoiding her old crew and only friends like the plague. But when the three remaining thieves get a call from the man who paid a hefty sum to keep them out of jail, demanding that they return to finish the job, Georgia has no choice but to return to her old life.

As the estranged friends scramble to steal the painting with no cover story and no leader, they quickly realize that something is very, very wrong, and it’s not just the suffocating memory of Jules or the prying eyes of their viewers. Between the strange shadows that begin to trail them and the nightmares plaguing Georgia’s sleep, only one thing is certain: Something followed them home from De Lys manor, and it will do anything to keep them from going back.

And here’s the gorgeously chilling cover, designed by Laura Eckes with art by Elizabeth Wakou!

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Sophia Hannan is a Canadian author of YA fiction. When she’s not writing about ghosts and the girls they haunt, she can be found studying English literature and forcing her friends to watch horror movies with her. We Were Never Here is her debut novel.