Bark At The Ghouls

This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  I hope you're all enjoying the summer and able to get some reading done. I'm doing my best to start working my way through my tbr pile as well as getting to some newer book via audio. Here are 6 new horror books releasing today (or in the next few days) that I hope to read soon(ish).  New Books This Week! Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden comes a high concept horror novel about a man trying to protect his dead mother's body from the evil that is hunting them. Maggie Wise will take your eyes. When Malcolm was growing up, the local kids made up that chant about his mother, claiming she was a witch. He and his siblings did their best to ignore it. Now, Maggie is dying, and those same siblings hav...

This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  I hope you're all enjoying the summer and able to get some reading done. I'm doing my best to start working my way through my tbr pile as well as getting to some newer book via audio. Here are 8 releasing today (or in the next few days) that I hope to read soon(ish).  New Books This Week! My Monsters Ain't Like Yours by R.J. Joseph Black feminist intersectional horror at its rawest... At its core, the horror genre is an effective vehicle for exploring human behavior. From within its terrifying boundaries, and lack thereof, we can examine monstrosity. We can determine how monsters are labeled, analyze the actions of those deemed monstrous, and prophesy the impacts this labeling and actions have on the world around us. Monsters are personal. Monsters are univer...

This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  I only found a few this week that grabbed my attention which is probably a good thing. I'll start with the romance and move onto darker things. There's a new release by Chuck Tingle & Jeff Strand who are both always tons of fun.  New Books This Week! Candy Apple Kisses by Amy Clipston In a pumpkin spice-drenched best-friends-to-lovers sweet romance, a struggling artist returns to her hometown to save her best friend's orchard. Their fight against a corporate giant ignites an unexpected romance full of heart and small-town charm. Emily never expected to return to Splendid Lake, the quaint town that held her childhood memories, and certainly not to help save Jake's family orchard. She left years ago with dreams of artistic glory in the city, but when Ja...

This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  We're going through a major heatwave so hopefully I can catch up on my reading and add a few of these newer ones to the tbr!  New Books This Week! Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a veget...

                  New Books This Week! This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  Is it just me, or is it extremely hard to focus on sitting down and typing when the weather warms up? I've been reading a bunch but doing anything else book-related seems to be impossible. Anyhow, here are a few books that look super good that have been released since the last time I checked (May 15ish) Mid May-Mid June 2026 The Dorians by Nick Cutter - May 19, 2026 On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause—forever, perhaps. The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing...

                 New Books This Week! This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  This week has been far too busy but I managed to find a good mix of horror, thriller, romance and fantasy romances. If only there were enough hours in the day to read them all! HORROR,  HORROR-Adjacent & THRILLERS Not Your Final Girl by Mikayla Randolph A feminist slasher novel fueled by female rage and haunted by gruesome murders, in this contemporary reimagining of Tess of the D’Urbervilles there can only be one Final Girl. Darcy and her high school friends haven’t gathered together in seven years. After a tragic murder on prom night, the group graduated and never looked back. But when the lakeside cabin they spent their summers at is put up for sale, they reunite for one la...