If you use no other resource for your Horror collection development -- including my LJ and Booklist reviews-- it should be Emily Hughes's constantly updated list of upcoming releases in Adult and YA Horror.
As I write on my Horror Resources Page:
- Jump Scares: Scary Books for Scary People: Run by Emily Hughes, this site contains her new title archive. You want to know what is coming up, click here (includes archives of past years).
- Click here to read a guest post by Hughes on how the list is compiled as well.
Emily just made the 2024 list live here. As she says in the introduction, she updates the entire thing constantly.
And new this year....Hughes herself is on the list in September with her book, Horror for Weenies! I already have an early ARC promised to me by Quirk!
Bookmark this page and use it to help you craft your Horror collections in 2024. Use the previous years' lists to see what you might have missed and fill in some gaps. And if you don't have any purchasing duties, use it as a way to see what is coming out, by whom, and what subgenres and tropes seem to be popping up with more frequency.
But wait, there's more. Next week, Hughes and I are meeting up with Robb Olson from the ARC Party podcast to record an episode where we talk about Hughes' list and the books we are most excited about for the first half of 2024. It will go live just after the New Year. We hope that by pairing the list itself with the three of us chatting about it and some of titles we have already read, we will help give you even more context to the great work Hughes does. And if you all like it, we can do it again in July for the second half of 2024.
The last few years have seen Horror grow in the mainstream of popularity. 2023 upped the ante as we saw some Horror titles make general best lists regardless of their genre. But you haven't seen anything yet. 2024 is going to be even bigger for Horror and with even better books to back it all up. Get ready now with Hughes' help.
Check back on the Horror blog tomorrow for my last giveaway of the year, and, teaser, it is one of the top MG Horror titles of 2023. And if you enter my #HorrorForLibraries giveaway now, you will be eligible to win many of those awesome 2024 titles before they even come out.
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| Click here to enter Hughes' 2024 landing page |
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