Billy Summers by Stephen King
Type: NovelPublisher: ScribnerRelease date: Aug. 3 Den of Geek says: A new release from horror master Stephen King is always an event. His most recent novel traffics in good and evil, asking how far a mercenary with a personal code is willing to go. Publisher’s summary: Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong? This spectacular can’t-put-it-down novel is part war story, part love letter to small town America and the people who live there, and it features one of the most compelling and surprising duos in King fiction, who set out to avenge the crimes of an extraordinarily evil man. It’s about love, luck, fate, and a complex hero with one last shot at redemption. You won’t put this story down, and you won’t forget Billy. Buy Billy Summers by Stephen King.
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
Type: NovelPublisher: Gallery BooksRelease date: Aug. 17 Den of Geek says: Chizmar is getting rave early reviews, including from Stephen King, who says “it offers both chills and a satisfying conclusion” and “Ray Bradbury’s influence is all over it.” Recent college graduate Richard Chizmar returns to his hometown just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch is formed. In the midst of preparing for his wedding and embarking on a writing career, he soon finds himself thrust into the real-life horror story. Inspired by the terrifying events, Richard writes a personal account of the serial killer’s reign of terror, unaware that these events will continue to haunt him for years to come. A clever, terrifying, and heartrending work of metafiction, Chasing the Boogeyman is the ultimate marriage between horror fiction and true crime. Chizmar’s “brilliant…absolutely fascinating, totally compelling, and immediately poignant” (C.J. Tudor, New York Timesbestselling author) writing is on full display in this truly unique novel that will haunt you long after you turn the final page. Buy Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar.
My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Type: NovelPublisher: Gallery / Saga PressRelease date: Aug. 31 Den of Geek says: Award-winning author of The Only Good Indians returns to literary horror with a novel in conversation with the slasher genre. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph. Buy My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones.
