Check Me Out - LKLD October 2026
THE CARETAKER
By Marcus Kliewer
From a new titan of the macabre and unsettling, comes an eerie supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater—and more dangerous—than she ever could have imagined.
KISS, SLAY, REPLAY
By Rachel Harrison
A masked killer strikes during the wedding of Willa’s best friends. Then, she wakes up on the morning of the wedding. Was what she experienced a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death, being an eternal wedding guest.
THE CALAMITIES
By Chuck Wendig
The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret of their power in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama, from the New York Times bestselling author of “The Book of Accidents.”
FABULOUS BODIES
By Chuck Tingle
Fashion influencer and grave-robber, Poppy is on call when Eddie Michaels, a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon, unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up. Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.
OUR CUT OF SALT
By Deena Helm
In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. “Our Cut of Salt” is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it irrevocably changed.
THE DORIANS
By Nick Cutter
Five elderly volunteers agree to a secret experiment to stall, or even reverse the clock, via an ancient biological agent with a single-minded will to survive. The dark heart of unbridled human ambition finds its apex in an unholy experiment that now tests the limits of both creator and subject, eclipsing all bounds of morality and sanity.
YOU DID NOTHING WRONG
By CG Drews
Elodie’s new husband has whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, away to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. Everything is perfect. Until Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it, something strange is going on. The question is, is it with the house, or with her son?
WOLF WORM
By T. Kingfisher
Scientific illustrator Sonia Wilson agrees to go work for Dr. Halder. Once there though, she encounters dark happenings in the Carolina woods, and even darker questions come to light, like what happened to her predecessor? Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about “blood thieves?”
HOW TO KILL A GUY IN TEN DATES
By Shailee Thompson
A humorous, swoony, and downright terrifying slasher rom-com in which a cinephile gets caught in the middle of a murder spree at a speed-dating event and must use her encyclopedic knowledge of the romance and horror genres to make it as a real-life Final Girl.
STAY BURIED
By Jennifer McMahon
Some towns stay isolated for a reason. From the New York Times bestselling author of “Children on the Hill” comes a queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and superstition to learn the truth about her mother’s death.
