Every single one of these titles is appropriate for the general public library collection and some are already out now!
The article also has a section on the best podcasts for listening to fiction [for your patrons] and learning more about horror [for you].
I have included a link to the entire article [free access] and the text of my introduction. In that introduction there is also a link to this piece that I asked author and literary critic Gabino Iglesias to write about the state of horror today and a link to the Summer Scares resource page [Library Journal is a sponsor and participant in Summer Scares].
So please, take a moment this week to go through the piece and add titles to your on order carts now. There is a handy table at the end of the article with a list of authors, titles, and isbn numbers, so at the very least you can go through and just order the titles without reading the article. You want to make sure you have the newest and best horror before October comes. Trust me. You don't want your horror fans haunting you, do you?
Reading the horror preview is not scary at all. Not helping your horror fans, is though.
We are in the midst of a horror renaissance. From blockbuster films like Jordan Peele’s Us and Stephen King’s It to TV series like Netflix’s Stranger Things and AMC’s The Walking Dead, dark storytelling has never been more popular. Though horror fiction has always been a staple genre, during times of social and political unease and uncertainty in the real world the genre often becomes a viable "release valve," as best-selling author Brian Keene recently explained to a room full of librarians during the Horror Writers Association’s annual conference, StokerCon. "It is a comfort to get to curl up with a book about grave robbers, werewolves, and giant worms as opposed to having to watch the news." See also: author and literary critic Gabino Iglesias’s "Don’t Call It a Comeback."
Keene was joined by fellow authors Daniel Kraus and Stephen Graham Jones at StokerCon for a panel about Summer Scares, an initiative by the Horror Writers Association, Library Journal, Book Riot, and United for Libraries to help libraries promote excellent horror titles for readers of all ages. For librarians gearing up for summer reading, Summer Scares is an ideal starting place (See bit.ly/2wCdVTF for details).
Thankfully, a bounty of top-notch horror books will be published in the coming months, titles that are perfect for general adult collections.
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