Summerween

By Sarah Yurch | March 25 2025 | FictionKidsPromo Opportunity

Maybe you’ve noticed folks leaving their 12-foot skeletons up year-round. Or perhaps you’ve seen a display or horror novels merchandised as “Summer Scares.” If so, you’ve already been introduced to Summerween, the trend that proves you don’t need to wait until October to get into the scary spirit.

In fact, sales of horror and other creepy, chilling, or ghoulish reads have been steadily climbing every summer for the past five years.

See below for some of our bestselling bone-chilling books, or click here for a more complete list.

9781984896391
For readers of Kara Thomas and Karen McManus, an addictive, twisty crime thriller with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about a closed local murder case that doesn't add up, and a girl who's determined to find the real killer--but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
$10.99 US
Jan 05, 2021
Paperback
Delacorte Press
US/CAN (No Open Mkt)

A Novel
9780593183212
Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night writes his "best plot twist yet.” (People, "Best Summer Books")
$18.00 US
Jun 06, 2023
Paperback
Dutton
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9780593550403
A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.
$19.00 US
Feb 06, 2024
Paperback
Berkley
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9781524714758
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (Entertainment Weekly) in this addictive mystery about what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.
$12.99 US
Feb 28, 2023
Paperback
Delacorte Press
US, Canada, Open Mkt

A Magnet Book
9780593659540
Boo! It's time to have a frightfully fun time with Bluey in this magnet book! Based on the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+
$14.99 US
Aug 15, 2023
FOC Jul 17, 2023
Board Book
Penguin Young Readers Licenses
US/CAN (No Open Mkt)

The Remastered Full-Color Edition
9780375703768
THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT’S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE • A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.''Simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times  "Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent—it renders most other fiction meaningless." —Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho “This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore.” —Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsYears ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.Now made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices, the story remains unchanged. Similarly, the cultural fascination with House of Leaves remains as fervent and as imaginative as ever. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of “the backrooms,” and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games. Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
$29.00 US
Mar 07, 2000
Paperback
Pantheon
US, Canada, Open Mkt