Megan Mostyn-Brown turns a genetic hunger for human flesh into a viciously funny family horror about inheritance, class and the stories bloodlines tell about themselves. The Need is fast, tender and sharp enough to make its outrageous premise hurt.
Josh Malerman traps a woman inside an artist’s empty frame in Pictures of You, a Hitchcockian captivity thriller from the Bird Box author. A superb, unnerving concept, held back only by a structure that keeps letting the pressure out. Del Rey, September 2026.
