Bill Wood closes the Let’s Split Up trilogy by sending the Sanera Four to Chillshore, a frozen island theme park that sells its own dark past. This One Last Scare review explains why the YA slasher novel is the darkest and best of the three, and how Wood turns Scream meets Scooby-Doo into a sharp look at the true crime trade.
Andrew Joseph White’s YA horror thriller follows Morgan Slaughter, the autistic trans son of a jailed killer, as a documentary crew moves into his life. It is a fierce piece of true crime fiction with an autistic protagonist who refuses to be anyone’s perfect victim, and one of the best trans horror books of the year.
Yuvashri Harish’s YA horror novel sends a dutiful Tamil babysitter into a Halloween night overrun by classic monsters and a vengeful dead author. This Kill Your Darlings review finds a YA horror debut for 2026 with sharp things to say about racism and people-pleasing. The middle drags, but the bite is real.
Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s What Feeds Below is a YA horror fantasy that descends into the Void and refuses to let you back up for air. Cave horror, fungal body horror, and a devastating friendship story combine into something genuinely new. Our full review explores what makes this one of 2026’s essential horror reads.
Peace Mbengei talks through her debut YA horror novel We Run the Night, where Luo night runners turn grief into body horror inside a Kenyan boarding school. She discusses the strangler fig at the story’s centre, the institutional cover up that follows, and why forgiveness, not revenge, sets her heroine free.
Tony Jones rounds up five new YA horror novels for August 2026. Cynthia Murphy’s Paint Me Like Your Dead Girls leads the pack as a top recommendation for schools, while Vincent Ralph’s Bleak Haven Quartet ends on a minor high. Melinda Salisbury and Jacqueline West deliver Folk Horror and small town chills.
