Dark New Books to Keep Cool in the Dog Days of August

These new releases and reprints will send a blissfully icy chill down your spine. Beat the (unrelenting) end-of-summer heat and find summer solace with some brilliantly dark new books of August: essays, short stories, and novels whose coolly cruel characters and chilling narratives will have a mercifully icy chill running up your spine.

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