The ghoulies are having their very first meeting for this new scary season...including our new, supersecret spokesperson! #summerscares #readersadvisory
Summer Scares
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A reading program designed to introduce new horror authors to readers & to help librarians with horror RA. Titles include adult, YA, & MG. Time to get scared!
Some cool Middle Grade and YA horror in the next edition of Summer Scares. Both GORGEOUS GRUESOME FACES & WHAT WE HARVEST have been previous top picks in the YA section of @gnofhorror.com Top picks to get youngsters reading!
Summer Scares@summerscares.bsky.social · 6mo agoCongratulations to this year's authors! Thank you for bringing more horror into our lives! Here's a link to all things Summer Scares: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca...
You didn't think we'd let Friday the 13th go uncelebrated, did you?😈We are thrilled to share this year's @summerscares.bsky.social reading list which promotes Horror as a great reading option for all ages, during any time of the year. Check out these titles (if you dare): bit.ly/4afS4Fh
I love love LOVE working on Summer Scares. If you haven't checked it out yet, please do.
Summer Scares@summerscares.bsky.social · 6mo agoCongratulations to this year's authors! Thank you for bringing more horror into our lives! Here's a link to all things Summer Scares: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca...
So THRILLED to share GARLIC & THE VAMPIRE has been selected for the Summer Scares Reading Program!!!
Summer Scares@summerscares.bsky.social · 6mo agoCongratulations to this year's authors! Thank you for bringing more horror into our lives! Here's a link to all things Summer Scares: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca...
From all the middle grade covers I've done so far I (and therefore manuscripts I've read) Ally's "This Appearing house" is still one of my favorites. It's about experiencing cancer and grief as a kid and have that all packaged in a truly scary but emotional story.💛
Summer Scares@summerscares.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe 2026 Summer Scares Middle Grade Fiction titles are: Garlic and the Vampire by @breebird33.bsky.social This Appearing House by @allymalinenko.bsky.social It Came from the Trees by @allyoutthere.bsky.social
THIS PROUD LIBRARIAN ALREADY HAS ALL OF THESE IN HER COLLECTION! 🖤
Summer Scares@summerscares.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe 2026 Summer Scares YA Fiction titles are: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by @lychengwrites.bsky.social Our Shadows Have Claws edited by @yamilesmendez.bsky.social & @amparoortiz.bsky.social What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat
The 2026 Summer Scares picks are here! Learn more below, and make sure you're following @summerscares.bsky.social here for regular updates on all things horror in libraries. bookriot.com/2026-summer-...
Frighteningly Good Reads: The 2026 Summer Scares Selections Are Live!
Now in its eighth year, the Summer Scares picks are ready to delight and fright readers throughout the summer. Here are this year's picks.
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It's time to announce this year's Summer Scares selections. PREPARE YOURSELVES!
It's Friday the 13th! In just FIFTEEN minutes, we'll be announcing this year's Summer Scares selections!
Keep an eye on the calendar, ghosts and ghouls... Friday, February 13th, is going to be very special this year...
a cartoon character is looking at a calendar that says friday the 13th
Alt: an animated bird is startled by the date on a calendar, Friday the 13th
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Oh, spooky friends. Your Summer Scares team met this morning and we made some terrifying decisions...
Happy Halloween, banshees and ghouls! Your social media goblin has been buried but I'm so excited to let you know that JENNIFER MCMAHON is this year's spokesperson! We are just delighted that she is joining our group of horrors.
Happy Halloween 31 Days of Horror: Day 31-- The @summerscares.bsky.social 2026 Spokesperson Is.... JENNIFER MCMAHON! raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...
31 Days of Horror: Day 31-- The Summer Scares 2026 Spokesperson Is....
As we have done every year since the program inception, the Summer Scares Committee is announcing our next Spokesperson on Halloween. This y...
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The Last Hurrah! A sensational horror chapbook about beach goths, ghosts, and the endless haunt of queer desire ✨👻🏖️🖤 bottlecap.press/en-ca/produc...
The Last Hurrah, by West Ambrose
Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Abandoned in his summer cottage and missing his childhood friends dearly, a boy summons their ghosts with the hope of seeing them one last time. Wh...
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Today is the first meeting for @summerscares.bsky.social 2026 edition! Going to meet with the (not announced publicly yet) spokesperson. Then recording with @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social Plus finishing a book for review in @ala-booklist.bsky.social Let's do this!
It’s our first meeting of the new season, spooky friends! Meeting our new spokesperson and starting to plan a whole new summer of scares! What was your favorite ghoulish read *this* summer?
Librarians, I hope you know about the Summer Scares program! More information at @raforall.bsky.social’s blog: raforallhorror.blogspot.com/p/summer-sca... #StokerCon #Libraries #BookSky
Summer Scares Resource Page [Last Updated May 29, 2025]
Click on the image to access a folder with the logo graphics Summer Scares 2025 Resources for Library Workers Below is a list of resources ...
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Gabino is a Summer Scares author! Buy his book or we’ll haunt you forever!
Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · last yr.Two things! 1. The Devil is still just $2.99 everywhere! 2. Sent an email this morning. For all future books, I want a cover artist to get paid AND I want art from a different artist inside even if I have to pay for it. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Hey library peeps. THIS IS NOT A DRILL! @ericlarocca.bsky.social will be at ALA Annual! Come to Philly and I will make sure you meet him. @summerscares.bsky.social
The next best thing to hearing horror stories around a fire in the middle of nowhere? Listening to them on a podcast! Our latest #ShelfCare is all about the 2025 @summerscares.bsky.social list: this year's selections, recs from our experts, how libraries can get in on the fun, & more: bit.ly/4iH3CmS
Today on both blogs: All of the @summerscares.bsky.social @ala-booklist.bsky.social content introducing the program is now live and FREE: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/03/summ...
Summer Scares Booklist Webinars and Podcasts Are LIVE
Click here to get to the Summer Scares Resource page One of the best things about the Summer Scares partnership with Booklist Magazine is ...
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It's all our amazing adult selection authors! AND Becky!
Eric LaRocca@ericlarocca.com · last yr.I’ll be appearing at the Summer Scares webinar TODAY (3/24) at 2:00 pm Eastern. I’ll be joined by wonderful authors James Han Mattson and Caitlin Starling to discuss all things Horror. The amazing Becky Spratford will be moderating! Please join if you can: ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I’ll be appearing at the Summer Scares webinar TODAY (3/24) at 2:00 pm Eastern. I’ll be joined by wonderful authors James Han Mattson and Caitlin Starling to discuss all things Horror. The amazing Becky Spratford will be moderating! Please join if you can: ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...