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Episode 48: Summer Scares 2026
Monday, 23 March, 2026
Folks are probably well into planning for summer reading programs, so now is the perfect time to talk about Summer Scares! On this Episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to the folks involved. First, this year’s celebrity spokesperson, author Jennifer McMachon, joins Susan and readers’ advisory and horror expert Becky Spratford to talk about the adult and YA Summer Scares titles, and Jennifer’s journey from misfit girl to capital-H horror writer. Then, Booklist’s Julia Smith talks to Susan about the middle-grade Summer Scares titles. Finally, Susan sits down with HWA Library Committee co-chair Konrad Stump along with New York Public Library’s Allison Nellis and Kate Federiconi to talk about programming and NYPL’s best-of lists. Here’s what we talked about: (* indicates a Summer Scares 2026 title) Readers’ Advisory survey (it’s quick!) Summer Scares Resource Page (RA for All) Summer Scares Middle-Grade Panel (March 12) Summer Scares YA Panel (March 23) Summer Scares Adult Panel (March 26) *A Botanical Daughter, by Noah Medlock *Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. *Maeve Fly, by CJ Leede iRead Summer Reading 2026: Plant a Seed, Read *What We Harvest, by Ann Fraistat *Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, by Linda Cheng *Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories, edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz, illustrated by Ricardo López Ortiz Stay Buried, by Jennifer McMahon (coming August 2026) “Monster Girl: How Horror Gave Me a Place to Belong,” by Jennifer McMahon, in Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford *This Appearing House, by Ally Malinenko A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness *It Came from the Trees, by Ally Russell *Garlic and the Vampire, by Bree Paulsen, art by the author The Lion’s Run, by Sarah Pennypacker Max in the House of Spies, by Adam Gidwitz Max in the Land of Lies, by Adam Gidwitz Summer Scares 2026 Programming Guide NYPL’s Best New Horror for Adults 2025 Dollface, by Lindy Ryan Headlights, by CJ Leede Kiss, Slay, Replay, by Rachel Harrison Japanese Gothic, by Kylie Lee Baker Abyss, by Nicholas Binge Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape, by Manchán Magan
