Lilah Sturges

Jun 9, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | R. L. Stine |Lev Grossman |Lilah Sturges |Christopher D. Cantwell

Fans who grew up on Goosebumps will relish the throwback scares and camp horror in this adult-oriented offshoot of Stine’s Stuff of Nightmares series. “Red Murder,” the first of the volume’s two stories, centers on comics creator Alex Oxaca, whose personal fame dwindles in inverse proportion to the popularity of his ax-murdering character Red Murder, who he named after his troubled but beloved brother Dale. “I guess I made Dale immortal,” Alex says on a podcast.

May 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Lev Grossman |Lilah Sturges |Stan Mack |Yamada Murasaki

Sturges (Girl Haven) and Garing deliver juicy pulp thrills in this queer paranormal murder mystery. “To me, ghosts are evidence,” forensic psychologist Joy Ravenna explains as she searches crime scenes for spectral witnesses. She butts heads with her ex-wife, a police officer who left when Joy came out as trans, but finds support from her girlfriend, Cat.