Keep an eye out for our in-depth columns on Oppenheimer, a new theatrical biopic directed by Christopher Nolan and based on the Kirkus-starred biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (premiering July 21), and the second season of the AMC TV series Dark Winds, based on Tony Hillerman’s mysteries featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee (premiering on July 30). Here are four more book-to-screen adaptations coming in July:

July 8: V.C. Andrews’ Dawn (limited series premiere, Lifetime)

V.C. Andrews’ 1979 bestseller Flowers in the Attic launched her Dollanganger Family series of gothic horror novels, and, after her death in 1986, Andrew Neiderman (The Devil’s Advocate) continued ghostwriting books under her name. (He also wrote a biography of Andrews, which received a positive review from Kirkus when it was published last year.) Lifetime has released several lively Andrews adaptations over the years, including, most recently, the highly entertaining miniseries Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, based on 1987’s Garden of Shadows. This latest is based on the first four novels in the Cutler family saga, which began with 1990’s Dawn. Dawn Longchamp, a teenager from a financially struggling family, gets the chance to attend an elite private school, where she meets an attractive fellow student from the wealthy Cutler clan; later, an unexpected revelation about her own family history upends everything. This limited-series adaptation, which stars Stargirl’s Brec Bassinger as Dawn, promises to deliver all the scandalous melodrama that Andrews’ fans expect. It also features an intriguing cast, including Knots Landing’s Donna Mills as the evil Cutler matriarch and The Nanny’s Fran Drescher as the Southern-accented house mother of a performing-arts school.

July 14: Bird Box Barcelona (film premiere, Netflix)

Josh Malerman’s Kirkus-starred 2014 novel, Bird Box, was the basis for a hugely popular 2018 Netflix film starring Sandra Bullock, in which people all over the world spontaneously commit suicide after gazing upon strange, invading creatures. Malorie Hayes, who’s pregnant, and others survive by seeking refuge in  safehouses and donning blindfolds whenever they’re outside. However, they soon find out that not every survivor is completely trustworthy. This new film intriguingly takes place in the same fictional universe, but moves the action to Barcelona, Spain. Spanish actor Mario Casas (The Innocent) stars as a father trying to protect his young daughter (Naila Schuberth) as the world descends into chaos; the cast includes Georgina Campbell, who was excellent in last year’s hit horror film Barbarian.

July 18: Justified: City Primeval (limited series premiere, FX)

The late Elmore Leonard introduced one of his best-known characters, Kentuckian U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, in his 1993 crime novel Pronto. The lawman went on to appear in 1995’s Riding the Rap and the short story “Fire in the Hole”; the latter inspired the popular FX crime drama Justified, which starred Timothy Olyphant and ran from 2010 to 2015. (Leonard also revisited the character in 2012’s Raylan, his final novel.) Olyphant returns as Givens in this new limited series, which is based on Leonard’s City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1980). In the original novel, homicide detective Raymond Cruz pursues a killer in urban Michigan known as the Oklahoma Wildman. The limited series swaps out Cruz for Givens, but the Oklahoma Wildman remains—here portrayed by Logan’s Boyd Holbrook—and the trailer promises a tense cat-and-mouse thriller. (Episodes will also stream on Hulu.)

July 28: Good Omens (Season 2 premiere, Prime Video)

Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett’s 1990 fantasy novel told a comic tale of an angel, Aziraphale, and a demon, Crowley, teaming up to prevent a looming Apocalypse. Its streaming-series adaptation premiered in 2019, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, and found many fans. Gaiman created the show and wrote and executive-produced the first season; he’s co-written the second with comedy writer and actor John Finnemore. This new season prominently features the Archangel Gabriel, played by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm; the character appeared in the first season, as well, but is only mentioned in the original novel. Sheen, Tennant, and Hamm are all skilled comedy actors, and fans of the original novel are sure to be intrigued by where Gaiman might take the characters next.

David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.