60 New Horror Books to Read for Spooky Season 2025

Hello October!

Spooky season is my favourite time of the year! So I have compiled a list of new and upcoming horror books coming out in autumn. I have previously made lists for 2025 anticipated releases and summer horror releases for more book recommendations.

Please note this list is not comprehensive and publication dates are subject to change. Mark your calendars and pre-order these books so you don’t miss out!

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• Straw World and Other Echoes from the Void by Erik McHatton (4 Sept)
• Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman (9 Sept)
• The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham (4 Sept)
• In the House of In Between by J.D. Buffingham (5 Sept)
• Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson (9 Sept)
• Where the Soul Goes by Katherine Silva (9 Sept)
• The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson (9 Sept)
• They Fear Not Men in the Woods by Gretchen McNeil (9 Sept)
• Fiend by Alma Katsu (16 Sept)
• Bad Things Happened in This Room by Marie Still (16 Sept)
• Galloway’s Gospel by Sam Rebelein (16 Sept)
• You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White (9 Sept)

• Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin (16 Sept)
• Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin (16 Sept)
• Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper (16 Sept)
• Veil by Jonathan Janz (16 Sept)
• The Retreat by Gemma Fairclough (18 Sept)
• The Whistler by Nick Medina (16 Sept)
• Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha (16 Sept)
• The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi (30 Sept)
• One of Us by Dan Chaon (23 Sept)
• Spread Me by Sarah Gailey (23 Sept)
• Moonsick by Tom O’Donnell (23 Sept)
• The Captive by Kit Burgoyne (30 Sept)

• Hollow by Taylor Grothe (9 Oct)
• The House on Chase Street by Danielle Chiarappa (30 Sept)
• The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee (30 Sept)
• The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne (30 Sept)
• The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung (30 Sept)
• Mother of God by Sara Peters (30 Sept)
• The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt (30 Sept)
• Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting by Richard Chizmar & W.H. Chizmar (30 Sept)
• The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger (1 Oct)
• The Cold House by A.G. Slatter (7 Oct)
• Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer (7 Oct)
• The Devouring Light by Kat Ellis (7 Oct)

• How to Fake a Haunting by Christa Carmen (7 Oct)
• Herculine by Grace Byron (7 Oct)
• The Night Is Not for You by Eman Quotah (7 Oct)
• If the Dead Belong Here by Carson Faust (7 Oct)
• The Salvage by Anbara Salam (7 Oct)
• Good Boy by Neil McRobert (9 Oct)
• The Night That Finds Us All by John Hornor Jacobs (7 Oct)
• Itch! by Gemma Amor (9 Oct)
• Futility by Nuzo Onoh (21 Oct)
• The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling (14 Oct)
• The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong (14 Oct)
• The Film You Are About to See by Haley Newlin (14 Oct)

• I’ll Quit When I’m Dead by Luke Smitherd (14 Oct)
• Little Horn: Stories by Gemma Files (14 Oct)
• When We Talk to the Dead by Ian Chorao (14 Oct)
• The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly (14 Oct)
• Veal by Mackenzie Nolan (14 Oct)
• King Sorrow by Joe Hill (21 Oct)
• Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories by Sara Tantlinger (21 Oct)
• The Midnight Knock by John Fram (21 Oct)
• Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (28 Oct)
• Hazelthorn by CG Drews (28 Oct)
• The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry (4 Nov)
• A Play about a Curse by Caroline Macon Fleischer (21 Oct)

Which books are you most excited about? Let me know in the comments below!

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