50 Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025

Hello, 2025!

I had a fun reading year in 2024, reading some fantastic horror books. 2025 looks set to be yet another amazing year for horror! So I’ve compiled a list of horror books I’m looking forward to reading this year. This list is up until May releases as I will compile a separate list for the second half of the year. Please note these publication dates are subject to change.

Mark your calendars and pre-order these books so you don’t miss out!

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• Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman (7 Jan)
• Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito (9 Jan)
• Strange Pictures by Uketsu (14 Jan)
• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (14 Jan)
• Bury Me Cold & More Last Words by Jacob Steven Mohr (17 Jan)
• Our Winter Monster by Dennis Mahoney (28 Jan)
• Melancholy Delusions by Yolanda Sfetsos (28 Jan)
• Old Soul by Susan Barker (28 Jan)
• Swallowed by Meg Smitherman (28 Jan)
• These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban (4 Feb)

• Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel (4 Feb)
• The Lamb by Lucy Rose (4 Feb)
• Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf (14 Feb)
• Hungerstone by Kat Dunn (18 Feb)
• The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions by Emma E. Murray (21 Feb)
• Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce (25 Feb)
• Nerve Endings by Kealan Patrick Burke (28 Feb)
• They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran (4 Mar)
• The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica (4 Mar)
• Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian (11 Mar)

• Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo (11 Mar)
• The Organization is Here to Support You by Charlene Elsby (15 Mar)
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (18 Mar)
• The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth (18 Mar)
• To Those Willing to Drown by Mark Matthews (18 Mar)
• White Line Fever by KC Jones (18 Mar)
• Empty Devils by Chris DiLeo (25 Mar)
• Nameless Things by Ernest Jensen (25 Mar)
• Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen (25 Mar)
• Root Rot by Saskia Nislow (25 Mar)

• Nowhere by Allison Gunn (25 Mar)
• The Thorns by Dawn Kurtagich (1 Apr)
• Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou (1 Apr)
• Deadstream by Mar Romasco-Moore (1 Apr)
• This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are by Stephen Howard (3 Apr)
• Red Run the Witch’s Thread by Victoria Williamson (11 Apr)
• Senseless by Ronald Malfi (15 Apr)
• The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling (22 Apr)
• Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin (22 Apr)
• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker (29 Apr)

• The Night Birds by Christopher Golden (6 May)
• Overgrowth by Mira Grant (6 May)
• (Don’t) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski (8 May)
• Requiem by John Palisano (13 May)
• Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro (13 May)
• The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North (13 May)
• Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang (13 May)
• The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling (20 May)
• We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough (20 May)
• Feeders by Matt Serafini (20 May)

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

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