Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released May 2025. This is a fairly comprehensive list of all things horror, including traditional, small press, and self-published works. I provide at least one link where you can find the book and purchase it directly.
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Want to know what books I have on my TBR? The books with a featured cover at the top of each week are the books that I am planning to read!
This is a project I hope to do every month, with posts going up at the end of the month. My aim is to share the books I run into with my monthly scrolling and to have a venue to lift up authors. If you have a book releasing this month that you don’t see on the list, please feel free to leave a comment on this post so I can add your book to the list.
May 1-4
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Death Spell | David Sodergren | Paperbacks and Pugs | Deal with the Devil, Splatterpunk |
| Fear (The Last Rite #3) | Chad Morgan | Spectral Ink Productions | Urban Legends |
| I Crave the Bleeding Flowers | Ash Ericmore | Self-Published | Female Rage, Revenge |
| The Mirror Man | Wil Forbis | Self-Published | Slasher |
| Port Luck | Timothy King | Savage Rabbit Publishing | Creature, Mystery |
| SONGS OF SHADOW, WORDS OF WOE | Matthew R. Davis | JournalStone | TAGS |
May 5-11
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Deacon: An Assemblage of Nightmares | Daemon Manx | Last Waltz Publishing | Short Stories |
| Deadgirl: The Novelization | Bridgett Nelson | Encyclopocalypse Publications | Movie Tie-In, Transgressive |
| Ghost Girls and Rabbits | Cassondra Windwalker | Polymath Press | Indigenous, Literary |
| Overgrowth | Mira Grant | Tor Nightfire | Alien Invasion, Body Horror, Sci-Fi |
| Prom Night for Slasher Victims (Slasher Victims #2) | Matthew Mercer | Aspects Entertainment | Comedy, Slasher |
| Red Walls | Christina Bergling | Graveside Press | Monsters, Revenge |
| The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett | David Demchuk & Corinne Leigh Clark | Hell’s Hundred | Historical, Sweeny Todd Retelling, Vampire |
| The Manor of Dreams | Christina Li | Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster | Asian, Gothic |
| The Night Birds | Christopher Golden | St. Martin’s Press | Aquatic/Ship |
| Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror | Nick Roberts, Leigh Kenny, & Dan Franklin | Crystal Lake Publishing | Short Stories |
May 12-18
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Bochica | Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro | Atria/Primero Sueno Press | Gothic, Haunted House |
| Hushbone: A Southern Gothic Tale | David A Lambert | Self-Published | Southern Gothic |
| Immaculate Conception | Ling Ling Huang | Dutton | Satire, Science Fiction |
| Son of a Serial Killer | Andrew Adams | Mad Axe Media | Serial Killer |
| The Devils | Joe Abercrombie | Tor Books | Dark Fantasy |
| The Vessel | S.E. Howard | Wicked House Publishing | Crime, Occult |
May 19-25
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Bookmail | Jason R. Davis | Self-Published | Occult |
| Feeders | Matt Serafini | Gallery Books | Social Horror, Technothriller |
| Going Home in the Dark | Dean Koontz | Thomas & Mercer | Coming of Age, Humor, Sci-Fi |
| Pam Kowolski is a Monster | Sarah Langan | Raw Dog Screaming Press | Unhinged Women |
| The Starving Saints | Caitlin Starling | Harper Voyager | Fantasy, Historical, LGBTQ |
| You Need to Leave (You Invited It In #2) | Sarah Jules | Mark of the Witch Press | Paranormal |
May 26-31
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Below | Alaric Cabilin | Self-Published | Dystopia, Filipino |
| D7 | Philip Fracassi | Shortwave Media | Haunted Object |
| Dead by Morning | Kayla Frederick | Self-Published | Paranormal, YA |
| Devil Music | Michael Penning | Self-Published | Demons, Occult |
| Never Flinch | Stephen King | Scribner | Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller |
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| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| The Traveling Movie Show | Robert Essig | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
| Vulpine Curse | Katherine Silva | Strange Wilds Press | Grief |
Disclaimer: Each title is linked to a store front where books may be purchased, this includes Amazon, publisher websites, and Godless.com. Please note that I am an Amazon Affiliate, so links to Amazon store fronts will use my affiliate links. Purchases made through any affiliate links help me keep this blog running.
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