Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released September 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.
September 1-7
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| A Blood as Bright as the Moon | Andrea Morstabilini | Titan Books | Gothic, LGBTQ, Vampire |
| Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard (The Peregrine Estate Trilogy #3) | C.S. Humble | Shortwave Media | TAGS |
| Breathe In, Bleed Out | Brian McAuley | Poisoned Pen Press | Occult, Slasher |
| Frankenstein’s Monster | J. S. Barnes | Titan Books | Historical, Frankenstein |
| Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain | Johnny Mains | British Library Publishing | Short Stories, Halloween |
| Honeyeater | Kathleen Jennings | Tor Books | Dark Fantasy |
| Keep Your Friends Close | Cynthia Murphy | Delacorte Press | Dark Academia, YA |
| Let’s Split Up | Bill Wood | Scholastic Press | Mystery, Slasher, YA |
| Night & Day: Dreadful Dark: Tales of Nighttime Horror/Merciless Sun: Tales of Daylight Horror | Ellen Datlow (editor), Various | S&S/Saga Press | Anthology, Short Stories |
| Party Games | Jon Athan | Self-Published | Death Games, Serial Killers |
| Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie | Clark Collis | 1984 Publishing | Non-Fiction, Pop Culture, Horror Movies |
| Shitshow | Chris Panatier | Sobelo Books | Comedy |
| Spider to the Fly | J.H. Market | Crooked Lane Books | Serial Killer, True Crime Writer, Thriller |
| Taaqtumi 2: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories | Inhabit Media (editor), Various | Inhabit Media | Anthology, Short Stories |
| The Captive | Kit Burgoyne | Hell’s Hundred | Occult |
| The Deep Well | Laura Creedle | Quill Tree Books | Occult, YA |
| The Disappearing of Three Forks | K.L. Patrick | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| The Last Way | Cameron L. Mitchell | Querencia Press, LLC | Psychological, Small Town |
| The Toxic Avenger – The Official Movie Novelization | Adam Cesare | Titan Books | Movie Novelization, Mutant |
| These Dreaming Spires: A Dark Academia Anthology | Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (editors), Various | Titan Books | Dark Academia, Short Stories, Anthology |
| When We Were Monsters | Jennifer Niven | Knopf Books for Young Readers | YA, Dark Academia |
| Where The Soul Goes | Katherine Silva | Truborn Press | LGBTQ, Sci-Fi, Dystopia |
| You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga―13 Movies and Counting | Wayne Byrne | Bloomsbury Academic | Non-Fiction, Pop Culture, Horror Movies, Halloween |
September 8-14
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Acquired Taste | Clay McLeod Chapman | Titan Books | Short Stories |
| An Echo of Children (Special Ramsey Campbell Edition) | Ramsey Campbell | Flame Tree Press | Dark Fantasy |
| Coffin Moon | Keith Rosson | Random House | 1970s, Revenge, Vampire |
| Dark Indeed, Sorell | David Tibet | Strange Attractor Press | Short Stories |
| Death’s Master (Flat Earth #2) | Tanith Lee | DAW | Dark Fantasy |
| Delirium’s Mistress (Flat Earth #4) | Tanith Lee | DAW | Dark Fantasy |
| Delusion’s Master (Flat Earth #3) | Tanith Lee | DAW | Dark Fantasy |
| Denisovans | Jeremy Bates | Ghillinnein Books | Underground/Tunnels |
| Fear City | Rob Carroll | Dark Matter INK | Short Stories |
| Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking | Alice Vernon | Bloomsbury Sigma | Non-Fiction, Ghosts, History, Occult |
| Gorman’s House (Totally Freaked!) | T.T. Madden | PUBLISHER | 1990s, Ghost, YA |
| House of Idyll | Delilah S. Dawson | Titan Books | Occult |
| In the Clurb We’re All Monsters: A Trashy Supernaturals Side Quest | Phrique, Asher Dark | Phrique Show | Comedy, LGBTQ, Supernatural |
| Night’s Master (Flat Earth #1) | Tanith Lee | DAW | Dark Fantasy |
| Night’s Sorceries (Flat Earth #5) | Tanith Lee | DAW | Dark Fantasy |
| Play Nice | Rachel Harrison | Berkley | Demon, Gothic, Haunted House |
| Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror | Gemma Amor (editor), Various | Titan Books | Anthology, Short Stories |
| The Burial Tide | Neil Sharpson | Zando | Folk, Irish |
| The Exorcist: Resurrection | Nick Roberts | Spooky WV | Occult |
| The Extra | Annie Neugebauer | Shortwave Media | TAGS |
| The Haunting of William Thorn | Ben Alderson | Angry Robot | Ghost, Gothic, LGBTQ |
| The Macabre | Kosoko Jackson | Harper Voyager | Dark Fantasy, Paintings |
| The Maiden and Her Monster | Maddie Martinez | Tor Books | LGBTQ, Fantasy |
| The Wintermoor Lights (The Night House Files Book 2) | Dan Smith | Barrington Stoke | Sci-Fi, YA |
| They Fear Not Men in the Woods | Gretchen McNeil | DAW | Vampires |
| They Own the Night | Amy McCaw | Ink Road | YA, 1980s, Dracula Retelling, Vampires |
| We Are Always Tender with Our Dead (Burnt Sparrow #1) | Eric LaRocca | Titan Books | Transgressive |
| You Weren’t Meant to Be Human | Andrew Joseph White | S&S/Saga Press | LGBTQ, Sci-Fi |
September 15-21
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| American Werewolves | Emily Jane | Hyperion Avenue Digital | Venture Capitalist Werewolves |
| A Ruin, Great and Free (The Convergence Saga #3) | Cadwell Turnbull | Blackstone Publishing | Occult, Urban Fantasy |
| Bad Things Happened in This Room | Marie Still | Rising Action | Psychological, Thriller |
| Devil of the Pines (American Horrors) | James Kaine | Horror House Publishing | Cryptids, Jersey Devil |
| Exiles | Mason Coile | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | Sci-Fi, Psychological |
| Fiend | Alma Katsu | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | Supernatural |
| Galloway’s Gospel | Sam Rebelein | William Morrow | Cults |
| Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave | Ally Russell | Delacorte Press | Middle Grade, Paranormal |
| October Shadows: Classic Ghost Stories for Halloween | John A. Rice | Abbeville Press | Short Stories, Halloween |
| Reef Mind | Hazel Zorn | Tenebrous Press | TAGS |
| Teenage Girls Can Be Demons | Hailey Piper | Titan Books | Coming of Age, Female Rage, LGBTQ, Short Stories |
| The Dead of Summer | Ryan La Sala | PUSH | LGBTQ, Survival |
| The Vanishing Barker | Judith Sonnet | Self-Published | Carnival, Old School, Short Stories |
| The Whistler | Nick Medina | Berkley | Indigenous, Supernatural |
| Twisted Tales to Tell in the Night | Stephanie Rose & William Sterling (editors), Various | Death by TBR Books | Halloween, Anthology |
| Veil | Jonathan Janz | Blackstone Publishing | Aliens, Sci-Fi |
September 22-28
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Famous (re-release) | Blake Crouch | Ballantine Books | Stolen Identity, Thriller |
| Monochromicon: The Complete Monochrome Trilogy | Todd Keisling | Precipice Books | Cosmic |
| Spit Back the Bones | Teagan Olivia King | Keylight Books | Horromance, Paranormal |
| Spread Me | Sarah Gailey | Tor Nightfire | Sci-Fi |
| The Red Knot | Monique Asher | Rising Action | Occult, Small Town |
| This Raging Sea | De Elizabeth | Holiday House | Eldritch, LGBTQ, Horromance, YA |
| Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature | Becky Siegel Spratford (editor) | S&S/Saga Press | Essays, Non-Fiction |
| Body of Water | Adam Godfrey | Sourcebooks Landmark | Supernatural, Appalachia |
September 29-30
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Broken Dolls | Ally Malinenko | HarperCollins | Middle Grade, Dolls, Grief |
| Demon Song | Kelsea Yu | Titan Books | Chinese, Gothic, Phantom of the Opera |
| Hollow | Taylor Grothe | Peachtree Teen | YA, Autism Rep |
| House of Rayne | Harley Laroux | Kensington Books | Gothic, Sapphic, Dark Romance |
| Kentucky Dragon | Michael Park | Fox Point Books | Serial Killer, Supernatural, Thriller |
| Make Me a Monster | Kalynn Bayron | Bloomsbury YA | Horromance, Frankenstein, YA |
| Midnight Timetable | Bora Chung | Algonquin Books | Absurdist, Short Stories |
| MrBallen Presents: Where Nightmares Live | MrBallen | Ten Speed Graphic | Graphic Novel, YouTubers |
| Night of the Living Dead: The Official Novelization | John Russo | Titan Books | Movie Novelization, Zombies |
| Playing Wolf | Zuzana Ríhová | Catapult | Folk, Cults |
| Shadow Lab, Volume Two | Brendan Deneen (Editor) | Blackstone Publishing | Anthology |
| Shadowman | Shola Adedeji | Superhero | TAGS |
| Showstopper | Lily Anderson | Henry Holt and Co. | Slasher, Theatre Camp, YA |
| Teddy vs. the Snuggly Menace | Braden Hallett | Annick Press | Children’s |
| The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre | Philip Fracassi | Tor Nightfire | Slasher, Humor |
| The Captive | Kat Burgoyne | Soho Press | Humor |
| The Glass-Face Man | Michael Park | Fox Point Books | Coming of Age, Ghost, Suspense |
| The Haunting at Morsley Manor | George Morris De’Ath | Rising Action | Paranormal Investigator, Haunted House |
| The House Next Door | Ellen Oh | HarperCollins | Children’s, Haunted House |
| The Hunger We Pass Down | Jen Sookfong Lee | Erewhon Books | Doppleganger, Asian |
| The Mean Ones | Tatiana Schlote-Bonne | Creature Publishing | TAGS |
| The October Film Haunt | Michael Wehunt | St. Martin’s Press | Ghost, Horror Movies, Paranormal |
| The Transition | Logan-Ashley Kisner | Delacorte Press | YA, LGBTQ, Werewolf |
| The Wax Child | Olga Raven | New Directions | Historical, Occult, Witches |
| What Stalks the Deep (Sword Soldier #3) | T. Kingfisher | Tor Nightfire | Gothic, Dark Fantasy |
| Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting | Richard Chizmar & W.H. Chizmar | Gallery Books | Supernatural |
Delayed or Undated
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Fortress | Josh Hanson | Off Limits Press | TAGS |
| HELL IS EMPTY, ALL THE MONSTERS ARE HERE | Joe Scipione | Watertower Hill Publishing | Short Stories |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
| Where The Soul Goes | Katherine Silva | Truborn Press | TAGS |
| Unknown Title | K.A. Schultz | PUBLISHER | Poetry |
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