Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released October 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.
October 1-5
Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
A Grave Duet: Collected Halloween Horror | Melisa Peterson Lewis, Kasey Fallon, & Rissa Miller | Self-Published | Short Stories, Halloween |
Around | Thomas McFadden | Self-Published | Christian |
As Told Under the Moon: A Collection of Haunting Works from New and Emerging Voices | Ellis Hart (editor) | Dusk and Dagger Publishing | Short Stories, Anthology |
Ashen Veil | Layney Rey | Self-Published | YA, Vampire |
BAXTER: The Prodigal Son | Kelvin V.A Allison | Wounded Pigeon Publications | Short Stories, Killer Kid |
Beneath a Nameless Sky (A Black Painting #1) | Evan Jameson | Witching Hole Publications | Occult |
Deusetta (Disciples of Eden #1) | Hal Enzinga | Self-Published | Death Game |
Echoes of the Damned | Ian Gielen | Self-Published | Short Stories |
Eerie Basin | Ivy Pochoda | Amazon Original Stories | Short Stories, Suspense |
Seen | James Yates | Self-Published | Demons, Novella |
The LET Project | Drew Baker | Self-Published | Sci-Fi |
The Mask Room (Scaremoore #6) | T. L. Griffith | Self-Published | Children’s |
The Monsters They Made Us | Frank J. Camacho | Self-Published | Supernatural, YA |
The Scarecrows Will Watch Over Us | Grant Wamack | Broken River Books | Folk, Cryptid |
The Small Hours | Bob Pastorella | Ghoulish Books | Supernatural |
The Swamp Child | Eliza Broadbent | Undertaker Books | TAGS |
The Town That Feared Dusk | Calvin Demmer | Darkenryde Publishing | Short Stories, Small Town |
The Werewolf on Blacktree Lane | Bradley Doxon | Shallowford Press | Middle Grade |
The Writing on the Wall: A Horror Tribute to Iron Maiden | Jyl Glenn & Joseph Murnane (editors), Various | Wicked Ouija Press | Short Stories |
Unusual Occurrences | Glenn Rolfe | Alien Agenda Publishing | Short Stories |
October 6-12
Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
Absolute Zero: An Anthology of Cold Horror | Various | Death’s Head Press | Short Stories, Arctic |
And the River Drags Her Down | Jihyun Yun | Knopf Books for Young Readers | Asian, Necromancy |
Before You Go Extinct Vol. 1 | Takashi Ushiroyato & Kanato Abiko | Kodansha | Manga |
Cinder House | Freya Marske | Tordotcom | LGBTQ, Fairy Tale |
Crafting for Sinners | Jenny Kiefer | Quirk Books | Crafting, LGBTQ, Occult |
Dark Sisters | Kristi DeMeester | St. Martin’s Press | Historical, Witches |
Deliver Me (re-release) | Elle Nash | The Unnamed Press | LGBTQ, Coming of Age |
Hallway | Andy Futuro | June Day Press | Psychological |
Hell’s Heresies | Kat D. Coffin | City Owl Press | Supernatural, Humor, Haunted House |
Herculine | Grace Byron | S&S/Saga Press | Cults, LGBTQ, Transgender |
ITCH! | Gemma Amor | Hodder & Stoughton | LGBTQ, Feminist |
Man, F*ck This House (And Other Disasters) | Brian Asman | Blackstone Publishing | Short Stories |
Nowhere Land | Pamela K. Kinney | DreamPunk Press | Paranormal |
On Submission | Michael J. Seidlinger | CLASH Books | Psychological, Slasher |
Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture | Brandon R. Grafius | Morehouse Publishing | Christian, Religion, Pop Culture |
Symbiotes | Amanda Linnemeyer | Ringtale Publishing | Dystopia, Fungal, YA |
The Devouring Light | Kat Ellis | HarperCollins | Haunted House, YA |
The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale | Joe R. Lansdale | Tachyon Publications | Short Stories |
The Hong Kong Widow | Kristen Loesch | Berkley | Historical, Gothic, Asian |
The Possessing Hour | Jeremy John Hayes | Self-Published | Short Stories |
The Sleepy Hollow Incident: Book 1 | PD Alleva | Chamber Door Publishing, LLC | Historical, Dark Fantasy, Gothic |
These Bodies Ain’t Broken | Madeline Dyer (editor) | Page Street YA | Disability Rep, Short Stories, YA |
Upton Arms: A Retirement Home for Supernaturals | Scott Craven | City Owl Press | Comedy, Vampire |
Vampires at Sea | Lindsay Merbaum | Creature Publishing | Comedy, LGBTQ, Vampires |
We Are All Dead Anyway | Gage Greenwood | Tanner’s Switch Publishing | Autofiction |
You Have to Let Them Bleed | Annie Neugebauer | Bad Hand Books | Short Stories |
October 13-19
Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
A Harvest of Furies | Hayden Casey | Lanternfish Press | Greek Retelling, Gothic, Magical Realism |
Angry Hornet Nest | Stoney Brooks | River-Lily Publishing | Supernatural, YA |
Caramelle & Carmilla | Jewelle Gomez & Sheridan Le Fanu | Aunt Lute Books | Vampire, Gothic, LGBTQ |
Creepers: The Wishing Well | Edgar J. Hyde | Pushing Daisies | Paranormal, Children’s |
Dark the Halls | Timothy Roderick | Graven Image Press | Psychological, Christmas |
Descendants of the Big House (A Horde of Dead Poets) | C. Vonzale Lewis | Percy’s Heart Press | Retelling, Mystery |
Dying Sheep 3D | Jesse D’Angelo | Encyclopocalypse Publications | 1980s, Extreme |
He’s So Possessed with Me | Corey Liu | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | LGBTQ, YA, Supernatural |
Hotel of Haunts | Heather Daughrity (editor) | Watertower Hill Publishing | Ghosts, Short Stories |
Loading… | Cager Klarxon | Surrender Point Press | LGBTQ, Body Horror, Technothriller |
My Lips, Her Voice | L. L. Madrid | Creature Publishing | Possession, LGBTQ, Ghost |
Olympia Lowlife | Aaron Lebold | 13 Days Publishing | ??? |
The Devil Drinks Monsoons | SueBird Sparrow | Bayou Wolf Press | Vampire |
The Devil Take the Blues | Ariel Slick | Hell or Highwater Books | Southern Gothic, Historical |
The Hauntings Back Home | Rebecca Cuthbert | Undertaker Books | Ghost, Short Stories |
The Old Lords | Edward Lillion | GlobeBridge Press | Vampire |
The Scald-Crow | Grace Daly | Creature Publishing | Comedy |
The Skinner Effect | L. Andrew Cooper | Horrific Scribblings | Splatterpunk, Psychological |
The Unveiling | Quan Barry | Grove Press | Antarctic, Stranded |
The Works of Vermin | Hiron Ennes | Tor Books | Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
Unseen Gods | Justin Holley | Flame Tree Press | Occult |
What Waits Below | Caleb N. Stephens | Thrillerscape Press | Thriller |
You Don’t Belong Here | DM Siciliano | Dark Diva Press | Short Stories |
October 20-26
Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
6-6-06 | Adam Cagley | IAF Press | Coming of Age, Occult |
A Play About A Curse | Caroline Macon Fleischer | CLASH Books | Curse, Theatre |
Cathedral of the Drowned | Nathan Ballingrud | Tor Nightfire | Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
Dead Awake: Revelation (Dead Awake #5) | Rob Ulitski | Self-Published | Zombie |
Dread Mondays | Steve Capone Jr. (editor) | Whisper House Press | Short Stories, Anthology |
Field of Frights | Christina Hagmann | RWD Publishing | YA, Halloween, 1990s |
Find Your Way Back To Me | William J. Donahue | Manta Press | Supernatural |
It Came From The Flower Shop Down Under | Chris Heinicke & Kate Reedwood | KC Stories | 1970s, Australian, Humor |
King Sorrow | Joe Hill | William Morrow | Dragon, Fantasy |
One Grimm Night | Chad Nicholas | Self-Published | Fairy Tale, Locked In |
Portraits of Decay | J. R. Blanes | Ruadán Books | Occult, Southern |
She Had Glass Eyes | C. S. Schiavone | Twenty Hills Publishing | Historical |
Something’s Wrong With Maddie | Taylor Z. Adams | Self-Published | LGBTQ, Sapphic, Zombie |
Spooky Tales from the Story Weaver | Andy Keats | Creative Salad Studios | Middle Grade, Ghost |
The Black Carnival | Harlequin Grim | Quill & Crow Publishing House | Historical |
The Pale Hunger | Angel R Sánchez | BetterWay Stories | Folk, Forest |
The Sister’s Curse | Nicola Solvinic | Berkley | Ghost, Occult, Thriller |
Where We’ve Made It Dark: An Impossible Coming of Age With Nothing Left to Come of Age To | Nicholas Crawford | Curtain Literary Press | Dystopia, Coming of Age |
Women of Glass and Other Parables | Candice Lola | Winnie Tataw | Short Stories, Female Rage, Black Lit |
October 27-31
Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
All’s Well That Ends Well | Vivian Kasley | Brigids Gate Press | Short Stories |
Assimilation | Lonnie Busch | UBiQ PRESS | Sci-Fi |
Blood Like Ours (Blood #2) | Stuart Neville | Hell’s Hundred | Vampires |
Blood of the Damned | Antony Stanton | Self-Published | Vampire, Medieval, Historical |
Darker Days | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Harper | Occult, Supernatural |
Grimoire’s Bride | Lenore Nox | Self-Published | Dark Romance, Fantasy |
Hauntings | S.E. Howard | PUBLISHER | Short Stories |
Hazelthorn | CG Drews | Feiwel & Friends | Gothic, LGBTQ, YA |
Hell Heist | Robert J. Peterson | California Coldblood Books | Urban Fantasy, Cults |
Hemo Sapiens | Emily A. Weedon | Dundurn Press | Vampire, Detective |
Kilthorne | Elizabeth Vaunt | Self-Published | Vampire, Possession |
Moonlight Sin | Morgan Mourne | Self-Published | Noir, Crime, Supernatural |
Mother-Eating | Jess Hagemann | Ghoulish Books | Marie Antoinette Retelling |
The Arcane Gamble of Harvey Walters (The Drowned City #3) | Rosemary Jones | Aconyte Books | Dark Fantasy |
The Bone Thief | Vanessa Lillie | Berkley | Indigenous, Crime |
The Brood | Rebecca Baum | Thomas & Mercer | Bugs, Female |
The Sleepy Hollow Incident: Book 2 | PD Alleva | Chamber Door Publishing, LLC | Historical, Dark Fantasy, Gothic |
The Witch of November (Devoured #2) | Bryan W. Alaspa | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
Willow Rose | M. Kevin Hayden | Self-Published | Cosmic, Sci-Fi |
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