Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released April 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.
April 1-6
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Blood Cypress | Eliza Broadbent | Raw Dog Screaming Press | TAGS |
| Deadstream | Mar Romasco-Moore | Viking Books for Young Readers | LGBTQ, Paranormal, Thriller, YA |
| Glob Bunny | D.Z. Hollow | Self-Published | Easter, Dark Comedy |
| Janitors VS the Living Dead | Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason | Death’s Head Press | Splatterpunk, Zombies |
| Puppet (Dollhouse #2) | R.J. Powell | Self-Published | Extreme |
| Scissor Me Timbers | Phrique | Self-Published | Erotic Horror, LGBTQ |
| The Coven Tendency | Zoe Hana Mikuta | Disney Hyperion | Witch, YA |
| The Grove | Eric Butler | Naked Cat Press | Halloween, Short Story |
| Those That Remain (Left Behind) | Matthew A. Clarke | Self-Published | Post-Apocalyptic |
| Trust | Jen Sequel | Self-Published | Short Story |
April 7-13
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| BOO | Christy Aldridge | Self-Published | Imaginary Friend |
| Dark Trees | D.Z. Hollow | Above the Rain Collective | Creature, Poetry, Short Stories |
| Knightmare! | Jerry Blaze | JBH Publications | Slasher, Small Town |
| Made a Monster | Rob Nelson | Self-Published | Splatterpunk |
| Slasher Cruise (Supernatural Slayers #1) | Chris Heinicke & Kate Reedwood | KC Stories | 90s, Crime, Cruise Ship, Historical, Rock Band |
| Station Grand | Craig Hurd-McKenney & Noah Bailey | Oni Press | Graphic Novel, Science Fiction |
| Terror! Horror! Agony!: A Collection of (Mostly) Quiet Horror Stories | Judith Sonnet | Self-Published | Quiet Horror, Short Stories |
| The Cut | C.J. Dotson | St. Martin’s Press | Haunted Hotel, Supernatural |
| The Devil’s Colony | Marie Lestrange | PUBLISHER | Historical, Wendigo, Witchcraft |
| Their Monstrous Hearts | Yigit Turhan | MIRA | Gothic, Magical Realism, Occult |
April 14-20
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Dawn of the Warriors (Weird Space #2) | A. M. Wiley | Wiley Productions | Sci-Fi |
| Hellions: Stories | Julia Elliott | Tin House Books | Literary, Southern Gothic |
| Jackknife (Shivers Collection) | Joe Hill | Amazon Original Stories | Short Stories |
| Letter Slot (Shivers Collection) | Owen King | Amazon Original Stories | Short Stories |
| Night and Day in Misery (Shivers Collection) | Catriona Ward | Amazon Original Stories | Short Stories |
| Senseless | Ronald Malfi | Titan Books | Serial Killer, Thriller, Vampire |
| The Black Fire Concerto | Mike Allen | Ruadán Books | Fantasy |
| The Blanks (Shivers Collection) | Grady Hendrix | Amazon Original Stories | Short Stories |
| The Indigo Room (Shivers Collection) | Stephen Graham Jones | Amazon Original Stories | Short Stories |
| The Twitching House | Ben Farthing | Self-Published | Unknown |
| They Drink Our Blood | Lucy Leitner | Blood Bound Books | Vampires |
| Vanishing World | Sayaka Murata | Grove Press | Absurdist, Speculative |
| With Friends Like These | V.S. Lawrence | Self-Published | Demon, Summer Camp, YA |
April 21-30
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng | Kylie Lee Baker | MIRA | Asian, Ghost, Serial Killer |
| Cold Eternity | S.A. Barnes | Tor Nightfire | Sci-Fi |
| Eat the Ones You Love | Sarah Maria Griffin | Tor Books | LGBTQ |
| Embracing the Profane | Bridgett Nelson | Self-Published | Short Stories, Spatterpunk |
| Even After Death | Harrison Phillips | Self-Published | Erotic |
| Last Tour at Sulphur Creek | Paul Avery Tindol | Mortal Puzzles Books | Haunted House, Paranormal Investigators |
| Polybius | Collin Armstrong | Gallery Books | Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Video Games |
| PUSH!: An Anthology of Childbirth Horror | Ruth Anna Evans (editor), Various | Ruth Anna Evans Horrors | Horror, Short Stories |
| The Sundowner’s Dance | Todd Keisling | Shortwave Media | Lovecraftian |
| The Devil’s Thrift Shop | Steven Pajak | Lakefront Terror Press | Cursed Objects |
| The Rotting Room | Viggy Parr Hampton | Horror Humor Hunger Press | Religious Horror |
| The Staircase in the Woods | Chuck Wendig | Del Rey | Mystery, Supernatural |
| The Summer I Ate the Rich | Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | YA, Zombie |
| When the Wolf Comes Home | Nat Cassidy | Tor Nightfire | Paranormal |
| You Can’t Stay | S. T. Ashman | Self-Published | Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller |
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