Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released August 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.
August 1-10
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| A Better Grave than This | Jessica Cranberry | Percy’s Heart Press | Retelling |
| A More Ancient Evil | Ryan Hoyt | Machete & Quill Press | Occult, Possession, Witches |
| Archives of the Unexplained: Unwanted Guests | Steve Foxe | PUBLISHER | Graphic Novel, Haunted House, Middle Grade |
| Black Flame | Gretchen Felker-Martin | Tor Nightfire | LGBTQ |
| BLASPHEMY | Aaron Lebold | Uncomfortably Dark Horror | Religious |
| Blood Diamond | Jim Donohue | Self-Published | Native Burial Ground |
| Cedar Mills | Dylan James | Savage Realms Press | Coming of Age |
| Extinction Dream | Andrew Najberg | Wicked House Publishing | Dystopian, Sci-Fi |
| Eye for an Eye | Thomas Stewart | Self-Published | Revenge |
| How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow | Bonnie Quinn | S&S/Saga Press | Camping, Cozy |
| Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions | John Langan | Word Horde | Short Stories |
| Lucky Day | Chuck Tingle | Tor Nightfire | LGBTQ, Sci-Fi, Supernatural |
| SLENDER BONES IN SACRED SOIL | Frederick Niles | Blood Moon by Uncomfortably Dark Horror | Poetry |
| Tantrum | Rachel Eve Moulton | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | Short Story |
| The Contest: A Horror Novel from the American Frontier | David Golemon | Keylight Books | Historical, Vampire, Werewolf |
| The Creed Falls Massacres | Jon Cohn | Wicked House Publishing | TAGS |
| The Dead Husband Cookbook | Danielle Valentine | Sourcebooks Landmark | Thriller |
| The Faceless Thing We Adore | Hester Steel | Page Street Horror | LGBTQ, Occult |
| This Is My Body | indsay King-Miller | Quirk Books | Exorcism, Family, LGBTQ, Possession |
| Wormwood (Lilith Adams #5) | Jenny Allen | Self-Published | Forensic Thriller |
August 11-17
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| 13 Months Haunted | Jimmy Juliano | Dutton | 00s, Ghost, Paranormal |
| A Game in Yellow | Hailey Piper | S&S/Saga Press | Erotic Horror, King in Yellow, LGBTQ, Psychological Thriller |
| An Evil Premise | T. Marie Vandelly | Blackstone Publishing | Possession |
| House of Monstrous Women | Daphne Fama | Berkley | 80s, Filipino, Gothic, Historical |
| Lucky Day | Chuck Tingle | Tor Nightfire | Deadly Casino, LGBTQ |
| Playground: Child of Divorce | Aron Beauregard | Self-Published | Extreme |
| San Antonio Mission (The Peregrine Estate Trilogy #2) | C.S. Humble | Shortwave Media | TAGS |
| Scaring and Daring: Terrifying Takes on 15 Classic Tales: A Horror Writers Association Anthology | Horror Writers Association | HarperCollins | Anthology, Retellings, Short Stories |
| Squirming All The Way Up | Joey Powell | Madness Heart Press | Religious, Cult |
| The Feeding | Anthony Ryan | Blackstone Publishing | Post-Apocalyptic |
August 18-24
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women | Sadie Hartmann | Page Street Publishing | Non-Fiction, Pop Culture |
| The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand | Christopher Golden & Brian Keene (editors), Various | Gallery Books | Anthology, Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi |
| The Possession of Alba Díaz | Isabel Cañas | Penguin Random House/Berkley | Gothic, Historical, Possession |
| The Secrets of Blackthorn House | Marie McWilliams | Quill & Crow Publishing House | Gothic |
| The Unseen | Ania Ahlborn | Gallery Books | Creepy Kid |
August 25-31
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| 8114 | Joshua Hull | CLASH Books | Gothic, Small Town |
| Abducted | Patrick Barb | Dark Matter INK | Mystery, Sci-Fi |
| Hell Pulp: A Gritty Journey Through Never-Ending Death | Matias Ylikangas | Self-Published | Afterlife, Hell |
| How Bad Things Can Get | Darcy Coates | Black Owl Books | Serial Killers |
| Modern Mummies | A.C. Bauer | Cat Eye Press | Anthology |
| Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day | Emma E. Murray | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
| The Devil’s in the Dancers | Catherine Yu | Page Street YA | YA |
| Welcome to the Ghost Show | J.W. Ocker | Storytide | Childrens, Ghost, Middle Grade |
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| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Snuffsport | Rhys Ware | PUBLISHER | Extreme, Death Games, Streamers, Survival |
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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