August 2025 New Release Horror Books

August 2025 New Release Horror Books

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
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
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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