Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released August 2026. 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.

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 1-9

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
13 Demons Dead	Adam Tierney	IDW	YA, Graphic Novel
Bloody 13	Sarah Langan	Pink Beam Press	Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopia
Cotton Candy and Other Short Stories	Brad Thomas	Frightmare Publishing	Short Stories
Crudely Drawn	Heather Ann Larson	Self-Published	Creature
Dance with Devils (The Unmaking Trilogy #3)	Abe Moss	Grim Heart Publishing	Cosmic
Doppelgängers	Michael F Simpson	Witching Hole Publications	Doppelgängers
Masks of Meat	Ben O’C Williams	OC Publications	Dark Fantasy
Meat Bees	Dane Erbach	CLASH Books	Wasps
(Mostly) Human Resources	Grace Viall	Alcove Press	Paranormal, Cryptids, Romance
Not Like Other Girls	A.L. Goldfuss	Tor Books	LGBTQ, Short Story
Plant Lady	Minyoung Kang	Berkley	Psychological
Please, No Flowers: Born Sick Too	Aaron Lebold	apocalyptic bastards	Medical Horror
Queen Mab	Emily McBride	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Motherhood, Folk
Small Town Slasher	Stephanie Rose	Death by TBR Books	Slasher, Meta Fiction
Terror from the Cave (Eek!)	Jeff Strand	Sourcebooks Young Readers	Children’s, Survival, Bigfoot
The Citadel of Orphans (The Beyond #3)	Boris Bacic	Self-Published	Cosmic
The Residency	C. D. Major	Canelo	Gothic
The Unknown	Riley Sager	Dutton	Ghost, Thriller
The Killing Rules	Bree Despain	Entangled: Mayhem Books	YA, Shapeshifter, Horror Romance

August 10-16

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
A Plagued Sea	Kim Bo-Young	Tor Nightfire	Cosmic, Post-Apocalyptic
A Thin Place	Carson McEvoy	Dead Fox Publishing	Supernatural, Portal
Blood Bath	Wrath James White	Bad Dream Books	Extreme, Slasher
Cult of the Lamb Vol. 2: Last Sacrament	Alex Paknadel	Oni Press	Graphic Novel, Occult
Devil Inside	Clay McLeod Chapman	MIRA	Horromance
Dreamland	Olivie Blake	Tor Books	Gothic, Occult
Godfestation	Jendia Gammon	Sley House Publishing	Appalachia, Folk, Southern Gothic
GRIMM Book One	Benni Bødker, Kenneth Bøgh Andersen, John Kenn Mortensen	Fantagraphics	Graphic Novel, Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tale
Midwestern Chrome	Michael Bettendorf	Tenebrous Press	Sci-Fi
Nest of Tongues	Randy Ribay	Random House Books for Young Readers	YA, Vampire
Penitents	Madeline Blondeau	Ghoulish Books	Extreme
Preaching to the Choir	Adrian Tchaikovsky	Rebellion Publishing	Monster
Rabbit Blind	Desiree Horton	Self-Published	Short Story
Ravenous	Sara Cooper	Roseway Publishing	Literary, Satire, Psychological, Millennials, Momfluencers
Reliquary	Hannah F Whitten	Run For It	Aquatic, Psychological
Saint Delilah	Isabelle Spotts	Berkley	Feminist, Supernatural, Suspense
She Haunts Me Still	De Elizabeth	Dutton	Occult, Dark Fantasy
Stay Buried	Jennifer McMahon	Gallery Books	Vengeful Spirit
The Hill in the Dark Grove	Liam Higginson	Hogarth	Folk, Supernatural
The Last House on Earth / Death Walks South Boston	Christoph Paul	Shortwave	Sci-Fi, Haunted House, Mummy
The Splintered Parts	Ana Yudin	Self-Published	Dark Academia, Thriller
Them	W.H. Chizmar	Gallery Books	Post-Apocalyptic, Survival

August 17-23

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
A (Dead) Thing Like Me	E.G. Young	Holiday House	YA, Paranormal
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead	William Friend	Poisoned Pen Press	LGBTQ, Occult
Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II	Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editors), Various	Vintage	Short Stories, Indigenous
Candlelight	D.L. Tolin	Twisted Spindle Press	Historical, Fairy Tale
Corpse Honey	Bert Lestrange	Crimson Cult Media	Splatterpunk, Body Horror, Folk, Small Town
Ghosts of Chanterlands	Catherine Cavendish	Flame Tree Press	Historical, Ghost
In Vacuo	Andrea Morstabilini	Titan Books	LGBTQ, Gothic, Coming of Age
Less the Horror than the Grace	Robert Owens Scott	Arundel Publishing	Historical, Medusa, Southern
Lights! Camera! Frendo! (Clown in a Cornfield)	Adam Cesare	HarperCollins	YA, Slasher
Marla	Jonathan Janz	Blackstone Publishing	Supernatural, Reprint
Screams From The Asylum	Heather Ann Larson (editor), Various	Broken Brain Books	Short Stories
Tapeworm	A. P. Thayer	Evil Twin	Vampire, LGBTQ
The Calamities	Chuck Wendig	Del Rey	Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
The Devil’s Pocketbook (re-release)	Ross Jeffery	CLASH Books	Grief, Myth
The Halls of the Dead	S. M. Hallow	Harper Voyager	LGBTQ, Gothic
The House That Eats the Dead	Max Doty	Bantam	TAGS
The Minimalist	Kailee Pedersen	St. Martin’s Press	Psychological
The Sleeping Sisters	Jennifer Givhan	Little, Brown and Company	Indigenous, Literary
These Walls Remember	Del Sandeen	Berkley	Gothic
In Vacuo	Andrea Morstabilini	Titan Books	LGBTQ, Gothic, Coming of Age

August 24-31

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
Best Served Cold: Chilling Short Stories of Crime & Revenge (Beyond and Within)	Paul Kane & marie O’Regan (editors), Various	Flame Tree Collections	Short Stories, Crime
Binding Season	Julian M. Miles	Self-Published	Revenge
Blood Rising (The Blood Saga #2)	Markus Redmond	Dafina	Historical, Vampire
Crimson Rain (Crimson Empire #1)	John Ashley	Panacea Publishing	Vampire, Dystopia
Hymn of the Hanging Albatross	Sirius	The Laughing Man House	LGBTQ, Occult
Last Day of a Prior Life	Andrés Barba	HarperVia	Gothic, Translated
Perspective (no link)	Kevin J. Kennedy	KJK Publishing	Supernatural, Werewolves, Vampire
Run to Beat the Devil	Drew Huff	Self-Published	Serial Killers
Selene Shade, Loving the Dead (The Resurrectionist #2)	Victoria Dalpe	CLASH Books	Urban Fantasy
The Burn Line	Jonathan Sims	Poisoned Pen Press	LGBTQ, Monsters
The Dark Pit	David Lopera	Shock & Suspense	Death Game
The Devil Knows Her Name	C.N. Vair	Berkley	Appalachia, Witch
The I Scream Truck	I.M. Eerie	Aladdin	Middle Grade
The Lost Ones	Chris DiLeo	Sobelo Books	Coming of Adulthood, Mystery, Thriller
The Night Pool	Lauren Lee Smith	Blackstone Publishing	Historical, Monster, Western
The Salt King	Natasha Pulley	Bloomsbury Publishing	LGBTQ, Apocalyptic, Religious
The Sunken, the Adored	Donyae Coles	Amistad	Historical, Lovecraftian
They Say a Girl Died Here	Sarah Pinborough	Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar	Supernatural, Serial Killer
Tracking Death (Killer VHS Series #8)	Nikki R. Leigh	Shortwave	YA, Found Footage, Slasher, Supernatural
The Unheld	Luke Larkin	Hyperion Avenue Digital	Western, Occult, Sci-Fi
The Woods	Jessica Hamilton	Simon & Schuster	Paranormal

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