Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released December 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.
December 1-7
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| 1947 | K D Davies | Self-Published | Splatterpunk, Historical |
| BADLANDS | Jason Nickey | Uncomfortably Dark Horror | LGBTQ |
| Belsnickel: A Winter Horror | James Yates | Self-Published | Christmas |
| Black Lung | David Lambert | Self-Published | Appalachia, Folk |
| Church of the Last Lamb | Joseph Hirsch | Underground Voices | Zombie, Post Apocalyptic |
| Club Magritte | Nicola Lombardi | Interstellar Flight Press | Short Stories |
| Down Came the Spiders | Ally Russell | Scholastic | Middle Grade |
| Five Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the Soul | Wile E. Young, Judith Sonnet, Craig Brownlie, Matthew L. Reyes, & Roxane Llanque | Koj Books | Splatterpunk, Anthology |
| Harsh Winters | John Randall | Self-Published | Psychological, Serial Killer, Thriller |
| Parasyte Paperback Collection 1 | Hitoshi Iwaaki | Kodansha | Manga, Supernatural, Body Horror, Parasites |
| Pearl Bound: Born with power. Bound by terror. Freed by truth. | Natalie G. Bergman | Rose & Pearl Productions | LGBTQ, Gothic, Sapphic |
| Snake-Eater | T. Kingfisher | 47North | Short Stories, Dark Fantasy |
| Song Dogs | Brennan LaFaro | Brigids Gate Press | Western |
| Spring in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction | R. B. Wood & Anna Koon | Ruadán Books | Short Stories, Speculative Fiction |
| Taking the Reins | Aaron Lebold | Self-Published | Christmas |
| Terrifier 3: The Official Novelization by | Tim Waggoner | Bloody Press | Film Novelization, SLasher |
| The Cotton Candy Massacre: The F-F-F-Final Chapter | Christopher Robertson | TerrorScope Studios | Slasher, Clowns |
| The End | Adam Cosco | Self-Published | Cults |
| The Shadow Over Lone Wolf Lake | D.W. Hitz | Fedowar Press | Family Secrets |
| The Summer of Sin: The Seven Deadly Sins Collection | Ash Ericmore | Self-Published | Short Stories |
December 8-14
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Broken Trail | Amanda Casile | CamCat Books | Paranormal, Ghost |
| Candy Cane: This Christmas, the naughty list is final… | Katye Tilstone | Self-Published | Christmas |
| Cape Fever | Nadia Davids | Simon & Schuster | Gothic, Historical |
| Dark Sisters | Kristi DeMeester | St. Martin’s Press | Female Rage, Historical, Supernatural |
| Descending Lines (revised re-release) | L. Andrew Cooper | Self-Published | Occult |
| Hinterland | Logan Spurgeon | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
| Madness of the Elder Vampire | Darby Vernon | Star Strix | Vampires |
| Midnight Somewhere | Johnny Compton | Blackstone Publishing | Short Stories |
| Molting | Kathryn Tennison | Uncomfortably Dark Horror | Haunted House, Supernatural |
| Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors | Linda Hartley (editor), Various | Ruadán Books | Short Stories, Anthology |
| The God in the Dirt | Paul Glyph | Paulo DeFreitas Jr. | Gothic, Western |
| The Shimmering | Michael Stone | Self-Published | Apocalyptic, Religious, Occult |
| The Sleepy Hollow Incident: Book 4 | PD Alleva | Chamber Door Publishing, LLC | Historical, Dark Fantasy, Gothic |
| The Writhing, Verdant End | Corey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, & Eric Raglin | Cursed Morsels Press | Short Stories |
| Abigail: The Terrible Twos | Daemon Manx | Last Waltz Publishing | Supernatural, Cozy |
December 15-21
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Dragon Head Omnibus 1 | Minetaro Mochizuki | Kodansha | Manga |
| Fearmoji: A Queer Horror Anthology | David-Jack Fletcher (editor), Various | Slashic Horror Press | Short Stories, Anthology, LGBTQ |
| Homewreckers | Aron Beauregard | Bad Dream Books | Extreme, Psychological |
| Hysterical | Amber Dean | Self-Published | Psychological |
| Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane | Wendy Dalrymple & Grace R. Reynolds | Brigids Gate Press | Short Stories, Anthology |
| The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil | Theo Prasidis | Dead Sky Publishing | Graphic Novel, Greece, Historical Fantasy, Occult |
| The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen | Ellen Datlow (editor), Various | Night Shade Books | Short Stories, Anthology |
| Unhappy New Year | Judith Sonnet | Self-Published | Slasher, Short Stories |
December 22-31
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Try Not to Die: With Satan Inside | Mark Tullius | Vincere Press | Choose Your Own Adventure, Extreme, Possession |
| Hunters & Gatherers | Rock Savage | Self-Published | Sci-Fi, Alien Invasion |
| The Easter Bunny Made Me Scream | Sean P. Gibson | Self-Published | Short Stories |
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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