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

February 1-8

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
A Forest, Darkly	A.G. Slatter	Titan Books	Dark Fantasy, Witch
Cruelty Free	Caroline Glenn	William Morrow	Revenge, Satire, Toxic Beauty
First Date	Gemma Amor	Datura Books	Serial Killer
Grace	A.M. Shine	Head of Zeus	Gothic, Myth, Irish
Greedy	Callie Kazumi	Bantam	Cannibals
Horror Library, Volume 9	Various	Dark Moon Books	Short Stories
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates	Shailee Thompson	Gallery Books	Vampire, Serial Killer
In This City, Where it Rains	Lyndsey Croal	Luna Press Publishing	Gothic, Ghost, Haunted House
Julia Roseingrave	Majorie Bowen	British Library Publishing	Gothic, Short Stories
Mama Came Callin’	Ezra Claytan Daniels	William Morrow	Graphic Novel, Slasher, Social Horror
Maria the Wanted	V. Castro	Titan Books	Vampire
Midnight Covenant	Amelie West	Self-Published	Vampire, Retelling, Gothic
Of Beasts	M Jane Worma	CLASH Books	LGBTQ, Occult
Puzzle House 2: The Summoners	Duncan Ralston	AETHON: Wicked House	Supernatural
Sleep Walk	Charles Johnston	FriesenPress	Mystery, Psychological
Superfan	Jenny Tinghui Zhang	Flatiron Books	Obsession
The Bone Queen	Will Shindler	Minotaur Books	Village, Urban Legend
The Glowing Hours	Leila Siddiqui	Hell’s Hundred	Gothic, Ghost
The Dummy	John Ward	The Nerdyverse of Madness Media	Cosmic
The Fourth Princess	Janie Chang	William Morrow	Gothic, Historical
The Haunted Vintage	Majorie Bowen	British Library Publishing	Gothic, Supernatural
The Legion Machine and Other Abominations	James G. Carlson	Gloom House Publishing	Short Stories, LGBTQ
The Starship, from a Distance	Robert E. Harpold	Dark Matter INK	Sci-Fi
The Thirteenth Floor Anthology	Various	Rebellion Publishing	Short Stories, Sci-Fi
Warning Signs	Tracy Sierra	Pamela Dorman Books	Suspense, Supernatural
We Should Not Have Come Here	J. D. Mills	Self-Published	Paranormal, LGBTQ
With the Heart of a Ghost	Sunwoo Lim	The Unnamed Press	Folklore, Korean

February 9-15

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
A Slow and Secret Poison	Carmella Lowkis	Atria Books	Historical, Gothic
Bed Rot Baby	Wendy Dalrymple	Quill & Crow Publishing House	Comedy
Conjuring the Demon (The Newport Curse #3)	John Durgin	Crystal Lake Publishing	Occult
Dead First	Johnny Compton	G.P. Putnam’s Sons	Supernatural, Resurrection
For Human Use	Sarah G. Pierce	Run For It	Sci-Fi, Satire
House of Splinters	Laura Purcell	Blackstone Publishing	Historical, Ghost
Normal People	Mike Harris	Self-Published	Dark Romance
Real Television	Matthew Salinas	Sabala & Salinas	Death Game, Reality TV
She Made Herself a Monster	Anna Kovatcheva	Mariner Books	Gothic, Historical
Spit in My Mouth and Tell Me You Love Me	Merrill David	Self-Published	Erotic, Dark Romance
Splatter	Angelique Jordonna, Rowland Bercy Jr., Michael R. Collins, Chisto Healy	Slashic Horror Press	Splatterpunk
The Better Mother	Jennifer van der Kleut	Crooked Lane Books	Pregnancy, Domestic Thriller
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster	Shelley Puhak	Bloomsbury Publishing	Non-Fiction, True Crime, History
The Bloody Bucket	Douglas Ford	Vissaria County Dispatches	Occult
The Body	Bethany C. Morrow	Tor Nightfire	Supernatural
The Inn of Beautiful Remains	Rian Adara	Spiteful Dark Press	Erotic, Vampires
Trad Wife	Saratoga Schaefer	Crooked Lane Books	Pregnancy
The Tryst	L. Marie Wood	Mocha Memoirs Press	Sci-Fi
Wilson	Jack Finn	Crows Street Press	Supernatural

February 16-22

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
anOther Nemesis	Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon, Maxwell I. Gold	Meerkat Press	Poetry
Bitter Petals	Candace Nola	Uncomfortably Dark	Short Stories, Female Rage
Bloodfire, Baby	Eirinie Carson	Dutton	Gothic, Motherhood, Family Curse
E.S.S.K: Roadtrip to Hell	J. Tarmac	Self-Published	90s, Serial Killer
Five Funerals: Choose Your Own Perilous Path	Jeff Somers	Ruadán Books	Dark Humor
Ghosts of Smoke and Flame	Richard Dansky	Self-Published	Ghost, Urban Fantasy
Grandma’s Little Secret	Becca C. Smith	Inimitable Books	Based on True Events, Domestic Thriller
Harmed and Dangerous	Jasper Bark	Crystal Lake Publishing	Paranormal, Thriller
Kayak	Kristal Stittle	Tenebrous Press	Survival
Little Red Flags: Stories of Cults, Cons, and Control	Noelle W. Ihli & Steph Nelson (editors), Various	Dark Matter INK	Short Stories
Mr. Nightmare 3: Eater of Dreams	Joe Scipione	AETHON: Wicked House	Supernatural
Mother of Mine	Ian Gielen	Self-Published	Supernatural, Obsession, Mystery, Psychological
Nightmare on Nightmare Street	R. L. Stine	Blackstone Publishing	Children’s, Middle Grade
Pacheco Pass	Aaron Lebold	Broken Brain Books	Ghost, Paranormal
Quicksilver Girl	Carter Johnson	Self-Published	90s, Monster
Temple Fall	R.L. Boyle	Titan Books	Gothic, YA
The Denizens	Brennan LaFaro	Nefarious Bat Press	Small Town, Undead
This Wretched Beauty: A Dorian Gray Remix	Elle Grenier	Feiwel & Friends	Retelling, LGBTQ, YA
When I Kill You: A Novel	B.A. Paris	St. Martin’s Press	Stalker, Suspense
Wolf Hunt	Jeff Strand	AETHON: Wicked House	Werewolf
The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood	Roy Merkin	Rare Bird Books	Media Tie-In, Slasher

February 23-28

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
An Hour Before Dark	Larry Hinkle	Four Winds Bar Publishing	Short Stories
Charlie Shaw’s Revenge	Matt Shaw	Scorpius Books	Media Tie-In
Daytide	Chris Panatier	Vibrance Press	Dark Fantasy
DEDWADOÑT	Thomas R Clark	Nightswan Press	Cosmic
Dollface	Lindy Ryan	Minotaur Books	Slasher
Ghost Glasses	Rikki Goodwin	Rowan Prose Publishing	Ghost
Gothictown	Emily Carpenter	Kensington	Gothic, Psychological
House, Body, Bird	Bernie Jean Schiebeling	Psychopomp	Dark Fantasy, Gothic
It Sleeps Below	William F. Gray	AETHON: Wicked House	Cosmic, Grief
Nowhere Burning	Catriona Ward	Tor Nightfire	Peter Pan Retelling
Once Bitten (Canadian Werewolf #8)	Mark Leslie	Stark Publishing	Urban Fantasy, Werewolf
The Monster in the Closet	Bill Gauthier	Crossroad Press	Monster
The Taste of Blood: ReVAMPed Edition	Jon Athan	Self-Published	Coming of Age, Extreme
The Ties That Bind	Luke Grant	Self-Published	Splatterpunk
Violence In Sodom	Wrath James White	Bad Dream Books	Extreme, Short Stories, Poetry
Weavingshaw	Heba Al-Wasity	Del Rey	Gothic, Dark Fantasy, Romance
Wretch	Jeremy Wagner	Dead Sky Publishing	Monsters, Crime

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.