Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released January 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.
January 1-5
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Blinded by the Lies | Amanda Ruzsa | Self-Published | Revenge |
| LOSERS GET HAUNTED: And Other Threats | Stephen Barnard | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| The Judas Tribunal | John Hardic | Self-Published | Religious, Sci-Fi |
| The Shadow People | Joe Clifford | Wicked House Publishing | Doppelgängers, Supernatural |
January 6-12
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Black Cat Bones | Brian Bowyer | Self-Published | Addiction, Remote Cabin, Starvation |
| Double Anal Penetration | REEKFEEL | Self-Published | Extreme |
| Geometry of Fear | REEKFEEL | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
| Let’s Cut Up Dad! and Other Stories of Transgressive Madness | Douglas Ford | Vissaria County Dispatches | Short Stories, Transgressive |
| Parables of the Pumpkin Patch | Jody Smith | Unnerving | Short Stories |
| The Afterdark | E. Latimer | Tundra Books | Boarding School, LGBTQ, Lovecraftian, YA |
| The Haunting of Aberdeen Manor | C.K. Smith | Self-Published | Haunted House |
| The Midnight Exhibit Vol. 4 | Somer Canon, AM Sutter, & Eddie Generous | Unnerving | Short Stories |
| Title Pending: A Collection of Short Fiction | Lance Dale | Wiscatonic Press | Short Stories |
| Usher of the Fallen | LM Kaplin | Broken Brain Books | Cult |
| Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman | Quirk Books | Apocalyptic, Possession, Social Horror |
| Wicked Jenny | Matt Hilton | Severn House | Coming of Age, Hag |
January 13-19
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Anathema: Legacy | Nick Roberts | Spooky WV | Occult |
| And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel | Patrick Barb (editor), Various | PBarb Books | Short Stories |
| At Midnight We Possess The Damned | Andre Duza & Nick Cato | Death’s Head Press | Snuff Film, Urban Legends |
| Bury Me Cold & More Last Words | Jacob Steven Mohr | Quill & Crow Publishing House | Short Stories |
| Clever Little Thing | Helena Echlin | Pamela Dorman Books | Creepy Child, Paranormal |
| Close the Door | Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar | Unveiling Nightmares Press | Possession |
| Demonic of England | REEKFEEL | PUBLISHER | TAGS |
| Honeysuckle and Bone | Trisha Tobias | Zando – Sweet July Books | Ghost, Gothic, YA |
| JK-LOL | Patrick Barb | Mad Axe Media | Sci-Fi |
| Lupus in Fabula | Briar Ripley Page | Cursed Morsels Press | LGBTQ, Short Stories |
| Metamorphosis | Ross Jeffery | Truborn Press | Grief, Psychological |
| Pink Neon | Megan Stockton | Bad Luck Cat Publishing | Serial Killer |
| Rat | MJ Mars | ParaMonster Press | Creature, Short Story |
| Ristenoff | J.R. Billingsley | Sley House Publishing | Family Curse, Small Town |
| Strange Pictures | Uketsu | HarperVia | Japanese, Mystery, Thriller |
| The Stones of Landane | Catherine Cavendish | Flame Tree Press | Supernatural |
| The Home | Judith Sonnet | Madness Heart Press | Coming of Age, Cosmic, LGBTQ, Paranormal |
| The War at Home | Wil Mara | West 44 Books | AI Bot |
| The Way Up Is Death | Dan Hanks | Angry Robot | Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
| The Wind Blows East | Molly Garcia | Self-Published | Curse |
| Time of the Undead | Lee Edwards (editor), Various | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| Vantage Point | Sara Sligar | MCD | Family Curse, Thriller |
| Vicious (Vicarious #2) | Chloe Spender | Slashic Horror Press | LGBTQ |
| Witchcraft for Wayward Girls | Grady Hendrix | Berkley | Witches |
| Wretched: An Echoes of Home Story (Lost Souls #2 | M. L. Rayner | Crane Publishing | ghost |
January 20-26
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Draga & the Savage: Dracul | Jenny Allen | Self-Published | Historical, Vlad the Impaler |
| Frogs and Margaritas 3 | Angel Ramon | Self-Published | Creature, Puerto Rico |
| Happy Face: A Family of Monsters | Nicole Phoenix & Keith Jespersen | Crimson Cult Media | Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime |
| Mask of the Deer Woman | Laurie L. Dove | Berkley | Crime, Indigenous |
| Motheater | Linda H. Codega | Erewhon Books | Appalachia, Historical Fantasy, LGBTQ, YA |
| Our Own Unique Affliction | Scott J. Moses | Shortwave Media | Vampire |
| Puriteen Death Game | Finn Rivers | Self-Published | Clowns, Humor, Splatterpunk |
| Six O’Clock House: & Other Strange Tales | Rebecca Cuthbert | Watertower Hill Publishing | Short Stories |
| Strange Stones | Edward Lee & Mary SanGiovanni | CLASH Books | Lovecraftian, Witches |
| The Mirror House Girls | Faith Gardner | Mirror House Press | Psychological, Thriller |
| The Women Without Eyes | Micah Castle | Grendel Press | Occult, Serial Killer |
January 27-31
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| At Dark, I Become Loathsome | Eric Larocca | Blackstone Publishing | Grief, LGBTQ |
| At the Bottom of the Garden | Camilla Bruce | Del Rey | Gothic |
| Bloodsucker County | Jeff Strand | Gleefully Macabre Press | Vampires |
| Crumpled: Stories from the Horror Archives | Jyl Glenn (editor), Various | Wicked Ouija Press | Anthology, Short Stories |
| Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love | Joanne Ella Parsons | British Library Publishing | Anthology |
| Everybody Wants to Rule the World | Wesley Southard | South of Heaven Press | Survival |
| Gruesome Getaway | R. N. Cogley | Cranthorpe Millner Publishers | Celtic, Cabin |
| Haint Blue | William Oswald | Horrorsmith Publishing | Ghost, Unknown |
| Ian Had a Fucked Up Day in Vegas | Howard Gardos | Self-Published | Short Story |
| It’s the Lightning That Kills You | Howard Gardos | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| Into the Unbeing Volume 1 | Zac Thompson, Hayden Sherman, & Jim Campbell | Dark Horse Books | Graphic Novel, Sci-Fi |
| Invasive Entities | Paul Avery Tindol | Mortal Puzzles Books | Short Stories |
| Old Ghosts of the Valley | Randall Lane | Self-Published | Cult, Haunted Woods |
| Old Soul | Susan Barker | G.P. Putnam’s Sons | Vampire |
| Our Winter Monster | Dennis Mahoney | Hell’s Hundred | Snowed-In, Vampire |
| Roads to Ruin | Brian Bowyer | Uncomfortably Dark | 3 Novellas, Necros, Serial Killers |
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| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| The Withering Hours | Morgan Sylvia | Weird House Press | Folk |
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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