Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released January 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.
January 1-4
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Tea & Alchemy | Sharon Lynn Fisher | 47North | Vampire, Historical Fantasy |
| Vampires of Shanghai | Katherine Mercer | Mercerized Books | Vampire, Paranormal |
January 5-11
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| A Chronicle of Horrors | A.C. Hessenauer (editor), Various | Dread House Publishing | Short Stories, Historical |
| Bliss | J.R. Curtis | Self-Published | Haunted Writer |
| Dreams That You Wish | Lady Kilroy | Self-Published | Cinderella Retelling, Witch |
| EC Cruel Kingdom Vol. 1 | Various | Oni Press | Dark Fantasy, Graphic Novel |
| Solomon Kane: Suffer The Witch | Shaun Hamill | Titan Books | Historical, Puritans, Witch |
| The Bloody Brick Road | Maude Royer | Gallery Books | Wizard of Oz Retelling |
| The Wind Witch Murders | Casey Dunn | Severn House | Small Town, Supernatural |
| There’s An Evil Void In My House | David Royce | Self-Published | Comedy |
| Visions from the Phantom Line: More Tales of Terror and the Bizarre | B.A. Ries | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee | Gus Moreno | BOOM! Studios | Graphic Novel, Exorcist |
| X Marks the Haunt | Lindsay Currie | Delacorte Press | Children’s, Middle Grade |
January 12-18
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Bound by the Blood | Cecilia Tan | Self-Published | Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Erotic |
| Headbanger! | Audie Harrison | Spine Bender Press | 80s, Comedy, Occult |
| Hollow | Celina Myers | Hanover Square Press | Vampire, Urban Fantasy |
| I, in the Shadows | Tori Bovalino | Page Street YA | Young Adult, Ghost, LGBTQ |
| ITCH! | Gemma Amor | Hachette Mobius | Folk, Feminist |
| Lyla, In the Flesh | Nick Roberts | AETHON: Wicked House | Psychological, Suspense |
| Pig Wife | Abbey Luck | Top Shelf Productions | Graphic Novel, Young Adult |
| The Age of Calamities | Senaa Ahmad | Henry Holt and Co. | Short Stories, Speculative, Humor |
| The Familialists (re-release) | TT Madden | Slashic Horror Press | LGBTQ, Small Town |
| The Shapes of Our Screams | Tt Madden | Slashic Horror Press | LGBTQ, Rock Music, Psychological |
| The Truth of Carcosa | Jacob Rollinson | Union Square & Co. | Dystopian, King in Yellow Tribute |
| This Is Not a Test (re-release) | Courtney Summers | Bindery Books | Zombie Apocalypse |
| We All Fall Before The Harvest | C.M. Forest | Broken Brain Books | Cults |
January 19-25
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| A Box Full of Darkness | Simone St. James | Berkley | Ghost, Thriller |
| Dark Chronicles | Karmen Spiljak | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| Dead Fake | Vincent Ralph | Wednesday Books | Young Adult, Supernatural |
| Eminence Front | Rebecca Rowland | CLASH Books | Cosmic, Small Town |
| Head Cleaner | David James Keaton | Datura Books | Technothriller, Sci-Fi |
| Hemlock | Melissa Faliveno | Little, Brown and Company | Psychological, Gothic, LGBTQ |
| Night Terror | Vincent Ralph | Wednesday Books | Young Adult, Supernatural |
| Plague House | Michael W. Conrad, Dave Chisholm | Oni Press | Graphic Novel |
| Porcelain Lullaby | Blaine Daigle | AETHON: Wicked House | Psychological |
| Sauúti Terrors Short Stories | Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton, Cheryl S. Ntumy (editors), Various | Flame Tree Collections | Short Stories, Sci-Fi |
| The Infamous Gilberts | Angela Tomaski | Scribner | Gothic |
| The Night Ship | Alex Woodroe | Flame Tree Press | Post-Apocalyptic |
January 26-31
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| A Veritable Household Pet | Viggy Parr Hampton | Horror Humor Hunger Press | Psychological, Literary, Historical |
| Ballad of the Bone Road | A.C. Wise | Titan Books | Paranormal Investigators, Possession |
| Funeral Song | Carly Racklin | Dead Sky Publishing | Supernatural, Small Town |
| Hotel Macabre Vol.2: Tales of Horror | Joe Mynhardt (editor), Various | Crystal Lake Publishing | Short Stories |
| Humboldt Cut | Allison Mick | Erewhon Books | Eco-Horror, Monsters, Haunted Woods |
| I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 | Robert Brockway | Page Street Horror | Dark Humor, Supernatural |
| Lost Girls of Hollow Lake | Rebekah Faubion | Delacorte Press | Young Adult, Thriller, Slasher |
| On Sundays She Picked Flowers (re-release) | Yah Yah Scholfield | S&S/Saga Press | Southern Gothic, Ghosts, LGBTQ |
| Persona | Aoife Josie Clements | LittlePuss Press | LGBTQ, Technothriller |
| Sayuri | Rensuke Oshikiri | Vertical Comics | Manga |
| This House Will Feed | Maria Tureaud | Kensington | Gothic, Historical, Ireland’s Great Famine |
| Tucker’s Reason | Xavier Cabrera | Self-Published | Psychological |
| We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone | Ronald Malfi | Titan Books | Short Stories, Vampire, Werewolf |
| We Who Have No Gods | Liza Anderson | Ballantine Books | Witches, Urban Fantasy |
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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