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

July 1-6

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
Chasing Moonflowers	Pauline Chow	Ghastly Goings-On Press	Gothic, Historical, YA
Come Knocking	Mike Bockoven	Skyhorse	Satire
Grave Birds	Dana Elmendorf	MIRA	Fantasy, Gothic, Paranormal
Killer Mike and the Blood Slugs – The Dog Days of Youth	Matthew Jon Smith	Exploitation Media	Short Story
My Ex, the Antichrist	Craig DiLouie	Run For It	Occult
Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream	Amanda Worthington (editor), Various	Dragon’s Roost Press	Anthology, Short Stories
Oddbody	Rose Keating	Simon & Schuster	Ghost, Short Stories
Project Mirror	Alex N. Rose	PUBLISHER	80s, Sci-Fi, Summer Camp, YA
Seven Rivers: The Darkness	B. Luciano Barsuglia	Koa Aloha Media	Supernatural
The Nature of Demons	J.D. Carmicle	Self-Published	Apocalyptic, Supernatural
The Soapmaker	Dina Cahaney	Self-Published	Historical, Serial Killer, Based on a True Story
The Unkillable Frank Lightning	Josh Rountree	Tachyon Publications	Fantasy, Historical, Western

July 7-13

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
Brain Damage	Kago	Fantagraphics	Manga
George Watertower and Other Childhood Terrors	Joshua Loyd Fox	Watertower Hill Publishing	Short Stories
Good to Grave: Why Some Human Hosts Succeed and Others Burn	Michael Park	Fox Point Books	Fantasy
Hivetown, USA Volume One	Thomas Stewart	Corpse Child’s Sanctuary	Cults
How to Survive a Horror Story	Mallory Arnold	Poisoned Pen Press	Ghost, Gothic
Minky Woodcock: The Girl Called Cthulhu	Cynthia von Buhler	Hard Case Crime	Crime, Supernatural
Predatory Natures	Amy Goldsmith	Delacorte Press	Monster, YA
The Homecoming	Zoë Apostolides	Salt	Ghost, Paranormal
Where Shadows Sleep	Brandon Eldridge	BEAM	Ghost

July 14-20

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
Always Darker Inside: A Cursed Objects Anthology	D.W. Hitz (editor)	Fedowar Press	Anthology, Cursed Objects, Short Stories
American Mythology	Giano Cromley	Doubleday	Bigfoot, Comedy
Bottling His Ghosts	S.H. Cooper	Raw Dog Screaming Press	Historical
Dropshipped	Stephanie Sanders-Jacob	Slashic Horror Press	Creature, LGBTQ+
Girl in the Creek	Wendy N. Wagner	Tor Nightfire	Ghost, Serial Killers
House of Beth	Kerry Cullen	Simon & Schuster	Psychological, Thriller
House of Shades	Lianne Dillsworth	Harper	Gothic, Historical
Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives	Stephen Graham Jones	S&S/Saga Press	Native American, Serial Killer
One Yellow Eye	Leigh Radford	Gallery Books	Supernatural
Other Sides	Simon Strantzas	Lethe Press	Short Stories
The Bewitching	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	Del Rey	Historical, Multigenerational, Witch
The Restless Few	James Watjen	Anuci Press	Religious
To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place (The Peregrine Estate Trilogy #1)	C.S. Humble	Shortwave Media	TAGS
Walls of Torture (no link yet)	John Redman	Self-Published	Serial Killers

July 21-27

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
Another	Paul Tremblay	Quill Tree Books	Doppleganger
Black Brane	Michael Cisco	CLASH Books	Bizarro, Literary, Metaphysical
DuMort	Michelle Tang	Ghost Orchid Press	Gaslamp Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Occult
Feeding The Wheel	Michael Boulerice	Death’s Head Press	Occult
It Was Her House First	Cherie Priest	Poisoned Pen Press	Ghost, Gothic
Mad as Birds	M.C. Schmidt	Black Rose Writing	Gothic, Possession, YA
Mayra	Nicky Gonzalez	Random House	Florida, Psychological
Ménage A Trois	Lula Von Goth	Self-Published	Extreme, Short Stories
Negative Images	Rebecca Schier-Akamelu	Rising Action	Ghost, Grief, Paranormal
Red Rabbit	Jen Julian	Run For It	Gothic, Magical Realism
The Cleanse	James Yates	J Yates Publishing	Apocalyptic, Creature
The Knave of Graves	S.J. Shank	Carthago Nova Press	Dark Fantasy, Occult
The Library at Hellebore	Cassandra Khaw	Tor Nightfire	Dark Academia, Dark Fantasy, Occult
The Twilight Magus (The Sanford Files #3)	Tim Pratt	Aconyte Books	Occult
Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts	Various	Speculation Publications	Anthology, Vampires
We Who Hunt Alexanders	Jason Sanford	Apex Book Company	Coming of Age, Dark Fantasy, Monster
Your Final Sunset	Sj Townend	Sley House Publishing	Short Stories

July 28-31

Title	Author	Publisher	Tags
Angel Down	Daniel Kraus	Atria Books	Historical, Supernatural
Asylum Hotel	Juliet Blackwell	Berkley	Ghost
Blood Slaves	Markus Redmond	Dafina	Historical, Vampires
Dead Men Don’t Rape	Vivian Vandam (editor)	Unkonwn	Short Stories
Grimdark	Shannon Morgan	Kensington Books	Ghost, Gothic
Simplicity	Mattie Lubchansky	Pantheon	Dystopian, Graphic Novel
The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey	Kathleen Kaufman	Kensington Books	Historical, Female Rage, Occult
The Flowers at Flood House	J.J. Walker	After Dusk Press	Grief, Haunted House
The Haunting of Bellington Cottage	Laura Parnum	Storytide	Haunted House, Middle Grade
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World	J.R. Dawson	Macmillan	Fantasy, LGBTQ+
The Needfire	M.K. Hardy	Solaris	Gothic, Sapphic
We Like it Cherry	Jacy Morris	Tenebrous Press	Arctic

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