Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released July 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.
July 1-5
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Call Me Daddy | Y.M. Miller | Self-Published | Short Story |
| Higher and Higher | Attie Lee | Self-Published | Horror Romance |
| If the Sun Should Set on All My Hopes and Cares | Ben Arzate | feel bad all the time | Literary |
| Sublimation | Isabel J. Kim | Tor Books | Doppelgängers |
| TEN-4-FACESp | Sierra Waff | Self-Published | Occult |
| The Buried City (The Beyond #1) | Boris Bacic | Self-Published | Cosmic |
| The Horror Collection: Toxic Edition (The Horror Collection #35) | Kevin J. Kennedy (editor), Various | KJK Publishing | Short Stories |
| The Night Crew III: Hunting Ground | Brad Ricks | Crystal Lake Publishing | Supernatural, Creature |
July 6-12
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Bound For Death (The Midnight Cabaret #2) | Chase Will | Mental Anarchy Press | Revenge |
| Brokeula | Michael J. Seidlinger | CLASH Books | Vampire, Capitalism |
| Burden | Aiden E. Messer | Self-Published | Post-Apocalyptic, LGBTQ |
| Caught in the In-Between | Alyson Hasson | Self-Published | Short Story, Occult |
| Fabulous Bodies | Chuck Tingle | Tor Nightfire | LGBTQ, Dark Fantasy |
| Fun Times at the Bloodbath | Jeff Strand | Death’s Head Press | Video Games |
| Gremlin | D. J. Port | Buttstuff IDFK Publishing | Cosmic, Sci-Fi, Southern Gothic, Splatterpunk |
| Hide and Seek | Søren Sveistrup | Harper | Psychological |
| McCammon’s Shoppe of Olde Curiosities: Stories | Robert McCammon | Open Road Media | Short Stories |
| Play It Again | C. S. Gorman | Self-Published | Horror Comedy |
| Songs for Sinners (The Unmaking Trilogy #2) | Abe Moss | Grim Heart Publishing | Cosmic |
| St. Ulphia’s Dead | Scott Lambridis | Regal House Publishing | Folk, Wendigo |
| The Big Bad Book of Kaiju | Jonathan Maberry & Henry Herz (editors), Various | Titan Books | Short Stories, Anthology, Kaiju, Sci-Fi |
| The Brides | Charlotte Cross | Hanover Square Press | LGBTQ, Vampire, Dracula |
| The Language of Knives | Haralambi Markov | Mythic Delirium Books | Short Stories, LGBTQ |
| The Lost Stradivarius | J. Meade Falkner | British Library Publishing | Classic |
| The Red Sacrament | Sara Hinkley | Titan Books | Vampire, Historical |
| The Shadow Beside Her | Elizabeth S. Devecchi | AETHON: Wicked House | Historical, Supernatural, World War II |
| Vampire Summer | Carter Johnson | Self-Published | Vampire |
| We Hexed the Moon | Mollyhall Seeley | S&S/Saga Press | Witches, Occult |
July 13-19
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| Back Alley Baby Fights (no link yet) | Robert Essig | Infected Voices Publishing | Extreme |
| Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) Volume Four | Alex Woodroe (editor), Various | Tenebrous Press | Short Stories |
| Clusterfuk | Merill David | Self-Published | Spiders, Splatterpunk |
| Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die | Mallory Arnold | Poisoned Pen Press | Slasher, Psychological |
| Erebus-13 (Red Space #3) | David Wellington | Orbit | Sci-Fi |
| Fear Files: Hide and Seek | Christopher Edge | Candlewick Pres | Middle Grade, Summer Camp |
| Haunting Skies | Christian Kang Bachini | CKB Book Group | Sci-Fi, Aliens |
| Home Sick | Rhiannon Grist | Rebellion Publishing | Small Town, Occult |
| Imprint | L. Marie Wood | Mocha Memoirs Press | Psychological |
| Meat | Nick Burgin | Self-Published | Cannibals, Transgressive, Erotic, Body Horror |
| My Monsters Ain’t Like Yours | R. J. Joseph | Quill & Crow Publishing House | Short Stories |
| Not with a Bang | Temi Oh | S&S/Saga Press | Sci-Fi, Alien Invasion |
| Rated X For Mature #3 – “Til Debt Do Us Part” | William Meyer | Self-Published | Erotic |
| Scary Movie Night | Miranda Smith | Bantam | Supernatural |
| The Clubhouse Goes To Florida, Man! | Chisto Healy (editor), Various | Apocalyptic Bastards | Short Stories, Florida |
| The Summer Fun Massacre | Craig DiLouie | Run For It | Slasher, Historical, Creature |
| The Intrigue | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Del Rey | Historical, Crime |
| The Sea Hides Its Dead | Megan Bontrager | Run For It | Aquatic, Supernatural |
| The Turn | Rachel Feder | TriQuarterly | Gothic, monster |
| The World Below The World (The Beyond #2) | Boris Bacic | Self-Published | Cosmic |
| White Rabbit | Abigail Rose-Marie | Union Square & Co. | Grief, Ghost, Sylvia Plath |
July 20-26
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| 30 Days of Night: Falling Sun | Rodney Barnes | IDW | Comics, Vampire |
| A Fate Worse Than Drowning | Sarah L. Hawthorn | Poisoned Pen Press | LGBTQ, Historical, Devil’s Bargain |
| Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring | Patrick Horvath | IDW | Graphic Novel, Cozy Horror |
| Bestiary | Patrick Rutigliano | Crystal Lake Publishing | Body Horror, Grief |
| Caelum Lake | Axl Malton | AETHON: Wicked House | Psychological, Grief |
| Carry Me to My Grave | Christopher Golden | St. Martin’s Press | Suspense, Supernatural |
| Fatal Glitch: Camp Zero | Eliot Schrefer & Erin Entrada Kelly | Stonefruit Studio | Middle Grade, Sci-Fi, Summer Camp |
| Funerals Are for the Living | Sami Ellis | Amulet Books | YA, Cult, Supernatural |
| Horrific Scribes Presents: Worlds Collide | L. Andrew Cooper & H.J. Dutton (editors), Various | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| Lovecraft’s Brood: Nineteen Tales of Cosmic Horror | Ellen Datlow (editor), Various | Tachyon Publications | Short Stories, Lovecraftian, Cosmic |
| Such Nice People (Paperbacks from Hell) | Sandra Scoppettone | Valancourt Books | Reprint, Christmas |
| The Flayed Man | Chloe Lauter | Soft Skull | Vampire |
| The Winter Folk | Jen Julian | Run For It | Appalachia, Gothic |
| Unnamed Bones | Lora Senf | Union Square & Co. | YA, Cosmic |
| We Sent Them Down Singing | Libby Edwardson | Page Street Horror | Appalachia, Small Town |
July 27-31
| Title | Author | Publisher | Tags |
| A Penance for Crows | Shannon Morgan | Kensington Books | Gothic, Occult |
| Calliope Street | Josh Hanson | Moonstruck Books | Psychedelic, Haunted House |
| Can’t You See It’s Coming? A Horror Anthology | Georgia K. Boone (editor), Various | Versify | Short Stories, YA |
| Close To The Bone and Other Strange Curations | C S Jones | Grave Disorder Press | Short Stories |
| Darkness into Light | Iain Rob Wright | Blackthorn Press | Serial Killers |
| Eat Great, Even Late | Tyler Newell | Deep River Printing | Haunted Kitchen/td> |
| Event Horizon: Dark Descent | Christian Ward & Tristan Jones | IDW | Graphic Novel, Adaptation, Sci-Fi, Cosmic |
| Hail Holy Queens | Chris McGinley | Fringe Press | Historical, Gothic |
| It’s Under the Deck | Jacy Morris | Sobelo Books | Psychological |
| Reaper Cat | D.L. Winchester | Winchester Horror Publishing | Evil Cat |
| Ripped Up the Middle in Two | Viggy Parr Hampton | Horror Humor Hunger Press | Monster |
| The House on Blood Street | Josh Hanson | Black Crow Books | Haunted House |
| The Last Dreamcaravan | David Grund | Self-Published | Coming of Age |
| The Man on the Ceiling: And Other Scary Tales from Young Authors | Chisto Healy (editor), Various | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| The Séance Garden | Juliet Blackwell | Berkley | Supernatural Mystery, Haunted Location |
| The Wetworks Miracle | Caleb Sierra | Stelliform Press | Cosmic, Plant |
| Their Fragile Male Egos | Angel Van Atta | Self-Published | Short Stories |
| We Were Never Here | Sophia Hannan | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | YA, Gothic, Ghost Hunters |
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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