May 2025 New Release Horror Books

May 2025 New Release Horror Books

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


May 1-4

Title Author Publisher Tags
Death Spell David Sodergren Paperbacks and Pugs Deal with the Devil, Splatterpunk
Fear (The Last Rite #3) Chad Morgan Spectral Ink Productions Urban Legends
I Crave the Bleeding Flowers Ash Ericmore Self-Published Female Rage, Revenge
The Mirror Man Wil Forbis Self-Published Slasher
Port Luck Timothy King Savage Rabbit Publishing Creature, Mystery
SONGS OF SHADOW, WORDS OF WOE Matthew R. Davis JournalStone TAGS

May 5-11

Title Author Publisher Tags
Deacon: An Assemblage of Nightmares Daemon Manx Last Waltz Publishing Short Stories
Deadgirl: The Novelization Bridgett Nelson Encyclopocalypse Publications Movie Tie-In, Transgressive
Ghost Girls and Rabbits Cassondra Windwalker Polymath Press Indigenous, Literary
Overgrowth Mira Grant Tor Nightfire Alien Invasion, Body Horror, Sci-Fi
Prom Night for Slasher Victims (Slasher Victims #2) Matthew Mercer Aspects Entertainment Comedy, Slasher
Red Walls Christina Bergling Graveside Press Monsters, Revenge
The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett David Demchuk & Corinne Leigh Clark Hell’s Hundred Historical, Sweeny Todd Retelling, Vampire
The Manor of Dreams Christina Li Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Asian, Gothic
The Night Birds Christopher Golden St. Martin’s Press Aquatic/Ship
Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror Nick Roberts, Leigh Kenny, & Dan Franklin Crystal Lake Publishing Short Stories

May 12-18

Title Author Publisher Tags
Bochica Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro Atria/Primero Sueno Press Gothic, Haunted House
Hushbone: A Southern Gothic Tale David A Lambert Self-Published Southern Gothic
Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang Dutton Satire, Science Fiction
Son of a Serial Killer Andrew Adams Mad Axe Media Serial Killer
The Devils Joe Abercrombie Tor Books Dark Fantasy
The Vessel S.E. Howard Wicked House Publishing Crime, Occult

May 19-25

Title Author Publisher Tags
Bookmail Jason R. Davis Self-Published Occult
Feeders Matt Serafini Gallery Books Social Horror, Technothriller
Going Home in the Dark Dean Koontz Thomas & Mercer Coming of Age, Humor, Sci-Fi
Pam Kowolski is a Monster Sarah Langan Raw Dog Screaming Press Unhinged Women
The Starving Saints Caitlin Starling Harper Voyager Fantasy, Historical, LGBTQ
You Need to Leave (You Invited It In #2) Sarah Jules Mark of the Witch Press Paranormal

May 26-31

Title Author Publisher Tags
Below Alaric Cabilin Self-Published Dystopia, Filipino
D7 Philip Fracassi Shortwave Media Haunted Object
Dead by Morning Kayla Frederick Self-Published Paranormal, YA
Devil Music Michael Penning Self-Published Demons, Occult
Never Flinch Stephen King Scribner Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Title Author Publisher Tags
The Traveling Movie Show Robert Essig PUBLISHER TAGS
Vulpine Curse Katherine Silva Strange Wilds Press Grief

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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