{"id":21712,"date":"2025-04-29T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=21712"},"modified":"2025-05-03T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:21:42","slug":"may-2025-new-release-horror-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/may-2025-new-release-horror-books\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2025 New Release Horror Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

If you want to follow this monthly release series, I have an email newsletter you can subscribe to for updates on new posts!<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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\u2019t see on the list, please feel free to leave a comment on this post so I can add your book to the list.<\/p>\n

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May 1-4<\/h1>\n

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May 5-11<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Death Spell<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Sodergren<\/td>\nPaperbacks and Pugs<\/td>\nDeal with the Devil, Splatterpunk<\/td>\n
Fear<\/a> (The Last Rite #3)<\/td>\nChad Morgan<\/td>\nSpectral Ink Productions<\/td>\nUrban Legends<\/td>\n
I Crave the Bleeding Flowers<\/a><\/td>\nAsh Ericmore<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nFemale Rage, Revenge<\/td>\n
The Mirror Man<\/a><\/td>\nWil Forbis<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nSlasher<\/td>\n
Port Luck<\/a><\/td>\nTimothy King<\/td>\nSavage Rabbit Publishing<\/td>\nCreature, Mystery<\/td>\n
SONGS OF SHADOW, WORDS OF WOE<\/a><\/td>\nMatthew R. Davis<\/td>\nJournalStone<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
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May 12-18<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Deacon: An Assemblage of Nightmares<\/a><\/td>\nDaemon Manx<\/td>\nLast Waltz Publishing<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Deadgirl: The Novelization<\/a><\/td>\nBridgett Nelson<\/td>\nEncyclopocalypse Publications<\/td>\nMovie Tie-In, Transgressive<\/td>\n
Ghost Girls and Rabbits<\/a><\/td>\nCassondra Windwalker<\/td>\nPolymath Press<\/td>\nIndigenous, Literary<\/td>\n
Overgrowth<\/a><\/td>\nMira Grant<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nAlien Invasion, Body Horror, Sci-Fi<\/td>\n
Prom Night for Slasher Victims<\/a> (Slasher Victims #2)<\/td>\nMatthew Mercer<\/td>\nAspects Entertainment<\/td>\nComedy, Slasher<\/td>\n
Red Walls<\/a><\/td>\nChristina Bergling<\/td>\nGraveside Press<\/td>\nMonsters, Revenge<\/td>\n
The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Demchuk & Corinne Leigh Clark<\/td>\nHell’s Hundred<\/td>\nHistorical, Sweeny Todd Retelling, Vampire<\/td>\n
The Manor of Dreams<\/a><\/td>\nChristina Li<\/td>\nAvid Reader Press \/ Simon & Schuster<\/td>\nAsian, Gothic<\/td>\n
The Night Birds<\/a><\/td>\nChristopher Golden<\/td>\nSt. Martin’s Press<\/td>\nAquatic\/Ship<\/td>\n
Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror<\/a><\/td>\nNick Roberts, Leigh Kenny, & Dan Franklin<\/td>\nCrystal Lake Publishing<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
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May 19-25<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Bochica<\/a><\/td>\nCarolina Fl\u00f3rez-Cerchiaro<\/td>\nAtria\/Primero Sueno Press<\/td>\nGothic, Haunted House<\/td>\n
Hushbone: A Southern Gothic Tale<\/a><\/td>\nDavid A Lambert<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nSouthern Gothic<\/td>\n
Immaculate Conception<\/a><\/td>\nLing Ling Huang<\/td>\nDutton<\/td>\nSatire, Science Fiction<\/td>\n
Son of a Serial Killer<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Adams<\/td>\nMad Axe Media<\/td>\nSerial Killer<\/td>\n
The Devils<\/a><\/td>\nJoe Abercrombie<\/td>\nTor Books<\/td>\nDark Fantasy<\/td>\n
The Vessel<\/a><\/td>\nS.E. Howard<\/td>\nWicked House Publishing<\/td>\nCrime, Occult<\/td>\n
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May 26-31<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Bookmail<\/a><\/td>\nJason R. Davis<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nOccult<\/td>\n
Feeders<\/a><\/td>\nMatt Serafini<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nSocial Horror, Technothriller<\/td>\n
Going Home in the Dark<\/a><\/td>\nDean Koontz<\/td>\nThomas & Mercer<\/td>\nComing of Age, Humor, Sci-Fi<\/td>\n
Pam Kowolski is a Monster<\/a><\/td>\nSarah Langan<\/td>\nRaw Dog Screaming Press<\/td>\nUnhinged Women<\/td>\n
The Starving Saints<\/a><\/td>\nCaitlin Starling<\/td>\nHarper Voyager<\/td>\nFantasy, Historical, LGBTQ<\/td>\n
You Need to Leave<\/a> (You Invited It In #2)<\/td>\nSarah Jules<\/td>\nMark of the Witch Press<\/td>\nParanormal<\/td>\n
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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Below<\/a><\/td>\nAlaric Cabilin<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nDystopia, Filipino<\/td>\n
D7<\/a><\/td>\nPhilip Fracassi<\/td>\nShortwave Media<\/td>\nHaunted Object<\/td>\n
Dead by Morning<\/a><\/td>\nKayla Frederick<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nParanormal, YA<\/td>\n
Devil Music<\/a><\/td>\nMichael Penning<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nDemons, Occult<\/td>\n
Never Flinch<\/a><\/td>\nStephen King<\/td>\nScribner<\/td>\nSupernatural, Suspense, Thriller<\/td>\n
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Disclaimer:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
The Traveling Movie Show<\/a><\/td>\nRobert Essig<\/td>\nPUBLISHER<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
Vulpine Curse<\/a><\/td>\nKatherine Silva<\/td>\nStrange Wilds Press<\/td>\nGrief<\/td>\n