{"id":21876,"date":"2025-07-29T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=21876"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:02:49","slug":"august-2025-new-release-horror-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/august-2025-new-release-horror-books\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2025 New Release Horror Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released August 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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August 1-10<\/h1>\n

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August 11-17<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
A Better Grave than This<\/a><\/td>\nJessica Cranberry<\/td>\nPercy’s Heart Press<\/td>\nRetelling<\/td>\n
A More Ancient Evil<\/a><\/td>\nRyan Hoyt<\/td>\nMachete & Quill Press<\/td>\nOccult, Possession, Witches<\/td>\n
Archives of the Unexplained: Unwanted Guests<\/a><\/td>\nSteve Foxe<\/td>\nPUBLISHER<\/td>\nGraphic Novel, Haunted House, Middle Grade<\/td>\n
Black Flame<\/a><\/td>\nGretchen Felker-Martin<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nLGBTQ<\/td>\n
BLASPHEMY<\/a><\/td>\nAaron Lebold<\/td>\nUncomfortably Dark Horror<\/td>\nReligious<\/td>\n
Blood Diamond<\/a><\/td>\nJim Donohue<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nNative Burial Ground<\/td>\n
Cedar Mills<\/a><\/td>\nDylan James<\/td>\nSavage Realms Press<\/td>\nComing of Age<\/td>\n
Extinction Dream<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Najberg<\/td>\nWicked House Publishing<\/td>\nDystopian, Sci-Fi<\/td>\n
Eye for an Eye<\/a><\/td>\nThomas Stewart<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nRevenge<\/td>\n
How to Survive Camping: The Man With No Shadow<\/a><\/td>\nBonnie Quinn<\/td>\nS&S\/Saga Press<\/td>\nCamping, Cozy<\/td>\n
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions<\/a><\/td>\nJohn Langan<\/td>\nWord Horde<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Lucky Day<\/a><\/td>\nChuck Tingle<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Sci-Fi, Supernatural<\/td>\n
SLENDER BONES IN SACRED SOIL<\/a><\/td>\nFrederick Niles<\/td>\nBlood Moon by Uncomfortably Dark Horror<\/td>\nPoetry<\/td>\n
Tantrum<\/a><\/td>\nRachel Eve Moulton<\/td>\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/td>\nShort Story<\/td>\n
The Contest: A Horror Novel from the American Frontier<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Golemon<\/td>\nKeylight Books<\/td>\nHistorical, Vampire, Werewolf<\/td>\n
The Creed Falls Massacres<\/a><\/td>\nJon Cohn<\/td>\nWicked House Publishing<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
The Dead Husband Cookbook<\/a><\/td>\nDanielle Valentine<\/td>\nSourcebooks Landmark<\/td>\nThriller<\/td>\n
The Faceless Thing We Adore<\/a><\/td>\nHester Steel<\/td>\nPage Street Horror<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Occult<\/td>\n
This Is My Body<\/a><\/td>\nindsay King-Miller<\/td>\nQuirk Books<\/td>\nExorcism, Family, LGBTQ, Possession<\/td>\n
This Is Splatterpunk: The John Skipp Primer<\/a><\/td>\nJohn Skipp<\/td>\nFungasm Press<\/td>\nShort Stories, Splatterpunk<\/td>\n
Wormwood (Lilith Adams #5)<\/a><\/td>\nJenny Allen<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nForensic Thriller<\/td>\n
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August 18-24<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
13 Months Haunted<\/a><\/td>\nJimmy Juliano<\/td>\nDutton<\/td>\n00s, Ghost, Paranormal<\/td>\n
A Game in Yellow<\/a><\/td>\nHailey Piper<\/td>\nS&S\/Saga Press<\/td>\nErotic Horror, King in Yellow, LGBTQ, Psychological Thriller<\/td>\n
An Evil Premise<\/a><\/td>\nT. Marie Vandelly<\/td>\nBlackstone Publishing<\/td>\nPossession<\/td>\n
House of Monstrous Women<\/a><\/td>\nDaphne Fama<\/td>\nBerkley<\/td>\n80s, Filipino, Gothic, Historical<\/td>\n
Lucky Day<\/a><\/td>\nChuck Tingle<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nDeadly Casino, LGBTQ<\/td>\n
Playground: Child of Divorce<\/a><\/td>\nAron Beauregard<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nExtreme<\/td>\n
San Antonio Mission<\/a> (The Peregrine Estate Trilogy #2)<\/td>\nC.S. Humble<\/td>\nShortwave Media<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
Scaring and Daring: Terrifying Takes on 15 Classic Tales: A Horror Writers Association Anthology<\/a><\/td>\nHorror Writers Association<\/td>\nHarperCollins<\/td>\nAnthology, Retellings, Short Stories<\/td>\n
Squirming All The Way Up<\/a><\/td>\nJoey Powell<\/td>\nMadness Heart Press<\/td>\nReligious, Cult<\/td>\n
The Feeding<\/a><\/td>\nAnthony Ryan<\/td>\nBlackstone Publishing<\/td>\nPost-Apocalyptic<\/td>\n
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August 25-31<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror\u2019s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women<\/a><\/td>\nSadie Hartmann<\/td>\nPage Street Publishing<\/td>\nNon-Fiction, Pop Culture<\/td>\n
Ghostlore: Unveiling 50 Phantoms That Have Haunted History<\/a><\/td>\nIcy Sedgwick & Mabel Esteban Garcia<\/td>\nDK<\/td>\nGhosts, Mythology<\/td>\n
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand<\/a><\/td>\nChristopher Golden & Brian Keene (editors), Various<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nAnthology, Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi<\/td>\n
The Possession of Alba D\u00edaz<\/a><\/td>\nIsabel Ca\u00f1as<\/td>\nPen\u00adguin Random House\/Berkley<\/td>\nGothic, Historical, Possession<\/td>\n
The Secrets of Blackthorn House<\/a><\/td>\nMarie McWilliams<\/td>\nQuill & Crow Publishing House<\/td>\nGothic<\/td>\n
The Unseen<\/a><\/td>\nAnia Ahlborn<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nCreepy Kid<\/td>\n
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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
8114<\/a><\/td>\nJoshua Hull<\/td>\nCLASH Books<\/td>\nGothic, Small Town<\/td>\n
Abducted<\/a><\/td>\nPatrick Barb<\/td>\nDark Matter INK<\/td>\nMystery, Sci-Fi<\/td>\n
Hell Pulp: A Gritty Journey Through Never-Ending Death<\/a><\/td>\nMatias Ylikangas<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nAfterlife, Hell<\/td>\n
How Bad Things Can Get<\/a><\/td>\nDarcy Coates<\/td>\nBlack Owl Books<\/td>\nSerial Killers<\/td>\n
Modern Mummies<\/a><\/td>\nA.C. Bauer<\/td>\nCat Eye Press<\/td>\nAnthology<\/td>\n
Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day<\/a><\/td>\nEmma E. Murray<\/td>\nPUBLISHER<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
The Devil’s in the Dancers<\/a><\/td>\nCatherine Yu<\/td>\nPage Street YA<\/td>\nYA<\/td>\n
Welcome to the Ghost Show<\/a><\/td>\nJ.W. Ocker<\/td>\nStorytide<\/td>\nChildrens, Ghost, Middle Grade<\/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
Snuffsport<\/a><\/td>\nRhys Ware<\/td>\nPUBLISHER<\/td>\nExtreme, Death Games, Streamers, Survival<\/td>\n