{"id":22818,"date":"2025-11-27T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=22818"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:36:16","slug":"december-2025-new-release-horror-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/december-2025-new-release-horror-books\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2025 New Release Horror Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released December 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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December 1-7<\/h1>\n

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December 8-14<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
1947<\/a><\/td>\nK D Davies<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nSplatterpunk, Historical<\/td>\n
BADLANDS<\/a><\/td>\nJason Nickey<\/td>\nUncomfortably Dark Horror<\/td>\nLGBTQ<\/td>\n
Belsnickel: A Winter Horror<\/a><\/td>\nJames Yates<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nChristmas<\/td>\n
Black Lung<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Lambert<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nAppalachia, Folk<\/td>\n
Church of the Last Lamb<\/a><\/td>\nJoseph Hirsch<\/td>\nUnderground Voices<\/td>\nZombie, Post Apocalyptic<\/td>\n
Club Magritte<\/a><\/td>\nNicola Lombardi<\/td>\nInterstellar Flight Press<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Down Came the Spiders<\/a><\/td>\nAlly Russell<\/td>\nScholastic<\/td>\nMiddle Grade<\/td>\n
Five Raging Hearts: Splatterpunk for the Soul<\/a><\/td>\nWile E. Young, Judith Sonnet, Craig Brownlie, Matthew L. Reyes, & Roxane Llanque<\/td>\nKoj Books<\/td>\nSplatterpunk, Anthology<\/td>\n
Harsh Winters<\/a><\/td>\nJohn Randall<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nPsychological, Serial Killer, Thriller<\/td>\n
Parasyte Paperback Collection 1<\/a><\/td>\nHitoshi Iwaaki<\/td>\nKodansha<\/td>\nManga, Supernatural, Body Horror, Parasites<\/td>\n
Pearl Bound: Born with power. Bound by terror. Freed by truth.<\/a><\/td>\nNatalie G. Bergman<\/td>\nRose & Pearl Productions<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Gothic, Sapphic<\/td>\n
Snake-Eater<\/a><\/td>\nT. Kingfisher<\/td>\n47North<\/td>\nShort Stories, Dark Fantasy<\/td>\n
Song Dogs<\/a><\/td>\nBrennan LaFaro<\/td>\nBrigids Gate Press<\/td>\nWestern<\/td>\n
Spring in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction<\/a><\/td>\nR. B. Wood & Anna Koon<\/td>\nRuad\u00e1n Books<\/td>\nShort Stories, Speculative Fiction<\/td>\n
Taking the Reins<\/a><\/td>\nAaron Lebold<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nChristmas<\/td>\n
Terrifier 3: The Official Novelization by <\/a><\/td>\nTim Waggoner<\/td>\nBloody Press<\/td>\nFilm Novelization, SLasher<\/td>\n
The Cotton Candy Massacre: The F-F-F-Final Chapter<\/a><\/td>\nChristopher Robertson<\/td>\nTerrorScope Studios<\/td>\nSlasher, Clowns<\/td>\n
The End<\/a><\/td>\nAdam Cosco<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nCults<\/td>\n
The Shadow Over Lone Wolf Lake<\/a><\/td>\nD.W. Hitz<\/td>\nFedowar Press<\/td>\nFamily Secrets<\/td>\n
The Summer of Sin: The Seven Deadly Sins Collection<\/a><\/td>\nAsh Ericmore<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
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December 15-21<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Broken Trail<\/a><\/td>\nAmanda Casile<\/td>\nCamCat Books<\/td>\nParanormal, Ghost<\/td>\n
Candy Cane: This Christmas, the naughty list is final…<\/a><\/td>\nKatye Tilstone<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nChristmas<\/td>\n
Cape Fever<\/a><\/td>\nNadia Davids<\/td>\nSimon & Schuster<\/td>\nGothic, Historical<\/td>\n
Dark Sisters<\/a><\/td>\nKristi DeMeester<\/td>\nSt. Martin’s Press<\/td>\nFemale Rage, Historical, Supernatural<\/td>\n
Descending Lines<\/a> (revised re-release)<\/td>\nL. Andrew Cooper<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nOccult<\/td>\n
Hinterland<\/a><\/td>\nLogan Spurgeon<\/td>\nPUBLISHER<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
Madness of the Elder Vampire<\/a><\/td>\nDarby Vernon<\/td>\nStar Strix<\/td>\nVampires<\/td>\n
Midnight Somewhere<\/a><\/td>\nJohnny Compton<\/td>\nBlackstone Publishing<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Molting<\/a><\/td>\nKathryn Tennison<\/td>\nUncomfortably Dark Horror<\/td>\nHaunted House, Supernatural<\/td>\n
Sinister Societies: Six Novellas of Secrets and Horrors<\/a><\/td>\nLinda Hartley (editor), Various<\/td>\nRuad\u00e1n Books<\/td>\nShort Stories, Anthology<\/td>\n
The God in the Dirt<\/a><\/td>\nPaul Glyph<\/td>\nPaulo DeFreitas Jr.<\/td>\nGothic, Western<\/td>\n
The Shimmering<\/a><\/td>\nMichael Stone<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nApocalyptic, Religious, Occult<\/td>\n
The Sleepy Hollow Incident: Book 4<\/a><\/td>\nPD Alleva<\/td>\nChamber Door Publishing, LLC<\/td>\nHistorical, Dark Fantasy, Gothic<\/td>\n
The Writhing, Verdant End<\/a><\/td>\nCorey Farrenkopf, Tiffany Morris, & Eric Raglin<\/td>\nCursed Morsels Press<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Abigail: The Terrible Twos<\/a><\/td>\nDaemon Manx<\/td>\nLast Waltz Publishing<\/td>\nSupernatural, Cozy<\/td>\n
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December 22-31<\/h1>\n

Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
Dragon Head Omnibus 1<\/a><\/td>\nMinetaro Mochizuki<\/td>\nKodansha<\/td>\nManga<\/td>\n
Fearmoji: A Queer Horror Anthology<\/a><\/td>\nDavid-Jack Fletcher (editor), Various<\/td>\nSlashic Horror Press<\/td>\nShort Stories, Anthology, LGBTQ<\/td>\n
Homewreckers<\/a><\/td>\nAron Beauregard<\/td>\nBad Dream Books<\/td>\nExtreme, Psychological<\/td>\n
Hysterical<\/a><\/td>\nAmber Dean<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nPsychological<\/td>\n
Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane<\/a><\/td>\nWendy Dalrymple & Grace R. Reynolds<\/td>\nBrigids Gate Press<\/td>\nShort Stories, Anthology<\/td>\n
The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil<\/a><\/td>\nTheo Prasidis<\/td>\nDead Sky Publishing<\/td>\nGraphic Novel, Greece, Historical Fantasy, Occult<\/td>\n
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen<\/a><\/td>\nEllen Datlow (editor), Various<\/td>\nNight Shade Books<\/td>\nShort Stories, Anthology<\/td>\n
Unhappy New Year<\/a><\/td>\nJudith Sonnet<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nSlasher, Short Stories<\/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
Try Not to Die: With Satan Inside<\/a><\/td>\nMark Tullius<\/td>\nVincere Press<\/td>\nChoose Your Own Adventure, Extreme, Possession<\/td>\n
Hunters & Gatherers<\/a><\/td>\nRock Savage<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nSci-Fi, Alien Invasion<\/td>\n
The Easter Bunny Made Me Scream<\/a><\/td>\nSean P. Gibson<\/td>\nSelf-Published<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n