{"id":27706,"date":"2026-09-26T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=27706"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:09:55","slug":"october-2026-new-release-horror-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/october-2026-new-release-horror-books\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2026 New Release Horror Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome friends and fiends! Here is an updating list of horror titles being released October 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.<\/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

Note: I also added a few releases from the end of September that I missed in my last post.<\/p>\n

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October 1-4<\/h1>\n

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October 5-11<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
August<\/a><\/td>\nJonathan Lees<\/td>\nLethe Press<\/td>\nLGBTQ<\/td>\n
Born of Malice<\/a><\/td>\nXan van Rooyen<\/td>\nRuad\u00e1n Books<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Dark Fantasy<\/td>\n
Buzzkill<\/a><\/td>\nWendy Dalrymple<\/td>\nCliffhanger<\/td>\nSlasher<\/td>\n
CREAM<\/a><\/td>\nJamie Juggs<\/td>\nIndependent<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Body Horror<\/td>\n
Dangling<\/a><\/td>\nMaura Yzmor<\/td>\nAnxiety Press<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Deadfall Stories<\/a><\/td>\nCharlie Walls<\/td>\nWalls of Horror<\/td>\nShort Stories, Supernatural<\/td>\n
First Blood, Last Girl<\/a><\/td>\nMatthew Doggett<\/td>\nIndependent<\/td>\nSlasher<\/td>\n
Gossamer<\/a><\/td>\nBrian Bowyer<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nSerial Killer, Transgressive<\/td>\n
Invite the Devil In to Dance<\/a><\/td>\nKatie Brunecz<\/td>\nKiller Bat Books<\/td>\nSupernatural, Witches<\/td>\n
Kinderlieb<\/a><\/td>\nLuisa Colon<\/td>\nCemetery Dance Publications<\/td>\nSlasher<\/td>\n
Nana: Freshly Baked Edition<\/a><\/td>\nMark Towse<\/td>\nThe Evil Cookie Publishing<\/td>\nExtreme<\/td>\n
Petrified Dreams<\/a><\/td>\nJoe R. Lansdale<\/td>\nLittle, Brown and Company<\/td>\nCrime<\/td>\n
Pumpkin Guts<\/a><\/td>\nBrent Michael Kelley<\/td>\nMystery Potion Books<\/td>\nHalloween, Monster<\/td>\n
Sorrow Like Sour Candy: Stories<\/a><\/td>\nChandler Morrison<\/td>\nDeath’s Head Press<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
The Fall of Waadizi, Michigan<\/a> (The Waadizi Cycle #3)<\/td>\nDwight L MacPherson <\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nCosmic<\/td>\n
The Monsters of Montague Falls<\/a><\/td>\nRuss Colchamiro, Sawney Hatton, Patrick Thomas<\/td>\nCrazy 8 Press<\/td>\nMonster, Vampire<\/td>\n
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October 12-18<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School<\/a><\/td>\nKuzhali Manickavel<\/td>\nAngry Robot<\/td>\nDark Academia, Fantasy<\/td>\n
A Single Beat<\/a><\/td>\nLily Cooke<\/td>\nRabbit Tooth Press<\/td>\nSurvival, Insects<\/td>\n
American Crow<\/a><\/td>\nRyan Burruss<\/td>\nCounterpoint<\/td>\nGothic, Occult<\/td>\n
Amityville Awakens<\/a><\/td>\nRobert P Ottone<\/td>\nCLASH Books<\/td>\nSupernatural<\/td>\n
Apologies to the Morning<\/a><\/td>\nGreg Jones<\/td>\nWild Ink Publishing<\/td>\nPoetry<\/td>\n
Atomic Coffin<\/a><\/td>\nBenedict Anning<\/td>\nS&S\/Saga Press<\/td>\nAquatic, Cosmic, Cold War<\/td>\n
Awful Big Appetite<\/a><\/td>\nLissa Sharpe<\/td>\nBayou Rose Press<\/td>\nHorromance<\/td>\n
Behind the Gate<\/a><\/td>\nAmparo Davila<\/td>\nNew Directions<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Bruja\u2019s Nest<\/a><\/td>\nBrenda LaTorre<\/td>\nCreature Publishing<\/td>\nMonster, Folk<\/td>\n
Callisto<\/a><\/td>\nSteve Niles<\/td>\nThe Lab Press<\/td>\nGraphic Novel, Sci-Fi, Cult<\/td>\n
Camera Stays On<\/a><\/td>\nTylor Paige<\/td>\nPage & Vine<\/td>\nSlasher, Horromance<\/td>\n
Carrying<\/a><\/td>\nSamantha Josephs<\/td>\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Feminist, Body Horror<\/td>\n
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: A Scream Queer Anthology<\/a><\/td>\nKapri Psych<\/td>\nInked in Gray<\/td>\nAnthology, Slasher<\/td>\n
Count to Ten<\/a><\/td>\nRa\u00fal Quintana Selleras<\/td>\nWicked Ink Publishing<\/td>\nSerial Killer, Psychological Thriller<\/td>\n
Dive Bar at the End of the Road<\/a><\/td>\nKelley Armstrong<\/td>\nSt. Martin’s Press<\/td>\nSupernatural<\/td>\n
Find Me Where It Ends<\/a><\/td>\nCassandra Khaw<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nOccult, Psychological<\/td>\n
Fitcher’s Bird<\/a><\/td>\nA.G. Slatter<\/td>\nTitan Books<\/td>\nOccult<\/td>\n
Haunted Creatures<\/a><\/td>\nKatie Wilson<\/td>\nBlack Island Books<\/td>\nCosmic<\/td>\n
Hear the Dead<\/a><\/td>\nAnn D\u00e1vila Cardinal<\/td>\nSourcebooks Landmark<\/td>\nSupernatural, Crime<\/td>\n
Home for the Holidays<\/a><\/td>\nChloe Spencer<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nHorromance, Comedy<\/td>\n
House Haunters<\/a><\/td>\nKC Jones<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nGhost<\/td>\n
If the Dead Belong Here<\/a><\/td>\nCarson Faust<\/td>\nPenguin Books<\/td>\nSouthern Gothic<\/td>\n
Kill Your Darlings<\/a><\/td>\nYuvashri Harish<\/td>\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers<\/td>\nYA, Witches, Gothic<\/td>\n
Killing the Boogeyman<\/a><\/td>\nRichard Chizmar<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nSerial Killer<\/td>\n
Love and Other Cures for the Recently Undead<\/a><\/td>\nH.J. Ramsay<\/td>\nRed Rogue Press<\/td>\nPost-Apocalyptic<\/td>\n
Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women<\/a><\/td>\nEleanor Johnson<\/td>\nPrinceton University Press<\/td>\nNon-Fiction, Pop Culture, Feminism<\/td>\n
Morsels<\/a> (re-release)<\/td>\nAbe Moss<\/td>\nEvil Twin<\/td>\nCreepy Family<\/td>\n
MrBallen Presents: The Terror Within<\/a><\/td>\nMrBallen & Andrea Mutti <\/td>\nTen Speed Graphic<\/td>\nGraphic Novel<\/td>\n
Night of a Thousand Hells<\/a><\/td>\nIntan Paramaditha<\/td>\nEuropa Editions<\/td>\nFeminist, Gothic<\/td>\n
Night of the Mallrats<\/a><\/td>\nNicolina Torres<\/td>\nHarper Perennial<\/td>\nTime Travel, LGBTQ, Slasher<\/td>\n
Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel<\/a><\/td>\nStephen King & Peter Straub<\/td>\nScribner<\/td>\nParanormal, Fantasy<\/td>\n
Portrait of a Haunting<\/a><\/td>\nMadison Tyler Nelson<\/td>\nBerkley<\/td>\nGhost<\/td>\n
Quaint Folk<\/a><\/td>\nBitter Karella<\/td>\nRun For It<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Satire<\/td>\n
Raven<\/a><\/td>\nLyndsay Faye<\/td>\nThe Mysterious Press<\/td>\nGothic, Historical, Occult<\/td>\n
Red Ants<\/a><\/td>\nKimberly Blaeser<\/td>\nCounterpoint<\/td>\nIndigenous, Short Stories<\/td>\n
Return to the Motherfreaking Fun Factory<\/a><\/td>\nNeil Kleid<\/td>\nBlackstone<\/td>\nComing of Age, Death Games<\/td>\n
Season\u2019s Reapings<\/a><\/td>\nSylvain Johnson<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nChristmas, Retelling<\/td>\n
Stagtown: Volume 1<\/a><\/td>\nPunko<\/td>\nTen Speed Graphic<\/td>\nGraphic Novel, Dystopia<\/td>\n
Sorrow’s Fall<\/a><\/td>\nDanielle DeVor<\/td>\nCity Owl Press<\/td>\nHumor, Demons<\/td>\n
The Book of the Dead: An Anthology<\/a><\/td>\nJonathan Strahan (editor), Various<\/td>\nHarper Voyager<\/td>\nAnthology, Supernatural<\/td>\n
The Buddy Snatchers<\/a><\/td>\nDevin James Leonard<\/td>\nCrystal Lake Publishing<\/td>\nPsychological<\/td>\n
The Finalist<\/a><\/td>\nFaith Gladwin<\/td>\nGrand Central Publishing<\/td>\nGothic, LGBTQ<\/td>\n
The House Built on Alligator Bones<\/a><\/td>\nSophia Huneycutt<\/td>\nDutton<\/td>\nSouthern Gothic<\/td>\n
The Phantom Reflex<\/a><\/td>\nFred Tippett II<\/td>\nTrinity Power Productions<\/td>\nYA, Occult<\/td>\n
The Witch<\/a><\/td>\nFreida McFadden<\/td>\nPoisoned Pen Press<\/td>\nGhost, Thriller<\/td>\n
There\u2019s a Monster in the Lake: The World as a Fantastical Place<\/a><\/td>\nLaura Fern\u00e1ndez<\/td>\nGraywolf Press<\/td>\nNon-Fiction, Cryptids<\/td>\n
What Feeds Below<\/a><\/td>\nTatiana Schlote-Bonne<\/td>\nBindery Books<\/td>\nYA<\/td>\n
What Happens at Nightfall<\/a><\/td>\nLauren Willig<\/td>\nWilliam Morrow<\/td>\nSupernatural, Paranormal Romance<\/td>\n
Winter\u2019s Teeth<\/a><\/td>\nR.A. Betzer<\/td>\nRowan Prose<\/td>\nShifters, Paranormal<\/td>\n
Winterset Hollow<\/a><\/td>\nJonathan Edward Durham<\/td>\nUnion Square & Co.<\/td>\nPsychological<\/td>\n
Your Beloved Remains<\/a><\/td>\nQuinn Connor<\/td>\nFlatiron Books: Pine & Cedar<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Psychological, Gothic<\/td>\n
Be Not Afraid and Other Stories<\/a><\/td>\nPhillip Keeling<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
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October 19-25<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
A Darker Act<\/a><\/td>\nAmy Goldsmith<\/td>\nDelacorte Press<\/td>\nYA, Folk, Romance<\/td>\n
Another Name for Red<\/a><\/td>\nAmber Blaeser-Wardzala<\/td>\nPantheon<\/td>\nIndigenous<\/td>\n
Below<\/a><\/td>\nRyan Lockwood<\/td>\nKensington<\/td>\nAquatic<\/td>\n
Don\u2019t Leave Her Alone<\/a><\/td>\nDesir\u00e9e de Fez<\/td>\nG.P. Putnam’s Sons<\/td>\nSurreal, Motherhood<\/td>\n
Don’t Let It Out<\/a><\/td>\nN.A. Betts<\/td>\nLegend Forge Press<\/td>\nEco-Horror<\/td>\n
Extremely Weird Splatter<\/a><\/td>\nL. Andrew Cooper (editor), Various<\/td>\nHorrific Scribblings<\/td>\nAnthology, Splatterpunk<\/td>\n
Ghosts of the Void<\/a> (NecroTek #3)<\/td>\nJonathan Maberry<\/td>\nBlackstone Publishing<\/td>\nCosmic<\/td>\n
Good Boys Don’t Bite<\/a><\/td>\nL.A. Barron<\/td>\nContrarian Publishing<\/td>\nVampire, LGBTQ<\/td>\n
Gutterspace<\/a><\/td>\nJustine Norton-Kertson<\/td>\nStars and Sabers Publishing<\/td>\nCosmic<\/td>\n
Hideout<\/a><\/td>\nMasasumi Kakizaki<\/td>\nKana<\/td>\nHuman Monsters, Manga<\/td>\n
Highway Fifty: Choose Your Own Descent<\/a><\/td>\nRyan McMurray<\/td>\nWhere We Lay Our Scene Press<\/td>\nPsychological<\/td>\n
Highway of Haunts<\/a><\/td>\nHeather Daughrity (editor), Varios<\/td>\nWatertower Hill Publishing<\/td>\nShort Story Anthology<\/td>\n
I Am The Devouring Dark<\/a><\/td>\nKimberly Lynn Hanson<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nHorromance, Fantasy<\/td>\n
It Looks Like You in the Dark<\/a><\/td>\nMathilda Zeller<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nIndigenous, Folk, Alaska<\/td>\n
Long Lost<\/a><\/td>\nMatthew Erman & Lisa Sterle<\/td>\nVault Comics<\/td>\nGraphic Novel<\/td>\n
Look What the Cat Dragged<\/a><\/td>\nJason Rekulak<\/td>\nFlatiron Books<\/td>\nGhost, Psychological<\/td>\n
Monstera<\/a><\/td>\nDelilah S. Dawson<\/td>\nTitan Books<\/td>\nGothic, Sapphic, LGBTQ<\/td>\n
Monsters: Unsettling Short Stories<\/a><\/td>\nRussell Smith<\/td>\nRare Machines<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Mystery Play<\/a><\/td>\nElizabeth Kostova<\/td>\nBallantine Books<\/td>\nVampire<\/td>\n
Of Monsters and Menses<\/a><\/td>\nMaisie Culver<\/td>\nShortwave<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Off the Reservation<\/a><\/td>\nStephen Graham Jones<\/td>\nS&S\/Saga Press<\/td>\nIndigenous, Supernatural<\/td>\n
Rottenheart<\/a><\/td>\nKat Dunn<\/td>\nZando<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Hamlet<\/td>\n
Serling: A Journey Into the Twilight Zone with TV\u2019s First Visionary<\/a><\/td>\nAlan Sepinwall<\/td>\nGrand Central Publishing<\/td>\nNon-Fiction, Pop Culture<\/td>\n
Solace House<\/a><\/td>\nWill Maclean<\/td>\nGrove Press<\/td>\nPsychological, Occult<\/td>\n
Something Is Killing the Children: Hope Is a Knife<\/a><\/td>\nJames Tynion IV & Kiersten White<\/td>\nCrown<\/td>\nMonsters, Urban Fantasy<\/td>\n
Stormraven<\/a><\/td>\nKelsea Yu<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nGothic, Asian<\/td>\n
The Creeps<\/a><\/td>\nMichael Paul Kozlowsky<\/td>\nKeylight Books<\/td>\nGhost<\/td>\n
The Doctor Will See You Now<\/a><\/td>\nTom Carter<\/td>\nRowan Prose<\/td>\nThriller<\/td>\n
This B Just Won’t Die!<\/a><\/td>\nTanya Pell<\/td>\nGallery Books<\/td>\nSlasher<\/td>\n
The Elegance of Decay<\/a><\/td>\nStoney Brooks<\/td>\nWLR Publishing<\/td>\nCreature<\/td>\n
The Exodontists<\/a><\/td>\nDrew Huff<\/td>\nNefarious Bat Press<\/td>\nCreature<\/td>\n
The Forest Bleeds<\/a><\/td>\nRachel Kitch<\/td>\nUnion Square & Co.<\/td>\nUrban Fantasy<\/td>\n
The Patch<\/a><\/td>\nV S Lawrence<\/td>\nMad Axe Media<\/td>\nYA, Supernatural<\/td>\n
The Water House<\/a><\/td>\nNneoma Ike-Njoku<\/td>\nS&S\/Summit Books<\/td>\nGothic<\/td>\n
The Woman of the House<\/a><\/td>\nKate Mooney<\/td>\nBerkley<\/td>\nSupernatural Thriller<\/td>\n
Threnody<\/a><\/td>\nCas E. Crowe<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nGothic<\/td>\n
To Bewitch a Hunter<\/a><\/td>\nLuciano Lamberti<\/td>\nHarperVia<\/td>\nLiterary<\/td>\n
‘Twas the Night<\/a><\/td>\nKevin Johnson<\/td>\nWilliam Morrow<\/td>\nChristmas, Cults<\/td>\n
Unspeakable Things<\/a><\/td>\nElizabeth Hand<\/td>\nLittle, Brown and Company<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Gothic<\/td>\n
What a Nightmare<\/a><\/td>\nRebekah Faubion<\/td>\nBerkley<\/td>\nLGBTQ, Female Rage<\/td>\n
When the World Stopped<\/a><\/td>\nWayne Fenlon & Jennifer Bernardini (editors), Various<\/td>\nIndependent<\/td>\nApocalyptic, Anthology<\/td>\n
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October 26-31<\/h1>\n

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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
A Knight on Wolf Island<\/a><\/td>\nRay Tigerman<\/td>\nRiver Grove Books<\/td>\nCreature<\/td>\n
Always Say Goodbye<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Clear<\/td>\nDark Phyre Books<\/td>\nPsychological<\/td>\n
Angel Country<\/a><\/td>\nAlex T. Singer<\/td>\nS&S\/Saga Press<\/td>\nAlternate History, Cosmic<\/td>\n
Creatures & Corridors (The Lab Portable Edition)<\/a><\/td>\nBrandon Auman, Andrea Mutti<\/td>\nThe Lab Press<\/td>\nGraphic Novel, Fantasy<\/td>\n
Devilry in Godling Wood<\/a><\/td>\nCoy Hall<\/td>\nSentinel Creatives<\/td>\nHistorical, Folk, Medieval<\/td>\n
Did You Get the Package?<\/a><\/td>\nJohn Harrison<\/td>\nSeventh Street Books<\/td>\nPsychological, Thriller<\/td>\n
Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost Hunter<\/a><\/td>\nJ. S. Barnes<\/td>\nTitan Books<\/td>\nHumor, Historical<\/td>\n
Endless Levels of Horror<\/a> (no link)<\/td>\nJ.M. Van Horn<\/td>\nIndependent<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Excruciating<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Ward<\/td>\nResolute Lantern Media<\/td>\nMedical<\/td>\n
Exequial: Exhumed<\/a><\/td>\nHannah Graves<\/td>\nDead Fox Publishing<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Exhumation<\/a><\/td>\nNicholas Binge<\/td>\nRiverhead<\/td>\nSci-Fi, Psychological<\/td>\n
Ghost Lights: Horror Short Stories<\/a><\/td>\nMark Morris (editor), Various<\/td>\nFlame Tree Press<\/td>\nAnthology<\/td>\n
Gore, Lust & Kin: Stories of Women on the Brink<\/a><\/td>\nSuzanne Mattaboni<\/td>\nMadville Publishing<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Happy Hour<\/a> (Killer VHS #9)<\/td>\nGemma Amor<\/td>\nShortwave<\/td>\n90s, Slasher<\/td>\n
Horror Picture Book: A Bad Book<\/a><\/td>\nMiyuki Miyabi, Hisanori Yoshida<\/td>\nVIZ Media<\/td>\nPicture Book<\/td>\n
Horror Picture Book: Is It There or Not<\/a><\/td>\nNatsuhiko Kyogoku, Naoko Machida<\/td>\nVIZ Media<\/td>\nPicture Book<\/td>\n
Horror Picture Book: Looking at Me<\/a><\/td>\nSoshichi Tonari, Junji Ito<\/td>\nVIZ Media<\/td>\nPicture Book<\/td>\n
Lethal Kiss<\/a><\/td>\nTaylor Grothe<\/td>\nTor Nightfire<\/td>\nGothic, Occult, LGBTQ, Revenge<\/td>\n
Mercy House<\/a><\/td>\nAdam Cesare<\/td>\nDel Rey<\/td>\nGhost, Splatterpunk<\/td>\n
Milkteeth<\/a><\/td>\nCaitlin Starling<\/td>\nSt. Martin’s Press<\/td>\nVampire<\/td>\n
Mr. Moonlight<\/a><\/td>\nBen Cheetham<\/td>\nVinci Books<\/td>\nGhost<\/td>\n
Needlemouth<\/a><\/td>\nK-Ming Chang<\/td>\nSimon & Schuster<\/td>\nComing of Age, Vampire, Demon<\/td>\n
Pretty Bird<\/a><\/td>\nHilary Faktor<\/td>\nRowan Prose<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
Rise From These Dark Waters<\/a><\/td>\nMegan M. Davies-Ostrom<\/td>\nBad Hand Books<\/td>\nHorror Fantasy<\/td>\n
Seeds Between Her Teeth<\/a><\/td>\nM. Boudreaux<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nSupernatural<\/td>\n
Tatratea<\/a><\/td>\nAlex Woodroe<\/td>\nCLASH Books<\/td>\nEco-Horror<\/td>\n
The Crimson Traveler<\/a><\/td>\nMatt Strollo<\/td>\nLeft Field Publishing<\/td>\nWerewolf, Noir<\/td>\n
The Crow Tree<\/a><\/td>\nBen Cheetham<\/td>\nVinci Books<\/td>\nGothic, Witches<\/td>\n
The Death of Blockbuster<\/a><\/td>\nSam Rebelein<\/td>\nSobelo Books<\/td>\nSmall Town<\/td>\n
The Finalist<\/a><\/td>\nFaith Gladwin<\/td>\nGrand Central Publishing<\/td>\nSupernatural<\/td>\n
The Haunting of Lavender House<\/a><\/td>\nNatalie Kikic<\/td>\nPark Row<\/td>\nGothic, Folk<\/td>\n
The Skeleton Closet: 13 Tales of the Weird and Wicked<\/a><\/td>\nJ.R. Blanes<\/td>\nDark Nest Publishing<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
The Turning of Sally-Mae<\/a><\/td>\nNuzo Onoh<\/td>\nTitan Books<\/td>\nOccult, Supernatural, Revenge<\/td>\n
The Witching House<\/a><\/td>\nJohn Everson<\/td>\nFlame Tree Press<\/td>\nGhost<\/td>\n
Visceral: Essays<\/a><\/td>\nMar\u00eda Fernanda Ampuero<\/td>\nThe Feminist Press at CUNY<\/td>\nNon-Fiction, Feminist<\/td>\n
We Are Good People<\/a><\/td>\nDanger Slater<\/td>\nTenebrous Press<\/td>\nTAGS<\/td>\n
What the Forest Devours<\/a><\/td>\nElaine Vilar Madruga<\/td>\nHarperVia<\/td>\nGothic, Feminist<\/td>\n
When the Night Comes Knocking<\/a><\/td>\nKatherine Daniel<\/td>\nBerkley<\/td>\nVampire<\/td>\n
Wolf Season<\/a><\/td>\nWesley King<\/td>\nAtria\/Emily Bestler Books<\/td>\nSupernatural, Mystery<\/td>\n
Hecate\u2019s Labyrinth<\/a><\/td>\nMichael Lightsey<\/td>\nNew Forest Press<\/td>\nMythology, Witch<\/td>\n
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Title<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\nTag<\/strong>s<\/td>\n
DJ Decapitator<\/a><\/td>\nZed Dee<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nSci-Fi<\/td>\n
Dreamrot<\/a><\/td>\nAlix J Kampen<\/td>\nIndependent<\/td>\nShort Stories<\/td>\n
Eve’s Still Dead<\/a><\/td>\nAmy Tackett<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nChristmas<\/td>\n
From the Library of Jurgen Leitner<\/a><\/td>\nPremee Mohamed & Jonathan Sims<\/td>\nRandom House Worlds<\/td>\nOccult, Eldritch<\/td>\n
Going to Summertime<\/a><\/td>\nKaaron Warren<\/td>\nMeerkat Press<\/td>\nHaunted Houses<\/td>\n
Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies<\/a><\/td>\nEmma Cole<\/td>\nBeacon<\/td>\nNon-Fiction, Horror Movies<\/td>\n
Nightcats<\/a><\/td>\nKristen J. Soll\u00e9e<\/td>\nFeral Eye<\/td>\nVampire, Feminist<\/td>\n
YA<\/td>\n
Phantom Limb<\/a><\/td>\nBrian Evenson<\/td>\nCoffee House Press<\/td>\nPsychological<\/td>\n
Public Access Afterworld<\/a><\/td>\nJane Schoenbrun<\/td>\nHogarth<\/td>\nOccult, Supernatural<\/td>\n
Richard-Lael Lillard and the Great Mountain<\/a><\/td>\nLorin Morgan-Richards<\/td>\nRaven Above Press<\/td>\nSavage Lake<\/a><\/td>\nNick Medina<\/td>\nBerkley<\/td>\nVampire<\/td>\n
Scorpion Deep<\/a><\/td>\nCG Drews<\/td>\nFeiwel & Friends<\/td>\nYoung Adult, Aquatic, Eldritch<\/td>\n
She Isn’t Herself Tonight<\/a><\/td>\nHailey Piper<\/td>\nS&S\/Saga Press<\/td>\nCosmic<\/td>\n
The House on Lochness Lane<\/a><\/td>\nT. Atkins<\/td>\nDesKor<\/td>\nHaunted House<\/td>\n
The Imitations: A Short Story<\/a><\/td>\nOttessa Moshfegh<\/td>\nRapture Publishing<\/td>\nShort Story<\/td>\n
The Last Light<\/a><\/td>\nA.S. North<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nComing of Age, Vampires<\/td>\n
The Night Parade and Other Stories<\/a><\/td>\nStephanie Feldman<\/td>\nFairwood Press<\/td>\nYA, Dark Fantasy<\/td>\n
The Porcelain Sisters<\/a><\/td>\nDaryl Gregory<\/td>\nTachyon Publications<\/td>\nComing of Age<\/td>\n
The Things That Haunt You<\/a><\/td>\nE.A. Griffith<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nCreature<\/td>\n
The Wax Child<\/a><\/td>\nOlga Ravn<\/td>\nNew Directions<\/td>\nWitches<\/td>\n
This Darkness Caged Inside Us<\/a><\/td>\nZach Constable<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nGrief<\/td>\n
Velvet Saints<\/a><\/td>\nChristal Gonzalez<\/td>\nIndependently Published<\/td>\nVampire, Paranormal Romance, Mob, 1920s<\/td>\n
What Rough Beast<\/a><\/td>\nMindy McGinnis<\/td>\nHarperCollins<\/td>\nYA, Speculative<\/td>\n