Emily Hughes' 2025 New Horror Books List is Now LIVE and Coming Soon, Emily, Robb, and I Talk About Our First Half Highlights

Sure 2024 still has a few days left, but you know you are already looking forward to what is coming in 2025. 

Emily Hughes has made her 2025 list of Horror titles available here. It includes books I have already reviewed. Please go there to see not only the list for next year, but also to find links to previous years' lists. Remember, you can use her annotated list from years' past to find a great, new to you, read.

And here is a teaser...later tonight Emily and I are going to record for Robb Olson's ARC Party. Just like last year we are doing our Horror preview episodes. Click here for the podcast we did for the first half of 2024, here for the one we did for the second half of 2024, and stay tuned for when Robb posts this new podcast looking at the first half of 2025. 

Below is the introduction to Emily's post but again, click here to see the full list. And get ready for some awesome scares coming in 2025. Or use the page to go find some books you missed from year's past.

2025’s New Horror Books

Welcome back, kind readers and weird little freaks! Once again I’m obsessively cataloguing all the year’s new horror fiction, for my benefit and yours. I really enjoy building and maintaining this list every year––it gives me an incredible birds’ eye view of the landscape of horror publishing, and I’m delighted it’s proven useful to so many of you as well.

My general philosophy here is genre-inclusive, not exclusive––I take a broad view of what counts as horror. Alongside traditional horror, here you’ll find all things gothic, dark, weird, and thrilling––and, hopefully, your next favorite scary book.

Looking for previous years’ lists, including the ones broken down by month? Those all live over here. Did I miss something? Let me know here.

Without further ado, here are all the new horror books coming in 2025, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors. 

Please note that publication dates are subject to change – I’ll be updating the release dates below and adding new books as I hear of any changes, but publisher and retailer websites will always have the most up-to-date info.

Many titles publishing later in the year don’t have concrete release dates yet – I’ve listed those at the very bottom under “Date TBD” – and if the publisher or Bookshop don’t have a dedicated page for a book yet, I’ve linked to Goodreads or to the book announcement elsewhere. Descriptions below are adapted from the publisher’s synopsis. Books publishing in a given month that don’t have a specific date assigned yet are at the bottom of that month’s list.

Click here for the full list.