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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Becky's Annual Horror Genre Preview in Library Journal Featuring My Interview with Chuck Tingle

 A grey box filled with book covers. Top row: WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD by Eric LaRocca, AMERICAN WEREWOLVES by Emily Jane, A GAME IN YELLOW by Hailey Piper, and HER WICKED ROOTS by Tanya Pell. In the middle it says --Horror Preview with the word "horror" in a spooky font. And a skeleton hand reaching in from the right, its bony fingers around the E and W in preview. Bottom row has book covers for MOONFLOWER by Bitter Karella, THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene

It's alive!

My 2025 Horror Genre Preview is in the July 2025 print magazine and is up on the Library Journal site here.

 It is paywalled, but they give you a few free articles a month. However, in the interest of helping all of you serve your horror readers,  I have made the (longer) unedited draft of this article avaialable here. 

Also anyone can accces a full list of titles, sorted by BISAC code and including trend notes in a handy spreadsheet to make ordering easier for your library.

Shout out to Emily Hughes’ archive of 2025’s New Horror Books on her site Jump Scares which was instrumental in helping me craft this article as well as Edelweiss's database.

But wait....there's more. I was able to conduct an interview with Chuck Tingle as part of this issue as well.

Chuck tingle's headshot on the left, a person dressed in a man's suit with a pink bag over their head that reads "LOVE IS REAL." and on the right, the cover of Tingle's book Lucky Day
LJ Talks with Horror Writer Chuck Tingle,
Author of ‘Lucky Day’

 

Click here to read our conversation, here for the LJ starred review of Lucky Day and here for access to my starred review of the same novel in Booklist. Thanks again to Tingle for fitting this interview into his schedule.

So much upcoming horror goodness here. Get on it. Now is the time to prepare for Spooky Season.

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