For horror fans, spooky season doesn’t just end on November 1st. In fact, there’s a ton of amazing horror books coming out in 2025 and you can start preparing yourself to be creeped out for the entire year by adding some of these to your TBR. From new chillers from your favorite authors to debut novels, here are some of the most anticipated horror books coming to your shelves beginning in January!
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix (1/14)
The Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida is where families send unwed mothers to have their babies in secret. In 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the house to meet a dozen of girls who are just like her: pregnant and terrified. At the Wellwood House, the girls are controlled by the adults every waking moment. When a librarian gives Fern a book about witchcraft, Fern realizes this might just be what she and a few of her friends need to escape.
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At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca (1/28)
Ashley Lutin’s life has been getting worse since his wife died and his young son disappeared. A grave is not the kind of peace Ashley seeks, but that doesn’t mean he can’t help others using a ritual he’s made for those who go between wanting to die and wanting a better life. When Ashley meets a new potential candidate, Jinx, the two men find themselves in an intense connection that will expose their secrets.
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (3/18)
A diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is found discovered inside of a wall that spans a story going all the way back to over 200 Blackfeet dead in the snow. The diary is told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab that tells the life of a vampire who haunts the Blackfeet reservation in search of justice.
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The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth
Olivia’s sister, Naiche, has the gift of communicating with the dead. When Naiche dies unexpectedly, soon Oliva begins to hear from the spirits. A few years later, Olivia is one of the most in-demand paranormal investigators yet still haunted by the death of her sister. When Olivia hears of the Brown Palace hotel, she finds that she is drawn to wanting to investigate it. Every few years, a girl is found dead in room 904 even if she was checked into another room originally. As the investigation begins, Olivia finds herself in the middle of a mystery that involves a cult, a shady journalist, friendship betrayal, and information about her sister that she would’ve never expected.
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Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen (3/25)
In The Netherlands in 1887, Lucy’s twin sister Sarah refuses to eat as her obsession with an old corpse is found on her husband’s estate. They say Sarah is temporarily insane and Lucy is determined to protect Sarah even if the two sisters are both harboring secrets. When Sarah’s behavior gets even worse, Lucy begins to believe that something is possessing Sarah.
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When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy (4/22)
When a struggling actor named Jess finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside of her apartment, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives after a violent encounter with the boy’s father. As the two embark on a journey, Jess notices that horrifying events keep happening around hem only for her to realize that there’s way more to this story than she could have ever imagined.
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The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig (4/29)
On a camping trip, five friends find a mysterious staircase that seemingly leads to nowhere in the middle of the woods. When one friend walks up the staircase and doesn’t return, it vanishes. Twenty years later, the staircase is back and the friends are determined to find out what happened to their friend all those years ago.
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Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin (8/5)
Ellen is a deeply closeted lesbian who spends most of her time alone when she’s not restoring films at a failing archive in New York City during the 1980s. Ellen finds herself confronting her own sexuality when a group of German academics give her a print of a controversial exploitation film believed to have been destroyed during the Holocaust. The more she works on the film she realizes this one may not be fiction.
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What Hunger by Catherine Dang (8/12)
The summer before high school begins, Ronny Nguyen feels like she’s at an awkward age where she’s too old to do the things she used to enjoy, but too young for work. Her brother, Tommy, is he pride and joy of their immigrant parents and the first in the family to attend college. Ronny’s parents don’t speak of their time in Vietnam, but the meals they make are full of their heritage. Although her parents do warn Ronny that meat is a dangerous luxury, she learns this the hard way when a boy crosses the line at a party and Ronny is left with an insatiable hunger for raw meat.
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