Warmer weather may be approaching, but you can still get a chill up your spine this summer. Featuring some of the most terrifying and jaw-dropping horror books of 2025, the next few months are going to be full of shocks and scares! Here are the most anticipated horror books coming out this summer!

Senseless by Ronald Malfi (4/14)

Detective Bill Renney believes the body of a mutilated woman found in Los Angeles is eerily similar to a case from a year ago, one in which a secret Bill has keeps him connected to the husband of the first victim. Maureen Park is newly engaged to Greg Dawson, a Hollywood producer, when her engagement party is interrupted by Greg’s son, Landon. Maureen believes Landon could have something to do with the body found in the park. Toby Kampen is obsessing over a woman he’s never met who has rattlesnake teeth and enjoys biting, a woman who may not be human at all. As the three storylines connect, the underbelly of dark violence in Los Angeles will change them all.

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Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin (4/22)

Upon returning to her hometown after losing her job and her fiancé, Shell Pine gets a job at a florist shop in the local mall. Shell believes the beautiful flowers will turn her life around, but she soon finds that the beautiful shop owner, Neve, is harboring some dark and dangerous secrets. The backroom has a sentient orchid that is hungry and has a plan for everyone.

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We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough (5/20)

Emily and her husband, Freddie, have just moved from London to the Larkin Lodge in Dartmoor country after an accident almost cost Emily her life. Although the house is beautiful on the outside, Emily has an unsettling feeling something is wrong within the walls. Old floorboards creak at night, fires go out for no reason, and books fall off the shelves. Emily believes these occurrences are coming from a presence on the third floor, but they only happen when Emily is alone. Fearing her condition following the accident can cause hallucinations, her husband doesn’t notice anything wrong and is looking forward to their fresh start. As the strange occurrences continue, Emily is determined to solve this mystery as she begins to suspect this could all stem from someone who was previously murdered in the house.

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Never Flinch by Stephen King (5/27)

The Buckeye City Police Department has just received an anonymous letter from someone threatening the lives of thirteen innocents and one guilty in an act of revenge for the death of an innocent man. Detective Izzy Jaynes finds that the letter is not an empty threat and turns to Holly Gibney for help. Meanwhile, controversial women’s rights activist Kate McKay is embarking on a multi-state lecture tour but is being targeted by someone with opposing beliefs. Kate’s stalker is growing bolder by the day, so she hires Holly to be her bodyguard.

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Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth by Stephen Graham Jones (6/24)

In this collection of over twenty short stories, Stephen Graham Jones will keep his readers immersed with twisted stories. These include a superhero Vigilante Man, a couple trying to release a creature into the world, a man who looks for advice when his wife transforms into a wolf at night, and the generational trauma of the survivors of a serial killer summer camp.

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Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner (7/15)

Erin’s brother, Bryan, has been missing for five years, and has vanished in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. In an attempt to finally get answers and reveal the truth, Erin sets off to Mt. Hood where Bryan was last seen alive. She realizes that he’s not the first hiker to vanish in this area and none of the cases have been solved. After discovering the dead body of a woman in a creek, Erin finds herself in danger against deadly forces from beyond that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.

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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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Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle (8/12)

Four years ago, a disaster now known as the Low-Probability Event occurred causing the deaths of eight million people in a single day, all in freak accidents. Former statistics and probability professor, Vera, is still grieving from that day and has been in search of a single shred of hope ever since. When Special Agent Layne shows up at Vera’s, she finds he’s investigating a casino in which he believes is connected to the deaths of the millions lost. Now, Vera’s the key between the world as they know it and another catastrophe.

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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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The House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama (8/12)

In 1986 in the Philippines, Josephine is left orphaned and is taking care of her family home when her brother is in Manila during the revolution. When her childhood friend, Hiraya, shows up unexpectedly, offering a chance to play a game. If she wins, Josephine will get whatever she wants. The desire for a happy life is too strong even if there’s rumors Hiraya is a witch from a cursed family. As the game begins, Josephine soon finds that she wasn’t fully informed of the rules before she began and now she doesn’t know what she’s up against.

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The Unseen by Ania Ahlborn (8/19)

Isla Hansen is grieving a devastating loss when she finds a mysterious orphaned child on her secluded Colorado property. Thinking this is meant to be, Isla lets the child settle into her home. Shortly after, her husband, Luke, and their five children begin to notice some strange things with the child that hint at something that stretches beyond reality. As the tension rises in their home, the family soon realize something is very wrong with this mystery child.orphaned child on her secluded Colorado property. Thinking this is meant to be, Isla lets the child settle into her home. Shortly after, her husband, Luke, and their five children begin to notice some strange things with the child that hint at something that stretches beyond reality. As the tension rises in their home, the family soon realize something is very wrong with this mystery child.

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The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Canas (8/19)

In 1765, Alba flees Zacatecas with her parents and her fiancé, Carlos, to his family’s isolated mine to escape a deadly plague. Shortly after arriving, Alba begins to have hallucinations, finds herself sleepwalking, and experiencing convulsions. Something is lurking beneath Alba’s skin. Elias came to the New World to escape a troubled past and at the request of his cousin, Alba is to be left alone. Try as he may, Elias can’t help but notice the danger mounting as Alba deteriorates as the demon inside of her craves blood.

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