Best New Horror Books 2025

Looking for the best new horror books of 2025? This year’s lineup is packed with creeping dread, unforgettable nightmares, and stories that get under your skin and stay there.

From psychological slow burns to full-blown supernatural terror, 2025 is delivering in all the right ways.

Whether you’re into haunted houses, cursed objects, or monsters hiding in plain sight, this year’s horror releases are impossible to ignore.

Scroll down to discover your next great read.

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

A body remembers. Long after the bruises fade. Long after the house is sold. Long after you’ve decided you are fine now.

At Dark I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca

A bleak, beautiful horror novella that blends trauma, grief, and strange tenderness into something uniquely unsettling.

Blue house silhouetted against a dark background; yellow flowers and vines entwine a skull. Text: Trisha Tobias, Honeysuckle & Bone. Mysterious mood.

Review: Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias

A lush, haunting YA gothic that wraps grief, family secrets, and quiet horror inside the beauty of a Caribbean paradise.