A Selection of Horror Books Released, 10 to 16 Aug 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghosts, creature, cult, and gothic horror
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Table of Contents
13 Months Haunted – Jimmy Juliano
Supernatural horror
Piper is a public library clerk in charge of liaising with the local middle school. She can tell right away there’s something strange about the new girl in eighth grade.
Avery Wallace won’t touch any kind of technology, not even the computers at the library, and her mother comes to school with her every day, refusing to leave her side, not even when Avery uses the restroom.
Then there are the rumors, the whispers Piper hears from kids in the hallway and parents around town: Avery’s mother is a witch. Her sister and father were killed by something supernatural. A strange virus killed them.
Seeing how isolated and lonely Avery is, Piper befriends her but quickly realizes it might just be the worst decision she’s ever made.
Because there’s something dark inside Avery Wallace, and it’s spreading.
The Envelope – John Durgin
Psychological horror
Welcome to Pembroke, a quaint New Hampshire town where nothing ever changes, and no one questions anything, not even the annual tradition known as Mail Day.
Every year, a mysterious red envelope arrives.
Every year, someone dies.
It’s tradition.
And In Pembroke, tradition doesn’t die, it kills.
The Fake Ghost – Nuzo Ohoh
Supernatural horror
The President of the United States is reborn as a black child in a tiny African hut. As the child grows, he insists on being called POTUS and hears disturbing voices in his head that often cause him to be cruel and selfish.
Until one day an accident separates the linked souls.
With the help of a medicine-man, the president must find a way to free his trapped soul and return to the United States to prevent a dastardly political plot against him.
But first, he must enter a diabolical blood pact, which might return to haunt him with devastating consequences.
A Game in Yellow – Hailey Piper
Psychological horror
A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut.
That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor’s euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare’s edge.
As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.
The Guest Children – Patrick Tarr
Ghost horror
The search for two missing children goes terribly wrong.
With terror mounting in 1940 London, thousands of “Guest Children” were evacuated out of England to escape the bombings. Two of those children, Michael and Frances Hawksby, were never seen again.
Randall Sturgess wanted to do his part in the war but stayed home instead to look after his troubled younger brother. Impoverished, shamed as a coward, and running out of work options as veterans come home, when he’s asked to investigate the disappearance of the Hawksby children, he agrees.
Reluctantly leaving his brother behind, Randall follows the children’s trail to a remote corner of northern Ontario, where he finds an isolated resort. There, he discovers the secretive couple who initially took in the young Hawksbys, along with their collection of strange, seemingly permanent guests. But there’s still no sign of the children.
Plagued by vivid nightmares and a persistent feeling that he’s being watched, Randall searches the imposing woods and lake for any trace of Michael and Frances. Randall’s certain something terrible has happened to them, linked to a spectral presence he senses around the lodge and glimpses out of the corner of his eye.
Appearing first in his dreams and then in waking life, strange visions call to Randall, even as his every instinct tells him to stay away, and he’s increasingly convinced that if he ever wants to find the children, he must succumb to the call.
House of Monstrous Women – Daphne Fama
Gothic horror
A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines.
In this game, there’s one rule: survive.
Orphaned after her father’s political campaign ended in tragedy, Josephine is alone taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where revolution brews. But an unexpected invitation from her childhood friend Hiraya to her house offers an escape.
Why don’t you come visit, and we can play games like we used to?
If Josephine wins, she’ll get whatever her heart desires. Her brother is invited, too, and it’s time they had a talk. Josephine’s heard the dark whispers: Hiraya is a witch and her family spits curses. But still, she’s just desperate enough to seize this chance to change her destiny.
Except the Ranoco house is strange, labyrinthine, and dangerously close to a treacherous sea. A sickly-sweet smell clings to the dimly lit walls, and veiled eyes follow Josephine through endless connecting rooms. The air is tense with secrets, and as the game continues it’s clear Josephine doesn’t have the whole truth.
To save herself, she will have to play to win. But in this house, victory is earned with blood.
Kaiju Chrysalis – Sam M. Phillips
Creature horror – Book 2 of Kaiju Cataclysm
The world is ending. Breanne just wants to read her book in peace.
House-sitting in a sleepy coastal village while her parents serve overseas, Breanne expects quiet days and dog-eared pages. But when the monstrous Kaiju Godrisaur emerges from the Pacific Ocean, obliterating island nations and tearing a path toward Australia, peace dies screaming.
As the creature draws closer, Breanne can no longer pretend this is someone else’s apocalypse. The military mobilises. Cities fall. Her parents vanish from contact. And then the sky cracks open.
Another Kaiju stirs. Mothzen, radiant and merciless, emerges from a luminous cocoon to challenge the solar tyrant Anathema, the ancient Kaiju that holds dominion over the Earth. As titans clash, the planet teeters on the edge of ruin.
Caught in the chaos, Breanne meets a mysterious young couple. Their presence awakens feelings she doesn’t fully understand: curiosity, longing, fear. In a collapsing world, love and desire might be more dangerous than monsters.
Kali’s Web – Mark Matthews
Supernatural horror
Kaliana Cook, a heroin addict haunted by a traumatic past, is desperate to reunite with her child after being paroled. But what begins as a chance at freedom soon turns into a horrific nightmare.
After making a daring escape, Kali finds herself trapped in a sinister web, pursued not only by a relentless parole agent but also by a monstrous presence she unwittingly unleashed.
This eerie entity, a grotesque fusion of nightmare spiders and a seemingly innocent child, embodies the horrors of addiction and the twisted distortions of the mind plagued by heroin.
As Kali’s journey unravels, she discovers that escape isn’t just about outrunning physical pursuers. It’s about confronting the haunting specters of her past and the supernatural horrors they manifest.
Lucky Day – Chuck Tingle
Psychological horror
One woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it’s not always good.
Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.
When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he’s investigating a suspiciously, and statistically impossibly, lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it’s Vera’s last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.
Because what’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying there, and she’s the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.
Old Haunts – Mark Towse and Nathan D. Ludwig
Ghost comedy horror
Roy Bingham, Bruce Suffolk, and Kenneth Dristan are three ex-cons with a new lease on life. Ghost-hunting is their latest hustle, all for the sake of their YouTube show, ‘Is it Real?’
Things are looking up; the show’s a hit, and their social presence is skyrocketing. But knowing viewer loyalty only stretches so far, Roy is more than aware that all good things can come to a crashing end, especially when every place they scope turns out to be a hoax. He wants more. Ken wants to fake it. Bruce wants a beer and a nap.
A cryptic and anonymous text out of the blue, claiming to have access to the real deal, along with talk of a ‘cursed stash of cash,’ has Roy more than a little excited. His colleagues are coerced into coming along for the ride, a terrifying odyssey into a horrific world of ghosts, demons and alternate dimensions.
Squirming All the Way Up – Joey Powell
Cult horror
Following the death of their mother, Joe and Anthony Sanderson reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile the events that tore them apart years ago.
For Joe, it’s a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. For Anthony, an investigative journalist, it’s an opportunity to exploit a Christian White Nationalist cult.
Unbeknownst to either of them, an ancient being lurking underneath the town has insidious plans for them both.
Published: 16 August 2025
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