A Selection of Horror Books Released, 20 to 26 Jul 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, technology, haunted house, dark academia, monster, dark fantasy, and zombie apocalypse horror
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Table of Contents
Another – Paul Tremblay
Middle grade supernatural horror
When Casey Wilson’s parents tell him that his friend is coming for a sleepover, he has no idea who that might be. Ever since the Zoom Incident, everyone treats him like a pariah, and his tics are worse than ever.
When Morel appears, he’s not like any friend Casey has ever met. His skin is like clay, and he doesn’t speak.
But Casey’s parents are charmed by the strange kid, and it’s nice to have someone to talk to besides his sister, Ally, who is away at college.
As his normally loving parents grow distant from Casey, they gush and fawn over Morel. Casey knows something is wrong, but with no end in sight to the sleepover, he’s exhausted.
And in the dark, out of the corner of his eye, Morel doesn’t look like a kid at all.
Basilisk – Matt Wixey
Technology horror
Alex Webster is an ethical hacker who, like most hackers, prefers questions to answers. So, when she and a colleague, Jay Morton, stumble across a mysterious game created by a shadowy figure known as The Helmsman, they are instantly hooked.
As they solve increasingly bizarre puzzles and uncover The Helmsman’s deranged manifesto, they are pursued by a sinister group known only as XXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX, who will do anything to stop them uncovering the Basilisk, a cognitive weapon which makes anyone who understands it lose their mind.
When Jay disappears, as they hone in on the truth of the Basilisk, Alex is left trying to piece together what’s happened to her friend, escape the awful smiling glitch people stalking her every move, and solve The Helmsman’s final puzzle.
The Exchange and Other Calamities – Mallory McCartney
Horror collection
Hold your breath as you immerse yourself in five stories inspired by real life events.
Evil lurks in the darkness, clawing its way towards unsuspecting victims.
A woman living with fibromyalgia finds an artifact that unleashes a reality she never thought possible, but at a steep price.
Two high school seniors take part in a tradition that brings them face-to-face with the monstrous truth behind a haunting, dark urban legend.
The face behind a popular YouTube ghost hunting show travels to the scene of a horrific event to find fresh horrors there.
Fate takes a bite out of a young woman who ventures into the wilderness to grieve her mother.
A best-selling author takes part in a sleep study that turns her into the very thing she fears.
Feeding the Wheel – Michael Boulerice
Psychological horror
Caleb and Marley’s first mistake was stumbling into the gruesome sacrifice to the grinding wheel and its gods. Their second was enjoying the benefits it gave them.
Now, one of them can’t get enough, and the other just can’t get out.
It Was Her House First – Cherie Priest
Haunted house horror
Ronnie doesn’t know it yet, but her fate rests in the hands of the dead.
Silent film star Venita Rost’s malevolent spirit lurks spider-like in her cliffside mansion, a once-beautiful home that’s claimed countless unlucky souls. And she’s not alone. Snared in her terrible web, Inspector Bartholomew Sloan, her eternal nemesis, watches her wreak havoc in helpless horror, shackled by his own guilt and Venita’s unrelenting wrath.
Now the house has yet another new owner. This time it’s Ronnie Mitchell, a grieving woman who buys the run-down place sight unseen. She arrives armed with an unexpected inheritance, a strong background in renovation, and a blissful ignorance regarding the house’s blood-soaked history.
But her arrival has stirred up more than just dust and decay. In the shadows, unseen eyes watch. Then, a man comes knocking. He brings wild stories and a thinly veiled jealousy, as well as a secret connection to the house that can only lead to violence.
Venita’s fury awakens, and a deadly game unfolds.
Caught between a vengeful ghost and a ruthless living threat, Ronnie’s skepticism crumbles. The line between living and dead isn’t as sharp as it seems, and she realizes too late that in Venita’s house, survival might be just an illusion.
The Knave of Graves – S.J. Shank
Dark fantasy horror
Jeppo loathes his hometown, and he can scarcely tolerate the townsfolk. Mostly, he despises his life as a gravedigger. He went to the Academy in the south, after all. He was never meant to take up his father’s shovel.
When a wicked sorcerer arrives at his gate demanding the bones of the local saint, Jeppo has no objection in principle. But he fears the wrath of the night hag, to whom he has been selling corpses for years.
Jeppo must choose the lesser of two evils, and do so quickly. The spiraling feud threatens to spill innocent blood, and worse still, his darkest secrets.
The Library at Hellebore – Cassandra Khaw
Dark academia horror
The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.
Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told after she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled.
But the Institute is more than just a haven for monsters. On graduation day, the faculty embark on a ravenous rampage, feasting on their students. Trapped in the school’s cavernous library, Alessa and her surviving classmates must do something they were never taught: work together.
If they don’t, this school will eat them alive.
Toadhead – Andrew Lyall
Psychological horror
Teddy Doucet is a quiet man. The residents of Fairview know him well, but he keeps to himself.
On the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death, Teddy wakes up outside the local cemetery, filthy, confused, but not alone.
The toad sits imperious on his head. It refuses to be removed and demands to be fed.
At first, in loneliness and grief, Teddy takes comfort in the presence of this alien companion, but the Toad’s appetites grow stronger and more perverse with each passing day.
As Teddy is dragged deeper into the horror one thing becomes clear: the Toad will never be satisfied.
We Who Hunt Alexanders – Jason Sanford
Monster horror
Amelia is a ripper, a monster who feeds on violent people who have so thoroughly forsaken love that they’ve burned away their souls. Unseen and unnoticed by most of society and living as both hunter and hunted, the only emotion rippers feel is anger. But Amelia is different from her fellow rippers and also feels happiness and sadness, fear and love. To her mother, Danjay, that makes Amelia the strangest of all monsters.
Driven from their home by religious zealots, Amelia and Danjay must learn to survive in the city of Medea, where violent men rule and kill anyone who opposes them. Worse, Amelia has never hunted on her own, and her mother is ill and growing weaker by the day. Only a chance encounter with a human who can see Amelia gives her any hope that she might be able to save her mother.
To succeed, Amelia must learn to hunt in an increasingly dangerous city brought to the brink of war by the corrupt, rich and powerful. Amelia will also have to discover if her differences from her fellow rippers makes her weak, as her mother believes, or if she can instead be a new kind of monster that the world has never seen before.
Zombie Fallout 25: The End of the End – Mark Tufo
Zombie apocalypse horror – Book 26 of Zombie Fallout
Just as you think you’re awake, the nightmare sucks you back under.
Michael Talbot, his squad and followers have suffered hardship and loss along the way, but finally, after years of searching, they have reached their Colorado homestead and settled in. But the world hasn’t finished with them yet. A ferocious and determined enemy draws them back into the war for Humankind, and this time the battle will be final.
As they make an uneasy alliance with Avalyn, who has taken her place as the zombie queen, it’s a race to see if whether it’s already too late to dismantle the deadliest weapon ever created. The enemy has developed both a means to salvation and absolute damnation, and there is no easy way to separate the two. In this all or nothing campaign, there are no guarantees of success or even survival, and everything must be sacrificed if anything is to be saved.
Published: 26 July 2025
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