Horror Book Release Dates
US release dates
These are the ones we know about.
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Contents
July 2026
| Release date | Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul 2026 | Brokeula | Michael J. Seidlinger | Vampire |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Fabulous Bodies | Chuck Tingle | Supernatural |
| 7 Jul 2026 | The Red Sacrament | Sara Hinkley | Vampire |
| 7 Jul 2026 | The Writer’s Block | BruNoe Media Publishing | Anthology |
| 9 Jul 2026 | The Burn Line | Jonathan Sims | Psychological |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Beasts of 42nd Street (new edition) | Preston Fassel | Cursed movie |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die | Mallory Arnold | Slasher |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Home Sick | Rhiannon Grist | Psychological |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Scary Movie Night | Miranda Smith | Ghost |
| 14 Jul 2026 | The Sea Hides Its Dead | Megan Bontrager | Supernatural |
| 14 Jul 2026 | White Rabbit | Abigail Rose-Marie | Grief |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Amusement Park Arcana | Jennifer R. Donohue | Amusement park |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Infernal Tramps | Alex Grass | Collection |
| 15 Jul 2026 | My Monsters Ain’t Like Yours | R.J. Joseph | Collection |
| 15 Jul 2026 | The Turn | Rachel Feder | Gothic |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Carry Me To My Grave | Christopher Golden | Supernatural |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Funerals are for the Living | Sami Ellis | Supernatural |
| 21 Jul 2026 | We Sent Them Down Singing | Libby Edwardson | Monster |
| 21 Jul 2026 | The Winter Folk | Jen Julian | Gothic |
| 28 Jul 2026 | A Penance for Crows | Shannon Morgan | Gothic |
| 28 Jul 2026 | The Séance Garden | Juliet Blackwell | Ghost |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Calliope Street | Josh Hanson | Psychological |
| 30 Jul 2026 | Bats | Christian Francis | Creature horror movie novelization |
| 30 Jul 2026 | The Forsaken | Christian Francis | Vampire horror movie novelization |
| 31 Jul 2026 | Close to the Bone and Other Strange Curations | CS Jones | Collection |
| 31 Jul 2026 | Whispers of the Pale Witch | S.A. Sizemore | Witch |
August 2026
| Release date | Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Aug 2026 | Cathedral | John Carpenter | Supernatural graphic novel |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Meat Bees | Dane Erbach | Creature |
| 4 Aug 2026 | No One Was Ever Really In This Place | Mike Salt | Psychological |
| 4 Aug 2026 | The Residency | C.D. Major | Gothic |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Season of the Goat | R.R. Harrow | Supernatural |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Small Town Slasher | Stephanie Rose | Slasher |
| 4 Aug 2026 | The Unknown | Riley Sager | Psychological |
| 4 Aug 2026 | What We Do At Night Book 7 of Goosebumps House of Shivers | R.L. Stine | Middle grade |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Dreamland | Olivie Blake | Supernatural |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Godfestation | Jendia Gammon | Gothic folk |
| 11 Aug 2026 | The Last House on Earth/Death Walks South Boston | Christoph Paul | Sci-fi / Supernatural |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Nest of Tongues | Randy Ribay | Vampire |
| 11 Aug 2026 | A Plagued Sea | Kim Bo-Young | Cosmic |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Reliquary | Hannah F. Whitten | Psychological |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Saint Delilah | Isabelle Spotts | Supernatural |
| 11 Aug 2026 | She Haunts Me Still | De Elizabeth | Supernatural |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Stay Buried | Jennifer McMahon | Ghost |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Them | W.H. Chizmar | Monster apocalypse |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Thorns | Gregory Bastianelli | Plague apocalypse |
| 15 Aug 2026 | He Takes Them At Night Book 2 of The Girl Who Speaks to the Dead | Jon Colt | Paranormal |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II | Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editors) | Indigenous horror anthology |
| 18 Aug 2026 | The Calamities | Chuck Wendig | Supernatural |
| 18 Aug 2026 | The Ghosts of Chanterlands | Catherine Cavendish | Ghost |
| 18 Aug 2026 | The Halls of the Dead | S.M. Hallow | Gothic |
| 18 Aug 2026 | The House that Eats the Dead | Max Doty | Haunted house |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Lights! Camera! Frendo! Book 4 of Clown in a Cornfield | Adam Cesare | Clown slasher |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Marla | Jonathan Janz | Psychological |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film | Simon Braund | Horror movie non-fiction |
| 18 Aug 2026 | And the Sea Gave Up the Dead | William Friend | Gothic |
| 18 Aug 2026 | These Walls Remember | Del Sandeen | Haunted house |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Fido | Christian Francis | Zombie horror movie novelization |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Best Served Cold | Paul Kane & Marie O’Regan (editors) | Crime horror anthology |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Blood Rising Book 2 of The Blood Saga | Markus Redmond | Vampire |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Ronin | Oscar Brady | Post-apocalyptic |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Stinetinglers 5 Book 5 of Stinetinglers | R.L. Stine | Middle grade horror collection |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Warpath | Scott Sigler | Supernatural western |
| 29 Aug 2026 | Crimson Rain | John Ashley | Vampire |
September 2026
| Release date | Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 2026 | As the Snow Gathers | Mere Joyce | Psychological |
| 1 Sep 2026 | The Crow: The Definitive History | Jeff Bond | Horror movie non-fiction |
| 1 Sep 2026 | In Their Eyes | Simon F. Godin | Psychological |
| 1 Sep 2026 | Pretty Bird | Hilary Faktor | Cult |
| 1 Sep 2026 | Zero Lives Remaining | Adam Cesare | Ghost |
| 7 Sep 2026 | Deathstalke | Bret Nelson | Dark fantasy horror movie novelization |
| 8 Sep 2026 | How to Survive Camping: The Ancient Things Book 3 of How to Survive Camping | Bonnie Quinn | Cosy summer camp |
| 8 Sep 2026 | It Pierces | Jack Finn | Folk |
| 8 Sep 2026 | A Mother’s Rage | John Evans | Revenge |
| 8 Sep 2026 | The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston | Nick Wallin | Supernatural |
| 10 Sep 2026 | 10 Things I Hate About Zombies | Hazel Graves | Zombie |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Corpse Creek Book 3 of Bleak Haven | Vincent Ralph | Psychological |
| 15 Sep 2026 | The Final Final Girl | James Kaine | Killer |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Something of a Calling | Zoje Stage | Psychological |
| 15 Sep 2026 | This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want | Hailey Piper | Urban legend |
| 15 Sep 2026 | The Thing on the Doorstep | Simon Birks, Willi Roberts, Rob Jones | Comic based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story of the same name |
| 22 Sep 2026 | The Big Bad Book of Kaiju | Jonathan Maberry & Henry Herz (editors) | Monster horror anthology |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Crone | Keith Rosson | Supernatural |
| 22 Sep 2026 | The Diner | John Lynch | Slasher |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Dweller in Darkness | Sam Flynn | Dark fantasy |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Out of Body | Chris Vanjonack | Horror collection |
| 22 Sep 2026 | The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night | Joshua Chaplinsky | Supernatural |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Mazywood | Tananarive Due | Psychological |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Saw: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book | Vance Kelly (illustrator) | Horror movie novelty book |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Sometimes I Scare Myself | Jeneva Rose | Horror collection |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Traps and Specters | Philip Fracassi | Horror collection |
| 29 Sep 2026 | The Man of Wind and Moss | Alex Gonzalez | Supernatural |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Nightjars | Michael Wehunt | Vampire |
| 29 Sep 2026 | The Ship of Death | Kyle Winkler | Supernatural |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Silent Nightmares | Chuck Palahniuk & Michael Bailey (editors) | Ghost horror anthology |
| 29 Sep 2026 | The Siren | Tomi Adeyemi | Dark academia |
| 29 Sep 2026 | The Sisters of Crimson House | Melissa Anderson Sweazy | Psychological |
| 29 Sep 2026 | The Unhaunting | Micaiah Johnson | Haunted house |
| 30 Sep 2026 | The Nest Los Angeles Book 3 of The Nest Series | Conrad Jones | Creature |
October 2026
| Release date | Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026 | Twisted Pike | David Barnett | Folk |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Amityville Awakens | Robert P. Ottone | Haunted house |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Carrying | Samantha Josephs | Psychological |
| 6 Oct 2026 | The Cracks | T.H. Huddleston | Gothic |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Interview with the Vampire: 50th Anniversary Edition | Anne Rice | Vampire |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Other Worlds Than These Book 3 of The Talisman | Stephen King & Peter Straub | Psychological |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Portrait of a Haunting | Madison Tyler Nelson | Ghost |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Sleepers in the Snow | Joanne Harris | Haunted house |
| 6 Oct 2026 | What Feeds Below | Tatiana Schlote-Bonne | YA dark fantasy |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Winter’s Teeth | R.A. Betzer | Supernatural |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Nightmare Burger | Joshua Pruett | Creature |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Phantom Limb | Brian Everson | Psychological |
| 13 Oct 2026 | The Woman of the House | Kate Mooney | Psychological |
| 20 Oct 2026 | The Turning of Sally-Mae | Nuzo Onoh | Supernatural |
| 20 Oct 2026 | You’re No Better | Andrew Joseph White | Coming of age |
| 27 Oct 2026 | The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales, Volume One | Marvel | Vampire comics collection |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Public Access Afterworld | Jane Schoenbrun | Supernatural |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Soulhider | Dan Aykroyd | Sci-fi |
| 30 Oct 2026 | House | Christian Francis | Haunted house horror movie novelization |
November 2026
| Release date | Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | There Are No Giant Crabs in this Novel Book 5 of John Dies at the End | Jason Pargin | Cosmic comedy |
| 3 Nov 2026 | This Never Happened | Jessica Clem | Psychological |
| 10 Nov 2026 | Silent Night, Deadlier Night | Armando Muñoz | Slasher |
2027
| Release date | Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2027 | She’s Waiting in the Corridor Book 1 of Terribilis | Acacia Daniels | Military sci-fi |
| 9 Mar 2027 | Ears | Stephen Graham Jones | Haunted house |
| 9 Mar 2027 | The End Times: Volume 1 | Benjamin Percy & Stephen King | Post-apocalyptic |
| 16 Mar 2027 | Stormraven | Kelsea Yu | Gothic |
| 23 Mar 2027 | Brute | Eric LaRocca | Splatterpunk |
| 11 May 2027 | The Heretics Book 2 of The Devils | Joe Abercrombie | Dark fantasy |
| 27 Jul 2027 | Can’t You See It’s Coming? | Versify | Horror anthology |
| 1 Aug 2027 | How to Survive Camping: The Beast Book 4 of How to Survive Camping | Bonnie Quinn | Cosy summer camp |
Updated: 4 July 2026
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