JANUARY 2025 Horror Book Releases (Available for Pre-Order)
Welcome back to the January edition of new spooky reads for nice people! There are a lot of exciting, upcoming releases in the next few weeks from popular authors, like Grady Hendrix & Clay McLeod Chapman, and a wide range of horror sub-genres!
If you are interested in pre-ordering any of these titles, all the books are linked for pre-order and the books will ship to your address once they are released 🖤
Otherwise, leave a comment & let us know which January releases you are excited to try!
07 January 2025 Releases
A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young
Paranormal • Mystery Magical • Realism
After the unexpected death of a twin, the surviving twin goes to their deceased sibling’s home in a secluded town to settle their affairs and must confront ghosts from their shared supernatural past.
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
Dystopian • Thriller • Sci-Fi
A post-apocalyptic thriller set on the rooftop of New York's Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.
Lies on the Serpent’s Tongue (Book II) by Kate Pearsall
*Book I: Bittersweet in the Hollow
Supernatural • Domestic • Mystery
A girl’s supernatural abilities uncovers the mysteries of her remote Appalachian town & whispers of a new monster on the prowl.
Voice like a Hyacinth by Mallory Pearson
Occult • Dark Fantasy • Supernatural
A group of young art students serve as muses for one another, eventually resorting to the occult for creative inspiration and learn there is a violent price to pay for their ritual.
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
Occult • Demonic Possession • Psychological
A family is on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that is being spread by far-right media.
Wicked Jenny by Matt Hilton
Supernatural • Urban Legend • Crime
A group of young teens witness a brutal murder at a flooded railway line, the crime goes unpunished and the witnesses' lives unravel as they must confront if this the horror from their childhoods was committed by a wicked man or something more paranormal.
13 January 2025 Releases
Lupus in Fabula by Briar Ripley Page
Monsters • Short Stories • LGBTQAI+
A short story collection (13 stories) that interplay lust, grief and violence while falling in love or becoming monsters.
14 January 2025 Releases
Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin
Psychological • Domestic • Supernatural
A mother must confront her maternal instinct after the violent death of their babysitter that involves her daughter, the other becomes obsessed as the daughter begins to adopt the deceased babysitter’s behavior.
Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias
Paranormal • Destination • Young Adult
A young woman is looking to reinvent herself and discover her mother’s heritage by moving to Jamaica, where she becomes an au pair for a wealthy family in a haunted estate.
The Stones of Landane by Catherine Cavendish
Paranormal • Destination • Folk
A couple takes a relaxing weekend getaway to the countryside where the girlfriend becomes more than just entranced by an ancient Neolithic stone circle, the stones demonstrate possession over the girlfriend and bring back ghosts from the past.
Strange Pictures by Uketsu
Psychological • Supernatural • Crime
A Japanese best-selling murder mystery explores an amateur sleuth discovering the horrifying and supernatural reality of a murder victim by their final sketch.
Vantage Point by Sarah Sliger
Thriller • Domestic • Gothic
A cursed, old-money family untangles a web of family secrets and political ambition that explores the topic of “truth” in the digital age.
The Way Up is Death by Dan Hanks
Dark Fantasy • Paranormal • Dystopian
A mysterious tower appears in the skies over England, thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives to ascend to the tower through many layers of horror.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Thriller • Witchcraft • Domestic
A group of unwed, pregnant girls are forced into secluded manor by their families until their babies can be adopted and forgotten; until one of the girls is given an occult book of witchcraft and regains the power taken from them.
15 January 2025 Releases
The Home by Judith Sonnet
Supernatural • Cosmic • LGBTQAI+
A haunted house with a morbid history reunites humans and spirits from different timelines that all have connections to this wicked place for blood and sacrifice.
Vicious by Chloe Spencer
Dark Fantasy • Domestic • LGBTQAI+
A new school board member cannot wait to begin a new life with her girlfriend, but secrets are revealed through a viral TikTok and her less than perfect body disposal after an accomplice-turned-enemy is killed.
21 January 2025 Releases
Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie Dove
Supernatural • Mystery • Indigenous
A former Chicago detective moves back to her nation’s reservation following the death of her daughter, discovering there may be supernatural forces behind the disappearances of several Indigenous women from the reservation.
Our Own Unique Affliction by Scott Moses
Supernatural • Grief • Gothic
A dejected immortal navigating grief, family and murder while exploring her curse of eternal life.
Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales by Rebecca Cuthbert
Supernatural • Short Stories • Feminist
A collection of short stories united in a world of magic, both shadowed and bright.
Strange Stones by Edward Lee & Mary Sangiovanni
Cosmic • Supernatural • Lovecraft
An insufferable horror-con lurker & self-proclaimed H.P. Lovecraft critic angers a witchy, Lovecraft devotee and becomes cursed to a monstrous dimension full of Lovecraft creations.
The Thing that Happened When We were Little by Caroline Kelly Franklin
Psychological • Crime • Thriller
Three women survive a serial killer in their hometown during their childhood, but grapple with unleashing the truth behind their survival in adulthood.
23 January 2025 Release
The Other Side by Timothy Palmer
Psychological • Crime • Supernatural
A murdered detective chooses an afterlife in purgatory so he can watch over his surviving family, he encounters other lost souls on this plane and an ancient supernatural force that is hunting their souls.
28 January 2025 Releases
At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric Larocca
Grief • Supernatural • LGBTQAI+
A grieving man creates a supernatural ritual after the loss of his wife & child, when an unlikely victim for his next ritual forces him to explore a spiral of painful revelations and find new life through death.
At the Bottom of the Garden by Camilla Bruce
Dark Fantasy • Paranormal • Domestic
A murderess takes in her affluent, orphaned nieces in hopes to obtain their parents’ fortune, but issues arise when one of the nieces can see all of her ghosts.
Old Soul by Susan Barker
Supernatural • Historical • Grief
Two strangers that missed flights in Japan discover a mutual connection through a mysterious woman that is a source of brutally lost loved ones, one of them travels the world to find more chilling testimonies of this supernatural woman throughout the decades and the source of who, or what, this woman is.
Our Winter Monster by Dennis Mahoney
Creature • Domestic • Seasonal
A couple looking to reconnect escape to a ski resort for a weekend getaway, only to be terrorized by a creature that is destroying the tourist town and forcing the couple to explore the monsters within themselves.
