This Year in Horror || 2026

Welcome to 2026 horror friends! It's time again to dust off your TBR and add the newest horror books being published in 2026. Here are some of the year's upcoming releases from all your favorite authors and new authors for you to discover. I love compiling this year every year even though it truly is a labor of love. It lets me plan out my reading for the year and I hope it's helpful for you as well!

This list contains mostly horror but you also might find some dark fantasy, fairytaleby inspired, young adult, and middleby grade reads. 

Looking for previous years' list? You can find those here: 2025, 2024, 2023 , 2022, and 2021.

Looking for a specific book or author? Use Ctrl + F to search through this page. 

Note: Publishing dates can change! I'll update dates and add new books as I see them throughout the year, but if I miss something, let me know! 

If you have a book releasing this year and want to get on the list, click here and I'll get you added!

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The Wind Witch Murders by Casey Dunn 

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Lyla, in the Flesh by Nick Roberts 

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The Shapes of Our Screams by TT Madden 

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The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski 

Porcelain Lullaby by Blaine Daigle 

Hemlock by Melissa Faliveno

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We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower 

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Ballad of the Bone Road by A.C. Wise 

This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud 
On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield 
The Soil is Calling by C.P. Bearden 
We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone by ronald malfi

I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway

We Who Have No Gods by Liza Anderson

Funeral Song by Carly Racklin

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The Darkness Greeted Her by Christina Ferko 

the Only One Who Knows by Lisa M. Matlin

Cruelty Free by Caroline Glenn

The Bone Queen by Will Shindler

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how to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson

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The Body by Bethany C. Morrow 

A Forest, Darkly by A.G. Slatter 
Dead First by Johnny Compton 
Grace by A.M. Shine 
House of Splinters by Laura Purcell

A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis 
Maria the Wanted by V. Castro

first date by gemma amor

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The Rise: Tales From The Gulp 3 by Alan Baxter

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The Denizens by Brendan LaFaro
Temple Fall by R.L. Boyle 
You Have To Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer 

Bloodfire, Baby by Eirinie Carson

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The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes

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Dollface by Lindy Ryan

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

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Wilson by jack finn

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Don't touch the stitches by Winter Ashwood

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Small Town Slasher BY Stephanie Rose

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Cabaret in Flames BY Hache Pueyo

The Midnight Muse BY Jo Kaplan 

Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World BY Daniel Kraus 

Spoiled Milk BY Avery Curran 

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom BY Vincent Tirado

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Cold Snap BY Angela Sylvaine

Innamorata BY Ava Reid 

Long Drives & Lonesome Roads BY John Evans

Mother is Watching BY Karma Brown 

Only Spell Deep BY Ava Morgyn

Crawlspace by Adam Christopher

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Wolf Worm BY T. Kingfisher

Wretch BY Eric LaRocca 

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Monumental by Adam Nevill

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The Boatman by Alex Grecian 

Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman 

Shy Girl by Mia Ballard

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The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste 

Invasive Species by Ellery Adams

Morsel by Carter Keane 

These Familiar Walls by CJ Dotson 

Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill

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The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker 

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Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart

How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains – Bonnie Quinn 

Molka by Monika Kim 

Pixerina: A Haunting by Joanne Anderton 

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She waits where shadows gather by michelle tang

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muntu by eugen bacon

Abyss by Nicholas Binge

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the dorians by nick butter

Decomposition Book by Sara van Os

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dead weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir

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The Sourdough Compendium: Dark and Dangerous Fairy Tales by A.G. Slatter

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It Came From Neverland by Cynthia Pelayo 

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Teeth by Dana Isaly

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Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay 

The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave

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Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle

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The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager 

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Carry Me to My Grave by Christopher Golden

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Them by W.H. Chizmar 

She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth

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Lights! Camera! Frendo! by Adam Cesare (Book 4 of Clown in a Cornfield)

The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty

The Halls of the Dead by S. M. Hallow

And the Sea Gave Up the Dead by William Friend 

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Blood Rising by Markus Redmond

The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims

The Unheld by Luke Larkin

The Devil Knows Her Name by C.N. Vair

  

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Scratch Moss by David Barnett

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Pictures of You by Josh Malerman

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Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Rooted by Leopoldo Goût 

Something of a Calling by Zoje Stage

A Thousand Monstrous Forms by Saratoga Schaefer

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our cut of salt by deena helm

Incarnate by Alma Katsu

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it pierces by jack finn

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The Sisters of Crimson House by Melissa Anderson Sweazy

Nightjars by Michael Wehunt 

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Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw

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House Haunters by KC Jones 

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Pretty Bird by Hilary Faktor

Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe 

Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling

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The Unhaunting by Micaiah Johnson

Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong 

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This Never Happened by Jessica Clem 

Clear Water by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

Monsters: An Anthology of Short Fiction 

There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs by Jason Pargin

Coming soon