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Looking for your next horror read? You’re in the right place.
This Year in Horror 2026 rounds up the best new horror books and upcoming horror book releases of the year, from creepy haunted houses and supernatural nightmares to body horror, psychological horror, monsters, and things that should probably stay buried.
read more about my june horror picks in This Month in Horror
White Rabbit by Abigail Rose-Marie
Fear Files: Hide and Seek by Christopher Edge
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Check back throughout the year for more 2026 horror book releases and new titles to add to your ever-growing TBR. Because apparently we haven’t learned our lesson about bringing more nightmares home.
This list contains mostly horror, but you also might find some dark fantasy, fairytale-inspired, young adult, and middle grade reads.
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!
Hemlock by Melissa Faliveno
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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
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
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A Forest, Darkly by A.G. Slatter
Dead First by Johnny Compton
Grace by A.M. Shine
House of Splinters by Laura Purcell
Dead First by Johnny Compton
Grace by A.M. Shine
House of Splinters by Laura Purcell
The Denizens by Brendan LaFaro
Temple Fall by R.L. Boyle
You Have To Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer
Temple Fall by R.L. Boyle
You Have To Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer
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read more about my March horror picks in This Month in Horror
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Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World BY Daniel Kraus
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Wolf Worm BY T. Kingfisher
read more about my april horror picks in This Month in Horror
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read more about my May horror picks in This Month in Horror
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I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detour by Nat Cassidy
Intercepts by T. J. Payne
Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka
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The Blood Year Daughter by G.G. Silverman
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Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda
Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey
Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger
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The Temptation of Charlotte North by Camilla Bruce
Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Salomé by Leslie Baird
Filth Eaters by Ito Romo
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House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Bone of My Bone by Johanna van Veen
Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun
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Grief Eater by Emma Osborne
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Backstabbers by Eliza Jabore
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Women of the Weird West by KC Grifant
Try Not to Die: In Slattery Falls by Brennan LaFaro
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Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh
the infested by Renée Lake
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Crater Girl by Polly Schattel
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The Echo of Monsters by David. H. Rankin
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The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager White Rabbit by Abigail Rose-Marie
Fear Files: Hide and Seek by Christopher Edge
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read more about my august horror picks in This Month in Horror
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There Used to Be People Here by Kennedy Cole
The Whispering by L. A. Detwiler
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Woodfeast by Meg Ripley
Revenge Plot by Stephanie Wrobel
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Pinfeathers by Christina Henry
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