Top Horror Novels in 2025

Merfolk: A thrilling book by the new master of horror (World's Scariest Legends 4)

A renowned marine biologist’s search for creatures known only in myths and legends turns deadly when the hunters become the hunted.

In the Garden of Spite: A Novel of the Black Widow of La Porte

They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams - their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte.

The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she'd given up, what was taken from her, how she'd suffered, surely they'd understand. Belle Gunness learned a long time ago that a woman has to make her own way in this world.

The Book of Accidents: A Novel

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there.

Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.

What Big Teeth

Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds.

The Pariah

The quaint little seaside town of Granitehead seemed like a perfect place for John and Jane Trenton to start their life together. But disaster strikes and Jane and their unborn child are killed. John's grief is total, so when he starts to see the ghostly apparition of his wife he almost welcomes this supernatural phenomenon.

Our Last Echoes

Melissa Albert meets Twin Peaks in this supernatural thriller about one girl's hunt for the truth about her mother's disappearance.

In 1973, the thirty-one residents of Bitter Rock disappeared. In 2003, so did my mother. Now, I've come to Bitter Rock to find out what happened to her--and to me. Because Bitter Rock has many ghosts. And I might be one of them.

The Devil's Game: A Mystery Action Thriller Novel

An ancient secret sect. A devastating curse.

When Michael plays Roulette for the first time in his life he starts foreseeing the winning numbers. Unbeknownst to him, his gift unleashes a murdering curse.

Suddenly chased by a satanic sect, he uncovers his curse is linked to the game of roulette and the most evil of all entities in human history, the Devil.

With the help of Amanda, a beautiful and mysterious demonologist, Michael tries to stop the curse and prevent the sect of fulfilling their ultimate goal – have the Devil rule over us.

Helme House: A Troubled Spirits Novel

When Rowan and her family move into the 1800s home nestled in the woods on a bluff near Lake Michigan, she's looking forward to a summer reprieve. However, she soon discovers that Helme House harbors dark secrets including people who have vanished from the house and never been found.

As Rowan digs into the history of Helme House a series of troubling experiences soon become deadly.

You'll Thank Me for This: A Novel

A pulse-pounding psychological thriller based on the popular Dutch tradition of blindfolding and dropping teens and pre-teens in the middle of a forest — and what happens when it goes horribly wrong.

Twelve-year old Karin is blindfolded and dropped into the Hoge Veluwe National Forest with three other children. With nothing but a few basic supplies and emergency food, the children are tasked with working together to navigate one of the Netherlands' most beautiful and wild locations and return to where their families are anxiously waiting.

Karin quickly finds herself at odds with two of the older teens, and suddenly looks up to see that the other children have vanished. As Karin struggles against the elements to find her way back, she soon realizes that something far more sinister lurks in the woods.

Evil Eye: A Slasher Story

During the eye of a hurricane, evil strikes.

"The author paints a flawless image...Even the most cynical or jaded of readers won't possibly be able to predict the manner in which each is slaughtered." - HorrorNews.Net

Six strangers get stuck on an island during a roaring hurricane. They have nothing in common, but five of them will have to join forces to survive the night. Meanwhile, the sixth wants nothing more than to kill every single one of them.