28 More Horror Books to Read in 2023

Last October I brought you 20 Horror Books to Read in 2023, and that post is doing so well that I decided to share another awesome bunch of books being released this year!

A few notes about this list. I’m only featuring books whose covers have been revealed. There are plenty of horror books on my radar that don’t have covers yet, which means I may do another post like this in a few months.

This list isn’t complete by a long shot. In general, I do not read self-published books (no haters, please), so most of these are from traditional or small press publishers. Also, I had to limit my selections or this post would be way too long, so not everything I’m aware of and want to read made it onto the list. Finally, I’m only sharing adult horror, so I haven’t included any YA (perhaps YA deserves its own list!) Feel free to let me know in the comments about any books I missed that you’re excited for!

I’m linking the titles to Goodreads, where you can read the full description and add books to your TBR if you’d like. Release dates are subject to change! Here are 28 upcoming horror releases I’m excited to read (listed by release date):

The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward. March 7th (Poisoned Pen Press). For generations they have died young. Now Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Their disease confines them to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor; their disease means they must die alone. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love. And only then do they discover the true horror of the Vallarca curse.

Dark and Lonely Water by Graeme Reynolds. March 10th (Crystal Lake Publishing). When Samantha Ashlyn is forced to return to her home town to write an article on a series of drownings, she initially resists, finding disturbing similarities to her childhood experiences. However, once she starts looking into the assignment, she finds things are not what they seem. An ancient evil is rising again, aided by what appears to be a centuries-old conspiracy to keep it hidden.

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. March 7th (Zando). A thought-provoking meditation on grief, acceptance, and the monstrous sides of love and loyalty, Gerardo Sámano Córdova blends bold imagination and evocative prose with deep emotional rigor. Told in four acts that span the globe from Brooklyn to Berlin, Monstrilio offers, with uncanny clarity, a cathartic and precise portrait of being human.

Neverest by T.L. Bodine. April 25th (Ghost Orchid Press). One year ago, Sean Miller—journalist and mountain climbing enthusiast—reached the summit of Mount Everest and was never seen again. Unable to move on without knowing the truth of what happened, his widow Carrie insists on an expedition to search for Sean’s body so it can be properly laid to rest.

Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca. June 6th (CLASH Books). An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained.

Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin. June 20th (Tor Nightfire). Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrous we can be to the ones we love most.

Burn the Negative by Josh Winning. July 11th (G.P. Putnam’s Sons). An homage to slasher films with a fresh take on the true price of fame, Burn the Negative is a twisty thriller best read with the lights on.

Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi. July 11th (Tor Nightfire). The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass, in Boys in the Valley, a brilliant coming-of-age tale from award-winning author Philip Fracassi.

Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates. July 11th (Poisoned Pen Press). From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run.

Sucker by Daniel Hornsby. July 11th (Anchor Books). Bad Blood meets Succession in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who’s running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises.

They Lurk by Ronald Malfi. July 18th (Titan Books). From the bestselling author of Come with Me, five collected novellas from the master of terror, featuring possession, parasites and something monstrous lurking outside…

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. July 18th (Del Rey Books). From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film–and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. July 18th (Tor Nightfire). From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.

Unquiet by E. Saxey. July 18th (Titan Books). A young woman discovers her long-thought dead brother-in-law in her garden and sets about unravelling the mysterious circumstances of his disappearance in this gripping and unsettling Victorian gothic horror, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Sarah Waters.

Mister Magic by Kiersten White. August 1st (Del Rey Books). Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show -and discover the secret of its enigmatic host -in this dark supernatural thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.

Lucuna’s Point by Tim Meyer. August 2nd (DarkLit Press). Three years ago, Ellie Brower’s daughter went missing somewhere in the heart of Virginia. Today, Ellie receives a mysterious text message that leads her to believe her daughter might still be alive. She follows this rabbit hole to the coastal town of Lacuna’s Point.

The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter & Andrew F. Sullivan. August 8th (Gallery/Saga Press). When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house. The trials of home improvement, destructive insecurities, and haunted house horror all collide in this thrilling story perfect for fans of Nick Cutter’s bestsellers The Troop and The Deep.

Fever House by Keith Rosson. August 15th (Random House). When a dangerous relic with devastating powers goes missing in the streets of Portland, a former rock star and her son must race against time to uncover its secrets—or risk the destruction of humanity—in this thrilling masterpiece of horror.

Spin a Black Yarn by Josh Malerman. August 15th (Del Rey Books). Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. August 29th (Berkley). Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.

Schrader’s Chord by Scott Leeds. September 5th (Tor Nightfire). Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader’s Chord, Scott Leed’s chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.

Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong. September 12th (St. Martin’s Press). Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it’s the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who’ve fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet, as though someone tried to claw their way out…and failed.

Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian. September 19th (Tor Nightfire). From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the bend.

Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig. September 26th (Del Rey Books). A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents.

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand. October 3rd (Mulholland Books). From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever authorized novel to return to the world of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House: a suspenseful, contemporary, and terrifying story of longing and isolation all its own.

The Daughters of Block Island by Christa Carmen. October 10th (Thomas & Mercer). In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an island mansion lures two sisters into a spiderweb of scandal, secrets, and murder.

A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather. October 31st (Tordotcom). In 17th-century London, unnatural babies are being born: some with eyes made for the dark, others with webbed fingers and toes better suited to the sea.

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. October 31st (Gallery/Saga Press). A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

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Let me know if you’re excited for any of these books:-D