Welcome to 2025!

This is the semi-annual Horror Preview episode, with my treasured guests Becky Spratford and Emily Hughes. Every six months, we gather to share with you all the extensive list of books we’re looking forward to in 2025. As is tradition, we talk about six months at a time, so I’m so excited to share with you all 36 books that we talked about in this episode, covering January to June of 2025.

Emily and Becky are the guests for these episodes because they are unrivaled in knowledge of horror literature. Emily as the legendary curator of her annual list of horror publications (CLICK HERE), and Becky because she’s the Horror Maven of the library world. She often hears about it first, reads about it first, and talks about it first. She’s no oracle, she works so hard to anticipate, read, and shout praise for all of the books that are changing the world of horror (CLICK HERE).

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The List

January

Witchcraft For Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

At Dark I become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman

Our Winter Monster by Dennis Mahoney

The Contortionist’s Handbook by Craig Clevenger

Metamorphosis by Ross Jeffrey

February

Listen To Your Sister by Neena Viel

The Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam Rebelein

Beauty in the Blood by Charlotte Carter

Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstein

The Pink Agave Motel by V Castro

Little Mysteries by Sara Gran

March

Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo

The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T Wurth

rekt by Alex Gonzalez

The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica

The Memory Ward by Jon Bassoff

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter boy Stephen Graham Jones

April

When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

Freakslaw by Jane Flett

The Cut by CJ Dotson

The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling

Senseless by Ronald Malfi

May

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

The Butcher’s Daughter: There Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs Lovett by David Demchuk and Corrine Leigh Clark

Below the Grand Hotel by Cat Scully

Overgrowth by Mira Grant

The Night Birds by Christopher Golden

MaXXXine by Tim Waggoner

June

The Nut House by Patrick Barb

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Sola

Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda

Girl In The Creek by Wendy N Wagner

The Small Hours by Bob Pastorella

King of Ashes by SA Cosby

Buy These Books

Preorder all of the 2025 Horror Preview books on Bookshop.org.

I hope you enjoy this episode! 2025 is going to be packed with exciting new books, so get out there and start reading. If you have a book you’re excited about, let me know! Comment here, or on social media. I love to share things, so I love to hear about new things.

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