Books in the Freezer - A Horror Fiction Podcast

Best Horror Books of 2025 with Anna Dupre

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2025 has come to an end, so that means it’s time to break down our standout reads of the year. I am joined by my friend, fellow podcaster and reviewer, Anna Dupre of the Anna Rose Reads Podcast. This was a year full of cannibalism, sweeping historicals, and weird little horny books, so a great year!

Books Mentioned:
Short Story Collections/ Anthologies
  • Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper
  • Mystery Lights by Lena Valencia
  • You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi (translated by Chris Andrews)
  • The Poorly Made and Other Things by Sam Rebelein
  • Oddbody by Rose Keating
  • PUNK goes HORROR: A Mixtape Anthology edited by William Sterling
  • It’s the End of the World As We Know It: New Tales from Stephen King’s Stand edited by Brian Keene and Christopher Golden
    • Graphic Novels
    • A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
    • Saint Catherine by Anna Meyer
    • Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Hogarth
      • Young Adult Horror
      • Showstopper by Lily Anderson
      • Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
      • The Overnight (#3) by RL Stine
        • Middle Grade Horror
        • Ride or Die by Delilah S. Dawson 
        • Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell
        • Another by Paul Tremblay
        • Broken Dolls by Ally Malinenko
          • Non-Fiction
          • Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread by Layla Taylor
          • There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
          • Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism by Eleanor Johnson
          • The Midcentury Kitchen: America’s Favorite Room, from Workspace to Dreamscape, 1940s-1970s by Sarah Archer

            • Non-Horror

            • Blob : A Love Story by Maggies Su
            • The Favorites by Layne Fargo
            • The Wedding People by Allison Espach
            • Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan

              • Horror Novella

              • Spread Me by Sarah Gailley
              • The Film You Are About to See by Hailey Newlin

                • Horror Debut

                • Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
                • The Lamb by Lucy Rose 
                • House of Beth by Kerry Cullen 
                • Good Boy by Neil McRobert   

                  • Horror Novel

                  • Blood On Her Tongue by Johanna Van Veen
                  • Immaculate Conception by LIng Ling Huang
                  • When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
                  • Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
                  • Play Nice by Rachel Harrison 
                  • Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
                  • Of Flesh and Blood: The Untold Story of the Cajun Cannibal by NL Lavin and Hunter Burke
                  • Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi Demeester
                  • What Hunger by Catherine Dang
                  • Itch! By Gemma Amor
                  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
                  • King Sorrow by Joe Hill
                    • Final Girl Song

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