This month’s best new horror

Don't miss the best new horror from the past month, hand-picked by our editors! We've got a great selection of horror picks this month — including a mesmerizing new novel from Grady Hendrix, a bloody Victorian novel that's already been optioned for film, and more!

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	FEATURED IN: Rosemary's Baby by way of 1970s Florida WHY IT'S READWORTHY: An instant New York Times bestseller from "a horror master" (NPR) Sent away by their families, a group of teenage girls finally get a taste of power when they find a mysterious book… but what will it cost them? "A morally complex and genuinely haunting and moving tale. I couldn't put it down once I started" (Paul Tremblay) FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: 'If Patrick Bateman were a 19th-century English governess' (The New York Times) WHY IT'S READWORTHY: A24 has already snapped this one up for a movie starring Margaret Qualley The illustrious Pounds family has a new governess — and her patience for their entitlement and predatory behavior is wearing dangerously thin "This book will be the bloody belle of the 2025 literary ball" (Oprah Daily) FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: 'Darkly humorous… Fans of Jordan Peele's films will want to check this out' (Booklist) WHY IT'S READWORTHY: At an isolated cabin, Calla's vivid nightmares of her two brothers' deaths start to bleed into reality "The dread steadily intensifies, until the terrors burst it open" (Library Journal) This debut novel deftly entwines supernatural chills with real traumas of the Black American experience FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: Genre-bending literary horror for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Haruki Murakami WHY IT'S READWORTHY: After an unexpected encounter, Jake follows a trail around the world searching for a woman at the heart of centuries of mysterious deaths… "The slow-burning tension and lush, atmospheric prose build a creeping sense of dread that lingers long after the final page" (Publishers Weekly starred review) As insightful and emotionally rich as it is sinister and unsettling FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: 'Grimms' Fairy Tales meets Mommie Dearest' (Kirkus Reviews) WHY IT'S READWORTHY: Margot lives on the edge of the forest with her Mama — who welcomes strangers into the cottage to satisfy her gruesome hunger A dark fairy tale, gothic horror story, and unforgettable coming-of-age narrative all rolled into one "Grips all the way to an unexpected denouement that is as comfortless as it is eerie" (The Guardian) FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: 'The Purge ain't got nothin' on this' (Stephen Graham Jones) WHY IT'S READWORTHY: Across the nation, something is changing people into monsters — and it's coming through the televisions "Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today" (Jordan Peele) An intense and apocalyptic take on sociopolitical division FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: All the power grabs and paranoia of Succession — with a family curse thrown into the mix WHY IT'S READWORTHY: An affluent, ambitious family faces their imminent downfall amid secrets, sabotage, and the possibility that their misfortunes aren't entirely natural… "Oozes atmosphere and tension" (Jessica Knoll, author of Bright Young Women) Set on an island estate off the coast of Maine FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: From an anonymous author who only appears in a white mask (seriously, look him up) WHY IT'S READWORTHY: "A labyrinthine and multilayered horror mystery, full of cryptic images… Wonderfully complex and carefully crafted" (The New York Times Book Review) Comprised of interwoven stories of the occult and uncanny centered around a collection of eerie drawings Already a viral sensation in Japan, this translation marks the author's English-language debut FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: 'A genuinely disturbing matryoshka doll of a novel… LaRocca's best book yet' (Paul Tremblay) WHY IT'S READWORTHY: Ashley offers a unique service: He'll bury clients alive and dig them up again to offer a taste of rebirth. But his latest customer catches his attention in a whole new way… A dark, masterful treatise on grief, guilt, and loneliness "With scalpel-sharp prose and an imagination bleak as a starless night sky, Eric LaRocca is the reigning king of uncompromising, decadent horror" (Bram Stoker Award–winning author Tim Waggoner) FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more... FEATURED IN: Why is little Stella mimicking her dead babysitter? WHY IT'S READWORTHY: "Compelling and creepy, Clever Little Thing taps into the heart of maternal fear… This one will give you goose bumps" (Ashley Elston, New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins) This psychological chiller is told from the perspective of a mother faced with the impossible "A devilish good time" (Publishers Weekly) FEATURED IN: Get on Amazon or Learn more...
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