The scariest monster of 2025 might be your to-read pile.

Here’s our pick of the year’s new creepy novels.

If the world isnt already scary enough, horror can provide a safe, controlled release of tension.

A selection of new horror movie book covers including Stephen King’s Never Flinch

Its no wonder, then, that today horror is more popular than ever.

Jones makes the bloodshed even more literal in this chilling vampire tale.

But its also as hypnotic and fun as the eeriest of campfire tales.

Book cover detail from: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has his musical (andTim Burtonmovie.)

Now, his meat pie-baking partner in Victorian crime gets her due in this grisly, evocative historical mystery.

Recurring King character Holly Gibney, fromMr.

Book cover detail from: rekt by Alex Gonzales

Ghosts and witches abound as a haunting echoes through three generations of extraordinary women.

Carmen and Blanca are in a loving but sexually dull marriage.

They rediscover their spark by reading strange passages from the playThe King in Yellow.

Book cover detail from: The Butcher’s Daughter by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark

Nowhere Burningby Catriona Ward

Oct 7, Nightfire

Home isnt always a safe place.

Book cover detail from: Never Flinch by Stephen King

Book cover detail from: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Book cover detail from: A Game in Yellow by Hailey Piper

Book cover detail from: The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt