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.
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.
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.
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.
Nowhere Burningby Catriona Ward
Oct 7, Nightfire
Home isnt always a safe place.