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).
Buy These Books
Preorder all of the 2025 Horror Preview books on Bookshop.org.
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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