The most popular horror & supernatural books of 2025

Horror and supernatural fiction is written to unsettle you. Haunted houses, ancient curses, monsters and things that should not exist fill these books, along with quieter stories where the dread builds slowly. They range from a ghost story for a winter night to something truly frightening. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Hungerstone
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Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

2025 · 2026 edition

336 pages

Hazelthorn
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Hazelthorn

C. G. Drews

Published 2025

355 pages

Shroud
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Shroud

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Published 2025

436 pages

Hansel and Gretel
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Hansel and Gretel

Stephen King, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Published 2025

48 pages

Exiles
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Exiles

Mason Coile, Andrew Pyper

Published 2025

224 pages

Anima Rising
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Anima Rising

Christopher Moore

Published 2025

400 pages

Cold Eternity
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Cold Eternity

S.A. Barnes

2025 · 2026 edition

320 pages

Vantage Point
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Vantage Point

Sara Sligar

2025 · 2026 edition

400 pages

Rose of Jericho
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Rose of Jericho

Alex Grecian

2025 · 2026 edition

366 pages

Mere
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Mere

Danielle Giles

Published 2025

384 pages