There are so many great horror books coming out in 2023, and I’m hoping that the following running list will be sufficient enough to include all of the releases of which I am aware. 2023 is going to be a great year for literary horror, and I am so excited to share these releases with you!

Due to the length of the list, instead of including synopses, I have linked each book to either Amazon, Goodreads, or the publisher’s/author’s website – whichever is most readily available. Just click on a book if you would like to learn more about it and you will be redirected!

This list will continually be updated as I learn of more releases. Keep checking back for updates!

If you are a horror publisher/author/etc. and would like your book included in this running list, please fill out this form.

January 2023

• Jan 1 – Guests by Kealan Patrick Burke – Elderlemon Press
• Jan 1 – The White Horse by Rebecca Harrison – Spooky House Press
• Jan 1 – Terror Forming by Paul Sheppard 
• Jan 3 – The Stranded by Sarah Daniels – Sourcebooks Fire
• Jan 3 – The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone – Scribner Book Company
• Jan 3 – Mouse Trap by Caryn Larrinaga – Timber Ghost Press
• Jan 5 – Always Listen To Her Hurt: Collected Works by Kenzie Jennings – Blistered Siren Press
• Jan 10 – Fear: Author’s Preferred Edition by Ronald Kelly – Crossroad Press
• Jan 10 – The Nightmare Man by J. H. Markert – Crooked Lane Books
• Jan 13 – Red Rains Down by Ryan Harville – Self Published
• Jan 17 – Inside the Devils Nest by John Durgin – D&T Publishing
• Jan 17 – How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix – Berkley Books
• Jan 17 – Extended Stay by Juan Martinez – University of Arizona Press
• Jan 17 – Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt – Tor Nightfire
• Jan 24 – All Hallows by Christopher Golden – St. Martin’s Press
• Jan 24 – In the End, Nothing: A Short Story Collection by Michael Patrick Hicks – High Fever Books
• Jan 25 – AHH! That’s What I Call Horror: An Anthology of ‘90s Horror edited by Chelsea Pumpkins
• Jan 27 – Three-Smile Mile by Chad Lutzke – Self Published
• Jan 31 – Exiles by Jane Harper – Flatiron Books
• Jan 31 – The Drift by C.J. Tudor – Ballantine Books
• Jan (estimated) – Forbidden Magic: The Cellar Door Issue #2 edited by Aric Sundquist – Dark Peninsula Press

February 2023

• Feb 2 – Melinda West: Monster Gunslinger by KC Grifant – Brigids Gate Press
• Feb 3 – Gothic by Philip Fracassi – Cemetery Dance
• Feb 7 – Such Pretty Flowers by K. L. Cerra – Bantam
• Feb 7 – The Spite House by Johnny Compton – Tor Nightfire
• Feb 7 – Don’t Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones – Saga Press
• Feb 7 – Woe to Those Who Dwell on Earth by John Lynch – High Explosive Horror
• Feb 7 – Wasps in the Ice Cream by Tim McGregor – Raw Dog Screaming Press
• Feb 7 – The Night Begins by by Abigail F. Taylor – Luna Press Publishing
• Feb 17 – Deep by Aquino Loayza – Self Published
• Feb 17 – Churn The Soil by Steve Stred – Black Void Publishing
• Feb 20 – HorrorScope: A Zodiac Horror – (editor) H. Everend
• Feb 21 – The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle – Flame Tree Press
• Feb 21 – Alien: Enemy of My Enemy: An Original Novel Based on the Films by Mary SanGiovanni – Titan Books
• Feb 21 – Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder – Tor Nightfire
• Feb 21 – A Blackness Absolute by Caitlin Marceau
• Feb 28 – She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran – Bloomsbury
• Feb (estimated) – The Suffering by MJ Mars – Wicked House

March 2023

• Mar 1 – OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror 
• Mar 3 – The Shadow Galaxy by J. Dianne Dotson – Trepidatio Publishing
• Mar 3 – Every Woman Knows This by Laurel Hightower – Death Knell Press
• Mar 7 – The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca – Titan Books
• Mar 9 – This One’s Gonna Hurt by Cody J. Thompson – Black Rose Writing
• Mar 9 – Hell on High by Michael Clark – Brigids Gate Press, LLC
• Mar 14 – Piñata: A Novel by Leopoldo Gout – Tor Nightfire
• Mar 14 – Red London by Alma Katsu – G.P. Putnam’s Sons
• Mar 15 – Suburban Monsters by Christopher Hawkins – Coronis Publishing
• Mar 21 – Nocturnal Liberation by Villimey Mist – Macabre Maiden Press
• Mar 21 – The Shoemaker’s Magician by Cynthia Pelayo – Agora Books
• Mar 23 – The Sum Of Your Flesh by Beverley Lee – Ink Raven Press
• Mar 28 – A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher – Tor Nightfire

April 2023

• Apr 4 – The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown – Tor Nightfire
• Apr 4 – LINGHUN by Ai Jiang – Dark Matter
• Apr 11 – The Atonement Bell by Jim Ousley – Red 5 Premium
• Apr 18 – The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro – Del Rey Books
• Apr 18 – Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror by Lor Gislason (editor) – Ghoulish Books
• Apr 18 – The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan – ECW Press
• Apr 20 –  Tales From The Southern Fried Crypt – Book Two by Ronald Kelly – Macabre Ink
• Apr (estimated) – Neverest by T.L. Bodine – Ghost Orchid Press

May 2023

• May 2 – The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw – Tor Nightfire
• May 2 – Conjuring the Witch by Jessica Leonard – Ghoulish Books
• May 13 – Citizens of Shadow: A Vampire Tale (Beguiled by Night Book 2) by Nicole Eigener – Polidori Press
• May 23 – The Devil’s Pocketbook by Ross Jeffery – DarkLit Press
• May 30 – The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro – Page Street Publishing
• May (estimated) – This World Belongs To Us: An Anthology of Horror Stories About Bugs – From Beyond Press
• May (estimated) – The Devil Within Us All by William Gray – Wicked House Publishing

June 2023

• Jun 6 – Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca – Clash Books
• Jun 6 – Maeve Fly by CJ Leede – Tor Nightfire
• Jun 20 – Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin – Tor Nightfire

July 2023

• Jul 4 – The Others of Edenwell by Verity M.Holloway – Titan
• Jul 11 – Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi – Tor Nightfire
• Jul 11– Those We Drown by Amy Goldsmith – Penguin Random House
• Jul 11 – The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay – William Morrow & Company
• Jul 18 – Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Random House
• Jul 25 – The Legend of Charlie Fish by Josh Rountree – Tachyon Publications

August 2023

• Aug 8 – The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan – Saga Press
• Aug 8 – 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann – Page Street Publishing
• Aug 8 – Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward – Tor Nightfire

September 2023

• Sep 5– Fever House by Keith Rosson – Random House
• Sep 8 – Last Stay by Brennan LaFaro – D&T Publishing
• Sep 12– Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison – Berkley Books
• Sep 26 – Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig – Del Rey
• Sep (estimated) – Inked In Blood 2- Once Upon a Crime by Z2 Comics

October 2023

• Oct 10 – Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E. M. Roy – Ghoulish Books
• Oct 31 – Pre-Approved for Haunting by Patrick Barb – Keylight Books
• Oct 31 – Nestlings by Nat Cassidy – Tor Nightfire

November 2023

• Nov 7 – Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree – Tor Books
• Nov 14 – Saint Grit by Kayli Scholz – Ghoulish Books

December 2023

• Dec (estimated) – The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas – Atria Books

Which of these horror releases are you most excited for? Let me know in the comments!