Most Anticipated 2026 Horror Book Releases

So this is the new year

Welcome to 2026 listeners, it's looking like we are in for another great year of horror full of fresh voices and terrors.

It's the perfect time to join the Books in the Freezer Reading Challenge. 

Books Mentioned: 

• This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
• Pig Wife by Abbey Luck
• A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James
• I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by Robert Brockway
• Mama Came Callin' by Ezra Clayton Daniels
• Cruelty Free by Caroline Glenn
• Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaeffer
• The Body by Bethany C. Morrow
• For Human Use by Sarah G. Pierce
• How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson
• Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward
• Dollface by Lindy Ryan
• Greedy by Callie Kazumi
• Dead First by Johnny Compton 
• First Date by Gemma Amor
• Sweetside Motel by E.L. Chen
• You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado
• Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran
• Wretch: or the Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca
• Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson
• Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas
• Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
• Molka by Monika Kim
• Bodies of Work by Clay McLeod Chapman
• The Seventh Sister by Dawn Kurtagich
• Odessa by Gabrielle Sher
• The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
• Shy Girl by Mia Ballard
• Not Your Final Girl by Mikayla Randolph
• Accumulation by Aimee Pokwata
• Make Me Better by Sarah Gailley
• Femme Feral by Sam Beckbessinger
• Headlights by CJ Leede
• Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay

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