2025 Horror Preview

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. Finally, if you’re more of a YouTube type of listener/viewer, this link is for you: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thearcparty.com/subscribe