To help bookstores and libraries share titles in October and year-round, we’ve put together this roundup of fiction with elements of horror and the supernatural.
Walk the Night by David Armand
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | April 27, 2026
Distributor: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 978-1-68003-448-6
According to Kent Wascom, this novel is a “stone-cold classic of Southern Horror: the horror of lost childhood, the horror of parents’ voices raised and desperate in the next room, the horror of the past that lives within us all.”
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements
LittlePuss Press | January 27, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-964322-06-3
In Clements’s “electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts.”
Creature Publishing | October 14, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-965684-47-4
This horror novel “explores medical trauma through Irish folklore, asking ‘Can a sick woman ever be trusted?’”
The Patron Saint of White Menageries by Lauren T. Davila
Creature Publishing | September 1, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781951971458
In this magical-realism collection of short stories, Davila “cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams.”
This New Dark by Chase Dearinger
Belle Point Press | February 20, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781960215109
This debut novel “explores the haunted, broken hills of eastern Oklahoma, where over the course of just two cold days in November, the residents of Seven Suns will each face their own kind of weird.”
Let Gravity Seize the Dead by Darrin Doyle
Regal House Publishing | July 9, 2024
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9781646034451
This novella “is an intergenerational literary horror story featuring a blend of suspense, beauty, and terror.”
Deena Undone by Debra K. Every
Woodhall Press | October 8, 2024
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9781960456137
According to S. T. Joshi, this horror novel’s supernatural motif is “incorporated into a broader tale of searing domestic conflict fueled by love, betrayal, and hatred.”
Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Aunt Lute Books | October 14, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781951874094
Published alongside the 1872 classic vampire novella Carmilla, Gomez’s Caramelle “offers a supernatural alternate history where vampires seek love, laughter, and blood in 1860s slavery America.”
Other Shane Hintons by Shane Hinton
Burrow Press | October 31, 2025
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 9781941681350
This short fiction collection “follows eight Shane Hintons (not including the author) through the forking paths of a life, where visceral Florida realism meets the surreal and the absurd.”
Goblin Mode by Caroline Hagood
Santa Fe Writers Project | September 2, 2025
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 978-1-951631-49-9
In this novel, “the protagonist, who is and is not Caroline Hagood, takes a surreal odyssey through humor, horror, and plague-time Brooklyn.”
Translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott
Two Lines Press | May 14, 2024
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781949641592
Martínez’s debut novel is “class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the sun.”
Witches of the Wheel by Lindsay Merbaum
Creature Publishing | September 22, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781951971540
In this novel, a woman “stumbles into a job at The Wheel, a literally-underground lesbian bar where a coven gathers every Thursday and each entrance requires a painful sacrifice.”
Sundown in San Ojuela by M. M. Olivas
Lanternfish Press | November 19, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781941360750
According to Nalo Hopkinson, this horror novel is “a wild ride of brujas and old Aztec gods, chupacabras and haunted houses that gets stranger, darker, and more dire with each turn of the page.”
The Blood Year Daughter by G. G. Silverman
Creature Publishing | April 28, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-951971-41-0
According to Publishers Weekly, Silverman’s debut collection features twelve “fairy tale–inflected horror stories that center women and girls who survive, transform, and protect themselves in worlds shaped by violence and desire.”
Fieldmouse Press | May 26, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-956636-67-3
This graphic novel is a vampire horror romance “set somewhere in the future in a world where vampires are regarded as worthless parasites, objects of derision, and fetish objects.”
Pour One for the Devil: A Gothic Novella by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
Lanternfish Press | March 5, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781941360712
According to Kimberly Davis Basso, “What should be a simple visit by an academic to a Carolina island historical society becomes a gothic nightmare with a Chicago twist” in this novella.
