2026 is going to be a great horror (and horror adjacent) year. I've been compiling a list over the last few weeks and it is LONG LONG LONG.

Here are 10 horror books I am looking forward to next year:

1. On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield, 1/27/26

   Southern Gothic, woods of Georgia, ghosts, haints and truths

2. Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick, 1/27/26

   Eco-horror about a Black woman returning home to the redwoods of Northern California (going there in two weeks! my favorite place) and unearthing monsters, environmental destruction, botanical and psychological horror

3. A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James, 1/20/26

   Siblings return to the house they fled 20 years ago. Return to a familiar setting in The Sundown Motel

4. This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud, 1/27/26

   Ireland's Great Famine, a young woman is offered a position in a remote manor

5. This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers, 1/13/26

   The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later , a traumatized woman has to survive the zombie apocalypse

6. Maria The Wanted by V. Castro, 2/10/26

   A would-be immigrant turned vampire in Mexico is wanted by the cartel, an Aztec trafficker and the Devil she can't resist

7. A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis, 2/10/26

   A young gardener at an English manor falls in love with her employer, deadly secrets, sapphic gothic

8. The Fall of Iris Henley by Jennifer Graham, 2/24/26

   A Texas Teen accused of murder, reddit, Veronica Mars Author

9. Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer, 2/10/26

   A trad wife influencer allows a demonic creature to impregnate her

10. Cruelty Free by Carolina Glenn, 2/3/26

    A disgraced movie star returns to Hollywood 10 years after the kidnapping of her young daughter to seek revenge, grief, womanhood, toxic beauty standards, satire