October 2025 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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13 Months Haunted
by Jimmy Juliano
Piper Lowery, a public library clerk liaising with the local middle school, befriends Avery, the new 8th grader, but quickly realizes it might just be the worst decision she’s ever made. Because there’s something dark inside Avery Wallace, and it’s spreading...
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20th Century Ghosts: Stories
by Joe Hill
The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is the inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” (Washington Post).
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Departure 37
by Scott Carson
On a clear October day, the American skies empty after hundreds of pilots refuse to fly--each received a disturbing, middle-of-the-night call from their mothers, with a simple and urgent request: do not fly today. Except none of the mothers remember making them—and some of the mothers are dead.
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The Ever End
by Audrey Wilson
A mysterious figure.
A dead televangelist.
A series of bizarre rituals.
And one telekinetic woman.
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An Evil Premise
by T. Marie Vandelly
Trying to help her injured sister, Jewel attempts to finish Deidre's most recent book manuscript. But the novel hits a little close to home. She tries to tell herself she's being paranoid, but Jewel can hear someone typing when she's not at the desk, and somehow the word count of the novel keeps going up...
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The Faceless Things We Adore
by Hester Steel
Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoife to quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of the Farmstead commune. But darkness underpins her airy new way of life. But perhaps most concerning is the commune’s growing reverence for their leader.
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The Feeding
by Anthony Ryan
Fifteen years ago the feeders rose from the shadows to transform the world into a graveyard. The few survivors exist in fortified settlements surrounded by the empty ruins. Citizens rely on an elite cadre of Crossers to navigate the feeder-infested wasteland between settlements. But the Outside is becoming ever more dangerous, and the ranks of the Crossers are thinning.
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House of Monstrous Women
by Daphne Fama
1986, Philippines. Josephine accepts an invitation to a childhood friend's eerie, labyrinthine house to play a game that promises her heart's desire, only to find herself trapped in a deadly contest where winning may cost her blood.
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How Bad Things Can Get
by Darcy Coates
When a mogul throws a luxury party on a remote island with a deadly history, guests begin to vanish, and two women, one hiding a violent past, the other chasing a scoop, must survive the nightmare unfolding around them.
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Lucky Day
by Chuck Tingle
One woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world. Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.
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The October Film Haunt
by Michael Wehunt
Ten years ago, Jorie Stroud was the rising star of the October Film Haunt – a trio of horror enthusiasts who camped out at the filming locations of their favorite scary movies. But after a night in the graveyard from Proof of Demons – perhaps the most chilling cult film ever made – everything unraveled and Jorie has put it all behind her.. Except this horror film is determined to have a sequel.
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The Possession of Alba Diaz
by Isabel Canas
When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust…
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Tantrum
by Rachel Eve Moulton
After giving birth to Lucia, a ravenous, unsettling baby with a devilish glint, Thea struggles with growing dread, resurfacing childhood trauma, and the terrifying possibility that her daughter's monstrous hunger could consume the world around her.
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The Unseen
by Ania Ahlborn
After a devastating loss, Isla Hansen takes in a mysterious orphan on her remote Colorado property, but as unsettling phenomena disrupt the household, her family begins to suspect the child's presence may be tied to a reality-warping force beyond their comprehension.
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What Hunger
by Catherine Dang
In the summer before high school, after tragedy fractures her Vietnamese American family, Ronny finds a strange, primal hunger awakening in her, that blurs the line between grief, identity, and a dark new power she cannot fully control.
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What the Dead Can Do
by Peter Rosch
After a plane crash leaves toddler Ethan the sole survivor, his grieving mother watches from the afterlife as her obsession to reclaim him turns deadly.
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