December 2025 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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25 Days
by Per Jacobsen
25 days, 25 chapters. This December, the countdown to Christmas will chill you to the bone.
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Atlas of Unknowable Things
by McCormick Templeman
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets Modern Gothic in this smart horror novel. As historian Robin Quain searches Hildegarde College's ancient manuscript collection hunting for an artifact, she begins to question whether she’s the one doing the hunting, or whether someone is hunting her.
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Blood Like Ours
by Stuart Neville
Rebecca Carter awoke on a morgue table with only two desires: to find her daughter, and to sate her gnawing hunger. Rebecca sets out on a desperate quest, fighting her murderous craving for blood, and pursued by a vengeful FBI agent. Blood Trilogy.
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Cathedral of the Drowned
by Nathan Ballingrud
There are two halves of Charlie Duchamp. One is a brain in a jar, stranded on Jupiter's jungle moon, who just wants to go home. The other is on Earth's own moon, host to the eggs of the Moon Spider and filled with a murderous rage. Lunar Gothic Trilogy.
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A Christmas Ghost Story
by Kim Newman
December 1st. Angie and her teenage son prepare for the perfect Christmas. Then the first Christmas card arrives with a cryptic, menacing message. As the cards keep coming, one each day and each more sinister than the last, Christmas cheer is gradually poisoned, and Angie begins to wonder if her childhood Christmases were in fact as joy filled as she remembers.
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Darker Days
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Sometimes you think you can see things behind the fence. Bad things. So it’s better not to look ...
On a gilded street in a small Pacific Northwest town where the charmed residents have made a frightening bargain, with devastating consequences.
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Fever Dreams: Horror Short Stories
by Mark Morris, editor
This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 16 of which have been commissioned from some of the top names in horror. A delicious feast of the familiar and the new, the established and the emerging.
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The Graceview Patient
by Caitlin Starling
While undergoing radical experimental treatment for her autoimmune disease, Margaret stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within Graceview Hospital. Unsure of what's real, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls.
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The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
by Kelley Armstrong
When Samantha Payne's grandfather dies, she discovers that he left her the valuable lakefront property where the family cottage sits. There's one catch: Sam needs to stay in the cottage for a month. When her aunt goes missing a couple days into their stay, Sam begins to question everything.
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Herculine
by Grace Byron
Herculine's narrator is a woman who seeks refuge at an all-trans girl commune only to discover that demons haunt her fellow comrades--and she's their next prey.
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The Hong Kong Widow
by Kristen Loesch
Hong Kong, 1953: In a remote mansion, witnesses insist a massacre took place. The police see nothing but pristine rooms and declare it a collective hallucination. Until decades later, when one witness returns...
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The Last Witch
by C. J. Cooke
Innsbruck, 1485. Helena Scheuberin has drawn the unwanted attention of a malign priest who is just starting his campaign to root out witches. Helena must find the courage to risk her life and the lives of others by standing up to a man determined to paint her as the most wicked of all....
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The Midnight Knock
by John Fram
In the frigid Texas desert, weary travelers converge at a lonely roadside motel. The strange twins who run the Brake Inn Motel give the guests an ultimatum: uncover the killer of guest Sarah Powers by midnight--or die when the protective lights go out. Because something very old and very dangerous lurks in this corner of the desert. And it's hungry...
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The Night That Finds Us All
by John Hornor Jacobs
It begins and ends as always, with the sea...
A troubled sailor. A hundred-year-old sailboat. An ancient curse. Welcome to a nautical nightmare.
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When We Talk to the Dead
by Ian Chorao
Captain's Island was abandoned years ago–but something dark was left behind, and it’s waiting for those bold enough to return.
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The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights
by multiple authors
Curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past...
The tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished. These 12 stories all center around Christmas or Advent, and boldly and playfully re-imagine a beloved tradition: the chilling Christmas story.
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