Out of the 68 books I read in 2025 (that I logged), 27 of them were horror-related. Going by the page counts listed on StoryGraph, that’s a total of 7,314 pages of horror, but that’s almost certainly an overestimate. 19 of them were fiction (including 4 graphic books), 5 were nonfiction, 2 were poetry, 1 was an anthology with both fiction and poetry.
The list, roughly in the order I read them:
- Horror: A Literary History, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
- Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli
- Uncanny: The Origins of Fear, by Junji Ito, trans. Jocelyne Allen
- Supernatural Detectives 4, by Jessica Douglas Kerruish and Ella M Scrymsour
- The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due
- Familiar, by Jeremy C. Shipp
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones
- Flowers of Mold, by Ha Seong-nan, trans. Janet Hong
- Monstrilio, by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- The Deviant Vol. 1, by Joshua Hixson, James Tynion IV
- Antifa Splatterpunk, edited by Eric Raglin
- From the Belly, by Emmett Nahil
- Moonflow, by Bitter Karella
- Tono Monogatari, by Shigeru Mizuki, trans. Zack Davisson
- No Trouble at All, edited by Alexis DuBon and Eric Raglin
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare and Gareth Hinds
- Strange Stones, by Edward Lee and Mary Sangiovanni
- The Salt Grows Heavy, by Cassandra Khaw
- Feral & Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women, by Sadie Hartmann
- Mourning Jewelry, by Stephanie M. Wytovich
- It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel, by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink
- Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford
- Seven Legendary Monsters, by Clara Elena Garcia
- Vivia, by Tanith Lee
- All Your Friends are Here, by M. Shaw
- Capitalism: A Horror Story, by Jon Greenaway
- Tomie, by Junji Ito, trans. Naomi Kokubo