Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2026 So Far

Ever since Elodie met Bren, her life has gotten better. He’s taken her and her autistic son, Jude, to his crumbling family house, where he hopes to painstakingly and lovingly restore it into their home. 

And they have a baby on the way. The only problem is Jude claims he can hear voices in the wall telling him the renovations are hurting the house. 

As Elodie tries to uncover the truth, secrets she’s been carrying come to light. Secrets that once revealed mean no one is safe anymore.

Nowhere Ranch was where actor Leaf Winham escaped the pressure of fame. It was a haven—until a fire revealed the crimes he was hiding. Now, the abandoned ruins are rumored to be a sanctuary for feral children. It’s where Riley and her younger brother are heading. 

But once they get there, the kids are nothing like they expected. They’re fierce and territorial, maybe even diabolical. 

Because staying at Nowhere isn’t free. And the price is more hellish than Riley ever imagined.

Poppy Stringer lives an interesting life. By day, she’s a fashion influencer. But at night, she robs graves. When icon Eddie Michaels dies, Poppy is on call. It should be an easy job. She just has to take Eddie’s body from the medical examiner. 

The last thing she expects is for Eddie to suddenly wake up in the middle of her delivery. Now, she has to fight for her life as blood spills all over Palm Springs.

In the middle of the Canadian wilderness, on a remote island, five people are offered their youth back. At minimum, they can stop aging. 

Best case? They can turn back the biological clock. All they have to do is say yes. 

But this miracle is being harnessed by an ancient biological being. One that will do anything to survive. 

It’s an experiment unlike anything ever attempted. And it will test the limits of every single participant’s morality, sanity, and will to live.

In the winter of 1776, British troops are under siege in Boston. Trapped and desperate, a ghost feeds on those who remain. For many, the temptation of offering their soul in exchange for a feast is more than they can resist. 

As the bodies pile up, General Howe knows he has to do something. For some, fighting a supernatural creature might seem impossible. 

But Howe has been speaking to the dead for some time. Now, he has to venture into enemy territory to find a witch who is the only hope of expelling the ravenous spirit before everyone is eaten in Boston.

Winston Kemper has never really been seen by anyone. He’s a janitor, a groundskeeper. Someone easy to ignore. He lives alone and has no one to call family. What he does have is a collection of blood stolen from the women who have slipped through society’s notice—just like him. 

But lately, his collection has been whispering to him. Winston never believed in ghosts. He’s about to learn that not only are they real, they are angry.

A year ago, Roslyn Volk’s sister, Adeline, died mysteriously in the woods. When the caravan of girls Adeline had been with the previous summer comes back to town, Roslyn joins them in the hopes of finally learning the truth. 

But the truth is far more deadly than Roslyn ever imagined. The girls can conjure Death. Not only that, Death has protected them from untimely ends. 

As long as they reap souls for him. Roslyn can finally get closure. She just has to make the same deal with Death to find it.

In 1635, a young nun and a peasant woman escape plundering soldiers and hide out in the woods in Bavaria. There, they find the gilded skull of a saint in the arms of a dying man. It’s believed that anyone who returns a skull of a saint to its body will receive a wish. 

Both women are desperate. Not just for salvation, but to appease their own buried secrets. But more than just the two women want that wish. 

And as they travel across the war-torn countryside, they’re forced to recognize that the magic they want comes with a terrible price.

When Dahye finds herself in the middle of a whirlwind romance with Hyukjoon, heir to a fortune, she can’t believe her luck. Until the couple ends up caught on a spycam and their intimate moment is plastered all over the internet. 

Hyukjoon flees the country, leaving Dahye to fend for herself where she unwittingly garners the attention of Junyoung, an introverted IT tech at her work. But Junyoung has a secret. He’s been secretly spying on all the women at the company. 

Now Dahye is at the center of his voyeuristic obsession. And when she finally learns the truth behind her humiliation, the only thing that will make it better, is blood.