Russell I Matthews

Horror Books Halloween 2025. Parade's book expert michael giltz shares his top picks for the best halloween books of 2025 from rocky horror to george romero (and witches and ghosts!), we’ve got. They will freak you out.

If you’ve exhausted all the classic horror books and are in need of new spooky horror and paranormal reads for fall 2025 and beyond, then check out this carefully curated. For this list of horror books in 2025, i included small presses as well as the big hitters, new and popular authors, and a variety of genres (science fiction horror, dark fantasy/horror fantasy, dystopian horror, etc.).