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The Best Horror of 2025 for Adults | Multnomah County Library

Recommendations from Multnomah County Library staff. For more of our 2025 Best Books use the link at the end.

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  • Stag Dance

    a Novel & Stories

    Peters, Torrey,
    A collection of mostly prior-self published works, all focussing on various anxieties of trans experience. Stag Dance, the new work, charts how gender norms are easily transgressed as a joke, then punished when the transgression becomes real. -…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — FICTION PETERS 2025
  • Goofy, campy homages to classic horror; complicated religious and family trauma; gruesome murders, demon possession, and body horror; and a messy lesbian will-they won't-they romance: this book does it all, and does it well. I had fun the whole time!
    Book, 2025Philadelphia : Quirk Books, 2025. — FICTION KINGMILLE 2025
  • I loved Never Whistle at Night, and found this to be a great book in a similar style of short stories, Indigenous author and slightly spooky themes - it's a little scarier than NWN though! -Sharon P.
    Book, 2025New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2025. — FICTION JONES 2025
  • Amazingly realized, the story of a house AI built for just one man's quirks, and how that inhuman intelligence reacts after his death, is a gripping and intense mystery greater than the murder that incites it. - Chloe S.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF MARTINE 2025
  • This suspenseful page-turner manages to be at once chilling, touching, and even phantasmagoric at times. There's gore, but there's also a family story - you get it all! - Erika B.
    Book, 2025New York : Doubleday, 2025. — SF WILSON 2025
  • Totally worth all the sleep I lost staying up to read this book! Classic horror movie monsters + snarky and vulnerable spaceship AI +sweet relationship development +swashbuckling adventure, all wrapped in a creepy, funny, action-packed package. -…
    Book, 2025San Francisco : Ezeekat Press, an imprint of Bindery Books, Inc., [2025] — SF TRUELOVE 2025
  • A sweeping and heart-wrenching tale. I love a vampire story, and this one toes the line well between honoring previously established lore and creating its own. - Jessica G.
    Book, 2025New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF SCHWAB 2025
  • What’s worse… fixing up your family’s haunted house or having no one believe you that it’s haunted? The chapters featuring a book written about the house were clever. - Liza D.
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley, 2025. — FICTION HARRISON 2025
  • Under its new management of the mysterious Mr. Honeycutt, something dark is the heart of worsening conditions on the SS Lark. Class divisions, vampire detectives, and a not-quite-love triangle make for a compelling read. - Dan J.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Union Square & Co., [2025] — ygn ROBIN 2025
  • Wild, weird, wonderful and yet a chillingly plausible journey into the future alongside a young human-mosquito hybrid. - Berenice C.
    Book, 2025New York : Astra House, 2025. — SF NIEVA 2025
  • Midnight Timetable

    a Novel in Ghost Stories

    정 보라, 1976-
    Eerie and offbeat. Seven stories intertwine, slowly revealing more about an institute that houses haunted objects… and even sheep! - Erika B
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill / Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — FICTION CHONG 2025
  • I'm not usually a fan of horror but this fantasy novel skirts the line. The villains salvage if not quite save the day. Not for the faint of heart or delicate of stomach but surprisingly funny in a bad and wrong way. - Heidi S.
    Book, 2025New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF ABERCROMB 2025
  • I'm a wimp about horror but this one is good! Not for arachnophobes! - Heidi S.
    Book, 2025New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — SF PUEYO 2025
  • This is the sapphic gothic horrormance of my dreams… or is it my nightmares? I stayed up way too late reading and couldn’t sleep after that climactic ending! - Liza d.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2025. — FICTION LAROUX 2025
  • Bloody & Mysterious; A slow-building haunting in a telescope of a story - Leo B.
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025. — FICTION JONES 2025
  • Swampy, squelchy, and surreal tales of wild children and witchy women. Offbeat, with touches of humor and nostalgia. - Erika B.
    Book, 2025Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2025. — FICTION ELLIOTT 2025
  • 3 aging heroes step back up to save the day. Again. - Heidi S.
    Book, 2025New York : DAW Books, 2025 — SF HINES 2025
  • A most Personal sort of horror; the worms are really the least of it - Leo B.
    Book, 2025New York : Saga Press, 2025. — FICTION WHITE 2025
  • Sybil unravels her upbringing and traditions all the while being accompanied by Rodrick, a rude and handsome knight. The closer she gets to answers of her past the more darkness she uncovers. -Ash W.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Orbit, Hachette Book Group, 2025. — SF GILLIG 2025
  • The perfect book for Halloween time or any spooky season. Set in 1970s Portland, this vampire novel is filled with action, dread, and nostalgia, sometimes all at once. - Kyle T.
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — FICTION ROSSON 2025