Gothic Book Releases: April to June 2026

Gothic fiction book releases coming in April, May, and June 2026!

For gothic releases from July to September 2026, click here!

APRIL 2026

• The Gravewood by Kelly Andrew (Apr 7)

When a young woman makes a dangerous blood bargain with the volatile vampire who controls the deadly forest surrounding her isolated town, she is forced to choose between her humanity and becoming the very monster she fears.

• The Seventh Sister by Dawn Kurtagich (Apr 7)

After being sent to live on a remote forest island following their parents’ deaths, seven grieving sisters fall into the worship of an ancient woodland god—only to be summoned back years later to confront the terrifying truth about the faith they created and the darkness that never stopped watching.

• We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower (Apr 7)

In a world overrun by eldritch creatures vulnerable only to folklore and pagan ritual, a hardened survivor falls in love with a mysterious girl who appears in her garden just as her brother is taken, forcing her to cross a monster-haunted wasteland and question whether love itself is another kind of trap.

• Bromeliad House by Jessika Grewe Glover (Apr 7)

Bromeliad House, once a sprawling heirloom estate on Florida’s Treasure Coast, is now a crumbling relic of a family worn to its barest threads. Within its walls, Delphine began seeing the doppelgängers of loved ones before they died.

• Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (Apr 14)

After killing his roommate and fleeing to his father’s isolated home in Japan, a guilt-ridden college student becomes entangled with the ghost of a samurai girl from 1877, but something ancient beneath the house has been waiting to be unearthed.

• The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste (Apr 14)

Enter a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past still reverberate and shape our doom. Here, morally complex women and queer antiheroines swim against the current of a social structure that serves as a spectral prison in these layered stories of the weird and the Other.

• The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer (Apr 21)

When a desperate young woman takes a mysterious three-day caretaking job on the Oregon coast, she discovers the house is a prison for an incomprehensible evil, and she may be the only thing standing between it and humanity’s extinction.

• Odessa by Gabrielle Sher (Apr 21)

In pogrom-era Russia, a grieving father resurrects his murdered daughter with forbidden magic, only to unleash something ancient and monstrous that blurs the line between protector and predator, and forces the girl to confront what she has truly become.

• May the Dead Keep You by Jill Baguchinsky (Apr 21)

Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Forest In and Wuthering Heights, May the Dead Keep You is a gothic YA horror about the pasts that haunt us and the stories we decide to make for ourselves.

• Girl of Lore by Melanie Dale (Apr 21)

A girl who’s used to battling the monster of her own mind discovers there’s a sinister evil lurking in her small town in this atmospheric paranormal novel that’s perfect for fans of Tracy Wolff and Maggie Stiefvater.

• The Redwood Bargain by Markelle Grabo (Apr 28)

To free her cousin, a maid agrees to impersonate a nobleman’s stepdaughter and marry the deadly forest lord known as the Redwood Man, but as forbidden love blooms between her and the real Lady Zaviera, she must outwit a monstrous bargain before it claims them both.

MAY 2026

• That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall (May 5)

A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise, in this YA supernatural thriller that's Mexican Gothic meets She is a Haunting.

• The Temptation of Charlotte North by Camilla Bruce (May 19)

A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life joins forces with an unlikely ally—a sinister spirit—in this dark gothic fantasy from the acclaimed author of At the Bottom of the Garden.

• Until Death by Mary Berman (May 19)

In this fresh, darkly funny horror debut, a woman finally agrees to marry the man of her mother’s dreams . . . only to discover that wedding planning eats you alive.

• Salomé by Leslie Baird (May 19)

A seductively gothic reimagining of the original femme fatale, about an adrift American journalist who accepts an alluring stranger’s invitation to stay at her home in a small French town, only to uncover a dangerous family history that could alter the course of humanity.

• Bone of My Bone by Johanna van Veen (May 26)

USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de force—perfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternal…

• A Dark and Wild Wood by Sarah Nicole Lemon (May 26)

Inspired by the tale of Bluebeard, A Dark and Wild Wood is the lush and atmospheric story of a maiden with dark magic who becomes the apprentice to Lord Death—for a price. Perfect for fans of Juniper and Thorn and The Year of the Witching.

• We Could Be Anyone by Anna-Marie McLemore (May 26)

Two teen con-artists must execute an almost impossible scam at an exclusive mansion in this thriller that's White Lotus meets Mexican Gothic - for teens.

JUNE 2026

• Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez (Jun 2)

A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

• Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller (Jun 2)

From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.

• The Children by Melissa Albert (Jun 2)

An intoxicating, haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory, and magic.

• Rottenheart by Kat Dunn (Jun 4)

From the bestselling author of Hungerstone, an intoxicating and chilling gothic horror novel that reimagines Hamlet with a seductive sapphic twist—and where the only thing more dangerous than a family secret is a mother's revenge.

• Our Sister's Keeper by Jasmine Holmes (Jun 9)

A gripping blend of historical fiction and Southern gothic psychological horror, Our Sister’s Keeper is a fierce exploration of Black sisterhood, rage, and resistance.

• Vervain Hollow by Catriona Silvey (Jun 16)

After surviving a destructive cult fire that supposedly killed its magnetic leader, a grieving former acolyte returns to the hollow when a fellow member claims he’s still alive—only to discover her memories are unreliable and the darkness she escaped is determined to reclaim her.

• Agnes, We're Not Murderers! by Jessica Alexander (Jun 16)

Lesbian vixens from another dead world thread through moon-drenched cornfields and opulent drawing rooms in this literary horror remix of iconic gothic sagas.

• Carrion Crow by Heather Parry (Jun 30) (Re-release)

In this viscerally dark, queer Victorian gothic, longing and transformation take wing through the secret selves we nurture when no one is watching. Marguerite Périgord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overlooking the stinking Thames. Cécile Périgord has confined her daughter Marguerite for her own good. And neither woman can recognise what the other is becoming.