Upcoming Gothic & Ghostly Book Releases: Jan-Mar 2026

Upcoming gothic fiction books publishing in January, February, and March to add to your 2026 TBR!

For the gothic fiction releases of April, May, and June, click here!

JANUARY 2026

• The Wind Witch Murders by Casey Dunn | Southern Gothic Mystery (Jan 6)

In 1999 Arkansas, a girl raised to fear witchcraft is forced to confront her mother’s legacy when a stranger hints that the infamous murders blamed on the so-called Wind Witch were never what they seemed. A haunting Southern Gothic mystery where dark magic meets deadly secrets, and a daughter must uncover the truth about her mother before it's too late.

• A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James | Gothic Mystery / Paranormal Suspense (Jan 20)

Siblings return to the house they fled eighteen years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request to come home.

• Hemlock by Melissa Faliveno | Psychological Horror / Queer (Jan 20)

Sober and rebuilding her life, Sam returns to her family’s remote cabin to confront the place where her mother disappeared, only to find the forest answering back. As addiction, transformation, and uncanny forces blur reality, she must reckon with whether the true danger lies in the woods or within herself.

• Fruit of the Flesh by I.V. Ophelia | Gothic Dark Romance / Horror (Jan 20)

Behind the glamour of Gilded Age New York, a marriage of convenience between an artisan and a ballerina masks their shared appetite for revenge in this darkly seductive gothic romance.

• Winterbourne by Elisabeth Wolf | Gothic Mystery (Jan 22)

Hired to catalogue a magnificent island library, a grieving librarian finds herself isolated amid near-fatal accidents and signs that her predecessor vanished under suspicious circumstances. When she uncovers forbidden books and a diary mirroring her own experience, escape may no longer be possible.

• Once Upon A Song by Nadine Bells | Gothic Fantasy / Dark Fairytale (Jan 23)

A lonely waitress accepts a dream job singing at a luxurious winter hotel, only to discover its glamour masks a phantom in white roaming the halls. After discovering that the last singer lost his life under mysterious circumstances, she must decide whether belonging is worth the price of never leaving.

• Ballad of the Bone Road by A.C. Wise | Dark Fantasy / Paranormal Mystery (Jan 27)

In a city built over a stolen fae kingdom, two paranormal investigators unravel hauntings rooted in love, loss, and demonic bargains. As cult-like faith, cursed pregnancies, and summoned spirits converge, the Hollow Queen begins her quiet return to reclaim what was always hers.

• On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah-Yah Scholfield | Southern Gothic Horror (Jan 27) (re-release)

In this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut, a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and must contend with ghosts, haints, and most dangerous of all, the truth about herself.

• This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud |Gothic Horror / Supernatural Suspense (Jan 27)

Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins.

• Half a Dark Heart by H.F. Askwith | Gothic Horror / Romantasy (Jan 29)

A reclusive young woman who can see violent shadow-creatures is forced out of hiding when her sister vanishes and a stranger claims a demon has stolen his voice. To save the people she loves, she must confront the horrors she’s spent her life avoiding.

FEBRUARY 2026

• The Glowing Hours by Leila Siddiqui | Gothic Horror (Feb 3)

A mind-bending, revisionist gothic horror story about the fabled summer Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein, as told by her Indian housemaid, Mehrunissa “Mehr” Begum. For fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Cañas, and Kathe Koja.

• Midnight Covenant by Amelie West | Gothic Horror / Vampires (Feb 5)

A slow-burning gothic reimagining of Dracula for fans of Jane Eyre and A Dowry of Blood. In the autumn of 1893, a young bride is delivered to a Transylvanian castle where secrets fester in the walls, and she must rely on herself if she hopes to survive.

• A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis | Historical Gothic (Feb 10)

At a decaying English manor, a young gardener is drawn into a dangerous romance with her haunted employer, a woman obsessed with the curse she believes has killed her family.

• She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva | Gothic Folk Horror (Feb 10)

A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer—actually, a traveling con artist—joins forces with a teenage girl to create a monster deadly enough to vanquish their own demons.

• The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang | Gothic Historical Fiction (Feb 10)

A haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present.

• Grace by A.M. Shine | Gothic Folk Horror / Supernatural (Feb 10)

A haunting, atmospheric modern Gothic horror tale based on traditional Irish mythology, where ancient evil is awakened on a lonely isle off the coast of Ireland.

• A Forest, Darkly by A.G. Slatter | Dark Fantasy (Feb 10)

A page-turning dark fantasy of witches, twisted magic, changelings and the sins that bind. This immersive story is perfect for fans of Ava Reid, Hannah Whitten and Lucy Holland.

• Maria the Wanted by V. Castro | Folk Horror / Vampires (Feb 10) (re-release)

Newly turned Mexican vampire, Maria, is not just out for blood, she wants answers. A gripping tale of empowerment, desire and belonging, perfect for readers of A Dowry of Blood and Certain Dark Things.

• Temple Fall by R.L. Boyle | Supernatural Gothic Horror (Feb 17)

A macabre and chilling supernatural gothic horror about a group of teenagers cursed to die on their 18th birthday. Perfect for fans of Clay McLeod Chapman, The September House by Carissa Orlando and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.

• Bloodfire, Baby by Eirinie Carson | Psychological Horror (Feb 17)

When a new mother discovers that a centuries-old haunting targets the eldest daughters in her family, she must confront her fractured past before postpartum isolation and supernatural forces consume her and her infant.

• Hallowed Be Thy Name by Brooke Winters | Queer Gothic Horror (Feb 20)

Haunted by his murdered mother’s ghost and bound to a Devil only he can see, a troubled university student investigates the cult that destroyed his family, risking his sanity—and his only chance at love—to escape becoming the monster he fears he already is.

• Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity | Gothic Fantasy Romance (Feb 24)

In this debut gothic fantasy, the first book of an enthralling fantasy romance trilogy, a young woman who can see the dead strikes a deal with a magnetic and dangerous purveyor of dark secrets to save her brother’s life.

• This Hideous Heart by Jessie Thomas | Gothic Horror Romance (Feb 27)

Reunited in their home once famed for its séances, a clairvoyant and her wife must uncover the house’s violent past when its ghosts grow increasingly hostile, before a murderer returned from the dead claims them both.

MARCH 2026

• Turn Off the Light by Jacquie Walters | Haunted House Horror / Thriller (Mar 3)

When a woman in the present and a healer in the seventeenth century are linked by the same malevolent force haunting a Virginia house, they must uncover its origin across four hundred years, or be destroyed by the darkness.

• Bitterbloom by Teagan Olivia King | Gothic Fantasy (Mar 10)

Branded a monster by her village, a chronically ill girl discovers her visions are the voices of the dead and enters a haunted woodland to free them, only to learn that the people she trusts most have been lying to her her entire life.

• The Fox and the Devil by Kiersten White | Gothic Fantasy (Mar 10)

An obsession with a beautiful serial killer entangles a vampire hunter’s daughter in an immortal sapphic romance in this enthralling gothic fantasy.

• The Two Deaths of Lillian Carmichael by Paulette Kennedy | Southern Gothic (Mar 10)

A young woman, perceived dead, plots to reinvent herself in a gripping historical gothic about secrets, superstition, and murder.

• Spoiled Milk by Avery Curran | Queer Gothic Horror (Mar 10)

The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school turns out to be the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events. A thrilling debut novel about teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age.

• Innamorata by Ava Reid | Gothic Fantasy (Mar 17)

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology.

• Wayward Souls by Susan J. Morris | Gothic Supernatural Mystery (Mar 17) (Harker & Moriarty, Book 2)

The delightfully dark sequel to the gothic supernatural mystery Strange Beasts. With characters drawn from the worlds of Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, Wayward Souls is a twisty puzzle box of a historical fantasy.

• You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews | Psychological Suspense (Mar 17)

A single mother’s perfect new life begins to unravel when her autistic son claims the house they’re renovating is alive, forcing her to question whether the true danger lies in the walls, her child, or the secret she’s been hiding all along.

• Only Spell Deep by Ava Morgyn | Gothic Fantasy (Mar 17)

Rebecca meets The Craft in this dark, atmospheric novel of one witch rediscovering her power while on the run from another willing to kill her for it.

• The Daughters by Joanna Margaret | Gothic Horror / Mystery (Mar 17)

A grieving archivist takes a job cataloguing the records of a powerful founding family in a decaying Victorian spa town, only to uncover a buried witch trial, a pattern of disappearances targeting local women, and a conspiracy that may make her the next to vanish.

• Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher | Gothic Horror (Mar 24)

In 1899 North Carolina, a desperate scientific illustrator accepts work at a secluded manor, only to uncover that her employer’s insect studies conceal grotesque experiments capable of consuming human bodies, and she may be his next subject.

• Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell | Botanical Horror (Mar 24)

The Bear and the Nightingale meets Weyward in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent.

• The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore | Historical Supernatural Horror (Mar 24)

A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust—and even more importantly, learn to trust herself—in this searing new gothic novel.

• The Brides by Charlotte Cross | Gothic Horror (Mar 26)

A dual timeline novel, told through letters, diary entries, psychiatric reports, that places women at the centre of literature's most famous vampire story.

• The Fourth Wife by Linda Hamilton | Gothic Horror / Supernatural (Mar 31)

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas meets “Sister Wives” in a deliciously chilling, darkly romantic, historical gothic horror with a feminist slant, as a young Mormon woman is haunted by a malevolent presence in the decrepit Salt Lake City mansion she shares with her new husband and his other wives.