Horror | Prepub Alert, March 2025 Titles

Readers have scary new stories to look forward to from three LJ Best Book authors: Stephen Graham Jones, Cynthia Pelayo, and Erika T. Wurth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grecian, Alex. Rose of Jericho. Tor Nightfire. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250874719. 352p. $28.99. HORROR

Bestselling Grecian returns with a historical, supernatural horror tale set in the world of Red Rabbit. Rose, Rabbit, and the witch Sadie Grace arrive in the small village of Ascension, MA, where dead people are not staying dead. As they attempt to figure out what’s going on, an even more dangerous force is headed their way. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Jones, KC. White Line Fever. Tor Nightfire. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250792716. pbk. 368p. $18.99. HORROR

A county road in the Cascade foothills of Oregon has earned the nickname of the Devil’s Driveway, and when Livia and her friends use it as a shortcut, they find themselves being chased by an unimaginable horror. This second novel from Stoker Award finalist Jones (Black Tide) receives a 75K-copy first printing.

Jones, Stephen Graham. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Saga. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781668075081. 432p. $29.99. HORROR

Bestselling and award-winning Jones (I Was a Teenage Slasher) offers a historical horror story set in the American West. A Lutheran pastor’s discovered diary from 1912 details the life of a Blackfeet vampire searching for justice and revenge after a massacre of the Blackfeet people.

Pelayo, Cynthia. Vanishing Daughters. Thomas & Mercer. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781662513930. pbk. 336p. $16.99. HORROR

Stoker Award winner Pelayo (Forgotten Sisters) offers supernatural and psychological horror in a novel that mines fairy tales and mystery. After her mother dies in their historic Chicago mansion, journalist Briar Thorne begins experiencing nightmares and strange occurrences, which may hold the key to stopping a serial killer and putting ghosts to rest.

Wurth, Erika T. The Haunting of Room 904. Flatiron. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9781250908599. 320p. $28.99. HORROR

Wurth (White Horse, an LJ Best Book and Target Book Club pick) writes a paranormal horror thriller about Olivia Becente, whose ability to commune with the dead leads her to become a paranormal investigator. As Olivia investigates the deaths of girls at a historic Denver hotel, she also finds shocking revelations about her own sister’s death.

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