Best Horror Books of 2025: Scariest Novels You Can’t Miss

Maggie Holt inherits an old mansion her father once called haunted in a bestselling book. She returns to fix it up — confident ghosts aren’t real. But as eerie things begin to happen, Maggie starts to wonder if her father’s chilling story was more truth than tale.

As a child, Dan Garvie narrowly escaped a terrifying killer — an encounter that shaped his life. Years later, his father dies under strange circumstances, pulling Dan back to his hometown. But some shadows never fade... and some nightmares might be real after all.

In the summer of 1970, scared and pregnant Fern arrives at a home for “wayward” girls. Behind closed doors, strict rules mask darker secrets. When Fern finds a book on witchcraft, she and the others awaken a power they were never meant to have… and it comes with a cost.

Mallory takes a job as a nanny for a quiet boy who loves to draw. At first, everything seems perfect — until his drawings take a dark turn. As his sketches become disturbingly real, Mallory suspects something hidden behind the walls… and it’s not just imagination.

A charming man hides a deadly secret — and three women paid the price. But death didn’t silence them. Bound by fate, they uncover the truth from beyond, determined to stop the killer before he strikes again. A gripping, chilling thriller you won’t forget.