Best New Gothic Fantasy Releases for 2025

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532.
London, 1827.
Boston, 2019.

Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots.

One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild.

And all of them grow teeth.

In 1765, plague ravages Zacatecas, forcing Alba and her family to flee to her fiancé Carlos’s remote mine for refuge. But safety is short-lived as Alba suffers strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions, sensing something cold and angry beneath her skin. Elías, escaping his family’s dark legacy, has no interest in his cousin’s betrothed, Alba—until he begins to notice the growing tension between them.

As the demon inside her grows stronger, Elías can’t ignore the danger surrounding her—or his own undeniable attraction to her.

In this queer Appalachian fantasy, Bennie Mattox, the last witch of the Ridge, risks everything to uncover what’s killing miners on Kire Mountain. After rescuing a mysterious woman from a mine slough, Bennie discovers Motheater—a witch bound to the land, lost in time. With only fragments of memory, Motheater’s past fight against industry still echoes a century later.

As secrets unravel, their choices could reshape the town’s future. Caught between magic and progress, Bennie must decide where she stands—and who she stands with.

Violet Zennor was raised to fight, trained in underground arenas against killers and thieves, learning to be ruthless—to survive. When her tyrannical father dies, she believes she’s free. Then she discovers his final plan: to send her into the Darklands, where the Leech Lords rule and her stillborn brother was taken. She refuses—until assassins come for her. Now, Violet must face the horrors her father left behind.

A gripping tale of vampires, assassins, and ancient witches, this dark fantasy brims with danger, betrayal, and blood-soaked secrets.

For nine years, Sybil Delling has dreamed of silence. As a Diviner, she receives visions from the six Omens, foretelling disasters for those who seek her guidance. But just as her service at the great cathedral nears its end, her fellow Diviners begin vanishing.

When a brash, heretical knight named Rodrick arrives, dismissing her visions, Sybil has no choice but to seek his help. The world beyond the cloister is dangerous, and only a heretic can stand against a god—but trusting Rodrick may be its own kind of peril.

Art student Jo Kozak and her closest friends are inseparable—bound by art, obsession, and their own secret language. Desperate to fuel their creativity, they turn to the occult, cursing their eerie professor in a reckless ritual. But the price is steep. Jo feels haunted, their art grows twisted, and their once-unbreakable bond begins to unravel.

As their world darkens, the five friends take one final, desperate step to undo their mistake. But some doors, once opened, can never be closed.

At Thorne Hall, a grand estate in the Berkshires, fifteen restless spirits remain trapped, bound by a Gilded Age curse. Elegy Thorne must maintain the mansion’s 1890s state, using ancient folk songs to keep the ghosts silent—or risk deadly consequences. When a mischievous spirit stirs chaos, a preservationist arrives with his son, Atticus, whose modern ideas awaken Elegy’s longing for freedom.

As love and duty collide, she seeks a way to break the curse, unraveling century-old secrets and magic that could set them all free—or destroy everything.

Since the hurricane, Mercy, Louisiana has been choked by a red algae bloom, its waters teeming with mutated creatures. Noon and her mother survive by trading their catches to the corrupt harbormaster, keeping her past—and the monster beneath her skin—at bay. But people are vanishing, and eerie warnings spread: don’t answer the knocks at night. When tasked with hunting a deadly creature, Noon teams up with Covey, the harbormaster’s daughter.

As a storm looms, they set out to uncover what haunts Mercy—because Noon knows monsters well.

In the small town of Thistleford, on the edge of Faerie, dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family.

There, they tend and harvest the enchanted willows and honour an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. None more devotedly than the family’s latest daughters, Esther and Ysabel, who cherish each other as much as they cherish the ancient trees.

But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor in favor of a lover from the land of Faerie, not only the sisters’ bond but also their lives will be at risk…

Built by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives, breathes, and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina Strauss upholds her family’s thousand-year duty—prevent the Vespers from ringing, or risk awakening an ancient evil. But when her bell tolls thirteen times, the city begins to turn on itself.

Statues and gargoyles tear free, hunting through the streets, and a long-imprisoned Saint walks among them, corrupting everything he touches. As Vaiwyn fights back, Mina must uncover lost history to stop the darkness before it consumes them all.

The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy’s twin sister, Sarah, is unwell—rambling nonsense, refusing food, and fixating on an ancient corpse found on her husband’s estate. Diagnosed with fevered insanity, she faces confinement in an asylum unless Lucy can uncover the truth. But Sarah is hiding something… and so is Lucy.

When Sarah’s behavior turns violent—and ravenous—Lucy fears something far worse than madness is at play. As her sister transforms before her eyes, Lucy must confront a monstrous truth or risk losing Sarah forever.

After his father’s death, Thomas Walsh takes odd jobs to support his ailing mother. When offered a high-paying role as an interpreter for heiress Vivienne Farrow, he accepts—despite her clear attempts to ditch him. Her parents keep her tightly controlled, forbidding her from straying off course, especially after dark.

Mute since vanishing as a child, Vivienne’s voice is now lethal—anyone who hears it dies. Desperate to reclaim herself, she seeks a surgical exorcism. But first, she must get rid of Thomas… and he refuses to leave.

Eleven hundred years after Christ’s death, in the newly named England, I, Once Was Willem, rose from the grave to face a great evil threatening the village of Cosham. What follows is the truth.

I speak of monsters and magic, of bloodshed and betrayal, of secrets buried below and fates looming above. By the final page, you will understand your own life, your death, and the destiny of your soul.

But be warned—you will not thank me.

Edira Brillwyn is a threadmender with the rare power to heal, but each life she saves costs her a piece of her own. She’s kept her abilities secret—until the Fernglove family uncovers them. The Ferngloves are powerful and charming, led by the enigmatic Orin. When Edira’s brothers fall ill with a deadly blight, Orin offers to help, and they work together to find a cure.

But as Edira grows closer to Orin, she uncovers dark family secrets that threaten her life and forces her to choose whom she can save.

Rose Pauly is unhappy about moving from New York City to Connecticut just before her senior year. But on her first day, she meets Hart Hargrove, and they share an undeniable connection. Hart introduces Rose to his family’s private garden, where they spend a magical summer together. As their love grows, Rose begins to suspect that things aren’t as perfect as they seem.

When she uncovers the garden’s dark secret, Rose must confront the true nature of her love—and Hart will stop at nothing to keep her.

In the remote canton of Yarrowdale, a Treasury officer vanishes from a locked, heavily guarded tower. To crack the case, the Empire sends its sharpest detective, Ana Dolabra, and her ever-bemused assistant, Dinios Kol. But this isn’t just a disappearance—it’s a murder, executed by someone who moves through warded doors like a ghost. Worse, their target may be the Shroud, the Empire’s source of volatile titan-blood magic.

As the bodies pile up and their enemy stays steps ahead, Din fears Ana may finally be outmatched.

Odile, a sorcerer’s daughter, infiltrates the palace by transforming Marie into a swan. Her goal: steal the crown and restore magic. But the king’s murder and her brother’s arrest disrupt her plan. Forced to collaborate with the cursed Marie, Odile confronts hidden feelings and rumors of a beastly killer. Loyalty to her father clashes with her growing affection for Marie.

Amidst treachery, Odile must find the true path to magic and unmask the murderer to save her kingdom, navigating a complex web of deceit and forbidden desires.

In a village cursed by a forest that consumes those who wander after dark, healer’s daughter Malka is determined to save her mother, accused of murder. She strikes a dangerous deal with an Ozmini priest—bring out the monster, and he’ll spare her mother’s life. Malka discovers a disgraced golem, willing to help if Malka frees her creator, a rabbi imprisoned by the church.

As their pact unravels, Malka uncovers a darker threat, and protecting her village may force her to sacrifice the one she loves—and confront the monster she’s been taught to fear.

After her best friend’s suspicious death at an elite boarding school, Violet Harper transfers there to investigate, convinced it wasn’t an accident. Her search leads her to a mysterious secret society and Calvin Lockwell, the arrogant brother of her main suspect.

As Violet uncovers evidence of a supernatural curse tied to Calvin’s family and the school’s dark history, she finds herself falling for him—even though their attraction could prove as deadly as her friend’s fate.