Bloody Disgusting’s Best Books, Onward to 2026

One last post for 2025!

I’m so excited to share that A Game in Yellow is back in Bloody Disgusting, this time for “The Best Horror Books of 2025”, joining a fantastic assembly of new horror from this year, some of them favorites of mine, others I’m still eager to read.

Perhaps the gutsiest conceptual leap from a major horror writer this year, Hailey Piper’s latest novel is a riff on Robert W. Chambers’ revered collection The King in Yellow, a foundational weird fiction book that gets an unexpected expansion through A Game in Yellow. The book follows a lesbian couple in a BDSM relationship whose limits are tested when they read pages from a mysterious play that’s said to drive you mad, and even beyond the ties to cosmic horror history, it’s a phenomenal showcase in character study from one of the best horror writers working right now.”

And that’s a wrap on 2025 for me. 2026 is shaping up to be a busy new year, with lots of events, and more releases to come.

January 23-25: MystiCon in Roanoke, VA

February 3: Teenage Girls Can Be Demons releases in audiobook

March 3: No Gods for Drowning returns to print from Bad Hand Books

June 4-7: StokerCon in Pittsburgh

September 15: This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want releases from Titan Books

October: … it hasn’t been announced yet, but there will be another book coming. Stay tuned!

Have a Happy New Year!