New Releases—2021 - Ladies of Horror Fiction

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Here is where you’ll find Goodreads links and release dates for as many novels from our Ladies of Horror Fiction as we can possibly find.

Are you a LOHF and have a book coming out? Drop us a line in the comments and we’ll make sure to add your book in!

These are listed in release date order. (Be aware that some may be re-releases or new editions.)

Anthologies Note: You may see anthologies on here with a male editor. We are still listing these books because they contain stories by women.

Title (Links to Goodreads) | Author/Editor | Release Date

January

Bloodline | Jess Lourey | Jan. 1
Taiping Tales of Terror | Julya Oui | Jan. 1
After the Rain | Nnedi Okorafor | Jan. 5
Persephone Station | Stina Leicht | Jan. 5
The Push | Ashley Audrain | Jan. 5
Root Magic | Eden Royce | Jan. 5
Last One to Die | Cynthia Murphy | Jan. 7
Shiver: A Chilling Horror Anthology | ed. Nico Bell | Jan. 11
Alone | Megan E. Freeman | Jan. 12
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories | Mariana Enriquez | Jan. 12
In Darkness, Shadows Breathe | Catherine Cavendish | Jan. 19
In the Garden of Spite | Camilla Bruce | Jan. 19
Karma Moon: Ghost Hunter | Melissa Savage | Jan. 19
Playing with Fire | April Henry | Jan. 19
Remote Control | Nnedi Okorafor | Jan. 19
Liar: Memoir of a Haunting | E. F. Schraeder | Jan. 23
Don’t Tell a Soul | Kirsten Miller | Jan. 26
The In-Between | Rebecca Ansari | Jan. 26
Black Water Tales: To the Moon and Back | Jean Nicole Rivers | Jan. 29
A Dowry of Blood | S.T. Gibson | Jan. 31
Family Solstice | Kate Maruyama | Jan. 31

February

The Blood Prince of Langkasuka | Tutu Dutta | Feb. 1
The Ash House | Angharad Walker | Feb. 2
Good Neighbors | Sarah Langan | Feb. 2
The Project | Courtney Summers | Feb. 2
What Big Teeth | Rose Szabo | Feb. 2
The Burning Girls | C.J. Tudor | Feb. 9
A Flood of Posies | Tiffany Meuret | Feb. 9
Never Have I Ever | Isabel Yap | Feb. 9
Rafael (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #28) | Laurell K. Hamilton | Feb. 9
Daughters of Darkness | Stephanie Ellis, Alyson Faye, Theresa Derwin, and Ruschelle Dillon | Feb. 14
In That Endlessness, Our End | Gemma Files | Feb. 15
Cathedral of Bones | A.J. Steiger | Feb. 16
The Echo Wife | Sarah Gailey | Feb. 16
Holes in the Veil | Beth Overmyer | Feb. 16
The Swimmers | Marian Womack | Feb. 16
Deification | Brooklynn Dean | Feb. 17
The Sanatorium | Sarah Pearse | Feb. 18
Outrage: Level 10 | Lucy Leitner | Feb. 19
The Initial Insult | Mindy McGinnis | Feb. 23
The Loosening Skin | Aliya Whiteley | Feb. 23
The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book: A Greenglass House Story | Kate Milford | Feb. 23
The Russian Cage (Gunnie Rose #3) | Charlaine Harris | Feb. 23
The Shadow War | Lindsay Smith | Feb. 23
The Upstairs House | Julia Fine | Feb. 23
She Ain’t Pretty | Renee Miller | Feb. 25
The Dead Hours of the Night | Lisa Tuttle | Feb.

March

Bridge of Souls (Cassidy Blake #3) | V.E. Schwab | Mar. 2
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories (reissue) | Marjorie Bowen | Mar, 2
A Broken Darkness | Premee Mohamed | Mar. 2
Burning Girls and Other Stories | Veronica Schanoes | Mar. 2
Dead Space | Kali Wallace | Mar. 2
Down Comes the Night | Allison Saft | Mar. 2
Ghost in the Headlights | Lindsey Duga | Mar. 2
In the Quick | Kate Hope Day | Mar. 2
The Lake | Natasha Preston | Mar. 2
The Lost Apothecary | Sarah Penner | Mar. 2
Machinehood | S.B. Divya | Mar. 2
All the Murmuring Bones | A. G. Slatter | Mar. 9
The Children of Chicago | Cynthia Pelayo | Mar. 9
The Girls Are All So Nice Here | Laurie Elizabeth Flynn | Mar. 9
The Second Bell | Gabriela Houston | Mar. 9
Redder Days | Sue Rainsford | Mar. 11
Vanilla | Mona Kabbani | Mar. 13
Delicates | Breanna Thummler | Mar. 16
Our Last Echoes | Kate Alice Marshall | Mar. 16
The Savage Instinct | M.M. DeLuca | Mar. 16
The Whispering House | Elizabeth Brooks | Mar. 16
The Shadow in the Glass | J.J.A. Harwood | Mar. 18
The Nobodies | Laurel Elizabeth Hasara | Mar. 22
The Follower | Kate Doughty | Mar. 23
The Lost Village | Camilla Sten | Mar. 23
Red Widow | Alma Katsu | Mar. 23
Goddess of Filth | V. Castro | Mar. 30
Rule of Wolves (King of Scars Duology #2) | Leigh Bardugo | Mar. 30
Rosie Shadow | Louise Worthington | Mar.
Nocturnal Salvation | Villimey Mist | Mar.

April

Mina and the Undead | Amy McCaw | Apr. 1
Almost There and Almost Not | Linda Urban | Apr. 6
The Drowning Kind | Jennifer McMahon | Apr. 6
House of Hollow | Krystal Sutherland | Apr. 6
The Mother We Share | Jennifer Soucy | Apr. 6
Poison Priestess (Lady Slayers #2) | Lana Popović | Apr. 6
You Love Me (You #3) | Caroline Kepnes | Apr. 6
Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls | Kaela Rivera | Apr. 13
The Helm of Midnight (The Five Penalties #1) | Marina J. Lostetter | Apr. 13
Near the Bone | Christina Henry | Apr. 13
The Mary Shelley Club | Goldy Moldavsky | Apr. 13
Smithy | Amanda Desiree | Apr. 13
Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract | Rebecca Fraser | Apr. 15
Dispossessed | Piper Mejia | Apr. 15
She Who Rules the World | Maria Abrams | Apr. 15
Earthly Bodies | Susan Earlam | Apr. 17
The Forest of Stolen Girls | June Hur | Apr. 20
The Hatak Witches | Devon A. Mihesuah | Apr. 20
Witches Steeped in Gold | Ciannon Smart | Apr. 20

May

Into Darkness (Stuffed #2) | Liz Braswell | May 4
Prom House | Chelsea Mueller | May 4
Walk Among Us (Vampire: The Masquerade #1) | Genevieve Gornichec, Cassandra Khaw, and Caitlin Starling | May 4
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper #1) | Darcy Coates | May 4
Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy | Hailey Piper | May 7
Black Water Sister | Zen Cho | May 11
Certain Dark Things (reissue) | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | May 11
Long Lost | Jacqueline West | May 11
The Promise Keeper (reissue) | L. Marie Wood | May 11
Far From Home: An Anthology of Adventure Horror | ed. Samantha Kolesnik | May 15
The Edge of Strange Hollow | Gabrielle K. Byrne | May 18
In the Ravenous Dark | A.M. Strickland | May 18
Madam | Phoebe Wynne | May 18
Ophie’s Ghosts | Justina Ireland | May 18
Screams from the Void | Anne Tibbets | May 18
Crater Lake: Evolution | Jennifer Killick | May 20
The Hollow Inside | Brooke Lauren Davis | May 25
The Baby Is Mine | Oyinkan Braithwaite | May 27

June

Bacchanal | Veronica Henry | June 1
For the Wolf (Wilderwood #1) | Hannah F. Whitten | June 1
The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris | June 1
The Shape of Darkness | Laura Purcell | June 1
Wendy, Darling | A.C. Wise | June 1
Hollow Chest | Brita Sandstrom | June 8
Shutter | Melissa Larsen | June 15
The Bridge | J. S. Breukelaar | June 22
Cinders of Yesterday | Jen Karner | June 22
The Queen of the Cicadas | V. Castro | June 22
Rage | Sue Rovens | June 22
Waverly Estate: Betwixted (Waverly Estate #3) | M.T. Maliha | June 22
Star Eater | Kerstin Hall | June 22

July

Summoner of Sleep | A.I. Winters | July 1
Too Near the Dead | Helen Grant | July 1
We Have Always Been Here | Lena Nguyen | July 3
Build Your House Around My Body | Violet Kupersmith | July 6
Inheriting Her Ghosts | S. H. Cooper | July 9
21 Grams | M. Regan | July 13
A Touch of Jen | Beth Morgan | July 13
The Comfort of Monsters | Willa C. Richards | July 13
The Fallen (The Outside #2) | Ada Hoffmann | July 13
Look What You Made Me Do | Elaine Murphy | July 13
When All the Girls Are Sleeping | Emily Arsenault | July 13
Immortelle | Catherine McCarthy | July 15
Transmuted | Eve Harms | July 15
Where the Briars Sleep | Emma Beaven | July 17
For Your Own Good | Samantha Downing | July 20
Hardly Haunted | Jessie Sima | July 20
John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow | Mimi Matthews | July 20
The Necessity of Stars | E. Catherine Tobler | July 20
The Past Is Red | Catherynne M/ Valente | July 20
The Retreat | Elisabeth de Mariaffi | July 20
The River Has Teeth | Erica Waters | July 20
Small Favors | Erin A. Craig | July 27
They’ll Never Catch Us | Jessica Goodman | July 27
This Poison Heart | Kalynn Bayron | July 28
They Come in the Night | Lynn-Cee Falk | July 30
And What Can We Offer You Tonight | Premee Mohamed | July

August

Queen of Teeth | Hailey Piper | Aug. 1
Quiet Village | Eden Darry | Aug. 1
A Lesson in Vengeance | Victoria Lee | Aug. 3
All’s Well | Mona Awad | Aug. 3
Dark Waters (Small Spaces #3) | Katherine Arden | Aug. 3
The Dead and the Dark | Courtney Gould | Aug. 3
Escape to Witch City | E. Latimer | Aug. 3
Evil Eye: A Slasher Story | April A. Taylor | Aug. 3
Hide and Don’t Seek | Anica Mrose Rissi | Aug. 3
Once There Were Wolves | Charlotte McConaghy | Aug. 3
Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares | Tehlor Kay Mejia | Aug. 3
The Plentiful Darkness | Heather Kassner | Aug. 3
Tidepool | Nicole Willson | Aug. 3
When the Reckoning Comes | LaTanya McQueen | Aug. 3
Children of Demeter | EV Knight | Aug. 5
Dead Lez Walking | G. Benson | Aug. 9
Visited by Dreamscape | Louise Worthington | Aug. 9
The Devil Makes Three | Tori Bovalino | Aug. 10
Ghost Girl | Ally Malinenko | Aug. 10
Mark of the Wicked | Georgia Bowers | Aug. 10
Mine | Delilah S. Dawson | Aug. 10
The Family Plot | Megan Collins | Aug. 17
Getaway | Zoje Stage | Aug. 17
Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories | J.A.W. McCarthy | Aug. 17
A Sprinkle of Sorcery (A Pinch of Magic #2) | Michelle Harrison | Aug. 17
Have You Seen Me? | Alexandrea Weis | Aug. 17
Phantom Heart | Kelly Creagh | Aug/ 17
Reclaimed | Madeleine Roux | Aug. 17
Skin Deep | Renee Miller | Aug. 17
This Town Is a Nightmare (This Town Is Not Alright #2) | M.K. Krys | Aug. 21
Bad Witch Burning | Jessica Lewis | Aug. 24
Burden Falls | Kat Ellis | Aug. 24
Eyes of the Forest | April Henry | Aug. 24
Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom #2) | Kira Jane Buxton | Aug. 24
Rock Band: An Anthology of Music-Inspired Microfiction | ed. A.R. Ward | Aug. 25
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead | eds. Aaron J. French and Jess Landry | Aug. 27
Brackenbeast (Thirteens #2) | Kate Alice Marshall | Aug. 30
The Collectors (Fright Watch #2) | Lorien Lawrence | Aug. 31
The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story | Charis Cotter | Aug. 31
To Offer Her Pleasure | Ali Seay | Aug. 31
The Woods Are Always Watching | Stephanie Perkins | Aug. 31
Laughlin Hills Community Magazine: Issue 01 / August 2021 | Caitlin Marceau | Aug.
Swine | Monica Vogel | Aug.

September

Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause Themed Horror | ed. Nicole M. Wolverton | Sept. 1
Queen of Teeth (ebook) | Hailey Piper | Sept. 1
The Stepchildren | Stephanie Sparks | Sept. 1
Palladium’s Gate (Palladium Series #1) | Janet Joyce Holden | Sept. 2
The All-Consuming World | Cassandra Khaw | Sept. 7
The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories | Nina Allan | Sept. 7
Certain Dark Things (reissue) | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Sept. 7
The Girls Are Never Gone | Sarah Glenn Marsh | Sept. 7
Grievers (Black Dawn Series #1) | adrienne maree brown | Sept. 7
The Haunting of Leigh Harker | Darcy Coates | Sept. 7
How to Survive a Human Attack: A Guide for Werewolves, Cyborgs, Ghosts, and Other Supernatural, Cyber, Mutant, Alien, and Exceptionally Large Beings | K.E. Flann | Sept. 7
The Last Beautiful Girl | Nina Laurin | Sept. 7
Small Town Monsters | Diana Rodriguez Wallach | Sept. 7
Six Rooms | Gemma Amor | Sept. 7
The Thirteenth Cat | Mary Downing Hahn | Sept. 7
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840–1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers | ed. Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger | Sept. 7
Corpse Queen | Heather Herrman | Sept. 14
Dread Softly | Caryn Larrinaga | Sept. 14
From the Neck Up | Aliya Whiteley | Sept. 14
Infestation (Whispering Pines #2) | Heidi Lang and Kati Bartkowski | Sept. 14
The List of Unspeakable Fears | J. Kasper Kramer | Sept. 14
The Lost Girls | Sonia Hartl | Sept. 14
Priory | Becky Wright | Sept. 14
Stalking Shadows | Cyla Panin | Sept. 14
What Lives in the Woods | Lindsay Curry | Sept. 14
White Smoke | Tiffany D. Jackson | Sept. 14
All These Bodies | Kendare Blake | Sept. 14
The Wrath of Horus | Catherine Schaff-Stump | Sept. 17
To Break a Covenant | Alison Ames | Sept. 21
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark | Cassandra Peterson | Sept. 21
The Ghost of Midnight Lake | Lucy Strange | Sept. 21
House of Lazarus | T.L. Bodine | Sept. 21
The House of Little Bones | Beverley Lee | Sept. 21
Blood and Bone: An Anthology of Body Horror by Women and Non-Binary Writers | ed. A.R. Ward | Sept. 22
Followers | Christina Bergling | Sept. 26
Lovelorn | April-Jane Rowan | Sept. 26
The Smallest of Bones | Holly Lyn Walrath | Sept. 26
Beasts of Prey | Ayana Gray | Sept. 28
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow | Christina Henry | Sept. 28
Lakesedge | Lyndall Clipstone | Sept. 28
The Last House on Needless Street | Catriona Ward | Sept. 28
When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson | ed. Ellen Datlow | Sept. 28
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021) | ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | Sept. 28

October

Finches | A. M. Muffaz | Oct. 1
Our Fearful Roots | Carmilla Voiez and Faith Marlow | Oct. 1
Mouth Full of Ashes | Briana Morgan | Oct. 4
The Between (reissue) | Tananarive Due | Oct. 5
Cackle | Rachel Harrison | Oct. 5
The Forest | Lisa Quigley | Oct. 5
The Ghosts of Thorwold Place | Helen Power | Oct. 5
The Gold Persimmon | Lindsay Merbaum | Oct. 5
The Lighthouse Witches | C.J. Cooke | Oct. 5
Squad | Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illustrated by Lisa Sterle | Oct. 5
The Violent Season | Sara Walters | Oct. 5
When We Entered That House | Claire L. Smith | Oct. 10
Rosie Paints with Ghosts | Cassie Daley | Oct. 11
Beware: The Art of Goosebumps | Sarah Rodriguez, illustrated by Tim Jacobus | Oct. 12
Psychros | Charlene Elsby | Oct. 12
The Wild Dark | Katherine Silva | Oct. 12
Cacophony: Book Two | L. Marie Wood | Oct. 13
Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror | ed. Ellen Datlow | Oct. 19
The Death of Jane Lawrence | Caitlin Starling | Oct. 19
Flowers for the Sea | Zin E. Rocklyn | Oct. 19
The Ghost Sequences | A.C. Wise | Oct. 19
Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Cassandra Khaw | Oct. 19
The Restoration | J.H. Moncrieff | Oct. 19
The Science of Serial Killers: The Truth Behind Ted Bundy, Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Other Notorious Murderers of Cinematic Legend | Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence | Oct. 19
Someone to Share My Nightmares: And Other Stories | Sonora Taylor | Oct. 19
Where Echoes Lie | Shannon Schuren | Oct. 19
Within These Wicked Walls | Lauren Blackwood | Oct. 19
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume Two | ed. Paula Guran | Oct. 19
The Secret Skin | Wendy N. Wagner | Oct. 26
Son of Abraham (Diabhal Book 3) | Kathleen Kaufman | Oct. 26
The Sound of Breaking Glass: And Other Weird Tales | Christine Makepeace | Oct. 26
The Villa and the Vortex: Selected Supernatural Stories, 1914–1934 | Elinor Mordaunt | Oct. 26
Into the Dark | Dana Isaly | Oct. 30
Chingle Hall | Zowie Swan | Oct. 31
Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness | ed. Dave Ring | Oct. 31
Vampire the Begotten | Dayna Ward | Oct. 31
And This Is How To Stay Alive | Shingai Njeri Kagunda | Oct.

November

A Conjuring for All Seasons: An Anthology of Witch Lore | featuring Hailey Piper, Stephanie M. Wytovich, K. P. Kulski, Donyae Coles, and Gaby Triana | Nov. 2
All of Us Villains (All of Us Villains #1) | Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman | Nov. 9
Comfort Me With Apples | Catherynne M. Valente | Nov. 9
The Hidden | Melanie Golding | Nov. 9
Nightmare in Savannah | Lela Gwenn | Nov. 9
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich | Nov. 9
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 13 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Nov. 16
Neighbor George | Victoria Nelson | Nov. 16
Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology | ed. A. R. Ward | Nov. 24
She Never Left | C.M. Harris | Nov. 25
Killer Content | Kiley Roache | Nov. 30
Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas | eds. Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Joshua Viola | Nov. 30

December

The Shivering Ground and Other Stories | Sara Barkat | Dec. 1
Waif | Samantha Kolesnik | Dec. 1
A History of Wild Places | Shea Ernshaw | Dec. 7
No Beauties or Monsters | Tara Goedjen | Dec. 7
Sloth | Joanne Askew | Dec. 7
Square3 | Mira Grant | Dec. 31