Wanna get all eight of our scheduled titles without even thinking about it, along with some fun bonus add-ons?
Let us answer for you: our upcoming lineup is friggin’ stacked, so yes, yes you do.
The 2025 Tenebrous Book Club is available in either Print+eBook or eBook-only options; Get all eight books plus:
A T-shirt or tank, your choice, that won't be made available anywhere else (available with print subscriptions only)
Exclusive add-ons and swag that won't be available anywhere else (comes with both sub plans)
All shipping costs included
PLEASE NOTE: Print books will ship on a QUARTERLY basis, two books at a time. Expect shipments in March, June, September and November. Ebooks will ship upon release date (or often earlier to subscribers).
SUBSCRIBE TO THE 2025 TENEBROUS BOOK CLUB.
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OUR 2025 Lineup:
1. CASUAL - a novel by Koji A. Dae (February)
cover art by Cristina Bencina; interior art by Helen Whistberry
ONE OF LITHUB’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2025!
Valya’s neural implant is amazing.
Casual has managed her depression and anxiety, stabilized her mood, and helped her get pregnant, but new laws forbid her from using the device when she's sole caregiver for her infant, so Valya needs to detox before giving birth. The full-blown panic attacks have her considering a controversial clinical trial that would place a tandem implant in her unborn baby and allow Valya to keep hers active. Her only options are to attempt solo parenting without Casual, or install a minimally tested device in her vulnerable child.
CASUAL is a stark and cutting glance at a near future that looks uncannily like our present, exploring themes of bodily autonomy and the struggle for mental health in a world increasingly divided.
2. SPLIT SCREAM: Off the Map - two novelettes:
Sequoia Point by Íde Hennessy
Evergreen by John K. Peck & L. Mahler (March)
cover art by Evangeline Gallagher & Alex Ebenstein; interior art by Echo Echo
Two tales of nightmares on secluded streets, exploring grief and eco-horror in lonely locales.
In Sequoia Point, a grieving widow relocates to the Lost Coast region of California to rebuild her life, only to be swallowed up by a world of eccentrics, conspiracies, talismans, and strange doppelgangers.
In Evergreen, a woman returns to her family home to find a carnivorous tree growing within it, which feeds off of the emotions of her childhood memories and devours anything she commands it to.
3. PUPPET'S BANQUET - a novella by Valkyrie Loughcrewe (May)
cover art by Donna A. Black; interior illustrations by Trevor Henderson
Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the “real” world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity.
Of her husband, there is no trace…until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman.
And they are very pregnant.
Fans of Silent Hill, The Brood, Hellraiser, and Shutter Island will eat this up.
4. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Literature, Volume Three (June)
cover art by Matt Blairstone
The Best New Weird Literature published in 2024 in the realms of indie and self-publishing! Final Table of Contents will be announced in the first quarter of ‘25, we’re currently reading through hundreds of submissions. As in previous years, this will be a celebration of the myriad strange roads that Weird fiction can and should take, from voices (perhaps) familiar and (definitely) new, and fitting proof that New Weird Lit is healthy and vibrant.
5. WE LIKE IT CHERRY - a novel by Jacy Morris (July)
Cover design by Alex Woodroe; interior illustrations by Blacky Shepherd
Ezra Montbanc is burned out. The reality series he hosts—immersing himself into the cultures and celebrations of Indigenous tribes—borders on pure exploitation and has been relegated to tax write-off status by the network; this was not the prestigious journalism career he had long envisioned.
Everything changes when Ezra receives an invitation to document the rites of a mysterious, hitherto unknown tribe: the Winoquin, who reside in the harrowing, inhospitable Arctic. Ezra and his crew depart immediately for the home of the Winoquin, only to find themselves in a bloody battle for survival against a mythical horror with a serious grudge against modern man.
WE LIKE IT CHERRY is a story about identity and the quest for success, splashed with supernatural slasher vibes and the nailbiting relentlessness of survival horror.
6. REEF MIND - a novella by Hazel Zorn (September)
cover art by Becca Snow; interior art by Echo Echo
The coral reef rose from the seas, spreading across the land with incredible speed. A rapidly evolving invasive species.
It transformed the landscape. Mutated every living creature of the surface world.
We never suspected it had a plan.
Beneath the grisly body horror lurks a parable about delusion and how our self-images of nobility and heroism shatter in the wake of disaster.
7. CLAIRVIOLENCE: Tales of Tarot and Torment - a collection by Mo Moshaty (October)
(cover art by Bri Crozier; interior art by Mo Moshaty)
The Tarot holds mystery, prediction, and unsettling omens to those who practice, divine, or are keen to it. Each card in the Major Arcana holds a position in our lives, the many facets and personas we use to make it through this world.
Sometimes these personas can break us. They can plunge us into despair, fear, terror.
A turn of the cards weaves CLAIRVIOLENCE through space and time to delve into the stories of those shaken by life-shattering choices that threaten to tear their very souls apart:
A warring couple is forced to reconcile during what they believe is the end of the world.
A young man is drawn into the surreal prison-scape of an elderly woman.
A dead woman’s curse travels miles and decades to bring her killer to justice.
CLAIRVIOLENCE unearths the hellish tales that lie beneath the exterior of an otherwise charmed and quiet existence.
8. DEAR STUPID PENPAL - a novella by Rascal Hartley (November)
(cover art by Carly A-F; interior art TBA)
An entirely epistolary Cosmic Sci-Horror novel in which Aku, an astronaut who absolutely hates space, his ship, and his crewmates, finds that as time unravels in hyperdrive, everyone else’s penpals back on earth have died off while his beloved closest friend, inexplicably, remains
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