I’ve got my Top 10 Anthologies and my Top 10 Collections of 2025 for you. These are in no particular order, except for the number 1 spots, and I’m including links for the books for you in case you’re interested in checking them out.

Anthologies

10 Horror Tales from Wales

Halloweird

Timeless: A Horror Anthology Through the Ages

Great British Horror 10: Something Peculiar (edited by Black Shuck Books)

Darkness Beckons (edited by Mark Morris)

Pretend You Don't See Her (Kandisha Press)

Fever Dreams (edited by Mark Morris)

New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural Volume 3 (edited by Stephen Jones)

The End of the World As We Know It (inspired by Stephen King’s The Stand)

Stories from the Motel Sick

Collections

A Graveside Gallery by Eric J. Guignard

Fever Dreams of a Parasite by Pedro Iniguez

Shadows and Whispers by Michael Jess Alexander

Fearsome Creatures by Aliya Whitely

Unquiet Waters by Thana Niveau

Scorpion Girl by Janeen Webb

Broken on the Inside by Phil Sloman

Managing and Other Lies by Willow Heath

Great Robots of History by Tim Major

Into Wrack and Ruin by Benjamin Kurt Unsworth