Adult SciFi, Fantasy & Horror

These science fiction, fantasy, and horror books are new to our shelves in the last 30 days (most recent on top).

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Paranormal payback / edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes.
"A superstar lineup is included in this urban fantasy collection featuring short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Holly Black, Kim Harrison, and more. . . . In this short story collection, our heroes get what's due to them-w…
Stay for a spell / Amy Coombe.
"An overworked princess is cursed to remain in a bookshop until she discovers what her heart truly longs for, in this utterly charming and romantic cozy fantasy debut. Princess Tanadelle of the Widdenmar is disillusioned with life as a princess. She longs…
The lighthouse at the end of the world / Philip A Suggars.
"Oyster McLellen has spent his life causing mischief. Running with a small-time gang and fleecing money from tourists in Hyde Park to support his struggling family in the absence of his father, who abandoned them years ago. When a simple money drop for hi…
Thistlemarsh / Moorea Corrigan.
"Faeries disappeared over one hundred years ago, as suddenly as slipping through a doorway. It was only the very foolish, or the very determined, who held out hope for their return. In the wake of World War I, the world is a decidedly unmagical place for …
Invasive species : a novel / Ellery Adams.
"Something's not right in Cold Harbor--more so than usual. While this sleepy small town has seen its fair share of monsters in cheating husbands and leering bosses, none are as hungry as Mrs. Smith. The mysterious resident has finally emerged from her cru…
Year of the mer / L.D. Lewis.
"The fairy tale mermaid Arielle might have gotten her happily-ever-after, but her granddaughter Yemi is having a much harder time. Her father, the king of Ixia, was assassinated years ago, her mother is slowly dying of a poisoned wound, and she faces whis…
The infinite sadness of small appliances : a novel / Glenn Dixon.
"In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold’s stories, the little vacuum renam…
The great big bear and other stories of the iron druid chronicles / Kevin Hearne.
Dive into twelve all-new stories of the Iron Druid Chronicles featuring Atticus, Owen, Granuaile, and some very good dogs! The return of the Morrigan isn't such bad news for Atticus O'Sullivan, but the possibility that his old enemy, Aenghus Og, might fin…
The curse of Hester Gardens / Tamika Thompson.
"Nona McKinley raised three boys in the Hester Gardens section of Medford, Michigan, an impoverished community divided by those who follow their faith in God and those who turn to crime to survive. With her drug dealer husband behind bars and her eldest s…
The caretaker : a novel / Marcus Kliewer.
"EXCITING OPPORTUNITY: Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY. Macy Mullins can’t say why the job posting grabbed her attention—it had the pull of a fisherman’s lure, barbed hook and all—vaguely ominous. Bu…
The kingdom of almonds / Ariel Kaplan.
"Toba and Naftaly have stepped through the Gate of Luz into the mythic world of Aravoth, home to the Ziz, the bird of legend capable of raising the sea. Aravoth—the fabled third realm—is more dizzying and terrifying than Toba or Naftaly could have imagine…
The quarter queen : a novel / Kayla Hardy.
"In 1843 New Orleans, the reigning Voodoo queen is Marie Laveau, feared by her enemies and followers alike. Her daughter, Marie “Ree” Laveau the Second, is everything her cutthroat and principled mother is not—spoiled and entitled, with a wickedly rebelli…
Rise of the celestials / Kritika H. Rao.
"After completing her dangerous mission to seduce Sage Kaushika--and unexpectedly finding love in the process--Meneka enjoys a fragile freedom. She now lives in the mortal realm with Kaushika, both learning to trust each other. Yet deep differences linger…
This will be interesting : a novel / E.B. Asher.
"Galwell True was the perfect hero, the legend who sacrificed himself to save the realm…only for his friends to unexpectedly resurrect him ten years later. These days, he’s feeling less “Galwell the Great” and more “Galwell the Lost.” River Pricemark is …
We call them witches : a novel / India-Rose Bower.
"Nearly everyone died the first night they came…Two years ago, monstrous beings tore through Britain, leaving few survivors. Now Sara and her family live on the run, relying on scraps of folklore and fading pagan rituals to stay safe from the eldritch cre…
The fourth wife / Linda Hamilton.
"Hazel Russon’s life in 1882 Utah territory is defined by three things: the Mormon church, polygamy, and the men who control both. She knows she’s supposed to suppress her sinful dreams of a monogamous life with her sweetheart, and her desire for the free…
The girl who made a mouse from her grandfather's whiskers / by Kenneth Hunter Gordan.
"In a distant future, a little girl named Anny makes toy mice out of scraps and dust. Anny has never seen a real mouse, just as she’s never seen the planet her family came from many generations ago. All she knows is her home, Tsedt: an isolated village of…
Thorns of frost / Krista Street.
"Being entered into the Rising Queen Trial is equivalent to death. If I win, I'll marry my enemy. If I lose, I'll marry another fae of the king's choosing. Either way, my freedom is lost unless I find a way to escape. Intent on fleeing, I train my new aff…
No man's land / Richard K. Morgan.
"The Great War was supposed to be the war to end all wars—and maybe it would have been, had an even greater, otherworldly foe not risen to extinguish the conflict. Overnight, as guns blazed in France and Flanders, village after village in the quiet Britis…
Bloodsinger / Juliette Cross.
"Lela Bihari's village was invaded on her wedding night, her betrothed murdered right in front of her. While her sisters were either dragged away or escaped, Lela was sold to Valerius, a consul of Rome. When she tried to kill Valerius her first night as h…
Morsel / Carter Keane.
"Lou did what the children of parents with backbreaking, poorly paying jobs are supposed to do: pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office gig with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their multilevel marketing scheme disguised as sel…
Japanese gothic : a novel / Kylie Lee Baker.
"October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidd…
Steel gods / Richard Swan.
"Industrial revolution beckons. Spiritual catastrophe looms. And the Empire of the Wolf teeters on the brink...The true horror of the Great Silence has been revealed. As nation after nation succumbs to the mind-plague and Sova scrambles to enlist help fro…
Transmentation / transgression : or, a spark on the eve of the five hundred year burn / Darkly Lem.
"A shocking death. A dangerous alliance. The worlds' order on the verge of collapse. After a fall from grace, intelligence officer Malculm Bysotič avoids further punishment when he is assigned to a bold and controversial new initiative: the forced evicti…
Your behavior will be monitored / Justin Feinstein.
Megacorporation UniView is almost ready to cement their reputation as 'the most trusted name in AI.' After pioneering AI bots for self-driving, they are barreling toward an audacious new launch. If they can pull it off in time. Noah is a down-and-out copy…
The subtle art of folding space / John Chu.
"Ellie's universe--and this one--is falling apart. Her ailing mother is in a coma; her sister, Chris, accuses her of being insufficiently Chinese between assassination attempts; and a shadowy cabal of engineers is trying to hijack the skunkworks, the mach…
The faith of beasts / James S. A. Corey.
"The monstrous Carryx empire was built by subjugation and war. Thousands of species are bound to their Sovran's command in an endless, blood-soaked test: be useful in the eternal conflict or be slaughtered. Dafyd Alkhor, highest among their human captives…
The dead man's empire / W.P. Wiles.
"Syzenne. A princess? Or a mere bargaining chip in a contest between two powers? Duna. A teenage girl dragged into a war by a fanatical priest? Or a child who can break mountains? As blood-thirsty elves sweep the land, as religions crumble and rumours s…
Daughter of crows / Mark Lawrence.
"Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies--known as the kindly ones--against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred g…
The book witch : a novel / Meg Shaffer.
"Rainy March is a proud, third-generation Book Witch, sworn to defend works of fiction from all foes real and imaginary. With her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she jumps in and out of novels to fix malicious alterations and rogue heroes like a mod…
West of wicked / Nikki St Crowe.
"No one is safe on the Yellow Brick Road. Dorothy Gale doesn't know where she came from. At the age of five, she was dropped on Em and Henry's doorstep while a terrible storm rolled across the Kansas prairie. Now as an adult, Dorothy has made the most of …
Daughter of fate / A. S. Webb.
"Danae has fought monsters, crossed oceans and stared into the face of death. It is the price of the prophecy. The prophecy that names her as the mortal that will destroy Olympus. But gods do not fall without a fight. As they hunt her, Danae descends into…
The fortune tellers of rue Daru : a novel / Olesya Salnikova Gilmore.
"Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where they have lived quietly since Zina’s mother’s untimely death. By day, the women serve tea, mostly to members of the bustling Russian émigré community, but …
Aicha / Soraya Bouazzaoui.
"The Portuguese empire has planted its flag across Morocco, ruling with an iron fist. But eventually, all empires must fall. Aicha, the daughter of a Moroccan freedom-fighter, was born for battle. She has witnessed the death of her people, their starvatio…
Sarafina / Philip Fracassi.
"Choosing to risk execution rather than be killed in a losing war, three brothers desert their posts and begin a long, arduous journey back home. After weeks of dealing with rough terrain while evading bandits and home guard soldiers -- starving, injured,…
Red empire / Jonathan Maberry.
"In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series by...Jonathan Maberry, the team faces new and old enemies alike as a bioengineered version of The Black Death surfaces. Hundreds of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague …
Cabaret in flames / Hache Pueyo.
"Hache Pueyo returns after But Not Too Bold with her new novella Cabaret in Flames, where Interview with the Vampire meets Certain Dark Things in an alternate-Brazil where brutal flesh-hungering Guls stalk the night streets and manipulate the government f…
The inheritors / William Golding ; foreword by Ben Okri ; suggestions for further exploration by Rachel Greenwald Smith.
"When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer's brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things …
The ballad of Smallhope & Pennyroyal / Jodi Taylor.
"The origin story of bounty hunters extraordinaire: Smallhope and Pennyroyal. Meet Lady Amelia Smallhope, for whom there is no problem that can't be solved by a drink and a think. And Pennyroyal, for whom there is no problem. Ever. Everyone's favourite bo…
Wretch : or, the unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw / Eric LaRocca.
"After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain K…
The book of fallen leaves / A.S. Tamaki.
"Sen Hoshiakari is an exiled prince of a clan that lost everything in his father’s failed rebellion. Deprived of his birthright, Sen is determined to restore his family’s lands and honor at any cost. Rui is a peasant girl who saved Sen’s life on the night…
Afterbirth : a novel / Emma Cleary.
"In the wake of a fraught and ill-omened romance, Brooke arrives in Vancouver to care for her sister Izzy, who is preparing to undergo reproductive surgery. But Izzy’s rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways stalked by an ominous figure known on…
The somewhat wicked witch of Brigandale / C.M. Waggoner.
"Once upon a time, a somewhat wicked witch named Gretsella lived in a cozy little cottage in the Dark Forest of Brigandale. She dispensed herbs and tinctures at reasonable prices, met with her slightly oddball coven on a regular basis, and had absolutely …
Nothing tastes as good : a novel / Luke Dumas.
"Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he carries the weight of his childhood trauma and millennial ennui around his waist and in his soul. After trying eve…
Pretenders to the throne of God / Adrian Tchaikovsky.
"As the Palleseen's campaign to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world rages on, Eres Ffenegh – “the City on the Back of a Crab” – is the next state slated for conquest. But its citizens won't give up sovereignty easily. The siege has dra…
Dig : a novel / J. H. Markert.
"Eight years ago, a boy took up an axe and slaughtered a dozen people. That odd, troubled boy, Jericho Dodd, has been dead and buried in his father's yard for years, but ever since that massacre, Crow Island has been a dark and unsettling place. When Jeri…
The Found Object Society : a novel / Michelle Maryk.
"For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunk…
The cure / Pedro Urvi.
"Ava's people are cursed. Long after an ancient and mysterious Apocalypse reduced what remained of humanity to a primitive tribe living in the shadows of sphinx and pyramid, a horrific transformation eventually overtakes each member of the community, turn…
Mother is watching : a novel / Karma Brown.
"Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring The Mother. The painting, believed to be the work of a female surgeon-turned-artist after a personal tragedy, is the rumored fourth piece in a collectio…
The geomagician / Jennifer Mandula.
"When a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him, with the help of a fellow scholar--her former fiancâe"--Provided by publisher.
House of spells and secrets : a novel / Ivy Cassidy.
"Rowan Connors has lived a fragmented, nomadic life with her triplet sisters, Saoirse and Caraline. Reeling from the sudden drowning of their erratic and secretive mother, Bridget, they uncover an old photograph of her standing in front of a manor they do…
Only spell deep : a novel / Ava Morgyn.
"Judeth Cole has always had certain uncanny abilities. But when she arrived at Solidago, her grandfather's estate by the sea, she was forced to keep them secret. There she lived a harsh life under his rule and the haunting legacy of her late grandmother, …
Butterfly effects / Seanan McGuire.
"Seanan McGuire's New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with the fifteenth book following the Price family, cryptozoologists who study and protect the creatures living in secret all around us. Sarah Zellaby is a Jo…
Queen of the night sky : a novel / Amalie Howard.
"The Kingdom of Oryndhr has been saved by the will of the Royal Stars. But King Roshan, once Sura’s best friend and chosen love, has changed. She can sense corruption growing in him, and her own magic is being twisted by his command to dangerous ends. As …
Nowhere burning / Catriona Ward.
"Riley and her brother Oliver set off in the pitch-black night, fleeing their troubled home. They are heading for Nowhere—an abandoned ranch, once the playground of its former eccentric movie-star owner, now a haven for runaways. But this mysterious clan …
Witch of the Shadow Wood : a novel / Tori Anne Martin.
"Fifteen years ago, a little girl’s father bartered her away to the old witch in the woods for some magic. Abandoned by her brother, Hans, who promised to keep her safe, Greta learns to embrace her new life as an apprentice to the witch and starts a new l…
The spoil : a novel / Maile Chapman.
"In a rambling split-level house on the outskirts of Tacoma in the 1970s, a young girl is preoccupied by the anomalous phenomena she reads about in magazines: alien visitations, ESP, pyramid power, the Bermuda Triangle. Meanwhile, she and her stepbrother,…
Starside : a novel / Alex Aster.
"Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals--the descendants of the gods, living in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps of that magic. Every fifty years, the gates …
Event horizon / Balsam Karam ; translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
"A novel about seventeen-year-old Milde, who has grown up in the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters make their living banished from society-without rights, access to care, or legal status. Wh…
Crawlspace / Adam Christopher.
"Enter an edge-of-your-seat nightmare to the darkest frontiers in Crawlspace, a sci-fi horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Adam Christopher, perfect for fans of S.A. Barnes and Event Horizon. Mission Lead Olivia O'Connor and her team from …
Spoiled milk : a novel / Avery Curran.
"In 1928, Emily Locke’s final year at the isolated Briarley School for Girls is derailed when Violet, the school’s brightest star (and a cunning beauty for whom Emily would do anything), falls to her death on her eighteenth birthday. Emily and her buttone…
The devil in silver : a novel / Victor LaValle.
"Pepper is the surprised inmate of a mental institution in Queens, New York. In the darkness of his room, on his first night, a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospi…
Nobody's baby / Olivia Waite.
"A wild baby appears! Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective, is put to the test once again when an infant is mysteriously left on her nephew’s doorstep. Fertility is supposed to be on pause during the Fairweather’s journey across the stars—but humans have a…
This kingdom will not kill me / Ilona Andrews.
"When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while wait…
Sing the night / Megan Jauregui Eccles.
"For as long as Selene remembers, she’s only wanted one thing: to sing the boldest, brightest magic into existence and win L′Opéra du Magician. To the winner goes the spoils of being declared King′s Mage, a position her father held years ago, before he lo…
The fountain : a novel / Casey Scieszka.
"Vera Van Valkenburgh hasn’t been home in one hundred and eighty-eight years. But now Vera, forever twenty-six and able to heal from any wound, has returned to the Catskills. Whatever made her family immortal happened here, and if she can uncover it, mayb…
The witch without memory / Maithree Wijesekara.
"Prince Ashoka’s sister, Aarya, has named herself empress and is determined to reverse her brother’s mercy for the mayakari. Shakti is being held by shadowy figures, drugged and forced to commit an unspeakable crime. When she wakes, she finds herself pris…
The fifth elephant / Terry Pratchett.
"Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Where is the fifth elephant? Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary is the man to find out. He's been 'invited' to a…
Aflame / Roseanna M. White.
"Princess Valkyrja has always been deemed 'pretty and useless' by her family, who rule the kingdom of Fjordlandi. Though she has the same magical Blessing over ice and snow as her brother, sister, and father, she can never seem to use it for the brute-for…
The last starborn seer / Venetia Constantine
"Leilani Stellarion is cursed. The last of a ruined bloodline, she's shunned for her volatile Starborn magic, which grants her prophetic visions but is slowly corrupting her mind. Branded a pariah, Leilani is blamed for the Sickening, a wasting curse that…
Monumental / Adam G. Nevill
"Disaster strikes quickly and without warning. What should have been a glorious weekend of kayaking and camping, in a secluded beauty spot, is transformed by a scream. The first crisis, initiating a deadly momentum that accelerates as the valley reveals i…
The seventh sister / Dawn Kurtagich.
"After the tragic death of their parents, the seven Ward sisters are sent to live with their grandmother on the remote forest island of Beltane, a place suspended between time and shadow. What begins as an attempt to mend their fractured lives soon twists…
Otherworldly / Dwain Worrell
"Cleo Xavier is a renowned astronaut and explorer―not an addict. At least, that’s what she tells herself. She’s always been able to navigate the isolation and loneliness that come with space exploration, which makes her a perfect candidate to join four ot…
Sight unseen / Alexis Marie
"Veda Thorne is living on borrowed time. After exhausting every magical cure for the fatal curse trapped inside her, she’s accepted her fate. But Veda’s self-imposed isolation begins to crack when she’s asked to tutor Antaris, a child whose pain calls to …
Entwined / H. M. Long
"Ottilie Rushforth hides from the mighty Sorcerer’s Guild as secretary to a has-been detective. But Ottilie is also Entwined – threads of magic run beneath her skin, and the Guild would trap her in service. Working on a plan to escape the Guild forever wi…