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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Inkpot gods / Seanan McGuire.
"The New York Times bestselling author takes us back to the world of the Alchemical Journeys in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame, Seasonal Fears, and Tidal Creatures. The gods live and die at our whim. More than a century has passed since Asphod…
The mayor of Noobtown : a novel / Ryan Rimmel.
"It could be worse. You could be stuck with a literal shoulder demon. For Jim, it’s very much worse. Because after dying and being reborn into a world that’s built like a video game, Jim has found himself stuck in an antiquated new player zone for low lev…
The heart of the Nhaga / Lee Young-Do, translated by Anton Hur.
"The world is divided by the Line of Limit. To the north are the Tokkebi—fire people able to manipulate flames as both weapons and illusions; Rekon—giant birdmen with immense strength and warrior acumen; and the humans—as divided as the other races are un…
Halo : Waypoint chronicles. Volume one / Jeff Easterling & Alexander Wakeford.
"Delve once more into stories of legendary heroism and star-spanning conflicts—from the time of the ancient Forerunners to the perils of a twenty-sixth century clash between the United Nations Space Command and the Banished alien alliance. Halo: Waypoint …
The Autumn Leaf Bookshop / Kay Michaels.
"Raene Hart doesn't do fall. Give her beaches, sun-soaked pages, and barefoot days under thunderstorm skies and she's golden. But when her beloved grandmother needs care, Raene trades her coastal condo and bestselling romance career for six weeks in Everl…
Field guide for the formerly villainous : a novel / Autumn K. England.
"When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Years later, the realm's heroes have finally saved the day, defeated the villain, and shattered the last remnants of the spell.…
The Redemption Center is closed on Sundays / Andrea Hairston.
"Every Sunday, Oona the St. Berdoodle and her current owner, Zsuzsu, make their way through the winding paths of the State Park to the enigmatic Redemption Center-a place often mistaken for a haunted mansion. When a local celebrity is found murdered, the …
The children : a novel / Melissa Albert.
"Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother’s world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have …
Teddy bears never die / Cho Yeeun ; translated by Sung Ryu.
"When the fledgling coastal town of Yamu is rocked by a mass-poisoning attack at the Seaview Parc, a luxury high-rise apartment, Hwayoung is one of many who lost family members. Except, she has never believed that her mother was poisoned. Now, fueled by g…
House of margins : a novel / Tlotlo Tsamaase.
"Before her disappearance, Anaya was a brilliant writer: a rising star. Invited to an exclusive writers' retreat at Günter Huis, an eerie colonial mansion on the slopes of Devil's Peak, Anaya was supposed to craft the next great African literary masterpie…
Bromantasy / Máire Roche.
"Juniper O'Reilly is good at only two things: demolishing a pint of mead and finding the perfect skincare routine. Everything else-taking care of the farm, bartering for goods, any sort of manual labor-falls to Juniper's best friend, the absurdly capable,…
Ignore all previous instructions : a novel / Ada Hoffman.
"Kelli Reynolds loves creating stories more than anything in the world. But on Callisto, a generative AI company called Inspiration owns everything, including all the media, and only Inspiration determines which stories can be told. Kelli has a rare and c…
The death of mountains / Jordan Kurella.
"The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella (I Never Liked You Anyway) is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like The Death of Mountains are more meaningful than ever. When …
Nobody's quest / Alyssa Day.
"Soli has spent most of her life being invisible—an indentured servant, a library mold-scrubber, the girl no one sees unless she’s in the way. So, when the king’s guards show up with swords drawn, she assumes it’s a mistake. It’s not. Moments later, she’s…
Sublimation / Isabel J. Kim.
"When you immigrate, you leave a copy of yourself behind, an instance. One person enters their new country; the other stays trapped at home. Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrat…
Marion : a novel / Leah Rowan.
"Marion is in deep. She's stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works in a desperate bid to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, but the bus breaks down before she can make it to Saratoga Springs. It's late at night, and the only plac…
The Rainshadow Orphans / Naomi Ishiguro.
"Life is hard for the inhabitants of Rainshadow City, a place where poverty and corruption are rife and where they are terrorized by an underground criminal organization known as the Lucky Crows. Toshiko, Jun, and Mei Kawakami are a family, bonded throug…
Ode to the half-broken / Suzanne Palmer.
"Thirty years ago the world nearly ended. Be was there, but the old robot has since settled into a life of isolation in the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, determined to forget their role in that cataclysmic conflict. But then they wake up in a bath…
Our sister's keeper / Jasmine Holmes.
"Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town--untouched by white oppression--where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do th…
A dark and wild wood : a novel / Sarah Nicole Lemon.
"Ever since she was a child, Salomé has been plagued by visions of spirits and dangerous powers she can’t control. After watching her foster mother burn as a witch, she and her beloved sister Rochelle are raised together in a convent, a grim and dreary ex…
The temptation of Charlotte North / Camilla Bruce.
"A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life. The handsome but married priest who has caught her eye. And the resolute schoolteacher who values science above all. In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than peopl…
Hell to pay / Sherrilyn Kenyon.
"Lucian “Luke” Teivel isn’t just any exile—he’s Lucifer’s son, freshly banished from Hell with no forwarding address and zero explanation. Now he’s stuck in the human world, paying cosmic penance by working for Infernal Affairs, a secret task force that p…
Wings of life / Meghan Le Fay.
"Too sharp-tongued and too curious, I am my mother’s greatest lament and my father’s constant frustration. Unwilling to bow to their will, I’ve become expendable, worth sending on a mission doomed to fail. Armed with nothing but a coded journal, a quill,…
Battlestorm / Ian Douglas.
"As war rages on against the formidable Galactic Authority, Admiral Alexandra Morrigan leads a daring expeditionary fleet into the galactic frontier, searching for unlikely allies in the stars. For if humankind has any hope of survival, it will need them.…
The coffin of honey / Geoffrey D. Morrison.
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Annihilation in this poetic space-age fable of proletarian internationalism. At the end of the twenty-first century, on the shores of the Indian Ocean, a minor Marxist politician's speech is interrupted by the arr…
I hear a new world / Alan Moore.
"It's 1958 and Dennis Knuckleyard has decided to leave his adventures in the Great When in the past where they belong. For nine years, he's avoided so much as thinking about the magical version of London, until he rediscovers an unpleasant reminder of his…
Intergalactic Waste Management, LLC / Ash Bishop
"Former Intergalactic Exterminator Russ Wesley has found a new gig at Intergalactic Waste Management, LLC alongside old allies, in what promises to be a cushy job processing space debris on a state-of-the-art salvage vessel. But when he finds the dead bod…
The bone door : a novel / Frances White.
"When Hop awakens in an ancient labyrinth, he has no memory of his life, or how he got here. He does not recognise the mysterious girl trapped with him. And he certainly cannot identify the shadowy figure stalking him, whispering terrible things... But th…
Heaven's river / Dennis E. Taylor.
"The Bobiverse is on the brink of chaos as civil war brews, and the fate of one of their own hangs in the balance. More than a century ago, Bender embarked on a daring mission to the stars and vanished without a trace. Despite relentless efforts to track …
Until death : a novel / Mary Berman.
"If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it's that getting married is a bad idea. But if she's learning anything from her widowed mother's dementia, it's that dying alone is worse. So when she meets Luke--the man of her mother's dreams--marri…
2084 : a novel of future war / Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis.
"A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet devastated by climate change. In their novel 2034, decorated military officers and award-winning authors Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis imagined a war between…
Bone of my bone / Johanna van Veen.
"The year is 1635. Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the…
Dead weight / Hildur Knútsdóttir ; translated by Mary Robinette Kowal.
"Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. When she tracks down the cat’s wayward owner, she finds a young woman just as lost and in need of help. Like a gust of cold air in a Reykjavík night, Ásta and her pet sli…
Startup Hell / Caitlin Rozakis.
"Morgan Blackwater's mother is a kickass, world-saving, demon-slaying Shadow Council wizard. As for Morgan? Morgan's a junior salesperson at a tech startup that can't even decide what its product is. But with magic dyslexia and a disinclination to kick as…
Femme feral / Sam Beckbessinger.
"Hyper-competent Ellie thinks she's going through perimenopause, but discovers she's actually turning into a werewolf in this feminist, dark-comedy debut The head of a company she started from the ground-up, the worried mother of a troublingly secretive d…
Trollheim : tale of Sýstir / Georgia Summers.
"Sýstir’s world is small and quiet, but shrouded in secrets. Outside of her family’s cottage lurks the constant threat of being discovered for what she truly is: unwanted, dangerous, Huldra. When their mother is accused of witchcraft and dragged to the st…
I'll watch your baby : a novel / Neena Viel.
"A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory from "addictive" (Publishers Weekly) horror author Neena Viel, I'll Watch Your Baby is a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor--known as the original Welfare Que…
Deathbringer : a novel / Sonia Tagliareni.
"Born with the ability to speak with the dead, Viola’s magic killed her sister, Olivia, and if she doesn’t learn why, it will kill her too. Her only hope lies within the perilous walls of Gorhail Institute of Magic, where Olivia spent her final days. The…
The Dorians : a novel / Nick Cutter.
"On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to stall their biological clocks or even reverse them, restoring their lost youth. The chance to put death on pause—forever…
The unicorn hunters : a novel / Katherine Arden.
"Anne of Brittany was a child when France invaded and drove her royal father to his death. Now she is a young woman, sovereign duchess of an occupied realm, and France means to crown their conquest by marrying her to their king. Such an alliance would put…
Mortedant's peril / RJ Barker.
"Irody Hasp is a Mortedant, a cleric tasked with reading the last thoughts of the dead—though no one thanks him for it. No Mortedant is popular, but Irody is scarcely tolerated even by the other members of his own guild, and rarely selected for anything b…
Filth eaters / Ito Romo.
"Granada, 1849. After centuries of scrounging in the shadows, the vampire Radamés discovers an ancient Aztec codex that reveals the vampires of the “New World” live a more “human” life—they marry, they give birth. Spurred on by tantalizing promise of a fu…
And side by side they wander / Molly Tanzer.
"For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth’s government was…
The Devil and Mrs. Gooch : a novel / Oliver Darkshire.
"In the storm-drenched city of Verdigris, home to indolent sorcerers and undead hotels, something is dreadfully wrong. Buildings are starting to crumble due to the kidnapping of their hobs, the many-legged house spirits that keep each home in order. In su…
Vile lady villains : a novel / Danai Christopoulou.
"With the consequences of her murderous actions closing in, Lady Macbeth turns to the three witches for help. They give her a potion that transports her to an unknown realm. Desperately lost, she opens a door and comes face to face with a beautiful woman …
Sister Svangerd and the devil you know / K. J. Parker
"When the Church of the Invincible Sun is looking for someone to do its dirty work, they call on Sister Svangerd and her priest. Stealing a book might sound like a relatively simple task, but this isn’t any old book. To get their hands on it, they must im…
A curse of beasts and magic / Jeaniene Frost.
"Raine Stone is living a nightmare. Ever since she survived the attack that killed her family, she's been hiding a terrible secret--and a Beast inside her. It feeds on violence and chaos, but she restrains its urges by playing vigilante on the city street…
We dance upon demons : a novel / Vaishnavi Patel.
"As a reproductive health care worker in Chicago, Nisha is barely staying afloat in the ocean of abortion bans, screaming protestors, and her own all-consuming depression. When she escapes to the Indian art exhibit at her favorite museum for a brief respi…
The arcane arts : a novel / S.D. Coverly.
"Ambitious and driven, Ellsbeth Storer has long been determined to study the arcane arts, even before the mysterious death of a loved one draws her to prestigious Newlyn University. Professor Thaddeus Rawlins was once the wunderkind of the field, but in t…
The Siren's Song. Anthology 1 / presented by River City Siren Press.
"The Siren's Song is a literary magazine full of eclectic, fantastical, epic, and (sometimes) spicy stories and poems. These tales are selected, cultivated, and (at times) commissioned by River City Siren Press. The Siren's Song collection skews heavily t…
Ode to the baseball gods : epic showdown in Hot Springs : a baseball fantasy / Frank Amoroso.
"Baseball has always been a game of miracles and heartbreaks. A line drive finds a glove. A rain cloud rolls in at the worst possible moment. A star player limps off the field for no earthly reason at all. Fans blame bad luck—or whisper about the baseball…
When you leave I disappear : a novella / David Niall Wilson
"When You Leave I Disappear is a literary horror novella in which a bestselling author's imposter syndrome draws her into a darker and darker world from which she may never escape." --Amazon.com
Something on your mind / George Morris De'ath
"Theo Gray is running out of time. Desperate for a cure to his terminal illness, Theo convinces his friends to journey with him to Los Angeles—a city as chaotic and fractured as his mind. Haunted by the voices in his head and the devil perched on his shou…