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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The lost guardian / Natalia Hernandez.
"Santiago Rios didn't plan to leave his quiet life in Los Angeles. But when his grandfather sends him a map to the lost tomb of the final Incan emperor, the young archaeologist is thrust into a brutal race across the Andes, pursued by ruthless tomb raider…
Solace house / Will Maclean.
"For Alex Lane’s wealthy university friends, the summer break stretches out before them, full of promise and fabulous plans. But for Alex, broke as usual, going home is not an option. So when the university offers him an unusual summer job clearing out a …
Galleon dreaming : an anthology of dark fiction from the Philippine diaspora, Vol. 1 / editor: Monica T.S. Flores.
"Inspired by the time of the galleons, spanning centuries and locations, these stories and poems from Filipinos around the world delve into fear, darkness, and the unknown. Find mystery, horror, psychological suspense, the macabre, and mythology retold, …
A complement of scoundrels / S.V. Lockwood.
"Cracking the Elysius Vault should’ve made Myria the richest thief in all Carintheum. Instead, it shattered her crew and left her rotting in jail while her double-crossing master walked away with everything that should’ve been hers. But now she’s out, an…
The butcher of Nazareth / David Scott Hay.
"Haunting visions drive a grieving butcher to hunt down an obese, pre-ministry Jesus to prevent an age of fire and ash. But when the Butcher ‘adopts’ a dead newborn, his hunt for the son of Nazareth takes a personal and horrific turn. From Bethlehem to J…
Kiss of the black flame / Helen Scheuerer.
"Saige Grayson has always believed stories could heal—even when her own body refuses to. As the most promising bookbinder in the capital, she’s learned to work through chronic pain and crushing debt, restoring other people’s treasures while trying not to …
The strangers / Naomi Alderman.
"A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long, trunk-…
Our cut of salt / Deena Helm.
"There is something haunting Nuhad’s childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have mysteriously vanished without a trace. Although Nuhad has not returned to her home since the Nakba in 1948, she alw…
The gates of midnight / Helene Wecker.
"At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker’s Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to Syria with the copper flask that holds the captured wizard Yehudah Schaalman. There in the desert he buries the flask for all ti…
All Hallows' Eve / edited by Ellen Datlow.
"Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when spirits can cross over, and when the boundary between the living and the dead is far, far too thin. A young boy encounters a woman with …
Threshing day / Rebecca Yarros.
"The next book in the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day contains thirteen stories starring your favorite characters and their dragons"--Publisher website.
The ancient things : a novel / Bonnie Quinn.
"With the land turning ancient, it is no longer just the campers who are in danger. Kate is the key and every inhuman entity is out for her blood. All the lesser creatures are making attempts on her life, but Kate isn't willing to let her land go without …
Republic of forge and grace : a parallel-universe America novel / Daniel Rirdan.
"When Chris Walden stumbles into Boulder, Colorado, in a parallel universe, he’s just looking to shoot some video, cash in, and bail. But what he finds captivates him: a place where folks raise houses together, kids know how to weld, and courtship begins …
Time to play / Erin Ampersand.
"Picture this: You’re home with your three kids, racing to get soccer uniforms washed ahead of practice when the power shuts off. Your cell phone goes dead. And a voice coming from nowhere and everywhere all at once booms: Congratulations! Your planet has…
Indigent / Briana N. Cox.
"LEIGH PIERCE ESTATES is home to a diverse array of tenants: families, immigrants, students, the forgotten elderly. All working poor, and all in danger. Because the tenants of Leigh Pierce are disappearing. Live-in handyman Xavier seems to be the only one…
An immaculate deception : a novel / Isabela Livino.
"1877, Pernambuco, Brazil: Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante’s Inferno by heart and fears her mother’s reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry o…
The wretched divine / Adalyn Grace.
"Aurelie Chantelune was born to serve. Raised as a knight in a kingdom ravaged by demons, she’s spent her life honing her blade, driven by the memory of the monsters who tore her family apart and by the knowledge that she’s one of the few who can stop the…
Wickhills / Premee Mohamed.
"In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of war. Looking after a defecting scientist should have been Vycol Ferec's easiest mission. But now…
Strange is the light / Sarah Maria Griffin.
"Strange is the Light follows a passionately entangled group of childhood friends, fractured by the betrayals and secrets kept as they grew into adulthood. Now, after twenty years, Daphne, Ronan, Leonie and Finn will finally have to face the consequences …
Dragons, heists, and other retirement plans / Meg Pennerson.
"Katherine and Imogene are done with their criminal past—honestly. They’ve traded in their outlaw lifestyle for seaside views, knitting projects (strictly non-magical), and only the occasional pub brawl (entirely accidental). But when an old friend begs t…
Pictures of you : a novel / Josh Malerman.
"After a magical night out on the town with her boyfriend Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a beautiful, well-lit room. But the pink ceiling, the mauve walls, and the deep, dark corners are nothing like the hotel she and Jack rented. More worrisome…
Driven / Mason Coile.
"Jamie Newcross wants to disappear. His wife and baby girl have abandoned him, and his only wish is to retreat from society. Because, as it turns out, Jamie Newcross is also being haunted. Every house, condo, or apartment he moves into is plagued with gho…
Sometimes I scare myself : a collection of horror / Jeneva Rose.
Never Kill the Medium: "A thirtieth birthday dinner turns deadly after someone hires a medium for a playful séance. When the ritual spirals out of control and the medium dies, the guests cover it up—unaware that leaving the séance unfinished has allowed s…
Turncloak / L.K. Steven.
"Revenge drove Saffron Killoran to go undercover in the Bloodmoon gang. But now, with any chance of retribution gone, she sees only one path forward: harnessing a long-dormant power to fix her ruinous mistakes. Meanwhile, the new kingpin of the Bloodmoon…
Mazywood / Tananarive Due.
"When Johnny—a filmmaker and grandson of the famous Black actress Mazelle Washington—brings his family to Mazywood, the secluded California mountain lodge left behind by his grandmother, he expects a quiet retreat. Instead, he uncovers a legacy of rage, s…
Harbinger / Geneva Lee.
"Arden Icaros was never supposed to matter. From the poorest of five noble bloodlines, she prefers life on the family farm with dirt under her nails over the fine dresses at court. She just needs to get through one boring ceremony, inherit her earth magic…
Paradox Club : a novel / Charlie Lovett.
"Tess Maxwell grew up fascinated by the stars and her father Harry's stories and scientific lessons. But ever since Harry's death ten years ago, Tess has felt out of sync with the world and suspects that there's more to her father's work--and death--than …
Bodies of magic / Freya Marske.
"At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healer’s gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Exam—a five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future. The list of exam rules in…
Exit party : a novel / Emily St. John Mandel.
"Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, th…
Brona / Terry Brooks and Delilah S. Dawson.
"Years have passed since Galaphile Joss and his life partner Nirianne established Paranor as a way to bring harmony to the Four Lands. Now, their two sons are growing to men in a land of peace and plenty. Admittedly, it is a land that their eldest child, …
The unheld : a novel / Luke Larkin.
"Charlie’s life is a lonely one. While other twelve-year-olds are in school, she spends her days skinning the animals her mercurial father hunts in the woods just outside their cabin. And the woods and its twisted creatures—an owl with four wings, a boar …
Murder like magic : a novel / Trisha Blanchet.
"Tess Tulley is the proud proprietor of Mill City Investigations—the premier (if you ask her) private investigation business in her small Massachusetts city. Business is slow, especially after she blew up her credibility among her fellow Spinners (do not …
Blood rising / Markus Redmond.
"Kwadzo Okoro never believed the bloody legend of Ramanga was real. Now, he stands as the leader of a new Ramanga Tribe, one that sieged the Barrow plantation in a storm of righteous carnage, liberating its formerly enslaved Africans. Reclaimed as the Cri…
Troy rising / edited by John Ringo and Gray Rinehart.
"First the Glatun came, and we learned we were not alone in the galaxy. Then the Horvath arrived, and we learned the galaxy was a dangerous place. But our alien enemies underestimated how dangerous we could be. It's been over fifteen years since New York …
Reign / Bethan Croome.
"In the rain-soaked Kingdom of Lyonesse, magic is outlawed—punishable by death. So when Niamh's forbidden witchcraft is exposed, she flees her rainy village disguised as a man. She never meant to end up on a battlefield. Mistakenly conscripted into a brut…
Massif : a novel / Garth Nix.
"It’s business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mount…
Blacktail : a novel / Scott Hawkins.
"The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. His world is besieged by men. Soon his territory will be overrun, and then there will be nowhere left to go. When his mate, a house dog, is killed, Blacktail rebel…
Burn of the everflame : a novel / by Penn Cole.
"War has overtaken Emarion. In the north, Ophiucae and his army of bloodthirsty mortals seek to eradicate all Descended from the continent. In the south, the Guardians of the Everflame lie in wait, plotting a rebellion generations overdue. In Lumnos, Real…
Dead beat / Leigh Bardugo.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here… Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living,…
The war beyond : the hollow covenant, book 2 / Andrea Stewart.
"Hakara risked her life to find her long-lost sister Rasha, only to lose her all over again. Now she and her Unanointed rebels hunt for the shapeshifter Lithuas, knowing that defeating her would strike a blow to the plans of the tyrant god Kluehnn. Rasha …
Fields of Asphodel / Callie Rowland.
"For Asphodel, the free-spirited daughter of Hades and Persephone, being cursed to never fall in love with a god is a blessing. Determined not to be trapped in a union like her mother, Del spends her life blissfully on the Isle of Flowers, far from her f…
Engines of reason / Adrian Tchaikovsky.
"On a planet where stories govern identity, where science and magic are merely a point of view, a fallen princess, a reluctant wizard, and a precocious child must unravel the past to shape the future. Betrayal, ancient myths, and a clash of worlds converg…
The sunken, the adored : a novel / Donyae Coles.
"Venice, Italy, 1800's. The only survivor on a ship, Mercy disembarks in Italy, carrying two precious possessions: the first-ever camera that makes daguerreotype plates and a letter regarding an appointment meant for the dead slave holder. The letter take…
All the hidden places : stories / Cadwell Turnbull.
"Fourteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality. A father and daughter traverse postapocalyptic America seeking safe haven and the truth about why the world ended. Three siblings write intimate letters as their society …
Saint Delilah / Isabelle Spotts.
"Delilah is dead. But her story is far from over. In this feminist supernatural suspense novel, she will find her peace - and give hell to the man who killed her. When Delilah wakes, all she remembers is the pain and the anger. She knows she isn't alive a…
The hill in the dark grove : a novel / Liam Higginson.
"Carwyn and his wife, Rhian, have lived a quiet life as sheep farmers in the remote Welsh mountains for decades, tending to ancestral land that has been in Carwyn's family for generations. But recent years have taken their toll: local friends lost one by …
The nudge / Joseph Fink
"On the open road, evil doesn't chase you, it waits... Late one night, a wounded man checks into a remote roadside hotel. He's running from something he can't explain or escape. And over the course of a night, he'll tell the hotel's proprietor how his lif…
Loving the dead / Victoria Dalpe.
"A few months after the tumultuous and reality-shredding arrival of the Pale Ones, the world has been changed, and not necessarily for the better. Half-lifes now regard Selene and her ilk with fear, knowing their free will isn't as free as it once was. Wi…
Any more questions for the corpse? / J.J. Unthank
"Twenty-one-year-old Malowin Gladstone was raised by the dead—two skeletons to be precise. While his parents keep a close eye-socket on him, he just wants to get through the rest of university without using any more of his much-loathed necromancy. A hope …
Lord of the heights : a Wuthering Heights fae romantasy / Scarlett J. Thorne
"James Lockwood came to Yorkshire looking for silence. Instead, a storm kills his car, the road vanishes, and Wuthering Heights opens its door as if it has been expecting him. Nelly Dean knows why he has come. Behind the stone walls waits the true story o…