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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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…
Intergalactic feast / Lavanya Lakshminarayan.
"It has been three months since Saraswati Kaveri and Serenity Ko won Interstellar MegaChef with their groundbreaking new food simulation, Feast. But victory is only the beginning. Saras is busy promoting their invention as the public face of Feast, while…
Wolf worm / T. Kingfisher.
"Sonia Wilson is a talented scientific illustrator—but she is only able to follow her dream because of her father’s reputation as a renowned scientist. Such is the lot in life for a woman in science in 1899. And after his death, she is left without work, …
Honeysuckle : a novel / Bar Fridman-Tell.
"Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left in peace, his sister made him a playmate-Daye, a girl woven from flowers and words. And for the first tim…
River of bones : and other stories / Rebecca Roanhorse.
"Rebecca Roanhorse’s first publication, “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™”, was awarded both the Nebula and Hugo award for best short story, and on its strength, Roanhorse was awarded the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. Although Roanhors…
The heartless one / Emma Hamm
"She won the heart of Death…now she must fight for the hearts of her people. Jessamine never expected to be on the Deathless One’s side—let alone be in love with him. But now that Elric has returned to his corporeal form and Jessamine has joined the cove…
Innamorata : book one of the House of Teeth duology / Ava Reid.
"Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by the arcane secrets of necromancy. A conqueror’s blade brought them low, burning their libraries, killing their lords, and extinguishing their eldritch magic. But …
Seasons of glass & iron : stories / Amal El-Mohtar.
"With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales…
Children of strife / Adrian Tchaikovsky.
"After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain is about to rediscover one such world, and an ark…
You should have been nicer to my mom : a modern gothic horror / Vincent Tirado.
"When Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies, he gives the family one last message in the will: “One of you is el bacà, the demon that I made a deal with. Get rid of them or you will be damned.” Xiomara, the uncontested favorite of Pap…
The midnight muse / Jo Kaplan.
"The dead collect in low places. That’s what Brynn Werner, lead singer of metal band Queen Carrion, wrote in her notebook before she vanished while staying at a cabin in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest. A year later, on the anniversary of her disappearanc…
Dollface : a novel / Lindy Ryan.
"Barbie meets Scream with a 90s nostalgia twist in this horror romp from Bless Your Heart author Lindy Ryan. Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with the new PTA moms and maybe not weird everyone out with her Final G…
The fox hunt : a novel / Caitlin Breeze.
"When practical, unassuming second-year student Emma Curran wins an exciting research fellowship, she is ushered into the glittering debauchery of the University elite. There, she falls for the devastating, aristocratic Jasper Balfour, leader of the all-m…
The trident and the pearl / Sarah K.L. Wilson.
"Queen Coralys, ruler of the Crocus Isles, kneels to no one. But when her kingdom is besieged by a terrible hurricane, killing her husband and destroying half her nation, she is forced to make a deal with the gods for salvation. But the gods have a wicked…
Turn off the light : a novel / Jacquie Walters.
"On the isolated Eastern Shore of Virginia, Edith is a healer, a woman of knowledge—and a woman watched. Shadows move where they shouldn’t. Whispers creep through the dark. Terrified she has opened her home to the Devil, Edith makes a desperate choice. C…
You did nothing wrong : a novel / CG Drews.
"Single mother Elodie's life has become a fairy tale. She's met Bren, equal parts Golden retriever--devoted and sinfully handsome. He's whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he's renovating. She has a new husband, a new hou…
Aubrey wants to die : a novel / Pip Knight.
"Aubrey is not what she seems. She's young, beautiful, romantic, obsessive and ... a vampire. All she wants is to be human again, and failing that, she wants to die. But the problem is, she can't. Not by stake through the heart or holy water or crucifix o…
The only one who knows : a novel / Lisa M. Matlin.
"With her polished persona as a morning show co-host, Minnow Greenwood seems to have it all. But behind the camera, something's about to break. When a public meltdown shatters her facade, Minnow flees back to Kangaroo Bay--a grimy fishing town on Australi…
The body builders : a novel / Albertine Clarke.
"Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment building's swimming pool, occasionally visiting with her cousin Francesca and meeting her friends, each of them chatting, drinking, posing invitations Ada ignores. Ada's parents are r…
Green & deadly things / Jenn Lyons.
"Mathaiik has trained all his life to join the sacred order of the Idallik Knights, charged with defending their world from the forces of necromancy. Only vestiges of that cursed magic remain, nothing like the fabled days of the Grim Lords, the undead wiz…
Mayhem and the mortal / Shanora Williams.
"One mission. One curse. No escape. Zaira doesn’t want a hero. She needs a weapon. To save her sister from a soul-devouring curse, she has to cross The Shallows―a nightmare landscape of ruined magic, shifting paths, and vicious creatures that eat people…
Hell's heart / Alexis Hall.
"Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart! They are monsters, legends, gods. They are our prey. Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will ki…
The fox and the devil : a novel / Kiersten White.
"Anneke has a complicated relationship with her father, Abraham Van Helsing--doctor, scientist, and madman devoted to the study of vampires--until the night she comes home to find him murdered, with a surreally beautiful woman looming over his body. A wom…
The light under the shadow wing / Amanda Bouchet.
"A woman searching for answers. Idallia has been serving in the Dragon King’s Elite Wing of dragon shifters for nearly two hundred years. She doesn’t have fire or flight of her own, but she’s a phoenix rider with enough speed and skill to make her enemies…
After the fall / Edward Ashton.
"Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good. All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it’s not too difficult. A hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick t…
Between two fires : an epic tale of medieval horror / Christopher Buehlman ; with a new foreward by Joe Hill
"The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fall…
Bitterbloom : a novel / by Teagan Olivia King.
"In a village plagued by mysterious deaths, Adelaide Thorn wonders if she is truly touched by the Devil. The villagers of Rixton—including Adelaide’s father, the vicar—believe her to be the monster responsible for all the town’s tragedies, spurred on by t…
A rose of blood and binding / Claire Legrand.
"The battered Middlemist can barely hold itself together. Olden monsters terrorize the land. The gods are awakening from their ancient slumber, but if the vengeful Kilraith destroys them, all will be lost. And it's up to the Ashbourne sisters-demigods, da…
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…
Angels after man / Rafeal Nicolás.
"The angel Dina is both young and ancient, every human epoch breezing past his home in Heaven as he waits for the end times. When the archangel Uriel reveals the truth about God's first creations, however--Dina ventures out to find a beautiful, seductive …
Ruiner / by Lara Messersmith-Glavin.
"War and physical violence have been rendered obsolete. Now tellers are pitted against each other, spinning tales out of storylight to outmaneuver the other, whether in battle, for glory, or in a bid to stave off poverty and hunger. But the teller must be…
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 …
The monster hunter files. Volume 2 : featuring stories in the world of Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International / Larry Correia & Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
"For well over a century, Monster Hunter International has kept the world safe from supernatural threats far and wide. Now, join us as we delve some of the wilder stories from the library archives which have never seen the light of day. The Monster Hunter…
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…