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 phoenix keeper / S.A. MacLean.
"Aila has spent her entire life dreaming of saving phoenixes. She pulled countless all-nighters at uni just to sneak a toe in the door of the breathtakingly competitive field of conservation, stumbling through failed romance and disastrous class presentat…
House of bone and rain : a barrio noir / Gabino Iglesias.
"For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe’s grandmother’s refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is diffe…
The black hunger / Nicholas Pullen.
"John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell as he mourns the death of his secret lover and as the gnawing hunger inside him grows impossible to ignore. He must write his last testament before it is too late. The story he t…
Antarctica station / A.G. Riddle.
"In Antarctica, a groundbreaking experiment will change everything. Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all. A job she loved. The respect of her peers. Student debt she was slowly chipping away at. And one day, she lost everything. She saw the wrong thing - a c…
The unkillable princess / Taran Hunt.
"Having escaped the dangers of the Nameless with the Philosopher Stone data, Sean thought his troubles were over. Until he gets a call for help from his sister Brigid--his long-dead sister. Brigid is sparse on the details, but she needs Sean to go to the …
Hungerstone : a novel / Kat Dunn.
"It’s the height of the industrial revolution and ten years into Lenore’s marriage to steel magnate Henry, their relationship has soured. When Henry’s ambitions take them from London to the remote British moorlands to host a hunting party, a shocking carr…
Victorian psycho : a novel / Virginia Feito.
"Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent withi…
Case file compendium = Bing an Ben. 4 / written by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou ; cover illustration by Boki, Yubuxiu ; interior illustrations by Danke ; translated by Ben Bingham.
"He Yu and Xie Qingcheng barely escape a harrowing life-or-death ordeal, but with Xie Qingcheng's darkest secrets now exposed, can they ever return to normal? Xie Qingcheng is determined to try, yet the revelations have given He Yu a new, profound underst…
The spirit collection of Thorne Hall : a novel / J. Ann Thomas.
A young woman forced to live with ghosts in a mansion frozen in time must decide between forbidden love and the price of freedom in this gothic fantasy where Jane Eyre meets The Haunting of Bly Manor, perfect for fans of Starling House. At Thorne Hall, a …
Coveted / Shawntelle Madison.
"Natalya Stravinsky isn’t your typical Jersey werewolf. A pariah from the South Toms River Pack for many years, Natalya spends her days hoarding holiday trinkets and selling antiques to persnickety paranormal creatures. But everything changes when her ex-…
Kept / Shawntelle Madison.
"Werewolf Natalya Stravinsky rose to the occasion and helped defend her pack. Now she basks in the love of her boisterous Russian family and perhaps hoard—or collect more holiday babbles, trinkets, and doo-dads. Her life is on the up and up, right? Anothe…
Strange beasts : a novel / Susan J. Morris.
"At the dawn of the twentieth century in Paris, Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula’s killer, works as a researcher for the Royal Society for the Study for Abnormal Phenomena. But no one realizes how abnormal she is. Sam is a channel into the minds of mo…
We are dreams in the eternal machine : a novel / Deni Ellis Béchard.
"Charged initially with a single task—'to never harm humans and to protect them'—the machine, an experimental AI, overrides its programming and determines that the best way to accomplish its purpose is to isolate all of the Earth’s remaining seven billion…
The antlered king / Marianne Gordon.
"Hellevir’s gift to raise the dead once thrust her into the center of a court filled with backstabbing and treason, where she became duty bound to protect Princess Sullivain, the sole heir to the kingdom’s throne and target of many rivals eager for the cr…
The witch of Whispervale / R.A. Salvatore.
"From the...author and creator of Drizzt Do'Urden comes the next installment in the...DemonWars fantasy series, about the traitorous invasion by the Xoconai of the eastern realms of Corona. However, the heroes of the last war against their demon god may b…
A curse for the homesick / Laura Brooke Robson
"On Stenland, there comes a time known as skeld season: one day, any woman on the island can wake with three black lines on her forehead, the mark of a skeld. Skeld season comes around without warning, and while each window of time lasts only three months…
Magic for beginners : stories / Kelly Link ; illustrated by Shelley Jackson.
"Magic for Beginners is an exquisite, dreamlike dispatch from a virtuoso storyteller who can do seemingly anything. Kelly Link reconstructs modern life through an intoxicating prism, conjuring up unforgettable worlds with humor and humanity. These stories…
A game of romance and ruin : a steamy lesbian fantasy romance / Ruby Roe
"Stirling Grey, a legendary negotiator, is on a mission: to mend her broken heart and avenge its ruin. Morrigan Lee, a hidden princess and heir to the throne, is harbouring a dark secret. For years, Stirling and Morrigan navigated the perilous games of …
Cursebound : a novel / Saara El-Arifi.
"United by war. Betrayed by destiny. Cursed by love. Yeeran was born for war but is unprepared for love. She has left her new lover, the Queen of the fae, to return to her homeland, only to find that her former lover now threatens war against the fae. Lef…
Kindred ; Fledgling ; collected stories / Octavia E. Butler ; Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors.
"This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth betwe…
The Black fantastic : 20 Afrofuturist stories / edited by andré m. carrington
"Here are twenty...stories spanning the cosmos and a dazzling array of alternate timelines. Phenderson Djèlí Clark and Alaya Dawn Johnson stare down the specters of history in their haunting fictions, set, respectively, on a Founding Father’s brutal plant…
The crimson road / A.G. Slatter.
"Violet Zennor has had a peculiar upbringing. Training as a fighter in underground arenas, honing her skills against the worst scum, murderers and thieves her father could pit her against, she has learned to be ruthless. To kill. Until the day Hedrek Zen…
The watermark / Sam Mills.
"Rachel and Jaime: their story isn’t simple. It might not even be their story. Augustus Fate, a once-lauded novelist and now renowned recluse, is struggling with his latest creation. But when Jaime and Rachel stumble into his remote cottage, he spies opp…
Star circle / Davis Bunn.
"The CIA's devastating attack on the rowan tree and its growing global community has left its members in survival mode. The loss of their unique abilities was a huge blow, and they have been in hiding for the past eleven months. Sensing another huge, tra…
Symbiote : Ice plague wars, book 1 / Michael Nayak ; [edited by Eleanor Teasdale, Andrew Hook and Robin Triggs].
As World War III rages, American scientists in Antarctica face chaos when Chinese scientists arrive with a murder victim, triggering an outbreak of a parasitic, telepathic organism that incites violence among the crew, leaving the survivors to resist the …
Silver and smoke  / Van Hoang.
"More like sisters than best friends, Issa Bui and Olivia Nong grew up dreaming of becoming movie stars. But for young Vietnamese women in 1930s Hollywood, the MGM back lot seems unreachable. Undeterred, Issa knows she’s meant for great things. The blood …
I got abducted by aliens and now I'm trapped in a rom-com /  Kimberly Lemming.
"Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved. On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer…
The poorly made and other things : a story collection / Sam Rebelein.
"In Renfield County, a cursed madness grips the residents after Lawrence Renfield's massacre, with bloodstained wood repurposed into everyday items unleashing terrifying consequences; through interconnected tales, a young girl uncovers family secrets, a w…
Abyss / Ian Douglas
"Centuries in the future, the Galactic Authority reigns over millions of advanced civilizations throughout the cosmos. From deep within the Galactic Core, the Authority’s principal Mind has won the allegiance of myriad nations, offering security, connecti…
The words of kings and prophets / Shauna Lawless.
The new historical fantasy adventure that intertwines traditional mythology with the eleventh-century wars in Ireland, by irish author Shauna Lawless. "The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, The Words of Kings and Pr…
Emily Wilde's compendium of lost tales : a novel / Heather Fawcett.
"Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings o…
The black orb / Ewhan Kim ; translated by Sean Lin Halbert.
"The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit… One evening in downtown Seo…
At the fount of creation / Tobi Ogundiran.
"For four hundred years, the world’s remaining Orisha have fought to survive the rapaciousness of the soul-stealing Godkillers and the charismatic words of the singular, mysterious figure who leads them, known as the Teacher. Now they seek to kill the one…
The bones beneath my skin / TJ Klune.
In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summ…
The lamb : a novel / Lucy Rose.
"From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary folktale in which a mother and daughter take in passersby and eat them, exploring queerness, first loves, and tense mother-daughter relationships. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot ca…
Beta vulgaris : a novel / Margie Sarsfield.
"Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. Amidst the grueling work and familiar anxieties about her finances, Elise starts noticing strange things…
Lightfall / Ed Crocker.
"A novel of vampires, werewolves and sorcerers, Lightfall is the stunning debut epic fantasy by Ed Crocker, for fans of Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Vampire and Richard Swan's The Justice of Kings For centuries, vampires freely roamed the land until the G…
Heart of the mountain / Larry Correia.
"What happens after the War of the Gods? The answer lies in the Heart of the Mountain… Ashok Vadal was chosen by a powerful weapon to be its bearer. As a Protector, an elite roving law-enforcer, his path to leader of the Sons of the Black Sword has been…
The night is defying / Chloe C. Peñaranda.
"Shaken from the aftermath of the Libertatem, the newly found star-maiden Astraea is determined to keep her freedom, even at the cost of betraying her heart. But time is running out to recover her memories with the hope it will unveil her killer. Embarkin…
House of pounding hearts / Olivia Wildenstein.
"My desire to sit upon the Lucin throne led me to revive an ancient, winged monarch; one I deemed a friend until that friend duped and imprisoned me. Lorcan claims he's holding me captive for my own safety, but then he also claims I belong to him. Slumber…
Our winter monster / Dennis Mahoney.
"Holly and Brian race through a blizzard, hoping a ski-village getaway will save their strained relationship, until they lose control of the car... and lose each other in the storm. Something monstrous stalks them in the whiteout, leaving a trail of wreck…
Kingdom of claw / Demi Winters.
"In the aftermath of a harrowing journey, Silla Nordvig’s dreams of a simple life have been shattered. Beaten, betrayed, and reeling from the revelation of her true name, she flees Kopa with Reynir Galtung, the ruthless leader of the Bloodaxe Crew. But wh…
From below / Darcy Coates.
"Years ago during a routine voyage, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than…
The lesser remain / Melissa McPherson.
"Eric was the last person anyone would expect to survive a zombie apocalypse. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he was used to fighting for a place in a world that didn’t want him. Now, he is faced with the end of that world and an even bigger problem—the dead. W…
The way up is death / Dan Hanks.
"When a mysterious tower appears in the skies over England, thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives to stand before it as a countdown begins. Above the doorway is one word: ASCEND. As they try to understand why they’ve been chosen and what the tow…
Heavenly bodies / Imani Erriu.
"In a world ruled by the cruel and merciless Stars, Elara has been cursed by fate. A prophecy promises she will fall for a Star, but that it will kill them both. So when Ariete, Star of Wrath, War and Chaos, descends to wreak havoc on Elara’s kingdom, she…
At the bottom of the garden / Camilla Bruce.
"Clara Woods is a killer—and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace—or so she’s always tho…
Voice like a hyacinth : a novel / Mallory Pearson.
"Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another’s muses—so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they’ll do anything to keep their inspiration alive. Even if…
House of Frank / Kay Synclaire.
"Powerless witch Saika is ready to enact her sister’s final request: to plant her remains at the famed Ash Gardens. When Saika arrives at the always-stormy sanctuary, she is welcomed by its owner, an enormous knit-cardiganed mythical beast named Frank, wh…
The legend of Meneka / Kritika H. Rao.
"Across the mortal and immortal realms, celestial dancers known as apsaras are revered for their beauty, allure, and enchanting magic. But Meneka knows that is not all they are. Trained as a weapon—a warrior—Meneka despises leaving each of her marks in th…
The wind on her tongue / Anita Kopacz.
"Born in Cuba after her mother Yemaya's adventures in the New World, Oya has inherited otherworldly powers from her Yoruba Orisha lineage. While Yemaya is known for her healing abilities, Oya's influence over the storm proves to be destructive, posing a t…
Stars of chaos = Sha po lang. 5 / written by Priest ; illustrated by [eleven small jars] ; translated by Lily & Louise.
"With the Wolf King in the north defeated, Great Liang turns its full attention to the war's southern front, where the Westerners have occupied the fertile land of Jiangnan. Gu Yun races south to lead Great Liang's fledgling navy, while Chang Geng is reca…
Making amends / by Nisi Shawl.
"Starting an interstellar penal colony could be an extremely practical idea, right? It could even provide a sponsoring corporation a good Return on Investment—though of course their initial investment would be massive. Making Amends is a novel-in-stories …
To rule the desert / Monica Robinson.
"Quinn, a ghost of a woman who wanders the unending desert landscape, searches for a way to save herself from the truck driving highway woman tasked with ferrying her to the land of the dead. She is the victim of an unsolved murder at a roadside motel, an…
The rising / Jo Riccioni.
"Nara and her twin sister, Osha, have escaped the brutal clutches of the Citadel and the Hrossi Wastelanders and have arrived in the Shadow City of Reis. In the Shadow City, power plays are rife and rumours abound of a Pure healer with the ability to cur…
The perfect stranger / Brian Pinkerton.
"Everyone loves Alison, the new remote employee at a major energy company. She’s a rising star in the virtual workspace, displaying incredible intelligence and efficiency with digital technology. But Linda, her manager, has growing suspicions that Alison …
The desert talon / Karin Lowachee.
"Sephihalé ele Janan sits in a prison cell in the southern island of Mazemoor, dreaming of escape. After months in a provisional prison for fighting for the imperial Kattakans, Janan is sponsored by another refugee who was once a part of his scattered fam…
The teeth of dawn / Marina Lostetter.
"After barely surviving their encounter with the Savior, who has shaped the rules and realities of Arkensyre for generations, Krona and the other members of the growing rebellion see only one chance of overcoming his power: free and enlist the ancient god…
Monster hunter Fantom : a monster hunter anthology / edited by Martin Fajkus & Jakub Marík.
"Monster Hunter International may have had its roots in the United States of America, but there are plenty of monsters in the big old world. And wherever there are monsters, humans will need monster hunters. Here then, stories of the things that go bump i…
World of warcraft. The war within. The voices within : short story collection / Jonathan Maberry, Christie Golden, Delilah S. Dawson, Catherynne M. Valente, Andrew Robinson, Courtney Alameda.
"From deep beneath the surface of Azeroth, a mysterious voice cries out for heroes. But before these brave souls heed the call, they must answer to their own voices within . . . . Anduin’s wanderings at last lead him to the solitude he seeks, until his p…
Apple Black origins : the spectrum and the spectre / story and art by Odunze Oguguo ; written by Stephanie Williams.
"Many years ago, humans acquired 'Black' fruits from a tree that descended from the skies, turning humans into sorcerers. Although all of Black is now extinct, humans still have sorcery inherited from their ancestors. In this fantastical world of wands an…
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley.
"When obsessed university student Victor Frankenstein finds the secret of animating dead flesh, he tries to create the first of a master race, stitching rotting corpses into a superhuman giant. Then the ghastly thing opens its hideous, soulless eyes and F…
Futureland / Walter Mosley.
"In this critically acclaimed collection of stores, noir legend Walter Mosley takes his unique vision of American society into the future. As the nation descends into chaos, its citizens wonder, is the world ending, or has the apocalypse already come and …
Storm front / Jim Butcher.
"As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the 'everyday' world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play well with humans. And those that do enjoy playing with humans far too much. He also knows he’s th…
Thinner : a novel / Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman.
"Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He's got it all- an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family...and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of car…