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Read an Excerpt From Polybius by Collin Armstrong
A horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government...
The Magical Story of Nick Carraway: Don’t Sleep With the Dead by Nghi Vo
A standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo's acclaimed reimagining...
All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in April 2025
Meet a hellmaker, a rich heiress, and a traumatized warrior in April's new young adult releases…
All the New Horror, Romantasy, and Other SFF Crossover Books Arriving in April 2025
A threadmender, a struggling actress, a ducal heir, and an orphaned blacksmith all feature in th...
Five SFF Books Set in Chicago
Five books that highlight how magical and mysterious Chicago can be...
Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2025
Rainbow Rowell, Plato, and a call for romantasy/cosy fantasy recs!
Erewhon Books Announces The Weight and the Measure by Foz Meadows
Sometimes the gods arrive uninvited...
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in April 2025
Exotic locales abound in April's new SF novels: Wakanda, the Klingon Empire, and… the Huntington...
Hitting Bottom: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (Part 21)
Once more over the deadfall as we reach King's terrifying conclusion...
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Allegiances are tested, beliefs are questioned, and escape feels impossible...
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The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets...
After the Invasion of the Bug-Eyed Aliens
Two ex-military nurses, one human and one alien, share a friendship in a city following an alien...
The Shape of Stones
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Icela...
Landline
A woman about to leave on an overseas business trip, calls home from the airport and discovers t...
The Witch and the Wyrm
A new story set in the world of “The Red Mother.” Hacksilver riddled with a dragon, saved his fa...
Agate Way
A pair of sisters are hired to find--and if necessary, dispose of--whatever is killing neighborh...
Red Leaves
The spirit of a recently deceased young boy helps a group of ghosts seek revenge on a corrupt an...
Not Alone
Mel relishes running the “Enchanted Jungle,” a roadside attraction in the Everglades filled with...
