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New Book Releases: Oct 27, 2026
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Buba, Gabrielle: Of Stolen Pearls and Broken Rice (PS Publishing / Absinthe Books 978-1803945934, £20.00, 120pp, formats: hardcover, 11/01/2026)
Historical fantasy novella. In occupied Manila during WW2, witch Isa-Gani inherits a Famine spirit from her dying uncle. Signed, limited hardcover edition of 200.
Cady, Jack: Hooch Tuesday (Fairwood Press 978-1958880456, $30.00, 204pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 11/01/2026)
Satirical fantasy novel. Misfits and outcasts, including a DAR witch and a talking bulldozer, deal with mishaps like a grenade delivery. An early work of the author, never before published. Introduction by Gordon Van Gelder.
Dutton, Alysandra: The Stolen Women (Harlequin/Park Row 978-0778306801, $30.00, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Historical novel with speculative elements. When the Sabine women around her start disappearing, Safinia sets out to figure out why, and is helped by a mysteriously knowledgeable stranger named Livy. Copyrighted by Sarah Alysandra Dutton.
Feldman, Stephanie: The Night Parade and Other Stories (Fairwood Press 978-1958880432, $19.99, 264pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Collection of horror stories. Mid-Atlantic tales of friendships, families and grief with a feminist twist, including the titular novella about a young widow trying to bring her husband back. The author’s first collection.
Fracassi, Philip: Overpass (PS Publishing / Absinthe Books 978-1803945897 , £20, 144pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, 11/01/2026)
Horror novella. When an earthquake strands them on a collapsing LA overpass, commuters also discover that one of them has a mutilated corpse in the trunk. Limited, signed hardcover edition of 200.
Gregory, Daryl: The Porcelain Sisters (Tachyon Publications 978-1616964719, $17.95, 208pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 10/27/2026)
Humorous dark fantasy/horror novella. Ruth accidentally damages her porcelain-doll sister Isabel, and must overcome a ruthless Clan des Sorcières as she seeks the witch known as the Dollmaker.
Iijima, Brenda: Shelter is Necessary for Existence (Two Dollar Radio 978-1953387592, $18.95, 288pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Satirical horror novel. A family buys and renovates a Brooklyn brownstone, but after they move in Sue learns of the mysterious deaths of the previous residents, the house starts to bleed.
Kiernan, Caitlín R.: Gethsemane (Subterranean Press 978-1645243779, $40.00, 56pp, formats: hardcover, 10/31/2026)
Dark fantasy novelette set in the world of Threshold. Dancy Flammarion faces ancient sea threats at an abandoned alligator farm on the Florida-Georgia line. A signed, limited hardcover edition of 600.
Kvita, AM: An Uncertain Magic (Orbit US 978-0316586658, $19.99, 400pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Fantasy novel, second in the Green Witch Cycle series. Joan, enjoying her otherwise tranquil life, has to deal with her best friend’s possession by a god — and a crush whose best friend is also possessed. Simultaneous with the Orbit UK edition.
Langmead, Oliver K.: The Killing of a Chestnut Tree (Tordotcom 978-1250448613, $24.99, 176pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Fantasy novella. Dapper detective Havelock Harper and his partner Sebastian Wright investigate the murder of The Duke of Farleigh — only to discover The Duke is a tree.
Lee, Shannon & Lee, Fonda: Mark of the Warrior (St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1250902702, $21.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Young-adult fantasy novel, second in the Breathmarked duology. Li Jun tries to find his mother and twin brother, and is forced to make uneasy allies on the Council of Virtue. Based on characters and themes created by Bruce Lee, and copyrighted by Bruce Lee Enterprises. Ebook also available.
Lee, Yoon Ha: Code and Codex (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1668059975, $29.00, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Space opera novel. Valentina works for the Censorate empire and its ruler Aurelia, extracting useful information from forbidden languages and then destroying them.
Liang, Ann: To Dream in Darkness (St. Martin’s 978-1250289483, $32.00, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Historical fantasy novel. Rujia, the healing god, makes a deal with Death, offering to free him in exchange for a reprieve of her sentence. Simultaneous with the Macmillan/Tor UK edition.
Lovecraft, H.P.: Lurking Fear and Other Early Terrors (Skyhorse/Talos 978-1945863462, $16.99, 576pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 10/27/2026)
Collection of cosmic horror stories. Includes “all your Lovecraft favorites,” including “The Outsider,” “Dagon,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” and “The Dunwich Horror.”
Maas, Sarah J.: A Court of Splintered Harmony (Bloomsbury USA 978-1639739134, $32.00, 352pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Fantasy novel, sixth in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, and Movement I in The Valkyrie Cycle (3 Movements). Betrayals rock the Night Court, and Koschei the Deathless wakes in his mountain lake.
McGinnis, Mindy: What Rough Beast (HarperCollins 978-0063370746, $19.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
YA horror. Outcast Ava distracts herself from a traumatic event in her past by working at a wildlife rehabilitation center, where she accidentally awakens an underground entity.
McKenna, Juliet E.: The Riven Kingdom (Angry Robot UK 978-1836730378, $19.99, 400pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Fantasy novel. When the king dies without an heir, two princesses vie for the throne of Arafaze, while the land’s Priests and Priestesses are drawn into the struggle.
Medina, Nick: Savage Lake (Penguin Random House/Berkley 978-0593952177, $30.00, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Horror novel. Nell returns to Torchlight Lake where her estranged father died, but a road barricade traps her and her teenage son Oscar there for weeks, and she starts acting strange.
Mohamed, Premee & Sim, Jonathan: From the Library of Jurgen Leitner (Penguin Random House/Random House Worlds 979-8217092635, $30.00, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Horror novel in the Magnus Archives universe. Research assistant Hugh and acquisition specialist Sebastian work in Jurgen Leitner’s ominous private library years apart, but their stories intertwine. Simultaneous with the Penguin Random House UK/Del Rey UK edition.
Ntekim, Ikwo: Where We Go At Night (HarperCollins 978-1335453853, $19.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
YA fantasy novel. Trixie lives in Woods Crossing, a town where everything is perfect except the dangerous fae in the forest; one night, she sees her grandfather murdered in supernatural circumstances.
Otto, Braidee: Daughter of the Tempest (Penguin Random House/Dial 979-8217153855, $28.00, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/20/2026)
Fantasy romance novel, second in the Myths of the Empyrieos series. Betrayed and declared a traitor, Aella goes on the run with a stranger who promises to help her harness her powers.
Piper, Hailey: She Isn’t Herself Tonight (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 978-1668077122, $17.99, 256pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Horror novel. Rabbit is abducted by aliens every ten years, but as her life gets worse and her boyfriend evicts her, the aliens have yet to show up.
Ryan, Anthony: The Tomb of the Corpse King and Other Stories (Subterranean Press 978-1645243632, $48.00, 264pp, formats: hardcover, 10/31/2026)
Collection of dark fantasy stories set in the world of The Seven Swords saga. A hero seeks to end his curse at the Scarlet Ziggurat, a thief queen leads her army to the Tomb of the Corpse King, and more.
Schoenbrun, Jane: Public Access Afterworld (Penguin Random House/Hogarth US 978-0593978382, $33.00, 608pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
SF horror novel. Throughout the decades, scattered people in Texas start to receive transmissions from Public Access Afterworld. Author is a noted director. A first novel.
Stech, Joe: Think Weirder 02: The Year’s Best Science Fiction Ideas (CSF Press 978-1949787054, $18.00, , formats: paperback, ebook, 10/29/2026)
Year’s best anthology of “concept-driven” SF published in 2025. Includes stories by stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Thomas Ha, Isabel J. Kim, Rich Larson, and more.
Stein, Charlotte: Falling for a Villainous Vampire (St. Martin’s Griffin 978-1250352378, $18.99, 288pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Paranormal romance novel, third standalone book in the Sanctuary for Supernatural Creatures series. Vampire Halsten, after stalking Marley Maples, follows her to Hollow Brook, where he forgets his undead life and wants to woo her.
Sui, A.D.: Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends (ECW Press 978-1770418912, $19.95, 312pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Apocalyptic SF novel. On a floating trash island, Cassandra works on her plastic-dissolving fungi, but is arrested when her ex-lover Yana (expert in escapist parallel-timeline drug deleria) is murdered.
Talabi, Wole: The Fist of Memory (Astra House/DAW 978-0756418243, $29.00, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Science fiction thriller novel. Assassin Tope, working for witchdoctor Baba, is caught up in a high-stakes global power struggle when an alien spacecraft appears in the sky. Simultaneous with the Orion UK/Gollancz edition.
Tan, Sue Lynn: For Ever More (Little, Brown 978-0316576239, $19.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Young-adult fantasy romance novel. Yining flees to her ancestral home to seek the truth about her new powers, but is hunted by the queen now on the throne of the Three Kingdoms. Simultaneous with the Hodder & Stoughton UK/Hodderscape edition.
Warren, Kaaron: Going to Summertime (Meerkat Press 978-1965740156, $16.95, 106pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 10/27/2026)
Horror novella. Salon workers go on a team-building trip in the abandoned houses on Summerland Place, finding ghosts of many types.
White, Andrew Joseph: You’re No Better (Peachtree Teen 978-1682638224, $21.99, 334pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 10/27/2026)
Young-adult horror thriller novel. Trying to prove he’s better than his serial-killer father, trans teen Morgan sets out to unravel what happened to his father’s final, never-found victim. Simultaneous with the Daphne Press UK edition.
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