Brace yourself, horror enthusiasts! This was going to be a shorter list, but we felt it was only right to start off October with lucky number 13. So here are 13 new books to rattle your bones before Halloween! We have slashers, folk tales, teenage demons, and sinister wellness retreats. What more could you ask for? Check out our Bookshop for all new titles!

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» NY Times, 27 Dec 2024: The Hottest Trend in Publishing: Books You Can Judge by Their Cover, subtitled Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry. (Discussing examples like Rebecca Yarros’sFourth Wing and her upcomingOnyx Storm.)

» Ted Chiang, The Humanist.com, 4 Dec 2024: The Distinction Between Imaginary Science and…Read More

»LA Times, 12 Oct: Lorraine Berry: What happens when humans confront a form of nature with no rational order?, reviewingAbsolution

»Boing Boing, 8 Oct: Thom Dunn: Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution is a dark mirror to the Southern Reach Trilogy

»NY Times, 20 Oct: Interview with Jeff VanderMeer by Alexandra Alter

»The Verge, 21 Oct: ‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning…Read More

»NY Times, 10 May: Talking to Leigh Bardugo, Fantasy Superstar (audio interview hosted by Gilbert Cruz)

»Esquire, Jonathan Russell Clark, 7 May: Why We Love Time Travel Stories, discussing Kaliane Bradley’sThe Ministry of Time and others

»NY Times, Amal El-Mohtar, 8 May: The Teenage Witches Are Growing Up, subtitled New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.

»NPR, Caitlyn Paxson, 8…Read More

»Slate, Shasha Leonard, 18 Mar 2024: Two Decades in, the Queen of Faerie Fantasy Is Doing Just Fine, subtitled Author Holly Black reflects on the rise of ‘romantasy’ novels, explicit sex scenes, and BookTok.

»The New Yorker, Katy Waldman, 17 Mar 2024: Kelly Link Is Committed to the Fantastic, subtitled The MacArthur-winning author on the worthwhile frivolity of the fantasy genre, how magic is and is not…Read More

»Vox, Constance Grady, 27 Feb 2024: Why half the people you know are obsessed with this book series, subtitled With A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas has established herself as the reigning queen of romantasy.

»The New Yorker, Rivka Galchen, 27 Feb 2024: Thinking About A.I. with Stanisław Lem, subtitled The science-fiction writer didn’t live to see ChatGPT, but he foresaw so much of…Read More

»NY Times: Amal El-Mohtar reviews Kelly Link’sThe Book of Love

»Washington Post: Ron Charles reviews Kelly Link’sThe Book of Love

»Esquire: Adam Morgan interviews Kelly Link

»Business Insider: Inside the rise of Sarah J. Maas, the best-selling author who’s taking the romantasy genre to the next level

»NY Times: Gabino Iglesias reviews Emily Ruth Verona, Jenny Kiefer, Christopher Golden, and Tlotlo Tsamaase

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The Guardian: Lisa Tuttle reviews Aliya Whiteley, Alice McIlroy, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, Emma Hinds, and Maud Woolf

Scott Edelman dines with Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Pat Murphy

Washington Post, 13 Jan 2024: A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate. — George Bass on Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’…Read More

»The Guardian, Adam Roberts: Five of the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2023 are by Allan, Ryman, Tesh, MacInnes, and Tidhar

»NY Times, Amal El-Mohtar: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023 are by Chandrasekera, Törzs, Carey, Hardinge, Fawcett, Lee, Harkaway, Link, Wells, and Taub

»NY Times, Gabino Iglesias: The Best Horror Books of 2023 are by Moreno-Garcia, LaValle, Ampuero, Khaw, Abrevaya, Chapman,…Read More

»Washington Post, 14 Nov, Charlie Jane Anders: The 10 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2023 by Kitasei, Moreno-Garcia, Awad, Link, Huang, Googins, Talabi, Kaner, Parker-Chan, and Blackgoose

»NY Times, 22 Nov 2023: Essay by Kelly Barnhill since experiencing a traumatic brain injury in 2021

»Washington Post, Sophie Nguyen, 24 Nov 2023: Christopher Paolini wrote ‘Eragon’ as a teen. Now 40, he’s still at it.…Read More

»Slate, 7 Nov 2023: Laura Miller reviews Rebecca Yarros’Fourth Wing: I’ve Been Yours for Longer Than You Could Ever Imagine , subtitled Is the dragon-school ‘romantasy’ series that’s dominating the bestseller lists actually any good?

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What’sFourth Wing like? A more pertinent question would ask what itisn’t like. Seemingly every single sentence in its 528 pages includes at least one cliché, and you can…Read More

»Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books 2023 includes SF/Fantasy/Horror titles by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Lavie Tidhar, Yukimi Ogawa, Marina Enriquez, Emily Tesh, Ann Leckie, and S.L. Huang

»NY Times, Rick Yancey, 3 Nov 2023: 3 New Middle Grade Science Fiction Novels Disturb and Delight, subtitled Jeanne DuPrau’s ‘Project F,’ Patricia Forde’s ‘The Girl Who Fell to Earth’ and Donna Barba Higuera’s ‘Alebrijes’ answer the question, Could this be…Read More

»NY Times Inside the Best-Seller List , posted 19 Oct 2023: For N.K. Jemisin, Reality Inspired Horror Fiction, subtitled She didn’t think she was going to contribute a short story to a new anthology. A stressful vacation changed her mind. About her story in the Jordan Peele/John Joseph Adams anthology Out There Screaming.

»The New Yorker, Kristen Roupenian, 16 Oct 2023: When a Novelist Carries On…Read More

»The New Yorker, 7 Oct 2023: Terry Bisson’s History of the Future, subtitled For more than two decades, one of pulp sci-fi’s masters has delivered headlines from a time line defined by the absurd. Focusing on Bisson’s long-running This Month in History series inLocus, the Bay Area sci-fi trade magazine .

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»NY Times, Annalee Newitz, 8 Oct 2023: Joanna Russ Showed Us the Future:…Read More

»Slate, Dan Sinykin, 1 Oct: The Man Who Invented Fantasy, subtitled All those wizards, ogres, and barely-clad elf queens in the bookstore? You have Lester del Rey to thank. (An excerpt from the writer’s new book about the publishing industry)

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»NY Times, 1 Oct: Emily C. Hughes reviews Elizabeth Hand’sA Haunting on the Hill

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»People, 27 Sep: Meet Justin C. Key:…Read More

»Los Angeles Review of Books: Niall Harrison: The Year’s Best Is Dead, Long Live the Year’s Best: On the 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Finalists, with some attention toLocus Magazine‘s Recommended Reading lists, and the Science Fiction Awards Database

» Gary Westfahl is quoted in thisScientific American article, Why We’ll Never Live in Space

»NPR: Maureen Corrigan reviews C Pam Zhang’sLand of Milk and…Read More

» The Booker Prizes: Martin MacInnes interview: An SF novel can be as high-brow as any other genre

» The Guardian: Adam Roberts reviewsProphet by Helen Macdonald & Sin Blaché

» Wall Street Journal: Liz Braswell reviews Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald, Keith Rosson, S.L. Coney

» Washington Post: Charlie Jane Anders reviews Mona Awad, Hannah Kaner, Wole Talabi, Nghi Vo

» The Guardian: Lisa Tuttle reviews Lavie…Read More

» NY Times, Shreya Chattopadhyay: The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin

» Lit Hub, Temi Oh, 18 Aug 2023: The molecular weight of loneliness : On Writing Fiction Influenced by Neuroscience: Temi Oh on Identity, Consciousness, and Free-Will in Science Fiction

» Wa Po: Charlie Jane Anders reviews Temi Oh, Nick Fuller Googins, Kiersten White, S.L. Huang, T. Kingfisher

» The Guardian: Lisa Tuttle reviews Lauren Beukes, John Ajvide Lindqvist,…Read More

Reviews of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novelSilver Nitrate:

» By Miguel Salazar in New York Times
» By Elizabeth Hand in Washington Post
» By Paula L. Woods in Los Angeles Times

» Washington Post: Charlie Jane Anders reviews Yume Kitasei, Vajra Chandrasekera, C.M. Alongi, Djuna

» File 770: Gary Westfahl’s modest proposal: Announcing the Westfahl Award (And Other Insignificant Science Fiction Awards)…Read More

» The New Yorker, profile by Julian Lucas: How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City, subtitled A visionary novelist and a revolutionary chronicler of gay life, he’s taken American letters to uncharted realms. (Print title: Galaxy Brain: How Samuel R. Delany reimagined science fiction. )

» John Scalzi, blog post: How Awards Work: A Quick Primer

» Los Angeles Review of Books, review by David M. Higgins:…Read More

Issue 781 Table of Contents, February 2026

Bryan Fuller’s debut film,Dust Bunny, is a highly stylish (or stylized) family horror* with lots of flashy visuals, humor, and a monster under the bed. After a monster eats both of her parents, a young girl named Aurora (Sophie Sloan) tries to hire her across-the-hall neighbor to kill it (this is Mads Mikkelsen, who refers to himself throughout the movie as Resident 5 but is credited as…Read More

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Issue 777 Table of Contents, October 2025

Crises precipitate change. Before Russia’s despicable invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s transition to zero carbon energy lagged a decade behind schedule. Three years later, Europe has surged well over a decadeaheadof schedule in their solar transition, and the process is only accelerating. It turns out that all the intractable obstacles to rapid, total technological transition just melt away when you’re shivering in the dark thanks to the aggression of…Read More