Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
Not by design but a happy coincidence, all three of today’s picks are horror, take a look:
Andy Davidson’s epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil.
Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.
It turns out that the “estate” is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet. But Max sees what his mother can’t: They’re no safer here than they had been in South Carolina. In fact, things might even be worse. There’s something wrong with Redfern Hill. Something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and destroy souls. It is the true legacy of Redfern Hill: a kingdom of grief and death, to which Nellie’s own blood has granted her the key.
From the author of The Boatman’s Daughter, The Hollow Kind is a jaw-dropping novel about legacy and the horrors that hide in the dark corners of family history. Andy Davidson’s gorgeous, Gothic fable tracing the spectacular fall of the Redfern family will haunt you long after you turn the final page.
The Hollow Kind by Andy Davidson. Releases in October 2022 from MCD. I’m mad at myself for missing out on The Boatman’s Daughter a couple of years ago, but I won’t miss this one! This cover is so evocative, and I can’t wait to dive into this.
Communications specialist Alto’s shift aboard the starship M.G. Yellowjacket turns hellish after waking from a tryst to learn every crewmate has vanished. Worse, a sinister presence has crawled aboard the ship. It’s violent, destructive, and it can reach into your thoughts to make you see and feel what it wants.
Anxiety-ridden Alto might be the least-qualified person to face a creature that can hack minds like computers. Only a perilous journey to the ship’s bridge can reunite comms specialist with crew and give them a chance to call for help.
But the intruder only scratches the surface of this crisis, and discovering the truth will bring Alto face to face against a nightmare beyond flesh and thought.
Your Mind is a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper. Releases in May 2022 from Off Limits Press. Hailey Piper is one of my “new to me female authors” from this challenge/goals post, and I’m determined to read some of her books this year. Starting with this new one, whose cover was just revealed! Don’t you love it?
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist.
Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland.
Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle’s power. But Dinah longs for something more, something different.
With the dawn of the first World War, the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, and soon after, Eve’s faith starts to fracture. In the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the nearby townsfolk awaken to discover a massacre on the Isle.
Eve and Dinah’s accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent? And who can be trusted?
Little Eve by Catriona Ward. Releases in October 2022 from Tor Nightfire. I was so excited when this cover was revealed a couple of days ago! Little Eve is being rereleased by Tor Nightfire and was originally published in 2018, when it won the Shirley Jackson award. I can’t believe we’re getting two new Catriona Ward books this year!
There’s an intriguing horror vibe running through your choices for this week, and I like it! 😉
I’m glad, I actually didn’t plan it but it worked out well:-)
I don’t know why, but I feel like the cover of The Hollow Kind is trying to tell me something . . . Probably that I should give the book a go? 😛 Thanks for sharing, Tammy!
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Yes, that’s exactly what it’s telling you!
The cover for Your Mind is a Terrible Thing has a real throwback kinda look to it. And I also like the design of the cover for Little Eve.
I really love the vintage look of Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, and the title:-)
I haven’t read anything by Andy Davidson by his stuff sure sounds fascinating!
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I’ve heard so many good things, I need to read all his books this year, ha ha.
I’m already scared of The Hollow Kind and I’ve only read the synopsis. But I am intrigued I must say!
Your Mind is a Terrible Thing does have an epic looking cover! I’d be so scared to be on a ship where there’s a creature that can hack minds!
Little Eve also sounds intriguing, probably my favorite out of them all because it sounds historical as well. Thanks for sharing!
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I thought you might like the historical aspect of Little Eve:-)
Little Eve sounds like a book for me — gothic horror plus Scotland? Sign me up!
I know, the Scottish setting intrigues me:-)
I’ve been in a real sci-fi mood lately, so I’m leaning toward ‘Your Mind is a Terrible Thing’. And that cover is deff giving vintage sf vibes too!
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It’s very vintage! I think that’s what I love about it:-)
Those covers are awesome. I’m intrigued by the second book, but probably too creepy for me.
If all goes well this month, I’ll be reading The Last House on Needless Street, my first by Catriona Ward
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I hope you love Needless Street, Emma, it’s a trip!
Added them to my to-read list…
I hope we both get a chance to check them out:-)
Little Eve is going on my tbr. Thanks for the intro!
Doesn’t it sound good?
Oh my god, sign me up for all of these! The Hollow King especially has me excited. And I’m LOVING that cover for Little Eve.
It’s hard to pick a favorite cover this week, I love them all:-)
Ooh, I’m always on the lookout for good horror. These sound promising. I hope you enjoy them!
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Me too, thanks!
Little Eve sounds interesting and I love that cover – something about the rippled title up top and crisp reflection below.
It’s an unsettling cover…
I’m excited to have two Catriona Ward novels this year too, I think Little Eve is like her second novel though and I’m always wary about reading an author’s earlier work.
Well she did win a Shirley Jackson award for it, so I think it’s worth trying:-)
EEEEEEK! I loved In the Valley of the Sun and The Boatman’s Daughter! This is the first I’ve heard of Davidson’s new book. I’m so excited!
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I stumbled upon it by accident, lol. I can’t wait too, and I need to catch up with his other two books:-)
The Hollow Kind and Little Eve are calling my name!
They sound great, right?
The cover designs on these are really awesome! I love the one for Little Eve. 😮 Thanks for sharing, Tammy!
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I think it’s one of my best bunches of covers ever, ha ha:-)
My friend, Steve (ya know, Stephen KIng) recommended a book by Catriona Ward. And given that Steve has steered me to some great stuff in the past (Laura Lippman), I added it to my list. And now this one you’ve highlighted makes me intrigued as well.
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Ha ha he’s my friend Steve too;-) He definitely has great recommendations!
All of them sound good, and I love the middle one’s title and cover the best I think!
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I agree, it’s a great title:-)
True horror indeed Tammy! Not for me 😉
Ha ha I will read all the horror you won’t read:-)
The Catriona Ward book sounds especially good. That cover and the Scottish setting is calling to me!
Okay those last two look SO good I added them immediately! Also love the covers! I am a little on the fence about the first, since it isn’t my usual fare, but if you end up enjoying it I will give it a go, because we seem to have very similar tastes! Thanks as always for sharing these- I love it, my TBR is not as sure
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Great picks as ever and for once I’ve read one of these. Little Eve. Very atmospheric and chilling.
Lynn 😀