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
Today’s theme is: Creepy houses on the cover! Take a look:
Honeycomb by S.B. Caves. Releases in July 2024 from Datura Books. This has a great tagline, and it sounds like an intriguing thriller! I love the cover too. I never get tired of creepy houses at night with lights in the window, lol.
The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.
As soon as the family enters their home, strange and inexplicable things start happening, including their toddler going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can’t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family—or is Eve just imagining things?
We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer. Releases in June 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books. I wouldn’t have even known about this book if I hadn’t been offered an Edelweiss download, so I’m very grateful to the publisher for putting it on my radar (and yes, I immediately downloaded it). I love the Parasite comparison, and I’m also getting Leave the World Behind vibes. I’m hoping I can read this before the Netflix show comes out!
A teenage psychic is drawn deep into the honeycomb of an abandoned hotel—and into the cat-and-mouse game of a predatory entity—in a riveting new supernatural horror novel soaked in dread.
Everyone in Gypsum, Texas knows the Hotel Alvarado changes at night—especially Quinn. A teenage clairvoyant descended from a line of witches, he’s been having dreams about it… dreams that call him to its dark, abandoned halls. The hotel is a monument to the town’s more prosperous past, when celebrities flocked to the mineral spas and films were shot in the desert. The Great Depression killed all of that, it killed the Alvarado, and frankly it killed Gypsum, too. Now, when the sun goes down, things no longer living stir deep within its creaking depths.
But the dreams are relentless. When Quinn braves the hotel’s darkness with his best friend June and unrequited love Selena, looking for answers, he gets only one: ghosts aren’t the scariest thing lurking inside the Alvarado (although they’re there, cold and restless and angry).
No. He’s been called by something worse: a predatory, inhuman entity that threatens to wipe Gypsum off the map, along with everyone in it. And wrongly—accidentally—he’s let it out. It takes the shape of a handsome young man. It walks. It talks. It laughs. It can even make you laugh. But its appetite for death can never be sated. Quinn has always had the power to see the future… can he find the power to change it?
Sweetest Darkness by Leslie Lutz. Releases in September 2024 from Holiday House. I may be jumping the gun sharing this cover, but what the hell. I’m on the author’s mailing list and she revealed her upcoming book and cover and didn’t say anything about not sharing it. So here we are! I absolutely loved Leslie Lutz’s last book, Fractured Tide, and I’ve been waiting four years this!
Honeycomb sounds super intriguing! I read “Big Brother meets Black Mirror” and I was like yes I’m in already.
I also love the sound of We Used To Live Here. Sounds pretty creepy and I’m definitely gonna see that Netflix movie. I love Blake Lively!
Sweetest Darkness has a really great description. I love that it’s about a teenage clairvoyant descended from a line of witches. Very interesting!
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I can’t wait to see the Netflix show of We Used to Live Here, but I have to read it first:-)
Three stories featuring haunted houses sound just like a perfect combination for some Halloween reads… 😉
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Yes! Or even pre-Halloween:-)
Lovely, creepy covers, Tammy – and I really love the premise of the last offering:)). I hope you love them all.
Thanks Sarah! Yes, the last one sounds so good, and I’m so excited to read the author again.
Man, all three look great. I also have an arc of We Used to Live Here. I recently grabbed an arc of a book called The Astrology House which would also fit your theme and technically my book this week features a creepy house as well. Have we accidentally discovered the new “book snake?”
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I’ll have to check out The Astrology House! Ha ha new book snake! You might be right, but don’t you like house covers more than snake covers?
Honeycomb sounds really suspenseful and interesting! And We Used to Live hear gives me the creeps — can’t wait to find out more! Great picks.
Thanks Lisa!
There’s just something about books with spooky houses on the cover that makes me immediately want to read them. All three books sound super interesting, but We Used to Live Here is now a must-read for me!
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Me too, I never get tired of “spooky house” covers:-)
All these give me chills Tammy!
Ha ha me too!
All of these sound awesome and are going on my tbr right now!
I’m glad I could add more books to your TBR;-)
The comparison to Parasite of We Used to Live Here caught my attention, too. Such a great film. Each of these books sound promising, too.
Me too! If they’re making it into a Netflix film, I definitely need to read it:-)
All the three of them sounds original and interesting!! Thanks for sharing!!
Agreed! I love finding interesting books:-)
Sweetest Darkness sounds so good, and what a great cover 😀
I love the cover! And the writer:-)
Definitely creepy, have fun!
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Thanks Emma!
I like the description of We Used to Live Here – and that cover makes my eyes go crazy.
Lynn 😀
Ha ha I know, the cover is a little unsettling.
We Used to Live Here sounds pretty good! Happy reading, Tammy! 😀
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Thanks Lashaan, I’m definitely going to be reading it:-)
I very much want to read Honeycomb, excited to see the cover released! I also LOVE the cover of We Used to Live Here- Idk if it is for me, but the cover sure is! Sweetest Darkness sounds very interesting, thanks for putting it on my radar!
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I’m even more excited for Honeycomb after seeing the cover:-)
All of these books sound interesting but perhaps a bit too creepy for me. I’m looking forward to your reviews.