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
An exciting entry into a popular series, Appalachian horror and a Gothic mystery series starter, take a look:
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde #3) by Heather Fawcett. Releases in February 2025 from Del Rey. I had no idea this cover was going to be revealed last week, but I suspect this will be a popular choice today! I’m so excited to keep reading this series:-)
A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “unforgettable and scary” (Harlan Coben) Chasing the Boogeyman.
1983: Three students from a small college embark on a week-long road trip to film a documentary on roadside memorials for their American Studies class. The project starts out as a fun adventure with long stretches of empty road and nightly campfires where they begin to open up with one another.
But as they venture deeper into the Appalachian backwoods, the atmosphere begins to darken. They notice more and more of the memorials feature a strange, unsettling symbol hinting at a sinister secret. Paranoia sets in when it appears they are being followed. Their vehicle is tampered with overnight and some of the locals appear to be anything but welcoming. Before long, the students can’t help but wonder if these roadside deaths were really random accidents…or is something terrifying at work here?
Memorials by Richard Chizmar. Releases in October 2024 from Gallery Books. I have a soft spot for Appalachian horror, and this sounds fantastic!
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets…
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers.
Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper.
Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd…
What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend—or risk being consumed by them.
The House at Watch Hill (Watch Hill Trilogy #1) by Karen Marie Moning. Releases in October 2024 from William Morrow. I have never read Moning before, but I’m intrigued by this blurb and the gothic vibes I’m getting!
I still need to start the Emily Wilde series but it’s on my must read list for the next month or so and I love the title of the new one. I’m also going to have to check this gothic offering out. I never can resist those.
Me either, gothic is definitely a go to for me.
YES to Memorials! *adds to TBR list*
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I hope we get to read it!
Oooo… the third Emily Wilde book:))). Thank you for the heads-up, Tammy. That’s made my day!
My pleasure, and it sounds really good, right?
The House at Watch Hill is my most anticipated book of the second half of 2024. I hope it’ll be just as good as her Fever series (where my blog name is based on)!!
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Hopefully it will be amazing!
I will definitely read the new Emily Wilde book!
There no question, right?
I didn’t know the 3rd Emily Wilde book’s cover was revealed already! Tbh I’m disappointed that it wasn’t a duology, bc that’s what sold me to read the first two books. Buuut obviously I’m still going to read it. Love how surprisingly dark the first two books were!
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So they changed it from a duology to a trilogy? Interesting. I’m curious to see how the third book works:-)
More Emily Wilde?! I really need to get on this bandwagon and read it haha.
I feel like this third book is going to be amazing too.
It is truly dangerous for me to peruse your Future Fiction posts. I want all three now. 🙂
LOL sorry??
Some interesting ones! 🙂
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Thanks Stormi:-)
Great picks as always. I got 5 books into Moning’s Darkfever series and loved it by then stalled. I have always hoped to go back one day and reread as it has one of my favorite male characters of all time. I’m looking forward to starting a new series by her.
I’ve always wanted to try her, I’m glad this is a new series:-)
The new Emily Wilde is definitely exciting! And I actually saw Richard Chizmar at an author talk a few weeks ago where he talked about Memorials. The concept is really amazing and I’m looking forward to reading it.
Oh cool, now I’m even more excited to read Memorials:-)
I’ve really liked what I’ve read from Richard Chizmar so I’m really looking forward to Memorials!
I can’t wait, I missed his last few books.
All three of them sound pretty interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Any time!
I’m so excited for the next Emily Wilde! These all sound so good (as usual!). I always love some gothic vibes.
Me too! And I love the cover:-)
I think I’m going to give the Emily Wilde series a try one of these days.
I dont’ think I’ve read anything that could be considered Applachian horror but I understand the region has some terrific folktales. MEMORIALS sounds like it has a great premise.
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The new Emily Wilde book is definitely going straight onto my TBR list. Love that cover 😀
These are all new to me, and I must say I am quite curious about Memorials! The vibe sounds fabulous! Thanks for putting these on my radar!
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