Future Fiction #316 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

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


I spotted these three exciting cover reveals, all with great covers, take a look:


Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, after a routine probe at a research station turns deadly when the team discovers a strange specimen in search of a warm place to stay.

Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the solitude, and the way the desert keeps her far away from the temptations teeming out in the civilian world.

When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it into the hab. But the longer it’s inside, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Temptation has found her after all, and it can’t be ignored any longer.

One by one, Kinsey’s team realizes the thing they’re studying is in search of a new host—and one of them is the perfect candidate….

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. Releases in September 2025 from Tor Nightfire. With that titillating title and a weird tentacle monster on the cover, not to mention that Gailey is one of my favorite authors, Spread Me is a must read for me!


Lucky Day is the newest novel of terror from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against the most horrifying concept of all: nothing.

Vera is a survivor of a global catastrophe known as the Low Probability Event, but she definitely isn’t thriving. Once a passionate professor of statistics, she no longer finds meaning in anything at all.

But when problematic government agent Layne knocks on her door, she’s the only one who can help him uncover the connection between deadly spates of absurdity and an improbably lucky casino. What’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying there, and the world is at risk of another disaster.

When it comes to Chuck Tingle, the only thing more terrifying than a serious horror novel is an absurd one…

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle. Releases in August 2025 from Tor Nightfire. You can always count on Chuck Tingle for a crazy ride of a story, and this sounds fantastic. And bonus points for a great cover, which is rather sinister if you look closely!


From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a nail-biting supernatural horror about a haunted lakeside cottage and twisted family secrets.

When twenty-six-year-old Samantha Payne’s grandfather dies, she figures she won’t even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn’t seen him in eighteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father was innocent, despite Sam having caught him burying the child’s body, his clothing streaked with blood.

But when she does attend the reading of the will at the behest of her Aunt Gail, she discovers that her grandfather left her the very valuable tract of lakefront property where the family cottage sits. There’s one catch. Sam needs to stay in that cottage for a week. For her own good, really. To finally face the fact she was wrong and her father was innocent.

Travelling to Paynes Hollow, where the cabin hugs the shore of Lake Ontario, Sam is faced with the realities of her childhood and the secrets kept hidden in the shadows of her memories. When her aunt goes missing a couple days into their stay, Sam begins to question everything again. Plagued by nightmares and paranoia, she begins seeing things crawling from the water and flitting through the forest, whispering to her, trying to draw her out of the cottage. Things that look suspiciously human-like. Outside the cottage, the rippling waves of the lake seem to call out to her, the promise of something even darker lurking just below their surface.

The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong. Releases in October 2025 from St. Martin’s Press. Yay, a new Kelley Armstrong book that looks like a standalone! I’m excited for this, and I want to know about the scary horse on the cover:-)


What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!

Posted January 29, 2025 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 30 Comments


30 responses to “Future Fiction #316 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. I thought the Lucky Day cover looked pretty creepy with just a glance but after your look closely comment more and more disturbing details keep jumping out at me.

    I’m excited for the Kelley Armstrong book too. It sounds really intriguing and I majorly want to start picking up more of her books. I hope you enjoy all of these.

  2. Everything about Spread Me screams CREEPY but I kinda love it. The synopsis has me really intrigued!

    Also seen that new Kelley Armstrong cover around on instagram. The last sentence of the synopsis gave me shivers!

  3. I just came across the Sarah Gailey and Kelley Armstrong books via social media this week, and have already added them to my MUST READ list for 2025!! So exciting! That cover for Spread Me is going to give me nightmares…

    • Tammy

      I’m so curious about it. And the author has always been a hit for me so I’m hopeful I’ll love it.

  4. I can’t wait for the Kelley Armstrong but I couldn’t help but notice it sounds similar to another horror suspense she wrote about a lakeside cottage. I didn’t like that one too much, maybe it’s a do over

  5. Barb @ Booker T's Farm

    I would probably read all of these but let’s be honest, I need the Armstrong book NOW! I LOVE that cover but why does it, along with “hollow” giving me Sleepy Hollow vibes?

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