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’m on a horror roll lately, sorry for the non horror readers out there. But I can’t resist, take a look at these three new covers:
“BLACK METAL WIZARD OF OZ”
Death comes to those who live.
The Longing is here: a ruthless psychological pandemic that only ever ends one way. Most find relief in a bullet or a blade. Kaya Sinh chose fire.
With Kaya gone, her friend Adam has only the support group they’d attended to keep him going. He’s at his lowest when a priest named Hayle Carnoth appears at group one night, claiming to have discovered a cure for the Longing. Thinking it a crude effort by the priest to seek members for his dwindling congregation, Adam drives him off.
But he keeps coming back.
With the Longing closing in, Adam agrees to let Father Carnoth share what he’s discovered. They visit a nearby cathedral, where something has appeared inside the steeple.
Daytide by Chris Panatier. Releases in February 2026 from Rapture Publishing. Chris never lets me down, and I’m super excited for his next book. I have preordered a limited edition of this book from the publisher, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it!
Before Dracula, there were The Brides. . .
1903. Sir John Seward, survivor of Count Dracula’s murderous campaign ten years before, takes up a post as a psychiatric doctor at an Oxford public asylum. There, a new patient arrives whose traumatic experiences resurrect horrors John has spent a decade trying to forget.
1884. Mafalda Lowell journeys from London to Budapest to care for her recently widowed aunt Reka. She uncovers the chilling truth about her uncle’s death, and writes to her secret love Lucy North for comfort. Chaperoned by former schoolfriend Eliza and lady’s maid Alice, Lucy travels across the continent to be with her beloved.
Only Alice, beset by nightmares and terrifying visions, notices the strange black-clad man who seems to follow them wherever they go. When Eliza is struck down with a mysterious wasting illness, her doctor orders her to take the healing waters of Transylvania, a journey with devastating consequences.
There was meant to be four . . .
A dual timeline novel, told through letters, diary entries, psychiatric reports, that places women at the centre of literature’s most famous vampire story.
The Brides by Charlotte Cross. Releases in March 2026 from Tor Nightfire. I love that this is a story about Dracula’s brides, and isn’t this a great cover?
These violent delights have violent ends.
After surviving a shadowed childhood, Mallory Webb is ready to start fresh as a theater major at her mother’s alma mater, a sanitarium turned liberal arts university in Rhode Island. Landing the lead role in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet feels like a dream—until the blood-soaked wraith that caused her mother’s death resurfaces after years of quiet. With nothing to go on but cryptic symbols in an old college notebook, Mallory hopes the reason behind her mother’s haunting lies somewhere on campus, and resolves to find answers before she meets the same fate.
She’s surprised to make an unexpected ally in Ezra Pierce, the magnetic fourth year directing the play, and takes solace in their undeniable chemistry. But Ezra is a master secret keeper, and it’s clear he knows more than he’s letting on about Saskia Garin, Mallory’s elusive understudy whose past eerily mirrors her own.
When an ancient, bloodthirsty evil calls to collect a bargain that dates back to the New England vampire panic, Mallory, Ezra, and Saskia will have to untangle the tragic ways in which their histories are linked—and face the devastating consequences of their own star-crossed love story.
She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth. Releases in August 2026 from Dutton. A horror/fantasy set in the theatre revolving around a Shakespeare play? I’m intrigued!
Daytide sounds interesting…but I’d need to know how gory it is first because I don’t like gory.
I’m curious about that too!
I’m always interested in Dracula retellings and spin-offs, so The Brides is the one I’d be most likely to check out!
Me too, this one sounds like fun!
Daytide has a cryptic synopsis and sounds like an ambitious book…
He always seems to write ambitious books, so I’m not surprised!
All of these sound great, but I think I’m the most excited for The Brides!
I love anything to do with Dracula!
These all sound good to me. Particularly the Chris Panatier.
Lynn 😀
I’m always up for a new Chris Panatier book:-)
Okay, the cover of Daytide has me curious!
I know! The cover is sort of unexpected…
Interesting.
I agree;-)
The Brides is definitely going on my TBR list. That book looks awesome!
Right?? I’m so excited:-)
Yassss The Brides! I’m so excited for that one! And I’m also really liking the sound of She Haunts Me Still. I also like that it revolves about a Shakespeare play!
She Haunts Me Still has such a cool premise, I don’t see Shakespeare influenced books that often!
I do like that cover for The Brides, very dark.
I like it too, it’s simple but effective:-)
I’m so on board for more horror and dark fantasy. After this year, I might be all romantasied out and looing for darker reads!
All of these sound like good horror. I like the synopsis to The Brides.
Definitely need Daytide! The others are really interesting too, especially The Brides. These were all new to me, so thanks for putting them on my radar!
These are all intriguing! I’m not familiar with Chris Panatier, but I am already curious what that priest is up to haha.
These choices fit you book taste perfectly I would say!
The more horror the better! I definitely need The Brides in my life sooner rather than later. She Haunts Me Still is new to me but onto the wish list it goes! I love all of these great finds!
Daytide sounds super intriguing! Thanks for sharing!!
Ooh I’ll definitely have to check The Brides out. I love a vampire based book and the inclusions of letters, diary entries and psychiatric reports sounds very intriguing. Im also curious to how the vampire pandemic fits into the last title.