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 I have three new horror books to share, take a look:
The riveting, darkly humorous, and deeply strange story of three roommates whose everyday struggle to survive in New York is complicated by the intestine-eating demon who haunts their apartment.
Leni was kidnapped and almost sacrificed to the devil as a child, but now she’s perfectly fine. Aside from the fact that she has four reflections in the mirror…and one of them wants her to poison people.
Emerson was a leading heart surgeon until The Incident that left his patient dead. Now he’s too sick to work, keeps finding severed fingers in his water bottles, and is followed around by a faceless Girl Scout with a creaky red wagon.
Jasper is a line cook with a criminal record, just trying to keep his chosen family together. Sure, he sees a man in the shadows who likes the taste of blood, but he’s very good at ignoring that. He would do anything for Leni and Emerson. Anything.
They’re fine. They’re normal. They’re roommates making it work in New York City.
That is, until a demon leaves his sigil on their wall.
Now, they have seven days to bring Sychar a sacrifice, or he’ll tear off their skin. Who knew demon-slaying wasn’t a valid excuse to miss work? Why are murder supplies so expensive? Just how is a low-income household supposed to afford a human sacrifice?
As their personal ghosts grow louder and Sychar’s deadline draws nearer, Leni, Emerson, and Jasper discover just how far they’ll go to protect each other.
Hell to Pay by Kylie Lee Baker. Releases in March 2027 from Hanover Square Press. I was so excited to see Kylie Lee Baker’s next book announced this week! I am a fan for life after loving Japanese Gothic (and I need to catch up with Bat Eater this year). This sounds absolutely bat shit crazy, and I am here for it!
Lured into a terrifying inheritance competition when returning home for her mother’s funeral, a young woman must reckon with her mother’s secrets and a town’s past of deathly sacrifice.
Be careful of what grows here…
Maria’s strongest memory of Talalora is crying as her mother sent her away. But when the sudden news of her death leaves Maria in shock, she returns to the remote Filipino town she once called home. She’ll close old wounds for good and claim an inheritance her mother left behind.
But Talalora isn’t what Maria remembers. Once lush fields are barren; the flowers are withered. The townspeople are devoted to a lone priest, Father Benito, who declares her mother’s inheritance must be earned. To stake her claim, Maria must brave a series of trials pitting her against relatives she’s never known.
Each trial is crueler than the last as Talalora’s plants grow faster and stranger. Maria’s progress brings memories she was never supposed to reclaim: memories of her mother and tender moments with a beautiful girl, now a woman who insists her mother’s death was planned.
And she remembers the Diwata, a spirit who’s ensured Talalora’s fertile land for decades. Now she wanders Talalora at night, leaving flowers and ruin in her wake. Maria’s fight for her inheritance becomes a search for the truth of Talalora, her mother, and a curse that binds them all together. What’s been buried must bloom.
A Deadly Blooming by Daphne Fama. Releases in March 2027 from Berkley. I have been so excited for Fama’s next book, after loving House of Monstrous Women, and I was thrilled to see this cover revealed just yesterday!
Twenty-five years after the making of a notorious found-footage horror movie, the estranged cast return to the site of filming – including the former final girl, whose dreams are still haunted by that night. One of Us is Already Dead is a propulsive and chilling horror novel from a new star in horror.
Twenty-five years ago, four college kids snuck into an abandoned house to film a found footage horror movie. Only three returned.
Now, newly divorced Josie Wu’s life is monotonous, and her time as the Final Girl in the cult classic The Bleeker House Tapes is firmly in her past. Her main concerns these days are paying the bills, raising her daughter, and the real-life horrors of perimenopause.
So when hotshot director and former crush Sean Maher invites her back to the abandoned house for a reunion shoot, Josie can’t resist. She misses the reckless, daring girl she used to be, as much as she denies it, and the sizable paycheck certainly doesn’t hurt.
But not all the terror in the original film was scripted, and there’s a reason Josie left her Final Girl days behind. Something lingers in the shadows of the Bleeker House – something dangerous.
As the cast and crew retrace the making of their indie movie, haunting memories blur into the present, and one thing becomes clear: someone needs to pay the price for what happened in the Bleeker House.
One of Us is Already Dead by E.L. Chen. Releases in February 2027 from Run For It. A found footage slasher?? OK this sounds fantastic! And the cover is really good:-)
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