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 we’re celebrating Summer of Horror with three upcoming horror books!
From the dark imagination of underground horror sensation Andy Marino comes a haunted house story like you’ve never read before…
Deep in the woods, on the side of a mountain, there sits an old, sprawling manor. Only those who truly need it will find it.
Mara and Soren are the latest residents. The two are broke, deeply in love, and desperate for a home.
But something is wrong with the house. Soren begins to receive messages from a nameless entity that he has dubbed The Great Other. The first direction is simple: Invite more to this home. The second: Relieve them of their sorrow.
Mara, too, hears this otherworldly voice. She has been running from her past for a long time. The Great Other offers her the solace she seeks, if she has the courage to walk the home’s shadowed halls.
Soon more wanderers begin to arrive: a collection of outcasts, drawn in by Soren’s magnetic ideology.
Within the shifting walls of this ancient house, something darkly miraculous is unfolding.
Wounds have been suffered in this place. Wounds that are. Wounds that will be.
Cold Empty Rooms by Andy Marino. Releases in November 2026 from Run For It. I’m excited to read another Andy Marino book! A couple of years ago I read The Swarm and really enjoyed it. This sounds super weird!
Lena’s body is no longer her own. It is occupied by a growing appetite, a hunger that demands to be fed. From inside her luxury apartment, Lena tries to appease it gorging herself day and night. Whole loaves of bread, protein shakes – tins of cat food if all else fails.
When Joan, an actress on the cusp of stardom, moves into the apartment above, Lena is quick to make friends. She soon finds herself in Joan’s orbit enjoying the trappings of wealth and privilege, the kind she has always pined for. But with the hunger demanding more and more, Lena’s carefully constructed image of herself starts to unravel. And as her appetite veers into the inedible, she must fight to remember who she is.
Milk, Bread Teeth is an unflinching exploration of dissatisfaction and loneliness, a deliciously grim and transgressive tale that draws the reader into a frenzy of insatiable desire and consumption. It’s a propulsive and shocking novel that is inspired by Amy’s experiences with chronic illness and her place in publishing as a working-class woman.
Milk, Bread, Teeth by Amy Twigg. Releases in January 2026 from Blackstone Publishing. Here’s another dark, weird-sounding story that I can’t wait to get my hands on!
Two women fall victim to a dormant curse, transforming them into feral witches. One resists, the other… doesn’t.
Alice is a solitary accountant with no life and one friend. Jennet is a damn-the-consequences enigma. The two are nothing alike. Until a chance encounter at a foraging outing gives them something in common: an onslaught of rapid aging and a hunger for infants.
Having gone their separate ways, Alice copes by finding a number of questionable, but less morally objectionable approaches to stave off the witch growing within. Jennet’s methods are decidedly more…self-serving.
Despite Alice’s best efforts, her path keeps crossing with Jennet’s, before coming to a head in “this decade’s most visceral examination of the witch” (Wendy N. Wagner), from Esquire’s Best Horror of 2024 honoree Chris Panatier.
Kill Me With Fire by Chris Panatier. Releases in April 2027 from Shortwave Publishing. I feel like this synopsis is a little on the vague side, but I think that’s best, especially for a Chris Panatier book:-)
What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!
Cold Empty Rooms sounds right up my alley!
Mine too, I can’t wait!
Awesome covers! Look at the details on the first one. Not to mention, the blurb is mysterious and intriguing.
I do love the cover for Cold Empty Rooms, and having read the author before, I have a feeling it’s going to be a unique take on the haunted house.
These all sound so disturbing! And fascinating!
LOL now that your mention it, they do sound disturbing!
Wonderful picks today. They all sound wonderful and I actually just got Netgalley approval for Cold Empty Rooms this morning!
Thanks Barb! I will need to check out NetGalley and request Cold Empty Rooms, I didn’t even know it was up there.
Kill Me With Fire honestly sounds super intriguing I love the idea of one woman refusing to become a Witch while the other fully embraces it, that should be fascinating to explore.
I think the author will do a great job with the idea, I can’t wait!
Why do they all have to sound so good?! I will never catch up!
Right?? It’s impossible. I need to get over trying to keep up, lol.
Wow Kill Me With Fire sounds dark with those appetites. Sounds like a gritty take on witches that really leans into the darker tales. I’m intrigued by the two differing approaches to the change too. I’m also curious about the middle one. I think I saw it hinted at on Instagram actually but saw Milk and Teeth listed and thought it was a reference to Milkteeth instead lol
Those titles are very similar! I know Chris will do a great job with the witch subgenre, I can’t wait to check it out.
Well I think all are very horror worthy and the most frightening to me would be Milk, Bread and Teeth because it suggests your body and hunger morphing into something else!
I’m a little wary of that one too!
Each one of these sounds like it could be an intense story, though each in very different ways.
Definitely intense!
Are win a Golden Age of covers? I feel like, while there are popular styles, none are so dominant that they overwhelm everything else. I’m in love with the fact that they don’t all look identical on the shelf right now!
My poor TBR bwhahah. I am very curious about Milk, Bread, Teeth for sure, and I NEED Kill Me With Fire! The only one I’d known about before reading your post was the Andy Marino, and even though I LOVED The Swarm, I am a bit on the fence about this one, so we’ll have to see. Every single cover is amazing though! Thanks for putting these on my radar!
Ooh, Kill Me With Fire sounds very intriguing and I really like the cover. Plus how can I resist a new Chris Panatier?
Lynn 😀
Kill Me With Fire sounds so interesting!