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 an exciting fantasy sequel, a horror book translated from the French, and a thriller by a popular author, take a look:
Curmudgeonly scholar Emily Wilde must brave the beautiful but haunted Black Forest and open a portal to a long-lost, eldritch realm dreaded by the Folk, in this fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
Driven by an insatiable scientific curiosity, Emily Wilde has made a name for herself as the world’s foremost scholar of faeries. Along the way, she’s rescued a faerie kingdom and helped her now-husband—fellow professor Wendell Bambleby, dashing and infuriating in equal measure—regain his throne. And while understanding her fellow mortals has never been her strong suit, she’s also made a small number of friends.
But two years later, one of those friends goes missing in the beautiful but faerie-haunted Black Forest in Germany, a region of picturesque villages and sinister Folk. And if she’s to save him, Emily will have to reckon with the darker side of her own nature, and how ruthless she’s prepared to be to solve the most tantalizing of scholarly mysteries: the history of the ancient and long-lost realm she’s named Dark Faerie, the only place the Folk fear.
But Emily is not alone—she has her beloved Wendell, and her niece Ariadne, who hopes to follow in her footsteps. Told from the perspective of all three characters, this installment of the Emily Wilde series opens a magical portal to the most wondrous and dread faerie realm of all.
Emily Wilde’s History of Dark Faerie (Emily Wilde #4) by Heather Fawcett. Releases in January 2027 from Del Rey. I think a lot of Emily Wilde fans were surprised when Heather Fawcett announced a surprise 4th book in her popular series, I know I was! The cover was just revealed, so of course I had to share it today:-)
A band of teenage misfits. A town rotting from the inside out. An abandoned house that feeds on their deepest fears and darkest desires. This haunted house tale—in the tradition of Stephen King’s coming-of-age horrors—comes from one of France’s most celebrated literary stars
In a quiet suburb in the mid-1990s, nothing ever seems to happen. Then a teenage boy dies, and the adults are quick to call it suicide.
His friends aren’t so sure.
Drawn together by grief, boredom, and a creeping sense that something is terribly wrong, a group of teens begins to fixate on an abandoned house at the end of a cul-de-sac—a place everyone avoids, although no one can explain why. Once the gang crosses its threshold, they find that, somehow, the house seems to know them—showing them what they long for most, feeding on their fears, their shame, their secret rage.
As the line between nightmare and waking life erodes, the group is forced to confront not only the house’s sinister power, but the violence, cruelty, and despair festering inside their families and their town. What begins as a dare becomes an obsession—and then a reckoning.
The Ravaged Night is a coming-of-age horror novel from one of France’s most brilliant novelists about friendship, desire, and the terrible cost of growing up. An exhilarating celebration of Stephen King and the cult slasher film, this is a story about the places that shape us—and the ones that devour us.
The Ravaged Night by Jean-Babtiste Del Amo (translated by Frank Wynne). Releases in March 2027 from Scribner. I’m always curious about translated horror, and this sounds really good, especially with the Stephen King comparison.
From the New York Times bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, Yellowjackets meets Nine Perfect Strangers in a new novel of troubled girlhood, ritual, transformation―and murder.
Thirteen years ago, Nic, Alanna, Talia, and Jess were shipped off to Sanctuary Springs, a remote retreat among hills bubbling with hot springs. There, Dr. Elizabeth Sheffield―along with her enigmatic daughter Rachel―ran an experimental program for gifted but troubled girls. At the end of the program, she promised, these young women with their wasted potential would be completely reborn.
Three months later, the girls did emerge changed. They went on to be extremely successful. And none have ever revealed what really happened that summer in the hills.
When Nic is attacked and her fiancé killed, she retreats once more to Sanctuary Springs, where Talia has built a wellness retreat in the renovated facility, intending to bring a watered-down version of their “rebirth” to the masses. The group begins to flirt with old rites and rituals, but when Nic becomes convinced that her fiancé’s murder is connected to what happened all those years ago, old tensions rise and long-buried secrets begin to resurface. As Nic confronts the truth of what happened that summer, she must decide whether to embrace the circle they created―or unravel it for good.
The One We Buried by Kate Alice Marshall. Releases in January 2027 from Flatiron Books. I feel like every time I turn around there’s a new Kate Alice Marshall book being announced, lol. This sounds pretty good!
What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!
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