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
It’s the last Future Fiction of Summer of Horror 2026, so let’s celebrate with three upcoming horror releases!
An emotionally charged and propulsive puzzle box novel by Sam Rebelein, where a recently split couple must solve a haunted escape room together—or die trying.
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A year after a bitter breakup, Julian and Millie are thrown back together by a once-in-a-lifetime an invitation to play a legendary 72-hour survival experience with a huge cash prize. The solve a series of elaborate puzzles inside the remote and reputedly haunted Clate Hill Lodge. Only one other contestant has ever successfully escaped, and Julian and Millie are desperate to make history.
But as the weekend begins, the line between performance and paranormal quickly blurs. The puzzles are impossible, the ghosts feel undeniably real, and the hotel seems to have a mind of its own. Caught between confronting the horrors of the hotel and the unresolved issues of their own past, Julian and Millie begin to wonder how much of the Lodge is only a game and whether the prize isn’t money—but their own lives.
Sam Rebelein’s newest is both a satisfyingly inventive puzzle box and an equally terrifying thriller that readers won’t be able to put down until the final clue is solved.
It’s Only a Game by Sam Rebelein. Releases in February 2027 from William Morrow. I have yet to try anything by Sam Rebelein, so I’m definitely making a point to read this next year. I’m so in love with the cover, isn’t it cool? And the story sounds crazy!
The Devil Wears Prada meets The Exorcist in this wickedly chic horror novel about the cost of wishing you were someone else.
Ilona Darke has always felt like a ghost in her own life. She’s overlooked at work, can’t find love, and is haunted by the sense that she was meant for something more. Until she discovers Le Fays, a mysterious SoHo atelier, where she finds a stunning suit that fits her like a glove.
When Ilona begins wearing the second-hand garment, a new, more confident voice begins to replace her lifelong internal bully. Ilona stands a little taller. Speaks a little sharper. Wants more than the life she’s accepted. And the new, persuasive voice in her head feels less like a threat than a gift. But every gift comes with a price. As the Manhattanhenge solstice approaches, Ilona begins to lose track of time. She’s been waking up with unexplained bruises and pulling threads from her skin; she’s starting to wonder whether the suit is actually helping her become her best self or if it wants something more…
Darkly glamorous and viciously funny, She’s All the Rage is a tailor-made nightmare about identity, ambition, and the horror of getting exactly what you wished for.
She’s All the Rage by Leigh Radford. Releases in March 2027 from Gallery Books. The comp for this book sounds fantastic! And the story sounds pretty unique too. Radford wrote One Yellow Eye, which I haven’t read yet, but I’m definitely reading her new book!
From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden comes an atmospheric, speculative horror novel about an annual Halloween party where the lines between reality and myth are dangerously blurred.
Lina Barsi’s Halloween parties are legendary. Each year, she hosts an exclusive list of guests in a new creepy, unsettling location around the world. This year, the party is at Monaghan Castle on Cumha Island, a gloomy land mass just off the western coast of Ireland. Cumha Island is ancient, its history rife with tales of dark gods and darker powers―the perfect setting for a hair-raising Halloween.For the first time in three years, Hazel has received an invitation. Despite her friendship with Lina having fallen apart years prior, Hazel accepts the invite, hoping this might be the chance to rebuild the broken pieces of their relationship.
But Lina has chosen her guests―and the party location―differently this year. Lina believes she’s been cursed, and that Cumha Island is the key to solving the mystery of what’s happening to her. She wants the truth, even if getting it means putting her closest friends’ lives at risk in the sinister, haunting halls of Monaghan Castle. Ghosts, rituals, old gods, and murder…all the perfect ingredients for a killer Halloween party.
The Halloween Party by Christopher Golden. Releases in August 2027 from St. Martin’s Press. I just read and loved my first Christopher Golden book, so it’s a no brainer to add his upcoming book to my TBR. Even though it’s a year away!
What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!
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