It is almost March and in a first in a new set of post I am looking at some of the latest releases from some of the awesome publishers promoting the genre. We are a huge fan of Tor and Tor Nightfire here at Bloody Good Reads with alot of our guests finding a home here so what better place to start than with the upcoming horror, sci-fi and thriller titles coming soon.
DEAD COUNTRY - Max Gladstone Released: March 7, 2023 Discover the destiny of the Craft in Dead Country, the standalone entry point to Max Gladstone's beloved fantasy epic. Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down monsters, averted wars, and saved a city, twice. She thought she'd left her dusty little hometown forever. But that was before her father died. As she makes her way home to bury him, she finds a girl, as powerful and vulnerable and lost as she once was. Saving her from raiders twisted by the God Wars, Tara changes the course of the world. Dead Country is the first book in the Craft Wars Series, a tight sequence of novels that will bring the sprawling saga of the Craft to its end, and the perfect entry point to this incomparable world. |
FEED THEM SILENCE - Lee Mandelo Released: March 14, 2023 Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness. To see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick with olfactory messages; even taste the blood and viscera of a fresh kill. And, above all, to feel the belonging of the pack. Sean’s tireless research gives her a chance to fulfill that dream, but pursuing it has a terrible cost. Her obsession with work endangers her fraying relationship with her wife. Her research methods threaten her mind and body. And the attention of her VC funders could destroy her subject, the beautiful wild wolf whose mental world she’s invading. |
NOTHING BUT THE RAIN - Naomi Salman Released - March 14, 2023 The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There’s not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you’ll lose everything you used to be. By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain. With mysterious forces preventing escape, calls for rebellion seem to be on every resident’s lips. But Laverne has no interest in fighting. She has no interest in rebellion. She just wants to survive. |
PINATA - Leopoldo Gout Released: March 14, 2023 A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. They were worshiped by our ancestors. Now they are forgotten. Soon, they’ll make us remember. It was supposed to be the perfect summer. Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots. Then, an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare, centuries-old artifacts. The disaster costs Carmen her job, cutting the family trip short. But something malevolent and unexplainable follows them home to New York, stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe. And it may already be too late to escape what’s been awakened… |
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES - T. Kingfisher Released: March 28, 2023 As Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home, a vulture is perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Some might call this a bad omen, but Sam is in her thirties, between jobs, and about to spend an indefinite amount of time crashing at her mom's place. What's left for an omen to say? But once inside, nothing is as Sam expected. Gone is the eclectic warmth that was her mother's signature style; instead, the walls have been painted a sterile white. Now, it’s very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won’t hear a word against Sam’s long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small southern town. The longer Sam stays, the stranger things get. And every day, more vultures circle overhead… |
NECROSCOPE III: THE SOURCE - Brian Lumley Released: March 14, 2023 Psychic spy Jazz Simmons disappears while investigating a secret installation in Russia's Ural Mountains. His boss at E-Branch, Britain's ESPionage organization, interrupts Harry Keogh's search for his missing infant son to ask the Necroscope to seek Jazz among the dead. Jazz is not dead. Captured by the Russians, he was sent through a weird portal to Starside/Sunside, a world where one side always faces a broiling sun while the other faces the frigid darkness of space. Where people survive in a narrow strip of land that neither burns nor freezes. Where the vamphyri hunt. Starside/Sunside is the vamphyri homeworld. His last, desperate psychic message to Harry: the vampires are preparing to invade Earth. Harry must do battle on the vampire homeworld, but on a planet were few people ever truly die, there is no army of the willing dead to battle at the Necroscope's side. His greatest ally is his son, Harry Junior, mysteriously grown to adulthood seemingly overnight. Together, the two men have tremendous power...but Junior is keeping secrets that imperil father, son, and all of Earth. Necroscope III: The Source is the third volume in an entertaining series that has enthralled millions of readers with its very different look at vampires and vampire hunters, at the dead and the living and the worlds they share. |