It ’s February , traditionally a calendar month forromance — but 2023 is also bringing a bumper crop of frights ! There are several big revulsion titles out this calendar month , include Stephen Graham Jones ’ sequel toMy Heart Is a Chainsawand authorMatt Ruff ’s getting even toLovecraft Country … as well as all the sci - fi and fantasy your heart desires .
In a far time to come in which man harp on Earth while posthuman “ alloys ” handle all the space geographic expedition , the discovery of an Earthlike planet has the potency to improve the future for everyone . ( February 1 )
A women fly an opprobrious relationship ends up in the wilderness of Alaska — where her quest to begin a raw life takes a unknown turn when she ’s bite by an unusual wolf . ( February 7 )
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Written by two of the expert behind the excellent documentary Horror Noire , this nonfictional prose book takes a smell at how Black characters and creators have fared throughout chronicle , from the earliest movies to recent releases like Get Out and Candyman . ( February 7 )
The Moonfall serial that began with The Starless Crown go on , as a soldier , a thief , a deep in thought prince , and a girl continue their dangerous quest to stop the apocalypse . ( February 7 )
In this YA fantasy inspired by West African polish , “ an elite distaff combatant must reenter the contention to protect her found family of untried sisters . ” ( February 7 )
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In this subsequence to the writer ’s acclaimed horror novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw , slasher movie overzealous — and now , an actual slasher subsister — Jade Daniels returns to Indian Lake at the same time an escape serial sea wolf begins terrify the area . ( February 7 )
In this fourth and final novel in the Liminals series , “ a line up family of Black superheroes has one last chance to save the world . ” ( February 7 )
The generator bring back to the magical city of Maradaine for this new novelette about a Protestant deacon sent on a strange and serious delegation that tests his faith . ( February 7 )
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“ A one - night - stand between a willful witch and a meditative half - monster conjures an adventure that would n’t be everlasting without several charming mishaps . ”(February 7 )
The author of The Bees return with another thriller set in the raw world . This clock time , a hearing - impair dolphin is the main character ; when she leaves her category in ordination to protect them , she must take on a dangerous adventure across the unnamed ocean . ( February 7 )
In this dark fantasy , a young woman investigates her male parent ’s slaying in a city consort by tainted , all - powerful saints and their disciples , with the aid of a surety senior pilot who ’s starting to have serious doubts about those he ’s been do . ( February 7 )
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The continuation to log Z’s Beauty riff The Bone Spindle finds Fi , Shane , and Briar Rose facing novel risky venture on their pursuance to defeat the Spindle Witch . ( February 7 )
A Fatherhood on the run with his two daughters takes on an ominous but potentially moneymaking Modern spear : the caretaker for one of the most obsessed planetary house in Texas . ( February 7 )
This sequel to Castles in Their Bones finds the Ash Princesses struggling with their female parent ’s covert plot to bring down rival kingdom by strategically marrying them off . With one babe now dead for defying the kin plan , the remaining sisters must decide what to do next . ( February 7 )
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The story of Medusa gets a sympathetic new twist in this retelling of the classic myth . ( February 7 )
In the sequel to This Woven Kingdom , two royal heirs — one a Jinn , once a human — fall in love , and must figure out how to be together while battling chaos between and within their respective kingdom . ( February 7 )
On the verge of being evicted from her family , a vernal Métis woman get wind a wizardly spoon that connect her into a witch connection across America — and presently pluck up a witch - Orion in pursuit . ( February 7 )
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In the 14th century , a untried miss unwittingly becomes the watercraft for a goddess — and is task with create a great city where woman find , a process that becomes more complex as the city grow and modification over the 100 that follow . ( February 7 )
In the construction , “ an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse , ” a cleaning lady is forced to leave her favorite spot — the lift — after it ’s threatened by a shapeshifter , and plunge into the Building ’s meshwork of incredible yet terrifying theme green . ( February 7 )
A unseasoned hitch guide who uses her magic to protect travelers from jungle fiend starts to oppugn her devotion to the troupe she form for when she ’s below the belt passed over for a promotion . ( February 7 )
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go under in the world of the source ’s Belles serial publication , this phantasy fib watch over disaffected Edel Beauregard as she enters the magical , grievous competition to crown the next Queen of Orléans . ( February 14 )
The Five Penalties epic fantasy series proceed as Krona and her Regulators pick up the piece after defeating an undead serial slayer — or taste to , while combat the corruption in their city and combat the monster that lurk just beyond it . ( February 14 )
This queer sci - fi beloved story get hold of place on an Earth mostly abandon after humankind fled to new planet , with a cruel high-pitched Sheriff in tutelage . When an escape pod wreck - estate , the first visitant in hundreds of years must deal with a unfriendly planet where life educe the long - ago Wild West . ( February 14 )
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An shoot for electromancer meets an otherworldly being amid a saturnalia in London , setting in question a time - travel adventure that will reshape the universe . ( February 14 )
Short stories from the speculative fiction author of On Fragile Waves . ( February 14 )
In this sequel to The Last She , Ara , Kaden , and Sam sail the post - Revelation , hoping to reveal the last metropolis standing while learning severe lessons about not trusting anyone they meet . ( February 14 )
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When a gentleman’s gentleman who sleep together poof story wed a woman with a sorcerous , mystic past times , he becomes drawn into a unusual illusion world when the match visits her childhood habitation for the first time . ( February 14 )
The third volume in the generator ’s little - story series features tale that research romance through the lens of classical phantasy : “ A spruce nance meets the real Juliet behind Shakespeare ’s celebrated tragedy . A jewelry artist travels to the past to forgather a successful silver - smith . The addled crowd of a ship at sea discovers a mysterious merman . ” ( February 14 )
In an alternating version of 2008 in which the U.S. is a second - rate commonwealth ruled by emotion - altering chemicals dubbed “ psychopigments , ” a modest - clock time cop chase after belittled - clip turn stumbles upon the case of a lifetime . ( February 14 )
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This ingathering gathers personal essay from Asiatic horror writers “ exploring themes of distinctness , identity operator , expectation , duty , and loss , and leading , ultimately , to understanding and empowerment . ” ( February 14 )
“ A transgender salvager on the outskirts of a dystopian Utah bugger off the chance to realize the ultimate score and mayhap even a dash of romance . ” ( February 14 )
The classic myth of Antigone gets a sci - fi twist in the latest from the author of the Divergent serial . ( February 21 )
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“ Magic and its guardians have been banished to the deadlands and the Blight threatens mankind ’s survival . Terren , the last rest city , bear alone against its unrelenting overture . Ever closer depict the choice they all must make : confront the deadly Blight or cross the Bridge to Magic . ” ( February 21 )
Atticus , Montrose , Hippolyta , Letitia , Ruby , and other characters from Lovecraft Country — including Caleb Braithwaite and the wraith of Hiram Winthrop — return in this new supernatural adventure go under in 1957 Chicago and North Carolina . ( February 21 )
The Alice & Owen paranormal romanticism serial keep as Alice tries to mend her relationship with her parents without divulging her magical enigma . Meanwhile , Owen and his melodious friends set out on a dangerous journey . ( February 21 )
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When her magician guardian goes miss , a young woman leaves her enchanted island for the first time since she was a child to test and bump him — while avoiding his super - powered enemies and discovering her own gift . ( February 21 )
In this fantasy tale , a talented dancer overcome her hardscrabble background to become a prima danseuse — but her fresh living is not without troubles , specially when a mysterious patron take an interestingness in her . ( February 21 )
“ A splanchnic story go down in the aftermath of our planet ’s disastrous translation and tell through the optic of three women trying to survive the nightmare . ” ( February 21 )
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The Comet Cycle go on in Fairbanks , Alaska , where an aeroplane lands after flying through an interstellar dust cloud — draw governance agents and a newfound interest in a top - undercover , World War II - earned run average research lab hide nearby . ( February 21 )
A fresh trilogy from the writer of The City of Brass begins with this fib of a former plagiarizer who ’s pull out of retreat for a delivery mission that comes with a advantage she just ca n’t refuse . ( February 28 )
This retelling of Japanese folk story “ The Crane Wife ” sets the scene in the Midwest , where a 15 - twelvemonth - former must make up one’s mind what to do when her single mother , a talented artist , brings home “ a six - pes tall Hart Crane with a forbidding air ” who necessitate she make a masterpiece . ( February 28 )
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This standalone prequel to fantasy narrative The Priory of the Orange Tree search the lives of four women who helped shape and protect the course of story . ( February 28 )
After a rough dissolution , a young woman who can see stagnant people settle to spend the summer in the isolated residence her mother ’s just inherited — but the experience is anything but rejuvenate . Years later , her own girl launches a spook - hunting investigation into her mother ’s experience . ( February 28 )
“ A Vodou priestess turn amateur sleuthhound investigating a ritual murder is embroiled in an insidious case of putridness that reaches beyond the shadows of New Orleans . ” ( February 28 )
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Characters from the author ’s These Violent Delights Duet return in a pair of novellas box together in this set : A Foul affair and This Foul Murder . ( February 28 )
In a world where women are not tolerate to use magic trick , four daughter with undeniable top executive are kept hidden until they actualize they ’re being used as political pawns — and that there are other girl in the world , also being hold hidden , who divvy up their gifts . ( February 28 )
In this mediaeval mystery , a charwoman visit her estranged father in Vietnam only to realize the colonial house he ’s restoring has a strange magnate over her . ( February 28 )
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The Night and Its Moon serial continues as the newly reunify Nox and Amaris are suddenly split again . Can they use their magic to lastly be together ? ( February 28 )
“ El Diablo is in the item in this Latinx pirate fancy starring a transmasculine nonbinary stripling with a mission of retaliation , redemption , and revolution . ” ( February 28 )
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