Buckle up because it looks like we've got an amazing year of new book releases ahead--especially for horror! It was difficult to narrow it down, but here are 22 of my most anticipated sff and horror books for the upcoming year.
On the inhospitable ice planet of Tundar, Sena Korhosen is on the run
with her genetically-modified wolf hybrid when she receives an offer from a
team of scientists: compete in and win the planet’s infamous sled race, and
they’ll help her escape off the planet.
However, the way to the finish line is treacherous, and she and her wolf must trust in each other to survive.
Based on Chinese mythology, Xingyin must
embark on a perilous journey to save her mother from the ruthless Celestial Emperor.
However, Xingyin’s heart becomes conflicted when she finds herself falling for
the Emporer’s son. A forbidden love blossoms between the two of them, which threatens to throw the entire realm into chaos.
Release: January 18, 2022
In Edinburgh, 1817, Hazel Sinnett is determined to become a
surgeon, so she strikes a bargain with a professor. If she’s able to pass the
medical exam on her own, the university will allow her to enroll. She needs
bodies to dissect and study though, and by chance encounter, she befriends a
grave digger.
Together they work to dig up unmarked graves, but in the
process, they unwittingly uncover some startling secrets.
Release: February 8, 2022
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed and has nothing to lose, so when she hears a distress signal, she and her repair crew seize the opportunity to investigate.
They think they’ve hit the jackpot when they discover the signal coming from an abandoned luxury space-liner, but inside they find smeared words written in blood and unspeakable horrors. Now Clare and her crew must try and find a way to escape before they meet the same ghastly fate as the ship’s previous passengers.
Release: February 8, 2022
He remembers that he was mysteriously drawn to a remote peak
in the Swiss Alps, and what he found there forever changed him and now there’s
a force inside of him that threatens to endanger the lives of everyone around
him.
Release: February 21, 2022
Sir Konrad Vonvalt is the King’s Justice—a detective, judge
and executioner all in one. However, while investigating a noblewoman’s murder,
he begins to unravel a grand conspiracy that threatens to topple both his order and the empire
itself.
Release: February 28, 2022
All Rob wanted was to live a normal life and escape the
terrible memories of her childhood home in Sundial. However, when she begins to
notice that her oldest daughter is collecting bones and talking to an imaginary
friend, she sees a darkness in her that reminds her of the family she met
behind.
Now she must return to Sundial and confront her past in
order to save her daughter.
Release: March 22, 2022
In a dark fantasy whodunit, a dying emperor tasks his necromancer
concubine with solving his murder before the culprit can seize the crown.
Release: March 29, 2022
Myra is an orphan with a gift many people would kill for: her paintings have the ability to alter someone’s body. She does her best to keep this secret safe to protect herself and her sister. However, one night, the governor’s wife discovers her power and threatens to expose her unless she resurrects her dead son.
When Myra arrives at the governor’s manor though, she discovers
that the boy’s death was no accident and his killer may still stalk the halls.
Lou did not believe in silly superstitions about goblins and
their market filled with tempting food and jewels, until they spirited her aunt
Neela away. Now she only has three days to free Neela before she is lost
forever, but if she’s not careful, the goblins might claim her too.
Release May 9, 2022
Following her father’s execution, Beatriz is left destitute
and without a home, so she accepts the handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano’s
marriage proposal despite the rumors surrounding his first wife’s death.
However, her new home is not the refuge she’d thought it would be. She hears
voices at night and feels as if invisible eyes are watching her.
Desperate for help, she turns to a priest to confront the
malevolent presence lurking in her home.
Long ago, a rouge AI named Athena invaded the American
Southeast and transformed the landscape using nanotechnology. Everything from
flora to fauna to the ground itself she turned into her own biomechanical
weapons.
Marcia, a former captain in the war, remembers the horror of
Athena’s creations firsthand, so when one of Athena’s most deadly weapons is
believed to be buried near the Commonwealth, federal troops enlist her aid in
finding it.
Release: June 28, 2022
Raine can both see and speak to the dead—a trait many people have tried to kill her for. Desperate, she finds herself seeking refuge with a deluded cult, but her bad fortune gets even worse she saves a wanted woman who’s stolen something precious from the fortress-monastery of Draoihn and she’s unwittingly pulled into a conflict where the fate of the entire nation is at stake.
Release: July 11, 2022
When Alex Easton receives word that their childhood friend
Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the Usher's ancestral home in the
remote countryside of Ruritania.
To their horror, there they find a pulsing lake and the home
overrun with fungal growths and possessed wildlife.
Aided by a mycologist and a baffled doctor, Alex must
unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.
Release: July 12, 2022
Laurel wanted nothing more than to escape her past, but
following her mother’s death, the sleepy little family farm that she grew up on
has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and a
pile of bones just stood up and walked away.
Now Laurel must try and unravel her mother’s secrets before they
doom everyone she loves.
In a sci-fi retelling of Beowulf, Yorick returns to
his homeworld of Ymir when he learns his former company's mines are under attack by an alien
machine. All he wants to do is neutralize the threat and get off the planet as
quickly as possible. However, he soon finds himself entangled in in a conspiracy
and discovers that things are far more complicated than they first appeared.
On a remote Scottish island lives a small community seeking a slower way of living. However, their peaceful existence is threatened by a mysterious blight. Some claim the illness may be a case of mass hysteria, others say it’s a curse.
Whatever the cause, once the ferry service and the phone towers go down, panic
ensues and begins to tear the community apart.
In 2083, aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity,
convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet
behind and join them among the stars … by force if necessary.
Now corporations, nation-states, and networks alike are
vying to communicate with the aliens and determine the fate of humanity.
Release: August 9, 2022
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people who
eat books as food and retain the book’s contents afterwards. Devon is one of
these book eaters and has been carefully fed a diet of fairy tales all her life.
However, to her horror, she discovers that the son has a far rarer and darker
sort of hunger: he craves human minds.
Release: August 23, 2022
Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow has been
raised by a string of guardians whom have died of mysterious circumstances. Her
last remaining relatives are the Hawthornes, an eccentric family who live at Thorn Grove.
However, once she arrives, a ghost warns her that its
poison, not a natural illness that’s been killing her relatives, so Signa reluctantly
forms an alliance with Death himself to try and solve the murders before anyone
else in her family falls prey.
(cover to be revealed)
by Allison Ames
Release: Fall 2022
During winter break, an anxious high schooler ventures to Antarctica on a
research trip that’s sponsored by one of the world’s largest tech companies.
Her purpose is to look for evidence of environmental pollution, but what she makes
is a startling discovery.
(cover to be revealed)
by Neon Yang
Release: 2022
Misery Nomaki is a fraud. They know the angel in their head is a hallucination brought on from space radiation exposure. However, their survival depends on convincing the Emperor of the Faithful that they’re a holy saint.
However, the more they go along with the charade, the more they start to doubt and question: what if it’s all real, after all?
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