New Books: September 6, 2022
Berwah, Tanvi: Monsters Born and Made 
(Sourcebooks Fire 978-1-72824-762-5, $18.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel with South Asian and classical mythical elements, about a teen who hunts maristags, giant ocean beasts, so her family can survive, but desperation forces her to cheat her way into a competition for the elite.
Bishop, Ash: Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc. 
(CamCat Books 978-0744305869, $20.99, 608pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
SF novel. Russ finds a strange artifact in his grandfather’s collect of antiquities, and it catches the interest of a ferocious alien—and an over-eager team of exterminators.
Blackburry, Sabrina: Dirty Lying Faeries 
(Wattpad/W by Wattpad 978-1990259197, $27.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Paranormal romance novel, the first in a series. Thea discovers she’s not human, and adjusting to her fae side makes her attraction to Devin Grayson dangerous. This had been edited from its original serial appearance on Wattpad.
Blackwell, C.W.: Song of the Red Squire 
(Nosetouch Press 978-1-944286-26-2, $12.99, 170pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Folk horror novel set in 1949 North Carolina, where an agricultural inspector stumbles on suspicious farmers and a forgotten village with some bizarre Old World harvest rites.
Bovalino, Tori, ed.: The Gathering Dark 
(Page Street 978-1-64567-622-5, $18.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult original anthology of 10 new takes on folk horror and urban legends.
Brook, Allison: Dewey Decimated 
(The Quick Brown Fox/Crooked Lane 978-1-64385-780-0, $26.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Fantasy mystery novel, sixth in the Haunted Library series. A body is found in the library basement, and Librarian Carrie Singleton must once again figure out what happened, assisted by the resident cat and library’s ghost.
Brown, Roseanne A.: Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting 
(Disney/Rick Riordan Presents 978-1-368-06636-5, $17.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Upper middle-grade fantasy novel, the first in the Serwa Boateng series about a 12-year-old training to become a Slayer of the Abomofuo order, Ghanian warriors charged with defeating dark creatures.
Correia, Larry, Ezell, Kacey, eds.: No Game for Knights 
(Baen 978-1-9821-9208-2, $25.00, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Original anthology of speculative fiction with a hardboiled noir twist. Featuring stories by Larry Correia, Laurell K. Hamilton, Craig Martelle, Robert Buettner, Sharon Shinn, and more.
Dedman, Stephen: Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin 
(Norstrilia Press (Australia) 978-0-6453696-2-5, $12.99, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 1, 2022)
Collection of 28 wide-ranging speculative short stories, three new.
Dylan, Kate: Mindwalker 
(Hodder & Stoughton UK 978-1529392685, $26.99, 315pp, formats: ebook, audio, September 1, 2022)
Young-adult cyberpunk SF novel. Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah has twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her.
Fager, Anders: Swedish Cults 
(Valancourt Books , $16.99, 232pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, September 1, 2022)
Collection of nine Lovecraftian/cosmic horror stories set in Sweden. Translated by Ian Lemke & Henning Koch from the Swedish Samlade Svenska Kulter
Hammer, Dana: The Cannibal’s Guide to Fasting 
(Cinnabar Moth 9781953971524, $20.99, 310pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
SF novel. A former research scientist—and massive bodybuilder—has been infected with viral cannibalism and sent to a government-mandated Containment Center, while his infected brother runs a cannibal rights group.
Hawkins, Finbar: Stone 
(Bloomsbury UK/Head of Zeus/Zephyr 978-1-83935641, $14.31, format: audio, September 1, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel. On the day of his dad’s funeral, Sam finds a strange, black stone which gives him supernatural powers.
Howard, A.G.: Shades of Rust and Ruin 
(Bloomsbury USA 978-1-547608089, $18.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel, the first in the Mystiquiel series. Nix searches for her missing uncle on Halloween, and finds herself in her own imaginary world of Mystiquel.
Jackson, Tiffany D.: The Weight of Blood 
(HarperCollins/Tegen Books 978-0-06-302914-9, $18.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult horror novel inspired by Stephen King’s Carrie, following a biracial young woman forced by her abusive white father to live as white until a rainstorm at school gives away her natural hair texture and spurs racist happenings.
Josephson, Kalyn: Ravenfall 
(Penguin Random House/Delacorte 978-0-593-48358-9, $16.99, 256pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel about Ravenfall Inn, a magical B&B at the crossroads of the human world and the Otherworld.
King, Stephen: Fairy Tale 
(Simon & Schuster/Scribner 978-1-668002179, $32.50, 608pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Dark fantasy novel. Charlie Reade, 17, inherits both a dog and the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war.
Koboldt, Dan: Deploying Dragons 
(Baen 978-1-9821-9210-5, $16.00, 320pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Near-future SF novel, second in the Build-a-Dragon Sequence series begun in Domesticating Dragons.
Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi: What We Fed to the Manticore 
(Tin House 978-1-953534-41-5, $16.95, 200pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Collection of nine stories narrated from animal perspectives, generally involving human disruption of the natural world, including climate change.
Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund: Stravaging “Strange” 
(Columbia University Press 978-0-231-19947-6, $17.95, 224pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Collection of three stories in new translations: the title piece following the darkly humorous travels of an apprentice magus, a travel tale, and a philosophical parable parody of Kant; this also includes a selection of excerpts from the author’s notebooks. Newly translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov. Introduction by Caryl Emerson; biographical afterword by Anna Bovshek.
LaRocca, Eric: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes 
(Titan Books UK 978-1803363141, $19.95, 288pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Collection of three horror stories, including the eponymous novella.
Lawless, Shauna: The Children of Gods and Fighting Men 
(Bloomsbury UK/Head of Zeus/Ad Astra 978-1803282626, $29.95, 431pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 1, 2022)
Fantasy novel, first in the Gael Song series, based on Irish mythology and real-life history.
Morrison, Grant: Luda 
(Penguin Random House/Del Rey 978-0-593-35530-5, $28.00, 448pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Fantasy novel about a drag queen, whose ambitious protégé is determined to learn the perception-bending art of The Glamour; inspired by All About Eve.
North, Claire: Ithaca 
(Orbit US/Redhook 978-0-316-42296-3, $28.00, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Historical fantasy novel, the first in the Penelope series based on the story of Odysseus’s wife.
Oppel, Kenneth: Ghostlight 
(Penguin Random House/Knopf 978-0-593-48793-8, $17.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Middle-grade fantasy novel. One teen’s summer job scaring tourists with ghost stories takes a terrifying turn when he accidentally summons the spirit of a dead girl.
Riddle, A.G.: Lost in Time 
(Bloomsbury UK/Head of Zeus/Ad Astra 9781804541760, $24.95, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 1, 2022)
SF thriller. Sam Anderson, inventor of the device which sends convicted criminals back to the time of the dinosaurs, falsely confesses to his girlfriend’s murder to save his accused daughter.
Rue, Gretchen: Steeped to Death 
(The Quick Brown Fox/Crooked Lane 978-1-63910-164-1, $28.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Cozy fantasy mystery novel, first in the Witches’ Brew series. Phoebe Winchester inherits a Victorian mansion and a tea room/bookstore from an aunt rumored to have been a witch.
Sumption, Caren Gussoff: So Quick Bright Things Come to Confusion 
(Vernacular 978-1952283215, $15.99, 116pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Far-future SF post-colonial romance novel inspired in part by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Exo-geologist James Blacksthorne surveys a newly discovered planet and falls for an indigenous Zil receiving an experimental drug to align their species’ sleep cycle with humans’.
Thomas, Aidan: The Sunbearer Trials 
(Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends 978-1-250-82213-0, $18.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel inspired by Mexico, the first in The Sunbearer duology.
Thorne, Sally: Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match 
(HarperCollins/Avon 978-0-06-291283-1, $17.99, 384pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, September 6, 2022)
SF romantic-comedy novel inspired by Shelley’s Frankenstein, which has his sister creating her dream man out of body parts.
Valentino, Serena: Raising the Horseman 
(Disney Press 978-1-368-05461-4, $17.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, September 6, 2022)
Young-adult fantasy novel reimagining “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” from a modern teen’s perspective.
