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- Starlog returns to newsstands with issue 375 — Mythscribe · 13 November 2026
Starlog’s first print issue since 2009 reaches U.S. and Canadian newsstands November 13. The publisher expects online orders to start shipping November 20. - Silent Witch author Matsuri Isora launches a fantasy about a knight people forget — Mythscribe · 13 November 2026
Earth Star Novel releases the first volume of Matsuri Isora’s Boukyaku no Curse Knight in Japan on November 13, with illustrations by Shirotaka. - A Dog of Flanders returns in a Japanese novel with art from the 1975 anime — Mythscribe · 13 November 2026
Tokuma Shoten releases an illustrated novelization of A Dog of Flanders in Japan November 13, using hundreds of color stills from the television adaptation. - Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver gets a new UK paperback — Mythscribe · 13 November 2026
Transworld’s new UK paperback of Victor LaValle’s The Devil in Silver is dated November 12. The novel follows a man who finds that his fellow patients share his account of a creature stalking their ward. - Uketsu’s new mystery sends readers into the author’s own house — Mythscribe · 13 November 2026
Futabasha published Uketsu no Ie in Japan on November 13. It is the first of the Strange Houses author’s books printed in full colour. - Hotate Shinkawa sends her magic-school butler into a family feud — Mythscribe · 12 November 2026
Gentosha dates the Japanese paperback of Brothers Fight, the fourth Magic Law School novel by Hotate Shinkawa, for November 12. - The Afterlands brings Nami’s fight for Infinity to its conclusion — Mythscribe · 12 November 2026
Simon & Schuster’s UK catalogue dates its hardcover of Akemi Dawn Bowman’s The Afterlands for November 12. The 416-page novel closes the Infinity Courts trilogy. - Cruelty’s Antidote brings RinoZ’s ant-colony LitRPG to book ten — Mythscribe · 12 November 2026
Aethon Books released Cruelty’s Antidote as an ebook on November 11. It is the tenth volume of Chrysalis, RinoZ’s monster-evolution LitRPG. - Tor publishes the first three Cradle novels in UK paperback — Mythscribe · 12 November 2026
Pan Macmillan lists November 12 as the UK paperback release date for Unsouled, Soulsmith and Blackflame, the first three books in Will Wight’s Cradle progression fantasy series. - Darcie Little Badger’s Children of Owl reaches UK shelves — Mythscribe · 12 November 2026
Abrams & Chronicle Books lists November 12 for the UK hardback of Darcie Little Badger’s Children of Owl. The YA fantasy follows three cousins living in a trailer park where a ghost wants justice and a monster is closing in. - Amy Avery’s The Thorns We Wear Inside puts two curses under one roof — Mythscribe · 12 November 2026
Amy Avery’s The Thorns We Wear Inside reached US paperback and ebook on November 10. The romantic fantasy follows a witch whose touch drains living things and a woman who can survive that touch. - Everything Happens So Much sends a reluctant heroine into alternate lives — Mythscribe · 11 November 2026
Little, Brown and Company lists November 10 for the North American hardcover of Andrew H. Murray’s speculative novel Everything Happens So Much.
Books archive
- An Embodiment of Souls follows an abduction into a necromancer’s court
- Tonight, I Blaze closes Katharine J. Adams’s Witches of Halstett trilogy
- Century Guild returns to print with eight volumes of Der Orchideengarten art
- Loba puts an Uruguayan lighthouse at the centre of a gothic haunting
- Allie Nguyen’s Blood of Silver sends a London teenager into a deadly magic tournament
- A Destiny So Cruel finishes Foody and Herman’s seasonal fantasy duology
- Melissa Caruso closes the Echo Archives with The Last Star in the Void
- Shauna Lawless’s Son of the Serpent gets a US hardcover
- Ryan Cahill’s Of Darkness and Light gets a signed Broken Binding hardcover
- Linden A. Lewis returns with standalone fantasy Halfheart
- Thomas R. Weaver follows Artificial Wisdom with a vote over humanity’s future
- Shadow Slave enters bookstores with a deluxe Child of Shadows hardcover
- Netflix orders Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep straight to series
- Black Library reveals Robbie MacNiven’s Herald of the Horned Rat
- Anthony Ryan releases Reapers while flagging an audiobook delay
- Tor begins an extended Call Me Traitor preview with its first two chapters
- Subterranean opens a limited preorder window for The Land That Time Forgot trilogy
- Stephen King’s The Jaunt reaches its public-sale date with editions listed sold out
- Realm of Silence reveals Chris Wraight’s next Death Guard novel
- Monarch opens Extra26’s military LitRPG with a skill-stealing outsider
- Second Chances builds a cosy fantasy around a magical amusement park
- Monarchs of Madness takes Eric Ugland’s tower adventure to Ratopolis
- Accidental Healer 2 releases as Layton’s settlement loses its system protections
- Mercenary Reincarnated as a Chef 3 serves monster cooking amid a collapsing tower
- Debutante brings Hestia’s dragon-idol story to the capital
- The Fist of Memory launches Wole Talabi’s Nigerian first-contact thriller
- The Killing of a Chestnut Tree opens a queer fantasy detective series
- An Uncertain Magic brings possession and ancient gods to Brooklyn’s coven
- Rosemary and Thyme returns to Olivia Atwater’s Victorian faerie world
- The Riven Kingdom turns a disputed succession into a wider religious crisis
- Grim Oak schedules Blood Bound public preorders for today
- Grim Oak schedules House Harkonnen owner presale for today
- Blood to the True Crown shares an excerpt ahead of its November finale
- Blood of the Bastion advances to hardback preorders for Grand Cathay readers
- Whisperblade joins Black Library’s next hardback preorder wave
- The Flight of the Eisenstein Premium Edition sets November 4 purchase time
- Sleeping Beasts reveals its cover for Sophia Zhao’s 2027 horror debut
- Orbit shares Cold Empty Rooms excerpt ahead of Andy Marino’s November horror release
- Netflix joins Texas Book Festival with adaptation panel and Guarding Stars screening
- Gods of Obsidian reveals Jeff Brown cover for Liz Delton’s trilogy finale
- Milkteeth reaches its UK publication date with a vampire broodmother’s body-horror story
- Giant Killer Kaiju heads into Raconteur Press’s October 23 anthology slot
- Maybe This Is Moving On reveals Laya Rose cover for Emery Lee’s supernatural YA
- Pip Adam’s Audition wins the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize
- Ian McDonald’s The Date brings an annual dinner with the dead to Reactor
- Five Days in June puts D Day forecasting inside an espionage thriller
- Thrice Married to a Salted Fish closes with an imperial complication
- Loner Life in Another World volume fifteen reaches its print date
- Brittle Magic follows a family gift into hidden grief
- Needlemouth brings K Ming Chang’s hungry-ghost horror to publication day
- The Slantwise Histories collects Alix E Harrow’s short fiction with five new stories
- East of Eden adaptation brings a publisher-reported surge in book sales
- Cooler Heads brings Julian Tepper's relationship novel to release day
- Daughter of the Tempest launches the next Myths of the Empyrieos adventure
- House of Salt reveals its Hawaiian gothic cover ahead of August 2027 release
- Susanna Clarke returns to Raven King lore in The Bishop of Durham
- Royal Witch gives Eleanor Cobham the centre of Philippa Gregory’s new novel
- The Turning of Sally-Mae launches a revenge story between Texas and African deities
- The Bookshop Book opens a new doorway into Mark Lawrence’s Library world
- ADventures Heading up and Down launches an ADHD-inspired portal fantasy campaign
- Donna Grant releases Between Twilight, the ninth Skye Druids novel
- Chloe Gong’s How Does It End? brings a broken romance into an apocalypse
- The Weight of Remembrance offers a free introduction to the Khazalite Holds
- Cookies, Curses, and Christmas Crimes reveals its festive mystery cover
- Feral Rising returns Alé Aragón to a divided world of superpowers
- Terrify Your Tablet opens its October 17 horror ebook directories
- Epiphyte reveals a fairytale horror cover for Hailey Spencer’s debut
- Jeaniene Frost gives Bones’s Night Huntress retellings new red covers
- Sarah J. Hoodlet reveals Rise of Iron cover ahead of November launch
- Mothsblood brings an alchemical murder mystery to modern Paris
- It Looks Like You in the Dark follows a sister’s disappearance in Arctic Alaska
- The Thrice-Bound Fool returns Kinch to a deadly book-bound quest
- Bottle Blonde reveals its cover for Elle Grenier’s school-musical romance
- Hearts Against the Machines reveals its post-apocalyptic romance cover
- Look What the Cat Dragged In brings Jason Rekulak’s new mystery to bookshops
- The Forest Bleeds traps doctoral witches in an Appalachian mansion
- Brigands & Breadknives adds a deluxe edition with new artwork
- Mia V. Moss and Justine Lombardi discuss power and revenge in debut fantasies
- Icarus Fell reveals its return to Rome after the fall of Pompeii
- Duskborn cover reveals a vampire hunter forced to become his enemy
- Blade of Two Faces excerpt opens Blake Blessing’s Imperial Trials
- Penitent 2 follows Michael towards the gods as his world tears apart
- Milkteeth excerpt introduces Caitlin Starling’s vampire broodmother
- Michael Swanwick opens an alternate Venice in Tomas the Castaway
- Accidental Champion 9 turns Xavier’s victory into a rescue mission
- The System Seas launches a dungeon ocean in book and audiobook form
- Roverpowered 6 launches an airborne escape in print and audio
- Of Death and Souls begins an afterlife romantasy duology
- Migration of the Gods opens a fantasy series around a fallen celestial traveller
- Matabar 4 returns Ardan to the Grand amid a ruined conspiracy
- Labyrinth of the Mad God 3 sends Nick into Darkstone Tower
- Casus Belli brings Cole Ransom a war inside his own fleet
- The Three-Body Problem Trilogy gains Matt Griffin art and a new author introduction
- The Snow Queen receives Eva Sánchez Gómez art in a new Folio hardcover
- The Promised Neverland returns to Emma’s future in a tenth-anniversary novel
- The Bad Beginning adds JooHee Yoon illustrations and a new Snicket afterword
- SYNCANITE previews its FLUX fiction and audiobook at SPIEL Essen
- Mythago Wood’s John Howe artwork reaches a new Folio cloth edition
- Kiki’s Delivery Service receives a new illustrated Folio edition
- Japanese Ghost Stories arrives with Yuko Shimizu’s illustrated supernatural world
- Heretics of Dune joins Folio’s illustrated Frank Herbert collection
- Blue Box Epilogue follows its characters beyond the manga’s ending
- Richard Swan expands Empire of the Wolf with four acquired novels
- Rachel Gillig reveals The Sprite and the Gargoyle’s cover
- Noah Van Nguyen discusses writing Warhammer’s gods and monsters
- The End of Us opens a romance across California’s last safe haven
- Love You to Death gives a grim reaper six weeks to understand humanity
- Japanese Supernatural Tales gathers a thousand years of ghosts and monsters
- Hope Is a Knife expands Something Is Killing the Children into prose and audio
- Heirs of Infamy enters the rival gangs of postwar Chinatown
- Entities to Lovers curses rival Boston ghost-tour guides
- Elizabeth Kostova’s Mystery Play returns to Dracula’s shadow
- Claire North’s As We Fall Through Time begins its journey through broken history
- Becky Chambers’s As You Wake, Break the Shell explores love on an inhospitable planet
- A Darker Act follows a school performance into Wild Hunt horror
- Kelley Armstrong opens the Dive Bar at the End of the Road
- G.I. Joe Classified visual guide documents its first six years
- Academy of Muses arrives as a retitled fantasy paperback
- Hadeer Elsbai’s horror novella reveals its cover ahead of February
- To Ruthless Ends starts Bridey Morris’s dark-fantasy trilogy at Tor
- Starfighter’s publishing programme includes a novel and Rock Pirate prequel comic
- Star Wars’ fiftieth anniversary books revisit A New Hope’s lasting impact
- Claudia Gray’s new Leia novel arrives on Star Wars Day 2027
- Windycon 52 opens a weekend of science-fiction community in Rosemont
- Olivie Blake brings Dreamland to Litquake in Berkeley tonight
- Boots and Roses sets an October 9 launch for Liesl’s cursed-valley romance
- The Neverending Winter reaches its English print edition
- Karen Lord’s The Angel at the Gates examines inherited duty
- Bane Bloom uncovers a Victorian garden’s dangerous enchantments
- Wondrous sends a teenage Alice back into an uncertain Wonderland
- Rally to Read 100 begins a six-month programme of author read-alouds
- PRH links Banned Books Week purchases to booksellers’ free-expression work
- National Book Award finalists include When Tomorrow Burns and That Which Feeds Us
- The Midnight Guardians reaches a new Candlewick paperback edition
- Priya Ayyar narrates Kill Your Darlings’ Halloween monster crisis
- Eliza Sunshine, The Small Ones and Good People reach the Giller shortlist
- Return to Breakneck Island brings Maple Bay lighthouse mystery to audio
- The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford arrives with a three-reader audiobook
- Cold Covenant’s signed special edition reaches its October 7 preorder window
- Christopher Kennedy’s Stealing Marquee Moon moves through punk, memory and loss
- Huckleberry Jim pairs a small-press debut with Leon Nixon’s Blackstone narration
- Star Wars Reads pairs Ahmed Best’s October visits with classroom book support
- Rome to the Stars opens a Roman space-war series
- The Lost Guardian sends a modern archaeologist across the Andes
- The Haunted Librarian brings ghosts into a threatened library
- The Fires of December reaches ebook and audiobook readers
- Kuzhali Manickavel’s supernatural school story arrives October 6
- Dropsite Massacre receives a Black Library paperback release
- Auxilia opens preorders for Russell Zimmerman's Guard debut
- Cold Covenant opens orders ahead of its special edition
- White Dwarf 529 opens preorders for a Halloween special
- Lifeweaver puts a healer at the centre of a System apocalypse
- Blood sends J M Clarke’s adventurers toward the City of Glass
- Return of the Runebound Professor 10 reunites a scattered cast
- Extinction Evolution returns in a remastered edition
- REV Warriors 4 continues T R Harris’s military science fiction
- He Who Fights with Monsters 13 returns Jason to Earth
- Awakening launches Tara Ellis’s archaeological apocalypse
- Path of Steel opens Valerios’s new apocalypse LitRPG
- Ursula K Le Guin’s writing conversations return in a new edition
- After Midnight brings Daphne du Maurier’s dark tales to paperback
- Detour reaches paperback with a fractured homecoming
- Dark Reading Matter closes Thursday Next’s final case
- The Secrets of Everlight sends a thief into a fae court
- Other Worlds Than These closes the Talisman trilogy
- Victorious concludes V. E. Schwab's Villains trilogy
- Atomic Coffin receives a new US paperback edition
- Portrait of a Haunting brings new horror from Madison Tyler Nelson
- Elizabeth Moon returns to Paksenarrion's world in Horngard
- The Southern Sorority of Superstitious Witches arrives October 6
- The Heresy of Thieves opens a new dark-fantasy theft
- All Things Wicked brings Rani De Vadder's new fantasy to shelves
- The Sisters Grimm returns to Apple TV with six new fantasy episodes
- The Chain House makes a cult leader’s lost manuscript the key to a rescue
- LJ Andrews strands Ever Seas rivals beyond the kingdom in The Stolen Crown
- Charlotte B. Plumb debuts gothic romantasy Reap & Sow
- Tad Williams returns to Osten Ard, 300 years before The Dragonbone Chair
- Merry Witches’ Life volume 4 continues its magical story of friendship and grief
- Yuri Espoir volume 5 brings Kokoro and Amami’s story back on October 6
- Monster and Ghost returns with volume 3 on October 6
- Joe Sacco and Chris Hedges present Palestinian testimony in Requiem for Gaza
- Fantagraphics publishes Jesse Moynihan’s completed cosmic epic Forming
- Fantagraphics collects Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar stories in a new hardcover
- Interview with the Vampire gets a 50th-anniversary edition on October 6
- Legends & Lattes makes its full-color graphic novel debut on October 6
- Tezuka’s Earth Swallows returns in its original magazine form
- Octocon brings science fiction writers and fans together in Cork and online
- Collingswood Book Festival fills six blocks of Haddon Avenue on October 3
- Fredericksburg Independent Book Festival returns to Riverfront Park on October 3
- Burbank Book Festival brings authors and panels to Buena Vista Library on October 3
- Horror debut Carrying makes the 2026 First Novel Prize shortlist
- Penguin Random House marks Banned Books Week with 2026 reading list
- Big Finish's Spooky Theatre episode previews Doctor Who Halloween audio
- Helen Lederer joins Jo Martin in Fugitive Doctor: Running Wild
- Young Bond SilverFin stars share first comments ahead of October audio launch
- Colleen Hoover thriller Verity reaches cinemas on October 2
- Pajarito Literary Festival opens with author events across Los Alamos
- Decatur Book Festival opens with Brian Goldstone keynote and Saturday street fair
- Haystack Book Festival’s October talks are marked full on the current schedule
- Joseph Pfeifer to share his 9/11 account at the National Storytelling Festival
- Stonington Literary Festival marks James Merrill’s centennial with readings and music
- Heartland Book Festival opens with Tayari Jones before a Saturday author programme
- Poe Festival returns to Baltimore with a free weekend at Lexington Market
- New Hampshire Book Festival opens with Jeff Kinney and Jodi Picoult keynotes
- Portobello Book Festival opens its free local programme on October 2
- Pisa Book Festival opens today with independent publishers and translation events
- Audible begins limited beta for interactive audiobook guides and story chats
- Doctor Who audiobook Shard of Life brings the Second Doctor to a stranded survey team
- Audible opens Emerging Playwrights Fund applications through November 18
- Kit Chapman's The Age of Alchemy wins Royal Society science book prize
- Subterranean Press starts shipping signed limited edition of The Reformatory
- Colorado Book Awards name Scorched Skies and This Is My Body genre winners
- Yuval Noah Harari’s The Laws of History is set for September 2027
- East of Eden arrives on Netflix October 1
- Octocon 2026 pairs a Cork science-fiction weekend with online workshops
- Furnal Equinox opens 2027 conbook submissions as registration begins October 1
- Scholastic agrees to acquire children’s publisher Cottage Door Press for about $71 million
- Louise Willder’s The Book Was Better examines book-to-film adaptations
- Eyewear Publishing lists Tristan Walker’s Creative Justice for October 1
- Lee Su Kim’s Run, My Daughters, Run is listed for US release October 1
- Goldsmiths Prize names six novels on its 2026 shortlist
- Ayad Akhtar reads his new novel The Radiance for audio
- Trust Fall pairs two narrators for Lynn Painter's new audiobook
- D. E. White's The Fall brings a motorway mystery to audio
- Taking Sides brings Rebecca Jenshak's Moonshot Hockey romance to audio
- Julieta Vitullo follows a dead friend's letter back to Buenos Aires
- Diana Rojas's They Hold Grudges tests a family's pact of silence
- Juan Felipe Herrera's Planeta Passport is due from Mouthfeel Press
- Pablo Brescia's ESC: Tales Left Behind explores stories of the self
- Music for a Night on Fire brings science into short fiction
- Euan Morton narrates Penner's infernal colonial satire in September 29 audiobook
- Tony DiTerlizzi's illustrated horror novel The Wump arrives September 29
- Judith Lucy narrates her wellness memoir's new audiobook
- Ed Park’s new King in Yellow riff arrives as a two-sided horror book
- Inked in Gray Press sets a September 29 release for the hopepunk anthology Stellar Parallax
- Independent press Moonlit Forge brings EV Cross’s gothic werewolf tragedy out September 29
- Portland micropress Friendly Monster sets September 29 release for Autumn Bettinger’s Belladonna
- The Man of Wind and Moss sends six friends into a cursed forest
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