Congratulations to Premee Mohamed as FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER hits #81 on the USA Today bestseller list!
Enter the library of an enigmatic collector, where occult books are guarded and researched at a fatal cost, with this uncanny eldritch horror novel from Nebula Award–winning author Premee Mohamed and The Magnus Archives’ Jonathan Sims.
Horn Book Magazine: In this imaginative work of speculative fiction with a highly visual format, Lipan Apache cousins Maisie, Joel, and Verona work together to understand the strange events happening in their southwest Texas trailer park and solve their attendant mysteries.. After the shapeshifting son of Big Owl, the legendary father of birds, warns Maisie that a tragedy will soon befall someone in her community, she becomes determined to prevent another calamity; she has already lost her best friend to cancer, and an older cousin is in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Meanwhile, Verona is housesitting at a ranch haunted by a vengeful ghost, and Joel is fostering a batch of kittens—though one of those kittens isn’t what it seems. Little Badger’s (Sheine Lende, rev. 5/24) layered storytelling expertly weaves the cousins’ distinct personalities and separate plotlines into a seamless, suspenseful mystery. The book excels in plot construction and in the complex development of its main characters as well as in its themes of systemic injustice, grief, coming of age, and Indigenous heritage and identity. Well-crafted prose passages, letters, and diary entries propel the tale toward its dramatic conclusion. Some portions of the story are told through Rajunov’s expressive, often atmospheric full-color comic panels; occasional digital spot art is also interspersed.
Informed by the son of a legendary Lipan Apache being that “a terrible fate looms,” a teen attempts to save her home from forces both supernatural and benign in Little Badger and Rajunov’s stunning contemporary fantasy. Mystery and speculative elements converge across this sinuous, elaborately constructed story that balances suspenseful plotting with emotional resonance and cultural depth.
Darcie Little Badger on Heritage and Hope
NAACP Image Award winner Due toggles between the 1920s—when Black aspiring actor Mazelle Washington makes a dangerous wish to become a Hollywood starlet—and the present day, when her filmmaker grandson and his family face the consequences of her actions. The result is a staggering work of horror that combines hair-raising action with sharp-toothed reflections on the politics of Black performance.
Brazilian Portuguese rights to New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s FLORALINDA, a subversive fairy tale adventure, to Alma Books, by Cristina Purchio at International Editors’ Co. in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
French rights to New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir’s FLORALINDA, a subversive fairy tale adventure, to Actes Sud, by Sarah Dray at Anna Jarota Agency in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Korean rights to Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award winning author Thomas Ha’s UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, to Minumsa, by Sue Yang at Eric Yang Agency for Michael Curry.
Lithuanian rights to New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells’ ALL SYSTEMS RED, the first book in The Murderbot Diaries, to Kitos knygos, by Tamara Vukićević at Prava i Prevodi in association with Michael Curry for Jennifer Jackson.
Ukrainian rights to British Fantasy Award winner Simon Jimenez’s THE VANISHED BIRDS, to Publishing Company Lobster LLC, by Tamara Vukićević at Prava i Prevodi in association with Michael Curry.
Congratulations to Thomas Ha on receiving the 2026 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES!
Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; identity and class; and alternate near-future irrealities. Sharp, incisive, imaginative, and visionary, Thomas Ha’s debut heralds the arrival of a vital new voice.
Reactor Magazine: “A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School is one of the most delightful books I’ve read in a minute; Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut novel oozes the sort of rare swagger that one can’t learn, and can only hope to be born with. This is a one-sitting read that has something for everyone: There’s singing and demonic imposter Pepsi and sapphic currents of girlschool drama. The latter brims with fantastically entertaining, at times too-real neurosis—a very familiar neurosis that sparked real joy in me, a survivor of a very different sort of girls school that still speaks a kindred language, because all girls’ schools are different variations of the same coming-of-age horror show. This is a work built on surgically precise deep cuts of teen anthropology, lowkey cosmic horror, encyclopedic Kollywood (Tamil cinema) references, devastating drollness, and perhaps the most universal condition of all: anxiety diarrhea.”
Read the full review at Reactor Magazine!
Fear comes before the fall.
In the winding, perilous corridors of Jurgen Leitner’s private library, you never know what you’ll find. A starving cookbook. An ancient scroll that casts cool, predatory breezes. A cloth-bound hardback that compels you to DIG, DIG, DIG, DIG.
Free, these books are more than simply unnerving—they’re deadly. But the library keeps their dangers in check and their would-be readers safe. . . .
Or so Leitner claims.
For two of his employees, the risks are worth it. Hugh Franklin, research assistant, has finally found a place he belongs, where his skill in translation is valued, even if his employer is a bit odd. Sebastian Everett, acquisition specialist, can indulge his arcane ambitions, even if it means pretending to care about Leitner’s mission.
Though their tenures at the library were years apart, Hugh and Sebastian’s stories unfold in parallel, and their footsteps echo down the same eerie aisles, caught in a web spun long before either ever heard the name “Jurgen Leitner.”
Will they find a way out . . . or will the library consume them before it’s too late?
Library Journal: In Khaw’s latest novella, gut-wrenching emotion flows off every page, as readers are introduced to Antigone on the day her black dog of death arrives, enters her home, and makes itself comfortable. Antigone’s family members have a history of understanding when their deaths are coming. When Antigone’s mother knew, eight years ago, she decided to die by suicide. Now living in her mother’s former home and still actively navigating her grief, Antigone helps others with their own ghost problems, reminding them that hauntings aren’t only about the dead; the living must choose to let go. After a particularly difficult and angry interaction with a mother haunting her daughter, Antigone begins to plan her own suicide, counting down the days, black dog by her side. With a plot both deceptively simple and extremely deep, language that’s precise and lyrical, and a tone both dreamlike and realistic, Khaw steeps readers in a tale overshadowed by death but bursting with life.
VERDICT: Khaw writes another stunningly evocative and compelling story. Suggest this modern myth to fans of Helen Oyeyemi and readers who enjoyed the equally brilliant Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield or Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram.
From the peerless master of contemporary fantasy comes a tale of three cousins and the world of creatures, ghosts, and murderers that surrounds their trailer park. Illustrated throughout with comics pages!
Maisie: hasn’t gotten her life back on track since her best friend died and she saw Owl, harbinger of ill tidings and doom.
Joel: Streaming prodigy with questionable decision-making who’s been exiled to a summer of kitten fostering.
Verona: will do anything to leave their trailer park behind, even watch a house she knows is haunted.
Owl: son of Big Owl, who can’t help who he is, or how much he cares about these aforementioned humans.
Their four stories intertwine with a ghost bent on justice, an adorable feline Animal Person, and a vengeful monster headed straight for them in this singular YA fantasy novel from Newbery Honor-winning Darcie Little Badger.
Antigone is no stranger to death.
For the women of her family, death always comes in the form of a black dog.
When Antigone’s own black dog arrives, she isn’t afraid. She invites it inside, where it soon becomes a daily source of companionship and comfort. It also forces her to reflect on the life she’s led—the parts of herself she’s hollowed out for the sake of others, and the bone-deep exhaustion that’s hounded her every step.
Her Death’s arrival must be a sign, permission to finally let go. To rest. Because while mortality is inevitable, living is a choice.
But a good death comes at a price