63 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in May

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Hope you’ve turned the past of those April publication pages, due to the fact that determination are astir arsenic galore new releases coming successful May. Haunted houses, haunted ships, homesick aliens, magical friends, clip loops, royal quandaries, forbidden romances, and much fantastical, terrifying, and adventurous tales await!

May 6

Ace successful the Hole by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle

The last Black Badge bid introduction brings a “culmination of supernatural powers and aged foes successful an epic finale stretching from the chaotic westbound to the nation’s capital.” (May 6)

The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy

“In this smartly subversive Victorian mash-up of the legendary literate novels Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes, the intrepid parent of the Darling children is connected the case―and ever 1 measurement up of her inept hubby and a celebrated detective.” (May 6)

Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang

“A stunning queer novella astir a dragon huntsman uncovering location with a dragon queen.” (May 6)

The Butcher’s Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark

“The communicative of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has gripped fans crossed literary, stage, and surface renditions—but small has been told of Mrs. Lovett, Todd’s spouse successful crime. Until now. Enclosed herewith: a bloodcurdling correspondence of fearfulness and intrigue, based connected the archetypal Victorian penny dreadful that started it all.” (May 6)

Cradle of Secrets by Jasmine Wigham

“When an intrepid American with a acheronian past becomes a hired weapon for a mysterious pistillate successful London, he’s shocked to observe a satellite crawling with monsters.” (May 6)

A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall

“Dive into the charming decision to the Sunken Archive duology, a heart-warming magical academia phantasy filled with underwater cities, romance of manners, and recovered family.” (May 6)

The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li

A “haunting caller astir the secrets that prevarication successful hold successful the crumbling mansion of a erstwhile Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the 2 Chinese American families warring to inherit it.” (May 6)

Modern Divination by Isa Agajanian

“A magical cozy phantasy with witches, featuring an world rivals-to-lovers romance, recovered household and yearning.” (May 6)

The Night Birds by Christopher Golden

In this fearfulness tale, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department idiosyncratic stationed aboard a half-sunken freighter is preparing for a tempest erstwhile helium has a shocking encounter: an ex-girlfriend, with a unusual parent and kid successful tow, begs for assistance hiding from the witches they assertion are chasing them. (May 6)

Overgrowth by Mira Grant

A pistillate has claimed she’s really an alien her full life, but cipher believes her—until an extraterrestrial awesome announces invaders are coming to reclaim her. (May 6)

Rhymer: Hel by Gregory Frost

In this 3rd introduction successful the Rhymer series, “Thomas the Rhymer, immortal, shape-changing foe of the diabolical Elf Queen and her merciless Yvag knights, continues his one-man warfare into the reign of England’s “Faerie Queen”—Elizabeth I.” (May 6)

Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry

“A slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy wherever enemies go lovers, monsters stalk a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the spot to teardrop disconnected her crown and go the warrior she was ne'er meant to be.” (May 6)

Silver Elite by Dani Francis

“In the archetypal publication of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a decease condemnation and determination are rules to survival: spot nary one. Lie to everyone. And immoderate you do, don’t autumn for your top enemy.” (May 6)

A Spell for Change by Nicole Jarvis

“In this sumptuous, atmospheric humanities phantasy acceptable successful post-World War One Appalachia, 3 outcasts with misunderstood magical gifts hunt for their spot successful the satellite portion battling the acheronian forces that ellipse their community.” (May 6)

The Sun Blessed Prince by Lindsay Byrd

In this archetypal introduction successful a caller duology, “a battle-weary prince meets a reluctant assassin. But could their enslaved extremity their war?” (May 6)

A Thousand Natural Shocks by Omar Hussain

A newsman connected the way of a serial slayer unwittingly gets mixed up with a cult erstwhile helium seeks retired a pill designed to erase traumatic memories. Things don’t spell arsenic planned—and he’s soon “in a contention against clip to evade the cult, unveil the killer, and reconcile his past earlier his ain memories slice away.” (May 6)

Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau

“A thoroughly unsocial emotion communicative astir a pistillate reliving the aforesaid Friday implicit and implicit again—and the intriguing antheral who can’t rather retrieve her.” (May 6)

May 13

Anima Rising by Christopher Moore

“A hilariously deranged communicative of a huffy scientist, a celebrated painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying travel of self-discovery.” (May 13)

Anji Kills a King by Evan Leikam

“An improbable assassin struggles to flight a legendary bounty huntsman successful this breakneck phantasy debut that volition drawback you by the throat.” (May 13)

Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro

This gothic fearfulness debut features “a real-life Latin American haunted mansion. A murky labyrinth of household secrets. A young, aristocratic pistillate hopeless to flight her past.” (May 13)

A Charming Touch of Tarot by Melissa Holtz

“Four friends observe that their caller magical skills whitethorn not beryllium capable to prevention them from a stalker hell-bent connected turning their lives upside down.” (May 13)

The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin

“Louis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft successful this thrilling occidental epic astir a erstwhile Civil War worker wracked by enigmatic visions.” (May 13)

A Curse Carved successful Bone by Danielle L. Jensen

“A shield maiden fights to interruption the shackles of prophecy—and to flooded the betrayal of the antheral who broke her heart—in this searing decision to the Norse-inspired phantasy romance duology that began with the bestselling A Fate Inked successful Blood.” (May 13)

The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

“A brand-new epic phantasy featuring a notorious set of anti-heroes connected a delightfully bloody and raucous journey.” (May 13)

Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of the Strahd by Delilah S. Dawson

“A enactment of adventurers indispensable brave the horrors of Ravenloft successful this authoritative Dungeons & Dragons novel.” (May 13)

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

The Dungeon Crawler Carl bid continues arsenic Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, caput to the eighth level, wherever they brushwood specified perils arsenic “a pantheon of forgotten gods. An aged grudge betwixt a speech amusement host, an heiress, and the antheral they shattered on the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the caput of a friend.” (May 13)

A Goddess Unraveled by Morgan Rider

“A steamy romantasy astir a lovestruck demigoddess, unaware of her royal status, who makes a shocking find and attempts to fly to the underworld with Hades to flight Zeus’s wrath.” (May 13)

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

In this “sapphic acheronian academia fantasy,” a almighty magician and prof works to support her students harmless from invading demons But tin she support her schoolhouse from a perchance acold greater enemy: herself? (May 13)

Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire

“A delightful and entertaining communicative of self-discovery―as good arsenic fungus, capitalism, and sorcery―[and] a communicative for those who can’t assistance but find magic adjacent successful the oddest and astir baffling circumstances.” (May 13)

Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel

“Fantastic universes and idiosyncratic dramas collide arsenic a radical of friends blur the enactment betwixt existent beingness and fabrication with delightfully disastrous results.” (May 13)

Portalmania by Debbie Urbanski

A postulation of abbreviated stories drafting connected sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and realism to “dive bravely into the shadowy depths of betrayal, parenthood, revenge, murder, coercive sex, unfastened marriages, asexuality, neurodiversity, and 2nd chances.” (May 13)

The Secrets of Maiden’s Cove by Erin Palmisano

After she inherits her precocious father’s struggling seafood restaurant, a pistillate leaves her unhappy matrimony and sets retired to marque a caller start. Part of that involves mending fences with her long-lost champion friend—who mightiness secretly beryllium a mermaid. (May 13)

Sestia by G.R. Macallister

The Five Queendoms bid trilogy wraps up its communicative successful which “a centuries-long bid is shattered successful a matriarchal nine erstwhile a decennary passes without a azygous miss being born.” (May 13)

A Simple Twist of Fate by April Asher

“A witch and a shifter get a 2nd accidental astatine emotion successful this caller paranormal romanticist comedy.” (May 13)

Something I Keep Upstairs by J.D. Barker

Best friends deliberation spending the summertime connected a adjacent land volition beryllium a amusive past escapade earlier they caput disconnected to college—until they recognize the location wherever they’re staying is not lone haunted, it’s a nexus of past evil that’s precocious awakened. (May 13)

The Sorrow of the Sea by Stephen Aryan

The epic decision to Stephen Aryan’s The Nightingale and the Falcon trilogy, a bloody and magical reimagining of the Mongolian Empire’s penetration of Persia. (May 13)

What Sleeps Within the Cove by Harper L. Wood

The Of Flesh & Bone bid continues arsenic the protagonist realizes “to survive, I indispensable observe who I am―who I’m fated to be. Human, and Fae, and something… other. Embracing each the sides of magic, airy and dark.” (May 13)

Where You Once Belonged by Lorna Graham

“A cynical TV quality shaper sells retired her principles to emergence to her network’s apical job, and comes face-to-face with what appears to beryllium her idealistic teenage self.” (May 13)

May 20

Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle

This caller acceptable amid New York’s culinary country is billed arsenic “a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look astatine emotion and loss, and a shade communicative astir each the ways we hunger—and however acold we’d spell to find satisfaction.” (May 20)

Behooved by M. Stevenson

“A charming slow-burn phantasy featuring a duty-bound noblewoman with a chronic illness, a prince who would alternatively beryllium successful a room than connected a throne, and a magical thrust done a satellite of cozy enchantment.” (May 20)

Esperance by Adam Oyebanji

This enigma thriller follows “a seemingly intolerable transgression rooted successful racism, intergenerational trauma, and an inhuman conception of justice.” (May 20)

Feeders by Matt Serafini

“A would-be influencer whose dreams of online fame spiral into nightmare territory erstwhile she encounters a mysterious and unsafe societal media platform.” (May 20)

Going Home successful the Dark by Dean Koontz

“When hometown horrors travel backmost to haunt, relationship is salvation successful a caller astir puerility fears and buried secrets.” (May 20)

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

“A gothic, mist-cloaked communicative of a young prophetess forced connected an intolerable quest with the 1 knight whose aboriginal is beyond her sight.” (May 20)

The Quiet by Barnaby Martin

In a satellite encased by a mysterious, suffocating Soundfield, a parent becomes obsessively protective of her son—and keeping his unsafe abilities a intimately guarded secret. (May 20)

Rebel successful the Deep by Katee Robert

The Crimson Sails trilogy concludes arsenic Nox learns from rebel person Siobhan that their estranged ex, Bastian, has been kidnapped. Can they motorboat a rescue earlier Bastian spills each their secrets? (May 20)

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling

“A transfixing fever imagination of medieval fearfulness pursuing 3 women successful a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness nether the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.” (May 20)

Strange New World by Vivian Shaw

The Dr. Greta Helsing bid concludes arsenic the doc to the undead faces “the latest and strangest situation of her career… accompanying an anxious angel and a sullen demon connected a roadworthy travel crossed America.” (May 20)

That’s All I Know by Elisa Levi

“When a alien loses his canine connected the archetypal time aft the extremity of the world, Little Lea warns him not to travel it into the forest, that radical who participate ne'er travel out. Over a shared joint, she tells him astir the burning successful her gut, winding a communicative of loss, desire, and conspiracies.” (May 20)

Then There Was One by Wendy Cross

“Every inhabitant successful the Quadrant knows astir the Pinnacle, a world TV contention acceptable connected a distant satellite with a immense currency prize. For 3 hopeless entrants, winning would mean the satellite … but arsenic the contention starts, the contestants are speedy to observe that this year’s crippled has unscripted and deadly consequences.” (May 20)

We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

“A haunting Gothic caller astir a house―and a marriage―gone terribly wrong.” (May 20)

May 27

Death connected the Caldera by Emily Paxman

In this “thrilling blend of classical execution enigma and fantasy,” siblings hurrying location to spot their ailing royal begetter are stranded erstwhile their bid crashes atop a volcano. As 1 sibling grapples with her emergent magic powers, the trio indispensable besides woody with the information that a slayer has started picking disconnected the different passengers, 1 by one. (May 27)

Deliverance of Dragons by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

“The Dragon Prophecy illuminates a clip erstwhile long-lived Elves regularisation the Fortunate Lands. It is simply a clip of dire prophecy, of conflict and bloodshed, of large magics dissimilar immoderate the Elvenkind person seen before. Deliverance of Dragons is the communicative of the extremity of 1 satellite and the opening of the next.” (May 27)

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

“Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she indispensable present interruption the clip loop that binds her successful this hilariously bloody decision to the Dark Lord Davi duology.” (May 27)

A Fate Forged successful Fire by Hazel McBride

“To go the archetypal queen successful centuries, a powerfully blessed blacksmith indispensable usage her wits and occurrence magic to overthrow the corrupt powers ruling her kingdom—while besides warring her increasing tendency for 1 of her dragon-riding adversaries—in the archetypal publication of a sizzling Celtic-inspired phantasy romance duology.” (May 27)

Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi

This merchandise is described arsenic “hard-boiled phantasy noir: Raymond Chandler meets P. Djèlí Clark successful a postcolonial West Africa” arsenic good arsenic “dryly comic and unforgettably evocative.” (May 27)

The Grief Nurse by Angie Spoto

“Lynx is simply a Grief Nurse. Kept by the Asters, a wealthy, influential family, to guarantee they’re ne'er troubled by antagonistic emotions. When quality arrives that the Asters’ eldest lad is dead, Lynx does what she tin to alleviate their sorrow. But arsenic guests flock to the land for the wake, tensions emergence and Lynx finds herself trapped astatine the halfway of a household tearing itself apart.” (May 27)

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association by Caitlin Rozakis

“Two parents and their recently-bitten-werewolf girl effort to acceptable into a privileged New England nine of magic aristocracy. But deadly terrors await them—ancient prophecies, remorseless magical trials, hidden conspiracies, and the PTA cook sale.” (May 27)

Heir of Light by Michelle Sagara

“With the Academia present awakened from its centuries-long slumber, Robin, a pupil who hails from a prestigious family, indispensable ain up to his destiny. As heir to the Gardianno seat, a highly coveted presumption wrong the quality caste court, Robin stands to inherit large powerfulness erstwhile helium assumes his birthright—but astatine what cost?” (May 27)

Kitemaster by Jim C. Hines

“Nial Sarnin is 21—far excessively young to person mislaid her beloved husband, Jika. One twelvemonth aft his death, Nial prepares to alert a kite sewn from his wedding shirt, believing it volition transportation Jika’s tone to the stars. But alternatively of drifting mildly skyward, the tone kite moves nether Nial’s nonstop control, revealing her arsenic a Kitemaster—a uncommon acquisition successful a satellite everlastingly ruled by winds and magic.” (May 27)

Never Flinch by Stephen King

“From maestro storyteller Stephen King comes an bonzer caller caller with intertwining storylines—one astir a slayer connected a diabolical revenge mission, and different astir a vigilante targeting a feminist personage speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic caller formed of characters.” (May 27)

The South Wind by Alexandra Warwick

“A sizzling phantasy romance caller inspired by Sleeping Beauty and the Greek story of Theseus and the Minotaur.” (May 27)

The Sword Triumphant by Gareth Hanrahan

“Gareth Hanrahan’s acclaimed epic phantasy bid of acheronian myth, daring warriors and bloodthirsty vengeance concludes with The Sword Triumphant.” (May 27)

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