Charlaine Harris et al. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-07678-6
Bestseller Harris, best known for her Southern Vampire mysteries (Dead Ever After, etc.), and nine other authors have collaborated on this mixed bag of a fantasy suspense novel, which calls to mind a story told around a campfire, with each...
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Edited by Jonathan Maberry. JournalStone, $18.95 trade paper (292p) ISBN 978-1-942712-73-2
Horror maven Maberry presents a not entirely harmonious second collection of original stories that celebrate the haunting power of music. There are several highlights among the 15 stories: Alison Pang's "Respawn, Reboot" is about an online fantasy...
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Cherie Priest. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3407-7
Priest’s final Clockwork Century novel (after The Inexplicables) wraps things up nicely, once again turning a mash-up of too-worn genre tropes (steampunk, alternate Civil War, zombies) into a work of entertainment laced with social criticism. In...
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Cherie Priest. Atria, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-6892-6
At the start of Priest’s lively sequel to 2021’s Grave Reservations, Det. Grady Merritt of the Seattle PD and his teenage daughter, Molly, are searching Mount Rainier for their lost dog, Cairo, when Cairo appears with a human leg in its mouth. Where
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Cherie Priest. Subterranean, $45 (528p) ISBN 978-1-64524-055-6
This outstanding collection of 14 stories and one poem from Priest (The Toll) should get this gifted, versatile author the wider acknowledgment her significant talent merits. Each entry combines evocative prose and imaginative reinventions of...
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Cherie Priest. Atria, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-9821-6889-6
This frothy blend of paranormal cozy and off-the-books police procedural from Priest (The Toll) stars travel agent Leda Foley, the owner of Foley’s Far-Fetched Flights of Fancy in Seattle, Wash., who also moonlights at a local bar, where she divines
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Cherie Priest. Tor, $16.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7823-1
Priest (The Family Plot) spins a small, swampy urban legend into a riveting, swelteringly atmospheric story that questions just how far the residents of a Southern town will go to forget, or appease, a past they cannot bear to confront. Cameron...
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Cherie Priest. Ace, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-101-99073-5
In this pitch-perfect penny dreadful, Priest (The Family Plot) evokes the strangeness and charm of early-19th-century Florida and the fortitude of two spectacular protagonists. Alice Dartle, making a daring bid for freedom from her family home in...
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Cherie Priest. Tor, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7824-8
When Dahlia Dutton’s father sends her and a small crew to salvage a house near Lookout Mountain, Tenn., she finds that what you don’t know can hurt you in Priest’s spectacular modern haunted-house story. Dahlia is no stranger to ghosts, whether she’s
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Cherie Priest. Roc, $16 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46698-3
Setting this slow but effective second Lizzie Borden/H.P. Lovecraft mashup in the 1920s, three decades after the events of Maplecroft, Priest emphasizes Lovecraft’s storytelling elements of mathematics, spiritualism, the dubious cultural values of...
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Cherie Priest. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59606-684-7
This gripping postscript to Priest’s Clockwork Century series (which officially concluded with Fiddlehead) takes readers to the titular Galveston, Tex., haunted hotel, in an alternate 1895 seasoned with ghosts and gears. Father Rios is a former...
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Cherie Priest. Roc, $15 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46697-6
Lizbeth “Lizzie” Andrew Borden wields her axe against Lovecraftian entities in this terrifying and powerful series launch by fan favorite Priest (the Clockwork Century series). Two years after Lizzie infamously slew her mother and stepfather, she...
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Cherie Priest, Author . Tor $13.95 (285p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1308-9
The classic Southern gothic gets an edgy modern makeover in Priest's debut novel about a young woman's investigation into the truth of her origins. What Eden Moore digs up in the roots of her diseased family tree takes her across the South,...
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Cherie Priest. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2947-9
Rector “Wreck ’Em” Sherman is an 18-year-old dealer of and addict to sap, a narcotic distilled from the poisonous gas that destroyed the walled-in city of Seattle. Six months after the events of Boneshaker (2009), Rector has no prospects and is...
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Cherie Priest. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2946-2
The smashing third volume in Priest’s Clockwork Century steampunk alternate-history Civil War series (after 2010’s Dreadnought) stars Josephine Early, New Orleans brothel owner and Union spy, who must deliver Ganymede, a prototype submarine, to the...
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Cherie Priest. Spectra, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-52062-3
Vampire thief Raylene Pendle is back for more mysteries and mayhem in the entertaining sequel to February's Bloodshot. When Raylene's agent hires her to steal some magical bones, the vampire has no idea how much trouble she's in for. After dodging...
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Cherie Priest, Author Tor Books $14.95 (399p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1309-6
Eden Moore sees dead people. To be more precise, she sees ghosts; and it just so happens that in her hometown of Chickamauga, Ga., ghosts seem to be a dime-a-dozen, especially at the memorial park that was once a battlefield where thousands of...
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Cherie Priest, Spectra, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-52060-9
Steampunk and gothic author Priest (Boneshaker) dives into urban fantasy with this entertaining conspiracy thriller. When blind vampire Ian Stott hires thief Raylene Pendle to steal medical documents that may help restore his sight, Raylene learns...
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Cherie Priest, Tor, $14.99 paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2578-5
An intimate, well-crafted portrait of a nurse on a mission adds depth to this exceptional Civil War steampunk thriller, the self-contained sequel to 2009’s Locus Award–winning Boneshaker. Mercy Lynch, recently widowed and taxed to exhaustion by...
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Cherie Priest, Author . Subterranean $25 (201p) ISBN 978-1-59606-308-2
Piracy meets politics head-on in this steampunk thriller, loosely linked to Priest's much-lauded Boneshaker
(2009). Maria Isabella Boyd, a notorious former actress and Confederate spy, is on her first mission for the renowned Pinkerton...
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Cherie Priest, Author . Tor $15.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1841-1
Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War–era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue’s son, goes into the walled wreck
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Cherie Priest, Author . Tor $25.95 (380p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1840-4
A decidedly dark departure from Priest’s Eden Moore saga (Four and Twenty Blackbirds
, etc.), this stand-alone novel is equal parts horror, contemporary fantasy and apocalyptic thriller. During a summer vacation to her aunt’s coastal...
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Cherie Priest, Author . Subterranean $25 (170p) ISBN 978-1-59606-179-8
“Cilled a thing heer—D. Boone” reads a message carved outside a spooky Kentucky cave in this slightly thin campfire tale. The “thing” is a bizarre creature with wings and a sharp beak, and despite Boone's...
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Cherie Priest, Author . Tor $14.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1310-2
Spectacular scenes of chaos and horror in a flood-drenched Chattanooga invigorate Priest's third Eden Moore fantasy (after 2006's Wings to the Kingdom
). A devastating storm swells the Tennessee River to dam-breaking levels on the eve of...
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Cherie Priest, Author . Subterranean $25 (234p) ISBN 978-1-59606-080-7
A runaway Irish nun pursues a murderous werewolf across post–Civil War America in this riveting Southern gothic from Priest (Wings to the Kingdom
). Divided into three atmospheric, slightly disjointed sections, the story opens aboard a...
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Cherie Priest, illus. by Kali Ciesemier. Scholastic/Levine, $18.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-545-62085-7
Back in fifth grade, best friends May and Libby created Princess X, a katana-wielding heroine who wears Converse sneakers with her ball gown. Ever since Libby and her mother died in a freak accident, May’s life has been as gray as her Seattle home—un
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Edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. Bantam, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-35783-5
Martin and Snodgrass continue the long-running Wild Cards series (after Pairing Up) with a fascinating anthology exploring the elusive character of the Sleeper. In 1946, an alien virus forever changed the course of humanity. Many who survived were...
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Cherie Priest. Poisoned Pen, $17.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-7282-9285-4
Priest (The Drowning House) spins a chillingly effective ghost story. After the death of her brother, Ben, anxious Ronnie Mitchell moves into a house in West Seattle. Guilt-stricken by her perceived failure to save Ben, she obsesses over fears as...
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