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Monday, 29 December 2025

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

Wild Dark Shore

by Charlotte McConaghy

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Labels: Canongate Books, Charlotte McConaghy, contemporary fiction, netgalley, speculative fiction, thriller

Sunday, 28 December 2025

Good Boy

by Neil McRobert

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Labels: contemporary fiction, folk horror, Gothic, horror, Northern Weird Project, novella, supernatural, weird fiction, Wild Hunt Books

The Witching Hour: Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Nights

The Witching Hour

Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Nights

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Labels: Christmas, folk horror, ghost story, Gothic, Sphere, supernatural

Sunday, 5 October 2025

Wolf Moon

by Julio Llamazares

Translated by Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles

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Labels: 20th Century fiction, fiction in translation, historical fiction, Julio Llamazares, Kathryn Phillips-Miles, netgalley, Pushkin Classics, Pushkin Press, Simon Deefholts, Spanish Fiction, thriller, war

Saturday, 4 October 2025

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

What We Can Know

by Ian McEwan

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Labels: contemporary fiction, crime fiction, dystopian fiction, England, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Cape, netgalley, Random House UK, science fiction, Vintage Books

Saturday, 16 August 2025

Rokit

by Loranne Vella

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Labels: contemporary fiction, dystopian fiction, Loranne Vella, Maltese fiction, Maltese literature, Merlin Books, Merlin Publishers, science fiction, speculative fiction

Friday, 15 August 2025

Bluff

by Francine Toon

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Labels: contemporary fiction, crime fiction, dark academia, Doubleday, Francine Toon, Gothic, mystery, netgalley, Random House UK, Scotland, Transworld Digital, Transworld Publishers

Mgħawġin

Ġurnal Għawdxi - L-Ewwel Ħarġa

Corrine Zahra and Ħaley Xuereb

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Corrine Zahra, Gozitan literature, Gozo, Ħaley Xuereb, Maltese fiction, Maltese literature, poetry, short stories

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Rainforest

by Michelle Paver

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Labels: folk horror, Gothic, historical fiction, horror, Michelle Paver, netgalley, Orion Publishing

Sunday, 27 July 2025

Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley

Saltwash

by Andrew Michael Hurley

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Labels: Andrew Michael Hurley, contemporary fiction, folk horror, horror, John Murray, memory and time, netgalley

Monday, 30 June 2025

Clean

by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Translated by Sophie Hughes

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Labels: Alia Trabucco Zerán, Chilean fiction, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, Fourth Estate, Latin America, netgalley, Sophie Hughes, South American fiction, thriller, William Collins

Saturday, 28 June 2025

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enríquez

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
My Cemetery Journeys

by Mariana Enríquez

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Labels: hogarth, horror, Latin America, literary non-fiction, Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell, netgalley, non-fiction, Random House UK, urban Gothic

Saturday, 7 June 2025

Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth

Heap Earth Upon It

by Chloe Michelle Howarth

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Labels: Chloe Michelle Howarth, contemporary fiction, Gothic, historical fiction, Ireland, Irish fiction, netgalley, VERVE Books

Sunday, 1 June 2025

The Homecoming by Zoë Apostolides

The Homecoming

by Zoë Apostolides

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Labels: contemporary fiction, debut novel, England, folk horror, ghost story, Gothic, horror, netgalley, Salt Publishing, Zoë Apostolides

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Lotería : Stories

by Cynthia Pelayo

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Cynthia Pelayo, Edelweiss, folk horror, Gothic, horror, Latin America, myth, short stories, Union Square & Co

Monday, 19 May 2025

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

The Empusium

by Olga Tokarczuk

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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Labels: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, Fitzcarraldo Editions, folk horror, Gothic, historical fiction, horror, netgalley, Olga Tokarczuk, Poland, Polish fiction

Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin

Good and Evil and Other Stories

by Samanta Schweblin

Translated by Megan McDowell

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Labels: Argentinian fiction, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, horror, Megan McDowell, netgalley, Pan Macmillan, Picador, Samanta Schweblin, short stories, short story, speculative fiction, weird fiction

Monday, 31 March 2025

Greater Sins by Gabrielle Griffiths

Greater Sins

by Gabrielle Griffiths

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Labels: contemporary fiction, debut novel, Doubleday, folk horror, Gabrielle Griffiths, historical fiction, Random House UK, Scotland, Transworld Digital

Tuesday, 18 March 2025

The Secret Life of Insects by Bernardo Esquinca

The Secret Life of Insects

by Bernardo Esquinca

Translated by James D. Jenkins

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Labels: Bernardo Esquinca, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, folk horror, horror, James D. Jenkins, Latin America, Mariana Enríquez, speculative fiction, Valancourt Books

Sunday, 16 March 2025

Struck Down, Not Destroyed by Colleen Dulle

Struck Down, Not Destroyed

Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter

by Colleen Dulle

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Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

Ordinary Saints

by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

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Labels: Bonnier Books UK, Catholicism, coming of age, contemporary fiction, debut novel, Irish fiction, Manilla Press, netgalley, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

Monday, 17 February 2025

I Hear You

by Paul McVeigh

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Labels: contemporary fiction, netgalley, Northern Ireland, Paul McVeigh, Salt Publishing, short stories, short story

Saturday, 15 February 2025

Old Soul

by Susan Barker

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Gothic, horror, netgalley, Penguin, speculative fiction, supernatural, Susan Barker, thriller

Thursday, 6 February 2025

Filli ma tcun xein, filli tithol fl’esistenza by Immanuel Mifsud

Filli ma tcun xein, filli tithol fl’esistenza

by Immanuel Mifsud

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Immanuel Mifsud, Klabb Kotba Maltin, Malta, Maltese fiction, Maltese literature, memory and time

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Festive Horrors

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Labels: Adam Macqueen, Christmas, contemporary fiction, folk horror, ghost story, Gothic, horror, Ray Newman, short stories, speculative fiction, Swift Press, urban Gothic

Monday, 3 February 2025

Days of Light

by Megan Hunter

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Labels: contemporary fiction, historical fiction, Megan Hunter, netgalley, Pan Macmillan, Picador

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In “Flower Hunters”, one of the stories in this collection, an angst-ridden mother finds some solace in reading about William Bartram, an 18th century naturalist who, like her had once been “a northerner dazzled by the frenzied flora and...

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

In Haruki Murakami's After Dark we meet Eri, an attractive young woman who has decided to “go to sleep”, and who lies in bed in a sort of suspended animation, a cross between a latter-day Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. Murakami's is a m...

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The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat & Other Stories from the North

The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat & Other Stories from the North

by Sjón

Stories from “the North”, proclaims the cover of this anthology. But what are we to understand by “the North”? For the purposes of this collection, co-editors Sjón (Sigurjón B. Sigurðsson) and Ted Hodgkinson have harvested short stories ...

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