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Sunday, 6 September 2026

Servants to the King by Marion Scott

Servants to the King

by Marion Scott

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Labels: crime fiction, Dead Ink Books, dystopian fiction, Eden Book Society, Gothic, Marion Scott, Nina Allan, Robert W. Chambers, speculative fiction, urban Gothic, weird fiction

Monday, 29 June 2026

An Attempted Bibliography of the Works of Barbara Livesey by Stephen George Wallis

An Attempted Bibliography

of the Works of Barbara Livesey

by Stephen George Wallis

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Labels: contemporary fiction, Dead Ink Books, Eden Book Society, horror, novella, speculative fiction, Stephen George Wallis, weird fiction

Sunday, 31 May 2026

Il Custode by Niccolò Ammaniti

Il Custode

by Niccolò Ammaniti

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Labels: coming of age, contemporary fiction, Einaudi, Italian fiction, Italy, myth, mythology, Niccolò Ammaniti, Sicily, speculative fiction

Saturday, 14 March 2026

Solace House

by Will Maclean

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Labels: coming of age, contemporary fiction, folk horror, Gothic, Grove Atlantic, haunted house, horror, memory and time, netgalley, speculative fiction, Will Maclean

Sunday, 25 January 2026

Broken Ground (Uncertain Stories - Volume 1)

Broken Ground

Uncertain Stories - Volume 1

Rob Redman (Editor), Lucy Scott (Illustrator)

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Labels: contemporary fiction, ghost story, horror, Lucy Scott, Rob Redman, short stories, speculative fiction, The Fiction Desk, Uncertain Stories, weird fiction

Saturday, 17 January 2026

The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung

The Midnight Timetable

by Bora Chung

Translated by Anton Hur

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Labels: Anton Hur, Bora Chung, contemporary fiction, Dialogue Books, fiction in translation, ghost story, horror, Korea, speculative fiction, weird fiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, 14 December 2024

Of The Flesh : 18 Stories of Modern Horror

Of The Flesh

18 Stories of Modern Horror

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Labels: contemporary fiction, HarperCollins, horror, netgalley, short stories, speculative fiction, The Borough Press

Monday, 22 July 2024

Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley

Barrowbeck

by Andrew Michael Hurley

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Labels: Andrew Michael Hurley, contemporary fiction, folk horror, historical fiction, horror, John Murray, netgalley, short stories, speculative fiction, weird fiction

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

A Sunny Place for Shady People

by Mariana Enríquez

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Labels: Argentina, Argentinian fiction, contemporary fiction, fiction in translation, folk horror, ghost story, horror, Mariana Enríquez, netg, short stories, speculative fiction, weird fiction

Sunday, 16 June 2024

The Lady of the Mine by Sergei Lebedev

The Lady of the Mine

by Sergei Lebedev

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis

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Labels: Antonina W. Bouis, contemporary fiction, Edelweiss, fiction in translation, New Vessel Press, Russian fiction, Sergei Lebedev, speculative fiction, supernatural

Sunday, 26 May 2024

The Echoes

by Evie Wyld

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Labels: Australia, contemporary fiction, Evie Wyld, ghost story, Gothic, Jonathan Cape, London, netgalley, Random House UK, speculative fiction, Vintage Books

Monday, 8 April 2024

Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Count Luna

by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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Labels: 20th Century fiction, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, classics, crime fiction, fiction in translation, netgalley, Penguin, speculative fiction, thriller

Monday, 19 February 2024

Le cose che abbiamo perso nel fuoco by Mariana Enríquez

Le cose che abbiamo perso nel fuoco

by Mariana Enríquez

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Labels: Argentina, Argentinian fiction, Fabio Cremonesi, Feltrinelli, fiction in translation, folk horror, ghost story, horror, Mariana Enríquez, Marsilio, South American fiction, speculative fiction, weird fiction

Saturday, 30 December 2023

We Are Together Because by Kerry Andrew

We Are Together Because

by Kerry Andrew

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Labels: Atlantic Books, coming of age, contemporary fiction, dystopian fiction, Kerry Andrew, netgalley, post-apocalyptic, speculative fiction

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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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