Locus

Strange Horizons 5/4/26, 5/11/26, 5/18/26
Lightspeed 6/26
Kaleidotrope Spring ’26

The three stories published in Strange Horizons in May are all quite different in mood and style, but in one way or another, they are all about outsiders, sometimes seemingly monstrous ones, trying to find their place in a world that is alien, or hostile, to them.

In Senescence by aegor ray, an alien creature arrives in a …Read More

Lovecraft’s Brood, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tachyon, 978-1616964627, trade paperback, 320pp, $18.95) July 2026

As always, anthologist Ellen Datlow finds a fresh and intriguing hook on which to hang a many-colored-coat of new stories. Assuming an anthologist begins by wanting to honor Lovecraft’s seminal work, should she simply put together another collection of Cthulhu Mythos stories, specifically invoking the Elder Gods, the streets of Providence, and the ruins of R’lyeh, …Read More

The League of Dangerous Young Ladies, J.A. Morgenstein (Stonefruit Studio 978-1-464-23854-3, $19.99, 368pp, hc) June 2026.

J.A. Morgenstein’s A League of Dangerous Young Ladies is full of swashbuckling adventure involving Count Dracula, a mysterious orb, a collection of human/insect hybrids on a deadly quest to gain control of said orb, and the young ladies of the title who formerly attended a most unusual boarding school and now are fending for …Read More

Scion, James Islington (Saga Press 978-1-66823-924-7, 240pp, $28.00, hc). September 2026.

As James Islington’s new cyberpunk novel Scion opened, I was expecting a heist or heist-adjacent novel: After all, the narrator was breaking into a well-fortified residence, and being given rough treatment by a ten-foot-tall Argos with more eyes and arms than seems reasonable. Soon, however, it’s revealed that Azure is an assassin rather than a thief – and their …Read More

Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, David M. Brinley & Amanda T. Zehnder, eds. (University of Delaware Press, 978-16-445-34052, $44.95, 172pp, hc) October 2025. Front cover by Edmund Dulac, rear cover by José Segrelles.

The Korshak family’s world-class collection of fantastic art illustrations has been curated into a thoughtful dust-jacketed volume on glossy paper that not only celebrates the history of fantastic art over …Read More