Stephen King and Peter Straub Headline October's Best Sci-Fi and Horror Releases
New releases include 'Other Worlds than These' by King and Straub, 'Crone' by Keith Rosson, and 'The Eye of Goliath' by Diego Muzzio.
October brings a chilling selection of new science fiction and horror novels, with notable releases including "Other Worlds than These" by Stephen King and Peter Straub, "Crone" by Keith Rosson, and "The Eye of Goliath" by Diego Muzzio.
"Other Worlds than These" returns readers to the Territories, a surreal landscape mirroring our own, populated by gangsters, werewolves, and outdated technology. The narrative follows dimension-hopping protagonist Jack Sawyer as he confronts psychopathic killers and averts an apocalypse. Reviewers describe the novel as stirring, horrifying, and ultimately, a heartbreakingly wonderful read.
Keith Rosson's "Crone" is set in a dark, morally ambiguous Oregon, where ex-cop Eli, a flawed protagonist, works as an enforcer for a local drug lord. Haunted by the loss of his wife and the abduction of his daughter, Eli's search for hope leads him into the woods, where a dreadful and impossible entity, born from the surrounding corruption, guards a profound secret. The novel is lauded for setting new standards within the horror genre.
"The Eye of Goliath" by Diego Muzzio offers a collection of gothic tropes, exploring themes of insanity, obsession, lost diaries, and suppressed memories. The narrative weaves through locations from an Edinburgh madhouse to a Patagonian lighthouse, connecting the explorations of the human soul by Robert Louis Stevenson's father with his own engineering achievements. The story centers on Dr. Edward Pierce, an experimental psychoanalyst treating a mute lighthouse engineer with a compulsive need to swim to exhaustion. The novel is described as a dark, dazzling, and classy addition to Argentinian horror.
