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All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

Featuring folk horror, body horror, vampires, demons, literal hellscapes, and lots of haunted houses
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
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The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

Featuring first books from Matthew Aldrich, Nneoma Ike-Njoku, Desirée de Fez, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, and Sophia Huneycutt
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The Best International Fiction of The Month: October 2026

Indonesian noir, Caribbean gothic, Bolivian thrills, Argentine horror, and a psychodrama in Spain

All the Horror Fiction We've Recommended This Fall (So Far)

By Molly Odintz

Olivia Blacke's Favorite Halloween-Themed Reads (Plus a Haunted Bookstore Tour)

By Olivia Blacke

Harry Hunsicker on Transforming Grief into Conflict in Crime Fiction

By Harry Hunsicker

The Real Sherlock Holmes: How an Edinburgh Doctor Inspired Doyle's Detective

By Lindsey Fitzharris

Natalie Kikic on Croatian Folklore, Female Rage, and Writing a Gothic Novel

By Natalie Kikić

Matthew Gavin Frank on Kim Wall and the Ethics of Sensationalistic True Crime

By Matthew Gavin Frank

Paige Shelton on What Bones Can and Can't Reveal in Mysteries

By Paige Shelton

There's a "true crime concert documentary" about David Byrne

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Backlist: Sarah Weinman on a Classic Domestic Thriller, 'The Hours Before Dawn'

By Polly Stewart

Queer Crime Writers Presents: LGBTQIA+ Crime Fiction to Check Out This Fall

By Queer Crime Writers

The Best Debut Crime Novels of the Month: October 2026

By Molly Odintz

Which international thriller should you stream this weekend?

By Radha Vatsal

7 crime writers talk about novels and short stories and what they love writing most

By Keith Roysdon

What was the most popular detective play in Victorian England?

By Olivia Rutigliano

Literary Hub

October 21, 2026

On Searching For Nabokov’s Rarest Paperbacks Across America

By Nina Chayka

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of 2026

By Emily Temple

Why Are So Many Contemporary Novelists Not Naming the Narrator?

By Ilana Bean

Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America

By Jean-Pierre Laffont and Eliane Laffont

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