Gilded Age gothics, dark-academia murder, necromancy in Victorian London and long-awaited sequels share one shelf here. The year's fantasy, two covers at a time.
1Angel CountryAlex T. Singer's October 2026 cosmic-horror fantasy about a scientist who claws out of her own grave in an alternate 1904 to chase the partner who stole her angel-communication prototype.
2The Scarlet BallNghi Vo's October 2026 Gilded Age gothic, in which a former convent girl takes a missing heiress's face to enter New York's Four Hundred and its rituals of demonic marriage.
3Bodies of MagicFreya Marske's September 2026 dark-academia fantasy, where five healer-mages must solve a classmate's murder during their five-day Grand Exam.
4A Dance of Burning BladesThe August 2026 second book of M. H. Ayinde's Invoker Trilogy, an epic of warring clans and ancestor magic across the Nine Lands.
5Misery's WifeJoan Tierney's July 2026 queer reimagining of a Portuguese folktale, about a young trans woman setting out to rescue her sister from the King of Misery.
6The Halls of the DeadS. M. Hallow's August 2026 queer gothic novel set in a necromancy-tinged 1849 London, where a necromancer tries to raise the woman she loves.
7Steel GodsRichard Swan's March 2026 dark fantasy from Orbit, the second novel of the Great Silence trilogy after Grave Empire.
8Dead BeatLeigh Bardugo's September 2026 third Alex Stern novel, continuing the occult series set among Yale's secret societies.
9The Thrice-Bound FoolChristopher Buehlman's October 2026 second Blacktongue novel, the follow-up to The Blacktongue Thief.
10The Dawn ThroneTara Sim's June 2026 installment of the Dark Gods series from Orbit, following the heirs as they pick up the pieces of their lives.
