Category: Literature & Comic

The final Talisman novel connects an American outbreak with a force approaching Mid-World.

Jack Sawyer’s problem in Other Worlds Than These extends across the boundary between worlds. The official synopsis identifies two dangers: infected teenagers in America and forces associated with the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World. Their reach threatens more than either location alone. Stephen King’s official book page and publisher synopsis.

That scope changes the circumstances of a character first introduced as a twelve-year-old trying to save his mother. The Talisman sent Jack across America and its counterpart, the Territories. Black House later brought him into conflict with a child killer and the Crimson King.

The third novel returns to an older Jack whose ka-tet, or group of companions, is coming apart. The synopsis pairs that weakening group with a task involving the survival of multiple worlds. His relationships are therefore part of the circumstances of the mission, alongside its opposing forces.

The official page identifies the book as the conclusion to Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Talisman trilogy. Scribner lists the 624-page novel in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook editions, with an October 6, 2026 publication date. Stephen King’s official book page and publisher synopsis.

Tiffany D. Jackson’s young investigator cannot initially tell whether her camera has recorded a ghost or a hoax.

A photograph gives Harmony Roundtree something to investigate without settling what she has seen. In Tiffany D. Jackson’s Ghost in the Night, an image taken during a Savannah ghost tour could show a supernatural presence—or a deception. The uncertainty is the starting point. Tiffany D. Jackson’s official story description.

Harmony is twelve when she travels to Georgia with her father, a blues musician working a summer engagement. Jackson’s description places them in a community already troubled by the unresolved disappearance of a local boy. Harmony brings her own losses with her and wants to believe that ghost stories might contain something real.

Scholastic’s synopsis describes the investigation as a collaboration with two new friends. Following the image draws them toward evidence of an unsolved murder. What begins as a question about a picture becomes a question about people’s actions and concealed information. Scholastic’s synopsis and edition details.

The premise keeps two uncertainties in view: whether the photograph is authentic and what crime the young investigators are approaching. Neither the camera nor the tour provides an immediate answer. Scholastic lists the novel as a 288-page middle-grade book. Tiffany D. Jackson’s official story description. Scholastic’s synopsis and edition details.

Black Spot Books’ annual reprint series groups three forms of horror writing within the same calendar-year selection.

Fiction is only one part of The Year’s Best from Women in Horror. Black Spot Books defines the annual anthology’s scope to include nonfiction and poetry, placing writing about horror alongside narrative and poetic work within the genre. Black Spot Books’ description of the anthology’s scope and schedule.

Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. Wytovich are editing the series. Its first volume is planned for spring 2028 and will select material originally published during 2026, with an introduction by Lisa Morton. The publication year of the source material, rather than the anthology’s release year, defines that first selection.

The reprint format addresses a practical feature of literary publishing: individual pieces can be scattered across magazines, small presses, digital publications, and limited-run anthologies. Black Spot identifies preservation of that work as part of the project’s purpose.

The collection’s title describes its editors’ selection. As of the publisher’s October 28 outline, the contributor list has not been supplied. What is established is the structure: an annual volume bringing several forms of previously published writing by women into one place. Black Spot Books’ description of the anthology’s scope and schedule.

The Dark Horse volume pairs archival writing with new illustrations, a new cover, and an introduction.

Joe Bob Fights for the Drive-In draws from more than one earlier book. Its contents include writing from Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In and Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In, alongside columns that have not previously appeared in a book collection. Dark Horse’s contents and edition details via its distributor.

The distinction is between previously collected work and writing returning from other publication contexts. Dark Horse’s description places the material across Joe Bob Briggs’s early drive-in years and identifies the older collections with the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The new edition changes the visual presentation around that archive. Mike Norton supplies illustrations, Eric Powell provides the cover, and Wayne Newton writes the introduction. The publisher specifies an oversized nine-by-twelve-inch hardcover format.

Dark Horse lists the 240-page volume for July 20, 2027. The book brings those separate strands into one edition: material from existing collections, additional archival columns, and new visual material. Dark Horse’s contents and edition details via its distributor.

BOOM!’s collection gathers a six-issue story in which the Cenobites’ system itself comes under attack.

Pinhead’s task in Hellraiser Legacy: Pinhead is to preserve a system. The Aggregate, an ancient enemy of Hell, returns to disrupt the order maintained by the Cenobites. An ambush leaves the Hell Priest as the figure able to oppose it. BOOM!’s synopsis, contents, and creator credits via its distributor.

The publisher’s synopsis links that order to more than Hell alone: Heaven and Earth also depend on its rules. The conflict consequently places Pinhead in a defensive role, with the collapse of that arrangement providing the threat around him.

The collection reprints Pinhead #1–6, the character’s solo comics series that began in 1993. Clive Barker receives the creator credit; D.G. Chichester and Erik Saltzgaber are the credited writers, with Dario Carrasco among the artists.

BOOM! lists the 192-page paperback and ebook for January 12, 2027. Its organizing story is a battle over the continued existence of the Cenobites’ order, seen through a character who ordinarily represents its enforcement. BOOM!’s synopsis, contents, and creator credits via its distributor.

Titan’s John A. Russo edition follows an accidental release that carries the threat beyond a workplace.

The danger in Return of the Living Dead begins with something stored at work. Foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a military experiment kept in a supply warehouse. An accidental gas release turns that demonstration into an outbreak. Titan Books’ edition synopsis and specifications.

Titan’s synopsis follows the consequences into Louisville, Kentucky, as the gas reanimates corpses. Frank and Freddy have to contend with a problem that has escaped the building where it started. Their boss and a mortician become part of the struggle to survive.

The edition is credited to John A. Russo, whose work in the broader Living Dead history includes co-writing Night of the Living Dead and adapting it into a novel. Titan’s author biography also records his involvement in the earlier Return screenplay and book before Dan O’Bannon’s 1985 film. Titan Books’ John A. Russo biography.

Titan lists this 208-page hardcover for March 30, 2027, in both the US and UK. The catalog identifies it as Return of the Living Dead: The Official Novelization, ISBN 9781807590246. Titan Books’ edition synopsis and specifications.

Lone Gunman and Fox Mask Killer follow different routes beyond the original Oak Valley storyline.

Leaving Oak Valley does not end the story of Exquisite Corpses. Its expanding comics line moves both forward and backward from the original contest: Lone Gunman follows survivors, while Fox Mask Killer examines a participant’s earlier life.

James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s original series places a competition arranged by wealthy families inside an inhabited town. Twelve killers enter Oak Valley, Maine, on Halloween. Winning matters to the competitors; for the residents, the immediate problem is surviving a contest they did not choose to host. Image Comics’ first-volume synopsis.

Lone Gunman begins two years after those events. Laura, Xavi, and Jason have attempted to build a life elsewhere, but the history attached to the golden mask threatens them again. The first issue credits writer Pornsak Pichetshote, artist Alberto Ponticelli, colorist Jordie Bellaire, and letterer Becca Carey. Image lists it for November 4, 2026. Lone Gunman’s premise and credits.

Fox Mask Killer approaches the shared setting from another direction. Its central assassin wants to escape her work, and the possibility of leaving leads into her backstory. Che Grayson writes the miniseries, with Adam Gorham, Jordie Bellaire, and Becca Carey on the creative team. Its first issue was published September 16, 2026. Fox Mask Killer’s premise and credits.

The two premises distinguish aftermath from origin. One asks what follows survival; the other considers how a killer’s past leads toward the role already established in the main series. Image Comics’ first-volume synopsis. Lone Gunman’s premise and credits. Fox Mask Killer’s premise and credits.

Christina Ferko’s novel follows a teenager receiving messages that seem to come from both a dead friend and herself.

The disturbing recordings in Feed Me to the Water use Madison’s own voice. That detail complicates a haunting she initially associates with Sadie, the best friend who drowned in front of her. Madison is sixteen and blames herself for being unable to save her. Sourcebooks’ synopsis and publication details.

Christina Ferko’s novel moves Madison to her aunt’s Georgia home for the summer. There, she hears Sadie’s voice, finds messages on a mirror, and discovers recordings on her phone. Gaps in her memory make it harder for the character to account for what she is experiencing.

The nearby swamp introduces another possible source of the threat. As Madison explores it with Wyatt, a neighbor, something in the water draws her toward it. The publisher’s premise leaves her facing a question of identity: whether the presence pursuing her is connected to Sadie at all.

Sourcebooks Fire lists the 400-page novel for February 2, 2027. Its mystery connects the voices Madison hears with the presence in the water. Sourcebooks’ synopsis and publication details.