"Something old and dangerous is waking" in Natasha Pulley's apocalyptic fantasy novel, The Salt King, about miraculous occurrences and sinister threats in an English mining village. Ancient and eldritch horrors similarly haunt a seaside Korean village in Kim Bo-Young's "eerie" speculative novella, A Plagued Sea, where a virus unleashes a catastrophe of Lovecraftian proportions. Meanwhile cosmic and body horror loom over a strange family's isolated island home in Hannah Whitten's "unsettling" gothic venture, Reliquary. If you're in need of a chill right down to the bone here at the ragged end of a long, hot summer, take a plunge into one of these!
--Dave Wheeler, senior editor, Shelf Awareness