Pine Deep News Today

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

For whatever quirky reason, August 2023 is particularly robust on two fronts: short-story collections, and retellings that shed new light on familiar characters from myths and history. That said, this month’s list is simply huge (70 titles!) and also has plenty of epic fantasy and sci-fi—as well as some truly original ideas, like a tale involving sentient tornadoes. Read on!

As summer winds down, there are new titles on the way from Alice Hoffman, R.A. Salvatore, Jonathan Maberry, Josh Malerman, and many more.

People are the amalgamation of their memo­ries and experiences, and Jonathan Maber­ry’s Ink explores what happens when we lose our most important memories. A sprawling, dark narrative made up of the interwoven stories of a set of misfits that struggle to get by, Ink is a moody horror novel that deals with grief, anger, guilt, and Otherness in a small town. Patty Trang, known as Patty Cakes, is a Viet­namese tattoo artist living in the small town of Pine Deep. She runs a tattoo shop she o...