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Revealing the cover of Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan

Happy Halloween! We’re delighted to share the UK cover of Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan, designed by our very own Sam Gretton.

This sequel to Bless Your Heart will be released in Summer 2025. Haven’t read it yet? Grab it in our HallowEEK! eBook sale, and beware spoilers in the blurb below…

For over a hundred years, the Evans women have kept the undead in their strange southeast Texas town from rising. But sometimes the dead rise too quick – and that’s what left Lenore Evans, and her granddaughter Luna, burying Luna’s mother, Grace, and Lenore’s mother, Ducey. Now the only two women left in the Evans family, Luna and Lenore are left rudderless in the wake of the most Godawful Mess to date.

But when the full moon finds another victim, it’s clear their trouble is far from over. Now Lenore, Luna, and the new sheriff ― their biggest ally ― must dig deep down into family lore to uncover what threatens everything they love most. The body count ticks up, the most unexpected dead will rise – and force Lenore and Luna to face the possibility that the undead aren’t the only monsters preying on their small town.

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Solaris to publish horror western Red Rabbit for the UK

Against a red desert background, the cover for RED RABBIT by Alex Grecian

Solaris is delighted to announce the acquisition of Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian for the UK.


A rip-roaring horror romp for fans of Stephen Graham Jones and The Magnificent Seven, Red Rabbit follows an unlikely group racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen stagecoach in pursuit of a witch named Sadie Grace. As their posse grows, so too does the danger, but this hodgepodge crew are determined to get the bounty on Sadie’s head—or die trying.


UK/BC Rights (excluding Canada) were acquired by Chiara Mestieri from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein, in association with The Gernert Company


Red Rabbit will be released in September 2024. Cover design by Sam Gretton.


Author Alex Grecian on the acquisition:


“I’m both proud and incredibly delighted to join Solaris in bringing Red Rabbit to a new readership.”


Acquiring Editor Chiara Mestieri:


“I am so thrilled to be bringing Red Rabbit to the UK! Alex blends the horror and Western genres so cleverly, and I couldn’t tear myself away from the cracking pace and epic scope of its narrative, its quick-witted characters, and the delightfully folky horrors they encounter along the journey. I can’t wait for new readers to saddle up for the ride.”

Alex Grecian is the New York Times bestselling author of The Yard and its sequels The Black Country, The Devil’s Workshop, The Harvest Man, and Lost and Gone Forever, as well as the contemporary thriller The Saint of Wolves and Butchers, and the ebook The Blue Girl. He has also written multiple award-winning graphic novels, including Proof and Rasputin.


For press enquiries please contact Jess Gofton, PR & Marketing Manager: jess.gofton@rebellion.co.uk.

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Revealing the cover of The Unkillable Princess by Taran Hunt!

We’re so excited to share the cover of The Unkillable Princess by Taran Hunt, sequel to beloved 2022 favourite The Immortality Thief, designed by Martin Stiff at Amazing15!

Sean grapples with family – the one he’s found and the one that’s found him – in this rollicking sequel which will hit bookshelves in February 2025.

How far would you go for family?

Having escaped the dangers of the Nameless with the Philosopher Stone data, Sean thought his troubles were over. Until he gets a call for help from his sister Brigid–his long-dead sister.

Brigid is sparse on the details, but she needs Sean to go to the Republican city of Illin to retrieve something called a “Purifier” for her. Reeling from the desperate hope that his sister is alive, Sean aims for Illin, dragging his new companions, Tamara Gupta formerly a Republican soldier, and Indigo, the Minister responsible for the destruction of Sean’s home, into the fray.

But as usual, Sean hasn’t quite thought this through. The three of them are all wanted by Republican authorities, and Illin happens to be on the same planet as Sean’s old friend Senator Ketel. Y’know, the one who blackmailed and nearly murdered Sean. With every move Sean makes he discovers more intrigue, more people on his tail, and more ways that his little adventure could be the spark for war between the Republic and the Ministers. And to what end? Is it really his sister, a chance for family, and safety, on the other side?

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Revealing the cover of Saint Death’s Herald by C. S. E. Cooney!

We’re delighted to be sharing the stunning cover of Saint Death’s Herald by C. S. E. Cooney, designed by the fabulous Kate Forrester!

Sequel to the critically-acclaimed and World Fantasy Award-winning Saint Death’s Daughter, Saint Death’s Herald continues the adventures of necromancer-with-heart, Miscellaneous “Lanie” Stones, and will be released in April 2025.

Miscellaneous “Lanie” Stones is the necromancer that Doédenna, god of Death, has been praying for.

True, she’s always been more interested in books and pastries than in creating abominations and raising armies of the undead. But still—she lives to love and serve Saint Death. And damn it duodecifold, Saint Death needs her! Lanie has many talents—her powers of death magic are growing more complex and stranger every day—but first and foremost is her ability to lay the unrestful dead to their unending slumber.

Unfortunately for Lanie, the most restless of these “unrestful dead” happens to be her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones. After having escaped from his temporary prison, he is possessing people from all over the realms, sucking them dry of their magic and discarding their bodies when there’s nothing left to take, growing stronger and stronger all the time. His ultimate goal? To return to the icy country of Skakmaht, where he died, and finish conquering the North for his own. First the North—then the world! After Irradiant takes care of his pesky great-granddaughter Lanie, that is: the only person on Athe who can stop him.

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Revealing the cover of Sinophagia ed. by Xueting C. Ni

We’re delighted to be sharing the cover of Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror edited and translated by Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon.

With a cover illustrated by 2024 Hugo Award nominee Alyssa Winans, Sinophagia will be released this September and is available to preorder now!

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An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the very first time.

Fourteen dazzling horror stories delve deep into the psyche of modern China in this new anthology curated by acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon.

From the menacing vision of a red umbrella, to the ominous atmosphere of the Laughing Mountain; from the waking dream of virtual working to the sinister games of the locked room… this is a fascinating insight into the spine-chilling voices working within China today – a long way from the traditional expectations of hopping vampires and hanging ghosts.

This ground-breaking collection features both well-known names and bold upcoming writers, including: Hong Niangzi, Fan Zhou, Chu Xidao, She Cong Ge, Chuan Ge, Goodnight, Xiaoqing, Zhou Dedong, Nanpai Sanshu, Yimei Tangguo, Chi Hui, Zhou Haohui, Su Min, Cai Jun, and Gu Shi.

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Revealing the cover of Queen of None by Natania Barron

We’re so delighted to reveal the stunning cover of Queen of None by Natania Barron, designed by Nat Mackenzie!

In the first instalment of her stunning Queens of Fate trilogy, Natania Barron gives a voice to King Arthur’s oft-forgotten sister, Anna Pendragon, in a feminist historical fantasy for fans of The Cleaving and My Name is Morgan.

Anna will be remembered. May 2024.

When Anna Pendragon was born, Merlin prophesied: “Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten.”

Married at twelve, and a mother soon after, Anna – the famed King Arthur’s sister – did not live a young life full of promise, myth, and legend. She bore three strong sons and delivered the kingdom of Orkney to her brother by way of her marriage. She did as she was asked, invisible and useful for her name, her status, her dowry, and her womb.

Twenty years after she left her home, Anna returns to Carelon at Arthur’s bidding, carrying the crown of her now-dead husband, Lot of Orkney. Past her prime and confined to the castle itself, she finds herself yet again a pawn in greater machinations and seemingly helpless to do anything about it.

Anna must once again face the demons of her childhood: her sisters Morgen, Elaine, and Morgause; Merlin and his scheming Avillion priests; and Bedevere, the man she once loved. To say nothing of new court visitors, like Lanceloch, or the trouble concerning her own sons.

Carelon, and all of Braetan, is changing, though, and Anna must change along with it. New threats, inside and out, lurk in the shadows, and a strange power begins to awaken in her. As she learns to reconcile her dark gift, and struggles to keep the power to herself, she must bargain her own strength, and family, against her ambition and thirst for revenge.

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Revealing the paperback cover for The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett!

We’re delighted to bring our #HalfwaytoHalloween celebration to an end by revealing the gorgeous cover for the paperback edition of The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett!

Annihilation meets The Descent in this dual timeline folk horror debut. If you go down to the woods today, you’ll be sure of a big surprise.

The Dark Between the Trees will be out in paperback this October. Cover by Dominic Forbes.

1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood… unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight…

Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will… and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.

Today, five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers. Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood. Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr Christopher’s group enters the wood ready for anything.

Or so they think.

“A memorable, spooky tale.” — The Guardian

“Folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.” — Esquire

“An unsettling and compelling folk horror.” — SFX

“An impressive debut” — The FT

“Surreal and haunting” — Booklist

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Revealing the cover for If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu!

Today we’re so excited to begin our #HalfwaytoHalloween celebration by revealing the cover of our second 2023 Solaris Satellites novella, If Found, Return to Hell by Em X. Liu!

Journeyman Wen’s internship at One Wizard takes a sinister turn when their client is possessed by a demon prince from Hell…

If Found, Return to Hell is out this June!

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yelled at by senior mages and angry clients who’ve been turned into platypuses alike. So when Journeyman Wen receives a frantic call from a young man who’s awoken to a talisman on his bedroom wall and no memory of how it got there, they jump at the chance to escape call center duty and actually help someone for once.

But the case ends up being more complicated than Wen could ever have anticipated. Their client has been possessed by a demon prince from Hell, and he’s not interested in leaving…

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Revealing the UK cover of The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang!

This International Women’s Day we’re beyond excited to reveal the gorgeous UK cover of S. L. Huang’s forthcoming queer wuxia fantasy, The Water Outlaws!

Inspired by the Chinese classic Water Margin, The Water Outlaws is a rich epic fantasy for fans of Shelley Parker-Chan, Ken Liu and Fonda Lee. It’s out in the UK this August and will be available to pre-order very soon!

In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.

Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor’s soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.

Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.

Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan. Mountain outlaws on the margins of society, the Liangshan Bandits proclaim a belief in justice―for women, for the downtrodden, for progressive thinkers a corrupt Empire would imprison or destroy. They’re also murderers, thieves, smugglers, and cutthroats.

Apart, they love like demons and fight like tigers. Together, they could bring down an empire.

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Revealing the cover for Charming by Jade Linwood

We’re delighted to share the stunning cover for Charming by Jade Linwood!

Shrek meets John Tucker Must Die in this tale of three fairy tale princesses seeking revenge on their shared ex, Prince Charming…

Charming will be released in July 2023.

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Brave, Resourceful, Deceitful, Double-Crossing… Charming.

Prince Jean-Marc Charming Arundel, known to friends and enemies alike as “Prince Charming,” is handsome, well-mannered, brave, a peerless swordsman, a cunning tactician – and a liar, a con man and a fraud. For years he has been travelling from one kingdom to the next, rescuing endangered princesses and maidens, securing their troths and his place in their fathers’ palaces, then looting their treasuries and having it away before dawn.

Until a chance meeting of three of his victims – raven-haired Marie Blanche de Neige, the sorceress Doctor Emilia Rapunzel and the long-slumbering Bella Lucia dei’ Sogni – suggests a course of revenge…

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