The View From Monday - October 30, 2017

Happy last Monday in October and Happy Halloween Eve! We had a very windy and wet storm yesterday into this morning. It's still raining but the wind has died down some. School was cancelled here due to power outages and impassible roads. We've had some terrible storms around Halloween including an early Nor'easter that left the area without power for a week. I'm thankful for just a one day wind/rain event and hope everyone's power is back on soon. Obviously this nothing like what our friends in the Caribbean and other areas are going through. If you are so inclined you can head over to Charity Navigator and check out ways to donate to Relief for Puerto Rico and Areas Impacted by Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Harvey Relief, and Hurricane Irma Relief.


Please note that I am not including November titles in this post. A full list of November books, etc. will be posted on November 1st.


There are two debuts this week:

Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns;

and

The Astonishing Thing by Sandi Ward.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

From formerly featured DAC Authors:

Malice of Crows (The Shadow 3) by Lila Bowen;

Siege Line (Shadow Ops: Gemini Cell 3) by Myke Cole;

New Pompeii (New Pompeii 1) by Daniel Godfrey is out in Mass Market Paperback;

The Trouble With The Twelfth Grave (Charley Davidson 12) by Darynda Jones;

A Darker Shade of Magic Collector's Edition (Shades of Magic 1) by V. E. Schwab;

and

Eagle and Empire (The Clash of Eagles Trilogy 3) by Alan Smale is out in Mass Market Paperback.

Clicking on a novel's cover will take you to its Amazon page.

Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.

October 31, 2017

TITLE	AUTHOR	SERIES
Time After Time	Karl Alexander	SF/TT/SP/Th
Shattered Memories	V.C. Andrews	Gothic - The Mirror Sisters Series 3
How Fear Departed the Long Gallery: A Ghost Story for Christmas	E. F. Benson	GH/LF/SupTh - Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
The Empty House: A Ghost Story for Christmas	Algernon Blackwood	GH/LF/SupTh - Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
Malice of Crows	Lila Bowen	F - The Shadow 3
The Golden Gate (h2mm)	Robert Buettner	SF
The Fall of Dragons	Miles Cameron	F - The Traitor Son Cycle 5
Dawn in Damnation	Clark Casey	H
Siege Line	Myke Cole	MF - Shadow Ops: Gemini Cell 3
Vacation	Matthew Costello	H
The Official Supernatural Coloring Book: Monsters, Demons, and Spirits	Insight Editions	CB
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught (h2mm)	Eric Flint	AH - Ring of Fire 21
The Final Day (h2mm)	William R. Forstchen	Th/SF/AP/PA - John Matherson 3
The Rift Frequency	Amy S. Foster	SF - The Rift Uprising Trilogy 2
Halloween Carnival Volume 5 (e)	Brian James Freeman (Ed)	H - Anthology
Dark Screams: Volume Eight	Brian James Freeman (Ed) Richard Chizmar (Ed)	H - Dark Screams 8
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier	Mark Frost	SupTh/MTI - Twin Peaks
New Pompeii (tp2mm)	Daniel Godfrey	SF - New Pompeii 1
The Silent War (tp2mm)	Laurie Goulding (Ed)	SF - The Horus Heresy 37
Shadows in the Night & Never Sleep with Strangers	Heather Graham	R/Gothic/PsyTh
Dead Man Walking: A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist (h2tp)	Simon Green	SupM/Occ - An Ishmael Jones Mystery 2
Extinction Biome: Dispersal	Addison Gunn	SF
The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death (h2mm)	Kim Harrison	UF - The Hollows
The Toll House: A Ghost Story for Christmas	W. W. Jacobs	GH/LF/SupTh - Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
The Trouble with Twelfth Grave	Darynda Jones	PM - Charley Davidson 12
The Mongrel Mage	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	F - Saga of Recluce 19
The Parafaith War	L. E. Modesitt Jr.	SF
Gwendy's Button Box: A Novella	Stephen King Richard Chizmar	SupTh
Nightmares & Dreamscapes	Stephen King	H - Collection
Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers	Joe R. Lansdale	H
Dispatch	Bentley Little	H
The Association	Bentley Little	H
The Burning	Bentley Little	H
Joe Ledger: Unstoppable	Jonathan Maberry (Ed) Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Ed)	Th/H - Anthology
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker	Gregory Maguire	LF
Subhuman	Michael McBride	SupTh/SF/AC/H - A Unit 51 Novel 1
Tales from Greystone Bay	Robert McCammon	H
Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors	Adam L. G. Nevill	SpecFic/Sup/H - Collection
When Parallel Lines Meet	Mike Resnick Lezli Robyn Larry Hodges	SF
Cold Spectrum	Craig Schaefer	DF - Harmony Black 4
A Darker Shade of Magic Collector's Edition	V. E. Schwab	HistF - Shades of Magic 1
Heroes and Villains	Lewis Shiner	SF - Collection
First-Person Singularities: Stories	Robert Silverberg	SF - Collection
Eagle and Empire (h2mm)	Alan Smale	F/HistF/AH - The Clash of Eagles Trilogy 3
Extinction Aftermath	Nicholas Sansbury Smith	SF/AP/PA - The Extinction Cycle 6
Barbary Station (D)	R. E. Stearns	SF
Kill Creek	Scott Thomas	GH/SupTh/H
The Astonishing Thing (D)	Sandi Ward	FL/CW/LF
Hard Breaker: A Beauty and Beast Novel	Christine Warren	PNR - Gargoyles Series 6
At the Sign of Triumph (h2mm)	David Weber	SF - Safehold 9
Booke of the Hidden	Jeri Westerson	UF/F/PNR - Booke of the Hidden 1
The Sea King	C. L. Wilson	FR - Mystral 2
Last Year (h2tp)	Robert Charles Wilson	SF/TT/AH

D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator



AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
Fem - Feminist
FL - Family Life
Folklore - Folklore
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
HC - History and Criticism
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MF - Military Fantasy
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Noir - Noir
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PerfArts - Performing Arts
PCM - Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Phil - Philosophy
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Psy - Psychological
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SFR - Science Fiction Romance
SO - Space Opera
SocHis - Social History
SpecFic - Speculative Fiction
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical

Note: Not all genres and formats are found in the books, etc. listed above.