Nordic Nightmares: The Best of Nordic Horror, edited by Margrét Helgadóttir (Solaris, November 3)

Twenty nightmarish horror tales featuring folkloric beasts, apocalyptic disasters, and psychological terrors are brought together in a collection sure to keep readers up at night, from the very best voices in contemporary Nordic fiction.

Behind the Gate and Other Stories by Amparo Dávila, translated from the Spanish (Mexico) by Matthew Gleeson and Audrey Harris (New Directions, November 3)

Written in sharp, impressionistic prose steeped in horror, Amparo Dávila’s stories are tiny nightmares come to life. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who shows, sometimes in just a few pages, that the narrow line between sanity and madness is even finer than it had seemed at first glance, and that anyone could be one false move away from their doom.

Living in Fire: A Post-Exotic Novel by Antoine Volodine, translated from the French by Lia Swope Mitchell (University of Minnesota Press, November 17)

A soldier engulfed in napalm suspends his death by composing a family saga in which he learns to live within the flames.

Virus: Annotated for Today’s Global Digital Humans (and Aliens) by Jayant V. Narlikar, translated from the Marathi by the author, edited by Sami Ahmad Khan (MIT Press, November 17)

A critical, annotated version of Narlikar’s iconic novel about a cybervirus attack by an advanced alien species—with updated text and added material.

On the Calculation of Volume (Book V) by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions, November 17)

It’s been a while since Tara Selter was all alone in her repeating November day. It’s been even longer since she was one half of a unit called T&T Selter, an antiquarian book dealership she ran with her beloved husband Thomas. Her hazy days of confusion are behind her, and so are her desperate and doomed attempts to reattach herself to linear time. Tara has begun to settle into a new life, with new habits, and new people, and so have the many other time-trapped individuals who have joined her along the way. And yet we can’t help but wonder whether she and her fellow travelers will ever find their way out of a trap so inexplicable and profound—and will they even still want to? In Balle’s hands the time loop becomes a parable of loss, longing, marital loneliness, and our own mortality. With gradual, breathtaking power, Balle deftly explores a series of existential and philosophical questions, and grapples with the form of the novel itself, charging full steam ahead in reinventing and reinvigorating its possibilities. And now we’ve arrived at the thrilling fifth book of Solvej Balle’s septology.

Blood to the True Crown by Sung-il Kim, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Tor Books, November 17)

The fate of the world will be decided in Blood to the True Crown, the epic conclusion to the Bleeding Empire trilogy, from award-winning Korean author Sung-il Kim and translated by the world-renowned Anton Hur.