I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

John Scalzi, The Dispatcher: Murder by Other Means:( when murder isn't fatal, what do the criminals do? )
Stephen King, Later: ( he sees dead people )
Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead: ( he talks to dead people )
Ben Aaronovitch, What Abigail Did That Summer: ( magic shenanigans )
Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry: ( why do all these humans keep getting murdered? )
C.L. Polk, Stormsong: ( magic weather )
KJ Charles, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting: ( marriage and the alternatives )
David Wong, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick: ( if this goes on, social media x mafia )
Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education: ( it eats you starting from your bottom )
Genevieve Cogman, The Dark Archive:( at last )
Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians: ( hunt gone wrong )
Stephen King & Joe Hill, In the Tall Grass: ( bad things happen )
N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became: ( sentient cities )
Cherie Priest, I Am Princess X: ( visitation from beyond the grave? )
Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: Salem’s Lot meets The Stepford Wives, sort of. ( Read more... )
Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland: ( the monster is you )
Daryl Gregory, The Album of Dr. Moreau:( animal/human hybrids in a boy band )

Am what a school friend of mine would call "in a bad head."  Will get through it; if you give me fic prompts I'll see if I can shake off the funk & do something, even if it's just a sentence or two from the resulting story.
( Fairy tales, Bujold, Martin, Wong )