Watch for Kirkus’ in-depth columns on The Woman in Cabin 10, a Netflix movie based on Ruth Ware’s bestselling psychological thriller and starring Keira Knightley (premiering October 10), and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, a theatrical film adaptation of Warren Zanes' nonfiction book starring The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White (premiering October 24). Here are four more book-to-screen adaptations coming soon:

October 10: Fairyland (theatrical film premiere)

Journalist and critic Alysia Abbott, in her 2013 memoir, tells of growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s and ’80s with her father, the widowed gay poet Steve Abbott, who edited the influential journal Poetry Flash. The pair had a difficult relationship, in part because Steve worked constantly, and they moved frequently. The adolescent author also found it difficult to accept being the child of a gay parent: “His queerness became my weakness, my Achilles’ heel,” she writes. “Not only might it open me up to possible ridicule and rejection, it was something I could not contain. Fine, I thought, if Dad was gay, he was gay! But did he have to look so gay? And in public?” By the time she went off to college in New York, her relationship with her dad had improved—but then their lives were upended when Steve developed AIDS. This new movie adaptation, written and directed by Andrew Durham, has a promising cast, including CODA’s Emilia Jones as the teenage Alysia; Oscar-winner Geena Davis as Alysia’s grandmother, Munca; and the excellent Scoot McNairy, who co-starred in the underseen AMC show Halt and Catch Fire, as Steve.

October 24: Regretting You (theatrical film premiere)

Colleen Hoover’s bestselling Kirkus-starred 2016 novel, It Ends With Us, was made into a successful film last year, and fans of her work can look forward to movies based on Reminders of Him and Verity in 2026. In the meantime, they may enjoy this film adaptation of Hoover’s 2019 novel Regretting You, starring Allison Williams (Girls) and Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Afterlife). In the book, stay-at-home mom Morgan and her teenage daughter, Clara, struggle after Morgan’s husband and sister die in a car accident—a tragedy that leads to the revelation of distressing secrets. Director Josh Boone knows his way around high-intensity drama, as he previously helmed the movie version of John Green’s Kirkus-starred 2012 YA novel, The Fault in Our Stars. Williams and Grace are fine actors, as are supporting players Willa Fitzgerald (Dare Me), Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist), and veteran character actor Clancy Brown—all sure to make this film worth a watch.

October 26: Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order (series premiere, AMC)

The Talamasca, a secret society of psychic detectives, was introduced in Anne Rice’s 1988 vampire novel, The Queen of the Damned, and went on to appear in 12 other works—including 1990’s The Witching Hour, which inspired the AMC series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches. This new show shares a fictional universe with Witches, as well as with Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, which made our list of the best adaptations of 2022. It follows the adventures of Guy Anatole (Dangerous Liaisons’ Nicholas Denton), a new recruit to the organization, which tracks vampires, witches, and werewolves. Horror fiction aficionados may be reminded of Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series, which similarly melded spy fiction tropes with the paranormal, but this show is squarely aimed at fans of Rice’s work; Daniel Molloy, the interviewer from Interview, even makes an appearance in the trailer. As in the Interview show, he’s played by the great Eric Bogosian, and the rest of the Talamasca cast is similarly appealing, including Oscar nominee Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), and Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore).

October 26: It: Welcome to Derry (series premiere, HBO)

This new HBO series acts as a prequel to the films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), which drew on Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel, set in the small town of Derry, Maine. A shapeshifting paranormal entity appears there every 27 years to feed on townsfolk, mostly children; in both the novel and films, a group of kids manages to defeat the monster, whom they call “It,” only to face it again when they’re adults. This new show delves into the backstory of the town and the creature. The first season is set in 1962—notably, 27 years before the events of the first film—and centers on the Hanlon family, who are newcomers to Derry. The Leftovers’ Jovan Adepo plays a younger version of Leroy Hanlon, a minor character in the It film; the cast also includes Gotham’s Chris Chalk as Derry resident Dick Hallorann, whom King aficionados will recognize as the telepathic chef in the 1976 novel The Shining. (The lively trailer also includes a reference to Shawshank State Prison, which has appeared in several King novels and stories.) Andy Muschietti, who directed the previous films, will helm several episodes, and Bill Skarsgård returns as It, making this a must-see for fans of the bard of Bangor.

David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.