Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it's his destiny to save the world, he dives in head...

Half orc. All badass. A female chieftain in a brutal wasteland society fights to take what is hers in an action-packed, foul-mouthed fantasy adventure from the author of The Grey Bastards ("Nonstop action, though not for faint hearts."--The Wall Street Journal). Fetching was once...

Dark incantations expose the minds of Miskatonic University students to supernatural horrors, in this chilling mystery novel of Arkham Horror The mysterious disappearance of a gifted student at Miskatonic University spurs his troubled roommate, Elliot Raslo, into an investigation of his own. But Elliot...

A World Fantasy Award Nominee!The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel...

Gladiator. Assassin. Thief. Princess. And the Slave. The Five Warrior Angels have been revealed, one by one the mystical weapons they once wielded are being found, and an ancient prophecy is finally being fulfilled. Or is it? For when it comes to recorded history,...

Jeremy Shipp brings you THE ATROCITIES, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer. But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez...

Cursed to take lives for the God of Death. Sorcerers must give up things and people they love, or accept things they despise, to gain magical power. The sorcerer Bib saves his daughter by accepting a curse to murder people, and only Death knows...

The fifth book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us."The only thing more fun than an October Daye book...

Winner of The SCKA 2022 for Best DebutShortlisted for the Kavya PrizeLonglisted for the British Science Fiction AwardsShortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel & Best NewcomerCould you condemn one child to save another?In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change...

One doesn't have to be human, to have humanity...In 1832 England, to fall from the peerage is the kiss of death. Yet penniless Mordecai Dureance still has a life worth living: an honest vocation and a humble cottage where he, his new bride, Lynora,...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLA Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasy In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the...

Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women...

An order of magical-knife wielding female assassins brings both peace and chaos to their post-apocalyptic world in this bewitching blend of science fiction and epic fantasy--the first entry in a debut duology that displays the inventiveness of the works of Sarah Beth Durst and...

"For a long time Sorrowmouth existed as three or four separate ideas in different notebooks until one day, in a flash of divine inspiration, I recognised the common ground they shared with each other. A man trekking from one roadside memorial to another, in...

Taylor Renee Wolford has returned to the city of her birth. Accompanied by the villainous Ari, daughter to the Arbiter, Taylor is set to exchange herself for answers about her past and in so doing get a chance to reunite with the family she...

THE DOOR OF DARKNESS IS CAST OPEN--THE WORLD ADVANCES TO A NEW FIELD The specter of war hangs thick in the air of the Oriana Kingdom, where Princess Rose is expected to wed Duke Perv. This supposed marriage cannot and will not stand, though,...

After Nina senses a push from Spirit, she relocates her coven to Nova, Colorado, a small, snowy mountain town just outside Denver. But when Leo-her most powerful and dangerously gifted witch-decides to stray from the coven's goal for motives of his own, the coven...

A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced. Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood...

Stabby nominated, SPFBO7 Semi-Finalist RINGLANDER: THE PATH AND THE WAY is a fast-paced, epic fantasy adventure full of games, grit and magic. THE PATH AND THE WAY is a coming-of-age, original fantasy adventure with LBGT relationships and a largely female lead cast. It is...

Introduction by Bruce Coville"For the bathroom, for the bedroom, for the bus to work, for that chair in the department store where bored spouses sit while their wives or husbands try on new clothes... this is a perfect way to entertain yourself during idle...

Winner of The SCKA 2022 for Best DebutShortlisted for the Kavya PrizeLonglisted for the British Science Fiction AwardsShortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel & Best NewcomerCould you condemn one child to save another?In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change...

Yig, known as the Serpent God, is older than humanity, and Yig's reptilian Children once ruled the Earth. NowJoin us for a collection of novellas from some modern masters of Neo-Lovecraftian fiction: Peter Rawlik (Reanimator, The Weird Company), Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials...

Even your most deeply buried secrets can find their way back to you.The mysteries of Agatha's past -- which is rife with mythical gods and magical creatures -- threaten to expose themselves when Joseph investigates a noise he hears in the middle of the...

The road to immortality is a long one. With the empire secure, Otto turns his focus west. The first piece of The Immortality Engine lies across the ocean in Lord Colt's Workshop. Complicating Otto's mission, Eddred of Markane already in Colt's Land trying to...

Ruled by tyrants. Hunted by demons. She's ready to fight back.When Halira's parents are slaughtered by the horrifying demons that plague her lands, she joins the Shadow Crusade, a legion of warriors determined to slay the last living Primordial, end its reign of darkness,...

The third book in the acclaimed Carter Archives noir fantasy series returns to the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner. Forbidden magic, murder... and disco. Carter's day keeps getting worse. With the return of spring, new life floods into Titanshade....

Sylvie never called them ghosts, but that's what they were-not that George ever saw them herself. The new girl, Sylvie, is like a creature from another time, with her old-fashioned leather satchel, her white cotton gloves and her head in the clouds. George watches...

"It's not a story." With four words Helena's quiet life goes up in flames. When her childhood friend returns to tell her that she is the prophesied ruler of the Chosen, those blessed with the gift of magic, there's no avoiding her destiny. Suddenly,...

"A compelling, fun, and thought-provoking story of magical adventure, coming of age, sacrifice, and family, with secrets that add a lingering darkness to the entire tale."-- BooklistTwo young witches, once inseparable, are set at odds by secrets and wildly dangerous magicIn the waning days...

Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor...

THE KING IN YELLOW Robert W. Chambers was influenced by Ambrose Bierce and hailed by H. P. Lovecraft. He inspired such authors as Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt and Sax Rohmer. His works have been anthologized over the years in horror collections and his...

PAN'S GARDEN Pan's Garden is a thematic collection of stories which, in the words of the author, "illustrates that characteristic belief, present in all my work, that there exists a definite relationship between Human Beings and Nature." From the opening novella, "The Man Whom...

The third book in The Song of Shattered Sands series--an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. Since the Night of Endless Swords, a bloody battle the Kings of Sharakhai narrowly won, the kings have been hounding the...

Military might and arcane power clash in Django Wexler's thrilling new Shadow Campaigns novel. The Beast, the ancient demon imprisoned beneath the fortress-city of Elysium for a thousand years, has been loosed on the world. It absorbs mind after mind, spreading like a plague...

Keleios the Half-Elf was but five years old when she saw her mother murdered by the evil witch Harque. For years she has asked the gods for the strength she'll need to avenge this foul death, and it seems the gods have answered her....

You die when you die . . . You can't change your fate -- so throw yourself into battle, because you'll either win or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's people believe. But Finn wants to live....

After decades of strife, peace has finally been achieved in Kavet--but at a dark cost. Sorcery is outlawed, and anyone convicted of consorting with the beings of the other realms--the Abyssi and the Numini--is put to death. The only people who can even discuss...

"Ultimately, it is the feminist themes that shine throughout that make this not only a worthwhile read for any fantasy fan, but a series that will stand the test of time. Khan has proved herself a master of the genre by telling a timely,...

From the critically acclaimed author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things comes a hair-raising collection of short fiction that illuminates the strange, humorous, fantastical, and downright diabolical that tantalize and terrorize us: demons, monsters, zombie dinosaurs, and Death itself.In the...

They executed Alvard Lestrange for treason.A necromancer.A wielder of Death Magic.This is the story of his victims, trapped in mundane objects for three centuries.This is the story of the lives they will, unwittingly or maliciously, destroy.12 authors. 12 stories. 12 souls, all caught in...

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator's sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to almost uninhabitable. The sun has killed...

This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away. The rules are strict and absolute: Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit.Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again.Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever. But what...

Author: Lee MandeloISBN-10: 1250790298ISBN-13: 9781250790293Publisher: TordotcomLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2022Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.10d

A woman with no memory of her past. Another unable to forget. Both haunted by a sinister creature of roses and shadow with an unquenchable thirst for royal blood. Return to the world of the Black Rose. ***Volume II in the Tales of the...

Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world. Critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to...

Alanis August went to bed on the night of her 18th birthday and awoke to a battle between her pack and Alpha Raymond. Her parents are both murdered by the ruthless Alpha, and Alpha Raymond takes her prisoner. Alanis is terrified after being kept...

The world of Alda is broken, destroyed by an event the survivors call "The Rupture." The aldyrs, magical trees connected to the soul of the world which once grew in breathtaking groves, are dead. Elf-kind, who shared a close bond with these trees, are...

"I can't stop. After everything they've taken from me, I can't stop." It's time for Ciara to go back to England. To visit old friends. But plans change when England turns out to be more than she was prepared for. Her past and present...

From the creator of the Beautiful Nightmare book series comes a hauntingly enchanting villain origin story. If you enjoy dark fantasy romance, vampires, dark powers and more, dive into the world of Chartreuse Grenoble.Even villains deserve happy endings...Undeniably Female. Unquestionably Feral. Unquenchably Famished.It's been...

When 7-year-old Nathaniel Weaver is kidnapped by his imaginary friend, the only person who can find him is his social worker. Child welfare agent Adrian Montgomery lives a life of routine, reason, and careful compartmentalization. But his search for Nathaniel leads him through a...