Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Does the need for knowledge balance its burden?Donovan would prefer to die in his bed, but circumstances might force him to do otherwise.When Donovan is tasked with Retrieving a young child thought to be a magus - the most powerful magic user in any...

An old king with nothing left to lose is lured to the site of his greatest victory by a long-forgotten enemy seeking revenge.The last dragon-slayer and the last dragon, brought together with just one anticipated outcome, but what if they have more to ask...

Jake came to Japan because he had a feeling it was where he was supposed to be in life. But the daily routine lacked any real satisfaction. His only source of excitement was Salsa dancing. That was, until he met Kenneth.Kenneth, a pixie operating...

When Mercy McCallister's parents die, she is taken away to a mysterious manor house. There she begins to have strange visions about the past and future. She meets up with Matt, a guy from her school, and the chancellor's son, Nik, who tells her...

The thrilling conclusion to an epic trilogy of dynastic struggles in a world of crystal castles, winged knights, and savage wilderness.THE BATTLEHouse Sapphire has a new leader, but High Lord Vasinidra cannot stand still for a moment. The monsters of the Wild are hunting...

Widow of the Amputation & Other Weird Crimes is a collection of four novellas that explore the madness of murder through the warped lenses of urban noir, science fiction, horror, and experimental fantasy.In Decay in Amber, a convicted rapist and murderer wakes up one...

A REBEL AGAINST ROME Simon of Gitta, an escaped slave turned magician, roves the Roman Empire battling dark magic and demons, all the while pursued by Caesar's soldiers. Join Simon as he flees across the ancient world evading cultists and Legionaries, outwitting sorcerers and...

In true The Da Vinci Code fashion, a taut thriller filled with rival factions vying for control of the truth in a giant global conspiracy. There were giants on the earth in those days--at least that's what the Bible says. But, where are they?...

Underworld Dreams is Daniel Braum's third short story collection of genre transcending, strange stories full of tension between the supernatural and psychological. Within the pages Braum's multi-dimensional characters face dark underworlds and strange experiences that illuminate the human condition and world (we think) we...

Hidden in the mountains, hills, forests, cities, and waterways of West Virginia, numerous monsters and creatures lurk. Discover the Mountain State's cryptids, alien visitors, folk beasts, paranormal entities, and beings of superstition; learn about their daily lives, habitats, diets, family life, anatomy, and more....

An ambitious tale of magic, war, and parallel worlds that pushes the boundaries of epic fantasy--from a two-time Hugo Award winner On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to...

Follow the law and you'll stay safe. But what if the law is wrong? Tashué's faith in the law is beginning to crack. Three years ago, he stood by when the Authority condemned Jason to the brutality of the Rift for non-compliance. When Tashué's...

In the court of Staria, mercy is rarely a blessing...Sabre de Valois is the last of his line. Saved from the gallows while his family hangs for treason, Sabre is given the chance to pay off their debt and clear his family name. To...

Follow the law and you'll stay safe. But what if the law is wrong? Tashué's faith in the law is beginning to crack. Three years ago, he stood by when the Authority condemned Jason to the brutality of the Rift for non-compliance. When Tashué's...

A rebellious queen. A dying king. Etta once thought she wanted Alexandre. Now, she will do anything to save him. She never wanted to be a queen, never thought of restoring her long-dead kingdom. Bela is in ruins, destroyed by years of abandonment and...

The Mist Spreads ...Idunn's apples rendered Odin the god-king of his harsh lands. Now Idunn calls upon him to fulfill a greater destiny: a sojourn to the islands of the gods where he must overthrow those his people have long worshipped.The numerous petty kingdoms...

Badriya has a debt to pay. The beautiful oasis city of Aran lies at the center of the Lost, a desert haunted by ghosts, demons, and Witches of the Lost who prey on unwary souls. Badriya and her mother, having been exiled from their...

Cygna, cursed with a swan's wing in place of one arm, is all that stands between her home and ruination. It is a quest her step-mother hopes she won't survive.The kingdom is withering into a wasteland and a monster from the Underworld is making...

Secret Cave... it remains unknown to everyone for a reason. But when a ghost from Melody's past seeks her out, she realizes she may need to reveal the cave's location to her friends. She is told to journey inside it and find a prophecy....

The thrilling conclusion to the intense Lovecraftian horror of The Mythos War trilogy In Red Right Hand, Charlie Tristan Moore became the unwilling acolyte of The Man In Black, a treacherous elder god also known as Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. In Black Goat Blues,...

Blood will be spilled as a former slave, now a self-made warrior resolves to uncover once and for all the truth about the Goddess-Queens, the existent but remote divinities of the harsh, inhospitable planet called Vulvar.Tobias Hart is the adventurous former archaeologist of Earth...

Mechanised monkeys, betrayed brides, irritable gorgons, harpists playing instruments of bone, acts of vengeance, and furies eager to feast. Red New Day and Other Microfictions is a collection of vignettes from World Fantasy Award winner Angela Slatter, collected together for the very first time....

Amidst the gas lamp shadows former soldier-turned-mercenary John Vanguard hunts criminals at the behest of his corrupt employer, Captain Felix Sanquain. Shamed by his deserter past and seeking to make amends for his many misdeeds, a chance encounter with Tarryn Leersac - a skilled...

They possess no pulse, nor a heartbeat. Their lungs have long since discarded the need to regulate oxygen. Logical thought escapes them, as does such common emotional states as happiness, sadness, or depression. The age-old weaknesses of man, such as lust, greed, or envy,...

Two brothers who get along about as well as cats and dogs will come to face romance, darkness and a mystery. These events lead an unexpected turn which will scar them for therest of their lives.Hailey House is a college student who is a...

VOLUME SIX OF THE WOLF SAGA!Sickened of the excesses of civilisation, Llorc crosses the Great Desert and plunges into the jungles of the south. He finds peace for a time among the Adabulu, but a warrior's past is never far behind. The arrival of...

Mourning Thrax's death, Ankhesenamun tries to find peace again. But as she resumes her normal life, her world is upended by another death - this time, that of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. As Ankhesenamun tries to keep control of her throne and her country, the chief...

She knows she's going to kill the man she loves. She just doesn't know why yet. Ankhesenamun needs to produce an heir to the throne -- quickly. Pharaoh Tutankhamun is young and weak. His chief advisors are planning his quiet removal and Ankhesenamun hopes...

"The smallest meaningful unit of magical power is one mortal life."So said the Fae and the Dead who ruled the Spellbound World... until they vanished, along with its sunlight.A century ago, an apocalypse of magic tore all but one of the world's artificial suns...

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. Welcome to the world of the Black Rose. ***Six hundred years ago, Mara, the immortal...

A psychopathic wizard. An immortal mage. An epic battle of wills.Nikolai doesn't want much out of life: sex, immortality, and the power to disembowel anyone who crosses him. But with dark magic forbidden, his only option is Medea-a mage so deadly even the Enforcers...

Due to a fortuitous combination of luck, caution and common sense, Lucy makes it to fourteen without seeing the Mist-carnivorous, ravenous, rolling in through the forest from the sea every few years.Then her mother sends her to the forest for potion ingredients. Determined to...

The Eye of Horus is almost within Ankhesenamun's grasp. She now knows it definitely exists and she even knows where it was hidden just a few years ago. But when she reaches her destination, what awaits her there is nothing like she had expected....

A realm aside from our own is the center of the realities, home to every spectrum of magic. From the beautiful to the terrible, it was all held in delicate balance by the Eternal Emperor and his immortal children.For 10,000 years, the empire was...

Where he walks, death follows. He was once known as Prince Bernard, ruler of his people and the man who led them in the Fey War against creatures out of myth and legend, beings out of nightmare. A man renowned for his strength, a...

To battle the creatures of darkness, one must first leave the light behind.Aaron and his companions return from Baresh with the truth of what the alliance faces, yet such knowledge is little comfort. Throughout the city, men and women whisper of demons, of monsters....

Konta and his tribe live in a world where changing seasons bring forth increasingly dangerous creatures. Uttering as much as a sound can mean the difference between life and death.Even in the direst circumstances, his people forge onward, determined to survive. From the calm...

A girl wakes up on a beach with no memory. She ends up finding out she is a Lightning Element and learns her powers again. Along the way, she meets other elements of earth, air, water, and fire. They are the four core, but...

There is darkness in magic and we have given life to that darkness.Dark Magic is a collection of over two hundred bite-size drabbles of dark fantasy and horror.Enter a world of curses and creatures, the hideous and the hexed, where love is cruel and...

Two centuries after the Godfell War, Ilahna knows that the only way to survive in Clearwall is to be faster and smarter than everyone else. She stays on her toes, steals what she needs... and never EVER mentions magic. Because magic is the way...

With so many questions left to answer, there are two things I'm sure of: 1. A supernatural war at Tompkin's Academy is inevitable.2. Kain is a real pain in my side.Just when I need my twin brother the most, he decides to bail on...

What happens when we die? Where do we go? Happy is a pond-dwelling creature with a scythe trailing from their wrist-everything they touch withers away. Book is a young girl with a mysterious, forgotten past. She wears a rope like a grim necklace. It...

Years after her discoveries at the village of Three Willows Fiadh returns to the island of Ghav Rhien.An old friend calls for her aid as the last chance to save the haunted lord of the isle from the shadows that torment him in the...

Be sure you've read Book I of THE BURNINGSOUL SAGA!Rorke Burningsoul, Paladin of Weltyr, is free. Free, and able to pursue the adventurers who left him for dead in the harrowing realm of the Nightlands. When one of those treacherous adventurers falls right into...

A reporter investigating rumours behind the construction of a new dam discovers something truly monstrous. In search of the mysterious Aqrabuamelu, a woman faces the harsh desert only to find even more dangerous truths. A hieroglyphic stone carrying a deadly threat finds its way...

We are bound by ink. He is supposed to kill me. In a world where stories are forbidden, Elle has a dangerous power: Creation. That's why tattooed soldier Jay is sent by the gods to kill her. But when Elle is faced with the...

Every story. Every tale has a history. A background that differs from the narrative that has been shared with the world. But every story has some basis in truth created from the mind of someone with a purpose-a motive. Many millennia ago, the Wellington...

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop presents the stunning conclusion to the Tir Alainn trilogy, where the world will be tested in an epic war... It began as a witch hunt. But the Master Inquisitor's plans to eliminate all traces of female power...

From critically acclaimed author Laura Bickle (Dark Alchemy) comes the first novel in the Wildlands series, NINE OF STARS. Longmire meets Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson in this exciting new series that shows how weird and wonderful the West can truly be.Winter has always been...

After their journey to the Twin Cities in search of the Neithisis to find out the truth behind the murders, Princess Sivrehya Rithloren and Prince Ivar Thaegan have uncovered a centuries-old plot and a long-thought destroyed enemy. The chaos mages of Vylara are stepping...