Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Dim Shores Presents is an anthology series spotlighting some of the best new writing in speculative fiction. Weird horror, strange science fiction, and dark fantasy rub shoulders with each other here, weaving a tapestry of uncanny beauty and fearful wonder.In this volume: J.W. Donley...

The Guardians, who hide in the shadows of children's stories, manipulated history by creating events to avert the world's eyes. They search for a worthy bloodline to decipher their signs. Will the ones they find use this truth for good or evil? When their...

Get ready for the journey of a lifetime in the first book of an all-new, captivating fantasy series from thrilling debut author Gillian Grant.As a hunter, Evren Hanali of Orenlion has probably seen it all and done even more, even though she likes to...

The cycle of fate turns on.In the capital of Sontair, still reeling from the recent assassination, Daemi, Frankle, and Heather are helping as best they can to retain some semblance of order and control. With them is Wilt, trapped now in cat form, but...

A suspenseful small-town horror novel of oppression, heartbreak and buried anguish - Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go with the wild west setting of Westworld. When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five's guilty residents...

The Dying Fetus that started it all is back with a vengeance!True Fiction is an ongoing collection of short fiction and novellas. Volume One consists of three novellas that make up one crazy story. It begins with "Dying Fetus," a simple tale of a...

SCHOOL IS NOW IN SESSION! With only fifteen students in total, and all girls at that, Umemizaki Junior High's class 2-F is a bit peculiar. In fact, "peculiar" doesn't even cut it--this is a special class that the Magical Kingdom created to raise the...

Their lives are linked.Mila's power has been stolen. Taken by a villain she can't escape, her secrets all revealed. Held in thrall by an enemy she hates, she is consumed by the man whose mark circles her throat. Her wrists...Her every action subject to...

It waits in dark corners. In your closet. Under your bed.It hides in the cellar. Waiting, waiting until you least expect- Mick Winters spent three summers as a child with his aunt in a small, rural town, where everyone is your neighbor. He hasn't...

Some evil wants to live forever.Ten years ago a witch sacrificed Britta Orchid's family and turned her into a werewolf. Selena Stone's spell failed, and she was never seen again. Until now.Officer Aaron Labaye has discovered Selena's remains in the house where Britta's family...

The Riven Wyrde Saga Continues... The Wyrde is dead and gone, its protection passed into the ether. The fae have been loosed upon the world as they begin their wild hunt, a nightmare from fables and legend made flesh. At Hesk, in the heart...

A refugee flees a crumbling civilization and finds a new life among a forest of mysteries. A pilot fires up his protojet, eager to teach the onboard A.I. how to understand humans. At the edge of the new world, a storyteller finds rest at...

Brother's Ruin is the first in a new gaslamp fantasy series by Emma Newman. "Newman reworks the familiar idea of magical schools, breathing some new life into the premise by exploring the darker corners of London and their murky morality." -- Publishers Weekly The...

John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he...

Esslemont's new prequel trilogy takes readers deeper into the politics and intrigue of the New York Times bestselling Malazan Empire. Dancer's Lament focuses on the genesis of the empire, and features Dancer, the skilled assassin, who, alongside the mage Kellanved, would found the Malazan...

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's first Saint-Germain novel, Hotel Transylvania, was nominated as Vampire Novel of the Century. Her Saint-Germain cycle, now comprised of more than twenty-five books, is a masterwork of historical horror fiction. The vampire Count Saint-Germain has crisscrossed the world many times, seeking...

It was a new world to which we were confined because of a bargain I'd made with Death himself: no paradise for Luc and the exiled, and none for me. But the moment I made my choice, I was marked for sacrifice, as was...

"Profound and enthralling. This book is a delicate dream, mixing its own internal mythology with a brutal tale of prejudice and human frailty. I can't recommend it enough. Tanzer is absolutely one to watch." -- Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of In an Absent...

In the White Drake's war, the price of freedom is paid in blood and fire.... For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fueled by drake blood--and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now...

Survival is the only currency... For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood--and the extraordinary powers it confers to those known as the Blood-blessed--to fuel and protect its empire. But when the drake blood lines began to fail, a perilous expedition...

Transylvania 1976 and the vampire Kate Reed is on the set of Francis Ford Coppola's troubled production of Dracula. Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire, the Count himself seems long gone. A relic of the past. But when Kate helps a...

Cloaked in gothic shadows, soaked in blood, darkness descends on the world of Sherlock Holmes. "I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart." Vengeance from beyond, forbidden passions and sadistic cruelty draw the great...

Winner of the 2019 Foreword Indies Book Award in Fantasy Too many secrets...Chloe Mikaelsson barely remembers her mother, and her father refuses to talk about her death. Her best friend has suddenly stopped returning her phone calls. If that wasn't bad enough, some creepy...

Tatum Pre'fain, a diplomat to NATO, has worked hard toward a peaceful resolution to global religious war. But through the writings of an old book gifted her by a stranger, she learns much more. Tatum finds within the weathered cloth covers on old brittle...

Everyone has heard the legend of Snedronningen. She has gone by many names. The most popular of those is Snow Queen. Many who have crossed her path have paid the price. Prince Valeman rejected her proposal of marriage. In a psychotic rage, her revenge...

This is the story of the Ringmaker, a woman working to harness the power-hungry will of her Tundin people's Council for the greater good of all, though she bears the stigma of Namelessness (she is a dragon changeling). When she is abducted in a...

In the dark streets of Corma exists a book that writes itself, a book that some would kill for... Black market courier Rowena Downshire is just trying to pay her mother's freedom from debtor's prison when an urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face...

Bizarro fiction's most prolific author takes the serial killer genre to a whole new level. Oksana Maslovskiy is an award-winning artist, an internationally adored fashion model, and one of the most infamous serial killers this country has ever known. She enjoys murdering pretty young...

Three more short stories from Stephen King's "Crossroads" series that will help keep you entertained late into the night. Discover the bright imagination, suspense, thrilling drama, picturesque visions, and a deeper look into the true landscape of the "Crossroads" series.Author: Stephen R. KingISBN-10: 152397219XISBN-13:...

By dint of a mispronounced spell, Cugel the Clever finds himself once again unceremoniously dumped by a winged demon onto the bleak far northern shores of the Sea of Cutz - the location of a fierce battle aeons past between the archmagician Simbilis and...

Blood, sweat, tears, and some laughs in between From the very first Magical Girl Raising Project all the way to Magical Girl Raising Project ACES, dozens of magical girls have found a special place in our hearts. Though it may seem like they spend...

The greatest trick the First Vampire ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.If you enjoyed the Blade or Underworld movies, you will love the Shade of Devil series.Before the now-infamous Count Dracula ever tasted his first drop of blood, Sorin Ambrogio...

One Cursed City. Two Dead Gods. Ten Thousand Murderers and Thieves. One Orphaned Girl.As a child, Kyrioc was groomed to be the head of one of the most powerful noble families in Koh-Salash, a city built inside the skeletons of two murdered gods. Kyrioc...

Four years have passed since Lidan's world was ripped apart, and time is running out to change her father's mind about the succession before the bargain with her mother expires. Torn between what she wants and what she knows is right, she is faced...

Prepare yourself for more uncanny tales, with macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long Included in this...

Discover the class you were born to play.Wren, a seasoned healer, is dismayed when Somnia Online automatically assigns her character, Murmur, to the Enchanter class. Determined to overcome the unexpected setback, she assembles her guild, intent on the coveted #1 spot. Twelve keys stand...

How brave do you have to be to face your worst fears? Nightmares. Premonitions. Dark Secrets. DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN SO CLOSE. How can you go on living if the person you love is gone? Consumed by grief and remorse, Gemma Bloom wonders that...

Following on last year's award-winning dark fantasy series, Quincy Harker is back, and the stakes are higher than ever. Collecting four novellas into one volume, The Cambion Cycle sees Harker and his cohorts battling bigger threats, teaming with legends of folklore, and trying to...

Gladiators and whores, dancers and acrobats--the insatiable lust of an empress and the cruelty of the Circus. All this and much more swirl through the pages of The Latin Orgy, a key text of the decadent fiction, and the author, F licien Champsaur's, most...

***Due to language, violence, and sexual situations, this book is recommended for mature audiences.*** It's been two months. Two months since Gabrielle survived the horror that was Samhain. Two months since she slipped from the devil's clutches. Two months since she learned that she...

Since her Awakening, seventeen-year-old Gabrielle Fiori has known the devil wants her as his own, and that when she dies, he'll finally lay his claim. Evading death should be easy. But when a prophecy linking her to the lord of the underworld is leaked,...

At the age of six, Ebon Drayden discovered he was an alchemist, but his father forbade him to use his magic, and kept him from attending the Academy where he could learn how to use it. Now, at seventeen, his aunt has finally enrolled...

Praise for Alistair Rennie and BleakWarrior"Transgressive and hard-edged" - Jeff VanderMeer, Nebula award winning author of the Southern Reach trilogy"Flabbergasting Black Metal New Weird"- Edward Morris, author of the Blackguard series"Death, violence, and inappropriate sex" - Neil Williamson, author of The Moon KingFor eons,...

"May you lose all you love to the flame and the sword--and the Dark Lady take your soul "Jonmarc Vahanian fled from the raiders and monsters that killed his family, but when danger dogs his steps once again, he leaves the traveling caravan that...

A collection of nine adventures: Buttons, The Restless Dead, Retribution, Coffin Box, Wicked Dreams, Collector, Bad Memories, Shadow Garden, and Spook House. This revised edition also includes three bonus stories chronicling Sorren's early days: Vanities, The Wild Hunt, and Dark Legacy.Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles...

This collection of stories winds through the twisting streets of the unconscious mind with the grace and power of an experienced traveler. The exotic sensations of lands beyond dreamscapes and nightmares mingle with the harsh truths of reality in tales unbound by borders or...

Ten Minute Stories / Day and Night Stories "The author plunges with boldness, yet with consistent invention, into the realm of the fantastic." -The Outlook Ten Minute Stories, originally published in 1914, and Day and Night Stories, from 1917, offer two superlative story collections...

David Gemmell passed away in 2006, leaving behind a legacy of memorable characters, epic settings, and thrilling tales. In the Legends anthologies, today's finest fantasy authors pay homage to one of fantasy fiction's greatest ever writers. Full of swordplay, treachery, deeds both dark and...

Tales of the Apt is a companion series to the best-selling decalogy Shadows of the Apt, gathering together short stories from disparate places and supplementing them with a wealth of new tales written especially for the series. Together, they combine to provide a different...

The Scarabae, a mysterious family, who are not entirely human, have been forced to leave the burned ruins of their reclusive home in a remote part of England. Most are dead at the hands of Ruth, a child created through incest with the purpose...