Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

A dark fantasy anthology dripping with blood and deceit. Blood taints the hands of many... From dryads, wizards, and flesh-eating sirens, to dragons, bounty hunters, and more, partake in a journey of blood and deceit. This collection features stories from seven authors who have...

You think you're dreaming, but you're being escorted through a carnival of delights and wonders and mysteries and ghosts. It's a dangerous place, and maybe you won't survive.This short novella takes you through the kiddie rides, the midway, the Red Witch's tent, the corn...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Little Hatred comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything.Chaos. Fury. Destruction.The Great Change is upon us...

He controls dreams. Now the Dream King wants to claim me as his own.When everyone in the world fell asleep at exactly the same time and woke up a week later, the world believed it was the start of a rampant plague. They didn't...

The Magician (1909) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity and occult ritual, The Magician was instrumental in establishing Maugham's reputation as a leading author of the late Victorian era. Inspired by stories of Aleister Crowley, an influential...

The Faoii have protected Clearwall with both magic and blade for generations. But when her monastery is attacked and her sisters slaughtered, only young Kaiya is left alive. Forced to cope without the traditions of her Order, Kaiya travels the country on a mission...

Hailed by RT Book Reviews as "fresh and original...stark and lovely," a heroic fantasy by an award-winning author about a young woman who is trained in the art of the sinister hand of magic. A Locus Magazine Bestseller. Isobel, upon her sixteenth birthday, makes...

R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its...

The thrilling conclusion to the Riven Wyrde Saga. With her king's plans laid bare, Selena must take drastic steps as the invaders push deeper into Anlan, driven by the schemes of the Sealord. The war between Anlish and Bjornmen rages, even as the fae...

Fighting an insane goddess for the soul of an annoying little girl isn't how Bib the sorcerer planned to spend retirement, but someone must teach her not to turn people into sand or make it rain whales. He flees with her to find a...

"★★★★★. Galley's imagination is a truly beautiful thing. The plot here is rich and intricate, and the characters are a delight... I believe Mr Galley may well be one to watch."- Fantasy Bytes "★★★★★. Galley is not yet as good an author as Gemmell...

Five hundred miles beneath the earth's surface lies a fantastic, timeless world of eternal daylight, prehistoric beasts, and primeval peoples--Pellucidar. Pellucidar is a world within our world, a place where the horizon curves upward and merges with the sky. Here time stands still, for...

"Poignant and punchy." --The New York Times Three friends go looking for treasure and find horror in Jeffrey Ford's The Twilight Pariah. All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old...

Ian C. Esslemont's prequel trilogy takes readers deeper into the politics and intrigue of the New York Times bestselling Malazan Empire. The first book of the Path to Ascendancy trilogy, Dancer's Lament, focuses on the genesis of the empire and features Dancer, the skilled...

This noir fantasy thriller from a debut author introduces the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner. "Take a little Mickey Spillane, some Dashiell Hammet, a bit of Raymond Chandler, and mix it with Phillip K. Dick's Blade Runner; add a...

This standalone companion novel returns to Bradley P. Beaulieu's Song of Shattered Sands epic fantasy universe eda is the youngest pit fighter in the history of Sharakhai. She's made her name in the arena as the fearsome White Wolf. None but her closest friends...

Now available in a redesigned edition, Tanith Lee's sci-fi classic of a woman's quest for acceptance through the transfer of her consciousness to an artificial body. In the futuristic world of Indigo, reproduction is controlled by the government, guaranteeing that every baby is happy,...

The first daughter is for the Throne.The second daughter is for the Wolf. For fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale comes a dark, sweeping debut fantasy novel about a young woman who must be sacrificed to the legendary Wolf of the...

A mystical battle between foreign gods and local saints is unleashed as idols are mistaken for garden ornaments; an ambiguous wizard spies on his neighbours from an invisible tower; a cursed duelling pistol influences its owners to commit suicide. With strange combinations of occultism,...

Revenge loves company.Mithrid Fenn wants nothing to do with magick. Magick is a curse word, banned by the vast Arka Empire and punishable by death. Its purging has finally brought peace to war-torn Emaneska. Only a stubborn rebellion, led by the warlord Outlaw King,...

Beneath the Asylum: This asylum is full of secrets. Some worse than others...A security guard in an infamous old mental hospital finds something unusual during his routine patrol of the basement tunnels: The sounds of a small girl crying. The crying sounds are coming...

Since returning from war, Simon Helsing has been in the middle of the battle between humans and vampires - at least that's what he believes. Lexi Tarada runs a website for the unexplained and is drawn into Detective Todd Carrow's investigations of a recent...

"I was raised by three sisters, one a witch, one an assassin and the third just batshit crazy." And so begins The Bridge, from Shirley Jackson Award, Aurealis Award, Shadows Award, and Wonderland Award finalist, J.S. Breukelaar. Meera and her twin sister Kai are...

Thieves. Assassins. Elves. Power. Blackmail. Betrayal. Come join a morally grey and rather snarky anti-hero as she fights for survival in a world full of secrets. *** What would you sacrifice to save your friend? Your soul? Your humanity? Your life? The Oncoming Storm...

"A fantastic ending to a series." -- Nerds of a FeatherAs the Allied forces battle to defeat the Nazis, a shadow war rages between angels and daimons fighting for the soul of humanity in this thrilling conclusion to the critically acclaimed Los Nefilim historical...

They stole her magic.They killed her friends.Nothing in the multiverse will stop her quest for revenge.Kate Rossdale once held all the promise of becoming Baltimore's greatest sorceress. But promise is a hard thing to hold when your coven is murdered, your magic is stripped...

'Only valour and steel can stand against the rising dead'Arnar is a land of warriors, its people as stalwart as the stones themselves. In a land of dark forests and ancient hill forts, a forgotten evil is awoken by curious minds. The Great Histories...

The first novel in the epic sword & sorcery series readers are comparing to Robert Jordan and Terry Brooks. A #1 Fantasy Bestseller Loren dreams of escaping her cruel parents and becoming a great thief: Nightblade, a warrior of darkness and a champion of...

THE LOST VALLEY Algernon Blackwood spent the first half of 1909 traveling around Switzerland. When he returned to England, he produced around twenty stories, most of which formed the basis for his next collection, The Lost Valley, published by Eveleigh Nash in June, 1910....

THE BOOK OF WONDER AND THE LAST BOOK OF WONDER - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With original illustrations. THE PROFESSOR'S BOOKSHELF #8 Lord Dunsany wrote more than eighty books during his career in the early 20th Century. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The...

A colouring book accompaniement to Jonathan Green's latest adventure-packed gamebook The Wicked Wizard of Oz. Includes 30 full-page original illustrations for you to colour, plus a 20 page bonus section: "Behind the Curtain"; with initial sketches, full colour artwork, and The Wicked Wizard of...

MAGIC MAKES THE MAN. THEN THE MAN MAKES MAGIC. . . . Two clashing forces drawn into a sorcerous duel: Nebula Award nominee Laura Anne Gilman spins the riveting conclusion to her "dramatic" ("Publishers Weekly") fantasy series of vine, earth, and deceit. T wo...

"Hawes has a way of highlighting the intricacies of human emotions and relationships, making Black Pearls a bold, brilliant read." --The Compulsive Reader "Twisted, clever and artfully written, these stories are a high-quality addition to the fractured fairy tale genre." --Booklist "A beautiful book."...

The Saga book of all contain the line "What the @#&% is That?"--is often humorous, sometimes terrifying, but always incredibly entertaining. Ranging from irreverent humor to straight out horror, What the @#&% Is That? grew from a meme on Twitter when iconic comic book...

Filled with characters as menacing as they are memorable, this chilling twist on vampire fiction packs a punch in the bestselling tradition of 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King.Asmodeus "Sax" Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious and well-established antiques dealer, has made a fortune over many years by...

Truth is the most powerful weapon there is, but only if you dare to believe... After Colin flees with Catrina, he meets up with someone he never thought he'd see again-the one man who might be able to tame this dark magical power everyone...

"One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written" - H.P.Lovecraft. Lovecraft wasn't wrong: this is, perhaps, the greatest single work of fantastic fiction in the English language. The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in...

A demon haunts the City of Angels ... a savage serial killer who is carving his own Hollywood legend on the bodies of young women. Is the fiendish murderer a psychopath, or an evil spirit from the dawn of time?In an era when film...

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we...

To Malone the sense of latent mystery in existence was always present. In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he...

A collection of dark fantasy tales with a metaphysical edge, full of grotesque wonders and weird splendor. Artifice the Quill flees from tyrant sorcerers into a world of strange magic, ancient gods, and exotic kingdoms. The exiled author joins a traveling troupe of performers...

Azrail never loved anything until he met little Kay. Now, the devil has her and she only has hours to live. Will he find her in time or lose her forever?Azrail is the angel of death, the only thing standing between Man and eternal...

Captain James Hook is lustful for vengeance-but how far is he prepared to go? Consumed by a burning hatred, Hook will stop at nothing to enact his terrible revenge on his nemesis, Peter Pan. Arriving in Neverland, he finds himself in a hellish kingdom...

my feet I received my first Martian surprise, for the effort, which on Earth would have brought me standing upright, carried me into the Martian air to the height of about three yards.... Instead of progressing in a sane and dignified manner, my attempts...

Eerie and unnerving events are welcome reads for horror and weird fiction aficionados, and Kurt Fawver's new collection does not fail to deliver. A group of work-study students grows obsessed with a particular, otherworldly room at the university library. A monster's mother wants her...

After The Marechal Chronicles: Volumes I, II and III this is a collection of the remaining three volumes - The Chase, The Tower of the Alchemist, and The Crucible. A dark fantasy filled with tragedy, emotion, and opposing supernatural forces, this is a tale...

Can any good transpire when Gypsy magic collides with Voodoo Magic? For Voodoo High-priestess Grandmother Zenobia, the answer is unclear. 1890 Carrefour Parish, Louisiana. A self-proclaimed Voodoo high-priestess with a mysterious past, Grandmother Zenobia conceals her magical powers from her teenage grandson Will. She...

The Kai Gracen Series: Book ThreeStalker Kai Gracen knew his human upbringing would eventually clash with his elfin heritage, but not so soon. Between Ryder, a pain-in-his-neck sidhe lord coaxing him to join San Diego's Southern Rise Court, and picking up bounties for SoCalGov,...

The world of Under has been remade into what it was long before the Ancients were put in their prison. They are free, and with them comes the reign of the callous, merciless King who was once the man I loved.I always knew Aon...

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...