Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

In the beginning, there was darkness.Before he met Callie, before he became the Bargainer, there was Desmond Flynn, the bastard son of a scribe. A boy born to a weak mother, cursed with little magic, and destined to marry a slave. But fate had...

From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited second book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to.She survived the mad king ... but the nightmare isn't over.Siren Callypso Lillis still...

Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only...

The best short fiction of legendary author Glen Cook (The Black Company, the Dread Empire series), now in audio. For over forty years, Glen Cook has been among the most well-known, influential, and widely respected authors in science fiction and fantasy. Through classic series...

The small group of people is wanderers. They have always been wanderers, always been on the move, never truly belonging anywhere. There is a mystery, a mystery of their lives. It's close, now, so close they can touch it, smell it, in the sands...

Old songs can bring new life.A beleaguered dryad in search of safe harbor in a land ravaged by an invasive fungus finds herself at odds with a young dryad who wields the blasphemous magic of men.The two of them must find a way to...

Dark tales inspired by J. M. Barrie's classic stories of Neverland, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and of course Peter Pan, from some the masters of science-fiction, horror and fantasy including A. C. Wise, Claire North, Lavie Tidhar and more. The award-winning Marie O'Regan & Paul...

In a beginning, somewhere between everywhere and nowhere, a family lived. A family of seven children, born to the bloodline of the Fury of Death, a horseman of the gods, and a human mother. The union both blessed and cursed, the jealous gods condemned...

Beckett hasn't been afraid of monsters since he was a child, but now there's a monster under his bed calling him by name. How could he be afraid of monsters when his love for the occult runs deep?What if this one is over six...

In the 21st century, Simon Magus, the great nemesis of Saint Peter, returned to our world bringing the gift of magic. His gift soon proved to be a curse. Humanity nearly destroyed itself with its new powers in a global war that reshaped the...

Gods and monsters aren't real..they are just fantasies in a book...Chelsea is a special girl, she has a gift, she is more powerful when she's asleep, but she's still human.Meeting the grumpy twins will take Chelsea on an adventure...an adventure she never asked for....

Kallan Garrik is hunting the soulstealers who killed his wife. His determination and skill at eliminating these murderous predators earn him command of the elite Hunter's Brigade. A position known as The King's Steel.Thirty moons of tracking and killing have left him jaded and...

A demonic presence exists in the tiny prairie town of Paradise Flats, a sleepy little community in the mid 1980's that is unaware of the evil that lurks there. When Darien MacIntosh miraculously walks away unscathed from a vehicle mishap, he begins to develop...

The house at the end of the block with the overgrown lawn. The darkened store window in a forgotten corner of the shopping mall. The colorful characters of a children's TV show. What dark secrets do they hide?From award-winning author Christopher Hawkins come thirteen...

She carries a novel virus in her blood. One that rages against a peculiar parasite curled in her heart.Foul-mouthed and bloodthirsty, Elira Dukagjini should have died 500 hundred years ago. Instead she left her Albanian homeland at the start of the 16th century to...

This new collection of stories from USA Today bestselling, multiple Bram Stoker winning author David Niall Wilson presents twenty-stories and a brand new, unpublished novella. Wilson's work has been collected several times in digital only formats. This is the first major collection released since...

"Nicholas Kaufmann offers up an unputdownable blend of gruesome body horror and fast-paced suspense." - Ray Garton, author of Live Girls and RavenousMedical Examiner Dr. Laura Powell didn't think anything could be more frightening than what she uncovered in an autopsy a year ago....

GNYDRON... ...is a land that lies parched and barren beneath a brutal and bloated dying sun; a land where horrible beasts climb and crawl and fly and kill. A land of dreams and nightmares, of magic and sorcery; a land where fate and destiny...

"THE DARKNESS COMETH."Throughout the Dark Titan Universe, the supernatural threats continue to loom. After dealing with such threats in their past experiences, Doctor Fortune, Travis Vail, Gabriel Abraham, Creed, Death Chaser, Cinderella, and more will come face to face with one of their most...

Nettle is a Bluebell faerie from the lush lands of Sceanth, where fae are taught from birth about choosing their life veins, a stage in their development in which they slip into cocoons and experience dream-like excursions into other worlds. There are dangers, however,...

A sequel novel to Sy.N.A.T. Sy.N.A.T In Chaos follows our group of six continues their journey through Sotaqt with the end goal of exacting their revenge of Kevin's killer. With CJ missing, the group is one short and a mysterious criminal, Elias Mensonge is...

It's the distant past. A boy, Daniel, awakens in a temple of the sun god Shamash, with no memory of his origins or identity. Befriended by servant boys, he discovers one of the high priests is hungry for power and hellbent on revenge. Allied...

It's the distant past. A boy, Daniel, awakens in a temple of the sun god Shamash, with no memory of his origins or identity. Befriended by servant boys, he discovers one of the high priests is hungry for power and hellbent on revenge. Allied...

An aggressive debt collector banished from the kingdom. Now his life depends on his ability to help the less fortunate...Vireo Reinhold relishes collecting his monarch's proper dues. Working hard to prolong and fund the king's never-ending war, the self-centered official revels in the perks...

A search for truth. A secret pact. A deadly ability unleashed...Somewhere in New Orleans, Del is on her own. Blaming herself for the spirit attack that nearly killed her adopted family, she vows to keep them safe the only way she knows how, by...

In a beginning, somewhere between everywhere and nowhere, a family lived. A family of seven children, born to the bloodline of the Fury of Death, a horseman of the gods, and a human mother. The union both blessed and cursed, the jealous gods condemned...

The darkness is always there, lurking in the corners, skulking behind the shelves, waiting under the stairs, sleeping between the stars. But there is always hope, a light to show the way!Michael R. Collings delves into modern and historical horror in his essays; explores...

, 'Move over Ferrante, there's a new Elena in town' Independent A gripping novel about family, loss and secrets, from the author of the Times bestselling sensation Can You Hear Me? The boy is almost eighteen and has a loving family. He's polite and...

A magic sword, a powerful curse, an untested fae princess, and a continent on fire... Eighteen-year-old Ruadora Dammacus now possesses the Immortal Blade, a powerful artifact that might be enough to overthrow the cruel oppression threatening the land. Yet when Rua discovers the Northern...

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina's journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magic--and not all magic is good.In Vita Nostra, Sasha Samokhina, a third-year...

There is no escape when the monster is you.When Oriana awakens in a field of blood and bodies, she is devastated to realize the patchwork of death was caused by her own hand. A curse lingers in the air, and there is only one...

When a mysterious black envelope arrives during freshman orientation-one inviting Kyleigh Roberts to the school's prestigious secret society-she immediately feels an unexplainable pull to pledge.What Kyleigh doesn't realize is that getting closer to the answers she's been searching for will force her further from...

"Don't be afraid to look into the eclipse!" -Jee Rune Hartsmund is on the verge of pitching the game of his life and making baseball history when there is an attempt on his life from somewhere behind the stadium lights. Miraculously, he is saved...

Bringing together The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Inception in an epic action-packed narrative.Zain is last of the Vampires...... the Death of the Undeath...... and now, he's finally decided to die.After 700 years, all his efforts and sacrifices meant nothing. He's...

The House of Crimson & Clover comes to a stunning conclusion in the twelfth volume, House of Dusk, House of Dawn. In the end is their beginning. This is the end.This is the beginning.The stage is set. The players, ready.A midnight dynasty, cursed to...

The House of Crimson & Clover continues in the penultimate volume, Within the Garden of Twilight. Chaos circles the calm.Fleeting peace descends on the Deschanels in New Orleans. Loved ones have returned. A calm appears in the chaos. Life is-seemingly-back to normal.Those who had...

The House of Crimson & Clover continues in the ninth volume, The Hinterland Veil. Bravery conquers fear. Fate races time.The Deschanels are scattered across Europe in a last bid to protect what matters most. Finn gets closer to finding Ana every day, but time...

When her uncle dies at sea, a third child with no place in society undergoes a ceremony to house his spirit and take his role, diminishing the family's loss. But her uncle's spirit hasn't settled the way it's supposed to, and will not content...

​If you got a mysterious box that said, Do Not Open, would you open it? If your fingers revolted and wanted a different job, would you agree? If you came from a race of giants, or thought about becoming Death's lover, or couldn't get...

Beware the fog. Somehow, Will managed to survive the 'shakedown' mission that he was assigned by his mysterious backer. Now he actually has to begin work on the task for which he was originally summoned to the world of Torpenhow - helping to spot-weld...

Werewolves, vampires, and other preternatural creatures have been living in relative peace with humanity for the past twenty-six years. There are other monsters that humanity doesn't know of, but it's best kept that way.Valkyrie Dalton is one of these monsters. As a hellhound for...

There's little time to grieve the outcome of the Gluttony trial as she enters Invidia, a city of barely contained envy, where everyone wants what the other possesses. The competitors of the devil's trials are sent belowground with no special treatment and tasked to...

Joffie is fifteen, an orphan and thief, surviving in Victorian Beormingham on her wits and her peculiar talent - the ability to find secret doorways between worlds. Trouble looms when she steals a mysterious cane from a toff and her ensuing adventures place her...

FOOD! FAMILY! MAYHEM! MURDER! Ah, it must be the holidays! From the splatter to the surreal, The Distended Table is a buffet for the horror fiction connoisseur! You'll feast on the delights of a murderous pilgrim, insane Black Friday violence, fast food terrors, a...

A collection of sapphic samurai short stories A bodyguard in love with her master's new wife. A daughter conditioned to view her happiness as something to sacrifice in the name of politics. A sun goddess drawn out of hiding by a beautiful woman. Paper...

This short story collection will keep you on the edge of your seat to the last sentence. Misha Burnett has been published in a wide variety of modern fiction magazines, and here we've collected some of his best work. From the introduction: "I'm a...

Astri has decided to leave Rivenna along with Jorgen in order to track down a human druid in the Asian World. The druid breeds real dragons; the only creatures left in the entire world. He's in possession of dragon venom-a magical healing liquid that...

Astri and her close friends are forced to hide in the city. They're waiting for an opportunity to strike back at the dark mage who took over Rivenna by force--the same mage who's been hunting her since she was eleven years old. When they...

Fox Kane was tossed in the broken foster care system, bouncing from home to home. Tired of the way his life has been playing out, he allows himself to get thrown down the rabbit hole that is his past when it comes to call....

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of...