Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Fifteen tales tinged with darkness, where vampires and werewolves roam and familiar fairytales take on overtones of blood and vengeance. (Note: Some of these stories are not suitable for sensitive readers.)The Blue Fairy Hunters Guild - Phaedra WeldonJoining the Blue Fairy Hunters Guild is...

The search is on! The world of Kosmon needs a cure for a plague that leads ultimately to everyone's death. The Scientian race, known for its rationality and understanding, continues to fail in finding a cure, while the Transmutant race, known for living by...

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...

Cape Cove, Indiana, 1998. After the strange events of the summer of 1997, the members of 'The Crew' try to get back to some semblance of their normal lives lived before the arrival of the Liber Malficous, but the darkened corners of their strange...

Two more than average humans get turned into Immortals. Now as one must train non-stop to harness his newfound powers to use for peace and justice. The other is torn between his good side, and becoming a powerful and deadly blood servant to a...

Black is a simple guy, he hates vampires. So, he kills them for money. His life has been simple, kill vampires, get paid, and feel damn good about it. As much as Black hates vampires, he doesn't have a choice but to work for...

Follow Mary Jade VonStine as her world is turned upside down with the murders of her parents. Now Mary must go to a faraway kingdom and live with her distant royal family. How will Mary adapt to a strange country and her family? When...

At what cost victory?Milo Volkohne, orphan, criminal, conscript, and unwilling warlock could tell you but you might not like the answer.It is 1936 and the Great War still rages on, with no armistice in 1918 when the Russian Empire crumbled in the fire and...

A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophies. A secondary school that seems to waver in and out...

Seven weird dark fantasy stories by James R. Tuck. Lovecraftian horror, weird western, superheroes, punk rock music, and even moral dilemmas are all available with that spooky touch only James R. Tuck brings.Author: James R. TuckISBN-10: 1544225113ISBN-13: 9781544225111Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2017Pages:...

The Archseer has been murdered, leaving the Academy Magus-the world's foremost center of magical learning-leaderless. It's not that Isabel doesn't care; she just has her own problems to deal with right now. Being slowly ripped apart from the inside by the very spells she...

With Angel's return from NYC, and the return of a Legend, few loyal friends left behind in the village she grew up in. The Shaman who brought her home, now warning her of the dark side. The Vampyres have taken over, but will they...

Silence haunts the desolate world left in the wake of the Fever. The nights are dark, the days a stumbling venture from one horror to the next. In one place, William Hill stands in the center of a town where the scattered remains of...

A novella in the tradition of Michael Cisco, Thomas Ligotti, Lucius Shepard, and M. John Harrison, "in night" traverses a world much like our own - but not quite. On a vast plantation, wraithlike serfs feed carnivorous trees and tend the ramshackle pens of...

The mystery of Rosamund Hodge's Crimson Bound meets the romance of every Beauty and the Beast retelling. An old tale tells the story of how a little man named Rumpelstiltskin spun straw into gold and tricked a desperate girl into trading away her baby....

Athena Harrow is about to turn twenty-one, but there will be no celebration. What is there to celebrate when the world is ruled by demons?She hates the darkness the demons brought with them and longs for the light to return to the world-a world...

The Fever burned hot and bright across a world unprepared for the devastation the virus would bring. Silence dominated the shattered wasteland left behind. Cell phones no longer worked. Static hissed from the old radio. No ships sailed through the nearby inlet. No airliners...

The Fever struck hard and fast, rising out of the slums and claiming victim after victim. At first, reports trickled across the wire in small segments relegated to the final seconds of the broadcast news. Lost among stories of failing economies and political bickering,...

"King Herzog could never forget the ice the fate of his beautiful queen as she slipped on her skates, crashing into the lake and sinking into the depths below. He awoke in another viscous puddle of sweat, sheets soaked, heart racing. Still, his wife...

Lilith by George MacDonald. Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series...

Don't let your children wander too close to the water, for Dark Things lurk in waiting beneath the surface. It's partly Jim's job to determine exactly what those Dark Things are, especially since accusations are flying of wrongful executions. When Jim's new boyfriend ends...

Shadow, Leech, and Lilith join forces with the angels to take on the growing nephilim threat on Earth. Shadow's father, Abaddon, continues to corrupt and destroy the world that both the angels and demons rely on. Changing circumstances reveal that the angels may not...

Conor Night, the world's only necromancer, is starting to think that his life is finally coming together. His last job not only left him funded, but also helped him fall off the radar of the world's two most powerful wizards. Of course, being a...

"These were the days when the three Romes had fallen. When the mother of the world had bled, when the Ice Horde had conquered Archangel, when the trees had marched on Muscovy, and when only white-walled Kiev stood against the forest. These were the...

"Everyone has their secrets...and their cravings..."A violent and bloody past...A rocky and dangerous present...A terribly uncertain future...Birchton was a last resort for Mia. She's not sure what drew her here. Maybe because it's far away from the man that tried to kill her? Or...

"There's an alpha inside of you...waiting to finally break loose..."One chance to start anew...One night of unbridled passion...One secret buried in blood...One alpha that will bring the packs together...Adeline doesn't know why she chose the Virginia mountains, other than to escape the shadow of...

Bianca is a Trove. Her blood is so powerful it allows vampires to stroll in the sunlight.She lives a socialite life of masquerades, governesses and flirting with eligible men like the handsome thief, Nyro Stonehelm, who openly defies the vampire King and Queen.Soon a...

The Cycle of Bones continues in The Drums of Unrest, JP Corwyn's eagerly awaited sequel to the bestselling novella: The Dawn of Unions.Truth has power. Those willing to speak the truth can make an impact felt miles - worlds away without ever knowing it.The...

YOU CAN BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD. What if you discovered a secret society living among us? A powerful society split into seven psionic orders, each controlling a separate area: minds, flesh, force, truth, machinery, beasts, or the arcane. And suppose...

Jade finally has her fire back . . . but with a twist. The long-awaited finale to the Reclaiming the Fire series The flame that burns is dark, not bright, and it signals that she is now bound to the Shadow. Somehow she must...

Alaire Sencler is not the man he used to be. He left behind a foul and bloody past to be with the woman he loves, but the memories never allow him to forget what he did.While the White magicians raise an army, their leader...

Expand your territory. Defeat your rivals. Satisfy your monster girls Raiders Guild crushed, Clay can finally relax and spend his time clearing the pesky monsters from around his dungeon.But when a routine zombie bash uncovers a sinister new danger, Clay and his guardians find...

The God of Balance walks a dangerous tightrope.Thrown into a new culture, Arianna does her best to adapt while attending to her duties. When the God of Balance takes an interest in her, Arianna struggles to determine if reciprocating will break a taboo--or anger...

While hydrologist Adam Swan is engaged in humanitarian efforts to bring water to a small, isolated village in the Congo, he is kidnapped by rebel thugs and thrown into a makeshift prison. He is left to die-or worse-if his ransom is not paid. In...

A mind-blowing collection of the very darkest erotica from the very best minds in the business Desires - we all have them, even if we won't admit it. Some are considered normal, and probably healthy. But what about the others? Those haunting stirrings within...

Hide...or be hunted.When a pair of faerie wings fetch big bucks online, 17-yo Lila Kincade realizes her kind aren't just oppressed; they're hunted.Due to prejudice and hostility by humans, half-human/half-faerie Lila lives in a world where faeries are required to register with the government...

Bangsian fantasy at its best. . In hell, we reap what you sow. . Meet DAEMON GRIM; A FORCE FOR EVIL, Satan's personal Reaper. . While an insane angel causes a hell of a ruckus, Tesla and Chopin orchestrate the Reaper's doom. . How...

Centuries ago ten powerful vampire gods first walked the earth; their blood thirst knew no boundaries. The destruction of mankind was inevitable. Recognizing their weakness, they selected twelve wise human beings to transform with their godly blood. These twelve, known as The Old Ones...

The next seal is broken A new brand of hero appears years after the Goblin Thaw, only to find a world wracked by supernatural famine spread by a Horseman of the Apocalypse. While the Horde washes over the sin of the people, absorbing struggling...

Lost in the land of the dead with no memory and separated from Rose, Marcus must face the coming trials with his soul and his sanity intact. Rose, meanwhile, must face her past and rise above the darkness within or fall forever. But are...

Goblin Winter is the prelude to the FIMBULVTR Books. Already an outsider due to a suspicious heritage, a boy is exiled from his homeland, only to return with strange abilities separating him from his people. Now, years later, he wanders to stay ahead of...

In a desperate bid to save his sister's life, Marcus becomes trapped in the underworld, forced to watch helplessly through the eyes of a shape-shifting demon as it begins to systematically destroy all which he holds dear just to torment him. With time running...

Kord Becker, failed knight, is given one last chance to redeem himself in the eyes of the Palanisi Empire. Assigned an unusual position, he is to escort a company of dwarves across the lands of the empire. But Kord thought dwarves were myths from...

Gena and Don seemed an ideal couple. Young. In love. Playful and imaginative. They often pretended to be cats, purring and playing and taking on pretend roles in their made-up cat-world of "Cat"-alonia! When they move into their first house and money becomes tight,...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Tower of the Elephant' is a story in the Conan series in which Conan tries to steal a precious...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1934 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Queen of the Black Coast' is a story in the Conan series where Conan is a plundering pirate. Robert Ervin...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1935 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Beyond the Black River' is a story in the Conan series in which he battles the Hyborian Picts in the...

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1830 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'St. John's Eve' is a short story about young lovers that are kept apart by the girl's father. The boy then...

Nominated for the British Science Fiction Award 2020In Gareth L. Powell's Ragged Alice a detective in a small Welsh town can literally see the evil in people's souls. Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town...

This book indexes the three novels in the trilogy by Deborah Harkness A_Discovery_of_Witches Shadow_of_Night The Book of Life (new release, not included)Author: Duncan M. ScottISBN-10: 1499506198ISBN-13: 9781499506198Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2014Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.47lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.60d