Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

A stoneFallen from space and forgotten by those who broke it, found by the ones who will mend itA riftGrowing between brothers as ghosts from their past resurface and test the bonds of familyA wandererLost to all, including himself, until destiny finds him on...

In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra--a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)--return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic...

Lily is a girl who discovers she has the ability to see how others will die simply by touching them. Only she doesn't want this gift and takes extreme measures to protect herself from it. When her mother--because every fairy tale has to have...

Winner of the 2019 Shirley Jackson Novella AwardWinner of the 2020 BFS Award Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil. Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites...

*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL CATEGORY*"Smart, literate, funny." --Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry...

New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' ground-breaking epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle The perfect introduction to the epic fantasy world of Osten Ard, The Heart of What Was Lost is Tad Williams' follow-up to his internationally bestselling landmark trilogy....

In an antediluvian world, Keltos warrior Rogan emerges as the lone survivor of a battle. Slaying a Nephilim giant from Shynar, Rogan takes back the mammoth his folk gifted the kings.Soon, warriors are sent to recapture the mammoth and bring it to the Lord...

It has been 100 years since the fall of the gods. Dark times have fallen over the world of Annmar as the power of the gods have disappeared. Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, and Fae try to live in peace, but are suspicious of one...

Danika Kane is the prophesied descendant of Christ. Possessing powers greater than any God or Jinn, she is faced in an uphill battle where the odds are stacked against her and every choice she makes, questions arise of whether they're the right ones. In...

To defeat the minotaur known far and wide as the King of the Labyrinth, Zara, the son of the hero Panzel, embarked on a journey of self-improvement. Over the course of his travels, he met many influential figures-including a daughter of the mountains, a...

Sakima, New York, a sleepy, idyllic city nestled in the Hudson Valley, a place where everyone knows each other, families look after the highly prized community garden, and the crime rate is so low that Dr. Laura Powell, the police department's medical examiner, spends...

Even your most deeply buried secrets can find their way back to you.The mysteries of Agatha's past -- which is rife with mythical gods and magical creatures -- threaten to expose themselves when Joseph investigates a noise he hears in the middle of the...

A crown woven together by lies. A kingdom with the power to unravel them. Four Reaches. Four brides. Only a fortnight separates the young women from becoming reluctant queens of the usurper king, Eoghan Rhiagain. Twenty years earlier, King Eoghan's father cunningly devised marriages...

Eugen Bacon's work is deemed cheeky with a fierce intelligence in text that's resplendent, delicious, dark and evocative. NPR called her novel Claiming T-Mo 'a confounding mysterious tour de force.' The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories imbues the same lushness in a...

A chilling tale of African drums and human souls from #1 international bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush lyricist and drummer Neil PeartEarly in their three decades of correspondence, Neil Peart sent Kevin J. Anderson extensive descriptions and travelogues of his adventures...

Joined in a battle for survival, a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody past form a bond that will change their world. Alone since her father's murder, Aurora has spent years hunting his killers. Battle-weary she's ready to start over where...

Set in Williams' New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Queen Miriamele as threats to their kingdom loom... The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace...

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....

Throne of Glass meets Black Jewels in this twisted yet alluring dark fantasy tale.Quinn Darkova, freed from the chains of slavery, wants nothing more than vengeance against those who sold her. But with her dark powers on the rise and her ascension nearing, Quinn's...

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,...

*From the author of The Reformatory--A New York Times Notable Book of 2023* Acclaimed for her novels ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, award-winning author Tananarive Due imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals--a hidden African clan that has survived for...

"I can't stop. After everything they've taken from me, I can't stop." It's time for Ciara to go back to England. To visit old friends. But plans change when England turns out to be more than she was prepared for. Her past and present...

THE FANTASY BOOKTOK SENSATION! For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom--but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a...

"You will damn us all." Kiri Helena Solene thought her trial was over. She was wrong. Prophesied to be the strongest of her kind, Helena is still coming to terms with the depth of her power and what it means to rule. Unfortunately, there's...

The die is cast. During one of his usual raids, the young man who has come to be known as Goblin Slayer discovers a ring that glows with a mysterious, fiery light. In his quest to identify it, he's introduced to Arc Mage, an...

'It's much more than most creature features, it has heart and thought, and a superb, head-on horror conclusion. The best Hunter Shea I've read so far and by more than a little.' - Eddie Generous (Unnerving Magazine) The monsters live inside of Kate Woodson....

Ten years ago, the Kinslayer returned from the darkness. His brutal Yorughan armies issued from the pits of the earth, crushing all resistance, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones toppled and cities fell. And then he died. Celestaine-one of the heroes that destroyed...

For five hundred years the Gods have united the Three Lands in harmony. Now that balance has been shattered, and chaos threatens. A town burns and flames light the night sky. Hunted and alone, seventeen year old Eric flees through the wreckage. The mob...

The fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts. Los Angeles is burning. During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering...

Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . . So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called "the Angela Carter of the fantasy field"--a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning...

An adult fantasy tale that will surely resonate with young adult readers, Ashes to Fire is the story of a queen's desperate journey to secure peace, and the even greater journey to discover herself. Ashes to Fire is the captivating and adventurous follow-up to...

Upon receiving a vision of his nephew forced into following in his family's footsteps of protecting the world from evil, John Salvatore sets out to change the future before Dominic's time comes. After learning that the coming apocalypse was to be led by Z臧d...

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...

THE DIE IS CAST.After his sister is brutally murdered during a goblin raid, a young boy swears vengeance upon the creatures who killed not only her but also the rest of his village. Five years later and now a novice adventurer, he is by...

2017 Reprint of 1909 Edition. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily...

Cassandra Khaw returns with A Song for Quiet, a new standalone Persons Non Grata novella from the world of Hammers on Bone, finalist for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, and which Kameron Hurley called "a long leap into the gory, the...

Mistress Gideon is a witch. The locals of Edda's Meadow, if they suspect it of her, say nary a wordAuthor: Angela SlatterISBN-10: 0765385260ISBN-13: 9780765385260Publisher: TordotcomLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2015Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.36dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/31/2015

Best Book of 2015 by Amazon Barnes and Noble BuzzFeed - "Promises to be breathtaking." --Robin Hobb The Song of the Shattered Sands: Book OneSharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve...

Two misfits, Carys Price and Angharad 'Hazard' Evans, strike out from their disenfranchised seaside town to take ownership of the High Fields, a mythical island brimming with world-bending promise.Objecting to the demands of modern society, they hope to find a place where they can...

Ember believes she's a latent wolf until she finds herself facing a demon using hellfire. The black flames trigger something within her and the world as she knows it is dumped on its head. Has her entire life been nothing but a lie?Tied to...

Jack Reacher Meets Jason Bourne in a fantasy world. With Dragons! Relentless. Unstoppable. Dragon. With his memory returning, Stratus finally knows who--and what--he is. He is a dragon, brought low by the hand of a dark magician known as the Worm King, separated from...

"Visceral battles, complex politics, and fascinating worldbuilding bring Devin's words to life."―Anna Stephens, author of Godblind War rages as one empire falls and another rises in its ashes in the action-packed sequel to Devin Madson's bold epic fantasy, We Ride the Storm. There is...

The Signalman returns in The Tindalos Asset. "Her stories saturate the mind with color...There is simply nothing out there quite like her."--The New York Times on Caitl n R. Kiernan A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out,...

Clive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world -- the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites -- in this...

Have you ever wondered what is at the beginning of the universe? Have you ever thought that it was perfect at the beginning? The beginning of the universe was a wonderful place, and might have been so because many weren't born in poverty or...

When a night out leads to tragedy, one life ends and a new one begins! Despite her best efforts, Dina's life felt ordinary - until the night her life was threatened by otherworldly forces. Now plunged into the extraordinary, Dina discovers a mysterious realm...

From out of left field, beyond the Pale, farther than stars, nearer than you think. G. O. Clark, telling stories in Bradburyesque fashion, takes you to the odd sides of life, where what you think is real might be an illusion, and what you...

Jude is dragged out of Alt-Country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and the boundless, insatiable loneliness, to scrub up and fly to Australia for a last, desperate comeback tour. Hardly worth getting out of bed for-and he wouldn't,...

After a long and brutal conflict, the war is over. Otto controls all the portals on the continent and Garenland has made vassals of the other kingdoms. But some people can't accept defeat. While Otto hunts King Villares in Rolan, Axel chases Prince Uther...

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's Black Jewels novels have enthralled readers and critics alike. Now, in Twilight's Dawn, she returns to the Blood realm with four captivating novellas... WINSOL GIFTS Daemon is settling into his first year of married life with his...