Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

"Ultimately, it is the feminist themes that shine throughout that make this not only a worthwhile read for any fantasy fan, but a series that will stand the test of time. Khan has proved herself a master of the genre by telling a timely,...

From the critically acclaimed author of Sea of Rust and Queen of the Dark Things comes a hair-raising collection of short fiction that illuminates the strange, humorous, fantastical, and downright diabolical that tantalize and terrorize us: demons, monsters, zombie dinosaurs, and Death itself.In the...

They executed Alvard Lestrange for treason.A necromancer.A wielder of Death Magic.This is the story of his victims, trapped in mundane objects for three centuries.This is the story of the lives they will, unwittingly or maliciously, destroy.12 authors. 12 stories. 12 souls, all caught in...

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator's sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to almost uninhabitable. The sun has killed...

This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away. The rules are strict and absolute: Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit.Rule No. 2: Never mention your previous name again.Rule No. 3: Don't talk about your previous life. Ever. But what...

Author: Lee MandeloISBN-10: 1250790298ISBN-13: 9781250790293Publisher: TordotcomLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2022Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.20w x 1.10d

A woman with no memory of her past. Another unable to forget. Both haunted by a sinister creature of roses and shadow with an unquenchable thirst for royal blood. Return to the world of the Black Rose. ***Volume II in the Tales of the...

Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world. Critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to...

Alanis August went to bed on the night of her 18th birthday and awoke to a battle between her pack and Alpha Raymond. Her parents are both murdered by the ruthless Alpha, and Alpha Raymond takes her prisoner. Alanis is terrified after being kept...

The world of Alda is broken, destroyed by an event the survivors call "The Rupture." The aldyrs, magical trees connected to the soul of the world which once grew in breathtaking groves, are dead. Elf-kind, who shared a close bond with these trees, are...

"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...

From the creator of the Beautiful Nightmare book series comes a hauntingly enchanting villain origin story. If you enjoy dark fantasy romance, vampires, dark powers and more, dive into the world of Chartreuse Grenoble.Even villains deserve happy endings...Undeniably Female. Unquestionably Feral. Unquenchably Famished.It's been...

When 7-year-old Nathaniel Weaver is kidnapped by his imaginary friend, the only person who can find him is his social worker. Child welfare agent Adrian Montgomery lives a life of routine, reason, and careful compartmentalization. But his search for Nathaniel leads him through a...

Unravel the threads of destiny in this gripping Greek mythology tale.In a single moment, Pandora lost the only person she cared for. For refusing to aid a tyrannical order, Zeus bound Prometheus in eternal torment. But Pandora's beloved left her a gift: a puzzle...

In moments personal... or moments strange... a gnawing can be felt that wears down the core of our souls. Whether it be from a situation, an experience, a thought, or an entity, the same effect is always produced. The more this phenomena occurs, the...

Freedom was more treacherous than she ever imagined.Nimona Weston's debts are paid. Her contract with the dark society known as the Trust is broken. But the magical ties that bind her to a long-ago bargain are rooted deep.She's thrust back into the life she'd...

A broken-hearted priestess and a deposed prince team up with a ranger and a rebel with one too many secrets. In the name of The Allmother, they go to war to save their lands. A coup in a neighboring kingdom brings threats of invasion...

A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill-ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway combines two great flavors of weird: the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H.P. Lovecraft. Horror legend Brian Keene and cult storytelling master Nick Matamas dredge up...

AWARD-WINNING DARK FANTASY WITH ACTION, SNARK, AND DEMONS GALORE "If you love action-packed dark edged urban fantasy with mystery, humor and a lot of foul language then check this one out." - Sharon Stogner, I Smell Sheep Straight out of the pages of the...

In the not too distant future, the Earth's corporate giants and surviving governments decide the cleansing of the overpopulated planet is a necessity. In collusion advertising campaigns draw in the desperate, the fanatic and the soldier for the first colonization of an extraterrestrial body....

In Forget the Sleepless Shores, readers should expect to be captivated by many ghosts and spirits who inhabit brine, some from tears of heartache and loss, some from strange bodies of water, not necessarily found on the map but discovered through charting a course...

"Enter a Saga of Worlds within Worlds."In the world of Adamah, there stand two opposing forces: The Benevolency and The Malevolency. Through the tear between rifts of the Four Worlds, evil had risen and begun to cause devastation throughout the Worlds. Now, only the...

When Zo's campervan leaves her stranded in an unfamiliar part of Sydney, she impulsively decides to stay at a bed and breakfast while repairs are being made.As the days stretch into weeks, Zo begins to feel stuck. There are signs the house is not...

i love you In order to end the bloody rampage wrought by Lewis, Alice, and their army, the demand is made for Kaito Sena--crystal-bound savior of all--to be offered up in sacrifice. Elisabeth would sooner see the world end a thousand times over than...

In a modest Manhattan walk-up, a group of survivors are on their last legs. As the end seems nigh, a teenage girl is spotted on the avenue, not only alive but repelling the undead like Moses parting the Red Sea. When she comes to...

The mist has thickened with a vendetta. A bounty has been offered for answers.And no one's story is safe.It's been six months since the Storm of Nightmares and Bria has not gone home. With wanted signs plastered throughout Rosada, she has been stuck chasing...

October 1988IN A MOMENT OF DESPERATION Od pressed the button set deep in the wood of the scarebox, and unknowingly pushed Ed's soul out of his body.For some reason Ed's Body can still walk and talk, but it isn't behaving like Ed, and it...

Lodestone-peddler Melaine is desperate to stop hustling her raw magic for a tuppence. Her rare gift of infusing her magic into a lodestone to sell for another's use and never keeping any for herself is nothing but a degrading path to an early grave.Yearning...

Boys want attention. Men want respect. Legends just don't care...Nate Temple is finally taking some time off to appreciate the finer things in life...like his new Valkyrie, K疵a. But their weeks of romance come to a swift end and lethal end when assassins invade...

Award-winning artist Wayne Barlowe returns to his epic dark fantasy world with this sequel to God's Demon--The Heart of Hell--where rival demons war for control of the infernal domain. Sargatanas has Ascended and the doomed, anguished souls have found themselves emancipated. Hell has changed...hasn't...

A deadly gift. A terrible choice. Sometimes the price is too high...After Del Larouche defeats the Gris-gris man, she struggles to find her place in the adult world. She just wants a normal life. But her horrible 'gift' means her life will never be...

"Become the greater monster."The God of Order marches on, approaching victory with every stride. Frustrated with the stagnation of politics, Etoli takes matters into her own hands, resolving to find the reborn God and defeat him herself-with the help of her favorite half-demon, of...

A biker and a cowboy must fight the coming apocalypse in the second book of the Blood and Bone contemporary western fantasy series. It's the End of Days, and Gabe and Remi--an ex-con biker and a Texas cowboy--have been conscripted to join the heavenly...

WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND? ​Puk Puck's plan to reform the Magical Kingdom is proceeding smoothly now that she has the help of her new friends Shadow Gale and Snow White...but friendship only goes so far. Uluru has defected from the Puk Faction in...

The Night Land (1912) is a terrifying tale of romance and fantasy in which William Hope Hodgson imagines humanity at the end of the world. Noted for its creative exploration of concepts such as telepathy, futuristic technologies, and reincarnation, Hodgson's novel is an indisputable...

Abigail Kane always lived a perfectly normal life for a witch, that is, until she finds her parents murdered by a rival coven. With the murderer still at large, Abby is sent into hiding at a boarding school in England. But is she really...

The newly fallen angels have quickly adapted and are using their abilities to advantage in their new world. The humans are not happy. The archangels are not happy. The imp is not happy. Sam has not only found herself ruling Hel but also responsible...

Untested young rulers must cooperate to protect their world from the magical threat of the mysterious kingdom of Norsunder in a new epic fantasy trilogy set in the same world as the popular Inda series. Long-dormant magical forces are moving once again in Sartorias-deles....

The High Citadel cannot be seen to harbor a killer.This is a simple truth, and one that Raz i'Syul Arro has little choice but to respect. As the winter storms fall away in favor of the North's pleasant summer months, Raz finds himself having...

After a brutal and unnatural death, Emma is reborn as a Fury, a descendant of the mythological deities who were tasked with the judgment of man. Now, she along with her fellow Fury must protect the delicate balance of peace between humans and the...

This standalone portal fantasy transports unsuccessful rockstar Theo Vilmos from modern California to a land of magic and mystery Returning to the fantasy genre that made him a coast-to-coast best-selling phenomenon, Tad Williams writes this stand-alone contemporary fantasy novel, set in Northern California--and also...

All power comes at a price...Ruxandra learned everything she knew growing up in a convent. Training to be the perfect nobleman's wife, she relished the prospect of a simple life. But everything changes when her father, Vlad Dracula, retrieves her on her 18th birthday....

This single-volume edition features a pair of H. P. Lovecraft's best and most popular tales of horror and fantasy: "The Call of Cthulhu," praised by Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard as "a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of...

She hunts the realm's most dangerous game.Her fees are exorbitant.She's worth every coin she receives.Or is she? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain--grateful to her...

From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish Fear comes from the hands of prophets. . . The final installment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun...

Khan has created a rich, well-crafted world that will appeal to readers of S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass (2017) or Erika Johansen's The Queen of the Tearling -- BooklistThe second novel in Ausma Zehanat Khan's powerful epic fantasy quartet, a series that lies...

The Citadel of Fear (1918) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some of the twentieth century's greatest science fiction stories and novels. The Citadel of Fear, her debut novel, has been recognized as a...

Witch VampBy: Gabby SeilerWitch Vamp tells the story of Rachel, a young girl who discovers the man she thought was her father really isn't. In an effort to get to know her biological father better, she moves in with him and is stunned to...

In the final book of the Ash and Sand trilogy, Ruka, son of Beyla, faces the emperor of the world, yet even victory may not save his people...With the death of his ally, Farahi Alaku, Ruka 'Godtongue' is alone. Or not exactly... The island...

Deadly magic, a handsome knight, and an evil queen.Yula is a mage, but her volatile magic brings nothing but unhappiness.After the death of her beloved sister, she is sentenced to serve the Sisters of the Light who use their powers to protect villagers from...