Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

The world is all we know, claims the philosopher Wittgenstein. But Professor Dean Kirby is painfully learning this is not so, for his new neighbor in the mid-state swamps of Florida has turned his wife into a zombie, has turned him into something taunted...

Dion Fortune's first magical mentor was the Irish occultist and Freemason Theodore Moriarty. She had befriended him while still involved in psychotherapy, believing that he could help one of her patients, a young man who had been fighting on the Western Front and claimed...

Would you trust one evil to save you from another?Legendary monster hunter Biff Stone vanished without a trace at the height of the disco era, leaving behind no clue as to his fate. Almost fifty years later, but somehow not a day older, he...

Everything you were afraid to find out about the heat of noon and grandma's old tales comes together in this English language debut of an award-winning and bestselling young Russian writer. What if summer never ends? The residents of a village outside Moscow wake...

Konta and his tribe live in a world where changing seasons bring forth increasingly dangerous creatures. Uttering as much as a sound can mean the difference between life and death.Even in the direst circumstances, his people forge onward, determined to survive. From the calm...

Do mercenaries and mages mix?Carina Lin has fought torturers, vengeful clans and the forces of darkness to free her mage family, but her fight is not over yet.She returns to the planet where she discovered clues to mage history and lore, hoping to find...

In Riverhold the sun moves just a degree an hour, slowly bringing the long night behind it. Every seven years with darkness comes death as the flessen return. Stalking the nights, they seek the heat and light of their prey to satisfy their hunger....

An original new series, with heart-pounding suspense and surprising twists. Meet Louie Thorne. They didn't kill her--and they'll soon regret it. When DEA agent Jack Thorne's house is stormed by vengeful drug lords, both he and his wife are shot dead. Only his daughter...

Enemies make the best allies. ​ Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish,...

Moira just wants a normal life for her daughter, Penelope. And sometimes, it seems like she has achieved it. Penelope is a sweet, smart, and precocious four-year-old girl. However, she is also the product of Moira's affair with an angel. Her parentage gives Penelope...

An unexpected visitor turns everyone's life inside out. Bounty Hunter John Smoke has been at a loss ever since Sidney Shaw's abrupt departure. After weeks of finding no trace of her Smoke has an unanticipated encounter with Reginald, the Doppelganger. Searching for Sidney, Smoke...

These are dark days for England. The Hood is dead. The Sheriff has summoned an ally--one who leads an army sufficient to enter Sherwood and crush the resistance. Then comes news that King Richard is the prisoner of a pagan ruler. What began as...

Evil is everywhere. Through terror and dark sorcery, Prince John wields the power of the throne. Lord and peasant alike meet violent ends as the Sheriff's arcane beasts spread fear and death. A small group of rebels oppose John, striking from Sherwood Forest...the one...

Blood is the most powerful sort of magic there is-a gift, and a curse... "This is what you've been searching for, Ivan. This is the treasure your mother left for you. You couldn't find it because you thought it was lost, but it wasn't....

Following Peter Newman's brilliant debut THE VAGRANT, is the much-anticipated sequel THE MALICE.In the south, the Breach stirs.Gamma's sword, the Malice, wakes, calling to be taken to battle once more.But the Vagrant has found a home now, made a life and so he turns...

Author: Shanora WilliamsISBN-10: 1649379129ISBN-13: 9781649379122Publisher: Entangled: Red Tower BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2025Pages: 512Format: Hardcover

Peace unravels in the Forest of Night. Malice and unrest spread like wildfire through the kingdoms. Tensions between humans and elves teeter on the edge of war-and at the heart of it all stands a lonely young woman.Adopted by a traveling merchant after a...

A GAME OF THRONES MEETS LEGEND OF ZELDA in this adventure fantasy about women's resilience.In the wake of a tragic accident that claimed her memory and her mother's life when she was just fourteen, Stella Aresun is haunted by a past shrouded in secrecy....

Author: Kaylie SmithISBN-10: 1538777363ISBN-13: 9781538777367Publisher: ForeverLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2025Pages: 448Format: HardcoverSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.28d

Author: Kaylie SmithISBN-10: 1538777282ISBN-13: 9781538777282Publisher: ForeverLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2025Pages: 512Format: HardcoverSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.42d

Sometimes the pomegranate doesn't fall far from the tree...Asher Anderson is angry--at the world, at himself, at the way his best friend Lucy Wolfe seems determined to tune out this buzzing connection between them. He doesn't mean to solve all his problems with violence,...

Author: Kathryn BreenISBN-13: 9798218657222Publisher: Kathryn BreenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d

Author: Seanan McGuireISBN-10: 1250339405ISBN-13: 9781250339409Publisher: TordotcomLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 160Format: Hardcover

Sally Delavega, the best demon-binder the world has ever seen, would do anything to banish the two hundred ghosts trapped in his head-even if it means swimming up from the bottom of his tankard. When the Navy that destroyed his life comes sailing back...

In this gripping fantasy adventure, a trickster Fox god challenges a quick-witted acolyte to rally her ancestors with cunning subterfuge...and outright rebellion. "Fox-fleet and brazen, merry and mischievous."--C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of...

Liz, a young librarian, finds herself in Hell after being hit by a bus-confusing, since she doesn't think she's a particularly bad person. Hell isn't how she'd pictured it, either. It's a crumbling bureaucracy with barely enough budget to house and torment souls. Satan...

"If you look at the way critics describe Lovecraft ... they often say he's purple, overwritten, overblown, verbose, but it's un-put-downable. There's something about that kind of hallucinatorily intense purple prose which completely breaches all rules of 'good writing', but is somehow utterly compulsive...

A missing king, a missing princess, and a missing dragonThe world of Umbra Mundus is in shambles. Magick is quickly fading and the clock is ticking.A battle between dark and light is quickly approaching, and the lost princess is their only hope.When eighteen-year-old Alys...

Author: James Rodgers-WoodardISBN-13: 9798218609726Publisher: Sixeight PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2025Pages: 406Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Author: Shen TaoISBN-10: 1250406811ISBN-13: 9781250406811Publisher: BrambleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2026Pages: 400Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

A collection of seven exquisite tales about living, dying, and the horror that lies in between, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story "Elegant, terrifying, provocative."--The Washington Post Book World Welcome to a new kind of terror as Peter Straub...

Immortals + Boredom = Catastrophe Something old and dangerous is awake and influencing the immortals to act in ways they'd only imagined. First, small things like Odin, Anubis and Mab going on separate vacations and leaving their seats of power open for the taking....

In this gripping Gothic thriller set in Victorian London, we enter a world where darkness lurks beneath the veneer of polite society. The story follows Isabella Blackwood, a woman driven by revenge and ambition, as she becomes entangled with the mysterious and murderous Edward...

It was the type of cold that sunk into your bones.Deep darkness shielded ancient footings squirming with night creatures. Climbing the slope brought into view the bridge, emanating its own eerie glow and hanging by a single thread, as if physics held no influence...

ABOUT THE BOOKJimmy Durham and his roommate, Seth Williams, two students at the University of Morganburg in Morganburg, Virginia, move to a basement apartment for their senior year. On the day of the move, Jimmy learns his girlfriend is murdered. Before her death, she...

I was close to losing consciousness, and as water flooded my lungs, only one overpowering thought consumed my existence; I needed to make him leave, or we would both drown here. - Nathaniel Small.Now under the curse of a witch, Deputy Charles Walsh falls...

The dead are rising in the town of Canemill. Shambling corpses? Gossamer ghosts? No, it's worse. Much, much worse. The dead are coming back exactly as they were. With all their debts to collect, attachments to renew, and old scores to settle. As Tom...

When Eva Wilder's husband is executed for treason, she is thrown out of her lavish home and ordered back to Londo City. Once more, she has lost everything because of a man. Never again. But Eva's newfound resolve falters when she discovers a handsome,...

Trigger Warnings: Physical and emotional child abuse. Suicidal ideation. Death.Charlotte spends her time at her wooded cottage home looking after the house and taking care of her younger sisters, Anna and Sadie. While trying to manage a household, she suffers from abuse at the...

In a dark and twisted version of Victorian England, Joanna Wilder moonlights as an unsanctioned apothecary who treats the ailments of her fellow citizens. But there is no cure for her sister's waywardness. When irresponsible Eva disappears five days before her government-arranged wedding, Joanna...

Veronique Dunn has lived on the streets of Londo City since she was eight years old--an orphan in constant danger of being arrested. Three days before her eighteenth birthday, she sees an audition announcement for a new Citizen Symphony. This is her big chance....

STRANGE ISLAND STORIES Islands are, in many ways, the perfect settings for authors looking to craft stories that explore themes such as human isolation, lost civilizations, strange and unusual animal life, the power of nature, the cruelty of man to his fellow man, and...

He came to her handsome and youthful in appearance. He had been alive far longer than she could have imagine. In that time he had faced many dangers, but was she the danger that would undo him and send him to eternal damnation?Author: Marion...

Author Nathan Parks reaches into the depths of what many have considered myth and legend and takes the reader on a ride of twists and turns, forcing them to ask what is fantasy and what is reality. A fantastic blend of strong characters and...

Author: Jason W. MinnsISBN-13: 9798998563997Publisher: Crow LingoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2025Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

Author: Alexis HendersonISBN-10: 0593638328ISBN-13: 9780593638323Publisher: Ace BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.94d

Author: Juliette CrossISBN-10: 125033988XISBN-13: 9781250339881Publisher: BrambleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

Torn between two realms, the fate of a kingdom and my father hang in the balance... I need my mate-a darkly dangerous fae prince-more than ever. And he needs me to help claim his throne. But Ruskin is gone. Disappeared into a place most...

SHE IS A QUEEN WITH A CROWN OF BONES.When the barrier between the Solstice Realm and the Banished Realm is broken, the world descends into chaos. Cursed with the Veiling, Emilia has to grieve the loss of her sister and her friend while learning...

In this thrilling sequel to Great Divide, Emma finds herself caught between a dark past and an uncertain future. As she navigates her new role, haunted by memories she can't escape, she must rely on both old friends and new allies to set things...