Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Dark academia meets forbidden paranormal romance in this new mashup of Crave and Gothikana. Welcome to Preston Academy-watch your back, the walls have ears. You have been warned. Avery, a criminal, scarred and haunted by her past, finds herself at the Preston Academy -...

Tomas Piety has everything he ever wanted. In public he's a wealthy, highly respected businessman, happily married to a beautiful woman and governor of his home city of Ellinburg. In private, he's no longer a gang lord, head of the Pious Men, but one...

The Little Mermaid meets Loki in this dark, twisted retelling that's anything but a Fairy Tale. In this world, foes look like friends, the heroes are deliciously wicked, and you'll never see the end coming.Ten years ago, I 'died', and it was the best...

PLEASE NOTE: This hardcover edition of Runeheart has a dust jacket. For a non-jacketed copy, please purchase the copy with ISBN # 9798986892726.Rune is a two-centuries-old werewolf who has spent his life seeking to give meaning to his curse while atoning for the damage...

It's not paranoia if it's real. "If you want a thrilling read with some solid creepy elements, this book is for you!" --Jonathan Pongratz, author of Reaper '...the storyline had me on the edge of my seat -- really hard to put down. You...

Black-Eyed Saint is a horrifying tale set in the Mortal Realms by Dale Lucas. A girl stumbles across the moors, death hard on her heels. To her saviours, she speaks of Calignius - a smog-shrouded mining town deep in the mountains that has been...

Crown Princess Labeth has grown up hearing the gruesome tales of the Jemalgee like everyone else. Creatures of darkness that travel in clouds of black smoke when they're not possessing someone to satisfy their corrupt desires. When she comes face-to-face with one, it does...

Giants dwell the world over. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some with enormous bodies and some, occasionally, without. You may find them striding across the Salisbury Plain, wading through the oceans, or residing in the forests of a distant planet. The one...

In the tale of Twilightton, David, a poor orphan from a dying village, was constantly teased for his deformed body. He was pale and bony and had no friends. Growing up was not easy for him. However, anyone can rise to the occasion in...

Brethren turn to enemies, and enemies to allies.Constantine bows to Keket as he recalls his former self, but the faith of the mad priest conflicts with his loyalty to the queen. As the dark queen wreaks havoc aboard the Redeemer, the priest must choose...

The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!Volume 5 ends the series with twenty dark fantasy stories. And Rusch and Smith do dark fantasy better than any two writers working today.For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn...

*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...

Dragons being hunted for sport caused the race to panic as their numbers dwindled. One dragon discovered that she could use magic to shape-shift into the human form and breed with them. Over the course of a thousand years, a new race emerged: dragonblood....

I have a bone to pick...but first I need to catch it.A tantalizing clue about Cameron Blaze's past teases her with possible answers to long-sought questions. What secrets was her mother keeping? How do those secrets weave through Cam's evolving magic? Who is on...

This special edition glossy full-wrap hardback features exclusive character art and interior designs.The king of the Court of Love wants me dead, the queen wants me in her bed, and the prince... He wants the only piece of me I will never surrender. They...

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice! Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good...

In this installment of the bestselling Gunnie Rose series, sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia, as well as brother Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma--only to break apart before the Wizard's Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates.Lizbeth Rose is...

Everyone has their demons. Star has Crow. Star is the client whisperer in Crow's business model.Crow identifies some poor soul, marked for death, and gaining ground in the fight against their own demons. Star finesses the client, breaking the news of their imminent demise....

In the lands of Deyadrum, where every Fae possesses power, Princess Emma is the only one forced without. Confined in the walls of her palace by her father, she's desperate for a taste of freedom.That is, until she discovers the truth: everything she thought...

It is a turning point in the history of Ketos. Pitted against one another through the actions of a renegade general by the name of Vorkalth. The empire of Man has already fallen to his heels, and he sets his sights upon the nearby...

One night was all it took.I should have stayed away. I should have thrown away her scarf, banished Esmeralda from my mind, body, and soul, and never thought or spoke of her again. That would have been the best thing, the right thing.But our...

Villagers were always warned that monsters live outside the gates, but when a young boy named Vren is cast out, he finds a home in the world beyond, in Whiting Award winner Molly Gloss's classic fantasy novel.Vren has always been told that the world...

Ancient evils that should never have been forgotten and secrets that should never have been lost. These are what have shattered our world and will break all those that grow from Creation. Worlds will perish and the Ashen Soul will rise. Undead forces are...

Not all fairy tales end with happily ever after.In a time when a new breed of fairies is not beholden to the old covenants that have governed the relationship between mankind and fairies for centuries, the Bone Collectors Guild has risen as a force...

Two sisters, separated and alone in a world gone mad. They carry with them the bizarre fairy tales their father gifted them, stories where celebrities are demigods, and historical figures are ice giants. Violin, desperately searching for her younger sister, goes to the only...

The fifty-eight extraordinary pieces which make up Spells, though brief, most being just a page or two in length, are grandiose in their ambition. These miniatures, which are bathed in the light of violet suns and wrapped in the beams of the old moons,...

Elara: As an infant, I was abandoned on the steps of a church.My childhood was spent in an abusive foster home.At nineteen, I killed someone.Not long after, three men in black cloaks kidnap me and whisk me through a magical portal to a world...

A caged beast and a scorned songbird.As luck would have it, Captain Phantom is trapped beneath the thumb of the Minister. If he escapes, he dooms the people of Kheli to slaughter. Without his ship or his devils, he's forced to play along with...

Book Two in the Strings of Fate series.MAGIC WILL RETURN. Darkness is poised to descend upon Fythnar, and with his true identity revealed, Elijah quickly learns that he is the land's best hope against the impending threat of Bonemire. He cannot face Valdis' dark...

A prequel to the lauded Coldfire trilogy, Friedman's latest novel mixes the best of dark fantasy and chilling sci-fi. A ship full of colonists arrive on a seemingly hospitable planet, only to discover that it harbors a terrifying secret. Soon the settlers find themselves...

In the third and final book of The Healer's Trilogy fantasy novel series, Sharon Skinner brings the story of Kira to an epic conclusion. "You are who you are because of your choices, " Heresta's voice whispered in her head. "You cannot walk another's...

WHEN HOPE FALTERS, HOW STRONG WILL YOU BE?After a neck-breaking escape from the fairylands, Sanja has just settled into her new life in Cezux when the consequences hit hard. She survived the fairy king, but to save Tristan and the Mages, she sacrificed what...

The old gods will rise. Humanity will fall.Ben Henare has forsaken his Maori heritage: choosing the modern world over a life following the old ways. His best friend, Lucy Champion, is a woman of logic: training to become a doctor, she believes only in...

When you're surrounded by giants you spend every moment of your life dodging feet.Ysili Ronar was born in in a castle, the son of an ambassador and direct descendant of one of the first wizards. Or was he?He was born with unnaturally blue hair...

He's the king of the sea. She's a pirate captain. Together they must save the middle realm. Two months have passed since Travion, ruler of Midniva, nearly met his demise during an attack on his kingdom. Now, he's seeking to restore his realm, but...

Our lands are fractured.Split into three since before my birth.... but they were not always this way.Once we prospered, magic filling our lands before it was locked away with them.The monsters.Now we suffer, we starve even as our king grows stronger.Richer.And then one day...

In a god blessed realm, where lies are the weapon of rulers, Snowlin held perhaps the sharpest blade there was.After falling for a lie and ruling over another, Snowlin starts revealing her dealing hand. Two queens and a joker. Isjord hanging by her carefully...

Korey Winter, a werewolf still coming to grips with the underworld, chaperones a freshly bitten colleague across country to the rumoured Night Keep - a place where monsters are granted asylum and true magic is performed. Unless Imogen's curse can be lifted before the...

As a devotee of the Faceless Maiden's temple. Erren has been tasked with welcoming worshippers from all corners of Kraterra's empire. The Faceless Maiden is a goddess of love, and her priestesses are merely vessels who serve a greater purpose. Wayward hunters, fearsome orcs,...

There is salvation beyond the darkness. If only you'll reach out and take it...With Evenar on the edge of starvation, prophecies are the last hope for a kingdom in ruin. Their unwilling princess, Lunielle, is forced to uphold their demands, sending her on a...

The Phenomenalist is a work of metafiction in the avant-garde style of David Markson (Wittgenstein's Mistress), Jesse Ball (The Way Through Doors), Paul Auster (City of Glass), and others. And thematically, this book is much akin to Dostoyevsky's (The Double), Nabokov's (Despair), and Sarama[o's...

The new religion left no place in Havenston for a human witch like Etain. It not only jeopardizes her safety and livelihood, but threatens a fiery death as well. That didn't mean she was prepared to be stolen away to the Fae Realm. Ciaran...

Action, intrigue, and magic collide in the second book in an epic fantasy trilogy, where Sir Konrad Vonvalt's role as an Emperor's Justice requires him to be a detective, judge, and executioner all in one--but these are dangerous times to be a Justice ....

A resident of the Brim planetoid survives a global catastrophic event which blocks regular sunlight and shades the land in textures of gray during single day cycles. He suffers memory loss during a totalitarian government takeover of the planetoid amidst environment ruins. Government overlords...

The Arcane War has ended. The gods are defeated, and most are dead.Not all, however. The survivors are determined to make the wizards pay. Blood for blood, death for death, the twin gods of war are eager for revenge. Together, they set into play...

From J. Bree, bestselling author of The Bonds That Tie, comes an epic and enthralling new romantasy series.I devoted my life to a king who was not my own.On the road to ultimate honor and glory, I lost everything.Now, in a world ravaged by...

Gripping, imaginative, and a tour-de-force of thrilling storytelling, New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Kirilli Matter launches her acclaimed Fey series into exciting new territory.When the investigation of a brutal murder scene points to terrifying suspects, Augusta Kirilli must find a...

In a world where children are exploited, monsters are saviors, and dark magic presides, a little girl will go to any lengths to be reunited with her lost ones. After the disappearance of her parents, a heartbroken child is sold to the Doll-Maker who...

Flames This Strong Never DieLove. It's not something a Ferryman, a Prince of the Netherworld, ever hoped to attain. Yet, for Kharon Nyx, it's the one thing he is sure of. Rae Vereen loves him. Despite his villainous past her love kindled a fire...

Flames This Strong Never DieLove. It's not something a Ferryman, a Prince of the Netherworld, ever hoped to attain. Yet, for Kharon Nyx, it's the one thing he is sure of. Rae Vereen loves him. Despite his villainous past her love kindled a fire...