Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Betrayal brings grave ending to a noble bloodline. Forced to flee, its sole surviving heir is spared this fate by the timely intervention of a haunter of the wilds. In his charge, the maiden embraces the lore of the dark arts and rises to...

What does one do as the burden of their home? The one people barely tolerate? Hiding away seems like the best option, but solitude is no place for a young mind.Noname, a hated citizen of Elikai, asks these questions every day of her life....

The reward for an alliance successfully negotiated. That's all I was supposed to be. The Kings of the Kraterra might not take wives, but they do need heirs. Bearing an heir seems like a simple assignment, and it's one that shouldn't come with any...

Ionna has never given up hope of reuniting with her lost son. A selkie who willingly gave up her seal skin for the love of a villager, Ionna ended up trapped between two worlds. Mist separates her husband's sleepy seaside village from the wide...

If a man is unable to dream, can insanity be far behind? Edward Grimm is a talented wood carver living in 18th century Germany. He has made a fine living for himself carving carousel horses for royalty, but his heart and soul are dark.Grimm...

What if there was truth to the vampire myth? And what if your fate was bound to that truth?Desperate to escape her abusive stepbrother, Blaire accepts a scholarship to the exclusive private university Blackthorn Academy. Surrounded by Vasirian-the root of vampire myth-Blaire fears she...

A traveler? Excellent! But I think you and I already know each other, right? Well, it doesn't matter. I guess you're here for the same thing as last time: adventures, adventures, and more adventures right? Yes, yes, yes, of course... Ah! I see you...

A murder. A secret. A promise.Gretchen Lauterbach's grandmother asks her to fulfill a strange request that involves her older sister Rachel--who's been exiled from the family for the past five years--as well as giving her a map. In this case, instead of an X...

A handsome stranger in the dark crevices of her memories and dreams. A confused teenager who wants to run away from a tragedy. And a life about to be turned upside down."In the shadow" is a suspenseful coming-of-age dark fantasy novel filled with stomach-churning...

Enter the wild and fantastical world of Forbidden Futures Magazine! Brace yourself for epic adventures and thrilling magic as you follow JESSE BULLINGTON'S thamaturgical conundrum in "Too Much Wizard Business," JOHN R. FULTZ as he crashes a barbarian banquet in "Tears Of The Elohim,"...

From New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd comes a complex tale of dark magic, family secrets, and monsters that don't stay on the page. "A propulsively charming nightmare, pooling like spilled ink across your imagination." -- Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author...

From a distance, she looks like his lost love. But he has no idea how deep her waters run, or how dark. The devil is in the details...About to lose his shot at tenure, Marco Adamos, a 40-year-old theoretical physicist, is sailing on stormy...

Reaching TitanLand was like entering a Sci-Fi set fog coated the inside of the park, making it hard to see anything from the outside. Seeing the way it looked, you knew magic was containing the fog; otherwise, it would have covered the entire area...

According to ancient laws, mythical beings and humans can't be together. Still, Ezekiel, a human, meets Jenilia, a mythical being, and their fate becomes tied together by many unfortunate events. Farah, the second born of the sovereign of Evov, has slowly been implementing her...

Groundbreaking, intriguing, and captivating, New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Reflection on Mount Vitaki sets the stage to launch her acclaimed Fey series into exciting new territory.When Kyra Row Kirilli feels the pull of the mysterious reflection on the mountain across...

The Judges of Origin continues the story of the Freaks of Origin. Fox is dying and in a foreign country. It's a race against the clock to meet his goals. Will he survive? Meanwhile in Origin, people are becoming increasingly aware of powers. It...

My name is Zera Grey, and I am a former slave who freed herself from the Trades by signing my life to the Black Shadows Guild. It wasn't an easy life but it was way better than captivity and abuse, especially when you consider...

She is his greatest weakness.He is her grimmest threat.They need to break their fate-bond- or die.Salma is haunted by the truth of who she is and why she was brought to the Manor. She must break the tainted bond she shares with its Master...

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 call me jester, dancer, trickster, lover.I exist to entertain. But behind my...

Long live the king... if only they can find him.The Kheld King, Stefan Stauberg-Randolph, is dead. He leaves behind a land in chaos.His brother Handurin is rightful heir to once-mighty Essera... only Handurin is missing. Safely ensconced in another reality, he doesn't remember who...

'Dragons once led our people across the wastelands, away from storms, and toward hunting grounds.'That's what the elders say, but eleven-year-old Akrist has squinted at empty skies his whole life. The dragons have abandoned them, and it's Akrist's fault. He's cursed. Like every other...

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel...

"The way the characters are written and the way the story is told is pure perfection." - Sierra Mclean (Professional Editor)Darkness has never been so tempting...The warrior angels of Heaven are stuck in the captivity of Lucifer; the deadliest Fallen angel in existence. In...

A fantastical coming-of-age meets the existential detective novel.A young boy grapples with the fact his best friend has vanished from existence while a homeless man stalks and constructs a delusional dime-store fiction around the child.Yan, a teenager living in Bangkok, wakes to a changed...

Yashvi Jain was born in the year of 2009 in Ahmedabad (India). Currently she is pursuing her secondary school studies in Singapore. Her hobbies include art, skating, coding, football and baking. She is very fond of reading books. She developed her taste for the...

LET IT BE is a TALL tale about Death falling in love with a human. Set on the eve of the Day of The Dead, it is a supernatural thriller dripping with erotic conversation beyond words. This night, the object of Death's attraction, YEATS...

Prepare to delve into the darkest corners of the universe with Forbidden Futures: In this issue, JEFFREY THOMAS takes readers on a journey through unspeakable alternate universes in "The Probe," while ORRIN GREY trades in his face for a myriad of "Masks" and MATTHEW...

There's a thin line between animal and man. A line that's about to be crossed.Jack and Allen need a break. They've decided to spend the summer before their senior year of college out in Western Massachusetts. But their quest for rest and relaxation comes...

Dinner at an ancient Cornish inn leads to one baffling disappearance after another in the latest intriguing Ishmael Jones mystery. "It's just a nice weekend, in a nice country inn. Nothing bad is going to happen ..." Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are...

So Called Traitors follows three sisters, Sirien, Amalie and Davina, who live secretly in a world where their tribe is hunted and killed, or enslaved. They must settle their differences and come together to escape this life and find freedom. The sisters, born with...

Legend has it that the first waterfall was created when an angry sea god threw his trident into a cliff with such force that the cliff split open, spewing water like a volcanic eruption. Through the eyes of Nereid, daughter of this angry sea...

The wealthy Vrana family lives comfortably in the outskirts of Asterbury, away from the streets and near the vast and peaceful Reditum forest. When a mysteriously wounded girl appears in the snowy city streets, the family's comfort begins to change into tension. People begin...

Omari Ket's world ranging adventures continue in Eda Blessed II. A collection of nine new stories span Omari's indentured service with the Mikijen to his journeys and a freelance mercenary. Omari fights, lies and runs his way across Ki Khanga, guided by an unknown...

Claimed (1920) 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. Claimed, her final novel, has been recognized as a powerful tale of dark fantasy for...

Life is a circle. Within its turning resides Witches whose souls are capable of transmigration thereby making them all but immortal, ordinary humans called Tanai, and aliens, some of whom possess certain abilities with magic. Within the circle resides conflict. Life is a circle....

Penthesilea, originally appeared in two parts in the French periodical La Nouvelle Revue, but never heretofore published in book form, was author Georges de Lys' second major contribution to the subgenre of neo-Romantic accounts of moeurs antiques, following on the heels of the Biblical...

The River Stallions plot to dominate the criminal underworld in North Port, a newly reclaimed ruin in the Deathlands. Then Lord Malicoat hires the crew of scoundrels to track down a dangerous secret--while they make their move to organize crime. Can they handle corrupt...

There are few things worse than being on the Arcane Bureau of Investigation's naughty list.To keep myself out of hot water, I've made a deal with the devil-using my skills as a grave talker to help the ABI solve some very cold cases.But there...

When a stranger shows up and infects almost everyone Matt Tanner knows with the zombie virus that destroyed the world fifteen years prior, he's forced to make a decision: Flee with only a handful of survivors, or stay in the mountains and rebuild.But when...

A desire for Light. A mark for Dark. A fate that would change the world. Sierra Grey is a Daughter of the Dark, she's a wicked witch. As good as she is at being bad, it never felt right to her. There was always...

McKenzie Miller lost both her parents to a crime of passion at a young age and shuffled from foster home to foster home. She finally took control of her own life and lived on the streets. Now she's an adult and has a hard-wired...

Writers write because they want other people to know what they have discovered on their journeys. What they discover might be beautiful beyond compre-hension, or terrifying beyond our most terrible nightmares.The Scarlet Petal: Beauty has no choice but to go with the Beast after...

Paulette Monot, vampire-adventuress, having survived the Matabele War in Africa, leaves England to travel in the opposite direction: to America, there to recuperate, make her fortune, and keep a low profile. So much for good intentions. When she finds herself strongly attracted to Lucy...

Cinn will never die. It should have made him powerful.It didn't.On the run, being hunted by a cruel princess trying to discover the secrets of his immortality, and chased by wild beasts that want to feast on him for eternity, Cinn would do anything...

In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her - but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died...

Griffin O'Shea is trapped.Again. His prison sentence was supposed to end when the magic keeping the Dark Fae captive in Myrkur finally fell. But when King Egan's army clashed with the armies of Iskalt and Fargelsi on the battlefield, there was no winner and...

Steve doesn't know who he is.Or who he was.He doesn't know anything, actually.Not even where he is.Other than a vast open field of dirt.All Steve knows is that he's apparently supposed to build a farm. At least that's his only workable assumption. Given the...

Just when I think things can't get any crazier...I found out why I can talk to animals and monsters. I met my father and I wasn't quite expecting his answers. But he does command several legions of demons and he's working on getting more...

When good men forsake the light, humanity pays the price, and the dead collect. Vas was raised to be a clerical healer who channels the Light of Heaven. When he loses his uncle, Vas rejects the Light and embraces necromancy to resurrect him at...

In the wastelands that remain after the apocalypse... Subject T--Thresher--never expected to be free from his life as an experiment, but now that he's escaped into the outside world--a world transformed after the Yellowstone volcano erupted--he's determined to never go back. Life as a...