Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

A dark fairy tale in a modern Norwegian setting. Ida, a young girl grieving the loss of her mother, is wandering in the snowy wilderness when she meets the mysterious Maja - a huldra from myth and legend. Taking comfort in Maja's kind arms,...

This collection of short stories is for readers of Cat Rector's The Goddess of Nothing At All and Epilogues for Lost Gods. Each story delves a little deeper into the lives of Sigyn, Loki, and the people closest to them. In Winter Comes for...

This collection of short stories is for readers of Cat Rector's The Goddess of Nothing At All and Epilogues for Lost Gods. Each story delves a little deeper into the lives of Sigyn, Loki, and the people closest to them. In Winter Comes for...

When a witch is under a spell, just what is she to do?"So she thinks she can just kill my brother Kane and get away with it, huh? I'll show her! It's okay she'll never see me coming! I'll come at her with everything...

"Do you know what lurks inside a witch's heart? I do.""I'm Astrid, raven turned man companion of formidable witch, Lady Isra. I will do anything to protect her. I've cloaked our home so not a soul can find it.""Then there's the girl, Contessia. She's...

"They say once you go dark, you don't go back. That remains true for me." "I'm Lady Isra, the most ferocious villain in the land or so I hear. The people say a lot about me. They say I am heartless, cold and wicked....

Lady Isra has attained her title "Lady Isra of The Dark" as prophesied by "on high" many years ago. Not only that, but Wretchenheart has a new queen. Some might say it was fate. Others would argue it was going to commence because of...

Isra has come of age at nineteen. Astrid has been banished from Shambre Fell and is destined to remain as a raven for all eternity, but little do the light folk know he's still keeping a close eye on Isra. Isra meets the enchanting...

Isra now walks in the shadows since giving her heart up to the darkness. She finds herself gloating when Everilda shows up but Everilda has her own journey of darkness unbeknownst to Isra when the demonic sorceress Rhiannon reveals a secret that could tear...

With Dac staying behind in Noxwwod and Nikolai being wounded, Harper must reckon with the vampire she has become and all the havoc she had caused when she was hell-bent on getting revenge. Facing herself in the mirror, she only sees herself as a...

A family of three leave their home to start a new life in a town called "Skank Hill Nevada." Only this town wasn't exactly what they always dreamed of. Dealing with their crooked Landlord and their own personal family issues, they then finally meet...

434 B.C. Ancient GreeceSet during the Peloponnesian War, a young orphan will learn the struggles of being the son of a god. What entails the life of a demigod? Wealth? Power? Strength? Adventure? Will an orphan with his wolf best friend take the challenge...

John Ajvide Lindqvist's international bestseller Let the Right One In is "a brilliant take on the vampire myth, and a roaring good story" (New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong), the basis for the multi-film festival award-winning Swedish film, the U.S. adaptation Let Me...

On a return flight from a dream vacation at the Sundial Inn located in the outskirts of New Orleans, Tim and Sara find themselves covered in bruises with no memory of the past three days. The mystery deepens once they learn the inn had...

Short. Readable. Disturbing. The stories in Kaleidoscopes in the Dark paint the more sinister elements of the psyche in technicolour. The collection writhes with black humour, remnants of fairytales and gothic themes.A child carefully crawls through a world of plastic waste in search of...

I want him to hurt. To bleed.I want him to snap, just like he snapped me. Once upon a time, my world was small and sheltered. Everything changed the moment I stepped over my Safety Line, barreling towards a coupling with a man I...

Loss of Two for the Prince of FireElder Souleymane's treachery may have been justified all along. Conveying an offer of peace from the Dark Queen, he seeks salvation in this strange land. Nearing Chesnue by night, however, he makes a fatal mistake.Meanwhile, Healer Dalila...

Good afternoon, Monsieur Le Bon. A good day to you, too, Monsieur Joly. How long has the patient been in a persistent vegetative state? I think since the mid eighties. And the patient is still alive? Yes, Maurice, the brain is still wholly intact,...

A dark fairy tale in a modern Polish setting. A grandmother cares for an ailing dragon... but her compassion puts her own grandchildren in danger.Set on the outskirts of modern Krakow, an elderly woman named Truda feels a sense of duty to look after...

A dark fairy tale in a modern Welsh setting. The lives of a diver and a reclusive mermaid collide. Will one be the death of the other?When Erin comes to the aid of a sea creature caught in fishing nets, she is shocked to...

Someone is killing reporters and journalist Valerie Pierce fears she is next. When no one will believe her, not even the police, Valerie sets out to catch the killer herself. But her plan involves teaming up with her arch nemesis - TV actor Adam...

Leo has cut a deal with the duplicitous Merlot to learn the presumably impossible art of bringing someone back from the dead in exchange for his blood. Ollie and Avery discover where the answer to restoring spiritual balance lies, while Mitch abandons the coven...

Hereditary witch Tamsin Chaney didn't ask to be the Keeper. But you don't mess with centuries of tradition. Even though she'll do everything in her power to keep the Witch Finders of the Dark Faction from gaining possession of the Book of Darkness, she's...

Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance teeming with sensuous vampires, dark academia, plant horrors, and terrifying fungal fae.When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks...

In a world of magical power, merciless evil, and eternal darkness, the only light worth fighting for is the light you can never let die . . . In Underland, hope has nearly been extinguished. There is no sky, only endless stone above. All...

New York Times bestselling author Drew Karpyshyn has long thrilled readers with his kinetic, fast-paced storytelling style. Now he returns with The Scorched Earth, the second novel in his acclaimed series about four young people who will either save the world or bring about...

During the carnage of World War One, James Asher joins forces with the vampires of Europe to counter an even deadlier threat. The vampires call them 'The Others'. Neither living nor dead, the revenants are mindless and unstoppable - and in the carnage of...

Seagrum is a dwarf who gets things done. When the Magister of the Hue and Cry recruits him to solve a little problem that he has with vampires, it seems pretty obvious that he is going to get it sorted. The only question that...

Melrose is very good at hiding. From her sisters, her friends, her memories, the Organisation, and even herself. But the appearance of an old acquaintance stirs things up she would have rather stayed forgotten and now more than the past is threatening to catch...

The Easton family has just moved into their new fixer-upper, a beautiful old house that they bought at a steal, and Alice, the youngest of the family, is excited to explore the strange, new place. Her excitement turns to growing dread as she discovers...

Jack Clarkson wakes up and finds himself in a beautiful meadow filled with flowers and lush green grass, and a giant pine forest looming a hundred yards straight ahead. He has no idea how he got there, nor does he remember seeing such a...

In this fifth and final episode of the series, Tiffany and Chip return to Hollywood, California, where Tiffany's life had tragically ended six months earlier. In the process, they encounter three demons who intend to take them back to Florida, to face the wrath...

Gratification is the new religion. Countless temples cover the last remaining city, Scelus, filled with sex-bots to accommodate the faith. Mira, the figurehead of the resistance, is awoken by her long time team-mate Horatio as a bot. This confirms their worst suspicion, that humans...

Hiram Rho, newest member of the Demonology department at the Royal Academy at Osyth, tries to gain his footing among colleagues with specialties like vampirology, classical lechery, and postmodern feminist demonology. Before Rho has been on campus a month he has acquired an affectionate...

Dominant Reno has found what he's been looking for, a woman he can force to be his submissive. Whatever it takes, he will succeed. Kaci lives alone, dreams alone. Her traumatic past is behind her, her future faced one day at a time. Her...

Dead Boy's Game and The Broken Vow is the first book of Magical Rome Universe. Late at night in Magical Rome, an elderly druid plunges two baby boys into a cauldron bubbling with a mysterious potion. One boy is alive; the other, dead. Instantly,...

Abby Henderson has lived her whole life under a dark cloud. When she was born, a demon called the Deacon claimed her family as his property. When she turned 13, she was traumatized by an ominous psychic vision. When she turned 14, her dad...

Lane Webster's inner dialogue, (ID), narrates this story. The narrator is at his cynical best, taking the reader on adventures of the characters involved. A tale of good versus evil... A story of magic. Seven humans unknowingly share something that manifests thirty years later....

She doesn't age. She doesn't die. She can transform at will into a deadly beast. But her immortality comes at a high price: she must kill to maintain her sanity, or else risk flying into a bloodthirsty rage. Establishing herself as an assassin for...

Zombies are a nightmare of the past, the Lycan wars are over. Mike feels that he can finally settle down after 200 years of war until he hears an impossible message from beyond. Tommy, his adopted son, is in trouble and there is nothing...

Immortality comes at a high price. Her sanity Know simply as subject 336, she was the unwilling subject of sinister and brutal experiments designed to replicate her enormous strength, healing powers, and apparent immortality. It didn't work that way. They unleashed her primal nature.Now...

FINAL OF THE FIRST THREE BOOKS, BLOOD LINES HIT A TURNING POINT The Last Hours of Destiny, brings not only answers, but more questions The great battle, darkness, and all creatures involved. The loss of lives, makes way for a whole new Bloodline. The...

Who wants to be the prey in a world full of hunters? In the aftermath of the end of her world, April Tate decides that it's high time to leave the city that never sleeps, Las Vegas. After learning the origins of a Zompire...

An experiment gone wrong leads to the death of a famous mage, and the passing of this illustrious individual sends the Magical Kingdom into mourning. Then, a few months later, the deceased mage's relations receive letters from his proxy regarding the inheritance of his...

HE DOES NOT LET ANYONE ROLL THE DICE. Goblin Slayer has been acting strange lately--to the point where he, of all people, proposes that he and his party embark on an adventure! At his urging, the group travels north across snowcapped mountains to a...

After losing her beloved father-figure Lewis, Alice wishes to drag the whole world with her to the grave, while Elisabeth, now without Kaito, strives to protect it. Two irreconcilable paths, both shaped by the last wishes of those they love. Two possibilities for the...

We all have a darkness within us that we must never let out.An unsettling presence has taken to stalking G?ter's family in Japan, and is intent on drawing that darkness out into the open. Old friends become rivals, hidden desire claws its way to...

What could happen in fifteen minutes?Faye agreed to her sister's brilliant idea to sneak into the Hunter's Moon ball. A night the vampires in attendance held sacred, lusting under the eerie glow of the blood red moon. Faye was no vampire. She wasn't even...

The path to the top is never easy...The title of Serpent King is up for grabs, and Torga's going to need the power it brings to protect his new family. Standing in his way are eight Royal Serpents and a host of shadowy forces...

After twelve years of war, Oenghus Saevaldr and Morigan Freyr want nothing more than to return home. But an unexpected sight greets them in a valley pass at the crossroads of four great Kingdoms. The ground is black. Death is creeping. And the two...