Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

The morning before he found the dead body, Jathan Algevin thought he had his whole life just the way he wanted it. He knows his city inside and out, and doesn't bother carrying a sword, trusting his wits and his fists well enough to...

In a far future, Earth had already been visited by an alien race called the Sominids, who came here for the express purpose of drinking and having sex with everyone they could. When one of their infamous parties resulted in the moon being cut...

Character driven fantasy romance packed with grit, steam, and revenge.When Lessiyara saves Ronan from a crumbling cliff, she reluctantly welcomes him into her camp. But having struggled to hide her secrets even among the emotionless Vaikahlen people, she fares no chance of hiding from...

A dark fairy tale in a modern German setting. After inheriting her mother's dilapidated farm, Marion suffers nightmare visions and a monster from old nursery tales that stalks her daughter in the fields.When Marion returns to the house she grew up in, she is...

The War of the Witches has come to fruition, and the planet itself hangs in the balance. The Hollows. They are the space behind your eyes when you stare into the mirror. The dark holes in a gnarled tree that watch you when walking...

From bestselling indie author and TikTok favorite Laura Thalassa comes a witch fantasy set in the world of the Bargainer series.At age twenty, Selene Bowers desperately hopes to be accepted into Henbane Coven, an academy for young witches. Since one of the requirements for...

The setting for the futuristic novel A Love Beyond Time, in a World on a Timer takes place about 30 years after global societal collapse was first caused by the ruling apparatuses. Then a series of cataclysmic natural events brought on by human ecological...

In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that...

Book Two in the Memoirs series, following the story of Sophie Munday, a teenage girl who is thrown into a terrifying world of Vampyrs, Werewolves, Magick and a dreaded prophecy. A mad scrabble begins to get to the prophecy, and its contents, before Sophie...

From Cherie Priest, the award-winning author of Maplecroft, comes a new tale of Lizzie Borden's continuing war against the cosmic horrors threatening humanity... Birmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace. A murderer, unimaginatively...

THE NATIONS OF EMBREY AND BRANELL ARE AT WAR Embrey's bloody border dispute fuels the flames of civil unrest. A power-mad general seeks to usurp the despotic ruler, through fear and bigotry. In response an aging legislator works to to make Embrey a more...

His love for an enemy prince threatens his very life. Dare does not mind serving the spoiled and cruel Prince Darius. Growing up with him, Dare does everything for Darius including homework, bed play demands, and even doubling for him as the prince grows...

The momentous, tour-de-force finale of the beloved series. Weaving together war, intrigue, and romance, The Black Prince pulls the intertwined stories of Isla, Tristan, and their families forward toward a single, epic conclusion. The shadow of the robber queen, Maeve, reaches long over Morven....

Meghann O'Neill once dreamed of having a child, but that was a long time ago. It was before she had been seduced into a relationship of pleasure and pain, excitement and torture. It was before she had been transformed into a vampire by Lord...

Meghann O'Neill, a psychologist specializing in the treatment of victims of abusive relationships and a vampire Meghann is an expert in abusive relationships. She knows exactly how her clients feel. She has also been seduced into a relationship of pleasure and pain, excitement and...

Deep within the South, read about the magickal folk who haunt the woods, the cemeteries, and the cities. Within this grim anthology, eighteen authors will spellbind you with tales of hoodoo, voodoo, and witchcraft. From this cauldron mix, readers will explore the many dangers...

A scarecrow crucified on a wooden cross made from a pair of two-by-fours sits in a field of corn, placed there to frighten away birds and protect the crops. Under its straw hat large buttons pose as its eyes, placed there by child's fingers,...

***International Bestselling Series*** The Darkslayer Special Edition, Series 1, Volume 2 Book 4: Danger and the Druid Bloody Bish... As Venir wanders aimlessly through the Mist trying to find his way home, the Underlings, led by Lord Verbard and Master Sinway's son Kierway, hatch...

***#1 International Bestselling Fantasy Series *** Fans of R.A. Salvatore's-Drizzt Do' Urden, Frizt Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, David Gemmell's Druss the Legend, Raymond E. Feist's Pug the Wizard, and Robert E. Howard's Conan, like The Darkslayer series ... perhaps you will as...

Paint may be thicker than blood, but both make beautiful art. Trinity has finally made it: her first art show. No more living in a shoebox apartment. No more scraping to find enough money for art supplies. Sure, she has her demons. What artist...

Karen Wilson is a 911 operator in the city of Kendrick, who receives a very strange phone call and discovers that her city is not at all what it appears to be. Pulled into Kendrick's hidden, supernatural world, she finds herself appointed as the...

The age of man has come to an end. The world is in ruins. Dwellers-ancient cowled monstrosities born of an unknowable dark power-hunt the remnants of civilization across the Mist-shrouded wastelands. Through this nightmarish landscape, Donovan Maltrese, last of the ancient Order of Swordsmen,...

Dark Discoveries - Issue #28 Zombie Creature Feature All new Fiction by: Kevin J. Anderson, Graham Masterton, Tim Waggoner, Gene O'Neill, Harry Shannon and Brett J. Talley Interviews with: Doug Bradley, Graham Masterton, Jeffrey Combs, Owl Goingback and Lloyd and Pat Kaufman Articles on:...

TOM REQUIEMClive Barker LITTLE RED'S TANGOPeter Straub HOLOGRAM SKULL COVERJeff Strand LUX ET VERITASThomas F. Monteleone DEVOTIONJ. F. Gonzalez INN CLEANINGStephen R. Bissette BREATHE MY NAMEChristopher Golden MAGDALA AMYGDALALucy A. Snyder THE BOHEMIAN OF THE ARBATSarah Pinborough JOHNSTOWNBrian Keene ROAD KILL (A Dan Shamble,...

In nineteenth-century Victorian England, a young widow finds that she has inherited more than her late husband's property: The Furnavals serve as the ancestral keepers of supernatural portals scattered around the globe. When demonic entities begin crossing over from the Netherworld, Lady Diana realizes...

From the fiery abyss of the underworld comes 20 hellish tales from the south and southwest. Within these charred pages are stories that will introduce you to the many demons that stay hidden but are always nearby... 20 authors provide stories of possessed people,...

Everybody loves bad guys, and these are some of the baddest of them all. Forget the rules. There aren't any heroes. No one is going to save you from the wickedness in the darkness. Monster hunters can easily become the hunted. Twisted perverts can...

"Shifting supernatural borderlands inspire awe and ancient gods mirror very human desires in a fear fable that balances complex philosophy with relentless, image-packed action. Tobler creates a fluid, transformative universe that's equal parts exhilaration and terror."-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)Fifteen-year-old Jackson is different from...

Snotty-the unlikely hero of this tale-is a streetwise adolescent mastermind transported to a mystical realm where the fate of the world rests on discovering who he really is. As Snotty's perceptions of might and right are upended, the footnotes point toward a deeper truth-that...

Over the course of his career, Jack Cady won the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, a special award from the International Horror Guild, The Atlantic Monthly "First" award, the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, the National Library Anthology Award,...

The Monster Hunters... Abby Marquise has been killing doppelgangers and other dark creatures with the Society for the Security of Reality for awhile now--ever since she'd been recruited after being attacked by a ghoul one dark night. Her son Jimmy thinks she's losing it,...

Ranked as one of the best zombie books by Bestadvisor.com, enjoy all three seasons of This Plague of Days in one monster volume. This book has been awarded an Honorable Mention for Writer's Digest's Self-Published e-Book Awards. The Apocalypse kills billions as new, deadly...

Rose got her happily ever after, complete with castle, prince and ornate banquets every night. But after four centuries, Rose can state definitively: happy endings suck. No concerts, no plays, no children or visits with friends... Not one single change in four hundred years....

Lies, Revenge and Black MagicA beautiful cosy cottage in the mountains.Toasty warm inside beside the wood fire watching the snow fall outside.The perfect romantic getaway if ever there was one.City girl Jennifer waits for Justin to return with supplies.AloneCold.Hungry.A terrifying tale of love gone...

The fourth annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian and New Zealand writers in 2013. Over 150,000 words of fiction from some of the genre's best and most awarded writers. Together with an annual genre overview and recommended...

16 Journeys on the Dark Streets of Urban Fantasy. Original stories by Seanan McGuire, Joanne Anderton, Alan Baxter, Nathan Burrage, Dirk Flinthart, Rebecca Fung, Stephanie Gunn, Kelly Hoolihan, Kathleen Jennings, Pete Kempshall, Martin Livings, Anthony Panegyres, Jane Percival, Paul Starkey, Lyn Thorne-Alder and S....

When angels initiate a war, humans on Apkallu die.Deprived of human worshipping, angels resort to burning human souls to sustain themselves, when the ancient Qal of an assassinated archangel wakes up on Earth... inside a human, disturbing the precarious peace.Holding the key to all...

3 Books in 1Bedtime stories aren't just for kids anymore...Do you find that you struggle to sleep, no matter how hard you try to cope with it? Are you always exhausted even though you know that you shouldn't be? If you find that bedtime...

"And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." Job 2:4 Troublesome priest Eve Clements is exiled from her North London parish to remote St Jude's, miles from the nearest village....

"It doesn't matter what you believe. The time is here regardless. They are coming. After so long, the gods are rising again."Ben Henare turned away from the gods of his ancestors to follow his own path, choosing the modern world over myths of demons...

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...

BIANCA JONES NEVER ASKED FOR HER JOB. There's a saying in the Baltimore PD - "Do a job once and it's yours." After finding and fighting a creature that could not, should not exist, after saving Baltimore from one monster, Bianca gets the job...

THE HEX FACTOR... The next mag has been found. Someone with the ability to use every kind of magic has the potential to be the most powerful person on Earth. Good, evil, and all points in between are trying to win the new power...

There are some things you just can't forget ... The Long Winter is over, and life is beginning to return to normal. But just as they begin to have hope for the future they've been longing for, the past comes to visit. Vytas and...

How far would you go to protect the ones you love? After the apocalyptic "Days To Come" have come and gone, four orphans who have nothing left but each other set out across the desert in search of a sorcerer, in hopes of finding...

Dominic Ronove is a contract demon who'll get you anything you want, for six years, and a small token of your appreciation.Malik Parsa is an easy-going gay twenty-something with a conventional everyday existence - until he meets Dominic Ronove.Imagine Dominic's surprise when he discovers...

None can resist the ravages of time. Knowledge is lost. Memories fade.But some things must never be forgotten.Over 400 years ago, twelve great warriors united the beleaguered armies of men and scoured the war-torn lands of evil, pushing the enemy back into the underground...

Some Lessons Must Be Learned The Hard Way. Since its inception, The Order has been dedicated to the prevention of the misuse and abuse of magic. For seven decades this mandate has guaranteed peace and stability throughout The Nine Kingdoms. But a potential threat...

As evil ravages the north and the dead walk, all eyes fall to Arn... The apprentice journeys south, home to the College, unaware of the dark events that transpired in the High Passes after his departure. His leg in ruins, and haunted by watching...

As evil ravages the north and the dead walk, all eyes fall to Arn... The apprentice journeys south, home to the College, unaware of the dark events that transpired in the High Passes after his departure. His leg in ruins, and haunted by watching...