Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

Written by award-winning novelist and movie critic Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series. Rome 1959 and Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda. Journalist Kate...

When an invading army crosses the Mercerian border, the only thing standing between victory and defeat is an heir to the crown with no battle experience.Enter Dame Beverly Fitzwilliam, who has trained for this moment since she first held a sword. From her relentless...

Dieselpunk and decopunk are alternative history re-imaginings of (roughly) the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We Can Do It' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz...

The second book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: The year is Two House, and the Emperor of the Mexica has just died. The protections he afforded the Empire are crumbling, and the way lies wide open to the flesh-eating star-demons--and to...

Winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist, Cloud & Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation. Praise for Cloud & Ashes: "A rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's...

It is a truth universally accepted that well-bred members of Society are not beleaguered with magic. For Elsabeth Dover and her sisters, that truth means living in a perpetual state of caution, never using their sorcerous gifts in public. Elsabeth chafes under the stricture,...

In the fall of 1849, Edgar Allan Poe disappeared. He was missing for five days, and was then found wandering near Gunnar's Hall in Baltimore, delirious and possibly drunk, wearing strange clothes and carrying a cane. Poe died four days later in a Baltimore...

"Johnny Stanton's Mangled Hands is such an oddity that it confounds description or comparison. . . . It] is so unusual and original that many readers with a serious interest in fiction will find it liberating." - Bob Halliday, The Washington PostExcerpt from the...

Gripped by a frigid winter, and under continuing military occupation, Boston sits balanced on the edge of a blade. Street toughs harass soldiers; laborers and military men fight in the lanes; and loyalist merchants who defy Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty face...

Georges de Lys's An Idyll in Sodom, originally published in 1889, and here made available in its first English translation, by Brian Stableford, is a significant contribution to a subgenre of French Romantic fiction consisting of lush representations of "moeurs antiques" ancient mores], a...

Magic is out of fashion. Gambling is merely illegal. Neither law nor common sense has ever stopped anyone in Ragnor Bella from making--or breaking--their fortunes at the table, at the racetrack, and especially at the Dartington Harvest Fair. With Mad Jack Greenwing's only son...

"I'm something like sixty-thousand years old, and I've probably thought more about my own death than any living being has thought about any subject, ever. I used to be unduly preoccupied with what might constitute a "good death", although interestingly, this has always been...

"I don't know how old I am.My earliest memory is something along the lines of fire good, ice bad, so I think I predate written history, but I don't know by how much. I like to brag that I've been there from the beginning,...

A JOB WELL DONE ​Alsrod is now closer to his goal of conquest than Oda Nobunaga himself ever was. All that stands between him and the throne is the current king, Hasse, leaving the young conqueror no choice but to defy the crown if...

Everyone Lies. PRAGUE, 1870.For the last ten years, nineteen-year-old Eleanora Svobodová has worked as a servant in her stepmother's household. Along with her older brother, she dreams of the day they will be free to live life on their own terms.But everything changes when...

Three sisters. Motherless daughters of the high king. The eldest is the warrior-woman heir; the middle child is shy and full of witchy intuition; and the youngest, Princess Amelia, she is as beautiful as the sun and just as generous.Ami met her Prince Charming...

PART FOUR OF THE TROY QUARTETBringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.Traumatized by the slaughter that his ingenuity unleashed upon the people of Troy, Odysseus believes...

DRAGON AWARD-NOMINATED SERIES. Both previous entries in the Witchy War series, Witchy Eye and Witchy Winter, were nominated for best alternate history novel at the Dragon Awards. SEASON OF THE WITCH An encounter with her father's goddess has not turned out to be the...

Out of the fires of Caribbean revolution, shipwrecked onto the shores and jungles of Ecuador, a slave, a captive, and a shaman fight Inquisition-era Spain for freedom. In times like these, when power spends blood like pennies, what chance do these disparate underdogs have...

Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1812. Born into modest wealth and impeccable respectability, Miss Isabel Ellerby is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But an encounter with a Faerie Rade brings changes thick and fast, and Isabel's safe and conventional life changes forever.When she meets the handsome...

One man's fortune holds the key to a nation's fate in this sensational debut novel set in 18th-century Sweden.The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann transports readers to a colorful Scandinavian world of intrigue and magic in a dazzling golden age of high art, music,...

In 1914 Sarajevo, radical terrorists are plotting to assassinate visiting Austrian royalty. Their plan has disastrous consequences and ultimately leads to the outbreak of WWI. One of the insurgents, a Roman Catholic priest, flees the Balkans and is pursued relentlessly by Austrian military intelligence....

CAN A HANDFUL OF HEROES STOP AN APOCALYPSE CENTURIES IN THE MAKING?Escaped gladiator-slave Simon of Gitta returns to Judea - during the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth - on a mission to avenge the deaths of his parents, seeking revenge in blood against the...

***AN INSTANT BESTSELLER!***Best Books of 2021 - NPRALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 PickLonglisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror--The Death of Jane Lawrence. "A...

ﾀkos Kazsmer became trapped in Gehenna by the Unholy Hosts seventeen long years ago. His only hope is his son, the great stage magician Leopold Kazsmer, who hadn't known ﾀkos was still alive. To save both his father's soul and his own, Leopold must...

Seven years have elapsed since Marama and her people fled Hawaiki before nature's unfolding wrath. With the guidance of their ancestors, they navigated the ocean, settling in the welcoming arms of Aotearoa. During the turbulent journey, Marama found herself, and let go of grief...

'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELLBOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES For fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who....

Thief. Officer. Private Eye. Witch."No one is ever ready, Mira. Not really."Ready or not, Mirabel Sinclair has a case: find a magical goose that lays golden eggs. The great depression has been as hard on the Templeton agency as it has the city of...

Continuing the story of hope and struggle that began in "Messenger" and "Courtesans Part I," author Michael Polowetzky's third novel, "Courtesans Part II," focuses mainly on Countess Celine de Montfort, the present leader of her unique clan. The reader learns about Celine's childhood and...

An unholy attack upon his brother-in-law General Arisaydia pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona headlong into the snake pit of Cedonian imperial politics. But they will not travel alone. The mission from his god brings Penric some of his strangest new...

Author of the acclaimed fantasy novel "Little Sister", Kara Dalkey has created a new, epic historical fantasy novel that takes us on a harrowing journey through heart-breaking discoveries in a haunted, mysterious land.How far would you go to find out the truth?Erculeo Salamago, the...

Inside the covers of a novel is a story the characters tell, sometimes with hesitancy. Such is the case in the newfound community at Hidden Cove. While vacationing, the shaken resort guests are confronted with a life-altering event of unknown origins. Within the isolated...

In this magical re-imagining of J. M. Barrie's classic tale, Michael Darling--the youngest of the Darling siblings and former Lost Boy, now all grown up--must return to the life he left behind to save Neverland from the brink of collapse and keep humanity safe...

The City of the Sun (1602) is a work of utopian fiction by Tommaso Campanella. Written while the author was imprisoned in Naples for his role in a conspiracy against Spanish rule in Calabria, The City of the Sun is regarded as an essential...

During the winter of 1767, on the Island of Orkney off the north coast of Scotland, a small band of weary travelers slowly makes its way toward the heart of the island hoping to find a safe place to call home. Connor Grant and...

"I loved this gorgeous book about blood magic, chosen family and refugees in a hostile city. Naseem Jamnia has created a rich, complex world."--Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky [STARRED REVIEW] "A delight to read. Highly recommended."--Library Journal In...

A kidnapped child. A witch on the warpath. A church guard in crisis.In 1815, Thomas Drake Saint-Clair, Earl of Braden, a Guard of the Green Cross, is tasked by his archbishop to rescue a missing boy and return him to his warlock father. The...

Author: Pierre PevelISBN-10: 1473228336ISBN-13: 9781473228337Publisher: GollanczLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2022Pages: 912Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.13h x 3.70w x 1.81d

An eclectic mix of eight stories drawn from the annals of the MX Series of New Sherlock Holmes stories and the many Holmes anthologies of Belanger Books, all from the pen of emerging pastiche author Stephen Herczeg.Holmes is presented with a dishevelled and confused...

A warrior enchantress. An unrequited love. A new kind of fairytale . . .The path of a warrior enchantress is bathed in blood and magic.Born to one of the most powerful families in the kingdom, Eiryss lives a life of luxury and magic. Until...

A land destroyed by war. An army of giants on the rampage. Can a crippled 16-year-old girl heal the world before it dies?All Khaidu wants is her own hunting eagle, but her world has no place for a girl hunter, much less a crippled...

They are the light against the darkness.The steel against the necromancy of the Druj.And they use demons to hunt demons. Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King's elite Water Dogs is that they leash...

Maya's shocked to discover it's not the heaven she imagined; in fact, a life of adventure begins the moment you die. Zachariah, her faithful spirit guide, explains the rules of the dead: in order to regain complete awareness and reunite with loved ones, all...

Just as the discovery of America in the fifteenth century forever altered the way Europeans viewed the world, so too did the theories of relativity and quantum physics radically alter the twentieth-century vision of the universe. Both encounters with otherness, on both a global...

The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life's work. After that, he really doesn't care. But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions,...

I've been told I have a forgettable face. Ironic, really. I have a gift: I can browse through the library of your mind and remove individual memories.Author: K. J. ParkerISBN-10: 0765385295ISBN-13: 9780765385291Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2015Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x...

Morgan Llywelyn, author of the Irish Century series of historical novels and for Lion of Ireland, weaves Irish mythology, historical elements, and ancient places in the Irish landscape to create a riveting tale of migration, loss, and transformation in Only the Stones Survive. For...

Jill Williamson's Fantasy Saga Continues In the second volume of Jill Williamson's Kinsman Chronicles, a remnant has escaped the destruction of the Five Realms and now lives on several hundred ships adrift at sea. As a flock, they sail north into the unknown in...

An Epic New Fantasy Series from Fan Favorite Jill WilliamsonThis edition includes the first three parts of the Kinsman Chronicles originally released as ebooks.o Part 1--Darkness Reignso Part 2--The Heir Waro Part 3--The End of All ThingsThe gods are angry.Volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, ground shakers--everything...

"A novel of classical proportions and virtues...humane and moving."-The Washington Post Book World "A love story on more than one level, and Ms. Willis does justice to them all. It was only toward the end of the book that I realized how much tension...