Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE STORY...Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, a downtrodden young woman is rescued from a life of drudgery by her fairy godmother, whisked off to the Prince's Bride Ball in an enchanted carriage and a pair...

Get out of Hell free card? Not for Callie Delgado, Gem City's newest soul charmer. Sin and salvation collide in this gritty and action-packed urban fantasy. Callie's magic is finally her own. She and Derek dispatched Ford. They should have been able to breathe,...

The second of five volumes collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to...

Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread...

In the strange and magical world of the Middle Realms, there are many diverse races of people that inhabit the lands. Humans, elves, dwarves, and plenty more civil creatures thrive on this planet. The different races are commonly viewed on a spectrum, and at...

Panzel had been one blow away from bringing an end to the minotaur's reign, but an unexpected development put their contest on hold. Regretfully, he had to put the Sazardon Labyrinth behind him in order to save House Mercurius and the rest of the...

It's time for Quinn MacKenna to pay off a debt - to Nate Temple. And New York City will never be the same...***FIRST 4 BOOKS IN THE NEWEST BESTSELLING TEMPLE VERSE SERIES RELEASING BY JULY 10, 2018 ***Quinn MacKenna is a black-magic arms dealer...

***PREORDER NOW AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE FIRST 4 BOOKS IN THE SERIES RELEASING BY JULY 10, 2018 ***Everything was going fine for Quinn MacKenna... until she accidentally stole from Nate Temple.Meet Quinn MacKenna, a black magic arms dealer from the mean streets of Boston.She...

Dealing with dragons is hard. Dealing with a teenage daughter is even harder.My new mission involves both. Weird things are happening in Northern Idaho, and my boss is sending me to investigate. Unfortunately, my daughter and ex-husband are vacationing in the town that's at...

ABANDON ALL HOPE, THE FIFTH HORSEMAN SHALL RIDE...Nate Temple is on the hunt to right a wrong. Mordred - King Arthur's son - has escaped from Hell. And it's all Nate's fault.Pro-Tip: Don't let escapees rob the dreaded Nine Souls on their way out...

Nevernight meets Reign of the Fallen in this dark saga about assassins who wield not blades, but death itself.When a mortal wants someone dead, they contract a Reaper of Veltuur, an individual born from the underrealm with fatal magic coursing through their veins.Sinisa is...

"His ability to weave the surreal with the hyper-real is his greatest talent." -- Signal Horizon. Lorelai Palumbo is harassed by a sinister group calling themselves The Cabal. They accuse her of having committed unspeakable crimes in the past, and now she must pay....

The little dolly waited in the attic to be picked up, cooed over and set free to work her will. After her father's death, Dorrie found happiness in the attic with her new-found dolly. Her family was busy doing other things. She might have...

REVISIT THE ORIGINAL SIXTEEN Learn more about the sixteen magical girls from the very first Magical Girl Raising Project in this short story collection that perfectly complements the hit anime series. You'll read about the girls' normal, everyday lives, some surprising interactions, and even...

When myths become real, danger stalks White Haven.The Crossroads Circus has a reputation for bringing myths to life, but it also seems that where the circus goes, death follows. When the circus sets up on the castle grounds, Newton asks Avery and the witches...

It's 2025. Sisters, Doris and Thea, exist worlds apart, despite living within a few miles of one another. Doris with her regular home and regular husband and regular job, and Thea slinking along the edges of society, solitary and invisible. When a storm of...

After Breed, a thief assassin of small renown is chased by a dragon, tricked by a demon, almost killed by a psychopathic gang boss, and hunted by a ferocious spider, life really takes a turn for the worse. Sentenced to five years bonded servitude...

Demon Lord RisingThe BookFest Awards, Epic Fantasy: First Place, Spring 2023American Writing Awards, Legacy Fiction: Finalist, 2022The wisest Sages foretell that great storms announce themselves in a simple breeze, and evil-despite its savage brutality-is uncompromisingly subtle. Terrifying legends of the Demon Lord Abadon's evil...

The critically acclaimed author of The House at the End of Hope Street combines love, mystery, and magic with her first foray into bewitching fantasy with a dark edge evocative of V.E. Schwab and Neil Gaiman.Once upon a time, a demon who desired earthly...

"The Bloodprint is extraordinary. The book is wonderfully written; its poetic prose and mix of history, faith, and adventure reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic Odyssey...this time with a pair of women warriors at the helm.'' --S.A. Chakraborty, author of The City of BrassThe author of...

With In the Shadow of the Gods, Rachel Dunne makes her breathtaking debut with this first book in a dark epic fantasy trilogy, The Bound Gods, in which a mismatched band of mortals led by a violent, secretive man must stand against a pair...

It wasn't supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be Loki the trickster god's happily ever after with Sigyn. They had gone full Midgardian, settling down in California, with Loki doing what he does best-mischief.When Sigyn collapses, Loki senses a grave darkness...

In the battle-weary world of Dracos, filled with dragons and wizards and magical creatures, a young boy named Tanis Thalin is born into violence.His planet Dracos resembles Earth, but houses a civilization far advanced into the future.Tanis becomes the ruler of three kingdoms before...

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the domination...

Then in a blink. Nothing is anymore. All becomes Darkness. A wheezing voice greets me as I awake. You are no longer worthy of our Light. With its words, the world explodes in a flood of sparks, and within the sparks, winds whirl around...

Danielle Wintersborn is a slave in the crumbling society of Bisra. Owned by the wealthy Willoughby family, for business and pleasure, she is unaware of her situation, dosed daily with a mind-numbing drug. After a chance encounter with Mr Poole, a local crime boss...

With lush world building and lyrical prose, A River Enchanted feels like the echo of a folktale from a world right next to our own. --Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the WolfHouse of Earth and Blood meets The Witch's Heart...

With lush world building and lyrical prose, A River Enchanted feels like the echo of a folktale from a world right next to our own. --Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the WolfHouse of Earth and Blood meets The Witch's Heart...

Drunk and disoriented after her best friend's funeral, Ginevra Bennet stumbles through a door in an ivy-covered wall...and finds herself in a dry wasteland under a dying crimson sun, the only possible shelter a giant stone castle.If it's a hallucination, it's a deadly one;...

Are some beliefs worth the risk of losing it all? How far can you go before there's no turning back? Special Agent Rochelle Roy must confront skepticism and family tensions when four sex trafficking victims claim to be the reincarnated souls of women who...

An outcast princess, a dangerous goddess, a mysterious iceman and a half-demon. Royal blood is potent. But eighteen-year-old Evie Mor is unaware of the power she carries.Abandoned by her parents to be raised by centaurs, and unsure how to use her magic, she eagerly...

With a heart as black as night, Nushka was born different to her kin. Banished by the Gods to rule over a realm of the Afterlife rife with eternal pain, she bides her time... and makes the Pitts of Moor her very own.In this...

As the Breedline species-a race of humans born with special powers and the gift to change into wolf form-finally destroy Dr. Hubert Crane and his unholy creation of Breedline hybrids, they are faced with something far more dangerous... and deadly. When widespread reports of...

"Brace yourself to be tied up in knots by the Mistress of Chaos herself. Danvers offers gripping storytelling in a vicious world of predators and prey, and you won't be able to look away until there are no more pages left to turn." Alta...

I am a wolf shifter cast into the hands of fate.Captive. Wrecked. Undone by a bond I never expected.Another wolf has me now, and I am his to ruin.Tristan Masters, the ruthless alpha whose destiny threatens to destroy him, has sworn to come for...

Looming Low Volume I is the first anthology from Dim Shores. 26 brand-new stories in different shades of weird, all with a dark soul.Table of Contents: Kurt Fawver -- "The Convexity of Our Youth" A.C. Wise -- "The Stories We Tell About Ghosts" Michael...

A century since the departure of the Gods, the Three Nations are now united beneath the Tsar. Magic has been outlawed, its power too dangerous to remain unchecked. All Magickers must surrender themselves to the crown, or face imprisonment and death. Alana's mundane life...

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,...

A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. In the land of Dorthar, the Storm Lord reigns...

A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. Raldnor, Storm Lord and chosen hero of the goddess...

The hard-fighting, harder-drinking fortune hunters of The Hammer and the Blade and A Discourse in Steel are back to test their mettle and tempt fickle fate. Fantasy fiction has long welcomed adventurous rogues: Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, George R. R. Martin's...

The Star of Gnosia collects five hallucinatory narratives steeped in secrecy and transgression, complex rites and protocols, the delirium of the sleepless wanderer and the obsessions of the savant.Ceremonial initiations, forgotten sacraments, inexplicable machines, and God-intoxicated exiles are brought together by duplicitous stratagems and...

He is a lethal vampire, bound by an ancient curse. She is an agent of homeland security, investigating a dangerous cult. Theirs is a Blood Destiny about to unfold. Descended from the progeny of Celestial Gods and humans, Nathaniel Silivasi is handsome, seductive, and...

Tenebrae sum. I am the darkness. Darkness, I...Rachaela's daughter Ruth is dead - and now she has a new child with her Scarabae lover Althene. Anna is no ordinary girl. She matures with preternatural speed and Rachaela can't dispel the feeling that her daughter...

Now a gripping Netflix movie starring Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka. A suspenseful masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Tim Lebbon. In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they...

The official novelization of Jim Henson's Emmy Award-winning television series along with a behind-the-scenes look at the show's production from the Jim Henson Archives. Timeless tales, beautifully told. Presented in a stunning new edition, Jim Henson's The Storyteller features nine folktales based on Henson's...

For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one...

Prepare yourself for macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long Included are: AT THE HOME OF POE...

Sometimes the world is a very dark place. You know the magic is still out there, but it feels distant, or displaced. Voices in the Darkness is an attempt to create a link, to bring some of those voices together in a single work...

Beneath the dusky glow of a millennium moon, an ancient mystery is unfolding. Two very different vampires have each consumed a vial of blood containing the life force of two primordial princes, both presumed to be dead: "Drink this blood and welcome life; drink...