Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

A disused London Underground lift goes way beyond the bottom floor.A psychic boy discovers what terrors are buried in the fallow field.A handshake seals a midnight fate in an old farming dispute.A corpse must be buried by dawn.BLACK GATE TALES: Fourteen short stories of...

The story you're about to read actually happened.Only the names were changed.Author: Jp StormISBN-10: 1952027632ISBN-13: 9781952027635Publisher: New Leaf Media, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2020Pages: 126Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Darkness comes. An ancient feud has set the realms off-balance for eons. And hope rests on the shoulders of one orphaned, distrusting, former Reaper.Sinisa Strigidae has never been normal. She's spent the last three years of her life as a Reaper, a slave to...

The Night Bazaar is a secret marketplace of the rare, strange, occult, and dangerous. Its curious vendors specialize in services or objects which simply cannot be had elsewhere, for any price. This forbidden market has operated throughout history at various locales - but only...

Traversing the borderlands between terror and lush, fantastic beauty, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, Angela Slatter's eighth collection of short fiction, gathers twelve tales of horror, the uncanny, and dark lament.Here, you will find Lovecraftian terrors, Aussie vampires, fell magic, ancient wisdom, wayward...

1963 Detroit is a hotbed of gambling, and the weekly baggage auctions keep a busy trade. Charlie Stewart and Joey Third are skilled in the art of successful bidding, but when Joey lands a mysterious suitcase, the thrill of winning turns to terror once...

Her hands shackled. An assassin hunting the man she loves. Will she save him in time?Elementalist Rielle needs to get to the man she loves before the assassin pursuing him finds her mark. There's only one problem: she's chained aboard a slave ship bound...

Mother of Shadows"It's not a story." With four words Helena's quiet life goes up in flames. When her childhood friend returns to tell her that she is the prophesied ruler of the Chosen, there's no avoiding her destiny. But it's not enough that she...

Samantha Martin may be the leader of Hel, but she is also an imp in debt to a sorcerer. Luckily he's vowed to wipe away all the favors she owes for one job - retrieve a stolen gem. But Gregory also needs her help....

The greatest trick the First Vampire ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.If you enjoyed the Blade or Underworld movies, you will love the Shade of Devil series.Before the now-infamous Count Dracula ever tasted his first drop of blood, Sorin Ambrogio...

"A stand-alone heavy hitter that's more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig's upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson's The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch's pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but technologically...

Now in paperback, the fourth book in The Song of Shattered Sands series is an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. When a battle to eradicate the Thirteenth Tribe goes awry, the kingdoms bordering the desert metropolis...

In the Outer Islands, gods and magic rule the ocean. Under the command of Captain Rafe Morrow, the crew of the Celestial Jewel ferry souls to the After World and defend the seas from monsters. Rafe has dedicated his life to protecting the lost,...

It's two days before Christmas and a quiet Rhode Island town is about to be visited by a number of unexpected guests-including a pair of very different Krampuses. Are they there to protect the innocent, or to exact revenge for a long-forgotten tragedy? Some...

Maggie's child has been stolen The dark witch, Larinda, has taken the newborn into the Netherworld. She is intent on trading him to a warlock, who will use the child to fulfill a bargain with the Dark One. And Maggie has just three days...

For the Shadows, nothing can ever be the same again. Their existence revealed to the world in Of Saints and Shadows, the truth of their divided heritage revealed to themselves in Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, they must now fight the hardest battle of...

The truth is, when you banish the gods from the world, they eventually come back--with a vengeance. In the near future, Justin March lives in exile from the Republic of United North America. After failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups...

#1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast's Goddess Summoning series continues as a modern woman attempts to tame a wild beast with the power of love... Empousai family roses have bloomed for centuries, thanks to the drops of blood their women sacrifice...

Queens, countries, and cultures collided in Woodwalker and Ashes to Fire, the first two books in Emily B. Martin's Creatures of Light series. From Mae's guidance to retake Lumen Lake to Mona's eye-opening adventure in Cyprien, we now see things from Gemma's perspective--a queen...

A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy from the author of Markswoman.Kyra has returned to the caves of...

The gripping conclusion to Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's Mancer trilogy, Of the Mortal Realm finds the city of Kavet cast into the middle of the final showdown between the infernal Abyssi and the divine Numini. It is battle that could reshape the world . . ....

Stephen King's The Gunslinger meets Breaking Bad in Laura Bickle's novel Dark Alchemy.Some secrets are better left buried ... Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father's disappearance years ago. What she finds instead is Temperance, a dying western town with...

Years ago, the dark queen was executed by witches, her cultists hunted down like rats and forced into hiding. Their black magic buried and put to rest, all was well in the world ... or so we thought. Kitarni B疵疣y, witch and shepherd of...

"Campbell has mastered the art of generating a sense of sustained unease." The Washington Post. A new masterpiece from the master of suspense. Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It's where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after...

Monster hunter and pirate extraordinaire, Arie Lockwood, has traveled the seas for years in search of the one who killed her fathers.When her travels get her into trouble, she has no choice but to face King Roland. Who in turn gives her an ultimatum:...

A bedtime story has unspeakable consequences. A walk in the woods introduces a father to his daughter's horrifying new friends. A bit of trash in the shower drain leads to a surreal fight for survival. In this collection that ranges from magical fantasy to...

It begins with a seed. A dream. An idea, planted and encouraged to grow. A thought that buries deep down inside and puts out monstrous roots. Until, at last, the bloom erupts and showers the land with life.It begins with a seed... The menopause...

The queen on her throne, the veil sealed tight.For a moment, all in Carnage Crossing seemed right.Magnificent galas. The waltzing dead.A town of corpses happy in their homestead.But darkness crept in, drawn by venom and spite, Corrupting the island for its twisted delight.A plague...

Skythulf wants to live. Raised in the fight pits, trained to kill or be killed, he yearns for freedom that's out of reach. He's a scythewulf: a wolf-shifter considered neither fully man nor beast, his life worth nothing to his keepers...until Brennus, knight-champion of...

A dark fantasy anthology dripping with blood and deceit. Blood taints the hands of many... From dryads, wizards, and flesh-eating sirens, to dragons, bounty hunters, and more, partake in a journey of blood and deceit. This collection features stories from seven authors who have...

You think you're dreaming, but you're being escorted through a carnival of delights and wonders and mysteries and ghosts. It's a dangerous place, and maybe you won't survive.This short novella takes you through the kiddie rides, the midway, the Red Witch's tent, the corn...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Little Hatred comes a stunning fantasy novel that finds the world in an unstoppable revolution where heroes have nothing left to lose as darkness and destruction overtake everything.Chaos. Fury. Destruction.The Great Change is upon us...

He controls dreams. Now the Dream King wants to claim me as his own.When everyone in the world fell asleep at exactly the same time and woke up a week later, the world believed it was the start of a rampant plague. They didn't...

The Magician (1909) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity and occult ritual, The Magician was instrumental in establishing Maugham's reputation as a leading author of the late Victorian era. Inspired by stories of Aleister Crowley, an influential...

The Faoii have protected Clearwall with both magic and blade for generations. But when her monastery is attacked and her sisters slaughtered, only young Kaiya is left alive. Forced to cope without the traditions of her Order, Kaiya travels the country on a mission...

Hailed by RT Book Reviews as "fresh and original...stark and lovely," a heroic fantasy by an award-winning author about a young woman who is trained in the art of the sinister hand of magic. A Locus Magazine Bestseller. Isobel, upon her sixteenth birthday, makes...

R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its...

The thrilling conclusion to the Riven Wyrde Saga. With her king's plans laid bare, Selena must take drastic steps as the invaders push deeper into Anlan, driven by the schemes of the Sealord. The war between Anlish and Bjornmen rages, even as the fae...

Fighting an insane goddess for the soul of an annoying little girl isn't how Bib the sorcerer planned to spend retirement, but someone must teach her not to turn people into sand or make it rain whales. He flees with her to find a...

"★★★★★. Galley's imagination is a truly beautiful thing. The plot here is rich and intricate, and the characters are a delight... I believe Mr Galley may well be one to watch."- Fantasy Bytes "★★★★★. Galley is not yet as good an author as Gemmell...

Five hundred miles beneath the earth's surface lies a fantastic, timeless world of eternal daylight, prehistoric beasts, and primeval peoples--Pellucidar. Pellucidar is a world within our world, a place where the horizon curves upward and merges with the sky. Here time stands still, for...

"Poignant and punchy." --The New York Times Three friends go looking for treasure and find horror in Jeffrey Ford's The Twilight Pariah. All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old...

Ian C. Esslemont's prequel trilogy takes readers deeper into the politics and intrigue of the New York Times bestselling Malazan Empire. The first book of the Path to Ascendancy trilogy, Dancer's Lament, focuses on the genesis of the empire and features Dancer, the skilled...

This noir fantasy thriller from a debut author introduces the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner. "Take a little Mickey Spillane, some Dashiell Hammet, a bit of Raymond Chandler, and mix it with Phillip K. Dick's Blade Runner; add a...

This standalone companion novel returns to Bradley P. Beaulieu's Song of Shattered Sands epic fantasy universe eda is the youngest pit fighter in the history of Sharakhai. She's made her name in the arena as the fearsome White Wolf. None but her closest friends...

Now available in a redesigned edition, Tanith Lee's sci-fi classic of a woman's quest for acceptance through the transfer of her consciousness to an artificial body. In the futuristic world of Indigo, reproduction is controlled by the government, guaranteeing that every baby is happy,...

The first daughter is for the Throne.The second daughter is for the Wolf. For fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale comes a dark, sweeping debut fantasy novel about a young woman who must be sacrificed to the legendary Wolf of the...

A mystical battle between foreign gods and local saints is unleashed as idols are mistaken for garden ornaments; an ambiguous wizard spies on his neighbours from an invisible tower; a cursed duelling pistol influences its owners to commit suicide. With strange combinations of occultism,...

Revenge loves company.Mithrid Fenn wants nothing to do with magick. Magick is a curse word, banned by the vast Arka Empire and punishable by death. Its purging has finally brought peace to war-torn Emaneska. Only a stubborn rebellion, led by the warlord Outlaw King,...

Beneath the Asylum: This asylum is full of secrets. Some worse than others...A security guard in an infamous old mental hospital finds something unusual during his routine patrol of the basement tunnels: The sounds of a small girl crying. The crying sounds are coming...