Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Since returning from war, Simon Helsing has been in the middle of the battle between humans and vampires - at least that's what he believes. Lexi Tarada runs a website for the unexplained and is drawn into Detective Todd Carrow's investigations of a recent...

"I was raised by three sisters, one a witch, one an assassin and the third just batshit crazy." And so begins The Bridge, from Shirley Jackson Award, Aurealis Award, Shadows Award, and Wonderland Award finalist, J.S. Breukelaar. Meera and her twin sister Kai are...

Thieves. Assassins. Elves. Power. Blackmail. Betrayal. Come join a morally grey and rather snarky anti-hero as she fights for survival in a world full of secrets. *** What would you sacrifice to save your friend? Your soul? Your humanity? Your life? The Oncoming Storm...

"A fantastic ending to a series." -- Nerds of a FeatherAs the Allied forces battle to defeat the Nazis, a shadow war rages between angels and daimons fighting for the soul of humanity in this thrilling conclusion to the critically acclaimed Los Nefilim historical...

They stole her magic.They killed her friends.Nothing in the multiverse will stop her quest for revenge.Kate Rossdale once held all the promise of becoming Baltimore's greatest sorceress. But promise is a hard thing to hold when your coven is murdered, your magic is stripped...

'Only valour and steel can stand against the rising dead'Arnar is a land of warriors, its people as stalwart as the stones themselves. In a land of dark forests and ancient hill forts, a forgotten evil is awoken by curious minds. The Great Histories...

The first novel in the epic sword & sorcery series readers are comparing to Robert Jordan and Terry Brooks. A #1 Fantasy Bestseller Loren dreams of escaping her cruel parents and becoming a great thief: Nightblade, a warrior of darkness and a champion of...

THE LOST VALLEY Algernon Blackwood spent the first half of 1909 traveling around Switzerland. When he returned to England, he produced around twenty stories, most of which formed the basis for his next collection, The Lost Valley, published by Eveleigh Nash in June, 1910....

THE BOOK OF WONDER AND THE LAST BOOK OF WONDER - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With original illustrations. THE PROFESSOR'S BOOKSHELF #8 Lord Dunsany wrote more than eighty books during his career in the early 20th Century. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The...

A colouring book accompaniement to Jonathan Green's latest adventure-packed gamebook The Wicked Wizard of Oz. Includes 30 full-page original illustrations for you to colour, plus a 20 page bonus section: "Behind the Curtain"; with initial sketches, full colour artwork, and The Wicked Wizard of...

MAGIC MAKES THE MAN. THEN THE MAN MAKES MAGIC. . . . Two clashing forces drawn into a sorcerous duel: Nebula Award nominee Laura Anne Gilman spins the riveting conclusion to her "dramatic" ("Publishers Weekly") fantasy series of vine, earth, and deceit. T wo...

"Hawes has a way of highlighting the intricacies of human emotions and relationships, making Black Pearls a bold, brilliant read." --The Compulsive Reader "Twisted, clever and artfully written, these stories are a high-quality addition to the fractured fairy tale genre." --Booklist "A beautiful book."...

The Saga book of all contain the line "What the @#&% is That?"--is often humorous, sometimes terrifying, but always incredibly entertaining. Ranging from irreverent humor to straight out horror, What the @#&% Is That? grew from a meme on Twitter when iconic comic book...

Filled with characters as menacing as they are memorable, this chilling twist on vampire fiction packs a punch in the bestselling tradition of 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King.Asmodeus "Sax" Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious and well-established antiques dealer, has made a fortune over many years by...

Truth is the most powerful weapon there is, but only if you dare to believe... After Colin flees with Catrina, he meets up with someone he never thought he'd see again-the one man who might be able to tame this dark magical power everyone...

"One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written" - H.P.Lovecraft. Lovecraft wasn't wrong: this is, perhaps, the greatest single work of fantastic fiction in the English language. The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in...

A demon haunts the City of Angels ... a savage serial killer who is carving his own Hollywood legend on the bodies of young women. Is the fiendish murderer a psychopath, or an evil spirit from the dawn of time?In an era when film...

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we...

To Malone the sense of latent mystery in existence was always present. In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he...

A collection of dark fantasy tales with a metaphysical edge, full of grotesque wonders and weird splendor. Artifice the Quill flees from tyrant sorcerers into a world of strange magic, ancient gods, and exotic kingdoms. The exiled author joins a traveling troupe of performers...

Azrail never loved anything until he met little Kay. Now, the devil has her and she only has hours to live. Will he find her in time or lose her forever?Azrail is the angel of death, the only thing standing between Man and eternal...

Captain James Hook is lustful for vengeance-but how far is he prepared to go? Consumed by a burning hatred, Hook will stop at nothing to enact his terrible revenge on his nemesis, Peter Pan. Arriving in Neverland, he finds himself in a hellish kingdom...

my feet I received my first Martian surprise, for the effort, which on Earth would have brought me standing upright, carried me into the Martian air to the height of about three yards.... Instead of progressing in a sane and dignified manner, my attempts...

Eerie and unnerving events are welcome reads for horror and weird fiction aficionados, and Kurt Fawver's new collection does not fail to deliver. A group of work-study students grows obsessed with a particular, otherworldly room at the university library. A monster's mother wants her...

After The Marechal Chronicles: Volumes I, II and III this is a collection of the remaining three volumes - The Chase, The Tower of the Alchemist, and The Crucible. A dark fantasy filled with tragedy, emotion, and opposing supernatural forces, this is a tale...

Can any good transpire when Gypsy magic collides with Voodoo Magic? For Voodoo High-priestess Grandmother Zenobia, the answer is unclear. 1890 Carrefour Parish, Louisiana. A self-proclaimed Voodoo high-priestess with a mysterious past, Grandmother Zenobia conceals her magical powers from her teenage grandson Will. She...

The Kai Gracen Series: Book ThreeStalker Kai Gracen knew his human upbringing would eventually clash with his elfin heritage, but not so soon. Between Ryder, a pain-in-his-neck sidhe lord coaxing him to join San Diego's Southern Rise Court, and picking up bounties for SoCalGov,...

The world of Under has been remade into what it was long before the Ancients were put in their prison. They are free, and with them comes the reign of the callous, merciless King who was once the man I loved.I always knew Aon...

Everyone has heard the legend of Snedronningen. She has gone by many names. The most popular of those is Snow Queen. Many who have crossed her path have paid the price. Prince Valeman rejected her proposal of marriage. In a psychotic rage, her revenge...

Yellowstone Wolves: Book One When alpha shifter Mikael Volokov is called to witness a challenge, he learns the evil and power-hungry Anton Gregor will stop at nothing to attain victory. Knowing he will need alliances to keep his pack together, Mikael requests a congress...

A Change of Heart Novel Jin Church is back where he started, alone, wandering, and uncertain of his path. It's not by choice but by circumstance, as he remembers he's a werepanther... but not much else. He knows one thing for sure--he needs to...

In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game...

To Malone the sense of latent mystery in existence was always present. In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he...

"Absurdist horror at its best. Gary Shipley had me hooked from beginning to end." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Quicksand HouseSomething is horribly wrong with my wife. She doesn't move anymore. When I try to lift her I can't. It's like she's glued...

Eleven classic stories of adventure, exploration, and extreme zoology as humanity discovers there are things that bump, growl, and bite in the darkness. From Robert Duncan Milne's 'The Iguanodon' (1882), a tale of prehistoric resurrection in the jungles of Papua, to invisible horrors from...

Nineteen tales of flowering enigmas and leafy terrors are presented in Coachwhip Publications' third volume of cryptobotanical short stories from classic science fiction and fantasy. Man-eating trees, poisonous orchids, killer cacti, and lycanthrope-inducing blossoms are among the mysterious vegetation we meet in these tales,...

The thrilling conclusion to Hugo Award-winning author Kameron Hurley's bloody, far-future bugpunk debut trilogy, reissued in mass market. After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating...

A troubled occultist-sorcerer confronts a gritty Seattle underbelly in this dark and unique urban fantasy. Markham has returned to Seattle searching for Katarina, the girl who, a decade ago, quite literally tore his soul from his body. What he discovers instead is dark magick...

'A macabre tale, brilliantly told' London Evening Standard 'Strikingly original, combining horror and wit in equal proportions' Daily Telegraph "AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE, BEING MEN OF THE WORLD, I HAVE BEEN BRANDED AS A LECHER, A FORNICATOR, A CREATURE DEDICATED TO MAKING NOTHING...

She loved ... and killed ... both men and women. She was utterly beautiful and utterly mad. This is a tale of passionate horror ... a breath-taking venture into abnormal psychology ... a story which cannot be forgotten.Author: Frank WalfordISBN-10: 184471716XISBN-13: 9781844717163Publisher: Salt PublishingLanguage:...

"Complexity and moral ambiguity enough to make this a serious, engrossing story"-Analog SF Reclaimed Earth Book 2 In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem, the...

Working in Hollywood is a living Hell in this "fast, fun, and unrelenting" urban fantasy series about a stuntwoman who slays paranormal creatures (Seanan McGuire, author of the October Daye novels). Out of the spotlight, in the darker corners of the studio backlots, Hollywood...

The truth is unfolding, almost as fast as her memories. Yet Adara still has questions that only he can answer.But being near Desmond fills her with confusion--and thoughts of violence. It's his fault she was tortured. He failed her in so many ways.Is it...

Summon Fantasy Top 10 Fantasy Reads 2019Sloan left home a year ago, hoping to escape her past.One night, a chance encounter will change her life forever. Sloan crosses paths with a dangerous being. He is ancient. Evil. And she has caught his attention.Sloan attempts...

When You Dare to Be Different...In a heartless dystopian world where anyone who's different is rejected, a tribe of exiled rebels revolts against a prejudiced Big Brother. Rejex, the first of a book trilogy, is for anyone who has felt rejected or unloved, who...

A dragon shifter stirs and wakens in a cave beneath Inverness, deep in the Scottish Highlands. The cave's the same and his hoard intact, yet something's badly amiss. Determined to set whatever's gone wrong to rights, Lachlan Moncrieffe ventures above ground--and wishes he hadn't....

A compendium that contains the first three stand-alone novellas featuring the warrior Ragnar Stormbringer. Included in Volume I are Depths of Night, When the Cold Breathes, and Altar of Gods. With diverse settings, action-driven plots, and an array of fearsome adversaries, the Ragnar Stormbringer...

Since the rise of The Council, an oligarchy of despots and deviants, the legendary Capesman undertakes daily soul collections from Cartesia's wasteland cities and battlefields. He also frequents Malay Prison, where a vigilante named Shal plots her escape. Armed with a thirst for vengeance...

George MacDonald was a spiritual and literary forbear of writers such as C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, G. K. Chesterton, and Madeleine L'Engle. "Lilith" is the account of a man who has never thought much about the laws of nature or his place...

Lucifer always cunning and intelligent challenges father to a battle of wits. Being the angel of light he casts a judgemental eye upon mankind. He begins a war with his fellow archangels and God. Michael, along with his siblings defend their home and mankind...