Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Edgar Hoffmann Price (1898 - 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled 'fictioneer') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He is probably most famous for his collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key," though he...

EVEN THE BROKEN WILL FIGHT Centuries ago, the Isle of Branikd r was mysteriously abandoned by the ruling H lum Empire. Ever since, rival clans have battled for supremacy at the bidding of their sacred sorcerers. During the once-a-year armistice for the Festival of...

Are you an avid fan of scary stories? Rather than frightening you, the sordid tales of gruesome deaths and ghastly ghosts fascinate and stimulate you-so you are always on a quest for terror-filled tales. Terror-filled stories are read to test one's nerves, and obviously...

"Konkol's debut and Rebirth of the Fallen series launch offers a glimpse into a bleak but arresting world where only three human-controlled cities remain after the rest have fallen to demons. This grimdark fantasy adventure will strongly appeal to adult readers." -Publishers' Weekly"A must...

The town hasn't been the same since their arrival.Hard-drinking and fun-loving Savannah, Georgia has always had its share of the wacky and the mysterious. From greedy pirates and quirky psychics to Gullah root doctors and avid ghost hunters, Savannah is a veritable treasure trove...

A Lord cursed for sixteen years.A Princess manipulated by sorcery.One enchanted evening is their only deliverance.Seeking justice, Princess Scarlett challenges her stepbrother with a serpentine ordeal, unaware that her treasonous act will endanger her father the king, threaten her two royal sisters, and assist...

With a twang in its heart and a song for luck on its tongue, Songs for Dark Seasons takes readers back to the lonesome dream counties introduced in the World Fantasy Award-nominated collection, Bluegrass Symphony.Trailer parks and graves are only temporary homes for souls...

The hunt is on.Allie Hunter has lost ten years in the blink of an eye.But though the town she left has changed, some things - the worst things - remain exactly the same.As Allie battles conflicting loyalties, the censure of the town, and her...

For once no one wants to kill Samantha Martin. She's free to do all the things a mischievous imp loves to do- like remove all the county speed limit signs, and wrap City Hall in crime scene tape. Her only worry beyond organizing the...

With three generations, each with their own dark sides, clashing in this three-part story, only one can truly claim the Thorne throne. When mother and son are faced with same mental affliction, they join forces to stop the tyrant Barron Thorne. In this game...

Voices in her head. Sure, that was how Murmur always imagined fully immersive VR.With the getashi's growing in influence, Fable race against the clock is thrown into disarray as the dungeons begin to make their own rules. As a last resort, Fable teams up...

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...

The throne was her rightful place...... unfortunately, her evil stepmother took it all away.The life of a princess should be a royal blessing. But when Morgan's aging father marries a younger woman, the Crown Princess's life becomes--treacherous.Through a royal miscalculation, the Empire is now...

What begins as a simple, bittersweet tale about a man turned into a polar bear, grandly unfolds into a rich, mythical adventure in the best-selling book series Rise Of The Snow Queen. Based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, author G.W. Mullins expands on...

The end times have come--but it's not too late for a hero to strike back--in the grimdark fantasy sequel to The Last Sacrifice and Fallen Gods Brogan McTyre started a war with the gods, and he's going to end it. Raging gods have laid...

The Seven Forges fantasy saga continues as open war rages between the kingdom of Fellein and the Sa'ba Taalar, stirring ancient forces from their slumber . . . Old Canhoon, the City of Wonders, is having a population explosion as refugees from Tyrne and...

A night guard brings an offering to the eternal denizens of a notorious prison.In a young girl's room, the shiny people keep watch in the night.A proud father beams as his son takes the stage for the performance of a lifetime.The stories in this...

THE CHOSEN ONE IS DEAD.Speak the truth.That is what Elenor has been taught to value above all else, but when her brother dies, leaving her next in line for the Throne of Lirin, truth becomes a matter of opinion.Stand for what is right.Gabriel thought...

THE CHOSEN ONE IS DEAD.Speak the truth.That is what Elenor has been taught to value above all else, but when her brother dies, leaving her next in line for the Throne of Lirin, truth becomes a matter of opinion.Stand for what is right.Gabriel thought...

What do a dead cosplayer and a ritual murder have in common? Plenty. Solaria Ainsworth isn't a paladin, she's not even an ordained Templar Knight, but she can't resist poking her nose into police business when magicians are found murdered in Baltimore. When the...

The elves have a plan to save humanity...by enslaving them. And the angels are too busy to intervene. Aaru is at war. The rebel angels are calling for Sam's exclusion from the Ruling Council and her banishment to Hel. But Sam's isn't the only...

Tina Rath's twenty-plus tales exhibit an innate sense of structure that allows for a satisfying conclusion - and often a sting in the tail. These are unashamedly entertaining stories, dark fantasy with a touch of humour, that display a deftness of touch inviting us...

Surviving the plague that ended the world was only the beginning.When mankind is decimated by an unstoppable virus, the vampires who once stalked humanity from the shadows begin to starve. Tom Woodford wakes from a coma to find he's the only living human left,...

Daphne Holdfast is a young captain assigned to defend an isolated fort far behind enemy lines.Promoted due to her family's connections and mistrusted by the garrison's officers, Daphne must find the strength to unite her troops and repel the advancing enemy hordes.She has one...

Strange stories and weird tales and all of the creeping horrors in between. Horrors 2 features seventeen fabulous writers, including Sarah Ash, Paul Finch, John Grant, Nancy Kilpatrick, Garry Kilworth, Samantha Lee ... to lead you on a spine-tingling tour from seaside towns to...

England, 1876. Twenty-year-old Maraina Blackwood has always struggled to adhere to the restrictive standards of Victorian society, denying the courage and desire that burn within her soul. But after a terrifying supernatural encounter, Maraina's instincts compel her to action. Maraina soon discovers a plot...

riel has awoken into a nightmare, unable to remember who or what she is. She and eight other women are captives of human traffickers, to be prettied-up and sold to the highest bidder. Besides the guards, there's a woman, a demon, who is supposed...

Sam is banished to Hel, the bond with her angel, Gregory, broken. Six Elven kingdoms are battling for supremacy, and she's broken and injured in the middle of the most hostile one. Shooting the top off a royal throne, committing fraud in the completion...

Evil's shadow is rising... A thousand years of waiting are about to end. Emperor Abaddon's generals believe they have finally discovered the way to resurrect him, using a woman who may be powerful enough in saca to bring life to him again and lead...

Laith knows what loss feels like. She knows it in her bones, and in the way her minder, Akani, looks at her whenever Laith's attention is diverted. She knows it in the way that her father dies a slow, painful death as he succumbs...

THE PRISONER OF CARCOSA presents tales of the bizarre, featuring Lovecraftian horrors, alien nightmares, oceanic monstrosities, an account of The King In Yellow, and much more. In "The Prisoner Of Carcosa," a traveler falls in love with one of the owners of the Golden...

Exiled. Trapped. Hunted.On the run for the last 900 years, Etani feels the time is right to find her sisters. First, she must outsmart and outwit the forces who want nothing more than to see her and her family dead. Her quest will not...

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. This is the story of what happened first . . .Author: Seanan McGuireISBN-10: 1643584928ISBN-13: 9781643584928Publisher: Sterling Mystery SeriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2020Pages:...

Highlander meets Seven in Nick Mamatas's Sabbath, the story of a legendary warrior who dies in battle, wakes up in the present day, and is tasked with hunting down the Seven Deadly Sins. The infamous eleventh-century warrior Hexen Sabbath is plucked from death and...

Beneath the bloodstained moon, the only thing more insane than the people are the cosmic horrors they call gods.Modernization is fast approaching. The only escape is a desert where sword & sorcery reign supreme, locked in an age of antiquity by its eldritch serpentine...

Beneath the bloodstained moon, the only thing more insane than the people are the cosmic horrors they call gods.Modernization is fast approaching. The only escape is a desert where sword & sorcery reign supreme, locked in an age of antiquity by its eldritch serpentine...

Detective. Judge. Executioner. Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Zolin Conspiracy: Out in the...

Well, she's not dead. That's better than Murmur expected. But after Telvar cast her out of the game with all her strings attached, Murmur has more than in-game death to deal with. When some of the abilities of Somnia remain with her, Murmur must...

A deadly venom. A looming rebellion. A vicious siege. And the clock is ticking.For sorcerer Nate Garrett, the stakes have risen. If Asgard falls, he may lose much more than his home--he may lose the thing dearest to him. To stand a fighting chance...

After witnessing her fianc 's murder and almost dying herself, Vivien Kelly's mission is to destroy Dagda-a Celtic God turned demon. As a supernatural dark cloud looms over the Sahara, she finds herself drawn to the Northern California town of Half Moon Bay and...

((Minor Spoiler and Warning at the bottom of the blurb. Please read all the way through.))Alex is dead.Dead, and apparently with a one way ticket to a place that only the worst of the worst go.All for a simple choice he made about a...

Her tribe is shattered. Her parents are gone. When eight-year-old Samara faces the capture of her tribe, an unimaginable power awakens within her. Even as this magic threatens to consume her, a disembodied voice intervenes, offering guidance and helping her control these newfound abilities....

The wizards of the Cold War must uncover a secret cabal responsible for the Kennedy assassination in The Shadow Commission, New York Times bestselling author David Mack's globe-spanning historical fantasy sequel to The Iron Codex. November 1963. Cade and Anja have lived in hiding...

The God of Time wants to destroy Eternity.A mysterious immortal seeks vengeance.And a reclusive Olympian deity does what no god should ever do: she answers a prayer.As punishment, she is stripped of her powers and trapped in a mortal's body. Now a Wyrd -...

Thieves. Liars. Revenge. Accused of being a traitor to the Thieves Guild, Narra must travel to darker place than she ever imagined to remove the stain from her name. Failure means losing the only thing that ever mattered to her; the Guild. After being...

People come to The Angelsea, a rooming house near the beach, for many reasons. Some come to get some sleep, because here, you sleep like the dead. Dora arrives seeking solitude and escape from reality. Instead, she finds a place haunted by the drowned...

Vampire Don Simon Ysido has been captured and held aboard a ship heading to the US to act as a slave, and Dr Lydia Asher must stop it . . . at any cost. March, 1917. The goal of every government involved in the...

Detective. Judge. Executioner.Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Corpse Thieves: Danil Dubin is a...

Lauranya and her daughter, Ari, are trapped on an abandoned world with hostile shapeshifters. Lauranya is teaching her daughter how to control budding necromancy while controlling her own vocal abilities. In a winner take all, a war in space over the mineral rich world...

Mere years after Famine and the sinking of Magog, Lady Mew and her fledgling cult have disappeared, while Wulf hides, coordinating an underground resistance against the spread of an evangelizing Horde. Out on frozen plains, War rages in a battlefield between angel and demon,...