Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

I'm Cisco Suarez, and a week ago I was dead.Cursed into serving a clandestine shadow group, I have a lot of blood on my hands. Good thing I also have a juvenile problem with authority. I'm not taking orders anymore, and the first thing...

Ollie left it all behind: a new home, friends who saw her as something more than a fragile shadow walker and a budding relationship with Kane. It was all in an effort to shield Asher, who should never have been able to escape the...

In this epic grimdark conclusion to the Godblind Trilogy, heroes, armies, and gods both good and evil will battle one last time, with the fate of the world itself at stake. . . . The great city of Rilpor has fallen. Its walls have...

2017 International Award-Winning Novel in Epic FantasyDrast and Tyran might be considered a bit black-hearted, or even immoral. Drast is cunning but reckless, hunting for admiration. Tyran is calculating but tactless, searching for affection. When the two brothers set aside their ambitions to fulfill...

JOHN SILENCE--PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY Dr. Silence is an eccentric man of science, philanthropic by nature, who specializes in cases involving psychical afflictions. An authority on the occult after years of rigorous training, John Silence is more interested in curing a home of an ancient haunting...

From the dark depths of the past, comes the tale of the first wizard of Illeniel. Daniel Tennick lived simply; a young shepherd with few troubles and little to occupy his mind, until the warden appeared. Daniel's power awakens, and he finds himself hunted...

Blood has been spilled. War has begun. And a dark power rises with only banished traitors to stop it. Alrou-Mendera reels, thrust into war as the Queen is deposed by an ancient cabal. But Elohl and Olea den'Alrahel have done their duty as Kingsmen...

WELCOME TO DAMNATION . . . where every living soul is as dead as a doornail. Except one. Buddy Baker is a dead man. Literally. After gunning down more men than Billy the Kid--and being hung by a rope necktie for his crimes--the jolly,...

Vampires have fascinated mankind for centuries. These creatures of the night enthral us, terrify us, and seduce us. The Vampire Super Pack brings together 42 vampires stories spanning almost 200 years. With over 225,000 words of fascinating fiction this is the Vampire anthology you've...

The Rats in the Walls is perhaps Lovecraft's most powerful tales. The story follows Delapore as he discovers his heritage and begins a slow, terrifying descent into madness. When he reclaims his familial home which is in ruins and decides to restore it, he...

Zombies spar with humans for dominance of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan in the Stoker-nominated "A Plague on Both Your Houses." The King returns to prove that rock 'n' roll will never die in "The Elvis Syndrome." And a dying boy is the catalyst for a...

Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among the shadows of the crags. I have never seen a city in the world so beautiful as...

Weird Tales launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While Pulp magazines had been around for some time Weird Tales was the first pulp magazine to specialize in super natural fiction. Weird Tales single handedly created the field...

WWeird Tales launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While Pulp magazines had been around for some time Weird Tales was the first pulp magazine to specialize in super natural fiction. Weird Tales single handedly created the field...

The Jim Dandy Traveling Amusement Fair is a small carnival on the road. The carnies--a family of oddballs, grifters, students, and a retired grandmother--are making their way in the world, but just barely.Their latest encampment may be haunted... or it may just be dirty...

WARNING: Due to extremely disturbing content, this book is intended for MATURE READERS ONLY. The town of Midian, Tennessee is spiraling straight to hell. Demons haunt the streets, people are dying by the hundreds, and the only defenders of the innocent townsfolk have been...

The war against the forces of darkness continues...At age 15, Nicole Robertson was possessed by a demonic entity. She survived this ordeal, thanks to a successful exorcism. Now, 8 years later, Nicole is still haunted by the experience. But the nightmare isn't over. She...

Amy is a typical American housewife, with a big, fancy house and all of the luxuries that come with being married to a successful investment banker like her husband, Greg. Amy and Greg have a fantastic sex life, but he has always wanted Amy...

He has no name. His past is a mystery. His future is etched in blood...The Sellsword knows an opportunity when he sees one. When he rides into the border city of Aldreth, he can tell that the power struggle between two feuding wizards needs...

The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Eszterh za Palace. With Carlo in Prince Nikolaus Esterh zy's carriage, ride a Prussian spy and one of the most notorious alchemists...

What if dragons were real and among us right now in today's world - Apex predators of all colors, 70 feet long with magical blood that they wield masterfully to care for their food source and herd: the human race? These dragons aren't pets...

Science Fiction, Survival Stories, Dystopian, Dark Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Social & Family Issues After the land of Cass was destroyed, the survivors banded together to create the House alliances. Only the strongest, most cunning, and useful are accepted. For the...

Cover copy: Life, death, love, and truth: major themes that frequently appear in Grandmaster Tanith Lee's fiction, are all represented in Dancing Through the Fire, one of the last collections she put together before her untimely death. The stories in this book have never...

Jake used to be someone once, before the incident that sent him to prison. Now he's back, his existence split between a mysterious spiritual quest within the dreamlands, and the tedium of pumping gas for minimum wage...until the Smilers showed up. This tale goes...

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...

From master of bizarro fiction Carlton Mellick III, author of the international cult hits Satan Burger and Adolf in Wonderland, comes a gritty urban fantasy unlike anything you've read before. In a world where magic exists, spell-casting has become a serious addiction. It ruins...

?Superstar editor Datlow makes no missteps...."?Publishers Weekly Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitl? R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things...

When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind?or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or ?the Rapture of the Nerds"? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional...

Arthur Machen's occult investigator, Dyson, features in three short stories and the longer narrative, The Three Impostors. Dyson is not a professional detective, but has a keen interest in mysterious events. He investigates strange deaths and disappearances, and encounters weird beings and secret orders....

In the footsteps of the High Priestess of Fantasy... Tanith Lee - 1947-2015 - was a huge influence on fantasy literature, and a towering inspiration to a generation of writers, who were captivated by her iconic, poetic prose, her deft use of language, her...

Night is falling, and shadows are gathering in crowds across the city, bronze and sable, flickering, or still as stone. There is always an audience here, for anything - human, beast or object - that comes close to tell its story, or betray its...

Sometimes when people die, it comes as a great shock. Even to them... A group of the dead linger here, in the yellow dwelling on the hill - once a castle, then a stately home, now falling into ruin. These ghosts drift and mingle,...

Ysbryd drwg... the bad ghost Ysobi har Jesith embarks upon a job far from home, where his history isn't known - a welcome freedom. Hired by Wyva, the phylarch of the Wyvachi tribe, Ysobi goes to Gwyllion to create a spiritual system based upon...

Isolated and deep in the mountains, the Keep is a disturbing place. Why would the New Order want it, and for what? But you didn't ask questions the way things were. You kept your head down and did as you were told. Just do...

Life is good for Farnor Yarrance. It is good for everybody in the valley. And has been for generations. So much so that few ever feel the need to travel beyond it. And no one ever bothers to enter it from beyond. Until, one...

It has been a decade since the war between Heaven and Hell-a war that Heaven lost. Angels are on the brink of extinction. Smothered in black clouds, the Earth that we once knew is gone, replaced by a land plagued with nightmares and pain....

Welcome to the wild and uninhibited world of Khymeera: a place where men, women, aliens, monsters, and mythological beings mingle in a way that would make the Greek Gods blush Karli Talbo is on Earth-and back in her male body-miserable and pining for her...

At the Earth's Core is Edgar Rice Burroughs first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. "In their newly invented mechanical mole, David Innes and his friend Abner Perry penetrated the world's crust and traveled five hundred miles down towards...

A former warrior caught between gods and priests must fight for the survival of his family in this dark epic fantasy debut, set in a harsh arctic world inspired by Scandinavian indigenous cultures. On the forbidding fringes of the tundra, where years are marked...

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series "Breathtakingly surprising and fun. For readers who missed earlier entry points to this delightful series, now is the time to get on board."--The New York Times A former friend has betrayed the Raksura and their...

A dark, gritty urban fantasy debut set in modern-day San Francisco, filled with gods, sinister government agencies, and worlds of dark magic hidden just below the surface. When a secret government agency trying to enslave you isn't the biggest problem you're facing, you're in...

A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions. Her rescuer, an awkward, geeky folklore student named Teddy, single-handedly slew the undead occupants of...

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Twelve women. Twelve horrors disguised as love. In Anya Martin's new collection of horror tales: a teenage girl faces the consequences of wishing her dog could live forever; a romantic college student wakes a gargoyle in Paris; and a lonely woman finds her house...

Reality and memory; imagination and oblivion. Somewhere between these signposts can be found the events of Wilde Stories 2016: a future world has forbidden the songs of dancefloor divas but on one night the show returns as a cautionary exhibition; high school outcasts create...

The average adult male is approximately 60% water. Blood tastes salty as more than two thirds of the sodium circulating throughout your body is carried in arteries and veins. Which means that your heart is like a miniature ocean within your chest. Chaz Brenchley...

Lily is a girl who discovers she has the ability to see how others will die simply by touching them. Only she doesn't want this gift, and takes extreme measure to protect herself from it. When her mother--because every fairy tale has to have...

In these tales of regret and awe, the scent of loneliness entices ravenous children to start eating away at a caretaker's historic house, a nursery rhyme tempts a young lover to cheat on his boyfriend, a student discovers his hunky roommate's boxers are flirting...

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the...

The time is now. The place is Japan. Mark is living the only life he knows or can remember. He does not spend any more time away from his box-like apartment than is needed. He lives in fear that he might miss this lifestyle,...