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When pressed, Jonathan Shea admits magic runs through his blood, but he's always been ambivalent about it--until a dragon and her mage show up in the Scottish Highlands, and then all bets are off. Jonathan's charmed and captivated by the dragon--a creature fresh out...

A compendium that contains the first three stand-alone novellas featuring the warrior Rayden Valkyrie. Included in Volume I are Blood of a Queen, Winds of War, and The Sun's Caress. With diverse settings, action-driven plots, and an array of fearsome adversaries, the Rayden Valkyrie...

How far would you go to save your family?Midsummer used to be a day of feasts and bonfires. A day when cares were set aside for the joy of grass between our toes, warm hands in our palms, laughter in our hearts. Our celebrations...

Ambition. Betrayal. Revenge. Centuries ago, the Faerie Realm was decimated by a vile and corrupt spell. To survive, the different faerie races--led by the Fae--escaped to the Human Realm where they've lived ever since.As the Fae Patriarch of Boston's criminal underworld, Aohdan Collins enjoys...

The White Rose is dead. Long live the White Rose.Callie Penrose returns home to find a year has passed, and that everyone believes her long dead.Roland Haviar, once her mentor and now a Master Vampire, has become a bloodthirsty tyrant, fulfilling his vow to...

A medieval swindler gets caught with his proverbial pants down; a foolproof plan to pick up some cash via AI, until things take an unexpected and deadly turn; a legendary bodyguard is hired to protect precious cargo, but who will protect the cargo from...

Imagine a wild west that isn't just full of cowboys and outlaws, saloon girls and gamblers. Imagine a wild west that isn't just cacti, tumbleweeds and rolling desert as far as the eye can see. Imagine a wild west of mechanical horses, mutant killer...

POWER AND PROPHECY!Seventeen-year-old Regnaryn grew up among mythical beings believing that she is the last surviving human. Her world shatters when Evil invades her dreams, demanding she relinquish powers she didn't know she had. The arrival of another human, a male, shakes the foundation...

A forbidden love. A dying kingdom. A cruel queen.With the Successional behind me, two dangerous missions lie ahead.One: Find allies in the mafia-run realms of Faerie.Two: Kill the Queen of Buyan.I don't relish the latter, but her death would mean freedom and happiness for...

"Unique and fresh... Like nothing else out there " Mercedes Lackey New York Times Best Selling Author of Firebird and Black Swan "Imaginative, thoughtful, and ambitious." A.J. Hartley New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author of The Mask of Atreus and Steeplejack...

The continuation of the #1 International Bestselling Sword and Sorcery Series The Legendary Darkslayer returns in an all new series of epic sword and sorcery adventures This collectible masterpiece is ten complete books in one massive hardback volume Die hard fans praise The Darkslayer...

When you live in a city notorious for going too far, trouble's what you make of it. Believe me, I've seen my share. Now I'm taking my ill-gotten gains and laying down roots. Imagine that. Cisco Suarez living the Miami high life.In a perfect...

I'm Cisco Suarez and this is the end of the line.I've been beaten, shackled, killed once or twice, but hey, who's counting? I put my foot down at being lit up like a candle at my daughter's tenth birthday party. Some things you take...

Cisco Suarez versus an entire Caribbean drug cartel. Round one. Fight.Okay, not exactly the most even championship match, but it's the one I drew. If you told me months ago I'd be robbing drug dealers, I would've committed you myself. Who needs that kind...

Black Magic gets a bad rap. Trust me. When people see me, they don't see Cisco Suarez, they see a rogue. A shadow charmer. A black magic outlaw.Maybe they're right. Maybe everything I touch withers and dies. But that doesn't give the SWAT team...

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...