Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

"Reflections of the Abyss" is a chilling exploration of cosmic horror penned by the enigmatic author Magnum Tenebrosum. In this dark and atmospheric tale, Detective Anderson and Sarah find themselves entangled in a web of mysteries that transcend the boundaries of the known and...

The Blight of Blackridge is a grimdark fantasy novel featuring warring gods, powerful priestesses, clean sapphic romance, and heart-wrenching stakes."In my opinion, this novel is one of the best at having its main character make realistic decisions, not just ones that advance the plot....

When Professor Hex, a Harvard Women's History professor, with a love for punishing males, is summoned to Amarillo, Texas to help a woman on trial for miscarriage-the unexpected occurs and the men throughout the city, including the judge and lawyers involved in the trial,...

Spathi Ansdari, an amnesiac corpse, is resurrected from the void by a grim shaman known as the "animal man" in the phantasmagoric, apocalyptic plane of Raktogin. Haunted by fleeting memories of his past, Spathi struggles to discover his true identity while being antagonized by...

Immerse yourself in the alluring realm of Rise of the Queer Vampires, a fresh take on gay erotic fiction. The narrative centers around Antonio De Luca, an Italian youth grappling with his sexual orientation amidst the strict moral codes of his Catholic upbringing. His...

A village snared with hive-brain controlled by an ancient queen faces an evil beast who is said to devour the hearts of maidens...or so the rumor goes... Zaklina hoards stories to give her comfort in a lonely existence, even after she travels to distant...

Limos is the goddess of starvation. Whatever she touch withers and wastes, crumbling to dust. She aids those seeking destruction, plaguing fields with famine and waters with drought. When mortals see her, they yearn. Her opposite, harvest goddess Demeter, makes life flourish wherever she...

Trust the lightning. It's all Blair can do when she's on the run for over a year, hoping to escape a deadly fate. Her psychic best friend's vision comes with a harrowing warning, and lightning seems to be her only hope. Horrific creatures plague...

Artura is a healer. Her home is in the grips of war. A war on the very thing she values most: her freedom.Accused of witchcraft and treason against Cimran and the wicked king who rules the land, Artura and Emrys, the man who loved...

Something wicked is at work in Colorado's supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison...a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state's cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison "Lex"...

Step into the haunting world of Havoc: The Rise of Ɖavo, where the brutal war that gripped Croatia in 1991 is just the beginning of a genocidal wave that threatens humanity's very existence. But one man has been planning for this all along. To...

Every action has a consequence. And for this mystically enhanced vampire every action is too monstrous to face. To burn in the fires of Hell is his destiny. Rescued by Alana, the woman he loves, Michael Malone consents to a unique, mystical healing, something...

"We're meant to be...aren't we?"Beginning in Long Grows the Dark...BeforeGlenna, court sorceress in service to Princess Jael, struggles to hide her feelings for her best friend's betrothed. Yet even as the realm approaches its golden age, an unforeseen enemy rises to corrupt the princess...

Intriguing, bone-chilling, thought-provoking, and heartwarming short stories by various genre authors.Lost in the Woods by Erika M SzaboA young police officer enters the woods to find a missing woman, but it takes all her mental strength to deal with what she finds.She Waits by...

"What is the difference between me and a monster?"This librarian became a half-vampire and fought for her life against all odds. Now, she must face an enemy she never expected-but he's not just unexpectedly powerful...he's disturbingly attractive.I hadn't fully recovered from nearly dying while...

Despite being sheltered for years from society, nasty rumors about her family from the nearby town have always graced Rosella Bloom's ears. And it only got worse upon her father's sudden passing two years prior.Between hearing her great-grandmother Felan being falsely accused of running...

Fear is a monster.Taiuki is the thirdborn royal of the myrkingdom of Shiggo. With her brother set to be king and her sister the arch commodore, she has no worries beyond imagining adventures and exploring the fascinating ocean beyond her window.But when arrogant visitors...

Witches and werewolves and rednecks, oh my!After surviving one Hell of a journey, Quinn MacKenna-black magic arms dealer turned demigoddess-was really looking forward to spending some quality time with friends. And maybe a beer. Unfortunately time is the only thing Quinn doesn't have, and...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is splendidly tense rip-roaring ("Publishers Weekly") a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe. In "Wizard and Glass,"...

A taste and then it was gone. Lydia sacrificed her body and her very sanity, surrendering her freedom to protect those she loves. Within the grasp of the evil she fought to escape, she risks losing all that she is in order to spare...

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...

A metaphysical masochistic janitor and a Japanese Goddess in flip flops from another solar system converge in Seattle to change the course of the planet.Author: UminekoISBN-10: 1523300760ISBN-13: 9781523300761Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/17/2016Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.28d

She'll keep him safe at any cost. He'll make the kill at a moment's notice. When destiny calls, whose heads will roll?Arraleen Caze's rage knows no bounds. Quick to feed enemies to her pet panthers, the wealthy spymaster's daughter is appalled when fools call...

Mundo Lopez, a minor player in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, has killed a man of unexpected importance to the Mayan gods of war and death. After his release from prison, Mundo journeys with his lover, Pedro, through the jungles of Guatemala to...

It all comes down to this. The Hound of Uladh, CúChulainn, faces his most hopeless hour as all the dark forces of the land close in on Eamhain Mhacha. He must pit himself against a multitude of foes - demonic fighters under the thrall...

As the wheel turns and the line of lanterns extends to eternity, Underland Arcana continues to celebrate the four aspects of the eternal spark: the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. These are the stories we tell in the twilight. These are...

After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch...

"I needed this. I needed him. My mind was a storm and I wanted him to take it all away." At the prestigious and competitive Saylam Academy, Max trains to master his magic, surrounded by enemies who will stop at nothing to see him...

After ten years trapped in a cellar, I was finally rescued... by a ruthless fae king who immediately made me his mate.He's angry, grumpy, and altogether unpleasant to be around. My attraction to him only partially makes up for that.He needs the magic of...

On the moon of Knyadrea, the sea yields intelligent life. For a species shaped by tides, change is the only constant.Little can be hidden in the glare of a spotlight. Charismatic and innovative, Oklas Sayve has risen to prominence in Apidecca, the moon's capital...

On the moon of Knyadrea, the sea yields intelligent life. For a species shaped by tides, change is the only constant.Little can be hidden in the glare of a spotlight. Charismatic and innovative, Oklas Sayve has risen to prominence in Apidecca, the moon's capital...

The third novel in Richard Swan's acclaimed epic fantasy trilogy triumphantly concludes the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Emperor's Justice - a detective, judge and executioner all in one. THE TIME OF JUDGEMENT IS AT HAND The Empire of the Wolf is on...

31 BRAND NEW DARK FANTASY HORROR STORIESBloody corridors of ancient rock. A castle surrounded by poisonous thorns. A lost temple of traps and corpses. A subaqueous cave at the bottom of a cursed lake. These are the places where secrets are buried, where ancient...

My thoughts, my drive, my goal was on one thing. I was a madman obsessed, and nothing would get in my way.Treasure.For centuries this has been the drive for humans to lie, murder, cheat, and steal, and The Nectar is the biggest fortune of...

Perfect for those of us who watched Shadow and Bone and wished Alina and the Darkling ended up together. The readers who want to have infinite power and a throne with a morally gray man who is tall, bronzed and emotionally chaotic. Step into...

Author: Frankie Diane MallisISBN-10: 1957014059ISBN-13: 9781957014050Publisher: Seven Queens PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call--a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic. *The hardcover edition features a foil stamp on the casing and...

Set in 1926, nine-year-old Rosalyn invents a new game to play with the girls she shares a dormitory with in the Hawthorne House Orphanage. Revolving around a Royal Court, their make-believe game quickly becomes a way to gain some measure of control in their...

The SFWA Grand Master's award-winning collection "combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling" (Library Journal). In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like...

The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the...

This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic. Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson's novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources. In his greed for...

The Saga of Gor continues as Tarl Cabot attempts to save a beautiful prisoner from a terrible fate. The daughter of Marlenus, the Ubar of Ar, is now a fugitive sought for betraying the Home Stone of her city. The price on her head...

A warrior falls as the cult classic sword and sorcery series continues--the inspiration for the film starring Jack Palance. Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he has known as a history professor on Earth. He is glad to...

Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic fantasy adventure. Holger Carlsen is a rational man of science. A Danish engineer working with the Resistance to defeat the Nazis, he...

The final book in the seminal sword and sorcery series featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. After their adventures in Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd the barbarian and Gray Mouser the thief remain on Rime...

Puzzling, disturbing rumors have reached Port Kar. Tarl Cabot, warrior and merchant, pirate and slaver, once of Earth, now of Gor, learns that the Farther Islands, Thera, Daphna, and Chios, west of the Island Ubarates of Cos and Tyros, are being bloodily and systematically...

A well-to-do, upper-class young woman, intelligent, fashionable, educated, strikingly beautiful, exploitative, selfish, and haughty, a despiser of men as she knows them, taking them all as manipulable weaklings, meets a mysterious, unsettlingly attractive male at a cocktail party, one who is not only distant...

The explosive first installment in a six-book saga, Chronicles of the Empyrean: The Guardians acts as a history lesson for the last Guardian of the Empyrean as he travels through time and space to learn of the creation of pure malice and its unbreakable...

In this "astonishing fantasy debut," a mother and a mysterious Chinese man--who is more than he appears--search for her missing daughter in San Francisco (Locus). Offering "a deft blend of the oldest of magicks in a dragon, and the newest of sorceries in computers"...

Ar, defeated, shamed, and systematically looted, is occupied by Cosian forces. Perhaps Marlenus of Ar alone, the great ubar, could remind the men of their Home Stone and its meaning. But it is thought that he perished in the Voltai. Young women from Earth...