Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

George Haint is an unusual ghost story. It's spooky and surprising, and will chill you to the bone. This short story is set Virginia City of Nevada, during the Comstock gold and silver rush of the 1850's, and full of color of the area,...

With complex characters, political intrigue and shocking twists, this gender-bent Hades & Persephone re-imagining will keep you guessing until the very end. Three rulers.Two sides.One plot for revenge.Welcome to the Kingdom of Lavdia. In a village all but forgotten by the country's rulers, Finn...

Desperate to discover a cure for the cyclical 48-year-fever, known as Trailmen's fever, Dr. Randall Forth persuades a colleague, Dr. Jay Allison, to undergo hypnosis. He calls forth a secondary personality, Jason Allison, is gregarious and an experienced mountain climber, while Dr. Jay Allison...

A dark Celtic fae romance featuring a tortured soul, a magical healer, and a bond forged with patience, love, and trust . . . Brennon Roarke is cursed. Stolen from his family at the age of sixteen and forced to use his glamour in...

While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism."I have a presentiment that we shall find in the valley of Biban...

Ryan is reunited with her mentor only to discover that Victor has fallen ill, an impossibility for One who is both invulnerable and immortal! While her human companion, Dr. Susan Ryerson, continues her examination of their unique anatomies with the hope of discovering what...

Selected for 'Indie Books We Love' by LoveReading, UK'An impressive work of fantasy...world building is immense and captivating...it turns LA on its head ...very unique' -- Writer's Digest 'This fast-paced, deep delve into the underbelly of our humanness and other realms is a powerful...

Caspian's immortal curse can only be cured by another who holds the secret in her ancient memories. Problem is, she dies and is reborn forgetting all about her past lives. After 2,000 years of failure, Caspian finally finds her as a child and tells...

The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and vanished. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest--a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death, who went in with...

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice! Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good...

"Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, likeants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they're doing what they have to do . . . " Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind's fears to the summit...

"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children...

“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of...

Imaro is a rousing adventure... a tale of a young man's continuing struggle to gain acceptance amongst his people, and to break the cycle of alienation and violence that plagues his life. Imaro is heroic fantasy like it's never been done before. Based on...

"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children...

"Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, like ants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they're doing what they have to do . . . " Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind's fears to the...

Return to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's world of the Black Jewels--where a Queen has emerged from the shadows to bring hope to an impoverished people... For years the Shalador people suffered the cruelties of the corrupt Queens who ruled them, punishing...

Usher's Passing is about descendants of the Usher family from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." The house of usher is built on death itself--and now it has a new master... For generations the House of Usher has...

Aodhan comes from a lineage that includes some of Azeroth's most heroic paladins and warriors, but the whip-smart young man is not built for physical combat. He's thin, bookish, and he desperately wants to be a mage. After his controlling father forbids him to...

Lies, love, lust and power. A wickedly addictive dark fantasy romance about an ice queen determined to wreak vengeance on the prince who shattered her cold heart while losing what remains of it to another... Once upon a time, there lived a princess so...

A ghost cat, the Devil, a deceitful criminal, a father framed for murder, and a vulnerable young girl combine in this magical tale from the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of the Joe Grey feline mysteries, Shirley Rousseau Murphy, and her husband Pat J.J. Murphy.The...

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by the critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the greatest novel of...

The story is set in the distant future, where humanity is at war with "Yuks", an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships nor constructions. Instead, it relies on life forms. The war has been going on for a long time, and...

The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long...

A dark and powerful fantasy from Orson Scott Card, the bestselling author of Ender's Shadow. Enter the city of Hart's Hope, ruled by gods both powerful and indifferent, riddled with sorcery and revenge. The city was captured by a rebellious lord, Palicrovol, who overthrew...

When Gelsen entered, he saw that the rest of the watchbird manufacturers were already present. There were six of them, not counting himself, and the room was blue with expensive cigar smoke. As a watchbird manufacturer, he was a member manufacturer of salvation, he...

Can One Sarcastic Demi-Goddess And Her Stoic Demon Halfling Bodyguard Save Haedes' Underworld? SYNOPSIS When Sephy Sinclair is forced to take over her father's business empire, she's not happy. What she doesn't know is that she's about to discover her lineage is steeped far...

When Devlin Macky stole the Silver Bluebell from the Natural History Museum, he got far more than he bargained for. Mordred Haddonfield wasn't the most benevolent employer. The man was evil. Macky knew that, but he also needed the money. The Bluebell was more...

Heaven is no longer a paradise. It was once a blissful utopia full of wonders far beyond human comprehension. But that was a long, long time ago. The afterlife is now in ruins. It has become an ugly, lonely wasteland populated by strange monstrous...

"Hold on, there!" came a sharp challenge from the stairs behind and below me. "What are you doing? And what's that picture doing?" It was one of the Museum's guards. "I was going to ask somebody that same question," I told him as austerely...

The Hooker. The Madam. The Driver. All on a collision course to a place where madness holds sway.After four years working in a New York brothel to pay off a debt to the mob, Nina is nearly paid up and ready to go home....

"After I glimpsed a kind of thin, yellowish, shimmering exhalation rising from the nitrous pattern toward the yawning fireplace, I spoke to my uncle about the matter. He smiled at this odd conceit, but it seemed that his smile was tinged with reminiscence. Later...

WELCOME TO HELL The prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate's most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid. Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona "Dred" Devos controls one of...

Hazel is ready to find answers about a past she can't remember. She has no memories, no family-only the fierce loyalty of Arlo, her ultimate protector turned devoted partner. But after a year of garish nightmares that constantly threaten her stability, she grows unsatisfied...

She stole his memory. Will he steal her heart?Shrouded Sister Cassandra Fortin is a wannabe rebel hidden beneath midnight blue dress robes.By day, she toils at the Temple, pulling the human memories craved by her Fae overlords. By night, she hunts through those same...

He's a neurotic serial killer. She's the woman he cannot kill. Marlowe Spencer-Astor is in a slump. He hasn't killed a single soul in one hundred seventy four days. Not even therapy could solve his murderous problem, though he promised his mother he'd try.But...

Enemies make dangerous lovers ... or so they say.I am not a chosen of the Gods, but a bloody tragedy of their choices.I have endured worse than the Darkhavens. Torture. Pain. Manipulation.There is nothing anyone can do to me that I have not already...

The sequel to Jason Offutt's award-winning novel, The Girl in the Corn, which critics have raved is "an outstanding blend of horror, speculative fiction, and apocalyptic fantasy topped with madness" (HorrorDNA) and "a haunting, unsettling, gripping novel" (Richard Thomas, a Bram Stoker and Shirley...

Two brothers opposed.A knight faced with an impossible choice.And a Gifted witch, capable of seeing glimpses of an uncertain future.They alone might change the world of Azimar.For better, or for worse.Mothlenor, fearing an end to humanity, will stop at nothing to keep mankind from...

"Sing with me, Little Rose."A storyteller with the power of twisting the tales of Fate never lives long. From the beginning, Calista has always told her royals this truth, but she's determined to break the chain of violence by avoiding the attention from the...

In December 2019, as Ghana's vibrant streets buzz with the climax of the "Year of Return," an initiative marking 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were forcibly taken to Virginia, Adwapa, a Ghanaian journalist living in the U.S., decides to journey back to...

A night out turns deadly when Angelique Carlson crosses paths with a deluded maniac roaming the streets of Baltimore, but this is no ordinary killer. Helpless in the monster's arms, she knows the reality-she had felt his frigid touch... had seen his deadly fangs:...

Book one in an interconnected series of STANDALONES.Beyond the realm of gods, two cities stand at the brink of despair, and a dark destiny awaits Death's newest Maiden.Long ago, Requiem was plagued by war and abandoned by the gods but Death saved the suffering...

But is the house truly haunted?Of course the house is haunted.Button House has stood for centuries, digging its roots and its rot deeper and deeper, consuming all who approach: twin brothers, a child bride, an innocent baby, four young factory workers.And then came Rose...

Iain James meets Layla Black when she is only thirteen. Rationally speaking, everything about being involved with her is wrong, from her age to her careless attitudes about love and commitment. Still, Iain feels that he can't live without her, to a degree that...

When wicked men first took the boy she loved, she was a child.Now they've taken him again, but this time...she's a queen.For weeks, Malin plotted and schemed with the kingdom's cruelest crooks, the Nightrender and the Guild of Kryv, to infiltrate a wicked masquerade.They...

A failed rebellion leaves a nation in chaos.The aftermath is devastation.No one is coming to save them.Everything has changed.Friends have turned against each other.Foes have become allies.And it seems as though everyone has an agenda.The dark secrets and pasts will unravel everything they've ever...

Norylska Groans...with the weight of her crimes. In a city where winter reigns amid the fires of industry and war, soot and snow conspire to conceal centuries of death and deception.Norylska Groans...and the weight of a leaden sky threatens to crush her people. Katyusha...

This omnibus contains all three full-length novels that complete the Forbidden Mates series by Lola Glass. Binge these connected standalones now for steamy, enemies-to-lovers romance, and sexy fae!Dark & Beastly Fae-After nine years in a tower, I was finally rescued... by a deadly fae...

With the battle just ending the Valaseri siblings have no time to rest as two mysterious undead that claim to be their distant ancestors unload more uncomfortable information on them than they could ever be ready for. It quickly becomes clear that there is...