Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

Pan offers you a very special promise.The new football league in town is driving people nuts--literally.Something has changed about your husband.A moonlit meadow hides a midnight secret. Immerse yourself in the horror, the macabre, and the chilling with this collection of six short stories....

Veronica wants nothing more than to find her brother, who sailed away years ago. But when Veronica's ship is captured by pirates, she's determined to save her own skin, while keeping her magic and her gender a secret. Disguised as male, she finagles a...

Midnight, the City of Night, is home to artists of all types, wanderers, vagabonds, criminals, madmen, poets, and thieves. Sometimes, it's hard to know which you are.Author: John UrbancikISBN-10: 1951522079ISBN-13: 9781951522070Publisher: DarkfluidityLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2021Pages: 126Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.30d

This volume contains five stories - some short, some long. Each that builds upon the heritage of the other. It starts with The Castle of Ontarato (1764) by Horace Walpole which is considered the first, "Gothic Novel"; Vathek, An Arabian Tale (1782) by William...

Conquering Fate Takes Sacrifice.Victoria of Ourtown believes two things: that the bright, wandering star in the heavens is an abandoned spacecraft which brought her ancestors to this world and that destiny and the will of gods are nonsense. Vic used to scoff at stories...

The unrelenting, destructive force that was Superstorm Sandy moved ashore near Seaside Heights, New Jersey early on October 29th, 2012. A long forgotten artifact, churned up by the storm, washed ashore: to be discovered by a fledgling cultist Jeremiah Allen. With the knowledge revealed...

A seemingly simple mission: eradicate a menace in a neighboring land, yet dark secrets strangle a truth that spells death to the unaware. Rathen, a former captain in King Delvant's army, has retired to a quiet backwater town after the Kingdom's forces were dissolved...

A man driven by revenge. Another world in peril. A long-forgotten deity determined to destroy all in its path to ultimate power. Rathen, ex-captain of the late king's army, pulls together a team to defeat the evil that threatens them all. The Book of...

Saber Alexiares is no ordinary vampire. He is like a cruel, fire-breathing dragon. Reared in the bowels of the colony by Dark Ones, he has no conscience, no compassion, and no saving grace. Captured by the enemy, he is sentenced to execution by sunlight...

Gods are real, and it's time for them to die. Astul, an infamous assassin with a woeful reputation, never believed in gods. As luck would have it, they're quite real. And if they have their way, Astul will be quite dead. A civil war...

Music, magic, demons... and love beyond hope. In a world where music is magic, Sarya dyr-Rusac can hear music no one else hears. Once a respected arranger of musical magic rituals, now she's in exile after a wedding ritual she wrote led to the...

The Sword Bear Oath: Protect Your Owner, No Matter What! Theo's number one goal is to ensure that his eight-year-old owner Grant lives a carefree life full of laughter.No boogie man. No evil toys. Just happy childhood.But not even Theo's knightly sword skills can...

Brotherhood. Honor. Duty.After surviving the initial horrors of the strange new world he finds himself in, Staff Sergeant Conor McCall and his Marine Recon platoon-or what's left of it-have come to a safe haven where they and their newfound allies recover from the most...

The afterlife isn't always what you think...A loving father of three children, Albert lived a life of few regrets. He served his country far from home. He outlived his soulmate. He died alone.However, his assumptions about a peaceful eternity, reunited with his wife, are...

Campbell has mastered the art of generating a sense of sustained unease. The Washington Post. A new masterpiece from the master of suspense. Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It's where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after...

Sakarabru and his Brood Army have all been destroyed, and humankind has lost in its effort to return to life before the havoc wreaked on the world by the Demon and his Brood army. A new enemy has quietly come to power and emerged...

Rayden Valkyrie. She walks alone, serving no king, emperor, or master. Forged in the fires of tragedy, she has no place she truly calls home. A deadly warrior wielding both blade and axe, Rayden is the bane of the wicked and corrupt. To many...

Think you know evil magicians?The people of the Twelve Kingdoms do. Everyone agrees Tymon the Black is the absolute worst. He makes bad things happen to good people for no reason.Or so it seems. Haven't you ever wished the choices you have to make...

Just sign on the dotted line and your dreams come true ... for seven years, then Hell is in session Here are twisted "soulful" tales of terror and humor about those who seek fame, fortune and power the easy way -- but at the...

Attacked by countless, dark forces of the Dragon, Seth and his companions begin to lose hope as they try to make it to the palace alive. Kinsey has been kidnapped, taken deep into the soulless regions of the Land of the Dragon, and the...

In this gorgeous, dark fantasy in the spirit of Jacqueline Carey, a princess and a duke must protect the people of their nations when a terrible threat leaves everyone in danger. With the Mad King of Emmer in the north and the vicious King...

When her father surrenders to an invading kingdom, Amarylla doesn't realize she's part of the treaty until it's too late. Drugged to prevent resistance, she's swept away to the dark, tortured kingdom of Terelaus, where she is forced to marry the Fiend Prince. When...

It started with the end, something like the drop of a curtain.A white veil in a haunting in-between calling my name.The last word hanging on the edge of a sentence.And then nothing.I remembered nothing.I didn't have time to remember anything when the danger made...

Left for dead, hated by all. At the edge of an empire on the brink of collapse, in a province abandoned by even the gods themselves, an ancient evil has been awoken.Can a bandit called Arthur redeem himself and save Britannia from a terrible...

A seemingly random attack exposes Kimie and her best friend to a part of the world the girls never knew existed. A world where vampires and shape shifters not only exist, but are people they know. However, when another attack nearly kills Kimie, her...

Angel Dust is the first story collection by Australian rising star Ian McHugh. McHugh is a Writers of the Future winner, and has a number of significant overseas short fiction sales. Angel Dust collects 15 incredible fantastic visions. A number of these were first...

Khale: a wanderer no more, he sits on the throne of Tumenfell as usurper. The Gorenwald: the endless forest-sea where a nameless evil lurks. The White Sons: zealots who have bred a monstrous army to conquer Tumenfell. Leste the Red: tortured for years -...

A dark epic fantasy series, where one woman's thirst for revenge and battle with her inner demons will put the entire world in jeopardy. The only thing twenty-one year old Adrastine wants is revenge against her depraved father--but when she tries to kill him,...

In the afterglow of a world that was, and will never be again... Clem is a suicidal mime, degenerating into a fish. Cassie is a teenage brat, pregnant with a child that seems to center around mysterious cults devoted to cats and dogs."In ICHTHYIC...

Nothing is as dangerous as a broken heart.Two years have passed. The events at Stonehenge have left the group, and their hearts, fractured and heavy with sorrow. There's no worse time to learn existence is in peril from an overwhelming power battering down the...

Follow New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop to a "stunningly original"(Kirkus Reviews) world of magic and political unrest--where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price--in the third Novel of the Others. The Others freed the blood prophets to protect them from...

Life for Eden is simple-until she's given to the nightmare king.Wishing for more adventure in her life, and hoping to escape from under her overprotective mother's thumb even for just a night, Eden accepts an invitation to a ball in another king's court. Despite...

"This spectacular standalone fantasy bursts with epic battles and avid romance." - Booklife Reviews Editor's Choice Winner"A beautifully crafted setting with complex character dynamics and layers of political intrigue... A showstopper. Hunt's ambitious standalone latest has everything-a well-imagined fantasy world, great characters, incredible tension,...

A VOW THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN! It's been years since the kihei appeared without warning and overran the earth. To combat this threat, humanity established the Twilight Academy to train students as soldiers, though most die before graduation. During a mission, Kou Kaguro's squad...

Set in 1991 against the prelude to war in Croatia, Apok is a dystopian view of an imperfect world on the brink, as seen through the eyes of the equally imperfect hero sent to save it. For he is the ultimate psychopath, a formidable,...

Bones of extinct species wander a campground, stalking a group of friends in love with the same woman. The object of their affection seeks solace with a couple in a world with rain that kills. A woman moves away from her repressed home town,...

Being the chosen one isn't always a good thing.Oscar Tundale is not a hero. Anxious, indecisive, and awkward, he can barely get through a normal day. Now he's about to find out monsters are real. Oscar's friends: brave, stubborn Zara, and hyperactive, paranoid Marcus,...

A world on the brink of war, a hidden truth destined to be found. Niya's entire life has been a fight to survive. As a slave, she earns coins for her master in the fighting pits. But fate has bigger plans for her, and...

What could make a newly freed man risk recapture?Unjustly imprisoned upon a desolate island, Ford Barlow desires freedom more than anything. His second wish would be to enact vengeance upon a certain pesky priest. After finally getting off the island, he and his friends...

Step into the dark, uneasy dreams of award-winning writer Tyler Miller: What if Hell wasn't a fire-burning pit in the afterlife, but a real place here on Earth? A place you could accidentally stumble upon by mistake. A place that, once you found it,...

Revenge is a dish best served cold.After a major battle between the Higher Middle and Lower Middle, there were few survivors on either side.Shoil's hatred for Tampong ran deep to her very core, constantly fueling her anger, which increased her appetite, making her feed...

"If you're searching the horror horizon for a dark star, your next must-read, the silhouette you see coming your way is Jonathan Janz."-- Josh Malerman, New York Times best selling author of Bird Box Book 2 in The Raven series Three years ago the...

Dante: No one could have prepared me for who I saw captured in the arms of that hulking werewolf. It took everything I had not to go over there and rip that wolf's throat out for manhandling my best friend, Dominic. If I know...

When Wendy returned from Neverland, moving out of the nursery was only the beginning. Told it's time to "grow up", she's forced into volunteer work with her mother, where she must learn the role of a proper lady by helping those less fortunate in...

An epic dark fantasy set in a desert land that harkens Arabian Nights Eirik Hastin has hidden from the horrors of his past for nearly twenty years as an itinerant tourney fighter and notorious drunkard. Maiara, an orphan raised by an aloof innkeeper and...

The Demon Cycle meets The Wheel of Time in this action-packed adventure From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed videogame writer Drew Karpyshyn comes the third and final novel in an original epic fantasy trilogy for fans of Terry Goodkind, Peter V. Brett,...

Magic, danger, and adventure abound for messenger Karigan G'ladheon in the fifth book in Kristen Britain's New York Times-bestselling Green Rider fantasy series Karigan G'ladheon is a Green Rider--a seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. King Zachary sends...

He was sure he was in front of a demon. Then again, when faced with a witch, he always felt that he was in the face of a demon. And now he was one of them.Fueled by his hatred for the witches, Mallor has...

There are dark places in the world where the lines between lesser evils become too murky to distinguish. Brendan Winters, enchanter mage, playboy, and consummate maker of poor life choices, has outdone himself once again.In a moment of weakness, Brendan struck a deal that...

Ishmael Jones is faced with a dead body and a missing mummy in this highly entertaining, genre-blending mystery. Death shall come on swift wings to whoever desecrates this tomb ... Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home...