Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

**FINALIST for the BSF Award for Best Horror, 2023** A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette....

A child-sized doll is the object of his mother's obsession. He's beginning to wonder why... "Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalist The son...

"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...

From New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd comes a complex tale of dark magic, family secrets, and monsters that don't stay on the page. "A propulsively charming nightmare, pooling like spilled ink across your imagination." -- Kiersten White, New York Times bestselling author...

Player's GuideThis book is written specifically for anyone who would like to assume the role of a player in an Odysseys & Overlords game! Within this book you will find the rules and systems that will help you create and play a character to...

ENTER THE WORLD OF PENTHARA ... A world where the human and elven races of the realm are born into specific elemental descendancies, and each of the five seasons correlate to one of the five elements themselves.Kingfall, Book One centralizes around the human kingdom...

Zenais lived harmoniously with his brother Sem. But after being deceived by a malevolent spirit named "The Disgraced," he does the unthinkable. He is then punished by the Deity Lord Eden to spend the rest of his life as the most vile creature. A...

From the tripadelic mind of Native American author Adrian L. Jawort comes a noir-styled modern day gothic tale of losing & finding one's self through the midst of darkness. Abidan Drew, or A.D., is a brilliant but haunted young artistic soul who thrill seeks...

"Charlie and Nigel: The Lost Treasure of Devereux" encompasses literary aesthetics along with a quick 'British' sense of humor. This is a time-travel fantasy novel with a twist.Charlie, a young girl who uses a wheelchair, wishes that she could get out and have a...

An enemy slain is not a conflict won...After decades of war the demon Te Mirkvah匀 is dead. But its progeny endure, spilling from the Heart of Mirk侔, sowing death across the land of Ariath. If the people are to finally know peace, the Heart...

As the "wickedly clever" (Publishers Weekly) series continues, reluctant, slacker vampire Fortitude Scott learns that nothing is more important than family--or more deadly.... After a lifetime of avoiding his family, Fort has discovered that working for them isn't half bad--even if his mother, Madeline,...

The king is dead.Long live the king. Prince Pharun was marked by the gods at birth, yet he has lived his entire life in his younger brother's shadow. Despite becoming Crowned Priest, a right hand to the divine, his father only ever treated him...

Kiana's last day at the magically-charged fence that protects the world from hyper-destructive unicorns: A day of celebration, right? Not when the extraction team runs late and an ominous storm brews-and her partner has been keeping a potentially fatal secret... For everyone who's ever...

A floundering priest. A woman in a wheelchair. An ancient curse. On the run from a cursed king and his army of assassins, priest Niels Bosch seeks sanctuary in rural Briscona. What he gets is a barrage of intimate and unsettling questions from his...

"There's something eerie about the forest late at night, when the moon is your only source of light. Sounds feel intensified-every critter scurrying in the brush makes your heart lurch. I used to think that this would feel freeing, like being in the trees...

The Eidola Project, a team of 19th Century ghost hunters, have been tasked with trying to stop a deadly shapeshifting demon attacking the native people of La Push, on the Washington Coast. The team brings their own demons with them, in the form of...

Psychological fantasy at its finest.The complete Adjacent Monsters duology, including a bonus novelette, compiled in a single volume. "Beautiful, profane, and existential in equal measure, Luke Tarzian's tale of memory and self-deception will bleedinto your dreams."-Yaroslav Barsukov, Nebula-nominated author of Tower of Mud and...

David Krieg is an unusual individual, diagnosed with schizophrenia shortly after his annual boys fishing trip. David tells us the story of the life-changing events of that twentieth year at Gusty Lake. The mid-forty something's find them-selves wrapped up in a world of strange...

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost." -Edgar Allan PoeWandering souls! Restless spirits! The vengeful dead! Those who die with unfinished business haunt the living and make their presence known from the world beyond: A scientist's invention opens a...

Bound by both her duty to her clann and all the Isles of Rinn D仡n, Aisling is handfast to one of the twelve fae sovereigns: she, a fragile symbol of peace between mortals and fair folk. Aisling is spun into the Fae King's world...

For ten years, the assassin Grayshade has eliminated threats to the Order of Argoth, the Just God. Within the towering walls of Cohrelle, all bow to the Order's authority, even while the city officials publicly distance themselves from its actions.As the supreme executor of...

No one escapes the Pit.At just fifteen Eskara Helsene fought in the greatest war mankind has ever known. She lost. There is only one place her enemies would send a Sourcerer as wild and dangerous as her. The Pit. A prison sunk so deep...

This is a fantasy so like many fantasies it deals with good vs evil and young people learning to find their way in the World. It begins with the conflicts of three people then grows into a bigger, and perhaps more serious story.Gyrth is...

It's still 1998 in Cape Cove, Indiana: in fact, it's only been a week since the events that ended "In Libro Vitae" have transpired. Salome, now more accepted into the fold of The Crew since her individual exploits brought fortune and solidarity within the...

Terrill was the most ruthless of vampires, but over the long centuries of his existence he has evolved into a Golden Vampire, renouncing violence, able to walk among humans and in sunlight. What he didn't know--what no one knew--was that the evolution was directed...

The Ragnar Stormbringer Tales, Volume II, contains three novellas previously released in the growing collection on eBook formats. These novellas include The Awakening, Tears in the Snow, and Burning Skies!The novellas in the Ragnar Stormbringer collection will continue to be released and made available...

Death would be more merciful...The bleeding wall looms over the once-peaceful valley, every night spawning grotesque and horrifying fiends that attack any living in reach. The only hope for the village caught in the wall's shadow is an unwelcome wander: a witch cursed with...

Breach Bang and Clear. The battle begins against the Lich-Pharaoh as the Rangers go for a fatal strike against the Saurian-controlled Port of S皛tagul in the Land of Black Sleep.Brutal house-to-house fighting and relentlessly kinetic street battles erupt as special teams conduct high-value target...

Son of the Poison Rose marks the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry's epic, swashbuckling Kagen the Damned series. The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the...

As the new heir to her father's throne, Keira thinks she knows exactly what's going to happen in her life.After meeting a handsome prince at a ball, she uncovers the truth about her past, and the curse placed on her by a vengeful king.With...

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real. . . Such tales of the dark and the unknown have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a...

Surviving death was only the beginning of my battle . . . Like all Bastran women, I thought my destiny was to become a breeder, forced to help produce an army of soldiers in the war over the Sacred Lands. But now I stand...

They said it would be a great war to end all wars. To create peace between the Elemental Empires: Fire, Water and Earth. As one war ended, another started. The gods came back with a vengeance because peace was never meant to be an...

Viridian Gate Online is more than just a game... and now, it's Alan Campbell's whole world.Recently deceased and squishy as hell, Alan, a newly minted Illusionist, is forced to flee for his life. He needs time to deal with his loss, both in-game and...

It Begins... This book contains fragments of letters found by an individual known as,"The Editor". When first presented with these mysterious letters, it was clear the writer was twisted. An individual so twisted and intriging, it gave The Editor no choice but to continue...

"Vita Nostra" -- a cross between Lev Grossman's "The Magicians" and Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian" ...] is the anti-Harry Potter you didn't know you wanted." -- The Washington Post"Vita Nostra has become a powerful influence on my own writing. It's a book that has...

What happens when the villain wins? Sick of dashing debonairs...? Fed up of being blinded by shining armor...? Sometimes, all a girl wants is a villain for a hero. Dancing across morally gray lines, these stories are naughty, devious, and downright delicious. How far...

What if heresy proves the only way to avoid a holy war? Such a war threatens the Inland Empire and the Holy Oregon. It stalks the Mother Metropolitan, as confident of its success as a Malheur Cobra hunting a barn rat. Only the unification...

Introducing Ishmael Jones - a detective with a difference - in this compelling murder mystery. Ishmael Jones is someone who can't afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He's employed to search...

A dark shape now stood in those choppy dark waters. A horse. A black one, large as she'd ever seen, with a mane that poured down its neck.Genevieve hoped a trip to the Scottish village of Fonniskie would help her reconnect. But her vacation...

Featured in Library Journal's Top 20 Horror Bestseller List "An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that" - Guillermo del Toro Book 1 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic...

A lawless wilderness. A polished court. Individual fates, each on a quest to expose a system of corruption.The desolate canyons of Alcoro--and the people desperate enough to hide there--couldn't be more different from the opulent glass palace and lush forests of Moquoia. But the...

Included in this collection are the following short stories: The Rescue, Circle in the Sky, Green Chalk, Lies from the Skies, Family, and Into the Red.Family and into the Red are both from the Fahlstrom series, but both can be read as stand-alone stories....

To escape the hell she created, a woman must team up with a novice warrior and return to her homeland in this gritty epic fantasy where delusions are literally made real. Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased...

"Konkol is a master of edge-of-your-seat action sequences, and this book is a marathon from start to finish." -Kathie Giorgio, author of If You Tame MeFaced with the approach of an unstoppable army, the people of the Citadel are forced to flee. While most...

"It's been two months since Petra Dee and her coyote sidekick Sig faced off against Temperance's resident alchemist, but things are far from quiet. When an Internet video of a massive snake in the backcountry of Yellowstone goes viral, a chase for the mythical...

The Continent is a turbulent, magical, drug-addled place. Minka, a young human woman, sets out to make a fortune in the drug-game, while Kaino, a bloodthirsty prince, rampages across lands in search of continental supremacy. Author: Sascha MasettoISBN-10: 0578384671ISBN-13: 9780578384672Publisher: Sascha MasettoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2022Pages:...

When Count Dracula departs Transylvania on a Russian ship, crew members begin to mysteriously disappear. After the ship docks, and more people are attacked, rumours of a monster quickly spread. When Abraham Van Helsing is asked to intervene, Dracula meets his match. On his...

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it." --Stephen King ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: ESQUIRE - THE NERD DAILY - THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST Monsters...

Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesWinner: 2018 Alex AwardWinner: 2018 ALA RUSA Fantasy AwardSeanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones--a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and...