Fiction - Fantasy - Dark Fantasy

The direct tie-in to Diablo III, the fastest-selling gaming series of all time--starring the sole survivor of an ancient order who holds the fate of the mortal world in his hands. Deckard Cain is the last of the Horadrim, the sole surviving member of...

The first book of the Maradaine Constabulary series blends high fantasy, murder mystery, and gritty urban magic... Marking the debut of the second series set amid the bustling streets and crime-ridden districts of the exotic city called Maradaine, A Murder of Mages introduces us...

Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster...and spy. As Tomas's power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series. People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become--until they...

After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the deformed and diseased Out People, who struggle to...

"National Velvet with monsters and a big helping of palace intrigue, Race the Sands is monstrous (literally), heartwarming, and empowering in equal measure. An incredibly fun and inspiring read." - Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the NightingaleIn this...

"A superior epic fantasy, driven by strong characterization and a sense of utter desperation." -Booklife Reviews Editor's Pick."A Cracking page-turner with an unlikely group of misfits." - PrairieS Book Review"Hunt exemplifies how to make heroes shine within the large cast of a sprawling saga."...

The Curtain of Darkness FallsTime draws short. All armies, both enemy and ally, converge on the beleaguered kingdom of Delranan. All unwittingly approaching the seminal moment in the future of the world. The ruins of Arlevon Gale are ripe with activity as the vile...

Saint Sebastian Stone Roses is the third book in The Lonely Tower Series, an epic adventure that takes the reader into a new world full of surprises. A dark fantasy that meets coming of age, combined with complex story that draws the reader into...

Katrina just wants the perfect dress for her wedding day. But the dress shop makes error after error. Desperation sets in. But even Katrina underestimates the consequences of the dress shop's mistakes... A short horror tale about the dangers of agreeing to bargains without...

With the powerful cities of Seran and Loreen having fallen to elves, and the dark flame escaping its bonds, Prince Vasili Caville's plight has never been more desperate. But for the first time in his lifetime, he's not alone. With the formidable Nikolas Yazdan...

Delphi Fabrice's Flowers of Ether, originally appearing as a serial in the "literary supplement" of the daily newspaper La Lanterne, and here rediscovered and translated by Brian Stableford, is, without question, one of the most outrageous entries into the canon of the Decadent Movement....

War calls the elves of Urlas to battle. But Kealin, a young half-elf training to be a Sacred Blade, is forbidden to go. He is not ready, or so he's told. But Kealin's lineage has a dark secret and the High Council of Urlas...

Now in paperback, the second book in the acclaimed Carter Archives noir fantasy series returns to the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner. The city of Titanshade pulses with nervous energy. The discovery of new riches beneath its snowfields has...

A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality . . . and the fulfillment of humanity's desires may well prove to be its...

Taylor Renee Wolford has returned to the city of her birth. Accompanied by the villainous Ari, daughter to the Arbiter, Taylor is set to exchange herself for answers about her past and in so doing get a chance to reunite with the family she...

Death has many ways to take you. But what happens afterwards? Will you fall further into darkness or finally see the light?Death Has Its Ways is a collection of ten stories of everyday people who make ill-fated decisions causing death to take them away....

"This forest was home to thousands, millions of life forms, a colony, a vaulted, green, cathedral-like, city. Surely she knew all this, and yet, she'd never thought of it before, never really noticed. The woods and forests were just somewhere pleasant to walk, to...

Ankhesenamun finally has the Eye of Horus although she has given up almost everything to secure it. She returns to Egypt to reclaim her throne and restore a more humane monarchy. But she underestimates the power of the Eye. It won't be content with...

In New Dis, Purgatory, there is no rest for the dead. Sprouting from the rim of Hell's depths, not even this bohemian city of the afterlife-full of mercantile enterprises, engineering innovations, and political intrigue-is immune to the tragedies filtering down into it as war...

The epic fantasy adventure begun in Sunshield races to its thrilling conclusion in this imaginative finale in which the fate of four extraordinary young people--and their nations--will be decided.When their hopes for ending Moquoia's brutal system of bondage are crushed, unlikely allies Lark and...

"A must have for Kitty Norville fans, but also an excellent standalone for readers new to Vaughn's worlds." --Kelley Armstrong, author of Bitten From the author of the beloved Kitty Norville werewolf DJ host series, the last full tale in the series: the vampire...

Dan Wells introduced us to John Wayne Cleaver in the chilling novels I Am Not a Serial Killer and Mr. Monster. In I Don't Want to Kill You, Cleaver faces his toughest challenge yet. John Wayne Cleaver has called a demon---literally called it on...

Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and...

Here are seventeen of the author's favorite stories, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning novella "Five Days in April," along with the preceding Watchers story "Ten Days in July" and a story published here for the first time, "These are the Moments I Live For."...

To end the murders, she must live with the beast of the forest.After surviving years with a debilitating illness that leaves her weak, Princess Gisela must prove that she is more than her ailment. She discovers her father, King Werner, has been growing desperate...

"Series fans will be delighted to revisit Marr's colorful cast" (Publisher's Weekly on Cursed By Death). Return to the world of Graveminder, Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Horror Novel in this stand-alone Graveminder novel that Publisher's Weekly calls "equally quirky."Amity Blue has begun to...

Fate of the Fallen is the start of a brand new adventure from New York Times bestselling author Kel Kade Not all stories have happy endings. Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it's his destiny to save the world, he dives in head...

Half orc. All badass. A female chieftain in a brutal wasteland society fights to take what is hers in an action-packed, foul-mouthed fantasy adventure from the author of The Grey Bastards ("Nonstop action, though not for faint hearts."--The Wall Street Journal). Fetching was once...

Dark incantations expose the minds of Miskatonic University students to supernatural horrors, in this chilling mystery novel of Arkham Horror The mysterious disappearance of a gifted student at Miskatonic University spurs his troubled roommate, Elliot Raslo, into an investigation of his own. But Elliot...

A World Fantasy Award Nominee!The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel...

Gladiator. Assassin. Thief. Princess. And the Slave. The Five Warrior Angels have been revealed, one by one the mystical weapons they once wielded are being found, and an ancient prophecy is finally being fulfilled. Or is it? For when it comes to recorded history,...

Jeremy Shipp brings you THE ATROCITIES, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer. But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez...

Cursed to take lives for the God of Death. Sorcerers must give up things and people they love, or accept things they despise, to gain magical power. The sorcerer Bib saves his daughter by accepting a curse to murder people, and only Death knows...

The fifth book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us."The only thing more fun than an October Daye book...

Winner of The SCKA 2022 for Best DebutShortlisted for the Kavya PrizeLonglisted for the British Science Fiction AwardsShortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel & Best NewcomerCould you condemn one child to save another?In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change...

One doesn't have to be human, to have humanity...In 1832 England, to fall from the peerage is the kiss of death. Yet penniless Mordecai Dureance still has a life worth living: an honest vocation and a humble cottage where he, his new bride, Lynora,...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLA Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasy In Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the...

Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women...

An order of magical-knife wielding female assassins brings both peace and chaos to their post-apocalyptic world in this bewitching blend of science fiction and epic fantasy--the first entry in a debut duology that displays the inventiveness of the works of Sarah Beth Durst and...

"For a long time Sorrowmouth existed as three or four separate ideas in different notebooks until one day, in a flash of divine inspiration, I recognised the common ground they shared with each other. A man trekking from one roadside memorial to another, in...

Taylor Renee Wolford has returned to the city of her birth. Accompanied by the villainous Ari, daughter to the Arbiter, Taylor is set to exchange herself for answers about her past and in so doing get a chance to reunite with the family she...

THE DOOR OF DARKNESS IS CAST OPEN--THE WORLD ADVANCES TO A NEW FIELD The specter of war hangs thick in the air of the Oriana Kingdom, where Princess Rose is expected to wed Duke Perv. This supposed marriage cannot and will not stand, though,...

After Nina senses a push from Spirit, she relocates her coven to Nova, Colorado, a small, snowy mountain town just outside Denver. But when Leo-her most powerful and dangerously gifted witch-decides to stray from the coven's goal for motives of his own, the coven...

A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced. Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood...

Stabby nominated, SPFBO7 Semi-Finalist RINGLANDER: THE PATH AND THE WAY is a fast-paced, epic fantasy adventure full of games, grit and magic. THE PATH AND THE WAY is a coming-of-age, original fantasy adventure with LBGT relationships and a largely female lead cast. It is...

Introduction by Bruce Coville"For the bathroom, for the bedroom, for the bus to work, for that chair in the department store where bored spouses sit while their wives or husbands try on new clothes... this is a perfect way to entertain yourself during idle...

Winner of The SCKA 2022 for Best DebutShortlisted for the Kavya PrizeLonglisted for the British Science Fiction AwardsShortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel & Best NewcomerCould you condemn one child to save another?In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change...

Yig, known as the Serpent God, is older than humanity, and Yig's reptilian Children once ruled the Earth. NowJoin us for a collection of novellas from some modern masters of Neo-Lovecraftian fiction: Peter Rawlik (Reanimator, The Weird Company), Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials...

Even your most deeply buried secrets can find their way back to you.The mysteries of Agatha's past -- which is rife with mythical gods and magical creatures -- threaten to expose themselves when Joseph investigates a noise he hears in the middle of the...

The road to immortality is a long one. With the empire secure, Otto turns his focus west. The first piece of The Immortality Engine lies across the ocean in Lord Colt's Workshop. Complicating Otto's mission, Eddred of Markane already in Colt's Land trying to...