Contemporary fantasy Books

'Punchard' draws on the traditions of the Punch and Judy Show, well known to beach-goers in the UK. In this debut novel, each character springs to life as a seriously flawed human whose vulnerabilities and vices are revealed though their own words.

A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings: an astronomer in his prison cell the night before his execution for the ultimate heresy; a paleolinguist with a wasted life behind her who has been forgotten by everybody in her dusty...

Cuando Jacob era un niño, una misteriosa niña le consuela en el funeral de su familia a la que él había matado por accidente.Años después, apenado por la desaparición de su esposa y su hijo, Jacob vive en Heavensgate (La Puerta al Más Allá). Cree...

Pink tutus, magic, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: this is suburban fantasy in Australia.Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda. Judith wants an ordinary life... mostly. If Belinda weren't...

Fay invented a world of fantasy where she could dwell in happiness. Her friends in this perfect world were Belle and Persa, Enlai and Flor. She visited them on the edge of sleep, shaping their lives to suit herself."I dream better than other...

Ghosts trail after us. They are our fears and the shape of our hates. We bring them into our lives and into our homes.Poltergeists and the spirits of drowned girls; malicious presences and portents; cat vampires and roaming bushrangers. These ghosts...

Where the line between life and death is erased.In the presence of Seraphim sent to despatch her violent husband's spirit, Faith delivers a daughter - Mercy - whose miraculous birth triggers an ancient prophecy, forcing Heavensgate's inhabitants to seek...

In this second volume of Just a Tick of Whimsy, our characters face power-hungry scribes, intuitive graffiti, novelty toys with minds of their own, and ancient book pages come to life.Find a comfy chair and pour yourself a favorite drink. Then sit back...

Fancy a wondrous glimpse into the day in the life of an immortal wish-granter? Care to take flight with invisible creatures, snack on cheese puffs with the dead, or nap with magical kittens? Do you long to hear the whisper of moth-riding fairies, or to...

Being a librarian, Shelly Anderson has seen some strange things inside books. She barely bats an eye when a spider falls out of a book on natural disasters. She has more important things to worry about. How will she convince her father that her vampire...

Life doesn't come with a script but some moments don't need one.Senior year pushed us all. It dared us to embrace wonder and chase love. It challenged us to find out who we were as people, as partners, as a family. We're so much better together...

Arthur Crazy was drunk and seeing ghosts. Now he's just drunk. The dead are silent, and Arthur is worried he might be living up to the family name. But after going back to where the Crazy people live and spending months sleeping off hangovers in his...

A prophecy foretold that the young Princess Gretchen would mate one of three brothers and bring balance to the shifter world.As her powers grew, one of the brothers became jealous and launched an all-out war against her kingdom. At the young age of...

Persephone Snow - Siren Ascendant, imprisoned for six months in a literal hell on earthThe Cardinal - Persephone's absent captor, his whereabouts unknownMetis - A fellow captive, his mysterious abilities inhibited by a technomagical collarOn her own for...

Satirical, politically incorrect, irreverent, Flight from Ein Sof is the fictional first-person account of a brief journey to and from a realm of nightmares and insanity. Filled with blistering commentaries on life, free thought, human bestiality and...

The secret to saving the universe, lies in the dark places amongst the stars.Elemental Eloise Hart has made the isolated town of Solace, Outback Australia, her home, but an ancient power threatens to tear it away.With their home falling further into...

Grantupoemoeunanii's job in Hell? Quite heavenly, actually. And by all accounts, today looks set for more of the same: well-ordered paperwork, tidy schedules... Until an unusual co-worker appears, with a problem not quite standard. And...

Imprisoned in a back bedroom with a darkness deeper than any lack of light for company, Ava bides her time. Fury boils inside her, keeping her going, giving her purpose. Soon-very soon-she can let her rage spill over... And her captors won't know...

Forsyth Turn never wanted to be a hero. After their last adventure in Hain, Forsyth expected to return to the life he'd built with Pip and Alis, his days of magic and heroics behind him. But then Pip begins suffering night terrors laced with images of...

Ancient Relics, Forbidden Mantels and Death ... A perfect day to call in sick at The Judas AgencyAlex has her hands full with a Freshborn Gabe. His memories are gone and his squeamish demeanor has her wanting to shove him back into the Sulfur Pools.Gabe...

Against her better judgment, Violet fell in love. And she thought she couldn't be happier. But there's just one problem. She's got a tiny secret- a kiss with another witch. One that she really wants to pretend never happened. She knows she loves her...

For over three hundred years, Arden's very existence has been hidden. Until one night, when the latest assassination attempt fails and the third Killian blade makes its appearance. A powerful witch with little knowledge of her heritage, Arden's...

Explore a hidden world of modern fairies, ancient evils, and recently-unemployed telemarketersA 19-year-old Dubliner working a dead-end office job, Ivy Gallagher has finally moved out of her terrible apartment and into a posh neighborhood out of town...

Spoiler Alert: description contains spoilers for book one in the series.Now that Billie knows she's able to shapeshift outside of her limited territory, she's determined to find other shapeshifters and get some of the answers she thought were out of...

I should have died. But I still seem to be hanging on. It could be vain self-preservation, believing my literary work of philosophical insight is important, or it's simply cowardice. In the meantime, I must continuously endure the mundane of human...

Short fiction from award-winning writer Gary Earl Ross: an off-worlder with the power to save the earth, a scientist with a bold remedy for bigotry, a homicide historian facing his own murder, a glimpse into the sex lives of the gods, matching wits with...

Night KingsIt began like any other night, but this one had a special feeling to it. The moon came up full and splendid above the skyline, and its light spread like spilled buttermilk among the canyons of the city. The remains of the day's storm exhaled...

This is the fantasy anthology you've been looking for. Two hundred thousands words that will sweep you away to realms you've never imagined by some of the greatest writers the fantasy field has ever known.Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley WeinbaumLean...

This book consists of one singular story which fades into others; an ensemble of passions whose few characters resound through echoes and recollections. The images shade into other images, in alternating states, throughout words that attempt to decode...

The Quests continue... At the pinnacle of success as a movie star, Zach Neol, chooses to walk away from the life he's known since a child, rocking the Hollywood scene with his defection. Little does he realize that by moving to the isolated Outer Banks...

Originally this book was written for my children. While in college I worked in the computer lab and had the time to be creative. The first chapter is mostly introduction to the setting and of characters. If it seems a little long and boring give it a...

Discovered on a raft in the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles from anywhere. Zando the man from the unknown is a magnificent, powerful, untamed animal, with great strenght and cat-like movements. Challanged to live and compete in the civilized world, he...

Imagine if an angel appeared and revealed to you that your dreams held the key to world peace. Rose, a gloomy nineteen-year-old goth girl is intrigued by this revelation when she is told that world peace will also bring the return of her estranged father...

People called them different things when they first appeared, Walkers, Cryptids, Infected, the Ridden. The most popular was also the least apt, Zombies.Chris stumbled out of his cheap motel room after the worst night of his life and straight into the...

Damon and Saynt are back on Earth again, this time for another difficult assignment. Who is the new human, terrorizing angels and demons alike? They are calling the human a 'divine terror'. Now that Damon and Saynt are working for different and...

Now her curse is lifted, Mona has a chance to follow her dream of becoming an archaeologist. When a chance to take part in one comes up, she can't refuse, even if it means leaving her kittens, Caspian, and Thomas behind for a few weeks. Everything...

It's been nine months since her grandfather was murdered and Kate Proctor has finally returned to Hemisphere. Her plans to sell the properties she inherited are put on hold when she finds herself face-to-face with a ghost from the past. Literally. A...

Five twisted tales of ghosts from the beyond… In Teddy Bear Man, Nanette Perry fears placating a haunted house as her marriage crumbles. Can she solve the puzzle in time? A Silver Honorable Mention from Writers of the Future. Abby...

How can a siren die in the water?When Cassie and her paranormal forensics team are called to investigate a dead body pulled out of the canal, they discover someone who shouldn't have been in danger in the first place. Can they catch the woman's...

Climaxpa and her two husbands live comfortably in Velgan city, a lush city-state surrounded by water and exclusively ruled by women during the Bronze Age.Even though she has it all, something is amiss in her life, and she can't seem to find happiness...

This is an Urban Fantasy story set in London, New York and Washington. The president is convinced that a coven of witches has put a curse on him. He is right, but the truth is more complicated than he thinks.The British embassy is using telepaths to send...

Of Maidens & Swords: A Story Collection This collects Melissa Marr's 2019 & 2020 short stories, including the three Wicked Lovely Stories: Love Hurts, Winter Dreams, and Summer Bound, as well as other fantasy short stories:...

The next installment in a new faery and fanged world written by the author of the internationally bestselling Wicked Lovely series...for readers of Patricia Briggs, Chloe Neill, and Jeaniene Frost. Half witch, half killer, wholly unsuccessful at...

An ancient, dark presence makes itself known in Seattle. Through an anonymous tip, Officer Brady and Forrest Wollinsky, a Vampire Hunter, discover a city councilor’s corpse. The weapon used is a medieval torture device left behind as the...

When nightmares walk the Earth. . .Alora dismantled Terra, just as the Followers of Isis feared she would, freeing its occupants and restoring the magic (and denizens) of the past. Ra is alive and eager to reunite with his family. Alora desperately hopes...

In a post-apocalyptic underwater dome, there lives a girl with a starfish growing from her head. Her name is Ohime. She is the starfish girl.Alone in this world, Ohime must fight for her life against lecherous crabmen, piranha people, and a yellow algae...

There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such...