Dark fantasy Books

Many stories are told about the seas of Stormina - ghoste ships, sea witches, and monsters. Helana never expected to end up with in one of those stories. Now, she must find a way to live with the once infamous pirate, Turnog, and his crew. When...

A hallowed weapon hidden in a jungle hell. Forced to prove my worthiness to an elite group of players, I must earn the right to enter one of the most notorious locations in the game. The Emerald Caldera has a fearsome reputation for chewing up...

This hardcover edition includes exclusive bonus material you can't find anywhere else!Something is wrong with Valerie Darkmore. She may have made it through her initiation into the Marionettes, but she's quickly learning that was only the beginning...

A sorceress with a metal arm and a barbarian with a battleaxe journeying across impossible, changing realms. Helesys is cunning, driven-and trapped. Her only ally is a towering barbarian who's as cold as his blade.  Together, they'll...

A sorceress with a metal arm and a barbarian with a battleaxe journeying across impossible, changing realms. Helesys is cunning, driven-and trapped. Her only ally is a towering barbarian who's as cold as his blade.  Together, they'll...

Plagued with a responsibility to his creator he never wanted or asked for, Ulfric and the Knights Corporealis are forced to face a new enemy...and one of their oldest companions.Book Two in the Shackled Verities Series. An epic fantasy with magic,...

Uncovering The Truth…Will Take An ExorcistJimmy Holiday, defrocked priest turned exorcist, is trying to get his life in order. With his on-again off-again witchy girlfriend moving in, the spirit of the little girl from his last exorcism hanging...

In the Amber Chamber is a story collection where fairy tales and speculative fiction intersect with the hard facts of eastern European history. These political fables take place in eastern Europe, Kansas, and even other planets. Its characters include...

When modern-day occultist Aaron Pace discovers the secrets of inter-dimensional travel via a mystical pathway called The Labyrinth, he wastes no time in exploring a multitude of strange new worlds and alternate realities. But then, Aaron finds himself...

Ada Tepez has no choice but to be on the run.Being half-human and half-vampire, when the angry mob comes for her family with pitchforks and flaming torches, she immediately has to flee from the home she grew up in.Come with Ada on her journey as she...

Years after her discoveries at the village of Three Willows Fiadh returns to the island of Ghav Rhien.An old friend calls for her aid as the last chance to save the haunted lord of the isle from the shadows that torment him in the night.A spirit from...

Paid to unearth the fate of the children of the Three Willows, Fiadh expects the work of a predatory fey.But this was a very different kind of monster who preyed upon the village folk. One that would leave her no choice but to journey into the wilderness...

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...

Gods will beckon, as a prophecy unfolds...Policewoman. Orphan. Single...again. This is what Maya knew. But that's all about to change.For the first time in five years, Maya Cross returns to her family home, only to learn that her past is completely...

*Paperback Edition*Ancient peoples knew there were lands given over to shadow and spirit. The world is full of haunted places that exact a terrible toll on trespassers. Our forebears paid a heavy price to earn the wisdom and the warning they bequeathed...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Some of the best, most complex world-building I've yet seen...Your next five star read." - Laurie Forest, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Black Witch ChroniclesBEHIND THE MASK OF DUTY AND POWER, NO ONE IS WHO...

I bargained with my life to save myself and everyone else, but maybe death would've been better than this...Taken away from her home and everyone she knows, Valerie Darkmore finds herself in the heart of a world she didn't know existed.Everyone she loves...

The end of the three worlds looms in the balance, as on his eighteenth birthday, Roderick, the eldest son of a farmer, awakens to find himself in possession of a black jewel.The gem endows him with the powers of an ancient being who will kill him within...

Young Bessie and Bryant enjoy everything an old New England family has to offer: hereditary wealth, an historical home on Long Island Sound, generations of connections, an all-but-assured successful future. They have the world in the their hands as they...

In a land where control of the Elements is key, two friends find themselves in the middle of a battle that will either maintain or destroy creation. Will Light keep the balance, or has Darkness found an advantage that will give them the upper hand? Each...

The speculative shines bright in the dark with these stories by Matthew Bright: a boy with a secret begins work at a strange library housing all the books never written; Dorian Gray's love of beauty struggles in the face of AIDs-era San Francisco and...

Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.Firtz Leiber forever changed the landscape of the sword & sorcery genre with the...

In a post-apocalypse world besieged by monsters, Colonel Xavier, a strict military man with a deadly temper, challenges Maat Ferris, a fierce, werewolf hunter, in a way she doesn't understand. When Xavier meets Maat, he can't decide whether to...

A scholar, a goblin, and a gnome, among others, pursue the secrets of a vanished ancient race through a wasteland of dark magic in this enthralling fantasy quest adventureOn an Earth that is different from ours, the young scholar Mark Cornwall becomes a...

The novel "Power is the Nightmare: Corruption" is one of the side volumes in the Corrupt Era series.• What is Corruption?Short stories about those who have become only symbols and signs in the history of the worlds, and a journey about those who fight...

Fedosian winters are cold, but colder still are lovers turned strangers.As autumn turns and winter settles over Fedosia, cold has seeped in between Sofia and Aleksei. She loves him still, but the archmage's memory spell has made her a stranger in his...

In Fedosian court, love is deadlier than war.Of the nine great houses of Fedosia, nine houses of alchemy, none hate each other more than the Red Shields and the White Guards. The queen is a Shield, the archmage a Guard, and bad blood has been brewing for...

A young monster slayer, Thoma Fayren, begins taking his first steps into a world he knows little about after many years in an isolated community. Fate, however, has other plans in mind as he quickly discovers that not everything is as he thought it would...

Degory Priest: surgeon, scientist, engineer, genius, madman. Trapped by his own claims of genius and weighed down by the responsibility of keeping his fellow citizens alive in a world overrun with pollution, monsters, and bandits, he hides away in his...

Fifteen years after the end of the Thorrin War, peace between Bazel and Seragora stands on the brink. Mysterious attacks on villages spark accusations, threatening to shatter the fragile alliance. Amid the turmoil, Ky'len, a squire with chip on his...

A century ago, an exchange was proposed: a life saved for a war of revenge.For Captain Lia Solus of the fae army, and the secret bastard daughter of the king, she's reminded of those consequences daily. Unable to claim her heritage or her throne, she's...

In his magnum opus Ethics published posthumously in 1677, Spinoza argues that God is substance. Evil is substance in A Wereshark's Memoir by Justin Sloane. Original, frightening, and beautiful, this work is a study into the...

The denizens of dark places, the seldom seen and barely sensed are given shape and voice in this collection by A J Dalton. In these pages we find witches, demons, goblins, mages and trolls. The collection also contains glimpses of alternative histories...

The following synopsis contains spoilers for Through the Wicked Wood.How far are you willing to go, to find what's been lost?Weeks after the events on Kirsgard Mountain, Sorin finds himself desperate for aid on the doorstep of a reluctant ally; Lord...

From the moment Dayanara could wield a blade, she's been used as a weapon for Caldera, a kingdom of fierce brujas. Whenever her mother, the all-powerful Acna, points her in the direction to kill, Dayanara follows.After centuries of war against the...

An artist plagued by a violent past.An heir destined to never take her own throneA tyrant bound to life, consumed by his bloody trail.Dawn breaks over a dying land.Ever since surviving the bloody coup that cost Ara her home and Stedd his family, they've...

For fans of Leigh Bardugo, Brandon Sorenson, and Sarah J Maas comes the thrilling first installment of a new dark fantasy series with magic, betrayal, morally grey villains and epic slow-burn romance. Featuring special hard case and full-length novella...

Those who burn the brightest, fall the hardest.Mariah Salis, Queen Apparent of Onita, has been betrayed by the one person she thought she could trust the most. Now a prisoner of the ruthless royals, she clings to the tattered threads of her soul as...

It was just an old story. There couldn't really be a lost civilization based on trust and equality. Not when the Wizard-King Dar-Gothull rules Skaythe through cruelty and terror. But when Ar-Thea told the story of the Shining Ones to her six magelings,...

Eternity of silence. That was Medusa's curse for a sin she did not commit.Eternity of solitude. That was Danaë's punishment for being born a girl.Two women, searching for their purpose in a world where the gods manipulate reality, loved ones betray their...