Dark fantasy Books

Detective noir meets The Witcher in a post-apocalyptic city reminiscent of Victorian London.Kade Blackcap was once a famous detective. Overburdened with guilt at sending a man to the noose, he finds himself unable to take a case for fear of the...

We're no longer in the demon realm and clicking my heels together won't get us home.One powerful thought somehow transported us away from a river of lava and into a land of icy winds and devastation.One powerful thought saved our lives.But a celebration...

Upon the black sands and beneath the ever-watching eyes, a tale of shadow magic and ancient mysteries unfold in this new dark epic fantasy series. For fans of Brandon Sanderson and Chris Wooding.In the desert city of Yontar, Nya cares for her sick mother...

A maiden of the stars. A monster from the shadows. A collision that rewrites their worlds.Princess Laila Rose is a fallen star in human form. A beloved guardian to humanity. Yet in spite of these fantastical origins, she has never much believed in...

In the depths of a remote forest, an enchanted castle preys on unwary travellers. The servants of the Goddess Morana sacrifice to their dark mistress every soul who crosses its threshold. One terrible night, three people who should never have met find...

In a god cursed realm, where rage is the food of war, Snowlin was already satiated.Now a prisoner of her father again, she has no choice but to play gambit for the sake of the people she loves. With only three pieces away from forming the Octa Virga, the...

- New Illustrated Edition.A fantasy? A fairy tale? An authentic, verifiable event? What really happened to fighter pilot John William Newman? A delicious dream, astral projection, a traumatic coma, a time/space distortion, an inter-dimensional bridge, a...

When infatuation turns to obsession... sometimes the only thing left is a game of survival.In her second year at Blackthorn Academy, Blaire faces challenges not only academically but also in her Korrena bond with Lukas. Though she'd been warned...

I shouldn't be in heat for my enemy, but he's tall, dark, and demonic.I'm still a virgin, a dragon shifter who has never been courted by a male. The only men in my life want to murder me. Dragonslayers hunt me relentlessly and I kill every last one of...

Secrets unfurl, and lives intertwine within the polluted streets of Grid City, where Fate hangs in the balance by threads. Power, corruption, and the elusive pursuit of happiness shape this sprawling metropolis, pushing it toward an uncertain future.At...

There is nothing I will not give for revenge.Sebastian has to die. There is nothing else that matters to me. But I've been hunting him for decades and have nothing to show for it beyond a broken soul. My body is failing. And the magic that I keep changed...

Bulvife and Benhargan are Cimmerian barbarians from the far north of Hyboria. None can claim to have battled such fierce warriors and come away without scars to tell of their woe. Once, not too long ago, they foolishly did the bidding of a power-hungry...

Beauty is only skin deep, but Wyld goes to the bone. Sarah is horribly disfigured inside and out. Not only is her humanity being stripped away from her bit by bit, but now she can only see the wild monster she's becoming on the outside. A new...

The world is dying.Magick has poisoned the soul of the land and driven it mad. The Sun God has been slain atop his throne, loosing a tide of blood and twilight across the skies. Aberrant creatures shamble out of the long forgotten dark to stalk the...

Darkness comes. An ancient feud has set the realms off-balance for eons. And hope rests on the shoulders of one orphaned, distrusting, former Reaper.Sinisa Strigidae has never been normal. She's spent the last three years of her life as a Reaper, a slave...

In a land where every murderer is condemned to the underrealm, one girl managed to escape.Sinisa Strigidae made peace with the darkness that haunted her, and in so doing she freed herself from the crow that kept her bound to Veltuur.Now, she sets out on...

Nevernight meets Reign of the Fallen in this dark saga about assassins who wield not blades, but death itself.When a mortal wants someone dead, they contract a Reaper of Veltuur, an individual born from the...

A resident of the Brim planetoid survives a global catastrophic event which blocks regular sunlight and shades the land in textures of gray during single day cycles. He suffers memory loss during a totalitarian government takeover of the planetoid amidst...

"Trapped in the midst of the battlefield, the young girl noticed the Beastkin standing ominously before her. Fear grew within her as did the sound of her beating heart. Louder and louder her heart pounded, nearly drowning out the battle that surrounded...

2020 Shirley Jackson Award finalist, Best Story Collection2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Story Collection"From heartbreaking character studies to exercises in Grand Guignol excess, from scalpel-sharp poetry to sledgehammers of blood-soaked...

Micah's home. He's finally home.Well, almost.After three years of chasing lead after lead, Jeremy and I finally tracked one down that brought our baby back to us. Peterson's imprisoned in our basement. Chris is back, and life is good. Or it...

All we want is our family together again. And we're finally going to get it.I built an army when I escaped captivity two and a half years ago. It nearly tripled in size when I released the other captives last Christmas.And now, I've got an idea of how...

We've done it.We released all the captive supernaturals that Peterson was holding hostage. All except for the two that matter most to us.Micah and Chris.We jumped because we finally had a lead, and we did the right thing. But we lost our baby and brother...

A family of Fae, Angels, Guardians, and Werewolveshave spent the last five months searching for a shredof evidence to lead them to their long-lost brother.But once they have a starting pointTheir end game crumbles.This was supposed to be mine and...

Calling the last week a hell storm is an understatement.Life's been good to me. I manage a diner in my small town by day and fight rogue demons and vampires with my high school sweetheart by night.Then mine and Jeremy's relationship imploded, and a...

The whispers followed her. Since her first rebuke they persisted in their pursuit, distant yet clear, they offered the same deal. Power. Freedom. They swelled when she acknowledged them, the fierce static eschewing reality in its sudden onset.Exiled from...

Vampires and Viajante have tolerated each other's existence for centuries, but not without exceptions. When Mara was six, her Viajante family was murdered by vampires without provocation. Not only did her future change, so did she, a secret hidden even...

"Konkol's debut and Rebirth of the Fallen series launch offers a glimpse into a bleak but arresting world where only three human-controlled cities remain after the rest have fallen to demons. This grimdark fantasy adventure will strongly appeal to adult...

Lydia the dragon man in the light it's about a young woman who always seeks out love, but along the way she finds herself in some trouble. She's always asking the Creator why?why? why? Are these things happening? The journey of being clashed and an inner...

Follow Mary Jade VonStine as her world is turned upside down with the murders of her parents. Now Mary must go to a faraway kingdom and live with her distant royal family. How will Mary adapt to a strange country and her family? When her family is all a...

At what cost victory?Milo Volkohne, orphan, criminal, conscript, and unwilling warlock could tell you but you might not like the answer.It is 1936 and the Great War still rages on, with no armistice in 1918 when the Russian Empire crumbled in the fire...

Originally published in 1888, The Modesty of Sodom, the outrageous text for which Gustave Guiches (1860-1935)  is most remembered, is here presented for the first time in English, in a wonderful translation by ­Brian Stableford.  Still as...

Hell hath no fury like an angel scorned!Aestra, favorite teenaged angel of The Lord, has been sent to Earth to ensure that high school senior, Jake Parker, pursues the correct path. He is teetering between two options that may seem innocuous, but only...

"Packed with spine-chilling action, compelling conspiracy, and startling twists. Drayvex is a formidable character, whose confidence, wit and cruelty grab the undivided attention of the audience. " - Reedsy Discovery ★★★★★For her, it's her late grandma's...

After Marissa Tahy returns home to Santa Fe, she is haunted by visions and glimpses of danger no one else sees: Old Man Gloom in his true form. For over a century, people have burned their troubles in the spirit's effigy at the Zozobra festival, making...

Sloane Osbourne, paranormal real-estate agent, receives a frantic call from another agent injured by a ghost. She races to help but instead she discovers she's the victim of blackmail. Things go from bad to worse when she learns FBI agent Jonah Prescott...

Arraetta's life has always been shadowed by strange visions and mysterious blackouts. Determined to uncover the truth behind these otherworldly experiences, she embarks on a perilous journey that leads her to Seraiah, a cursed prince ensnared by ancient,...

Emrys Fiercewind's father always told him he would become a werewolf on the first blood moon after his Sixteenth birthday. When Emrys was a chubby kid and insecure pre-teen, he loved the story of one day magically transforming into something else; but...

Taken from her home. Forced to fight for sport. Will a magician's thirst for adventure be quenched with blood?Aya Flandeen's rare gift has always set her apart from the rest of her village. Though she yearns to venture into the outside world, she didn't...

They hunted her to the furthest corner of the world and did everything they could to kill her.But she survived.Elisabeth lost everything that night. Everything except her life. A life she's using to hunt the mercenaries who want her dead. There's only...

Dim Shores Presents is a new bi-annual anthology series spotlighting some of the best new writing in speculative fiction. Weird horror, strange science fiction, and dark fantasy rub shoulders with each other here, weaving a tapestry of uncanny beauty and...

Paladins are nothing but trouble. When Krell, an uneducated nobody with a stubborn streak as wide as the sea, hears the call from ReckNor, the capricious god of the seas and skies, the attention of the rich and powerful turn their gaze toward him...