Dark fantasy Books

Falling in love was never part of the bargain...My eighteenth birthday isn't what I expected-instead of partying with my friends, I find myself in a hospital, battling a cancer that resists every treatment. I feel hopeless and ready to give up when a...

The realms of The Divine and The Unholy are not as unwavering as they appear. They often coalesce unsuspectingly, blurring the lines between honorable and devious.Adrian has a secret three thousand years in the making. Dominic learns where he comes from,...

September 5th, 1906Ladies, Gentlemen, and Respected Wolf-Persons:Octavius & Sons, Inc. (est. 1765) is pleased to bring you the inaugural issue of Preludes & Apocrypha. In an unusual departure from our thrilling catalog of academic journals...

<p><b>IN THIS THRILLING FANTASY DRAMA, J.D. NETTO DIVES DEEPER INTO THE LORE BEHIND IMMORTAL CROWNS, TRANSPORTING THE READER TO A WORLD WHERE GODS ARE SINNERS, MORTALS ARE BAIT, AND FAITH IS A THORN IN THE FLESH...

The daughter of the Last American Cowboy is tasked with putting her late-father's ashes to rest, but has plans of her own. A woman wakes up after the first night with her lover to discover she's birthed a pile of maggots. The ghost of Hans Christian...

Two boys beyond rescue are lost in delirium and bound by a friendship that defies time and mortality. Humorous and heartbreaking, eloquent and frightening, an impeccably rendered fable that reminds us of the gravity of childhood experience.With...

My name is Dr. Astarte. I am the Royal Physician to the Royal Family. I had just completed analyzing the test results of the Royal Children when Queen Tamara arrived in my office to ask what I had found.I explained to her that all four children had...

With a kingdom at stake, it's all or nothing for Rapunzel and her renegades.Rapunzel never wanted this war with her father. Unfortunately, she's learned that people rarely choose their battles-only how bloody they're willing to get for victory. But she...

Scarlett has just lost her mother. As those that isn't difficult enough for a seventeen year old, now she has to move away from the only home she has ever known. Being the new girl in school she's just trying to hold it together until graduation...

According to ancient laws, mythical beings and humans can't be together. Still, Ezekiel, a human, meets Jenilia, a mythical being, and their fate becomes tied together by many unfortunate events.Farah, the second born of the sovereign of Evov, has slowly...

Por essas palavras, apresentamos o mundo de Alyiria. Os bravos exploradores que ousaram inventar a história profunda e extensa de uma terra com uma sensibilidade própria. Da música e arte ao conhecimento contido nestas...

Hellfire. Brimstone. Awkward family dinners.No one in their right mind wants to live at Castle Drax.That's okay. The Vexx family aren't.On a crumbling cliff overlooking a dark, emerald sea looms the forbidding Castle Drax. It's ancient, it's freezing,...

You have been warned before, but there will be no more.So one must pay and become the prey.As you holler and plead, they might make you bleed.But, alas, your voice will not be heard while you take in the horror that occurred.Oh, you sorrowful soul,...

 The sisters Melanie and Violet are out celebrating a given Friday. Nothing significant is happening, nothing at all. It's just yet another end-of-the-week night out, and that's all. But when looking back at it, they agree that it was the start...

A Medieval Fantasy Tactial Action Adventure. A soldier, a spy, a witch and a wildman must liberate a wild frontier fortress-town that has been taken hostage by savage creatures. In a wilderness beset by warring factions, foes must be forged into allies...

Mit diesem Buch schließt sich die Storyline, die mit "Königin der Wölfe" begann, sich über "Dämmerung - Showdown an der Ostsee", "Der Seelenjäger" und "Schattenwald" fortsetzte.Mit "Finsternis - Dämmerung II Das Finale" bringt H.E. Wolf den Alenya-Zyklus...

Every Truth Has Its Cost.War ravages the troubled lands of the nine Baronies. The once-great cities of Arelium, Kessrin, and Talth are forever scarred by the passage of the greyling tide, their graveyards filled with the corpses of those who fought and...

Some Lessons Must Be Learned The Hard Way.Since its inception, The Order has been dedicated to the prevention of the misuse and abuse of magic. For seven decades this mandate has guaranteed peace and stability throughout The Nine Kingdoms. But a...

A stunning blend of mysticism, myth, nature, and adventure. We all have a dark side. His destroys worlds.Endura is a wondrous world full of mystery and magic. Its citizens - humans and firstlings, a docile humanoid species - are just as wondrous, having...

⚡️"This is a sterling end to a rich, concept-driven series." - Booklife Reviews (Editor's Pick)"Strong characters face a maelstrom in this intense, intellectually rigorous fantasy series finale." -Kirkus ReviewsWould you trade uncertainty for stagnation,...

I came to Werewolf Territory to rescue my brother...And now he's gone. With a war for the crown on the horizon and the monstrous Hunters just days away, I've got to say goodbye to the only family I had left, and it's killing me. Worse, I can't help...

Detective Franklin Reynard awakes one morning to find his partner missing and a murderer is on the loose. The suspect is an escaped mental patient with a violent history, who has vanished, taking a young boy with her as a hostage. As the mystery...

A collection of stories including Horror, Dark Noir, Macabre Humor, and the Absurd. A big game hunter who has beaten Death and now Death wants a final showdown ("Better Than Death"). A hitchhiking prostitute who underestimates the man who picks her up...

When magic comes at a terrible cost, who will pay the price?Kayda grew up believing she was only destined for a loveless political match. But when she overhears her bullying stepbrother plotting behind her beloved grandfather's back, she vows to stop him...

One Earth. Three fallen angels. Each with a separate world.NarcissismNatalia is more beautiful than anyone could ever wish for. And she created a world where her citizens would see just that.Respect her. Love her. Worship her.But soon, her life of fancy...

I like things neat, so shoot me. Or poison me. Or run me through with a broadsword. Doesn't matter how you try to end me, werewolves are immortal. Back to liking things neat... I've been killing forever, both as a wolf and as a man. The assassin...

For her, he will become the monster everyone believes him to be.After being released from the prison realm four-hundred and ninety-nine yearsearly, Rory finds herself in Erdikoa with no memory of the last three monthsand orders to keep her release a...

From a distance, she looks like his lost love. But he has no idea how deep her waters run, or how dark. The devil is in the details...About to lose his shot at tenure, Marco Adamos, a 40-year-old theoretical physicist, is sailing on stormy Lake Michigan...

Cathy Simms was sold to a pornographer as a child. As a teenager she lived enslaved by a brutal pusher-pimp named Daddy Jones. One day a young Christian man tried to lead her away from a seedy hotel to a safe house, but was beaten to death by the pimp's...

Love triangles, a murderous father, and a fight to save the world.It's been months since Syrinada finished the Naiad's Walk, the series of tests that each Siren must face to receive their Siren's Stone. In this stone is the key that unlocks the power...

In December 2019, as Ghana's vibrant streets buzz with the climax of the "Year of Return," an initiative marking 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were forcibly taken to Virginia, Adwapa, a Ghanaian journalist living in the U.S., decides to...

The world is all we know, claims the philosopher Wittgenstein. But Professor Dean Kirby is painfully learning this is not so, for his new neighbor in the mid-state swamps of Florida has turned his wife into a zombie, has turned him into something taunted...

When darkness beckons and love defies the unknown, destiny takes an unexpected turn.Before Shay got her blowtorch blue hair, she was just an ordinary Montana cowgirl, raised by prepper parents on a remote ranch. But everything shifted one fateful day...

Medusa.Cursed by the gods.Slain by Perseus.A monster.So the poets sang.The poets got it wrong.Daughter of Sarpedon: A Tempered Tales Collection is an anthology of short stories, poems, and drabbles, ranging from retellings to completely new stories, from...

A young man with an extraordinary gift. A zealous commune isolated from the world. What could possibly go wrong? At fifteen, Joshua Moses has always lived inside the isolated commune known as the Eternal Spring. His commune family doesn't know he harbors...

Michael and Vivian, undead soulmates fighting against the global network of vampires known as the Shévet ha Dam, or Blood Tribe, must face their greatest challenge yet. Lukas, Michael's son, has turned to the dark power of the Maleficence, and if the...

The sixth Sister of Power presents pirate-turned-vampire Viktor Brandewyne with his greatest challenge yet.Circe proves not only hard to reach: the quest she sets him is fraught with peril from the very start. He must brave a labyrinth to retrieve a...

The headsman of Nuremburg, Franz Schmidt put an end to hundreds of convicts, each of whom merited a line in his ledger:"Schober was beheaded by favour; Marti was hanged, and the bleachers made him a pair of very white hose, a doublet and stockings of...

Siblings Luke, Matt, and Shana Carter are not happy they have to move from Philadelphia to a small town in South Carolina when their mom loses her job. But they quickly realize that fitting in at their new high school is the least of their worries...

Artyo wakes up in the bowels of the Highest High spitting bullets out into her lap as the bane of her violent, broken hearted existence in Hell on Earth looms over her.Can Death become a point of Passover that revokes every aspect nefariously hidden on...

Serial killers, starvation cults, and spicy noodles − just another day in Nihon City. It's been one hundred years since Tokyo was ravaged by a ghost quake and talking about the supernatural was forbidden. To escape her unhappy family life and...

He followed her in-and now he's dead.Small but fiery, Fia Drake is a natural when it comes to hunting the souls of the damned. Trained in a convent to wield a crossbow with frightening efficiency, her routine is clear-cut and effective: track target,...

A pack is only as strong as their Alpha. After an attack injures our Alpha, a rival pack tries to take control of the Midwest Pack. I have to consider the unimaginable to protect my pack-challenge our Alpha. A challenge against the pack's Alpha is a...

With the Heart of Alchemy in place, The Immortality Engine is complete. Now all Otto needs is to learn how to use it. The secret to immortality can be found in only one place, The Sanguine Scroll Written by the first and greatest Arcane...

With the Chamber of Eternity secure, Otto must now recover the second piece of the Immortality Engine. But that task will be far from easy. For the second piece, The Heart of Alchemy, lies far to the east in the fabled Celestial Empire...

Otto Shenk is the youngest son of a minor baron and a wizard. Abused by his family and considered less than human by his kingdom, Otto does his best to survive. But everything changes when Otto stumbles across a tower hidden deep in a dark part...

A dark Fate stalks the halls of timeWhile Pandora remains lost in a foreign world, Hekate finds herself pursued by the relentless machinations of Fate. Her future has been laid out before her in awful clarity, and now, she will do anything to avoid the...

She's a witch in a demon hunter's world...Angela Jordan is a witch with a very particular set of skills. One of those skills has her embroiled in the demon hunter world. Not her calling. But the hunt still lures her in.Confronting the kinds of nightmares...