Dark fantasy Books

Astral is not the usual mystery. It might be called soft urban fantasy/mystery, with elements of the paranormal and some physics thrown into the mix. Set in the Pacific Northwest, Astral introduces Seattle Detective Jack Darvesh Doyle, who has the...

The dark titan, Cephius, and five of his six children, the demon princess of Shivar have been sealed in their fiery realm by the gods of the realm. This leaves the gods weak, too weak to continue the fight against the darkness. So they retreat into the...

Chloe and Malcolm have just had their first child, only to find that another newborn baby has come from outer space and crash-landed in their backyard.Except, the other baby is a vampire from the sun with a thirst for blood and an allergy to darkness...

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser take to the sea in the third installment of this seminal sword and sorcery series that “has lost none of its luminous magic” (San Francisco Chronicle).Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts...

Join the renowned barbarian and thief in this sword-and-sorcery adventure from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.   While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes,...

The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from...

Guided by the Archangel Raphael, Damiano runs from his own demonic powers in this alternate Italian Renaissance of wizards, witches, and faith-based magic.This novel is a sequel to Damiano. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian...

This alternate history fantasy by a Nebula Award nominee follows a young alchemist’s quest in Renaissance Italy under the wing of an archangel.   Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance, this alternate history takes place...

By all accounts, Evyn Hunter is just your average, unremarkable, and predictable thirteen-year-old boy. His biggest problem is trying to navigate the stormy waters of high school with his sanity and dignity intact. No one-especially Evyn himself-really...

"We're meant to be...aren't we?"Beginning in Long Grows the Dark...BeforeGlenna, court sorceress in service to Princess Jael, struggles to hide her feelings for her best friend's betrothed. Yet even as the realm approaches its golden age, an unforeseen...

Perfect for those of us who watched Shadow and Bone and wished Alina and the Darkling ended up together. The readers who want to have infinite power and a throne with a morally gray man who is tall, bronzed and emotionally chaotic. Step into the realms...

Xiao Yen loses her luck at the most inauspicious time: just before her first employment, protecting foreigners with her magic while they travel through the Middle Kingdom, along the last part of the Silk Road.Despite contracts and agreements, Xiao...

In a void suspended in time, I find myself trapped in an abyss of darkness and despair.With every ounce of strength, I fight to free myself from this suffocating sleep, while Kalyll, consumed by a fierce determination, searches tirelessly through the...

Adam and Jesus barely escaped Frank with their lives. Dracula, despite his disappointment, decides to give them one more week to complete their task, only he's heightened the stakes. If Adam and Jesus are unable to kill Frank by the end of seven days,...

Indies 2013 BOOK AWARD FINALIST, HORRORChristopher Ritchie shows he's a skilful writer, with his 'The ordinary' an Indies 2015 BOOK AWARD WINNER, HORROR.TV Presenter JULIETTE FOSTER: "This brain-twister of a novel, by horror author...

If there is to be continued peace between the realms, it is customary for a Fae to wed a demon. The alleged fairy has no desire to serve as a wife to two enormous demons, let alone in Hell. She is the subject of their obsession. This little fairy...

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her."Kij Johnson's haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...

Artura is a healer. Her home is in the grips of war. A war on the very thing she values most: her freedom.Accused of witchcraft and treason against Cimran and the wicked king who rules the land, Artura and Emrys, the man who loved and raised her as...

THE BONDS OF KIN MUST HOLDThe King-Radiant has fallen. Zapour has been liberated and the siblings triumphant, but at what cost?Two years have passed since their victory over the Eagles. Peace between the nations has not gone as planned. Gelvard has...

There's little time to grieve the outcome of the Gluttony trial as she enters Invidia, a city of barely contained envy, where everyone wants what the other possesses. The competitors of the devil's trials are sent belowground with no special treatment...

Have you ever wondered what is at the beginning of the universe? Have you ever thought that it was perfect at the beginning? The beginning of the universe was a wonderful place, and might have been so because many weren't born in poverty or chaos. The...

Avtar Simrit has done it again! With another collection of short fiction and novellas even more extreme. These tales will shake you, disturb you, surprise you, and wake you up. In the style that's become their signature, Avtar blends horror, erotica, and...

To Die Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure. Would You Take It?Months after the disappearance of her sister, Alluna can't say goodbye. Because goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting the one person that matters most.Her sister. Vita.After...

When a princess with the ability to absorb and transfer life force energy discovers her mother, the queen, is manipulating her, she works with unexpected allies to steal the throne, battling magic-induced anxiety and unexpected attractions along the way...

Countless planets before the earth we currently know, were born and destroyed without a trace. A planet known as Terra exists somewhere, in some parallel universe. Sublimity is nothing to flaunt about there, in a world full of extraordinary. Tasked with...

Lily Adams was a simple girl living in Silicon Valley. As the world entered 2023, everyone was celebrating and hoping for a better year, however the celebration ended with a bang, or rather a shake. After the earthquake she woke handcuffed and was named...

Arctic Fox Royal Council OpenerA Draoithe Saga Tale Duncan O'Sullivan, the former Druid king turned fox shifter, was on a quest to find his true mate, the one woman he was destined to be with. His journey took him to Scotland, where he found Arturista...

Kallan Garrik is hunting the soulstealers who killed his wife. His determination and skill at eliminating these murderous predators earn him command of the elite Hunter's Brigade.  A position known as The King's Steel.Thirty moons of tracking and...

History is never forgotten, nor is it forgivenA young warrior fated to pick up his father's mantleAn orphan boy with a musician's soulAnd a girl determined to prove her worthWar and blood have ravaged the continent, passing down a burdensome inheritance...

Humanity stands upon the precipice of its most critical moment in its history: the Singularity Event ... the moment when sentient artificial intelligence is introduced to the world. What they have forgotten is that this has happened already ... dozens of...

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of...

A disused London Underground lift goes way beyond the bottom floor.A psychic boy discovers what terrors are buried in the fallow field.A handshake seals a midnight fate in an old farming dispute.A corpse must be buried by dawn.BLACK GATE TALES: Fourteen...

Aihi creates dragons with her hands. Her constructs are animated, and yet lifeless without the essential ingredient of life: a spirit.Artificial spirits should be impossible. But shortly after she's made aware of the world-changing discovery, assassins...

Beneath the Asylum: This asylum is full of secrets. Some worse than others...A security guard in an infamous old mental hospital finds something unusual during his routine patrol of the basement tunnels: The sounds of a small girl crying. The crying...

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