Dark fantasy Books

Murder, mutilation, and carrion... in paradise? ""There shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate." -ISAIAH 34:15 Professional ballroom dancers Terri and Rick Hamilton aspire to be world champions. Unfortunately, Terri's recurring back...

2009 British Fantasy Award Winner for Best CollectionThe twenty-one stories collected in Bull Running for Girls are widely varied, both in setting and subject. From small town life in Madison County to the dangers of bull running in Pamplona, the stories...

Saber Alexiares is no ordinary vampire. He is like a cruel, fire-breathing dragon. Reared in the bowels of the colony by Dark Ones, he has no conscience, no compassion, and no saving grace. Captured by the enemy, he is sentenced to execution by sunlight...

Sentenced to Purgatory until he has atoned for his sins, Nate finds himself in a world of violence and vice from which there is no escape. Under the tutelage of a former Roman legionary named Marcus, Nate prepares for an eternity defending the realm of...

Award-winning author of the short story The Stairs concludes her stunning quadrilogy with a bombshell ending you won't see coming!In the wake of spring, new life begins ...Everything they feared about the Confederation is true: if they want to save Dara,...

As the wheel turns and the line of lanterns extends to eternity, Underland Arcana continues to celebrate the four aspects of the eternal spark: the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. These are the stories we tell in the...

In the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe. The term was adopted by the Gnostics. Although a fashioner,...

The story is set in the distant future, where humanity is at war with "Yuks", an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships nor constructions. Instead, it relies on life forms. The war has been going on for a long time, and humanity has not...

In the middle of new York city where a vicious mob, an insane hooker and a gang of grave robbers all have one thing in common. "Murdering". And none of them will stop until everyone is dead. This story takes you on a wild journey adventure of humor, sex,...

This novel asks two questions:What is evil? Does evil exist for its own sake? Was evil born with the creation of the Universe? Or is evil nothing more than human behavior taken to its most destructive extremes? Is evil a force or an...

In these quintessential works of Gothic literature, Edgar Allan Poe masterfully explores themes of decay, madness, and despair. The Fall of the House of Usher tells the haunting story of a crumbling mansion and its cursed inhabitants, delving into...

GONJI, the demon-stalked warrior with the soul of his samurai forebears and the heart of his Viking mother, surges on through legend-haunted medieval Europe, seeking the key to his mysterious destiny... His infamy---and celebrity!---has seen a militant...

The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as...

While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism."I have a presentiment that we shall...

SPFBO 2022 FinalistBBNYA 2022 FinalistIndie Ink Award Winner 2022 for Best Setting and Wittiest CharacterWhen the saints fail, the sinners step up.Cruel gods rule the steam-powered city of Chime, demanding worship and tribute from their mortal subjects...

"Ser Rowen Schmidtt, sworn protector of the late royal family of Pintika, you are hereby and forever more-until the peace of death lull you to sleep-exiled to wander the desert." Follow the emotional journey of Ser Rowen Schmidtt from the fantasy series...

JustyceIt's been eleven years since I banished Kenzie from Dana Point, and her memory has haunted me ever since. Little does she know but the life she has established in New York is about to come to an end. Soon she will find herself in my depraved and...

"Dive into 'The Eldritch Nutcracker' by Magnum Tenebrosum. Clara's journey through celestial enclaves, where cosmic forces shape her understanding of the Dreamlands, unfolds in dynamic landscapes. Eldritch phenomena challenge her perception, and...

"Eldritch Descent of Eldoria" invites daring readers into the heart of cosmic horror, a chilling tale penned by the enigmatic Magnum Tenebrosum. In this Lovecraftian masterpiece, Tenebrosum unveils a town's descent into the abyss of eldritch forces,...

Kye Lovato left their hometown in search of a better future, but when their estranged mother passes away, they return to their parish to settle her affairs. Even though Kye escaped their traumatic past, being back in swampy Madison, Louisiana only...

"Cornlegus Di Journeyman" is a compelling and multi-dimensional story that blends elements of fantasy, destiny, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. The character of Cornlegus, blessed with unique abilities and shaped by his mother's...

All three books in Myra Danvers' Tritan Evolution Series are available together for the first time in this beautiful paperback edition!Follow Mila Tannovic through Ravenous Innocence, Insatiable Corruption, and Lavish Destruction as she battles the...

The wheel of time keeps turning. It stops for no one. Only heretics question the holy history-they question the presence of the ash.Like Vlod's father. The Mother Metropolitan had no choice but to execute him. The laws of the Inland Empire and the Holy...

Cisco Suarez versus an entire Caribbean drug cartel. Round one. Fight.Okay, not exactly the most even championship match, but it's the one I drew. If you told me months ago I'd be robbing drug dealers, I would've committed you myself. Who...

I'm Cisco Suarez and this is the end of the line.I've been beaten, shackled, killed once or twice, but hey, who's counting? I put my foot down at being lit up like a candle at my daughter's tenth birthday party. Some things you take...

Black Magic gets a bad rap. Trust me. When people see me, they don't see Cisco Suarez, they see a rogue. A shadow charmer. A black magic outlaw.Maybe they're right. Maybe everything I touch withers and dies. But that doesn't give the SWAT...

The Light in the Darkness is a narrative that chronicles the ongoing conflict between light and darkness. The main character of this novel is a man named Jake, who is selected by God himself to be what is known as the Trance, a human who has been given...

Tasha Williams was forced to relocate to New Jersey in order to live with her best friend after a fire destroyed her New York flat. She receives a job offer from Blu Technology Company three months later. Meeting the dreamy man is the last thing she...

Erland is in flames.Two kings claim the throne and the war between them lays waste to the country.Far away, an old enemy scents weakness. The vast empire of Ulvatia desires new lands. Under a ruthless new leader, the empire turns its armies on Erland...

"REMEMBER THE FORMER WAYS."The Legendary Warslinger, Randolph Henrich continues his journey to The Haunted City with his associates Cody Landon and Beth Grasslands at his side After the events atop the mountain, the Warslinger seeks to gain the...

Identical twins Jace and Jem Chamberlain, born of the Breedline species-a secret race of humans with the gift to change into wolf form-find their lives changed forever after the Chiang-shih demon is finally destroyed, freeing their evil half-brother...

It's not what you think...Hell is bone-chilling. Gabe is a good guy making the best of eternity in a place not known for its hospitality - until he is recruited by Judas Iscariot (yes, that Judas) to join a sect of double agents dedicated to...

According to legend, when the Pied Piper was cheated by the villagers of Hamelin, he decided to exact payment in a way they least expected-he played his flute and enchanted their children away from their homes. He brought them inside a mountain, and the...

Everyone knows that the cities of the gods had fallen. Tanelith has grown up among the ruins of one such city and visited to another.However, after escaping from the slavers, visiting the Tree People, and other cities of her own people, the Elves, she...

SOUL MEMORIES ARE TRICKY Sera Parker believes she's an ordinary young woman embarking on a new life in a charming Virginia town. When smokin' hot Archangel Michael and her fellow elementals tell her she is really the Fire Goddess, she doesn't believe...

An African-American teenager's alienation is taken to the extreme in this utterly surreal and dark work of Weird Fiction.Deep down, Robert Goldner knows he's a mistake. His mother told him so when he was just five years old. But he never found...

Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility of...

Eerie and unnerving events are welcome reads for horror and weird fiction aficionados, and Kurt Fawver’s new collection does not fail to deliver. A group of work-study students grows obsessed with a particular, otherworldly room at the...

In a world where the roles of Light and Darkness had shifted, there were two powerful individuals chosen by the Old Divines . . . They were given the titles of Ascension and Chaos as recognition of their ferocious might.A millennia after his wife and son...

Missing in Fairhope is all about Audrey Baxter who doesn’t look for trouble.  But it targets her, finds her when she least expects it.  Her profession as a surgical nurse dedicated to helping others is most rewarding.  However, in...

He came to her handsome and youthful in appearance. He had been alive far longer than she could have imagine. In that time he had faced many dangers, but was she the danger that would undo him and send him to eternal damnation?

The trek to Mount Mandara has not been easy for three sisters, a squad of Arihanta escorts, a Sadhu guide, their foot servants, and a half-crazy MoG. Days of secret travel have given way to weeks, and weeks to months. Now, as the group finally arrives at...

I'm no hero, no matter what people say. After all, you can't be a hero if you despise those that you're protecting. The way that I look at it, what I am is a matter of circumstance: I gave up dresses and skirts the day I watched my parents die. I was...

Just ask any teenager, and they'll tell you that high school is a nightmare.But for Evyn Hunter it's about to get a whole lot weirder than anything he's ever experienced.When he was only thirteen, people from his hometown of Newport, California started...

"After I glimpsed a kind of thin, yellowish, shimmering exhalation rising from the nitrous pattern toward the yawning fireplace, I spoke to my uncle about the matter. He smiled at this odd conceit, but it seemed that his smile was tinged with...

A dragon rules Nagora’s future.Her submission is total,…no matter the cost.These are the ingredients of the blamelone-wolf warrior Nagora carries:A newborn child, years ago abandoned in the custody of a dragon in the Land of the Danu.One...

“Mehr creates a vivid cast and an equally vivid setting in which magic just seems to fit in perfectly.”-- Richard Knaak, NYT best-selling author of author of Legends of Huma"Mehr's imagined world based on ancient Rome feels at once...