Dark fantasy Books

It's 1885 and a drunk and rage-filled Nigel Pickford breaks up a phony medium's séance. A strange twist of fate soon finds him part of a team investigating the afterlife. The Eidola Project is an intrepid group of explorers dedicated to...

The ancient, sinister castle located in the isolated Welsh countryside is no mere heap of dead stones. It quivers with an evil life of its own. Sinister powers are reaching through the castle gateway from somewhere out beyond--evil, menacing Old Gods...

Centuries ago ten powerful vampire gods first walked the earth; their blood thirst knew no boundaries. The destruction of mankind was inevitable. Recognizing their weakness, they selected twelve wise human beings to transform with their godly blood...

Trapped in a spreading web of darkness, the power of an ancient book might be their only hope.Mary Sparrow was cursed at birth, and the bawdy house at the Cardinal's Cap is the only home she's ever known. Like most of the girls, she dreams of escape...

When the last Empath lives, she has to decide who she wants to be:A Monster or Saint.The one and only rule: don't get captured.She was the last of a rare, powerful bloodline. Olivia knew she needed to keep herself hidden. As time went on, curiosity-along...

A victim. A lover. A criminal. Can you be all three?After a soul-crushing experience in the world of the Sorcerers, Ayla Summerfield is happy to settle in a new community. Determined to leave the darkness and trauma behind, she strives to shake off the...

They said it would be a great war to end all wars. To create peace between the Elemental Empires: Fire, Water and Earth. As one war ended, another started. The gods came back with a vengeance because peace was never meant to be an option.Now, the lands...

Bringing together The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Inception in an epic action-packed narrative.Zain is last of the Vampires...... the Death of the Undeath...... and now, he's finally decided to die.After 700 years, all his efforts and...

"The Gods of Belteros were not a kindly lot; they were petty, jealous and cruel." All his life, Pelthiel and his sister, Leithia, had steered clear of the gods, the secrets of their bloodline as well as the warning uttered by their mother prompting their...

Following disaster in Darkscape, Ami is determined to find her friends who've been lost to the layers of reality. She's travelled to the darkest and most mysterious of places, the castle at Noxumbra, to find the answers. Yet unbeknownst to her, others...

DOUBLE FEATURE magazine returns with issue #3: "Que Sera Sera" featuring author S.N. Humphreys! The talented and unique mind of Humphreys, architect of previous entries Have the Day you Deserve and Le Jardin de Gomorrhe (The Garden of Gomorrah) is front...

To Kill an AngelWelcome to Teargarden, a town bereft of law and order. It's controlled by two individuals-the devious innkeeper Therolim, and the mysterious yet beautiful Celina. Their rivalry was about to tear the town part, but all that would...

Everyone's the same... on the outside.Peel these People Skins apart to reveal why:a picturesque Irish fishing village with a dark past doesn't want visitors;it's crucial to know where that voice in your head really comes form.a sick man has to spend his...

He left to save her from herself… But who will save him from her? When Lady Seliah Phel wakes from a drugged sleep to find herself abandoned by her newly bonded wizard, she vows revenge—and to hunt him down. Tracking him through the...

Spy, manipulator, traitor… He might be her only salvation.Lady Seliah Phel can't escape feeling like she's one of those fairytale princesses awakened from a long slumber—except that her life is no romantic story and there's no happy ending...

His Darkness, Her Brightness… Together They Defy the WorldLord Gabriel Phel at last holds his dream in his grasp—and faces losing everything. He's finally won the love of his wife, familiar, and mother of his child, and she offers him a...

Phadre Golmin and Jiarna Kay are perfectly matched. Both astounding intellects, sharing a passion for academic pursuits and each other. Traveling from the University of Maradaine to Trenn College in Yin Mara, they are excited for the opportunity to...

Emmy x RinOnce Upon A Time...That's how beautiful love stories always start. Sweet Omegas and dashing Alphas meet, fall in love, and live happily ever after.But not my story.On the morning of her bonding ceremony my sister ran away, forcing me to take...

Sana x Tallis x Cyrus Sometimes revenge is the only reason to survive. Forced to mate a wolf I don't know to appease my father? I don't fucking think so. My intention wasn't to run, at least not without my sister, but I couldn't wait, not after what...

Welcome to the Weald.The Five Turns of the Wheel has begun.With each Turn, blood will be spilled,and sacrifices will be made.Pacts will be made...and broken.Will you join the Dance? In the Weald, the time has come for the Five Turnsof the Wheel...

Where do we go when we dream?Since the beginning of time, people have argued the meaning of dreams. Are they symbolic visions that hold great meaning and personal significance? Are they portals into other worlds? Or are they just a series of random...

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 have to survive...

Taylor Renee Wolford has returned to the city of her birth. Accompanied by the villainous Ari, daughter to the Arbiter, Taylor is set to exchange herself for answers about her past and in so doing get a chance to reunite with the family she had left...

A champion fighting for love.The game is over. The title won. His prize? The woman he's walked to the ends of the earth to find.There's only one problem.When Shadow comes to him, it's not as his lover, it's as his executioner. Left with no other options,...

Kendra doesn't want her best friend to make the same mistake she did.  So she drags her best friend to meet Chronos and learn about the future.  That should fix the problem, right?It's not like the two of them have ever disagreed on...

Kendra’s worst nightmare is now a reality.  Someone else is taking her place, the Magical Girl Union exists, and Chronos won’t tell her where it is or who’s behind it.Instead, she’s sent on an insultingly easy mission to stop...

A Haunting LegacyJohn and Branwen face challenges as a couple—his violent past and her unwanted pregnancy. Just when life threatens to overwhelm them, Branwen receives an offer of help from an unlikely source.Now, John must face his lifelong fears...

Welcome to the birthplace of the Devil’s Revolver, where untold danger lurks for Hettie Alabama and her companions…The second book in the epic, magic-clad Devil’s Revolver series follows Hettie and her sister south of the Wall into...

Kiana's last day at the magically-charged fence that protects the world from hyper-destructive unicorns: A day of celebration, right? Not when the extraction team runs late and an ominous storm brews-and her partner has been keeping a potentially...

Rosemount Cottage was exactly as her grandmother left it...Hat on the coat stand.Slippers by the chair.Poisoned tea leaves in the strainer... Tamsyn Pride knows someone - or something - killed her grandmother. But every attempt she makes to catch...

When everything you are is at stake, is avenging someone you love worth the risk?Her name is Talitha Green-Hernandez, but you don't give a crap what her name is and, quite frankly, neither do I.Let me ask you a question. Have you ever lost someone you...

If you fell from grace, how many risks would you take to claw your way back?My name is Henry Stone.For the last three years, I've been COVEN's best executioner: never screwed up, never failed a mission, always top of my game.All that changed when my boss...

Two misfits, Carys Price and Angharad 'Hazard' Evans, strike out from their disenfranchised seaside town to take ownership of the High Fields, a mythical island brimming with world-bending promise.Objecting to the demands of modern society, they hope to...

Winner of The SCKA 2022 for Best DebutShortlisted for the Kavya PrizeLonglisted for the British Science Fiction AwardsShortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel & Best NewcomerCould you condemn one child to save another?In...

What happens when the villain wins? Sick of dashing debonairs…? Fed up of being blinded by shining armor…? Sometimes, all a girl wants is a villain for a hero.  Dancing across morally gray lines, these stories are...

Some decades ago, Tanith Lee was asked to write a novel with a steampunk ambience, and this book is the result of her writing the first three chapters. Unfortunately, the book was never finished. However, the chapters she did write form a neat novella,...

Charity Blake survived a nightmare. Now she is the monster others dream about.By day, punk-rock runaway Charity Blake struggles through a stream of dead-end jobs and the haunting memories of her past. But at night she is the Harpy, sprouting wings with...

MY NAME IS SHERLOCK HOLMES.IT IS MY BUSINESS TO KNOW WHAT OTHERS DO NOT.In the dark lurk horrible secrets. Long buried and hidden from prying eyes are the twilight tales of the living and the dead - and those that are neither. The stink of a Paris...

Dauyra is finally 17 today. Her birthday but more important, her Day of Sanctum. Every girl waits for this day to celebrate her passage to be recognized as a woman. Dauyras' 3 best friends Jesina, Sorcha and Havena will be with her to celebrate her...

What if dragons were real and among us right now in today's world - Apex predators of all colors, 70 feet long with magical blood that they wield masterfully to care for their food source and herd: the human race? These dragons aren't pets nor do they...

Lead Me Not into Temptation, I Can Find it On My Own is the story of Michael Surreal, a troubled thirty-three-year-old husband and father who, up until the day he dies and is condemned to hell, aspires to become the worlds greatest poet. While in hell,...

The story is based on the life journey of a young man named Artie. After witnessing the brutal massacre of Artie and his family, a mysterious family friend appears in front of young Artie, blessing him with the gift of rebirth and reawakening young Artie...

A collection of original folk and urban horror stories and poems, written and illustrated by sibling tale weavers Rosalind Buck and award-winning performance storyteller Jason Buck. Short stories and poems of the wild hunt, haunted beds, murderous sons,...

Stories are their trials. Poetry is their woes. They cry to our world, begging for their voices to be heard. What can save them from their heinous fate? These tales of harrowing sorrows are words of the tribulations thrusted upon them by cruel creatures...

Is this real life, or is it fantasy, a world of darkness? In the borough of the Bronx, a young man seeking revenge for the brutal rape and murder of his sister expects death. Instead, he is thrown into a strange world of inhumane monsters. Some are...