Dark fantasy Books

There's something off about Ryon. Everyone at school thinks he has a crush on his stepsister and his father, Joseph, finds his behavior too intimate. Ryon tries to protect Mia, who is bullied daily, but is powerless at home where his father abuses them...

Yig, known as the Serpent God, is older than humanity, and Yig's reptilian Children once ruled the Earth. Now< they are stirring in their caves, walking the Earth in forms not quite human, slowly and patiently preparing their plans. Those who stumble...

In New Hell, only the monsters survive.Eden Alvaro is a licensed Vulture, picking through the aftermath of violence in demon-plagued LA, and fencing her finds to help support her family. But when a crooked cop reports her for a salvage she didn't take,...

The Battle for Three Realms begins. In the ancient and mystical world of Kamin, the odds are against Urith and his small band of allies. Nearly destroyed by the gods of the sky, their group remain hunted outlaws. During their escape to new lands,...

When blood of the innocent fills the river that flows…The world will know the powers hidden within the shadows…The world of Azhana burns with the fires of war. The Republic marches east with dreams of spreading their beliefs and the...

Anna is a student surviving the city, and she lives by a simple credo, “Never play their game; their game is always rigged.” For every man she has ever known, it’s a saying that has served her well.Especially when Anna becomes lost to...

Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles and Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them and together with Teag (a hacker and weaver witch), and Sorren, a...

Many summers ago, an evil presence known as a Bloodan visited Camp Silverway, a peaceful summer camp for teenage girls, and nearly killed a young girl named Shelly. Mary Thompson, a girl on a bunk bed near Shelly, watched as the creature made from blood...

Welcome back to the darkest corner of the library.Something has drawn you back to this shared universe of terrifying tales, which this time around are longer, darker, bloodier, and more disturbing than before. Learn the beginnings of previous characters,...

Justina Robson is one of the most original writers of genre fiction working today. Her work has been variously shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the John W. Campbell Award...

The preceding volume in the series, GODS' Enemy, is an Indies 2016 BOOK AWARD FINALIST, FANTASY.November 1917. The first great allied tank battle takes place at Cambrai in the Pas de Calais. At first it proves a rousing success but after a hard...

‘A macabre tale, brilliantly told’ London Evening Standard‘Strikingly original, combining horror and wit in equal proportions’ Daily Telegraph“AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE, BEING MEN OF THE WORLD, I HAVE BEEN BRANDED AS A...

A Royal Academy At Osyth Novel - Book 3After barely surviving the semester at the Royal Academy, Hiram Rho heads home for the summer and his department chair, Warren Oldham, departs on a well-deserved vacation. While Rho tries to get his powers back,...

A Royal Academy At Osyth Novel - Book 2It's spring break. Demonology faculty have scattered to the four winds except for Neil Torecki and Teddy Whin, who venture into the alchemists' study garden to rescue a lost colleague. They don't know that the...

Survival ▪ Vengeance ▪ PassionA brutal deed forever alters the rules of survival.Few Spellbinders know of the kill list's existence; a list that marks multiple families for death. In the wake of one savage attack, there's a survivor. Juniper Berry, a...

Stolen away to Bluebeard's lair and all I got was this severed head.I had already resigned myself to an unwanted marriage when he swept in and took me as his bride. I hadn't resigned myself to violence or an early death. That's a bit much to ask of a...

Deep in the mountain where magic and mining coincide, penniless Oliver enlists as a Miner of the Mystics. The dream is unfathomable riches, the risk is injury or even death. A risk worth taking for just a glance at Sentinel Tau, an otherworldly being...

Keep one eye on the road ahead and another on the rearview mirror.Because, like the legendary phantom semi of this book's titular story, these stories will creep up on you and overtake you without warning.Edo van Belkom twists his unique perspective and...

Shai'Khal is changing. The impenetrable mists that hug its coastline are waning for the first time in nine hundred years. From those mists, two women emerge: Ruya, the high priestess of death, and Sarka, the champion of war. They claim they come in peace...

Be Careful of the Company You KeepDeirdre wanted nothing more than quietly to be left to her studies, but that was never to be. She'd made a pact with the Devil. And ... well, a pact with the Devil was exactly that. Now her life was topsy-turvy, her...

Are you in search of an enticing and provocative read that pushes the limits of conventional storytelling? You need not look any further than our assortment of forbidden and seductive short stories. This anthology offers a blend of erotica, mystery, and...

In a fictitious, mysterious, and futuristic Earth, the Western and Eastern continents are poised to become entangled in an ancient holy rivalry and epic battle. The enigmatic and powerful king of Asukhas rules over the technologically,...

Two hundred fifty years from now, vampires dominate the world and are ruled by Azai and Saba, the oldest and most powerful vampires of all time. Most of mankind are forced into slavery and are used as food for the vampires. For those few that remain...

A feud between two rival families is about to create international warfare. Desperate to reclaim territory that was once part of their ancestral lands, the Astafo family plots against their distant cousin, Pedir Seda, and his mysterious favor with the...

He seemed to be nothing more than a tramp. And yet, for some reason, Ira Kaplan found himself drawn to the man almost as much as he was repulsed by him. He spoke English, of a sort, all the words were recognizable but together they defied interpretation...

Mundo Lopez, a minor player in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, has killed a man of unexpected importance to the Mayan gods of war and death. After his release from prison, Mundo journeys with his lover, Pedro, through the jungles of Guatemala to...

Desperate to discover a cure for the cyclical 48-year-fever, known as Trailmen's fever, Dr. Randall Forth persuades a colleague, Dr. Jay Allison, to undergo hypnosis. He calls forth a secondary personality, Jason Allison, is gregarious and an experienced...

Decades have passed since the Collapse. Our world has twisted and twined into something unrecognizable. The ruination of civilization was compounded by a return of impossible powers, ancient myths and forgotten tales. Conjuring and cunning exist side by...

During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and...

Horror lies in the old, decrepit New England town of Dunwich. Outsiders visit Dunwich as seldom as possible, and since a certain season of horror all the signboards pointing towards it have been taken down. The scenery, judged by an ordinary aesthetic...

The Rats in the Walls is perhaps Lovecraft's most powerful tales. The story follows Delapore as he discovers his heritage and begins a slow, terrifying descent into madness. When he reclaims his familial home which is in ruins and decides to restore it,...

To Malone the sense of latent mystery in existence was always present. In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he had thrilled at...

Exotic and WonderfulIt was a cold winter's evening late in the Stone Age; the sun had gone down blazing over the plains of Thold; there were no clouds, only the chill blue sky and the imminence of stars; and the surface of the sleeping Earth began to...

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by the critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the...

Weird Tales launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While Pulp magazines had been around for some time Weird Tales was the first pulp magazine to specialize in super natural fiction. Weird Tales single...

The Jim Dandy Traveling Amusement Fair is a small carnival on the road. The carnies—a family of oddballs, grifters, students, and a retired grandmother—are making their way in the world, but just barely.Their latest encampment may be...

As a child, Peter Jacoby is plagued by terrible and extraordinarily realistic nightmares. His parents take him to a local psychologist, Dr. Raymond, to help him overcome the problem, giving him the chance to lead a normal life. As a young adult, Peter is...

Rivera and Alexia Connely are two sisters used to figuring out things on their own. It has been three months since they saw their mother, Elizabeth, leader of their coven of witches. Tasked with protecting the Shadow Coven in their mother's absence, the...

Weirdbook returns after a 20-year hiatus under the editorship of Douglas Draa! Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...Chivaine, by John R. FultzGive Me the Daggers, by Adrian ColeThe Music of Bleak...

In a world where vampires rule, a group of humans struggle to live their lives. Mabel whose parents were killed by vampires is forced to be the ward of Frederick, one of the vampire leaders. When her latent powers as a witch are awakened, she becomes a...

Un libro de magia, fantasía, romance, y aventura. Pero sin finales felices. Una colección de cuentos que reimaginan y reconstruyen los cuentos de hadas populares que hicieron famosos a los hermanos Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, varios cuentos...

After eight years in a cave, I was finally rescued... by a terrifying fae king who tells me I'm his mate.He's rough, growly, and refuses to answer any of my questions as he takes me back to the fae lands.When we get there, I learn that a large faction of...

A hellish collection of short stories from some of the best in the business - compiled by the award-winning author P. Mattern. Featuring tales from the darkest pits of hades by, Tania Hagan, Lily Luchesi, Jay Michael Wright II, Ken Goldman, Sergio...

Enslaved in the mines of Lonia, Pela has forgotten the last time she saw the sun. For days uncounted she has toiled, scorned by her captors, forgotten. Her jailers think her cowed, but the blood of a warrior flows in her veins. When a new overseer...

Protect Little Mother, when the time comes ...Satan’s archdemon, Asmodeus, is jealous of the relationship the earth-bound angel, Helena, has with his lord and master. He has devised a plan that will rid them of the harlot for good, one that...