Dark Fantasy

There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—the forest where sinners go to die. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because what's taken is never given back. Only those who've lost their senses would dare to go near it. Or the banished. Maevyth Bronwick knows better than to breach the misty labyrinth of trees, but a tragic turn of events compels her beyond the archway of bones to a boundary no mortal has crossed before. One that cloaks a dark and fantastical world that's as dangerous as it is alluring. It's there that he dwells, the cursed lord of Eidolon.

Dan has accidentally "Noclipped" into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. Hell, forget about leaving, if Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own.

All witches must serve the cruel and immortal Emperor Yamueto. Upon discovery of her powers, Khana was ripped away from her desert home at fourteen years old and enslaved as a concubine. After years in service, her only friend in the palace is brutally murdered for supplying her forbidden birth-control, and Khana must make her escape. But not before accidentally discovering the secret of Yamueto’s power and immortality – he has been making deals with Death. And now, thanks to a twist of fate, so is she.

Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.

Una strega e un vampiro. La loro è stata una grande storia d'amore. Ma poteri più oscuri sono all'opera... L'incontro tra Diana Bishop, studiosa e strega di Oxford, e il vampiro genetista Matthew Clairmont è stato fatale: incredibilmente attratti l'uno dall'altra, nonostante i tabù che volevano le loro specie nemiche e divise, si sono innamorati. Insieme hanno viaggiato nell'Inghilterra elisabettiana, hanno risvegliato poteri oscuri e ribaltato il vecchio ordine del loro mondo...

Nestled in the small village of Ringwood is a peculiar shop that sells the souls of the departed. In life, Quill never stood up for himself or broke the rules, not even when it really mattered. Now, as the two-hundred-year-old proprietor, he dutifully matches each customer with the perfect soul—so long as they can pay the price and are willing to sign the contract.

Even with the shaky truce with Ramona, Jake’s life inside the Nine Circles is hardly peaceful. Samael the sorcerer is still out there, and his next move threatens the very existence of the Nine Circles, right down to the fabric of time itself. That’s not the only trouble that’s brewing though. From disgruntled archlords to vengeful angels, Jake and his friends, including the beautiful Amara Hightower, will have their hands full trying to keep the demonic realm intact.

With Lady Sophie's husband still warm in his grave, and her reputation stained from being unable to produce an heir, the last thing she expects is her father to arrange a rushed wedding. The groom is none other than General Kasten, the illegitimate son of the King. The same man who is feared and hated by the entire realm. Still, she has been trained to be a dutiful wife and accepts her role without complaint. Yet how can she hope to be the spouse she is expected to be when the General is frequently absent and seems to be hiding dark secrets that cause her curiosity to burn?

Die erste Frau, die jemals in einen prestigeträchtigen Magierorden aufgenommen wurde, kommt in dieser eigenständigen düsteren Fantasie der Autorin von "The Sword of Kaigen" eine geheime Verschwörung auf die Spur, die die Ausübung der Magie für immer verändern könnte. Seit zwanzig Jahren widmet Sciona jeden wachen Moment dem Studium der Magie, angetrieben von dem wahnsinnigen Wunsch, das Unmögliche zu erreichen: die erste Frau zu sein, die jemals zum Hohen Magisterium der Universität für Magie und Industrie zugelassen wird.

Le Cœur Révélateur (The Tell-Tale Heart) est l'une des nouvelles les plus célèbres d'Edgar Allan Poe. Elle fut publiée pour la première fois en 1843 dans le magazine The Pioneer. puis traduite et publiée en français par Charles Beaudelaire, dans le recueil Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires, en 1857. Cette œuvre brille par son exploration de la folie, du remords, et de la culpabilité, tous des thèmes récurrents chez Poe.

À Angrath, tous les hybrides sont sacrifiés. Nova a toujours vécu avec la menace qu'un jour, la garde royale découvrirait qui elle est réellement et viendrait pour la tuer. Mais quand sa mère est exécutée, la jeune violoniste n’a d’autre choix que de fuir. Aran incarne la menace. Son Kvar, une pierre magique qui lui confère un Don unique, fait de lui un Fae puissant et redoutable. En mission pour son roi, l’espion n’avait pas prévu de trouver une humaine sur son chemin. Encore moins d'être piégé par elle.

Pick a card... Pick a side... Ryder Waites thought amnesia from a childhood accident was his biggest problem. Then a fallen angel tried to kill him on the London Underground. Now he's dodging assassins while uncovering an impossible truth: he's the heir to the Royal Court of Spades, part of one of the most powerful magical organisations in existence. But someone murdered his mother — the Queen of Spades — before she could restore his missing memories... and powers.

Nothingland: a dream-like theme park where the dregs of society have gone to languish and remember the by-gone world. Janet has heard the whispers about it through her time surviving in the Deadlands and now, she's arrived at its doorstep. She seeks the blood of Steele: the man responsible for killing her father and tearing her dad away to do his horrible bidding.

AIKEN MILL, VIRGINIA… A legend-haunted town in Sylvan County, located in a remote, mountainous corner of the state. With its long history of countless deaths and disappearances, Aiken Mill has become known to law enforcement as “The Cold Case Capital of the World.”Now, an unidentified, mutilated body has turned up in the town. During his investigation, Sheriff Bryce Parrott discovers frightening clues that lead him to believe some ghostly force—or entity—may be responsible for the killing.

Werecat Chronicles: L’Ascesa del Predatore al Chiaro di Luna di James Rondepierre è un’avventura epica che fonde mistero, trasformazione e antiche tradizioni. Questo secondo capitolo della serie accompagna i lettori nel mondo dei gatti mannari, dove Amara affronta il suo destino, esplora i segreti della sua stirpe e combatte per l’equilibrio tra luce e oscurità. Sotto il bagliore della luna piena, le sue lotte diventano un viaggio di autoscoperta, potere e resilienza.

A melody once existed. It created the Rim of the World where life lives humbly and as the limbs of the land’s many colors. It was primal, untamed, and boundless. A boy, born from the yellowing mane of a horse, enters a world where gods walk with mortals, trees whisper secrets to stones, and stones morph into glistening tapestries red as blood. But it did not last…

Aelira is no stranger to darkness. A sorceress burdened with a past she cannot escape, she carries the Heart of Shadows—a relic of unimaginable power that could either save her crumbling world or plunge it into eternal night. Hunted by creatures born of nightmares and mistrusted by the very people she hopes to protect, Aelira walks a path steeped in danger and heartbreak.

The rule is simple: don’t bleed. For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she’s been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction. Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she’ll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her.

Du bist in deiner eigenen Welt eines schrecklichen Todes gestorben? Kein Problem! Vielleicht bist du genau das, was ein alter, sterbender Magier braucht, um die fürstliche Linie der Morozov-Familie wieder aufleben zu lassen. Ein alter Wahnsinniger hat vor deinen Augen ein paar Leute in Stücke geschnitten? Ganz ruhig! Jetzt ist er dein Lehrer und wird dich durchs Leben führen. Was? Du hast tatsächlich echte Dämonen gesehen? Riesige, drei Meter große Monster, die Äxte schwingen? Nimm eine Beruhigungspille!

Geoff Ringer was a police detective, who never wanted to be more than that. Although he knew he had a telekinetic talent, it wasn’t something he wanted anyone to know about. Even though his reticence made him a loner, he hid his power from his friends and colleagues. Using it also reminded him of that night, which he never wanted to think about again.

Daniel Kenneth verlässt nach einem Streit mit seinem Stiefvater sein Elternhaus und verdingt sich bei einem Zirkus als Pferdepfleger. Zufällig entdeckt er, dass der Besitzer einen Mann in einem der Zirkuswagen gefangen hält.

Some say I was driven to madness. Others say I'm a stone-cold killer. The truth is . . . I'm just ridding this world of its most depraved souls, one surgery at a time. Banished from Wonderland as a child, I have searched for years to find a way back to the twisted realm that took everything from me. But for years, I failed. Until now. And if there's one thing I crave more than poetic justice, it's revenge on the Queen who banished me. When the looking glass reappears, I'm thrust back into Wonderland, right into the hands of the Black Spade brothers.

Ted, Christy, and Leo are teenagers out for the day at their local amusement park. It's now getting near the end of the day, and the lights of the arcade are bright and beckoning. At the arcade, the coming night makes all the lights seem brighter. But be careful, for if you use the dark token you will enter the DARK PARK and it could be game over!

A Place Between Waking & Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.

In a world where the divine bloodlines of ancient Gods still linger, the Fates—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—have summoned the heirs of Olympus to face a brutal reckoning. Sickened by their decadence and failures, the Fates decree a tournament, a web of trials designed to strip away power and pretense. But these trials are no mere tests of strength—they are labyrinths of deceit and torment, forcing the descendants to confront their deepest fears and darkest truths.