Dark Fantasy

Oli the goblin is the last creature anyone would send on a world-ending quest. But the Dark Lord's under siege and without his doomsday weapon, those pesky forces of Good might just get it done this time. Seizing the long-awaited opportunity to serve their Big Boss, Oli and his cousins strike out on a super secret mission to retrieve the doomsday weap-on a road trip to see their family. With the hopes of every creature sinister and foul riding on them, the goblins hurry directly to their destination. Mostly directly. Okay, so it's more of a zigzag.

Even in his past life, Cid’s dream wasn’t to become a protagonist or a final boss. He’d rather lie low as a minor character until it’s prime time to reveal he’s a mastermind…or at least, do the next best thing—pretend to be one! And now that he’s been reborn into another world, he’s ready to set the perfect conditions to live out his dreams to the fullest. Armed with his overactive imagination, Cid jokingly recruits members to his organization and makes up a whole backstory about an evil cult that they need to take down.

Eight Fae fight for my hand in marriage. They're willing to kill for it. But if they discover my secret, my future husband might kill me too. The King of Brookmere has decreed his daughter is to marry—which means, despite my protests, he's enacted an archaic tradition, summoning powerful Fae from across the land to compete for my hand in marriage. And more importantly, the throne. Eight fae will fight in the deadly trials, braving formidable magic and each other to prove themselves worthy of the crown. Including the arrogant, shadow-wielding Kade Blackthorn.

When thief Ember Hart saves a maiden from a murderous secret society, she finds herself sacrificed in the girl’s place. Anointed ‘the Promised One’, Ember’s prophesised arrival sets her on the path to an unholy union with the kingdom’s beastly prince, but she has no intention of being a sacrificial lamb – at least, not again – so when Rhaell, the gruff captain of the guards, proposes an alliance to restore the kingdom’s lost magic and then use it to send Ember home, she readily agrees.

Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of all trouble—but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he’d rather be left alone to deal with his bills as the Harmattan rolls in to coat the city in dust, but Bouba is a down on his luck deux fois, suspended between two cultures and two worlds.

I was once a mighty Paladin of Darkness, mother of all the Elements. The one and only of my kind. Some called me the chosen one, a savior destined to rescue the world; others insisted I would be its downfall. I never got the chance to discover who was right. Society conspired with the traitors to trap me in the deadly Element of Time. But a year later, I managed to break free . . . wait, how has it been 700 years?

The end of the world is not such a bad thing for Russian weapons engineer Vlad Nardoir. Really his world ended six months ago when his wife died, and ever since then, things have been downhill. Soul-crushing medical debt. Favors to the Russian mafia. Now, asteroid. For Vlad, this is life in a nutshell. But, in a wild twist of fate, he has found a way out. A chance to start fresh in a brand-new ultra-immersive MMORPG called Viridian Gate Online.

After nine years as the people's beloved princess in the sun-soaked Kingdom of Carca, Vita witnesses the execution of her mother by her father's hand. Forced into exile, Vita fades into obscurity with her only friends—the crows that visit her window. Eleven years later, Vita is given a choice: marry an enemy general, granting him legitimacy to take the throne, or die as the forgotten princess. With time running out, Vita meets Soline, an intriguing lady-in-waiting who introduces her to the powerful but unstable magic of alchemy.

Kidnapped from my college campus, just as I tasted freedom, I’m sold to the Angel of Death—Angelo Santi, the vampire mafia King. I’m now a captive in a world I never knew existed, caught in a tangled web of ancient feuds and dangerous desires. He claims that I have the power to save his people by reigniting a dying magical stone. He’s delusional. I have no powers, but if I try to escape, he’ll start by killing my best friend and move to everyone I’ve ever loved.

Redacle is the cold, unforgiving setting for Chronicles of Destiny, Bernard, Kehinde, and Cádo's successful grimdark novel. But when the coauthors find themselves its three newest adventurers—trapped in the perilous landscape of their own creation—they realize that not all is as they intended. With their story gone rogue and filling in plot holes the authors couldn't have imagined, the three must learn how to level up, allocate skill points, and use their class abilities to endure a world filled with deadly foes.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) gilt als der bedeutendste Autor der phantastischen Horrorliteratur - quasi der "Edgar Allan Poe" des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem "Cthulhu-Mythos" erschuf er eine ganze Welt, in der außerirdische Wesen, vor Urzeiten auf unseren Planeten gelangt, gottgleich und quasi unsterblich herrschten.

The only way to survive is to win. The only way to win is to slay a dragon. In a realm where power determines life or death, two young women are thrust into a deadly tournament where the only path to survival is to slay a dragon. Forced to participate in the brutal Gauntlet, Amalia and Dyana enter the dangerous world of the Fae. But humans aren't the only ones being forced to fight... Dragons, once revered as Gods, are on the brink of extinction. Enslaved by the Fae and forced to fight, they've given up hope of ever seeing the skies again.

Walking through his own house at night, a young boy thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. The figure reminds him of his long-dead father, who drowned mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows, it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he ever knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have.

Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: that the mythological beasts of legend and lore—including mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs—were in fact humanity’s evolutionary ancestors. And beyond that, he wonders: what if there was a way for humanity to reach the fuller potential these ancestors implied?

Brydie MacKay has accepted that she is the last Daughter of Winter. Her old life soon becomes a distant memory as she is initiated into a world of druidic magic. However, the further Brydie delves into her legacy, the more she realizes that she is up against impossible odds. Training is brutal beyond imagining, and the full power of her birthright eludes her. To make matters worse, everyone has an agenda—even the man required by prophecy to protect her.

The survivor of a brutal childhood, Clare Brighton craves the kind of wealth and notoriety that will mean the horrors of her past can never again touch her. With a battered guitar and a Songweaver's talent, she comes to the capital of the Faelhorn Provinces, determined to gain her place.

A firefighter, and his two daught— BAM! He dies. A dead firefighter, who respawns in the hereafter and awakens with a new companion who has a copy of all of his memories. Good, bad, and . . . embarrassing. So embarrassing he doesn’t want to remember them . . . but she does. Dead, but relocated to a shipping-container-sized space controlled by a ruthless company who runs the afterlife . . . with his fking guide Greg. Dead, but able to log in and out of a player vs. player survival game called Hearth. Dead, but doing his damn best to stay alive.

No one learns that better than Luna Ketz, a pessimistic high school senior. Caught between her parents' intentions for her life and her own plans, boys are the last thing on Luna’s mind. This fact doesn’t deter the mysterious Chance Welfrey from trying to gain her affection. Luna doesn’t think twice about him until girls at their high school begin to disappear. Girls who tended to hurt her. Girls she wished would disappear.

Une escapade de pêche se transforme en une descente vertigineuse dans les abysses d'une légende ancestrale. Plongez dans ce conte fantastique et horrifique avec la voix sombre et profonde de Guillaume Orsat. Au nord de l'État de New York, dans les bois de Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek coule paisiblement. Une rivière poissonneuse mais quasi inaccessible, et bien plus profonde qu'il n'y paraît... Ce matin-là, Abe et Dan – deux veufs liés par la solitude et l'amour de la pêche – décident de tenter l'aventure.

After some trouble-making degenerates squatting on some farmland belonging to a kind peaceful farming couple decide to cut down the famous Sycamore tree of Sycamore Gap when receiving an eviction notice, they unleash an ancient avenging spirit of nature upon themselves, and will, hopefully, meet a ghastly end as punishment for their crimes.

Ein Flugzeug, das sich auf dem Weg zu einem Kongress nach Venedig befindet, stürzt völlig unerwartet auf einer kurz zuvor scheinbar noch nicht sichtbaren Insel ab. Unter den Passagieren befinden sich auch Peter Griest und seine Frau Elenor. Kaum sind die Überlebenden aus dem Wrack des Flugzeuges gestiegen, ist eine Horde wilder Wölfe hinter ihnen her. Auf ihrer Flucht stoßen sie auf eine alte Hütte, vor der sich Särge befinden. Peter und Elenor ist sofort klar, dass sie erneut um ihr Leben kämpfen müssen. Denn sie sind gestrandet, auf einer Insel voller Untoter ... auf Draculas Todesinsel.

Se l'oscurità ti chiamasse, la seguiresti o la combatteresti? Arleen è una ragazza francese, timida e riservata. Dopo la perdita dell'amico d'infanzia e del padre, psichiatra olistico di grande fama, la sua vita è precipitata nel vuoto di un silenzio incolmabile. Per combattere questo dolore si concede una vacanza a New York, ma, una volta atterrata, viene rapita da Dan Crower, un potente criminale, che la trascina fino in Messico per venderla a un acquirente misterioso. Quando la situazione sta per volgere al peggio, uno sconosciuto la mette in salvo.

The year is 1625... It is a time of great sickness as the black plague holds all in its grip. a hardy band of vampyres: the kindred, Nosferatu, Soul-Eaters... a living human vampyre born from blood, and a trio created from experiments by an ancient one... One who seeks to control all. This is the story of Emeline Gardner and those that contributed to her path. it is a dark path with many directions that they could go. But the time will come for her to awaken and become... during a war between the breeds.

The Alpha’s Luna: Awakening in Salem is a captivating blend of romance, supernatural intrigue, and self-discovery. Will Quinn rise to meet her destiny, or will the dark forces at play tear her world apart?

Adrien Desfourneaux, professor of magic and disgraced ex-physician, has discovered a conspiracy. Someone is inflicting magical comas on the inhabitants of the massive city of Astrum, and no one knows how or why. Caught between a faction of scheming magical academics and an explosive schism in the ranks of Astrum's power-hungry military, Adrien is swallowed by the growing chaos. Alongside Gennady, an unruly, damaged young soldier, and Malise, a brilliant healer and Adrien's best friend, Adrien searches for a way to stop the spreading curse before the city implodes.