Dark Fantasy

A simple promise I made to myself after escaping a brutal childhood of abuse and being trained to enact violence on unblessed witches. Since that moment, I've managed to survive on the streets by successfully pickpocketing. Unfortunately, after years of hiding, the monster who stars in all my nightmares is closer than ever, and I'm faced with only one option—to seek refuge at the Dark Imaginarium Academy. The Academy is filled with the elite witches of our society. I should have expected I'd run into some of my previous targets. Normally, that wouldn't be a proble—except for my last hit.

At the heart of a trackless swamp, a murdered thief claws his way back from the abyss. Who he was is lost to the grave, but not his need for vengeance. Death has not claimed him; instead it's unlocked a darker destiny. This isn't a heroic tale; it's the antithesis. This is a dark fantasy where evil is as much a place as a person. In Tenebroum, our villainous protagonist, the Lich, strives for a godhood fueled by the souls of its enemies, and the world trembles, ignorant of its impending doom.

Princess Isabelle Louise was raised for one thing: to secure a marriage alliance for the good of her people. All her hopes for a kind husband are dashed when the dark and dangerous Prince of the Fae comes seeking a human princess for his bride. Suddenly married and thrust into a world of vicious magic and lethal bargains, Isabelle discovers too late the secret her bridegroom concealed from her: that she is the key to his plan to usurp the throne. And now she is the object of the High King's wrath.

In a dingy Manhattan bar, where misery is served on tap, a stranger arrives with a pair of mysterious antique headphones. For most who try them on, they unlock a world of wonder; for our protagonist, they unleash a world of horror. Upon wearing these headphones, they become fused with his flesh, unable to be removed. The voices of malevolent beings known only as, the Others, begin speaking to him through these headphones - their taunts and intentions getting more sinister with each passing moment.

Only in an insane world would a young wizard find herself battling monsters and automatons one day and returning to Convocation Academy to cram for finals the next. But this is the world Alise Phel lives in. Like it or not, Alise must face the consequences of ditching out a second time and dealing with the crushing workload assigned to her as a punishment. Worse yet, succeeding at the Academy means Alise must learn to master her powerful and unusual magic—the same magic that caused her to accidentally murder her own mother.

After the death of their abusive patriarch, sixteen-year-old Desiree "Dez" Sarpe and her family moved to the high plains of Wyoming for a fresh start. Life is quieter now, but peace doesn't put food on the table. Unable to get a job, Dez reluctantly stays home—before following a track in the long grass and finding Granny Iyaga. Granny hires Dez for housecleaning, and also begins teaching her peculiar things. School starts, winter approaches, and for the first time, Dez begins to relax.

Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them. Marney Honeycutt, a luster-touched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns.

Using ancient secrets, Galina and Sera’s mother grafted gods into their bones. Bound to brutal deities and granted forbidden power no commoner has held in a millennia; the sisters have grown up to become living weapons. Raised to overthrow an empire – no matter the cost. With their mother gone and their country on the brink of war, it falls to the sisters to take the helm of the rebellion and end the cruel reign of a royal family possessed by destructive gods. Because when the ruling alurea invade, they conquer with fire and blood.

When her father surrenders to an invading kingdom, Amarylla doesn't realize she's part of the treaty until it's too late. Drugged to prevent resistance, she's swept away to the dark, tortured kingdom of Terelaus, where she is forced to marry the Fiend Prince. When Amarylla holds a dagger to his throat on their wedding night, she and the Prince come to a tenuous arrangement of their own. But he may not be the greatest danger lurking in the Cursed Palace.

L'Empire de Solaris est à une conquête de l'unification du continent, et la rare magie élémentaire qui sommeille en Vhalla Yarl, une apprentie bibliothécaire de dix-sept ans, pourrait faire basculer le cours de la guerre. Vhalla a toujours appris à craindre la Tour des sorciers, une mystérieuse société magique, et elle a toujours été heureuse dans le monde tranquille des livres. Mais après avoir, sans le savoir, sauvé la vie de l'un des plus puissants sorciers, le prince héritier Aldrik, elle se retrouve malgré elle entraînée dans ce monde.

Kyra, a young woman capable of wielding rune magic, is called from her hidden city to a temple no one knows about. As Kyra wrestles with a prophecy, and wanting to save her city, a dwarven king leads his people to carve a new home for themselves but instead finds himself approaching divinity. On the other side of the world, a dark sewer hosts a father and son who escaped a tyrannical attack. They now hide and attempt to summon a golem for protection but learn something about magic that might change the world.

In the deep hollows of Greenbrier, Tennessee, Mini Bell Carter, known as Old Grandma Carter, weaves potions and spells as a Cherokee medicine woman and black witch. But her most vital task lies not in her potions, but in raising her great- great-granddaughter, Little Mini Bell, to preserve her legacy. At 93, Granny embarks on a perilous journey to ensure the girl's purity until the age of 16, the key to her immortality. With her sister, the vile Miss Ruby Carter, threatening to undo it all, Granny's last shot at eternal power becomes a race against time.

A student falls for the perfect guy but gets a shock when she catches him saying goodbye to an old relationship. When she breaks it off, things take dark turn as he struggles with the rejection. Kidnapped and made to put on a show, can Maria escape her psychotic captor?

Épine, Marée, Braise, Orage, Minerai. Dans la cité fortifiée d'Halstett, les cinq assemblées de sorcières sont contraintes de servir un tyran connu sous le nom de Haut Gardien. Penny Albright est une jeune sorcière de l'Assemblée de l'Épine, un clan chargé de surveiller le Voile qui sépare le monde des vivants de celui des morts. Chaque nuit, une sorcière franchit la frontière en brûlant sur un bûcher et, chaque matin, cette sorcière revient.

In a quiet city in British Columbia, vampires stalk a hospital, looking for victims to milk, kill, or recruit as partial vampires that instinctively desire humans for their life-giving blood. Although Jude loves the power of being a partial vampire, which includes shapeshifting into whatever he wants, he struggles with guilt over the harm his vampiric nature may cause. His human side clings to his past, but as a vampire he has access to a world of power, immortality, and liberation from human limitations.

In a city on the edge of total destruction, Jack Wilder and friends, Dave and Jimmy, must traverse a horrific landscape swarming with the undead. Pursued by a relentless zombie horde and surrounded by peril at every turn, they confront their deepest fears and most haunting memories as they struggle to flee their disintegrating apartment building. This is more than a fight for survival; it's an intense journey packed with visceral terror and biting wit.

Despite being an embarrassment to Amazon society due to standing at only five foot one in her boots, Miss Eve clearly has the ear of the queen. When she appoints Eve over a more qualified candidate to become the first Amazon ambassador to Middlemass, a city ruled by men, it becomes the talk of the Royal Court. What game is Queen Anastasia playing? And what possibly possessed her to pick this social outcast to be the one to speak for the Amazon empire?

A collection of short stories ranging from horror to dark fantasy. All the stories herein share the mouth-watering carnal expectation of a dark embrace, a thrilling and forbidden kiss that promises to shred moral constraints and open the path to a new life of acceptance.

You don't find the Phantom Library. It finds you. Seventeen books lay waiting on its dusty shelves. Tendrils of fear uncurl from their spines, searching for children to trap in their stories. Many curious minds have been taken by the library. They were kids looking for excitement. Instead, they found horrors chasing them to the end. You may escape the library, but the stories never leave you.

Un juego de lo más retorcido. Doce participantes. Y una serie de misteriosos asesinatos. En el palacio de una isla remota, doce jóvenes participan en un siniestro juego: la Noche del Escorpión. Al final del día, cada uno desempeña un rol y practica para la partida final. En ella, deberán ser cautos y forjar alianzas para que el asesino, a quien se le ha asignado el rol de escorpión, no resulte vencedor. Cuando creen estar preparados, todo se tuerce: Liliana, una de las antiguas jugadoras que había fallecido en un supuesto accidente, sale a rastras de la tumba.

Um in ihrem von Aberglaube geprägten Heimatdorf ein ruhiges Leben führen zu können, möchte Liska ihre magischen Kräfte mithilfe der sagenumwobenen Farnblume für immer loswerden. Doch die wächst tief im Wald, wo nichts ist, wie es scheint … Nachdem Liska einen Handel mit dem dämonischen Wächter des Waldes, dem Leszy, eingeht, wird ihr schnell klar, dass er etwas vor ihr verbirgt. Gefahr droht, Liska findet ungewöhnliche Verbündete und muss sich schließlich fragen, ob ihre Magie sie tatsächlich zu einem Monster macht – und ob der Leszy ein solches Monster ist.

One cold December night, sixteen-year-old Abby Lowell and her foster sister are rescued by a mysterious and deadly figure in rags and a large hood. Abby never learns his name and never sees his face, but he’s obviously good with that black-bladed knife of his … very good. Abby dubs him “Rags.” But Rags isn’t done, not by a long shot. With her foster family under threat from the ruthless Bernards, who are determined to tear down their dilapidated hotel in favor of yet another casino, Abby finds herself in desperate need of a defender.

C'è stato un tempo in cui le streghe come Rune erano ai vertici della società, rispettate e temute da tutti. Ora, dopo una rivoluzione sanguinosa che ha condotto al bando della magia e all'emarginazione delle streghe, queste ultime vengono braccate dalle guardie della Nuova Repubblica per essere arrestate e infine giustiziate. A Rune perciò non resta che nascondere la sua vera natura.

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Une offrande de chair et de sang destinée au plus dangereux des dieux... Danaé est la fougueuse princesse rebelle du royaume souterrain réservé aux humains hérétiques, sous les florissantes contrées régies par les Faedras, de puissantes divinités aussi vénérées que redoutées. Sun, dieu de la Lumière, décide de se marier. Contre toute attente, il choisit pour épouse Danaé. Or, son frère ennemi Night, dieu des Ténèbres, vient contrarier ce projet en séquestrant sa fiancée dans une effusion de violence. Night pose à sa captive un ultimatum visant à déclencher une guerre contre Sun.