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.

ER KÆRLIGHED STÆRKERE END HÆVN? Poppy står over for en brutal sandhed: Alt, hun troede, hun vidste om sit liv og om den mand, hun var ved at forelske sig i, bygger på en løgn. Det eneste, hun ved med sikkerhed, er, at Casteel, prinsen af Atlantia, er farlig. Og at han har store planer for hende.Casteel Da’Neer har mange navne, og hans løgne er lige så forførende som manden selv. Hans mål er at binde deres liv sammen på måder, hverken Poppy eller kongerigerne er forberedt på. Heldigvis ved hun bedre end at stole på ham.

En Darujhistan, la ciudad del fuego azul, se dice que el amor y la muerte llegarán bailando. Transcurre el verano y el calor es sofocante, pero al hombre redondo y pequeño con el chaleco rojo desteñido le molesta algo más que el sol. Las cosas no van bien. Funestos presagios plagan sus noches y acechan las calles de la ciudad como demonios de las sombras. Los asesinos acechan por los callejones, pero han cambiado las tornas y los cazadores son presas.

I grew up knowing three important facts. One, my parents hated Nexus shifters. Two, I was taught everyone should be scared of me, and they should be. Three, I'm a monster. I'm a Nexus, a powerful shifter bonded to five other souls… only I rejected them all at the mating ceremony and ran away with my parents when I was fifteen. After five years on the run, I've finally been found. My Nexus mates dragged me back to the biggest pack community in the mountains of Scotland, where they'll make sure I follow each of their rules and never let me out of their sight.

Bist du bereit für die Hölle? Willkommen in Phantasma. Ophelia und ihre Schwester Genevieve sind mit dem Tod mehr als vertraut, denn ihre Mutter ist Nekromantin, und sie haben täglich mit Geistern zu tun. Dann wird ihre Mutter brutal ermordet, und Ophelias Leben steht kopf – die mächtige Magie der Familie wird auf sie übertragen, aber nicht nur das: Sie erbt auch die hohen Schulden, die auf dem Haus liegen. Kurzerhand beschließt ihre Schwester Genevieve, ein tödliches Risiko einzugehen: Sie will an den Phantasma-Spielen teilnehmen, deren Gewinnerin ein Wunsch gewährt werden soll.

Keera is an exile struggling to survive, forced to rob passing travelers or face starvation. When she steals from the wrong man—a vicious masked warrior named the Viper—his hand around her throat awakens an ancient magic within her, and she uses it to escape his clutches. Now, Keera must master her power to protect the city of Kelvadan—the only place an exile like her can find a home—from the Viper and his growing army.

Heaped with survivor’s guilt and post-traumatic stress as the sole resident of her home town to escape the deadly intentions of the Inquisition, a shattered young woman stumbles into a cut-throat political intrigue she can only escape with the help of a magic mirror and her head full of imaginary friends.

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.

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.

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.

Donny stormed out of his boss’s office on the worst day of his professional career. While marching home in a fit of rage and hopelessness, he ran into his attractive neighbour and ended the night by earning a date with her. But it was a date he would never make. Little did Donny know, but when he marched into his boss’s office, he’d interrupted a private meeting with a demon from another world eager to collect a body. And that demon set his eyes on Donny as his next victim. Unable to avoid the beast, Donny is captured and dragged to its dying, hellish world.

Ruling as king does not suit a man like Mute. The boredom. The monotony. The permanent stagnation… Until he arrived. The one with the Gift of Silence. The one wielding a dagger. The one who would mold Balewind into a temple to the Silent Almighty. Lord Deaf intends to be the scream that replaced a whisper, offering one final message to the realm before it never hears again: Bestow upon me your pain, your illness, your sorrow. Silence will absolve them all.

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My name’s Tim McAvoy. I was a mid-level software manager from suburbia until the day I caught my wife with another man. I thought our divorce was the worst fate imaginable. But then I met my end at the grill of a speeding bus, only to realize I didn’t have a clue. Whisked away at the moment of my death to a dimension beyond time and space, I now find myself an unwilling contestant in a multiversal game where brutal bloodshed is considered entertainment. My only chance to get my life back is to win.

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.

Lucien LaArgent, a necromancer skilled in navigating the Ethereal, is drawn into a chilling mystery when a grieving mother calls him to a haunted house in Nova Scotia. What begins as a routine case of restless spirits quickly spirals into a battle against a malevolent force. Back in Montreal, Zara, owner of The Moonlight Hours nightclub, is reeling from the brutal murders of two young lovers tied to her club. When Lucien returns, they uncover a sinister connection to a masked figure known as the Mind Doctor, whose horrifying experiments defy the boundaries of life and death.

I knew the world was bigger than the small town I grew up in, but discovering just how large it really is might send me into a spiral. Demons exist, and not only that, they have a carnival they run on Earth, full of the most vile people crafting deals to further their bad deeds. And yet, it’s in this tent of sin that I find my savior. With a deal sealed by a kiss, I’m sworn protection by the most fearsome creature I have ever laid eyes on. The only problem is, I’m not sure he can protect me from his world too.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland's coast are their only hope of survival. Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life—all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

Kai doesn’t have time to die. Poisoned, weakened, and running out of options, she’s determined to rescue her sister from the Graylands—a realm meant for the dead—and her mother from the demon-controlled Wrythiin. But stepping into forbidden realms isn’t exactly a walk in the park, and this time, the price might be more than she’s willing to pay.

On a fated summer night in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, Jacob Hale crashes his car into a pedestrian girl, Madeline Arbor, crippling her for life. Ridden with guilt he visits her in the hospital. Here an unlikely friendship develops between the two young people who bond over their mutual love of heavy metal music and horror films. When Madeline is released from hospital care a tentative romance begins. Following an attempt on Jacob’s life by Madeline’s disapproving father, Jacob breaks the relationship off. Fifteen years later, unexpectedly, they meet again.

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.

Skull-Face is a fantasy novella book that deals with conquering drug addiction. Written in 1929, the controversial story deals with a fictional opium den in London's Chinatown.

Karla is a young woman in a world full of men... and in a world that's every man for himself, Rogar has a wife and child to keep.

Sie haben die blutige Pest überlebt – doch der Horror hat noch lange kein Ende Seit Jahren wütet in Goslind eine tödliche Seuche; der König hat sich mit seinem gesamten Hofstaat im Schloss verbarrikadiert. Während er langsam dem Wahnsinn verfällt, versuchen alle anderen verzweifelt, das Maskenspiel aufrecht zu erhalten und so zu tun, als wäre alles in Ordnung. Doch die Vorräte schwinden und Prinzessin Imogens Sorge, dass ihr größtes Geheimnis auffliegen könnte, wächst mit jedem Tag.

Rimasta orfana, Opal ha lasciato la scuola e ora lavora come commessa part time, sperando di guadagnare abbastanza per garantire al fratello Jasper una vita migliore. Una vita lontano da Eden, nel Kentucky, un luogo celebre solo per due cose: la sua sfortuna e la scrittrice E. Starling, autrice del romanzo Il Sottomondo, misteriosamente scomparsa cent'anni prima lasciando dietro di sé solo chiacchiere e un'antica dimora nascosta tra gli alberi. Tutti concordano su un fatto: meglio ignorare quella casa e il suo bizzarro, misantropo proprietario, Arthur Starling. Quasi tutti, a dire il vero.