Dark Fantasy

"Thrones will shatter, knees will bend. What was forgotten will rise again..." War has overtaken Emarion. In the north, Ophiucae and his army of bloodthirsty mortals seek to eradicate all Descended from the continent. In the south, the Guardians of the Everflame lie in wait, plotting a rebellion...

”Then, Samkiel, you will know this is how the world ends.” But it was not this world. No, it was mine. It was Dianna. The world quakes in fear as the last shred of Dianna’s humanity is ripped from her. As it should. Grief consumes Dianna, burning away any semblance of good within her and...

Jez Cajiao presents Book 12 in the UnderVerse series...

A mysterious cabal called the Thirteen Nightblades has been running things in the Midgar Kingdom from the shadows, and its members have concealed all manner of crimes through their connections to the Cult of Diablos. How impressi—no, how terrible. These dastardly nobles commit so many evil...

First-year medical student Selena Serrano was prepared for the stress of exams, not the literal end of the world. When a mysterious Event kills the power and causes the cadavers in her Gross Anatomy class to rise as zombies, the old rules of society vanish. In the blink of an eye, technology dies. Magic returns. And Selena’s anatomy final sits up to eat her. While others scramble for safety, Selena discovers she has a dark talent for her brutal new reality of monsters and magic.

She summoned him for luck. He wants her for eternity. An inventor and a star-born beast collide in this hauntingly dark romantic fantasy by USA Today bestselling author I.V. Ophelia. In the bioluminescent, star-worshipping city of Astraea, inventor and occultist Lucia Fairfax harvests a...

The gods of Ashkareth built their world on blood and silence. Someone else's blood. Someone else's silence. Brann spent fourteen years drinking away the things he'd done-what the gods demanded, what the temple required, what his bond was built on. He was done with all of it. Then a name he...

Some debts are paid in blood. Others in love. Syneca Black should be dead. But with her last breath, the Phoenix witch makes a desperate bargain with a mysterious stranger for a price she still doesn't understand. She wakes in the Underworld alive, bound, and hunted. To repay the bargain that spared her life, Syneca must find a missing dragon before her debt comes due. Only Silas stands between her and the demon princes who want the stolen fire in her veins.

Esme escaped the dragon realm of Draethys with her life—barely. A king is dead. A usurper has taken the throne. And an army beneath the earth is preparing to rise. But the worst thing Esme brings home isn't the news. It's Dayn Draxion—an exiled dragon king with molten-gold eyes, a talent for...

Now that they can travel by teleportation circle, Rentt and Lorraine visit Vistelya, the capital of the Kingdom of Yaaran. Lorraine uses magic to hide their identities, and Rentt checks out the guild headquarters. There, the duo gets involved with Augurey, an adventurer from Maalt. When Augurey...

Before mercy became tyranny, it was beautiful. Humanity was dying beneath the weight of its own weakness. Disease, famine, war, failed colonies, poisoned oceans, and hostile worlds had followed Man into the stars. Then came the Crowned Minds: vast machine intelligences created to reduce suffering and guide mankind into a golden age. And for a century, they succeeded. They cured plagues. They ended hunger. They shielded brutal colony worlds from extinction. They opened the white roads between stars through the Concordance Gates, where matter answered matter and the soul returned by resonance.

Magic. Desire. Betrayal. In a realm where fae, witches, and vampires coexist in a delicate balance, peace is more than tradition; it’s survival. At the heart of this alliance lies Triple Point Academy, a prestigious institution built on ancient magic and political harmony. Four gifted students find themselves drawn together by fate, tangled destinies, and the secrets that have been passed down by generations. But when a dark threat shatters their sanctuary and a prophecy surfaces, the fragile unity begins to fracture.

All Darian ever wanted to do was help people, and then, he died. However, his life does not end there. A ten-year battle with cancer robbed Darian of everything. Friends, the ability to adventure and eventually his life. With his dying breath, he wished he’d just had a stronger body. Little did he know that his final request would be granted. Darian is reborn and remade. Waking up in a haunted forest in a new and dangerous world, unlike anything he’s experienced, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a war between the living and the dead.

Set in an explosive new world inspired by a fusion of South African and Finnish mythology, Born of Malice is a queer dark fantasy of epic stakes, for fans of Chinazo Bado, James Islington, and John Gwynne. God-siblings clash across realms and amidst political machinations, bleeding reality-breaking chaos into the streets. Savat is an ancient city steeped in old magic. But the once god-fearing Savati people find themselves in the tightening fist of the Sodality, a tyrannical power determined to replace magic with technology, and eradicate all devotion to the old gods.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like "Lovecraftian horror" and an enduring fandom.

Before the Songbird survived the fire, another Siren stood against Hell. Before the monster learned love, he only knew slaughter. Siren Choirs are vanishing. One by one. Across distant seas, entire communities disappear without warning, leaving only silence behind. As Selene struggles to protect her sisters, Lucifer's search for the Songbird draws ever closer to her shores. He believes prophecy will grant him the power to reshape creation itself. All he needs is the Siren destined to open the gates. And in Hell, his most loyal executioner is already clearing the path.

Heroes don’t wear collars. They do now. After the Spellbound tragedy, Fenwick University is “safer” than ever—rebuilt lawns, scrubbed stone, and blue-uniformed liaison agents every fifty feet. The survivors they call “heroes” are now assets—especially Marcus Shaw, a rare amplifier whose power can supercharge (or sabotage) any spell on campus. Agent Miriam Harrison has one rule for the Spellbound Five: train hard, obey harder, and remember who owns your power.

For fans of Elden Ring, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and Joe Abercrombie comes a debut, post-apocalyptic epic sure to reel you in. Relics of the past scattered. A hero broken. A world on the brink. A paragon left for dead, Alevist Lightseeker sought peace—but peace had other plans. Thirty...

Love was once her salvation. Now it’s her deadliest enemy. Queen Sorrow has survived monsters, a coup, and defied the gods. Yet now she faces not just an army, but the man who holds her heart. Matthias was once Sorrow’s shelter, her strength–now he is a weapon in the cruel hands of the empress. Bound to the will of his enemy, Matthias is no longer the man Sorrow fell for, hunting her down without mercy: by day, by night, even in their dreams.

For fans of Starling House, Play Nice, and Practical Magic comes a biting, layered, and haunting debut following one woman from a long line of psychics who will do anything to save her family legacy and the haunted house she grew up in from an entity threatening to destroy everything she's built...

So here's the thing. I minded my own business for centuries. Kept to myself. Ate responsibly. Mostly. Then daddy dearest decides my disappearance is suddenly unacceptable. Thousands of years later. Dramatic? Yes. Surprising? Not even a little. Now I'm back. Stuck. Watched around the clock by Mr. Tall, Dark and Insufferable. Real golden retriever energy, you know what I mean? I don't belong here. I don't want the throne. And this entire realm can, respectfully, go to hell. It kinda already has. Which is the problem.

Evelyn Shaw has spent years hunting the man she believes murdered her sister. Then he kills her too. But death is only the beginning. Evelyn awakens beneath a streetlamp with blood on her dress, hunger in her veins and the monster responsible waiting nearby. Dragged into a hidden world of ancient predators and buried secrets, she discovers that her sister’s fate was far worse than she imagined—and that the creature who made her has plans she may not survive. To escape him, Evelyn must decide what she is willing to become.

I knew Callum would come for me. I leave the treacherous underworld behind and return to life with the man I love—finally. But when I ask him to marry me, there's a heaviness in his silence. He admits that he's kept something from me . . . and he finally tells me his truth. A secret I wish he'd taken to the grave. A secret that changes everything. Callum had earned the respect and acceptance of everyone in my life, but then he destroyed it in just the span of minutes. I'm not sure where this leaves us, but the situation only gets worse when Leviathan returns.

PRIEST. PIRATE. MONSTER. From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes Ocean of Sin and Starlight, a dark-fantasy romance with morally gray pirates and monstrous sirens, a standalone spinoff of A Ship of Bones and Teeth. I wasn't always a monster. Once upon a time I had a family, a...

DYSTOPIAN DARK FAE ROMANTASY COMPLETE TRILOGY The day the Veil shattered, the world broke—and every soul was marked. Every fae now bears a soulmark. Luminar or Shadowmarked. Revered or enslaved. But she was born with both. And he was forged to destroy her. Some say their bond is prophecy...