Showing results for "Science" in Dark Fantasy

Camille Ellis is the Earthen Conclave's golden girl. Her peculiar talent solves cases with a touch. She isn't afraid of getting her hands dirty, but every bright star casts a shadow, and her deepest scars lurk just beneath the skin. A routine consultation goes sideways when a victim's brother gets involved in the investigation. Riding the edge of grief, the warg will go to any lengths to avenge his sister's death. Even if it means ensuring Cam's cooperation at the jaws of his wolf.

In a world where you have to fight to stay alive having hope can be an idea. The people of Caledonia are struggling to survive beyond the lands of Kwan. They are running out of food. The land is dying. But there is something scarier than the cold waiting under the ice. It is waiting to attack, hunt and destroy. When the people of Caledonia try to cross over to the city of Bright Haven they find out the truth late. Just because something looks good does not mean it is safe. Inside the walls of Tiran some people have the power to control special marks, machines and even other peoples minds.

The sky above Eterra was never real. For generations, the people of the city believed the Dome was their shield, their prison, and their proof that nothing existed beyond the world they had been allowed to see. But the lie is breaking. The false heavens are beginning to crack, ancient systems are stirring beneath the ruins, and something far older than the city itself has started to wake. Aelit survived the descent into the buried depths of Eterra, but survival has changed her.

SAINTSVILLE, the full-cast audiobook production: Human actors. Human voices. In a world that's anything but... A summoned warrior and a grief-stricken witch collide in a city under siege. In Saintsville, the city the rest of the world calls New Orleans, death has arrived with a name, sparking a war among those that don’t officially exist. When a parish witch summons a warrior’s soul across the Veil to settle an old debt, everyone gets more than they bargained for: a displaced warrior with no memory of who he was, and a soul that runs darker than any witch’s curse.

Step into a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems. A collection of five twisted tales, from the gritty urban decay of 1970's South London to the sterile, quiet terror of a hospital ward, these stories explore the darkest corners of grief, faith, isolation, and survival.

Ward Dyer’s victory in Westview was only the beginning. Now, aboard a living ship, he and Haley sail toward the capital world of Primus—only to be dragged into political intrigue as the Assembly itself questions their every move. The cult Ward thought he had left behind has roots deeper than he imagined, and a darker name emerges from the shadows: the Umbrage.

Après avoir affronté bien des obstacles, le roi Jorg Ancrath, âgé d'à peine vingt ans, règne enfin sur sept nations. Mais le parcours tourmenté qui l'a mené au pouvoir ne lui a pas permis d'assouvir sa soif de vengeance. Il ne rêve que d'une chose: renverser celui qui a brisé son existence. C'est décidé, il ne reculera devant rien pour devenir empereur.

Aranel has everything anyone could dream of: a nice castle, a happy kingdom, and loyal friends. But this bubble of happiness has been pricked by darkness. One enemy is lurking in the shadows, waiting for the right moment to rise to power. A reborn god or a well-mastered lie? Aranel, Falf, Oaris, Opera, and Asia have different stories, but destiny decided to unite them in Helipsia. One prophecy will shape their curse, enveloping them in a plot of mysteries and danger.

They call me mad, but I don’t see anything wrong with using science to create the perfect monster girl. They call me insane, but I just want to live my life with a harem of beautiful cat-girls, bear-girls, fox-girls, snake-girls, and...well, pretty much any type of monster girl. They call me a megalomaniac, but why wouldn’t any red blooded man want to make cute babies with all these beautiful monster girls? They call me evil, but they just don’t realize that I’d destroy anyone who tries to harm my monster girls.

Edward Crane is a private detective who died eleven years ago. But once a year, with the help of his loyal sidekick Sam, Ed’s rotting corpse is reanimated for the last week of October to solve his town’s most devious cases before returning to the grave. This year, as the pair navigates the supernatural underbelly of Salem in hopes of solving a grisly ritualistic murder, Ed and Sam are forced to rely on the haunting visions of a body-swapping ghost living inside Ed's head for clues to help set things right.

They told me turning eighteen meant freedom. They never said it might kill me. All I wanted was cake, candles, and a fresh start after aging out of the group home I’ve been stuck in for six years. What I got instead? A vampire crashing my party and trying to drain me dry. Apparently, vampires are real and I can sense them.

ADVENTURER WANTED FOR OVERNIGHT HIKE. After losing her job with the US Forestry Service, Celeste Foster makes a desperate gamble by answering an ad for a job in rural Virginia. What she doesn't anticipate is sliding into an alternate version of the Appalachian mountains. Before Celeste understands what’s happening, she agrees to hike up a cursed mountain to save a town from complete annihilation. And in the days leading up to the ritual, she learns that gods and monsters live alongside humans in the Valley.

Life in middle school is tough. A double-life moonlighting as a paranormal investigator is tougher. Now try adding angels, demons, hybrids, prophecies, and egos into the mix!

In the days of the Purge the tides of death swallowed all that was holy, but now Velspar is on the verge of revival. Sybilla Ladain survived her judgement and is now caught between her duty as Skalen and her growing entanglement with the rebels she once considered her enemies. Voirrey takes Sybilla to a little village in the mountains where they plan to start a religious community based on the old rites. In Avishae, Intercessor Maeryn is working with the Elshenders to do the same.

Safe Haven has just finished the first leg of a journey that will take them ten thousand miles before it’s complete. Not quite halfway through their quest to save what’s left of their world, the survivors are now entering the most dangerous phase–leaving America. In just nine days, your favorite people will board that ship and sail off into the sunset… If they can get around one last set of obstacles converging on their location.

Step into The Realm of Solen Shadows, a world where darkness isn’t just an absence of light—it’s a creeping, corrosive force that can unravel reality itself. Alaric, a hunter of the gray spaces, knows this better than anyone. In the city of Oakhaven, shadows have begun to leak and twist, pooling like ink and devouring everything they touch. The struggle is no longer against the dark—it’s against the Exsanguination of the Umbra, a force that can dissolve people, memories, and even hope.

Everything is unfolding exactly as I have planned it: I have created an entire legion of monster girls, conquered our duchy, and freed the enslaved men. Now all that remains is to defeat the queen, create more monster girls, and liberate the entire realm. It won’t be easy, though, since the queen has sent her most powerful generals and armies to garrison the towns on our route to the royal capital, and we’ll have to fight our way through the opposition.

Elysium was not unused to being the odd one out in his family. There were so many differences between him and his twin siblings that he could count the similarities on one hand (and that included shared parents). Knowing some of the challenges plaguing his family in both the light and dark realms, he is determined to find answers. When he meets someone equally as determined from the dark court, it almost feels as though he's met the missing part of himself.

Before humanity ever walked the Earth, another race called it home—the Shadow People. Ancient, intelligent, and driven into exile when humans rose to dominance, they now exist in a dark, in-between dimension suspended between the world above and the horrors below. Dr. Alexandra Hale has dedicated her life to protecting the planet and advancing humanity’s future. Logical, driven, and unwavering, she believes science can solve even the most complex global threats. But her work draws the attention of Muggon, a cunning and vengeful Shadow Person determined to reclaim the surface for his kind.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a visit by a mysterious raven that repeatedly speaks a single word. The lover, often identified as a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further antagonize the protagonist with its repetition of the word "nevermore".