Showing results for "Forest" in Dark Fantasy

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back, and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature's most astonishing creation. The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous and terrifying creatures of all shapes, sizes, and hunger levels, and you'll get to observe these wonders in complete safety.

After ten thousand years of dreaming, locked in stasis at the heart of his shattered home world, Lion El'Jonson wakes to the nightmare of Imperium Nihilus. In this midnight age, the dying embers of humanity are threatened on all sides by the hungry darkness. Alone, even the Lion has no hope of prevailing against such evil – but there are those who would aid him in his quest. Hunted to the edge of endurance, many among his Fallen knights have long-awaited the day their liege would return to redeem them.

Perfect for fans of Ava Reid and Lucy Holland, this is a page-turning dark fantasy of persecuted witches, snatched children, twisted magic, changelings and the sins that bind. Set in the multi-award-winning author's acclaimed Sourdough universe, this standalone story sits alongside previous...

Vireo Reinhold relishes collecting his monarch’s proper dues. Working hard to prolong and fund the king’s never-ending war, the self-centered official revels in the perks of luxury that come with his unorthodox role. But his world upends when he unearths an ancient spellbook that promises to unlock a shadowy, forgotten magic. Embroiled in a secret affair with a fellow noble’s wife, Vireo is mortified when he’s forced to commit an unthinkable act.

They got through The Infernal Palisades, but not without a heavy cost. Half of their team is broken, soul-weary and mentally unhinged. Trust is shattered on the crumbling road behind them but not enough to stop the Brothers from tackling the quest that if they succeed, will give them a sliver of a chance to save their Momma and keep her from being a plaything to torture for eternity. It will also give them the opportunity for some payback and to punch the Spider Bitch in the jaw.

'Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding ENTER - AND YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME Mexico, 1973 Simon Corbett has come to the jungle the way people do: to salvage a ruined career, and outrun a past he...

#1 bestselling cosmic horror writer Donald Morrison’s Deadslayers is a brutal dark fantasy epic where death is no longer an end—but the beginning of an unstoppable nightmare. The lands of Winterhold are dying. A vengeful necromancer has risen from the shadows, unleashing an endless legion of the dead upon the living. Villages are erased in a single night. Kingdoms fall silent beneath rotting banners. The living are hunted without rest, and with each passing day, the army of the dead grows stronger. Humanity stands on the edge of extinction, its future measured in borrowed time.

Wren Vesper's life has changed dramatically in just a few short days. She and her mother have moved to their old family home in Sedgwick Cove, Maine. She discovered that she is, in fact, a witch. And rather than spending the start of her summer vacation hanging out with her friends, she spent it defeating an ancient and terrible Darkness hellbent on laying claim to her magic. Now all she wants is to have an uneventful summer, beginning her magical education and sunning herself at the beach.

At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn—the only one to ever enter the forest and survive—is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past. One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything.

After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of “happily ever after.” Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house...

During a hunting trip, Lord Forest, the ruler of Forest Hallow, found Devon in the forest. Raised as their adoptive daughter is filled with love from both her parents and servants around her. Yet she still feels that she is out of place in the world that she's in.

Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Seventeen-year-old Douglas Jones wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making; he’s just trying to survive. But then a student is murdered and, for some reason, by the next day no one remembers him having ever existed, except for Douglas and the groundskeeper's son, Everett Everley.

Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds’ legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the baba yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the baba yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch—and these are her tales.

Auren Emberlain has always lived in the margins-of academia, of sleep, of his own life. A professional student with too many degrees and not enough certainty, he survives on questions, chasing answers that never seem to fit. But when a fragment of forgotten folklore crosses his desk, something shifts. Whispers curl from between the lines. Shadows stretch in unnatural ways. And in the quiet corners of his vision, a figure of crystal and light begins to watch.

Annalise never meant to cross the enchanted gates. She was smuggled in after getting dusted with sleeping powder. Once inside the Four Forests, a magical realm filled with magic and creatures she once believed were only stories, nothing was as simple as finding her way back home anymore. Her plan to return to the human realm came to a devastating halt. She had learned the truth of her lineage: she belongs to the Winter Forest. But the Four Forests were dying. Shade magic is spreading, corrupting everything in its path.

Walking home late one night, burned-out barista Nell accidentally incinerates someone. Whoopsie! Now, if this tale began in a fantastic far-away land, or Nell was, perhaps, a wizard, such a mishap might make some kind of sense. But this is not a wondrous fantasy world. This is real life, and Nell just wanted to go home and eat macaroni. As Nell stares at the smoldering corpse, she realizes something with horrifying certainty: She's magic. And not the cute pulling-a-rabbit-from-a-hat kind of magic.

A mage and a lost prince journey together in this magical and romantic sequel to Asperfell. Finally free of the prison Asperfell, Briony and Prince Elyan venture northward in search of a rumored cave wherein lies their only hope of returning home to the kingdom of Tiralaen. What they discover...

Stories creep through Scrying Hollow—whispers of a great beast. Come dusk, the first howl catches the wind and rustles the trees. Make haste, for it's no wolf bounding through the Hollow. The Hound comes for you. Liliwen, the eldest daughter of the Valet family, knows the tales well. You see, her father was the first to die to the Hound. Seven years later, heartbreak threatens again when Liliwen's brother is ambushed by the beast. Eviscerated and barely alive, her brother escapes and stumbles home. Once more, death waits upon Liliwen's doorstep.

The world is winding down. Centuries after humanity’s last stand against the Dark Filament, their servants - the bloodthirsty creatures known as Incarnates - hunt down anyone under the age of 18. Civilization is broken, and the remaining population is elderly, isolated, and hopeless. Sixteen-year-old Korden Bright has lived his entire life behind the Barrier, a mystical shield which hides him from the Incarnates. When the Barrier is breached, Korden will leave to journey across a post-apocalyptic America.

Follow through the stories of the monsters and people in this forest as they discover the darker sides of their desires. Within lies the tales of a twisted doppler, a pair of corrupted water nymphs, a cursed woman, and many more. Should you dare to cross the threshold into these shadowed woods, the best advice I can give to you is to tread carefully and prepare yourself for a new perspective.