Showing results for "the place" in Dark Fantasy

A seemingly ordinary Chicago street harbors a sinister secret - an abandoned house where a young boy, Paul, mysteriously vanished. His sister, Jessie, was the last person to see him alive and has been haunted by the incident ever since. The house is feared by the neighborhood children and is...

There's No Place Like Oz is a reimagining of Wizard of Oz with a reverse harem twist. This darker, grittier version of a classic tale will keep you as on edge as our heroine, with touches of horror and lots of heat amidst the twisted romance.

A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel from the national bestselling author of The House That Horror Built and Good Girls Don’t Die. On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An...

From award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes a brilliant collection of short stories, including old favorites and brand-new adventures Fourteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality. A father and daughter traverse postapocalyptic America seeking safe haven...

The comedian and his gang of entertainers head toward the Fortress of Good in the hopes of finishing his mission. Of course, travel in the wasteland isn't as easy as it used to be, and they are waylaid in a mysterious town underneath the ruins of Salt Lake City. What will they find there? A gang of sickening weirdos? Strange culinary delights? Top hats? Or even worse... polite conversation? Certainly, it couldn't be all of those things. Could it?

In her second collection from Trepidatio Publishing, award-winning author Gemma Files takes her listeners on journeys out beyond safe borders—from the trackless depths of the sea, to the empty desert frontiers of the Weird West, even to the edges of cracks between worlds. Here, in these narrow spaces between the known and the unknown, behind the paper-thin curtains of reality, lurk monsters both human and ancient: selkies and avenging revenants, voodoo priestesses and pirate sorcerers, ghosts and vampires, and the most famous murderer of all time.

A Place Between Waking & Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.

When your day starts with a close friend stopping by and trying to kill you, you know the rest of your week could only get better. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Jacob’s hatred had turned into a hard thing, a rock in his heart he couldn’t put down. It weighed on him, every minute of every day, and Clyde was there to remind him of the mistake he made, his deal.

This epic fantasy finds an ancient world being plunged into chaos by an evil warlord and a creature from the swamps. Heroes answer the call to take up the battle, but it is a strange shadowy figure who guides them.