Download or read book The Year s Best Dark Fantasy Horror written by Paula Guran and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbing, unnerving, haunting, and strange. This outstanding annual exploration of the year’s best dark fiction delivers tales of deathly possession, the weirdly surreal, mysterious melancholy, and frighteningly plausible futures. Confront your own humanity and the fears that stir you—from the darkly supernatural and painfully familiar to the disquieting terror of the unknown.

Download or read book Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale Collection written by Kristie Lynn Higgins and published by Kristie Lynn Higgins. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the first two stories in the AaBack's Grimm: Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale series. #1 Type: short story and the word count is about 13,000 words The fairy tales you know with a wicked twist. Start this novella fantasy action adventure series with a short story and enter a deadly world that could use a little hope and love. A woman, Jane, who seems out of place in her own world is transported to a world of fairy tales. All is not happy endings for the world of AaBack's Grimm holds a dark and deadly secret for Jane. In our world, Jane has lived life as if a curse has been on her, her entire life. As an artist, she has created artwork of many fairy tale characters, but her favorite is the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. When she enters the World of Grimm, Jane comes across the Beast, and she's instantly struck with a need to help him. What Jane doesn't understand is that his curse is nothing like the ones in the fairy tales. #2 Type: novella and the word count is about 31,700 words The fairy tales you know with a wicked twist. Continue this novella fantasy action adventure series with the second book and enter a deadly world that could use a little hope and love and where somethings are as different as the moon and sun. Jane was transported to a world of fairy tales where she meets the Beast and the giant rose, Erosa. All is not happy endings for the world of AaBack's Grimm holds a dark and deadly secret for Jane. She believes she knows the Beast and Erosa from a lifetime ago, so she has to find a way to help them break their curse. What Jane doesn't know is that the Beast is about to reveal to her that he has a light and a very dark side. AaBack's Grimm Dark Fantasy Action Adventure Fairy Tale Sword and Sorcery Series: #1 Tale Of Two Worlds: The Wizard, The Battle Mage, And The Werewolf #2 Friends Reunited: The Janus Beast, The Rose Beauty, And The Cursed Duckling #3 Dragon Scorned: The Towering Mountain Citadel, The Sword Of Cross-Worlds, And The Maximus-curse

Download or read book Chaos Magic Chronicles A Dark Fantasy Series written by Nick Creighton and published by nick creighton. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the Shadows with 'Chaos Magic Chronicles' Embark on a shadowy journey with "Chaos Magic Chronicles: A Dark Fantasy Series," where dark magic and forbidden rituals reign supreme. In this gripping saga, we follow the mystical adventures of Elara, a young mage whose destiny is intertwined with ancient prophecies and the dark arts. As she delves deeper into the secrets of blood magic, curses, and shadow realms, Elara discovers the formidable power of the forbidden grimoire, pushing her towards a path that blurs the lines between good and evil. Each chapter of the series unveils a new layer of mystery and danger, from the haunting Blood Moon rituals to the treacherous Chaos Magic Convergence, revealing a world where the power to manipulate reality lies with those daring enough to embrace the shadows. Fans of gothic fiction, supernatural thrillers, and epic dark fantasies will find themselves ensnared by the richly woven tapestry of magic, betrayal, and the quest for power. "Chaos Magic Chronicles" is a must-read for those who thirst for tales of arcane lore and dark fantasy, where every page whispers of danger and ancient magic waiting to be unraveled. Join Elara as she navigates through the darkness, where the only certainty is the thrilling pulse of chaos magic at her fingertips. What awaits you inside: Intricate World-Building: Explore the dark corners of a fully realized fantasy world brimming with conflict and lore. Complex Characters: Meet allies and enemies with motives as murky and compelling as the magic they wield. Heart-Pounding Adventure: From quiet, darkened forests to the bustling streets of the arcane capital, suspense and mystery lurk around every corner. Epic Storytelling: With twists and turns that will leave you yearning for more, the "Chaos Magic Chronicles" promise to keep you ensnared in its spell. Perfect for fans of: High fantasy and epic tales akin to Brandon Sanderson and Patrick Rothfuss. Dark fantasy realms reminiscent of "The Witcher" series. Anyone who thrives on mystery and dark magic in their fiction.

Download or read book Horror Dark Fantasy Series The Bram Stoker Edition written by Bram Stoker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 1404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dracula" is the tale of Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. "The Jewel of Seven Stars" tells the tale of Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. "The Man" (The Gates of Life)" is a gothic tale of Stephen, young girl raised as tomboy, and her childhood friend Harold. As many of their close ones die in tragic accidents, through the deaths, Stephen and Harold grow closer. "The Lady of the Shroud" – Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate on condition that he lives for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains. One wet night, he is visited in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire, and he visits the local church where he finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. "The Lair of the White Worm (The Garden of Evil)" – Adam Salton from Australia is contacted by his great-uncle Richard from England in order to establish a relationship. Adam travels to England and quickly finds himself at the centre of mysterious and inexplicable occurrences. "Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Stories" is a collection of nine macabre and gothic tales in which paintings come to life, rats run amok and many other twisted things occur: Dracula's Guest The Judge's House The Squaw The Secret of the Growing Gold A Gipsy Prophecy The Coming of Abel Behenna The Burial of the Rats A Dream of Red Hands Crooken Sands

Download or read book The Year s Best Dark Fantasy Horror written by Paula Guran and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique?sure to delight as well as disturb!

Download or read book The Year s Best Dark Fantasy Horror written by Paula Guran and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real. . . Such tales of the dark and the unknown have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. The latest volume of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror edited by fantasy aficionado Paula Guran offers more than four hundred pages of tales from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique including Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Elizabeth Hand and many more! Indulge if you dare, because these 23 tales of terror are sure to delight as well as disturb!

Download or read book The Lady of Serpents A Vampire Dark Fantasy Epic written by Douglas Clegg and published by Alkemara Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With ancient sorceries unleashed, this game of thrones and vampires begin anew as a dark adversary holds Aleric, the Falconer, prisoner -- and prey. In this, the second book of The Vampyricon, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg continues the epic dark saga of Aleric, the newly-anointed priest-king of the tribe of vampyres. The kingdom is home of the shadow-priests of the Veil, who whisper dark secrets to their new queen as white towers rise and forests fall. Heretics burn on the Illumination Nights and an enormous arena houses endless gladiatorial blood-fights between vampyre and shapeshifter, and somewhere in the bowels of the castle sits an infernal machine for the torment of the vampyre race -- called the Red Scorpion. In a medieval world, within a forgotten century where dark and dangerous magic lies hidden among lost cities of legend, Aleric the Falconer must escape his prison and find the vampyre Pythia, who has been taken prisoner herself halfway across the world. Be sure to get the rest of the Vampyricon trilogy: The Queen of Wolves, Book Three Praise for The Vampyricon: "If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you're going to love The Vampyricon." - Robert Swartwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife and New Avalon. “Astonishing. Douglas Clegg writes of…nightmares with such clarity and passion you don’t end up reading his books; you end up drinking them in. The Priest of Blood is a bloody gem.” Christopher Rice, New York Times bestselling author of The Vines and Heaven's Rise. "A dark tale of swords, sorcery, and vampires." -- Christine Feehan, NY Times bestselling author. "Douglas Clegg has accomplished a rarity in the horror vein...This book will sink its teeth into you" -- The Kansas City Star "Richly layered, beautifully rendered foray into a past filled with sorcery and mystery -- and a rousing good story." -- Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author Stunning...gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review. Discover Douglas Clegg's fiction: Lights Out Neverland The Children’s Hour The Halloween Man You Come When I Call You The Hour Before Dark Nightmare House Bad Karma Goat Dance Breeder Afterlife Purity Dark of the Eye The Words Wild Things Red Angel Night Cage Mischief The Infinite The Abandoned The Necromancer Isis Naomi The Nightmare Chronicles The Attraction Night Asylum The Priest of Blood The Lady of Serpents The Queen of Wolves

Download or read book The Year s Best Dark Fantasy Horror written by Paula Guran and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume! From paranormal plots to stories of the supernatural, tales of the unfamiliar have always fascinated us humans. To keep the tradition alive, fantasy aficionado Paula Guran has gathered the most delightfully disturbing work from some of today’s finest writers of the fantastique! No two mysterious shadows are alike, and the same can be said for the books in this series. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 contains more than three hundred pages of mystical fiction. Reader beware and indulge if you dare, because these chilling tales are sure to spook and surprise!

Download or read book BRAM STOKER Ultimate Collection 50 Horror Novels Dark Fantasy Stories True Crime Tales written by Bram Stoker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 2135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Bram Stoker collection includes his masterpiece Dracula, other gothic and dark fantasy novels, as well as horror stories and supernatural tales. Contents: Novels: Dracula The Snake's Pass The Watter's Mou' The Mystery of the Sea The Jewel of Seven Stars The Man (The Gates of Life) The Lady of the Shroud The Lair of the White Worm (The Garden of Evil) Short Stories: Under the Sunset The Rose Prince The Invisible Giant The Shadow Builder How 7 Went Mad Lies and Lilies The Castle of the King The Wondrous Child Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party The Occasion A Lesson in Pets Coggins's Property The Slim Syrens A New Departure in Art Mick the Devil In Fear of Death At Last Chin Music A Deputy Waiter Work'us A Corner in Dwarfs A Criminal Star A Star Trap A Moon-Light Effect Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Stories Dracula's Guest The Judge's House The Squaw The Secret of the Growing Gold A Gipsy Prophecy The Coming of Abel Behenna The Burial of the Rats A Dream of Red Hands Crooken Sands Other Stories The Red Stockade The Dualists The Crystal Cup Buried Treasures The Chain of Destiny Our New House The Man from Shorrox' A Yellow Duster The 'Eroes of the Thames The Way of Peace Greater Love Lord Castleton Explains The Seer Midnight Tales Other Works: Famous Imposters

Download or read book How to Draw Dark Fantasy Art written by Steve Beaumont and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is perfect for any young person interested in drawing all types of fantasy heroes and villains. Following the step-by-step instructions, artists of all skill levels can tackle even the most advanced drawing projects to make graphic-novel-worthy characters. Insider tips help readers along the way and are like having an art instructor right there with them. With dark epic fantasies such as Game of Thrones all the rage, this book will be a surefire hit with legions of fans.

Download or read book Shades of Reality written by Joseph Nassise and published by Harbinger Books. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A killer for hire who accepts a contract to bring back the head of something that shouldn't exist... A spacer who can’t resist the haunting beauty of a call from the depths of an alien ocean...A World War One fighter pilot determined to let nothing, not even death, keep him from his nemesis. You’ll meet these and other characters within the pages of these thirteen spine-tingling tales of horror and dark fantasy from the internationally bestselling author of the Templar Chronicles and the Great Undead War series.

Download or read book AaBack s Grimm A Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale 5 A Wounded Hand And A Wounded Heart The Beauty Thief The Deplorable Twins And One Who Whispers written by Kristie Lynn Higgins and published by Kristie Lynn Higgins. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Type: novella and the word count is about 40,600 words The fairy tales you know with a wicked twist. Enter a deadly world that could use a little hope and love. Someone Jane trusted is trying to get her killed by revealing her secret. AaBack's Grimm Dark Fantasy Action Adventure Fairy Tale Series: #1 Tale Of Two Worlds: The Wizard, The Battle Mage, And The Werewolf "FREE" #2 Friends Reunited: The Janus Beast, The Rose Beauty, And The Cursed Duckling "FREE" #3 Dragon Scorned: The Towering Mountain Citadel, The Sword Of Cross-Worlds, And The Maximus-curse #4 The Battle In The Hedge Labyrinth’s Dead Garden: The True Beauty, Raisin Sweet-Tooth, And The Jinx-query #5 A Wounded Hand And A Wounded Heart: The Beauty Thief, The Deplorable Twins, And One Who Whispers

Download or read book Tides of Mana A FREE dark fantasy retelling of Polynesian mythology written by Matt Larkin and published by Incandescent Phoenix Books. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross the Worldsea in this FREE epic Polynesian mythology series starter in the Eschaton Cycle historical fantasy universe. She controls the seas. Her sister controls the flames. Together, they rule as god-queens over their Polynesian island paradise. No mortal army can stand against their power. Power, matched only by their pride. But when civil war erupts between them, there may soon be no kingdom left to rule. Namaka turns the fury of the sea on her sister, wreaking untold devastation on the land and under the sea, earning the ire of the mer kingdoms. Their answer: turn Namaka into one of them. Possessed by a mermaid spirit, she is drawn into battles in their alien world. Tides of Mana is the first novel of the Heirs of Mana series. It begins an epic melding Polynesian myths, Pacific Islander folklore, and dark fantasy in a world of endless ocean. For fans of Sarah Chorn, M.L. Wang, and ML Spencer, this is a dark mythological retelling filled with gods and monsters from the Oceanic world. This series serves as a prequel to Gods of the Ragnarok Era.

Download or read book AaBack s Grimm A Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale 4 The Battle In The Hedge Labyrinth s Dead Garden The True Beauty Raisin Sweet Tooth And The Jinx query written by Kristie Lynn Higgins and published by Kristie Lynn Higgins. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Type: novella and the word count is about 41,600 words The fairy tales you know with a wicked twist. Enter a deadly world that could use a little hope and love. Jane finds she is in a battle with the characters from Little Red Riding hood as she tries to protect the Beast from himself. AaBack's Grimm Dark Fantasy Action Adventure Fairy Tale Series: #1 Tale Of Two Worlds: The Wizard, The Battle Mage, And The Werewolf "FREE" #2 Friends Reunited: The Janus Beast, The Rose Beauty, And The Cursed Duckling "FREE" #3 Dragon Scorned: The Towering Mountain Citadel, The Sword Of Cross-Worlds, And The Maximus-curse #4 The Battle In The Hedge Labyrinth’s Dead Garden: The True Beauty, Raisin Sweet-Tooth, And The Jinx-query

Download or read book Scion of Chaos Book 2 of the Shattered World Dark Fantasy Book Series written by CC Rasmussen and published by CC Rasmussen. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He sold his soul for vengeance. Now, he must race to catch his betrayer before the darkness inside consumes him... Janis risked his whole being to rescue his sister Renea from the men that butchered their family. He slaughtered a host of mercenaries, cultists, and demonic gods in his pursuit across the blasted Waste of Saurius. Only to learn that she was the one who betrayed them. Now, he and his young friend Ruck must race to catch her before the demon consumes him. She's fled to Qestis, an ancient city ruled by a mysterious cabal of wizards called The Circle. A place where dark magic is the norm and treachery the coin of the realm. As he races to catch her before she can flee the continent, he learns that his old master has been murdered. Worse yet, the Guard believes Ruck to be the culprit and plans to execute him if Janis can’t find the real killer. Does he abandon his search to save his young friend, or continue his pursuit of the person who betrayed his family? Who can he trust to help him in a city like Qestis? As he descends into Qestis’s underbelly looking for answers, he’ll discover that Renea's conspiracy is more ambitious than he’d ever imagined...

Download or read book So You ve Landed in a Fantasy World written by Josiah Lebowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, it seems as if everyone from heroic-yet-angsty teenagers, to giggling schoolgirls, to middle-aged businessmen, to bored moms are finding themselves whisked away to save distant worlds from some kind of unspeakable evil. But how do you prepare for such an amazing adventure? And, more importantly, how do you make it through without getting horribly maimed or killed along the way? Fortunately, this handbook has analyzed the accounts of numerous heroes who have traveled to magical lands and returned to tell the tale in order to create the definitive guide to survival and success no matter where in the fantasyverse your adventures may take you. In these pages, you'll learn how to increase (or, if you prefer, decrease) your chances of successfully being chosen, what types of preparation and training you should undertake beforehand, and how to hit the ground running on arrival and become the legendary hero that you were always destined to be.* *Makes no guarantees of destined heroism and cannot be held liable if it turns out that you are instead destined to be eaten by a giant toad.

Download or read book The Inquisitor written by Mayumi Cruz and published by Mayumi Cruz. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you loved The Cabin in the Woods by Tim Lebbon, you will love this story with its equally bone-chilling, creepy and suspenseful twists and turns, and an ending you won't see coming! ------- Where have all the females gone? In the year 2132, there are only three hundred men left on Earth. Each of us old, diseased, damaged beyond healing. There are no women. Out of nowhere, a young, virile, perfect male arrives—the Inquisitor. He demands the truth behind the Purge which massacred females on a global scale and nearly annihilated all mankind—to enforce the long-delayed justice by killing the guilty. Though it pains me to no end, I am forced to remember the horror and the lunacy of the past. . . and the part he unknowingly played in it. I am Ambrose. I am Herald.