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  • The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

    The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    New Achievement! Total, Utter Failure.You failed a quest less than five minutes after you received it. Now that’s talent.A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days...
  • The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 by Matt Dinniman

    The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3 by Matt Dinniman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Welcome to the Gun Show! The top ten list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly-complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far...
  • Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall

    Hell Hounds Don't Heel by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #7: Some monsters just have to die.Someone is plotting to put all gargoyles in jail…or six feet in the ground.For decades gargoyles have patrolled the night in Montreal Ward. They are dubbed Guardians by the humans and fae who live on the fringes of society, those who survive in neighborhoods the police don't care about...
  • Dawn of the Void Book Three by Phil Tucker

    Dawn of the Void Book Three by Phil Tucker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even with his immense new power, James comes to realize that he is still playing into the hands of the System.If they are to free earth and redeem the billions dead, James and his crew will have to do more than journey into the Pits of hell or slaughter countless armies of demons - they'll have to find the god-like forces orchestrating the apocalypse, break every rule, and utterly defeat them...
  • Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall

    Kelpies Don't Fly by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Critter wrangler rule #15: Always look a gift horse in the mouth. And if it has sharp teeth, never, never get on its back.For ten years, Kyra Greene thought she was the only Valkyrie this side of the rainbow bridge. Until she gets a stunning message from her cousin, Gunora, asking for bail money.But facing the ghosts of her past isn’t on Kyra’s to-do list...
  • Chosen by Vanessa Nelson

    Chosen by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Demons on the loose. Ritual murders. An ancient vampire breathing down her neck.Some days Max just doesn't know where to start. The problems facing her city are piling up, and there seems no end or solution in sight.Max's job used to be dealing with supernatural creatures...
  • Wonder by Cameron Jace

    Wonder by Cameron Jace

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ever Wondered... Who You Really Are? Alice Wonder gets an offer from a Wonderland Monster. A little help to locate the Six Impossible Keys in exchange of knowing who she really is and why she killed her classmates in the school bus. Alice agrees, knowing the consequences might put the whole world in danger.One step into the truth, she realizes she needs the Pillar for help...
  • Paper Children by James Fahy

    Paper Children by James Fahy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name is Phoebe Harkness. When I’m not trying to cure the disease that killed the world, I’m roped into an unwilling role as ambassador between the humans of New Oxford, and the Genetic Others, all those things that go bump and grind in the night. I don’t get paid enough.It’s been six months since the Duke of Sanctum, the infuriating vampire named Allesandro, upped and disappeared...
  • Wagga by Alex Kozlowski

    Wagga by Alex Kozlowski

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the apocalypse, the first weapon he’ll have to upgrade is himself.The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for Adrian.One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain...
  • The Torn World by Melanie Karsak

    The Torn World by Melanie Karsak

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is the way the world ends... With the undead walking, vampires hunting, and kitsune closing in, everything seems lost. Layla and the others will need help if there is any hope of survival. But how can you endure in the dying world? Join Layla, Cricket, Amelia, and the other survivors for the final chapter of The Harvesting Series in The Torn World...
  • Twig by Wildbow

    Twig by Wildbow

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The year is 1921, and a little over a century has passed since a great mind unraveled the underpinnings of life itself. Every week, it seems, the papers announce great advances, solving the riddle of immortality, successfully reviving the dead, the cloning of living beings, or blending of two animals into one...
  • The Magic by Donna Augustine

    The Magic by Donna Augustine

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For as long as I’ve lived, Dark Walkers have been hunting Plaguers, seeking them for their magic. But there’s one Plaguer they want most of all. Me. Since the fall of civilization, the human race has been barely surviving. Another outbreak of the Bloody Death could be our final straw and there’s only one way to ensure that doesn't happen. I need to kill the leader of the Dark Walkers...
  • Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry

    Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dead rose. We fell. But not everyone thinks the war for survival is over. Heroes rise in times of crisis, and STILL OF NIGHT tells their stories… DAHLIA -a bullied high school girl with a love for edged weapons goes from victim to powerful leader as the zombie apocalypse sweeps through her world...
  • The Change by T.W. Piperbrook

    The Change by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Survival is just the beginning...Having escaped the hospital, Tom must face a new enemy: himself. New questions arise as he travels through the white wasteland...
  • Death's Awakening by Sarra Cannon

    Death's Awakening by Sarra Cannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. I never dreamed the world would end this way... Sixteen-year-old Parrish Sorrows is nothing special. She lives in the shadow of her prodigy sister, ignored by her parents and shunned as an outsider at her private school.But today, everything changes.Today, on the other side of the country, a portal to another world opens...
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    dark  dystopia  book  coming-of-age  death  fiction  horror  magic
  • The Lost Souls by Madeline Sheehan

    The Lost Souls by Madeline Sheehan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Holy Trinity Novella. Tahyra Petros tried desperately to save herself and her sister. Instead, she ended up forever changed. Shandor Asenov battled with death and lost who he had been. During a valiant attempt to rescue his friends, Hockey Sava vanished. Carrie Andrews's brother died during a violent struggle for survival, leaving her stranded and alone...
  • Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or fifty-two thousand dollars.Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up...
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    dark  post-apocalyptic  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Ventura Hellway by Debra Dunbar

    Ventura Hellway by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beware the devils who promise miracles.When an old flame asks Eden to help find his younger brother, she initially refuses. Searching for Anton will put her smack in the middle of the Disciples—as well as on the radar of the demon who might own her soul. But a sense of obligation (plus the promised payout), overrides her instincts for self-preservation, and Eden takes the job...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  adult  angels  book  demons  fiction  horror
  • Succubus Lord 9 by Eric Vall

    Succubus Lord 9 by Eric Vall

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jacob and his friends might have made it out of Hell, but now they face something even more daunting: Heaven. Someone has been killing in Jacob’s name, and the Exalted One and his minions are not happy. Now, Jake’s on trial, and he’s got to figure out how to clear his name. In order to do that, he must gain allies, battle evil cultists, and take on Demon King Beelzebub himself...
    Categorized as:
    dark  adult  book  fiction  horror  steamy  urban-fantasy  fantasy
  • Crescent Moon by James Fahy

    Crescent Moon by James Fahy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when your world is turned upside down?When you discover your father had a direct hand in the genocide of much of the world’s human population?Phoebe Harkness’ life has changed forever. Thirty years after a cataclysmic world war that eviscerated one third of the human population, a new sub-species of vampire-like drones has set its teeth to the survivors of humanity...
  • Three Half Goats Gruff by Kim McDougall

    Three Half Goats Gruff by Kim McDougall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is he a vampire? A shifter? Something worse? Thrown together to save a middle school from an infestation of satyrs, Kyra and the mysterious Captain of the Guardians share one heart-stopping night. Critter wrangling rule #4: There isn’t much you can’t kill, confuse, or disgust with a can of bug fogger...
  • The Living by Isaac Marion

    The Living by Isaac Marion

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Before he was a flesh-eating corpse, R was something worse. He remembers it all now, a life of greed and apathy more destructive than any virus, and he sees only one path to redemption: he must fight the forces he helped create...
  • System Reborn Vol 2 by Kaz Hunter

    System Reborn Vol 2 by Kaz Hunter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    System Reborn: A LitRPG AdventureTen years ago, deep within a rift, a choice was madeSloan chose an ending.He was killed because of it.By heroes who craved power.So called heroes betrayed the world.Now he’s back.Reborn. Reincarnated in a world where his once companions rule.But they won't forever.He's regaining his strength, building up power, one rift at a time...
  • Darkness Breaks by Jessica Sorensen

    Darkness Breaks by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kayla made her choice and now she has to live with it. She stays with the Day Takers, hiding in the city, staking vampires. But fighting vampires as a human is difficult.Sylas constantly pressures Kayla to choose the life of a Day Taker. But until Kayla knows what Monarch is planning, she can’t make her choice. Plus there’s Aiden. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t stop thinking about him...
  • Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz

    Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Hong Kong has been taken over by the Old Ones and has become Necropolis, City of the Dead. Once in, there is no way out… Evil has been unleashed on the world and only five children – with special powers – can save it...
  • Home by Stacia Kane

    Home by Stacia Kane

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    As a Debunker, Chess Putnam is used to investigating reports of suspected hauntings and sending ghosts back to the City of Eternity beneath the surface of the earth. What she isn't used to is having suburban housewives refusing to acknowledge the presence of ghosts in their homes. There are lots of reasons why someone might harbor a spirit, and none of them are good...
  • California Demon by Debra Dunbar

    California Demon by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eden Alvara is a licensed Vulture, picking through the aftermath of violence in demon-plagued LA, and fencing her finds to help support her family. But when a crooked cop reports her for a salvage she didn’t take, all hell breaks loose.Stripped of her license, Eden finds herself with a price on her head...
  • For the Love of Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett

    For the Love of Death by Tamara Rose Blodgett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The year is 2049 and in the new dystopian order, the Randoms have risen to the top like cream. Earth faces dire consequences because of the Helix Complex and their illicit use of mass-sterilization. Many who could have children, were made into mules from the virulent Zondorae concoction of 2030...
  • The Beautiful Dead by Daryl Banner

    The Beautiful Dead by Daryl Banner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s dead. In fact, the whole world’s dead. Every single person, apparently. Unburied and reimagined into a beautiful living-dead woman called Winter, she is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in a quaint, peaceful city with no hunger, no sickness and no bills to pay. Her Second Life is perfect in every way possible...
  • The Reckoning by T.W. Piperbrook

    The Reckoning by T.W. Piperbrook

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m at the hospital…it’s over. When Tom awakens, he is greeted by law enforcement, medical treatment, and a sense of normalcy—all the things that have been missing for the last day...
  • Hunting The Snark by Mainak Dhar

    Hunting The Snark by Mainak Dhar

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A thrilling new adventure in the bestselling Alice in Deadland series.It has now been close to two years since Alice followed a bunny eared Biter down a hole, triggering off events that changed her life and that of everyone in the Deadland.The Central Committee has been overthrown in Shanghai and the people of the Mainland freed from its tyranny...
  • Undeniable by L.J. Baker

    Undeniable by L.J. Baker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warning: 18+ This story contains adult situations, hot sex, bad language, love triangles, sexy vampire bites and violence. If that’s not for you, then maybe this story isn't either. Years after the Great War between the humans and vampires, the world is a very different place. Humans live under the rule of vampires, often becoming little more than slaves or personal blood bags...
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    dark  dystopia  adult  book  female-author  fiction  horror  paranormal
  • Taste of Vampire by D.S. Murphy

    Taste of Vampire by D.S. Murphy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A vampire prince. A beautiful rebel. A love that could topple the kingdom. The covenant protects both races. Without the elite, the infection from the poisonous ash would turn us into monsters. Without the humans, the bloodlust from the elixir would drive the elite mad. I've always been a loyal citizen. I've always believed the lies they tell us...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  book  fiction  horror  myths  paranormal  royalty
  • Deadly Hearts by S.M. Reine

    Deadly Hearts by S.M. Reine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dead divorcees. Demonic possession. Elise Kavanagh stabbing things and...baking cookies? It's just another bloody Valentine's Day in the life of a demon hunter and her witchy partner.This is a short story about the length of two chapters in my other books (9000 words), which takes place before the events of Death's Hand...
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    dark  dystopia  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror  magic
  • Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

    Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and The Rest of Us Just Live Here .High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate...
  • Blood-Kissed Sky by J.A. London

    Blood-Kissed Sky by J.A. London

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There's nowhere left to hide. I thought vampires were our enemies - they controlled our lives, isolated our cities, and demanded our blood - until I met Victor. With Victor taking over as the new Lord Valentine, things were supposed to get better. Instead, they're worse than ever. Day Walkers, a new breed of vampires who can walk in the sun, are terrorizing the city...
  • Gearing Up by Daniel Schinhofen

    Gearing Up by Daniel Schinhofen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alvin had another rough week, but this time, he had Gothy with him. Travelling from Utah to Nevada, they were able to set up two more Settlements. Then they had to visit the world of Fey to rescue the kids of the Beatty, Nevada Settlement. Just when things looked like they were going well, the Developers got involved...
  • Hell's Teeth by James Fahy

    Hell's Teeth by James Fahy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    New Oxford. A third of the human population has been lost. The wars came, and they created a monster. The Pale, a subhuman, vampire-like drone. Then they lost control.In the thirty years that followed, humankind sought to rebuild itself within the walls of New Oxford. But society had become fractured – humans now lived incongruously among Genetic Others, themselves a group of many subspecies...
  • System Reborn Vol 1 by Kaz Hunter

    System Reborn Vol 1 by Kaz Hunter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    System Reborn: A LitRPG AdventureTen years ago, deep within a rift, a choice was granted.Defeat the Demon King and end the apocalypse.Or take his power for themselves and keep the rifts open.Sloan chose an ending.His party turned against him. They killed him.They split his legacy and belongings amongst themselves.They hid the truth. They profited.Those heroes who betrayed the world.Now he’s back...
  • Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This sequel to Patient Zero brings Joe Ledger back into action.Zero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of Maberry’s action-thriller Patient Zero. Dropping back into the world of former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger, the Department of Military Sciences, and flesh-eating zombies, fans of the series will finally see the tying up of a few loose ends...
  • The Serpent Mage by Greg Bear

    The Serpent Mage by Greg Bear

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Michael is released from the land of the Sidhe, all he wants is to lead a normal life in L.A. But there are hauntings in the streets, bodies in a hotel, and an ancient creature summoned from a loch. Now Michael must become a Mage to save his country...
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    dark  adult  book  fiction  horror  urban-fantasy  fantasy
  • Embrace the Night Eternal by Joss Ware, Colleen Gleason

    Embrace the Night Eternal by Joss Ware, Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The second book in the "electrifying" (Library Journal) new series by Colleen Gleason, writing as Joss Ware.Everything they knew is gone.From the raging fires, five men emerge with extraordinary new powers. They must learn how to survive this dark, ravaged world . . . but they cannot do it alone.Simon Japp will never forget his violent past...
  • Ward by Wildbow

    Ward by Wildbow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This work is a sequel, the events following that of the web serial Worm. It is not meant to be read in isolation, and would-be readers should check out the prior work first.Synopsis:The unwritten rules that govern the fights and outright wars between ‘capes’ have been amended: everyone gets their second chance...
  • Releasing the Demons by L.D. Rose

    Releasing the Demons by L.D. Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's out to set the world on fire and she's the only one who can tame him...Blaze Knight has been through hell and back, but the nightmares aren't over yet. Five years after Blaze was maimed by Cyrus Chimola, a powerful vampire with a penchant for torture, he's still trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered life...
  • Defiant by Karina Sumner-Smith

    Defiant by Karina Sumner-Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once, Xhea’s wants were simple: enough to eat, safety in the underground, and the hit of bright payment to transform her gray-cast world into color. But in the aftermath of her rescue of the Radiant ghost Shai, she realizes the life she had known is gone forever.In the two months since her fall from the City, Xhea has hidden in skyscraper Edren, sheltered and attempting to heal...
  • Drsný spasitel by Miroslav Žamboch

    Drsný spasitel by Miroslav Žamboch

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Století válek mezi lidmi a bytostmi z Druhé strany reality změnilo svět. Možná je to jen zvláštní muž bez paměti, možná démon, netvor s okem nadaným vlastní zlověstnou inteligencí, který hledá odpověď na otázku, kdo vlastně je...
  • Fever House by Keith Rosson

    Fever House by Keith Rosson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator...
  • Like Thunder by Nnedi Okorafor

    Like Thunder by Nnedi Okorafor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor’s Shadow Speaker contains the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a star of the literary science fiction and fantasy space and put her at the forefront of Africanfuturist fictionNiger, West Africa, 2077Welcome back...
  • Boil by David Estes

    Boil by David Estes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Revenge. That’s all that’s left for witch hunter Rhett Carter. The magic-born have stripped everything from him—killed his friends, cursed his warlock father, shattered his future—leaving him bare and broken, but not dead. Their mistake.When Rhett and Laney are suddenly thrust in different directions, Rhett must decide who to trust and who to kill...
    Categorized as:
    dark  dystopia  book  fiction  horror  magic  paranormal  supernatural
  • The Alpha Plague 6 by Michael Robertson

    The Alpha Plague 6 by Michael Robertson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Vicky saw the corruption in Hugh’s leadership of Home, she stood up to it and overthrew him. She now finds herself helping run the place, taking on responsibilities she’d rather not have. But if she keeps the community safe, she’ll also keep Flynn safe. All Vicky wants is to make sure Flynn’s okay. All she’s done for the past ten years is make sure Flynn’s okay...
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