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  • Mortal Coil by Derek Landy

    Mortal Coil by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant is back, and reunited with his original head. But all is not well in the magical world – for one thing, foreign powers are conspiring to take over the Irish Sanctuary, and for another thing, Valkyrie has discovered she might be the sorceress set to destroy the world...
  • Wild Side by Shayne Silvers

    Wild Side by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    To become a Godkiller you have to awaken the monster inside you… Almost a year has passed since Nate’s ex-fiancée woke up a Greek god intent on world domination and war. The problem? He doesn’t know which god. And the promised war hasn’t started yet...
  • Death Bringer by Derek Landy

    Death Bringer by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that’s a Good Thing.There’s just one catch. There’s a reason the Necromancers don’t need her any more – because they’ve found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death...
  • Tiny Gods by Shayne Silvers

    Tiny Gods by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Power is patient, power is kind… No, wait. That’s not right. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely… Just ask Nate’s ex-fiancée. It’s almost this wizard’s birthday, so, he can cry if he wants to...
  • The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

    The Faceless Ones by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series...
  • Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally.G’day. I’m not really a pet anymore, but you might as well keep calling me Pet. It’s not like I’m gunna tell you my name anyway. And if I sound stroppy, well, I am. First, I was threatened. Now, someone has cut off my house from the human world and left my emotional support vampire on the human side...
  • Something to Witch About by Amanda M. Lee

    Something to Witch About by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Life's a witch ... and then you die. It's the dying part vexing Bay Winchester these days. She may be a long-suffering daughter, thankless newspaper editor, and keyed-up girlfriend, but she's barely holding off a royal freakout Landon's family is visiting the inn -- and they're not exactly open minded...
  • Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems...
  • Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Witching on a Star by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When you're a witch, being wicked comes naturally. For the Winchester witches, though, being wicked is only half the fun. After a long winter, spring has finally hit Hemlock Cove and Bay Winchester thinks things are finally settling down in the town – and with her family. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true...
  • Full Moon Howl by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Full Moon Howl by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mystery. Malice. Revenge. Broken bodies and bloody messages are appearing in the darkest corners of New York City. Infected werewolves are roaming the streets attacking innocents.The Dark Council demands answers. They summon Simon and Tristan to investigate...
  • Blood is Thicker by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Blood is Thicker by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Broken Pact. An Ancient Enemy. A Bitter Betrayal. What does a vampire fear more than sunlight? The Cazadoras Sangrientas-Blood Hunters. Michiko Nakatomi has led the Dark Council for over a century, maintaining the uneasy truce between humanity and the supernatural. But when an ancient enemy returns the delicate balance is shattered and vampires start dying...
  • Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thousands sold. Millions of pages read. Get your badge today! *INCLUDES BOOKS 1-5* Nearly 900 pages of action-packed adventure. Blood Crossed (Book 1) Meet Piper Shaw. She's one of the Netherworld Paranormal Police Department's toughest. She's also an immortal, and she's got one hell of a chip on her shoulder. Meet Reaper Payne. He's an actual reaper. Yes, one of those guys who ferries the dead...
  • The End of the World by Derek Landy

    The End of the World by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Skulduggery and Valkyrie are back, in an exclusive World Book Day novelette, set after the momentous events of Death Bringer…Hey, punks! Skulduggery and Valkyrie are about to make your day…15-year-old Ryan is running away from home, looking for escape and adventure. But unfortunately, sometimes people DO get what they wish for...
  • What to Expect When Your Demon Slayer is Expecting by Angie Fox

    What to Expect When Your Demon Slayer is Expecting by Angie Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They say you can’t go home again, but demon slayer Lizzie Brown sure is going to try. However, when she rolls into town with her friends in tow, Lizzie finds her mom in the clutches of a demonic entity they accidentally left behind all those years ago. Now, it’s up to Lizzie, her talking dog, and the Red Skull biker witches to make things right...
  • Blood Debts by Shayne Silvers

    Blood Debts by Shayne Silvers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A Wizard, an Angel, and a Horseman of the Apocalypse walk into a bar…The ancient pact between mankind, Heaven, and Hell has been broken. And Nate Temple’s quest for vengeance may have just kicked off Armageddon. So, time to grab a stiff drink…or maybe four...
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    dark  ghosts  humor  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult
  • Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Monster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they’ve got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert...
  • Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

    Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The seventh book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.The Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud, and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run...
  • Silver Clouds Dirty Sky by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Silver Clouds Dirty Sky by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    London Bridge is falling...but it's not their fault...mostly. Montague and Strong have left the building-in fact, they’ve left the continent. When a teleportation circle sends them to London, The Penumbra Consortium-and older, darker version of the Dark Council requests Montague & Strong look into the murder of the leading demonologist, Mage Nigel Warrenton...
  • Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Owen Pitt never met a gun he didn’t like, or a monster he couldn’t shoot. But now, the monsters are shooting back . . .Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One’s invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe...
  • Working for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher

    Working for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    "B is for Bigfoot" takes place between Fool Moon and Grave Peril. "I Was a Teenage Bigfoot" takes place circa Deadbeat. "Bigfoot on Campus" takes place between Turn Coat and Changes.Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden is used to mysterious clients with long hair and legs up to here...
  • The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud, Simon Jones

    The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud, Simon Jones

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    It is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a magic ring of immense and unforgiving power. Solomon has just begun work on his marvelous temple, charging Khaba, a formidable magician in his royal court, to oversee its construction. The workforce is an ill-behaved bunch of demons, a particularly unruly djinni named Bartimaeus among them...
  • Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

    Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In Tufnell Park, North London, a pair of railway tracks diver under a school, taking train to and from Kings Cross. Wet, filthy, dangerous. Lovely place. And one Sunday before Christmas a sweet (sort of) kid called Abigail took me and my long suffering colleague Lesley May down there to look for a ghost.We found one...
  • Grave Intentions by Nazri Noor

    Grave Intentions by Nazri Noor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Something has stolen the darkling mage’s face. Reports of arcane theft and violence are pouring in from all over Valero. They all have one thing in common: a perpetrator who looks exactly like Dustin Graves. But Dust has been hanging in the hideout, barely out of sight of his bloodthirsty companions...
  • Midnight by Derek Landy

    Midnight by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off – and runs.For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle – time and time again – by Skulduggery Pleasant’s side, and always emerging triumphant...
  • Wander by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Wander by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He’s not the hero you want. He’s the monster you need. When a new strain of the deadly drug, Redrum creates UV resistant vampires, the streets of New York City are flooded with the mindless creatures searching for blood—human blood. The NYTF and Dark Council refuse to deal with menace and contact the Night Wardens expecting results. What they get is a dark mage with nothing to lose...
  • Feared by Hell by Michael Anderle

    Feared by Hell by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    You never mess with a young girl around James Brownstone. It doesn't matter what crime syndicate you belong to, that just doesn't sit well with him.The world has changed since the news of Oriceran came out twenty years before. Now, countries all over the world have agreed to using a bounty system for dangerous criminals using advanced magic or advanced technology...
  • Grave New World by John P. Logsdon

    Grave New World by John P. Logsdon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Council Gods Are Brutal. The Lesser Gods Are Worse. I'm All That Stands Between Them...You won't find me in the lore of the gods, but I'm there, hidden between the lines. Whenever the lesser gods torture humanity, creating armies of supernatural beasts to rain hell down on the innocent, it's my job to stand against the tidal wave of pain and death.I like my job...
  • Dark Harvest by Nazri Noor

    Dark Harvest by Nazri Noor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dustin Graves has three days to live.The darkling mage has found himself in the company of scoundrels. Maybe that's what Dustin deserves: a werewolf, a vampire, and a talking sword for teammates, and a rogue sorcerer as his mentor and master.But a doomsday cult has surfaced. Twelve mutilated bodies are found drowned in blood and in wine...
  • Night Rune by Brad Magnarella

    Night Rune by Brad Magnarella

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Where to turn when all roads lead to ruin? Last night I barely escaped 1776 New York City – now I have to go back. My teammates are trapped in a time catch. Worse, the demon master Malphas is building a gateway there, one that could trigger a full-blown apocalypse. But returning will require new allies: a crabby goblin, a fae princess and former lover, and the demon-vampire Arnaud...
  • Tombyards & Butterflies by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Tombyards & Butterflies by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A Missing Ferryman. An Undead Dilemma. An Immortal Detective. An emissary from the Dark Council has just materialized in the office of the Montague & Strong Detective Agency, and makes Simon Strong an offer he can’t refuse. Charon is missing. The legendary ferryman responsible for transporting sorcerer souls across the river Styx hasn’t been seen in days...
  • The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

    The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there's a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something...
  • Wyrde and Wicked by Charlotte E. English

    Wyrde and Wicked by Charlotte E. English

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘When it comes to the Wyrde, there is no such thing as harmless. Every single one of us is a walking disaster.’ Winter has come to Werth Towers, and brought a deal of trouble with it. Not that any of it is the fault of Miss Gussie Werth. To be a one-woman catastrophe might be seen as a misfortune, but really, there can be no hope of a cure...
  • Orson by David Delaney

    Orson by David Delaney

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Orson Reid: college freshman, gamer and quite possibly the legendary boogeyman of the magical world. And you thought your life was weird. It all started the night Orson kissed his best friend Elyse, and she kissed him back. Yes, the kiss was life changing, but in ways Orson never could have imagined. It seems he contracted a "virus" that is making him taller, faster and stronger...
  • Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Crushed by Eliza Crewe

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meda's back. This time she has a friend. The battle is over; the choice has been made. Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead...
  • A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

    A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  ghosts  humor  magic  myths  paranormal  21st-century
  • Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang by Katie MacAlister

    Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    For a woman married to the vampire of her nightmares, the honeymoon’s over—and reality bites…Pia’s dream of being married has come true.But her husband is straight out of her nightmares.Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones and feeling like a fool, considering she doesn’t know where either of them are...
  • Fresh Meat by Alice Henderson

    Fresh Meat by Alice Henderson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A rash of strange deaths in the Tahoe National Forest bring Sam, Dean and Bobby to the Sierra Nevada mountains to hunt a monster with a taste for human flesh. Soon walking corpses, bodies with missing organs, and attacks by a mysterious flying creature lead the trio to a cunning and deadly foe which can assume a human form and will do anything to survive...
  • Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

    Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Following the explosive success of "Odd Apocalypse," here is the gripping new adventure of Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz's most celebrated character.In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not yet been committed...
  • The Fear Institute by Jonathan L. Howard

    The Fear Institute by Jonathan L. Howard

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Johannes Cabal and his rather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talents are purchased by The Fear Institute as they hunt for the Phobic Animus - the embodiment of fear...
  • Silver-Tongued Devil by Jaye Wells

    Silver-Tongued Devil by Jaye Wells

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Now that the threat of war has passed, Sabina Kane is ready to focus on the future. Her relationship with Adam Lazarus is getting stronger and she's helping her sister, Maisie, overcome the trauma of her captivity in New Orleans. Even Giguhl is managing to stay out of trouble thanks to the arrival of Pussy Willow and his new roller derby team...
  • Sex and the Single Vampire by Katie MacAlister

    Sex and the Single Vampire by Katie MacAlister

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    An undying classic from Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire is a paranormal romance lover’s delight, ideal for fans of Lynsay Sands and her Argeneau vampire family novels. This perennial New York Times bestselling author knows what readers are hungry for: sexy and funny tales of otherworldly passion featuring hot, dark, immortal alpha heroes searching for their happily forever afters...
  • Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lex is a teenage Grim Reaper with the power to Damn souls, and it’s getting out of control. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time...
  • The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain

    The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When the djinn king Melek Ahmar wakes up after millennia of imprisoned slumber, he finds a world vastly different from what he remembers. Arrogant and bombastic, he comes down the mountain expecting an easy conquest: the wealthy, spectacular city state of Kathmandu, ruled by the all-knowing, all-seeing tyrant AI Karma...
  • Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff

    Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This third novel in Tanya Huff's action-packed series features Tony Foster and the crew of "Darkest Night," a TV series about a vampire detective. This time they find themselves facing another supernatural menace, a Demonic Convergence...
  • Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner

    Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious supernatural force as young children, their father taught them how to hunt and destroy the paranormal evil that exists in the dark corners of America. After their father’s demonic death, they discovered that they are descended from a long line of hunters and chose to continue their mission...
  • Death Rites by E.A. Copen

    Death Rites by E.A. Copen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Accused of murder. Hunted by gods. Low on ramen.After getting out of prison, necromancer and curio shop owner Lazarus Kerrigan has done his best to stay out of trouble. Unfortunately for him, fate has other plans.When a woman is found dead on his doorstep, Laz’s checkered past makes him the prime suspect, especially since he was the last person to see her alive...
  • Organ Grind by E.A. Copen

    Organ Grind by E.A. Copen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No guts, no glory.Being one of the four horsemen sucks. The hours are long, the pay is crap, and every god or monster you meet wants to kill you.For Lazarus Kerrigan, professional necromancer, even helping the police search for some missing internal organs is a welcome relief...
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

    The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth.Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything...
  • Anima Rising by Christopher Moore

    Anima Rising by Christopher Moore

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery.Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal...
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