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  • Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis

    Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    CALL OF CTHULHU is Chaosium's classic roleplaying game of Lovecraftian horror in which ordinary people are confronted by the terrifying and alien forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. CALL OF CTHULHU uses Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying System, easy to learn and quick to play. This bestseller has won dozens of game-industry awards and is a member of the Academy of Adventure Game Design Hall of Fame...
  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
  • Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From holy cup comes holy light;The faithful hands sets world aright.And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,Mere man shall end this endless night.It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness...
  • Bedlam by Derek Landy

    Bedlam by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything…On a desperate journey to recover her sister's lost soul, Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself, and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  magic  action-adventure  audiobook  book  children
  • Lies Ripped Open by Steve McHugh

    Lies Ripped Open by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Over a hundred years have passed since a group of violent killers went on the rampage, murdering innocent victims for fun. But even back then, sorcerer Nate Garrett, aka Hellequin, knew there was more to it than simple savage pleasure—souls were being stolen.Nate’s discovery of the souls’ use, and of those supporting the group’s plan, made him question everything he believed...
  • Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market.There’s only one way to keep herself safe...
  • 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...
  • Prison of Hope by Steve McHugh

    Prison of Hope by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Long ago, Olympian gods imprisoned the demon Pandora in a human—Hope—creating a creature whose only purpose was chaos and death. Remorseful, the gods locked Pandora away in Tartarus, ruled by Hades.Now, centuries later, Pandora escapes...
  • Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereIntroverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established...
  • She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky

    She Who Waits by Daniel Polansky

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third novel in the brilliant dark fantasy Low Town seriesLow Town: the worst ghetto in the worst city in the Thirteen Lands. Good only for depravity and death. And Warden, long ago a respected agent in the formidable Black House, is now the most depraved Low Town denizen of them all...
  • 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...
  • With Silent Screams by Steve McHugh

    With Silent Screams by Steve McHugh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    His name is Nathan Garrett, but he’s also known as Hellequin. And murdering one of his friends and trying to blow him up is a good way to get this centuries-old sorcerer’s full attention…An old friend’s dead body, a cryptic note, and an explosion that almost costs him his own life propel Nate headfirst into a mystery involving a new threat from an old foe...
  • 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...
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    crime  dark  lgbtq  magic  action-adventure  audiobook  book  children
  • The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

    The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon JamesSpanning Gaiman’s career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world’s most beloved...
  • 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...
  • The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey

    The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sandman Slim has been to Heaven and Hell and many places in between, but now he finds himself in an unknown land: the far, far edge of the Tenebrae, the desolate home of the lost dead. Making his way inland with nothing but his unerring instinct for trouble to guide him, he collides with a caravan of the damned on a mysterious crusade, led by the ruthless Magistrate...
  • An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

    An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October "Toby" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Now Toby must take on a nightmarish new assignment. Someone is stealing both fae and mortal children—and all signs point to Blind Michael...
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    crime  dark  magic  myths  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • The Getaway God by Richard Kadrey

    The Getaway God by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Sandman Slim must save himself-and the entire world-from the wrath of some enraged and vengeful ancient gods in this sixth high-octane adventure in the New York Times bestselling seriesBeing a half-human, half-angel nephilim with a bad rep and a worse attitude-not to mention temporarily playing Lucifer-James Stark aka Sandman Slim has made a few enemies...
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    crime  dark  magic  myths  retellings  action-adventure  adult  angels
  • Demon Thief by Darren Shan

    Demon Thief by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The second novel in this bonechilling series by Darren Shan, author of the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series is sure to give you goosebumps. Kernel Fleck has always known he's weird. He sees lights. Strange, multi-colored patches of light, swirling through the air. But it's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrific consequences, that Kernel discovers his powers...
  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

    Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.This is the story of what happened first…Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline...
  • Imajica by Clive Barker

    Imajica by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension...
  • Slawter by Darren Shan

    Slawter by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Lights. Camera. Slawter!Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-E are thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants for the newest movie by cult horror producer David A Hayms. Shot in a deserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to be Hayms's masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set, Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than filming is afoot...
  • Dark Calling by Darren Shan

    Dark Calling by Darren Shan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time. Only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the grip of a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voices are calling to him from the darkness and he's powerless to resist. Kernel has already been to hell and back, now he's about to go further...
  • Slashback by Rob Thurman

    Slashback by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    I stopped and let them circle me, first because it was intriguing and, second, because, honestly, what could they do? Only knives, but all armed, and that made them even more interesting. Interesting. Fun.Playtime…Taking on bloodthirsty supernatural monsters is how Caliban and Niko Leandros make a living...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  myths  retellings  action-adventure  adult  angels
  • The Minority Council by Kate Griffin

    The Minority Council by Kate Griffin

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Matthew Swift, sorcerer, Midnight Mayor, is in charge. Or so he'd like to think. London, being London, is having its issues. Drug use is rampant. Teenage vandalism is driving away business. Violent crimes are on the rise. Once upon a time, Matthew Swift wouldn't have cared. Now it's his mess to clean up...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent.‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!'There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things by Martina McAtee

    Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things by Martina McAtee

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three reapers. Two worlds. One prophecy.Seventeen-year-old Ember Lonergan has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  myths  action-adventure  book  dark-fantasy  fae
  • Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

    Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. The origins of the first ymbryne...
  • The Hungry Dreaming by Craig Schaefer

    The Hungry Dreaming by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The discovery of lost letters between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, describing historical events that never happened, sends shockwaves through the academic world. Meanwhile, a citywide surveillance program is coming to New York on a groundswell of dirty money and dead bodies. To hard-nosed Brooklyn reporter Nell Bluth, the two mysteries couldn't be more different...
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous by Derek Landy

    The Wonderful Adventures of Geoffrey Scrutinous by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story written by Derek Landy dedicated to the winner of the character competition, Charlie Smith, containing the winning entry of "Geoffrey Scrutinous"...
  • A Hard Day's Knight by Simon R. Green

    A Hard Day's Knight by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    John Taylor is a P.I. with a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He's also the reluctant owner of a very special-and dangerous-weapon. Excalibur, the legendary sword...
  • Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green

    Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    My name is John Taylor. I’m a PI for hire in the Nightside, the dark and corrupt city within the city of London. Where the sun never shines and where pleasure and horror are always on sale—for the right price.Not a nice place to visit or a nice place to live. So you wouldn’t think I would care that it was about to be destroyed, by none other than my very own long-missing, not-quite-human mom...
  • The Black by D.J. MacHale

    The Black by D.J. MacHale

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    At the end of The Light, Book One of the Morpheus Road trilogy, Marshall learned the truth about what happened to his best friend Cooper. Now in Book Two, the POV switches to Cooper and we get to see his side of the mystery. What does his story have to do with Marshall and the journey along the Morpheus Road? It's time to learn more . .
  • Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon by Derek Landy

    Gold, Babies and the Brothers Muldoon by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A jolt of Skulduggery Pleasant action for free.Midnight. Valkyrie Cain approaches an old, ramshackle church to make a delicate deal with a trio of ugly, hairy goblins. To her absolute non-surprise, the goblins have no intention of honouring that deal- but not to worry. Skulduggery Pleasant is standing by to deliver a surprise of their own.Things, however, don’t go exactly according to plan...
  • Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

    Hex and the City by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside--the dark heart of London where it's always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside--and all of existence-- could be snuffed out...
  • Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green

    Hell to Pay by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In the wake of the war that left the Nightside leaderless, Jeremiah Griffin-one of the last of the immortal human families-plans to fill the power vacuum. But his granddaughter has disappeared, and he wants John Taylor to use his special abilities to find her. Except someone-or something-is blocking Taylor's abilities...
  • Slither by Joseph Delaney

    Slither by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    "My name is Slither, and before my tale is finished you'll find out why."The dark is full of terrifying creatures. And Tom Ward—the seventh son of a seventh son, and the Spook's last apprentice—hasn't seen all of them. Far from the county, one named Slither has lived for hundreds of years, hunting blood.But a dying father binds the monster to a bargain...
  • Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert

    Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve fairy tales by the author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country!Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world where a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice―and still lives...
  • Demon Road by Derek Landy

    Demon Road by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Full of Landy’s trademark wit, action and razor-sharp dialogue, DEMON ROAD kicks off with a shocking opener and never lets up the pace in an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America...
  • Last Call by Tim Powers

    Last Call by Tim Powers

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards. But now the cards - and the supernatural powers behind them - have found him again.Crane's father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become the Fisher King, and to keep that power he is determined to kill his son...
  • Everville by Clive Barker

    Everville by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville. For years, it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss...
  • Dark Awakened by H.D. Smith

    Dark Awakened by H.D. Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Last spring Claire’s seemingly normal—if not totally screwed up—life was tossed on its head. For five years she’d been one of the damned—a human that knows the truth about the otherworldly among us. She’d worked for The Boss—the Demon King himself—as his administrative assistant, handling everything from early retirements, to Maintenance’s incessant requests for dental.No one gets dental...
  • Tears of the Furies by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski

    Tears of the Furies by Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Behind the facade of a stately Boston brownstone, humanity's last defenses are being marshaled. Called to action by the enigmatic, brilliant man known only as Mr. Doyle, they hail from all planes of existence and are born from an array of supernatural and otherworldly backgrounds and bloodlines..
  • The Elder Ice by David Hambling

    The Elder Ice by David Hambling

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lovecraftian weird fiction set in 1920s London.In this atmospheric novella, ex-boxer Harry Stubbs is on the trail of a mysterious legacy. A polar explorer has died, leaving huge debts and hints of a priceless find. His informants seem to be talking in riddles, and Harry soon finds he isn't the only one on the trail -- and what he's looking for is as lethal as it is valuable...
  • Redemption Song by Craig Schaefer

    Redemption Song by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Daniel Faust, Las Vegas sorcerer and career criminal, has never pulled the trigger on an innocent man. When the infernal Prince Sitri challenges him to do just that, though, he can't walk away. His lover, Caitlin, is Sitri's right hand...and if Daniel refuses the job, he'll never see her again...
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    crime  dark  magic  myths  action-adventure  adult  angels  anti-hero
  • High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

    High Moor by Graeme Reynolds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    When John Simpson hears of a bizarre animal attack in his old home town of High Moor, it stirs memories of a long forgotten horror. John knows the truth. A werewolf stalks the town once more, and on the night of the next full moon, the killing will begin again. He should know. He survived a werewolf attack in 1986, during the worst year of his life...
  • The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

    The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting...
  • Red Knight Falling by Craig Schaefer

    Red Knight Falling by Craig Schaefer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fresh from their victory over the Bogeyman, FBI agent Harmony Black and her team, Vigilant Lock, face a new type of threat: one from beyond the stars.They’d always heard the Red Knight was an urban legend: in 1954, three years before Sputnik launched, a mysterious satellite was sighted circling Earth, though no power on the planet had such technology...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  lgbtq  magic  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook
  • Hungry Ghosts by Stephen Blackmoore

    Hungry Ghosts by Stephen Blackmoore

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Necromancer Eric Carter's problems keep getting bigger. Bad enough he's the unwilling husband to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte, but now her ex, the Aztec King of the dead, Mictlantecuhtli, has come back -- and it turns out that Carter and he are swapping places. As Mictlantecuhtli breaks loose of his prison of jade, Carter is slowly turning to stone...
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