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  • Requiem by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Requiem by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    No matter how fast you are, you can’t outrun your past.When Ramirez receives a call from Shadow Company, he uncovers secrets from Simon’s covert operative days and an instruction: contact Simon. An agent Simon thought dead, has resurfaced, looking for vengeance and his help.Now, together with Monty, Simon must stop this agent from exacting revenge before it’s too late and countless lives are lost...
  • 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...
  • War of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

    War of Gods by Dyrk Ashton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    War of Gods is the highly anticipated conclusion to the critically acclaimed, award winning epic urban fantasy series, The Paternus Trilogy...
  • Reaping Wind by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Reaping Wind by Orlando A. Sanchez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You reap what you sow, and when you sow death...vengeance comes to collect. The Dark Council threatens everything Simon holds dear. They want to erase Monty, kill Peaches and remove Simon's immortality—permanently. When Michiko goes missing, Simon realizes there is more at stake than he realizes. When Ken, Michiko's brother asks the Montague & Strong Detective Agency to find her...
  • 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...
  • The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As above, so below…who was once friend is now a foe.The Faire is alive. It’s alive, it’s sentient, and it wants more from Cora Glass. Reeling from the revelations that Clown left her with, she struggles once more to find her footing. She never gets the chance.Harrow Faire wants Cora for murder. She assumed it was her death that it was after. She was wrong. It wants her to kill…to save them all...
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    dark  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  anti-hero  audiobook  book
  • Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

    Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From World Fantasy Award-winning author Charles de Lint, a tale of love, courage, and the transforming power of imagination Isabelle Copley's visionary art frees ancient spirits. As the young student of the cruel, brilliant artist Vincent Rushkin, she discovered she could paint images so vividly real they brought her wildest fantasies to life...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Green Man's Foe by Juliet E. McKenna

    The Green Man's Foe by Juliet E. McKenna

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When you do a good job for someone, there’s a strong chance they’ll offer you more work or recommend you elsewhere. So Daniel Mackmain isn’t particularly surprised when his boss’s architect brother asks for his help on a historic house renovation in the Cotswolds. Except Dan’s a dryad’s son, and he soon realises there’s a whole lot more going on...
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    magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  rural  adult  audiobook  book
  • Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Awakening / Spellbound by Cate Tiernan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The second three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands is a blood witch, the last of a long line of ancient and powerful witches and the holder of an unfathomable power. With the help of her love, her soul mate, Cal, she has realized her true self-but at a price...
  • 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 Magic by Cheyenne McCray

    Dark Magic by Cheyenne McCray

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **Author note below Jake Macgregor, San Francisco's head of the Paranormal Special Forces Unit, has his hands full. He and his team face a powerful enemy threatening to bring down the City by the Bay. With the weight of the world already resting on his broad shoulders, and after a long, hard day's fight against evil, the last thing he has time for is romance...
  • 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...
  • Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson

    Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller-prize finalist Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift...
  • Midnight Pleasures by Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne

    Midnight Pleasures by Amanda Ashley, Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Handsome and sensual, surrounded by an aura of danger, mystery, and the forbidden, a lover steps from the shadows. But is he mortal? Or is he an ancient god, a sorcerer, or a mythical beast who can possess a woman's heart...and her very soul?Four of romance's most popular authors have created this spellbinding collection of stores filled with dark passion and desire...
  • Downfall by Rob Thurman

    Downfall by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    I let it go—all of it. Everything I’d been saving up all my life, building and growing inside me, too much to hold in one half-human body. It pushed and fought to be free with a force that turned me into a bomb with a timer vibrating on zero. I was free...
  • Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

    Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Am I dead?”Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask.Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, 'A Spell for Foolish Hearts' to the terrifying tension of the urban legend 'Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez'...
  • Chapel of Ease by Alex Bledsoe

    Chapel of Ease by Alex Bledsoe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The latest installment in Alex Bledsoe's critically-acclaimed Tufa series that Kirkus Reviews calls "powerful, character-driven drama...a sheer delight." (starred review)When Matt Johanssen, a young New York actor, auditions for "Chapel of Ease," an off-Broadway musical, he is instantly charmed by Ray Parrish, the show's writer and composer...
    Categorized as:
    magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  rural  adult  audiobook  book
  • Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill

    Queen of the Dark Things by C. Robert Cargill

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It is half a year since the wizard Colby lost his best friend to an army of fairies from the Limestone Kingdom, a realm of mystery and shadows beyond our own. But in vanquishing these creatures Colby sacrificed the anonymity that protected him. Now, word of his deeds has spread, and powerful enemies from the past - including one Colby considered a friend - have resurfaced to exact their revenge...
  • Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake

    Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    “A must-read addition to the urban fantasy genre.”—Kim Harrison“Drake has composed a love letter to the vampire genre.”—Vicki Pettersson“Jocelynn Drake will have you coming back for more...
  • 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...
  • The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron

    The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Proboscis" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story...
  • Horizon by Alyson Noel

    Horizon by Alyson Noel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Fate has bound them together—and torn them apart. Now Daire and Dace face one final fight that will seal their destiny forever.Daire Santos is the last of the Soul Seekers, and the only thing standing between the Richters and the destruction of everyone she loves...
  • The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane

    The Book of Secrets by Melissa McShane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Helena Davies just wants a job that will get her out of her parents’ basement. Abernathy’s Bookstore is disorganized, out of the way, and smells funny, but it pays well and promises to at least be interesting. She has no idea how interesting her life will become...
  • 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...
  • Point of Origin by Amanda Havard

    Point of Origin by Amanda Havard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The winter is upon us. The Survivors are in chaos. The war is coming.One year ago, Sadie Matthau was living among humans, existing as one of them. But now she wakes each morning in a house in the Survivors’ City, listening to the invocations and insults of her family members as they cope with their new future. A war. Rogue abandoners turned monsters...
  • Broken Souls by Stephen Blackmoore

    Broken Souls by Stephen Blackmoore

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When necromancer Eric Carter returned to Los Angeles after fifteen years on the run he knew things were bad, but he never imagined how bad they could get. Sister murdered, best friend dead, married to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte.And things are just getting worse.His link to the Aztec death goddess is changing his powers, changing him, and he’s not sure how far it will go...
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    dark  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  anti-hero  audiobook
  • 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 Fisherman by John Langan

    The Fisherman by John Langan

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true...
  • Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint

    Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    At a popular Newford online research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious crash occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their computers. Christy Ridding's girlfriend Saskia disappears right before his eyes, along with countless others...
  • Moon Demon by Lynne Ewing

    Moon Demon by Lynne Ewing

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Vanessa's sixteenth birthday is coming up. While most girls would be thrilled at the prospect, Vanessa dreads being one year closer to making the most important decision of her life. Now she is beginning to doubt everything she holds true:—her friends, her relationship with Michael, and even her identity. Then she meets Hector, who is more exciting and dangerous than anyone else she knows...
  • Equoid by Charles Stross

    Equoid by Charles Stross

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horrors imaginable. For, as it turns out, unicorns are real. They're also ravenous killers from beyond spacetime..
  • Dragon Bones by Ines Johnson

    Dragon Bones by Ines Johnson

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sure, I can rock a tank top and ponytail while collecting ancient relics, but don't call me a tomb raider. I knew the guy who built the pyramids... and I mean in the biblical sense.Archaeologist, fashionista, and an ancient immortal with a serious memory problem, Dr...
  • Wildwood Whispers by Willa Reece

    Wildwood Whispers by Willa Reece

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A heartwarming novel of hope, fate, and folk magic unfolds when a young woman travels to a sleepy southern town in the Appalachian Mountains to bury her best friend. Mel Smith has always known life isn’t easy. After all, she was abandoned as an infant and raised in foster care...
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    dark  magic  myths  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher

    The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    R.S. Belcher launches a gritty new urban fantasy series about the mysterious society of truckers known only as, The Brotherhood of The Wheel.In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land...
  • Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker

    Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess. Now, on what's meant to be a last visit to the scene of the crime, Millie and her former boss, Caryl, encounter what seems to be Teo’s tormented ghost. One problem: according to Caryl, ghosts don’t exist...
  • Save My Soul by Zoe Winters

    Save My Soul by Zoe Winters

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All he's asking for is her soul. After buying the antebellum home she's fantasized about since childhood, Anna Worthington discovers Luc, a dangerously seductive incubus who has been trapped in the house by a fifty-year-old curse. To rid herself of her problem house guest she'll call on a priest, gypsies, ghost hunters, and the coven of witches from lust bunny hell...
  • Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand

    Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers...
  • Dark Fae Cursed by Heather Renee

    Dark Fae Cursed by Heather Renee

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The fae king once tried to break me, but now… I’m coming for him.After being exiled from the Fae Islands, I refused to let it stop me from being who I’ve always been: a punisher who gets what she wants. Since then, I’ve found a new start among other supernaturals and humans, enjoying life to its fullest.That is, until a disarming, yet infuriating, fae named Finn shows up asking for my assistance...
  • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

    The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic...
  • Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes

    Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    She fell for him in a nighttime world. But the time for dreaming is past—and the here-and-now can be just as fragile their love…When Theia Alderson first encountered a mysterious, handsome boy in her dreams, she never imagined how finding Haden Black—and falling in love—could change her life. To save Haden, Theia sacrificed everything...
  • Vault of Glass by Candace Robinson

    Vault of Glass by Candace Robinson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some see it... Some don't...People in the town of Deer Park, Texas are vanishing. There is a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault, that appears overnight. Perrie Madeline's best friend and ex-boyfriend are among the missing. Perrie, along with her friend August, go on a pursuit to search for them in the mysterious museum...
  • Unknown Regions by Robert Holdstock

    Unknown Regions by Robert Holdstock

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young boy with amazing--and incredibly dangerous--psychokinetic powers is able to travel into the past and, with guidance from a shadowy spirit, return with artifacts of great value. But, unknown to him ir his family, each trip into the past brings him closer to a terrifying fate, a fate that only a psychic investigator may be able to change...
  • Blade Dance by D.L. McDermott

    Blade Dance by D.L. McDermott

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For fans of Jeaniene Frost and Kresley Cole, Blade Dance is the fourth book in D.L...
  • Stone Song by D.L. McDermott

    Stone Song by D.L. McDermott

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sorcha Kavanaugh never believed Gran’s stories about the Fair Folk, until one of the creatures walked into a bar where she was singing and stole a year of her life. So when Elada Brightsword, the right hand of South Boston’s renegade Fae patriarch, interrupts her set at the Black Rose, Sorcha knows trouble has found her . . . again...
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    dark  magic  myths  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Infernal Justice by N.P. Martin

    Infernal Justice by N.P. Martin

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a lightless world, only darkness can drive out darkness. My name is Ethan Drake and I’m a police detective…and I got plenty darkness to give. So does my partner, who’s a demon, and frankly, a royal pain in my ass. But occult investigators are in short supply in the PD, so what are you going to do? Anyway, we just caught a bodysnatching case that has the stench of occult workings all over it...
    Categorized as:
    dark  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  adult  book  comedy
  • A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson

    A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Be swept away by a lush, witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood.Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic--and her best friend...
  • Indexing by Seanan McGuire

    Indexing by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    “Never underestimate the power of a good story.”Good advice...especially when a story can kill you.For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole...
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