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L'Ordine della penna by Virginia De Winter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAltieres, l’antica dinastia regnante nel Vecchio Continente, si è estinta dopo la violenta morte di tutti i suoi eredi e a portare il nome dell’antica casata sono rimasti solo i vampiri Blackmore, creature immortali a cui regnare non è permesso... -
L'ordine della Croce by Virginia De Winter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEloise Weiss è alle prese con il misterioso ritrovamento di uno scheletro di un giovane ragazzo, la cui identità è ignota, e questa volta non potrà ricorrere ai suoi poteri di evocatrice ma solo alle sue conoscenze mediche... -
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Hambly
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsOne of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror... -
Inflection Point by John G. Hartness
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis uncle has been kidnapped. A shadowy government agency is torturing cryptids in his city. His Sanctuary has been revoked from the one place he could drink safely. There's a medusa at the mall. A fairy princess might have just summoned an Old One in a public park. Quincy Harker really wishes he'd just stayed in Memphis. But he didn't... -
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Laughter at the Academy by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom fairy tale forest to gloomy gothic moor, from gleaming epidemiologist’s lab to the sandy shores of Neverland, Seanan McGuire’s short fiction has been surprising, delighting, confusing, and transporting her readers since 2009. Now, for the first time, that fiction has been gathered together in one place, ready to be enjoyed one twisting, tangled tale at a time... -
The Thief Who Knocked on Sorrow's Gate by Michael McClung
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The third installment in the Amra Thetys series:After surviving Thagoth and returning rich to Lucernis, Amra and Holgren have settled down to a very comfortable, if decidedly unexciting life -- until the night Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box... -
Dead Certain by P.S. Power
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDead Certain The world’s most intrepid vampire is tossed from the frying pan into the crucible in this stunning conclusion to the Trilogy. Eve, working her day, and night, job is given a new task by the Vampire Council. If she can survive it, her fortune will be secured. If not, she’ll end up dead for the final time... -
Dead and Everything by P.S. Power
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDead and Everything Eve Benson, the world’s hardest working baby vampire isn’t going to be left to the normal course of things. As a new member of the undead she should be in for years of beatings, starvation, and possibly some other things that her parents wouldn’t be happy to hear about. Thanks to the training she put herself through though, Eve is a different kind of Vamp... -
Out of Space and Time: Volume 1 by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFantasmagical voyages into alien landscapes!Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures-Forays into the unnameable beyond the tomb-Macabre and ghoulish tales of weird-heroic fantasy and sheer terror-Clark Ashton SmithNone strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith... -
In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn intensely moving tale of survival and madness along the river's edge. A father and son fishing lesson become a nightmarish voyage to the sea in this visionary testament to the lengths we will go for those we love... -
The Blood of Gods and Monsters by Lucinda Dark, Lucy Smoke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGreed is lethal. Blood is honest. Between the blood of gods and monsters, I am both killer and healer.The Darkhavens were once my obstacle. Now, they may be the only safe haven I have left.The Gods are lying to us all.They are not Gods at all, but creatures that came from another world to rule over ours... -
And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque secret hidden in a Victorian bathtub. A dearly departed best friend carries a grudge from beyond the grave... -
Dating Dracula by Kinsley Adams
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Legend. The Immortal. My… Boyfriend?You know, I really only had two goals in life:1)Unearth the truth about vampires and,2)Become hella famous.Nowhere on that list did I have “die” or “get turned into a bloodsucker.” But guess what? Life doesn’t always go according to plan... -
Undisguised Healer by Jonathan Brooks
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForced to hide his identity up until now, Thaden soon learns that it may cause more trouble than it’s worth…Even though he never intended it to happen, the events that occurred in the city of Forgestone have set Thaden on a course to fix the problems that he inadvertently caused... -
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Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales... -
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's wrought - perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching.Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders... -
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Best of Arthur Machen's short stories: The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Great God Pan, The White People, The Inmost Light, The Shining Pyramid, The Bowmen, The Great Return, The Happy Children, Out of the Earth, N, The Children of the Pool, The Terror... -
The Book of the Mad by Tanith Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her darkly dazzling finish to The Secret Books of Paradys, Tanith Lee tempts the reader with a tale of horror, lust and madness that leaves no perversity untouched, no taboo unbroken.This time, the seductive nightmare unfolds in three parallel versions of the City—Paradis, Paradys and Paradise... -
All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe debut short story collection from acclaimed U.K. writer Priya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre... -
Laila Winter y los Señores de los Vientos by Bárbara G. Rivero
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCon Laila Winter y Las Arenas de Solarïe, la autora inicia una saga que descubre lo que en realidad se esconde tras todos esos mitos ancestrales... -
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 11 by Ao Jyumonji
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I'll do what I have to. I'll do it. Now." Gritting his teeth, and bracing his legs, Haruhiro faces the guorella onslaught once more. He rouses himself with a sense of purpose, and tries to avert his eyes from the reality of her death. Then, when he finds himself facing a regret and despair greater than he can handle, that mysterious man, Jessie, whispers to him, "There is a way. Just one... -
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen Jones
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature... -
Skavenslayer by William King
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsGotrek & Felix return to the city of Nuln to lie low and gain some steady employment. Being a sewer-jack would seem to be fairly mnudane work until the skaven raise their furry heads. The maze of sewers provides a perfect staging post for the foul chaos rat-men, as they seek to overwhelm the city. Luckily there are two people below ground who like a good fight... -
Of Withering Dreams by Rowyn Adelaide
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEnchanting, atmospheric, and addictive—Of Withering Dreams is a steamy dark fantasy romance set in a dying world where dreams, magic, and corruption intertwine. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrou, and LJ Andrews. DREAMS DECAY. The Dormancy was meant to be the mortal realm’s salvation... -
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Malicent by Cassandra M.D.
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI was raised in the dark, sharpened into a weapon, and sent into the mortal world to secure my coven’s future. The Southern Kingdom holds secrets, and I will uncover them. But it holds my past—Cage, the man who slaughtered my mother, now stands as the King’s most trusted mage.Stronger. Colder. Alive.She was supposed to be dead. A ghost from an old life... -
Doll Face by D.J. Krimmer, C Hebert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDoll FaceShall We Play A Game?Amid the suffocating embrace of night,I stumble upon him, a beacon of light.The Boogeyman, a seductive terror,Whispers haunting promises, cruel and fair.Eyes that glint with otherworldly fire,In his grasp, I’m consumed by dark desire.A love twisted and sickeningly sweet,Tangled in the depths of darkness, where nightmares meet... -
A Taste of Darkness by Nina Bangs
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHe'd lived a thousand years for this? It's enough to make a vampire want to rush outside to soak up some rays, order garlic mashed potatoes, or fall on a wooden stake. The council, in its infinite stupidity, has made Reinn Mackenzie the Guardian of the Blood for his vampire clan. Talk about crappy jobs... -
To Charles Fort, with Love by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo Charles Fort, with Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlín R. Kiernan's third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe... -
Zod Wallop by William Browning Spencer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRock yawned. "Gotta get moving," Rock said. A couple of hundred million years went by. A rock is always slow to take action. A rock watches an oak grow from a sapling to a towering tree, and it's a flash and a dazzle in the mind of a rock. What was that? Rock thinks. Or maybe, Huh?That's how Zod Wallop starts... -
La Marche du prophète by Gabriel Katz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLeth Marek, champion d’arènes, se retire invaincu, au sommet de sa gloire. Il a quarante ans, une belle fortune et deux jeunes fils qu’il connaît à peine. C’est à Kyrenia, la plus grande cité du monde, qu’il a choisi de les élever, loin de la violence de sa terre natale... -
Rotten Rapunzel by Anita Valle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI have been in this tower for fifteen years. Snow White has frozen me inside it and covered the rest of our kingdom with ice and snow. I can't remember what summer is like. And I have never seen people or had a friend.It's not fair. I'm a princess, the daughter of Cinderella. This kingdom belongs to ME. Not to the nasty new queen who's taken over. Snowy ruined my life, she doesn't care about me... -
High Wire by Charles Ogden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStep up! Step up! Step up and see such acts of awe and oddity! A bizarre circus creeps into Nod's Limbs in the dead of night, bringing with it caravans of strange and wonderful entertainers. Edgar and Ellen soon find kindred spirits among the fire-eaters and escape artists... -
The Archer by Jennifer Blackstream
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA master of lies seeking the truth... Robin is a sidhe whose glamour is unrivaled. More than mere visual illusions, he creates phantasms that smell real, sound real, feel real... -
Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: 2-Oct-2016; 4-Feb-2016; 9-Oct-2015.The dead beckon and the little girl obeys. Night after night she answers the graveyard’s call, though she dreads her encounters with the creature that dwells there... -
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Gods by Klarissa King, Quinn Blackbird
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"If I denied you," said Phantom, "would you still melt to my touch? Like the Prince, could I become your villain and still have your affections?”I looked at him, my lashes lowered by weariness. “I don’t know. But don’t be jealous. I was always thinking up ways to kill him.”Stolen away by Phantom, Valissa finds herself tangled in a war older than herself... -
Another Sip [Part 1 Intro: The Hunt] by C.J. Ellisson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is *Part One* of the full novel titled The Hunt and is offered for free to introduce new readers to the series. If you'd like to start from the beginning, please search for Just One Taste, which is also free and contains the first half of book one, Vampire Vacation... -
The Grimscribe's Puppets by Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Livia Llewellyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents (tentative):Thomas Ligotti is beyond doubt one of the Grandmasters of Weird Fiction. In The Grimscribe’s Puppets, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., has commissioned both new and established talents in the world of weird fiction and horror to contribute all new tales that pay hoame to Ligotti and celebrate his eerie and essential nightmares. Poppy Z... -
The Righteous by David Wragg
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRejoin fantasy’s most deadly and dysfunctional mercenaries in the sequel to debut sensation THE BLACK HAWKS.Bound by oath and honour, Vedren Chel found himself drawn to the heart of a deadly rebellion. With him stood the mercenaries of the Black Hawk Company, who were there for the money.But their uprising was betrayed and crushed... -
When Night Falls by AJ Nicole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI had dreamt of the day that I could make them all feel just as small as they’ve made me feel.But I never thought I’d actually have the chance...until I met him.He said he could help me.He told me he saw power in me.I fell for it… fell for him.But he lied. Just like the rest of them did.He used me for his own good.Masked my darkness with a bloodlust I couldn’t control.But I craved it. I envied it... -
The Devil You Know by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a tradepaperback edition of the sold-out limited edition of Poppy's latest short story collection. In her third short story collection, Poppy Z. Brite finds fresh ways of exploring territory both familiar and strange... -
Mysteries of the Worm by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRobert Bloch has become one with his fictional counterpart Ludvig Prinn: future generations of readers will know him as an eldritch name hovering over a body of nightmare texts. To know them will be to know him. And thus we have decided to release a new and expanded third edition of Robert Bloch’s Mysteries of the Worm... -
Crimson Moon by Rebecca York, Ruth Glick
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNeeding a fresh start, a young werewolf heads west and changes his identity. As Sam Morgan, he meets Olivia Woodlock--a woman of many secrets, whose life is in jeopardy. If he can't protect her, they'll never have a chance to explore the passion that promises to bind them together for an eternity... -
Forest of the Forbidden by W.J. May, Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVENOM by Kristen Middleton A vampire novella derived from The Night Roamer's series. When Melody Williams goes missing at a concert, at Club Nightshade, her eighteen-year-old cousin, Chelsey Fairfax, sneaks into the club to find answers. Little does she know that some mysteries are better left hidden... -
The Book of the Dead by Tanith Lee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe ambience of fin de siecle France imbues these eight gothic tales in the third volume in Lee's Secret Books of Paradys tetralogy, tracing the tortured lives once led by those buried in the crypts and cemeteries of the mythical (or forgotten) city of Paradys... -
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Journey by Claudy Conn
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat would you do if you wanted a normal life and another one was thrust into your hands?What would you do if you had attained success and relative (if not complete) happiness and you were pushed onto a path that clearly designated it as ‘no return’?What would you do if he, the man of your dreams walked into your life and you knew, absolutely knew, that one day he would leave because he was from... -
The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divinity Student is beset by strange dreams whose lingering effects further alienate him from his fellows. Abruptly, he is sent away from the chill, damp confines of the seminary to work as a word-finder in the vibrant, chaotic desert city of San Veneficio, scanning old texts to record any unknown words he may find... -
Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels by Lavie Tidhar
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning author Lavie Tidhar returns with a dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story, "Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels."Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Werdenfels. The mystery? Who killed him. The twist? Three different people are proudly proclaiming to have committed the crime... -
Shadow Prowler by Alexey Pehov, Алексей Пехов
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAfter centuries of calm, the Nameless One is stirring. An army is gathering: giants, ogres and other creatures joining forces from across the Desolate Lands, united for the first time in history under one black banner. By the spring, or perhaps sooner, the Nameless One and his forces will be at the walls of the great city of Avendoom... -
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsImagine earthy Tolkienesque characters in a setting full of cemeteries, graverobbers, necromancers, corpse-eaters--even a huge labyrinthine necropolis. Imagine mephitic gardens where the sarcophage, selenotrope, and necrophilium bloom. Then throw in star-crossed lovers, crazed zealots, stalwart heroes, bloodthirsty renegade armies, hideous monsters, and likeable misfits... -
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.“This brilliant novella is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED reviewYou may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince...
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