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  • 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...
  • 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...
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    crime  dark  magic  noir  action-adventure  adult  book  dark-fantasy
  • Breeds 3 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Breeds 3 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The final book in the trilogy.Douglas Kirk is having a bad week.Not only are groups of human hunters after him, whole werewolf packs have orders to kill him on sight, forcing him to flee Halifax without identification, money, weapons, or even his phone...
  • Breeds 2 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Breeds 2 by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The jaws of winter are clamping down on the city of Halifax. As the light recedes, new terrors arise...Months after the war with Borland and his vicious were brood, Kirk and Morris are experiencing curious aftereffects. They're stronger, faster, and no longer vulnerable to the sharp sting of silver.There is one concern, however...
  • The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

    The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    A missing God.A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts...
  • I’m Glad You’re Dead by Hunter Blain

    I’m Glad You’re Dead by Hunter Blain

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After helplessly witnessing the execution of his family, John is approached by a strange man that promises the power of revenge, for a price; his life for the ability to walk the mortal plane for eternity. Fast forward several hundred years where John finds himself with an unlikely ally, Father Thomes Philseep...
  • Tomorrow, the Killing by Daniel Polansky

    Tomorrow, the Killing by Daniel Polansky

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once he was a hero of the Great War, and then a member of the dreaded Black House. Now he is the criminal linchpin of Low Town.His name is Warden.He thought he had left the war behind him, but a summons from up above brings the past sharply, uncomfortably, back into focus. General Montgomery's daughter is missing somewhere in Low Town, searching for clues about her brother's murder...
  • Unearthed by Robert J. Crane

    Unearthed by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    WARNING: Due to extremely disturbing content, this book is intended for MATURE READERS ONLY. The town of Midian, Tennessee is spiraling straight to hell. Demons haunt the streets, people are dying by the hundreds, and the only defenders of the innocent townsfolk have been driven into hiding by a sheriff who doesn't know what he's dealing with...
  • Creeping Jenny by Jeff Noon

    Creeping Jenny by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in Jeff Noon's widely acclaimed 'Nyquist Mysteries' find our protagonist caught up in a new mystery that delves into nightmares, Saints and the answer to his father's disappearanceNyquist finds himself in a village where everyday is a different type of nightmare and whose bizarre rules are governed by whichever Saint rules that day...
  • Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

    Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts DeadShadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc — casual gambler and professional risk manager — to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex...
  • The Body Library by Jeff Noon

    The Body Library by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jeff Noon returns with a staggering hallucinogenic sequel to A Man of Shadows, taking hapless investigator John Nyquist into a city where reality is contaminated by the imagination of its citizensIn a city dissolving into an infected sprawl of ideas, where words come to life and reality is contaminated by stories, John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body..
  • Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

    Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.No matter what she does she can’t save Louis...
  • Strange Magic by James A. Hunter

    Strange Magic by James A. Hunter

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Yancy Lazarus is having a bad day: there’s a bullet lodged in his butt cheek, his face looks like the site of a demolition derby, and he’s been saran-wrapped to a banquet table. He never should have answered the phone. Stupid bleeding heart—helping others in his circles is a good way to get dead.Just ask the gang members ripped to pieces by some kind of demonic nightmare in LA...
  • Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston

    Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed...
  • The Cambion Cycle: Quincy Harker Year Two by John G. Hartness

    The Cambion Cycle: Quincy Harker Year Two by John G. Hartness

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Following on last year's award-winning dark fantasy series, Quincy Harker is back, and the stakes are higher than ever. Collecting four novellas into one volume, The Cambion Cycle sees Harker and his cohorts battling bigger threats, teaming with legends of folklore, and trying to save the world from a demonic horde. All with snark, flair, and heaping helpings of bloodshed and mayhem...
  • Lost Gods by Brom

    Lost Gods by Brom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist BromFresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . .
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