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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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    lgbtq  wlw  dark  romance  horror  fantasy  fiction  audiobook
  • Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Global University Entrance Examination 全球高考 by Mu Su Li, 木苏里

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One day, You Huo and his famiIy was puIIed into an exam caIIed the GIobaI University Entrance Examination. Going through exams together with other unfortunate examinees, their Iives are put at stake and they can only Iive by passing each exam...
  • 死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    起初的异样,是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天,当他推开家中的门,却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头,是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说,当你凝视深渊时,深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思,然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛:“……你把裤子给我好好穿上!”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受,双皮奶组合,灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it...
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    lgbtq  dark  romance  horror  fantasy  mystery  mlm  paranormal
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    lgbtq  dark  romance  sci-fi  time-travel  mystery  mlm  fantasy
  • Swallowed by Meg Smitherman

    Swallowed by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Earth is broken beyond repair. The Planet is our last hope. Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won’t let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the Planet has called to Jill all of her life. She knows, with bone-deep certainty, it's home. A new beginning for humanity...
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    lgbtq  dark  romance  sci-fi  mystery  time-travel  mlm  fantasy
  • Outcast by Vanessa Nelson

    Outcast by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count?Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure.Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she's broken all ties to her past. She's just trying to do her job and live her life...
  • Shadows in Bloom: A Dark Romance Anthology by Lola Malone, Garry Michael

    Shadows in Bloom: A Dark Romance Anthology by Lola Malone, Garry Michael

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Long summer nights, the rustle of leaves and flowers in full bloom.It’s the perfect time of the year to live life the fullest, plan for tomorrow and forget about yesterday. But what happens when the shadows come out to play?After all…you won’t see it coming until it hits you in the Shadows in Bloom...
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    dark  wlw  lgbtq  romance  anthologies  mlm  paranormal  horror
  • The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet...
  • The Earth is Online ฝ่าวิกฤตพิชิตหอคอยดำ เล่ม 1 by Mo Chen Huan, 莫晨歡

    The Earth is Online ฝ่าวิกฤตพิชิตหอคอยดำ เล่ม 1 by Mo Chen Huan, 莫晨歡

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "ติ๊งต่อง! วันที่ 15 พฤศจิกายน 2017 โลกออนไลน์แล้ว" จู่ ๆ หอคอยดำขนาดมหึมาที่ปรากฏขึ้นเหนือน่านฟ้าทั่วโลกเมื่อหกเดือนก่อน ก็ส่งเสียงประกาศให้ทุกคนเข้าร่วมเกมที่หอคอยเป็นผู้สร้างและกำหนดกติกา..
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    lgbtq  romance  fantasy  sci-fi  mlm  dystopia  slow-burn  horror
  • Love vs The Scarecrow! by Cassandra Gannon

    Love vs The Scarecrow! by Cassandra Gannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nevermore County, 2000: Lori Hatake’s future isn’t going how she’d hoped. She’s broke, her boyfriend ran off with her cousin, and she just witnessed a grisly murder. A demonic Scarecrow killed a woman at the annual bonfire party, right in front of Lori’s eyes. The monster needs to be stopped, before it strikes again!Unfortunately, no one believes her wild tale, except for Dashiell Mommet...
  • Insidious Monsters by Debbie Cassidy

    Insidious Monsters by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Never fall for the monster inside you.Telarion and I have an understanding:*Never talk about our emotions.*Never express our feelings to each other.*Never spend the evenings together.Luckily, catching eldritch is time consuming and exhausting work...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
  • A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson

    A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do.Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory...
  • A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    A Usual Suspect by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She can see the truth, but when she's accused of murder, no one believes she's innocent.Hallie works as a skip tracer - hunting down people wanted by the law, for one reason or another. It's not glamourous, and it doesn't pay all that well. But it's legal work, and that's hard to come by in the cramped quarters of old town...
  • Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

    Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A painfully average teen’s life is upended by a magical apocalypse in this darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel perfect for fans of The Raven Boys , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and The Rest of Us Just Live Here .High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate...
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    dark  romance  fantasy  young-adult  paranormal  horror  zombies  magic
  • Between the Devil and the Sea by Chani Lynn Feener

    Between the Devil and the Sea by Chani Lynn Feener

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when a devil claims a demon?Detective Shadow Yor hates his life.He spends all of his time, day after day, struggling against the demons in his head that tell him he’s a worthless, unlovable person. This doesn’t change when he’s sent on a new assignment with his partner to solve a series of murders. He’s good at his job and will find whoever did it, there’s no doubt there...
  • Kaleidoscope of Death Vol. 1 by Xi Zi Xu

    Kaleidoscope of Death Vol. 1 by Xi Zi Xu

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Open the wrong door… and you may never return.One ordinary day, Lin Qiushi discovers a black door in the corridor outside his flat—a door that shouldn’t exist. When he steps through, he finds himself in a world governed by a deadly set of rules, where cryptic villagers speak in riddles, and the only way out is to take their obscure “tests”. The reward for passing: a key...
  • Legion by Penelope Fletcher

    Legion by Penelope Fletcher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Despite the eons and galaxies between us, know that we were destined to be." ~ Legion, He Who Cannot be Eaten Legion, burdened by a profound loneliness as the sole member of his species demands procurement of a mate. Serenvox, a wayward privateer, delivers Sadie Yi, a resilient survivor of the Aztekan Horde and a human hailing from Earth...
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    dark  romance  aliens  sci-fi  reverse-harem  space  abuse  steamy
  • Death Valley by Karina Halle

    Death Valley by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Take Yellowstone and add in the White Walkers from Game of Thrones and you have Death Valley. Morally grey cowboys, menacing wilderness, and deadly zombies await in this dark western horror romance from NYT bestselling author Karina Halle.Three years ago Aubrey Wells’ sister disappeared in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Since then, Aubrey’s life has crumbled around her...
  • Hydrous by Amara Rae

    Hydrous by Amara Rae

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A witch with the gift of water. A fae bred in duty. An immortal world on the brink.NaiyaI’m supposed to lead my coven… but I don’t think there’s anything I can do to stop the vicious wave from crashing down on us. We have enemies on all fronts, including among our own kind, because our mothers mated with other immortals...
  • The Ninth Floor by Liz Schulte

    The Ninth Floor by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The ninth floor of St. Michael’s Hospital was shut off to the public, staff, and administrators in 1984. The doors were welded and chained shut, the stop was removed from the elevators, and the no one talked about what happened there—ever...
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    dark  horror  mystery  sci-fi  paranormal  fiction  crime  ghosts
  • Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems...
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    dark  romance  horror  sci-fi  fantasy  gothic  aliens  space
  • Monstrous by Nicole M. Rubino

    Monstrous by Nicole M. Rubino

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    "I’ve never been afraid of the dark. I never needed any reassurance that there was no monster in my closet or under my bed. Perhaps that’s because a part of me always knew I was one." Monstrous claws weren't the type of gift I’d been expecting for my eighteenth birthday, along with the desire to eat my ex-boyfriend...
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    lgbtq  dark  dark-fantasy  romance  fantasy  myths  mystery  gothic
  • The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

    The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness?Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital...
  • The Night House by J.C. McKenzie

    The Night House by J.C. McKenzie

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you pay for your freedom?Caught by a powerful lord from the alternate realm of Arkavia, Taya’s offered the chance to avenge the dead, save her home world, and win her freedom...
  • Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Ice Lord's Bride by Ava Ross

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I must marry one of the fae, but the forbidden ice lord wants me.To secure a human-fae truce, I'm one of five women traveling to their magical kingdom, where we'll be courted by fae aristocracy. We have one month to choose a husband from among them.Only Elion, the arrogant, beastly ice lord is forbidden. His torturous scars make the other women gasp. His icy words rip them to shreds...
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    dark  fantasy  fae  paranormal  fiction  aliens  steamy  suspense
  • The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers

    The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Everly family is cursed. Every generation is destined to lose their best and brightest, taken by a woman named Penelope, who never ages, never sickens, and never forgives a debt.When her mother vanishes in the middle of the night, the curse falls on Violet Everly—unless she can break it first...
  • Entity by Meg Smitherman

    Entity by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “You thought you knew pleasure before you met me. You were wrong.”Kit Fox needs a fresh start. Her essays on quantum physics are too outlandish for the mainstream, and her writing career is fizzling. But things look up when she’s offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a private three-day interview with reclusive billionaire Ian De Leon, inventor of the Pleasurebot...
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    dark  romance  sci-fi  horror  dystopia  fantasy  aliens  steamy
  • Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

    Prophet by Sin Blaché, Helen Macdonald

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction Your happiest memory is their deadliest weapon.THIS IS PROPHET.It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field...
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    lgbtq  dark  romance  sci-fi  fiction  mystery  fantasy  audiobook
  • The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro

    The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Emile’s aunt declares he must marry or be disowned for being gay—he runs away to hide as a servant in Count Montoni’s mansion. In their service, Emile tends to the family who all suffer a strange affliction on the full moon...
  • Mothtown by Caroline Hardaker

    Mothtown by Caroline Hardaker

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David from knowing what it is. People are going missing, bodies are showing up with wings, or bones in nests if you believe the rumours from the kids at school...
  • Wranglestone by Darren Charlton

    Wranglestone by Darren Charlton

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared...In a post-apocalyptic America, a community survives in a national park, surrounded by water that keeps the Dead at bay. But when winter comes, there's nothing to stop them from crossing the ice.Then homebody Peter puts the camp in danger by naively allowing a stranger to come ashore and he's forced to leave the community of Wranglestone...
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