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Flaxman Low, The Classic Occult Detective
by E. and H. Heron
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The Very First Occult Detective. Thrilling adventures from a Queen's Quorum mystery novelist. Just as Sherlock Holmes was the court of last appeal for those who had exhausted more official channels, so Flaxman Low is the last hope for those unfortunate people who are faced with a mystery that seems beyond all natural laws, and which imperils not only their bodies, but in some cases their very souls. Low was the joint creation of Hesketh-Prichard and his mother, Kate, who published the tales unde... more info>>
Words: 30206 - Reading Time: 86-120 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Mystery/Crime
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Flesh Field
by Metin Vardar
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Flesh Field is a horror fantasy action story based on T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. Much like the Fisher King in T.S. Eliot's work, the main character, Rex Fisher, is searching for life in a decomposing world. Rex Fisher, a former U.S. Navy SEAL commander, has successfully established a billion-dollar business empire, Rex Executive Command, as a security contractor. Having lived a life on the edge of death and decadence for many years, Rex wishes nothing more than to father a child and sett... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 56771 - Reading Time: 162-227 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Suspense/Thriller
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Footprints in the Snow: True Stories of Haunted Russia
by J. L. Choron
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Welcome to Russia ... the most haunted nation on earth. They are the damned, the forgotten--those who cry out to let us know they lived. They are all ages and sexes. They remain earthbound for many reasons--duty, devotion, a sense of responsibility, but most of all for the simplest and most compelling reason of all: love. Come explore the vast land that is Russia, from the metropolitan streets of Moscow to the windswept steppes and farflung plains of Siberia. Discover the strange tales of those ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 60247 - Reading Time: 172-240 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/General Nonfiction
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Fox Rising
by Ashley Barnard
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In this sequel to Shadow Fox, after waiting his whole life to return home and learn who he really is, Jared quickly discovers his world is much more complicated than he ever imagined. As the newly appointed Captain, he is now responsible for raising an army to take on an enemy he knows next to nothing about, while his own king anticipates his failure. With his love life is in near shambles, he must now win Tarika back in spite of a romance blossoming between her and his closest friend, Nathaniel... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 91168 - Reading Time: 260-364 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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From The Shadows
by J. L. McCale
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Born into a family gifted with magic, Claire Smalls never developed her powers, much to the disgust of the rest of the members of her family. Most of her time is spent looking for antiques to resell or gathering herbs. Until her grandmother starts sending a shadow hound to attack people. Her psychic gifts help Claire see when and where the shadow hound will attack. Although she has no true magic, she feels it's her duty to confront the animal and save whomever she can. To stop the slaughter sh... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 46937 - Reading Time: 134-187 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Frost Moon
by Anthony Francis
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The incredible first book of the SKIN DANCER series. In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost's talents are coveted by all. She's the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta's tatto... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 94411 - Reading Time: 269-377 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Fugue XXIX
by Forrest Aguirre
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Fugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of speculative literary fiction where innovative minds keep busy dreaming up the future's uncharted territories and mining forgotten treasures of the past. Whether exploring the stars or unearthing ancient cultures these stories will surprise and delight. In Aguirre's world anything can happen, and does, wi... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 53402 - Reading Time: 152-213 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Full Moon In December
by Lisa Rusczyk
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Kayla was so young when her new mom took her. Now she is sixteen and wants to have a real man in the basement. Her new mom, who tells her she can call her Elle now that she's sixteen, says she can pick the next one to collect. Sam was not the one she wanted. She wanted Kelly, the handsome football star. He was something to think about, and Kayla does. All the time. If only she could convince Sam to tell her more about Kelly. Kayla knows that Sam doesn't want to be in the basement, but she also k... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 62150 - Reading Time: 177-248 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Genesis of the Hunter: Book @
by Joshua Martyr
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The world that cradles mankind has yet to be fully understood, and much of its archaic beginnings linger within our minds, the voices of myths from times past. Yet in these legends there are often glimmers of truths, truths that are dismissed as mere lore because of the unimaginable reality they might represent. This is such a story: the origin of a legend, one that hovers from our distant past-- the origin of the vampire. Thought provoking and brimming with action and suspense, this is the epic... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 89444 - Reading Time: 255-357 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Grey Shapes [A Gees Supernatural Mystery]
by Jack Mann
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The Classic of Dark Fantasy. Grey Shapes brings Gregory George Gordon Green (or as he is known to intimate and enemy alike, "Gees"), ghost-hunter extraordinary, face-to-face with the greatest challenge of his career. Who--or what--is killing the sheep of Downslandbar? Philip Tyrrell, one of the biggest local farmers, hires Gees to find out. The Downslandbar constabulary are powerless to stop the attacks, which are carried out by strange 'gray shapes" that strike from the fog; the local sheepmen,... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 87252 - Reading Time: 249-349 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Half Ghost
by Raven Starr
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Love conquers all?even demons Nikki is a true believer in the paranormal. On a dare from her friend Travis, Nikki drives up to investigate the ghost filled house. When a mysterious stranger appears out of the darkness to help, she only hesitates for a moment before following him back to Windham Manor. Excerpt: Maggie laughed. "Do you think you can save her from me, William?" Maggie's mouth drooped unnaturally down. Her head twisted back and forth so fast it would have broken a normal person's ... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 20065 - Reading Time: 57-80 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Heart's Desires and Dark Embraces
by Margaret L. Carter
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From the pen of Margaret L. Carter..."When I first read Dracula at the age of twelve, my spontaneous reaction was to wonder how the vampire saw the events in which he was portrayed as the villain. One of my first stories, at age thirteen, was a 33-page, single-spaced saga from the viewpoint of a man in the process of transforming into a vampire. I've always found the non-human perspective, as well as relationships between human and non-human persons, fascinating. "The tales in this collection sp... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 60218 - Reading Time: 172-240 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Hell Hath Fury [The Unknown Worlds of Cleve Cartmill #1]
by Cleve Cartmill
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Classic of Devil's Son Rebelling Against His Father! The legendary Unknown Worlds is considered the best and most literate of the fantasy pulps of the 1940s. The magazine's roster of authors included Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Jane Rice, Robert A. Heinlein, Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, L. Sprague de Camp, A. E. Van Vogt, Raymond Chandler, and other masters of the genre. Yet author Cleve Cartmill, almost forgotten today, was considered the leading light of Unknown's stable. In part, this is... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 44704 - Reading Time: 127-178 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Hell's Belle [Shadow Ancients]
by Cammie Eicher
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Belle DuPont has one hard and fast rule--take the money and run. It's worked perfectly for the first century of her life, and she sees no reason to change anything. Until she meets vampire Misha Tsarentza, a clan elder of the Ancients. His duty by blood and her obligation by salary put them on the road to protecting the Ancients' highest authority from a band of rogue vampires intent on the destruction of the old ways and the old leaders. Belle soon discovers that swearing off love is hard to ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 82758 - Reading Time: 236-331 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Hellbound
by Su Halfwerk
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One-way ticket to Hell. Bart is a greedy morgue attendant with money on his mind. He gets more than what he bargains for when he chances upon a pain-letter, one he must pass on or bear the consequences of his inaction. Stan is a chiseler, a fake medium, preying on his unsuspecting clients' earnings through bogus channeling sessions. When he meets mysterious Joanna Stark, he believes her promises of powers beyond his comprehension, powers blessed by the Netherworld. Jenna gives up her old ... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 31007 - Reading Time: 88-124 min.
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Highland Currents
by Fran Cobe
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Birkita MacKinnon has mapped out her life; she knows without doubt in what direction she is headed as a promising US brain surgeon, in her last stretch of schooling, finds herself thrown into an unbelievable adventure when her parents are murdered. They're the only family she has ever known. James, the family attorney, presents her with sealed letters which she is supposed to open only upon her parents' deaths. Following her parents' murder she travels to Scotland. their homeland. Following th... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 77121 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Historical Fiction
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Immortality
by M. J. Spickett
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On a trip back to his home country, Eli Hawke is betrayed by the one person he always thought he could depend on and captured by a rival magician believed dead. He is taken to a place where time moves much differently than normal. As if that's not strange enough, he must come face to face with his own childhood horrors and his feelings for a man he once thought was his enemy. What do you do when friends suddenly become enemies and enemies become friends, and your own sanity comes into question... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 162245 - Reading Time: 463-648 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Ink In the Blood
by Chandra Ryan
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In their world, ink is thicker than blood. Isabella Rathe's past of excess and indulgence is the least of her problems. Although clean for seven years, she fights a constant battle with her asura nature. But that battle pales in comparison to the complications of keeping a human alive in her world of magic, mythology and drugs. When the D.E.A. offered Isabella the chance at justice, she'd jumped at it. Evening the score with her half-brother was too great a temptation to resist. But what she had... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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It's Time
by Kat Davis (aka Catherine Thomas)
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Richard, a fairly young vampire by vampire standard has decided to buck the status quo and fight the establishment. Surrounding himself with others who felt the same way he did and had an axe to grind with the Brotherhood, an elitist group of vampires, he started a war. The war would shake the foundation of the Supernatural world. Amazed and annoyed by Richard's actions, the Brotherhood's governing body, the Elders call out their top enforcer, Patrick. He sought to quash the uprising. He tried f... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 74482 - Reading Time: 212-297 min.
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Killer Queen: The Hunted
by Heather McAlendin
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The vampire hunter becomes the hunted... Silver Devries was once a powerful Vampire Queen; now she has become a vampire hunter. Her task: to hunt down a band of rogue vampires before they breed themselves, and humanity, out of extinction. When she comes face to face with her nemesis, Father Drake, a priest she watched murdered during the Inquisitions, Silver finds that Father Drake is no longer a man of god but the servant of a vicious and ancient vampire. Can Silver trust Drake when he offers h... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 32735 - Reading Time: 93-130 min.
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Kindred
by Anne Fields, Shauna Foote
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For the love of a life she once lived, for the friends she once had, one Wiccan woman will risk it all to change her destiny and the destinies of the ones she loves. Three close friends are reunited through fate and magick. Tormented by their haunted dreams and visions of another lifetime past, they are led on a quest to find their true selves and to change their destinies. But, little did they know that attempting to alter fate and time offers consequences they never could have imagined. Excer... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 55896 - Reading Time: 159-223 min.
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King Maker: The Knights of Breton Court, volume 1 [Secure]
by Maurice Broaddus
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FROM THE DRUG GANGS OF DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS, THE ONE TRUE KING WILL ARISE.
The King Arthur myth gets dramatically retold through the eyes of street hustler King, as he tries to unite the crack dealers, gangbangers and the monsters lurking within them to do the right thing. From the drug gangs of downtown Indianapolis, the one true king will arise. The King Arthur myth gets dramatically retold through the eyes of street hustler King, as he tries to unite the crack dealers, gangbangers and the... more info>>
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Kinky Kabuki
by David Conway
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THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE IS THE ONE THAT ACHIEVES MADNESS?" Tokyo. A serial killer known as the Doll Maker is stalking Kabuki-cho, preying on the prostitutes that work in the city's notorious red light district. Obsessed with obscene fantasies and terrifying visions of an apocalyptic holocaust, the murderer is a divinely-inspired psychopath who stages his crimes as elaborate rituals incorporating elements of the occult, Buddhist doctrine and kabuki theatre. Takeshi Harada, a disgraced former pol... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 73970 - Reading Time: 211-295 min.
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Kiyama
by Diana Kemp
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Spectral eyes watched from the timelessness of the vast tank chamber. Imprisoned in their liquid-filled tombs, the souls of the ancient Omoro kept vigil on the wondrous spectacle of their creation. They whispered like the gentlest of breezes, their thoughts commingling. Below, in a mist-enshrouded chrysalis, their progeny slumbered, a precious creation of flesh and blood, a vital link to the past and the future. The time of awakening was drawing near. A surge of anticipation and excitement rip... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 92366 - Reading Time: 263-369 min.
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Lazarus Cane
by Jeremy Kline
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Be Anyone The path of a doppelganger is a simple one -- target the victim, isolate them, consume them, become them. This is the creature that Scott Cane has become. He exists as a mythical being -- a thing of nightmares. Except. Scott Cane is our hero. The real nightmare is not some creature of the night. It is those evil vile things that walk amongst us wearing normal faces and living normal lives. In the lowcountry of South Carolina, a serial killer stalks his prey. Chloroform in hand, he wai... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 74805 - Reading Time: 213-299 min.
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