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Bite Me
by Donaya Haymond
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People say bad things about Dianne's parents that just aren't true; they're a vampire and werewolf...so? It's hard enough for Dianne to be fifteen and obviously to love her parents, even worse when there's something weird about them no one quite understands. Her father being a vampire and her mother being a werewolf is a simple fact of life. More worrisome are Mom and Dad getting sick for unknown reasons, the effect an accidental display of power is having on her social life, and the possibility... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 38390 - Reading Time: 109-153 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Bitten and Smitten: Prelude to Hunt Club
by Ed Howdershelt
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A short Vampire tale with a twist! (But not about short, twisted vampires.) In the jungles of war-ravaged Vietnam, a recon team medic meets the woman of his dreams... and nightmares... (Published: 2008)
Words: 27307 - Reading Time: 78-109 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Blood Lust [Book Two: Raven Blood Trilogy]
by Elaine C. Markowicz
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Raven travels to France to fulfill her destiny as Queen of the Vampires only to discover her family was slaughtered while asleep in their crypt by Vlad Tepes. Demitrius Volcheck is Vlad's grand-nephew, assassin and Raven's lover. Armand Lavoissiere is the human who accidentally bumps into Raven while feeding in an alley, dragging him into her bizarre underworld. Basil is the vampire who makes protecting Armand difficult. But Raven's biggest danger is Malachi: Demon Angel of Blood Lust and creato... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 48439 - Reading Time: 138-193 min.
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Blood Oath [Shadow Ancients]
by Cammie Eicher
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The Ancient world is in chaos. The body of famed model/talk show host/vampire Nekia is discovered by short-lifers after her execution. The Prophetess, seer of the Ancients, is dying. A cabal of Ancients determined to maintain the status quo is willing to kidnap and kill to do so. The high elder orders vampires to gather together in their homelands and hide. And for the first time in his four hundred years, Giorgio Montrosa is in love. Yet there's nothing he can do to protect his beloved Leykin, ... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 81512 - Reading Time: 232-326 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Blood Soup
by Kelly Harmon
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A tale of murder, betrayal and comeuppance. King Theodicar of Borgund needed an heir. When his wife, Queen Piacenza, became pregnant, he'd hoped for a boy. His wife, along with her nurse, Salvagia, had other plans. With each cast of the runes, Salvagia's trusted divination tools yielded the same message: "A girl child must rule or the kingdom will fall to ruin." As such, the women were convinced that the child would be a girl. When the queen finally gives birth, the nurse and the king are equall... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 19112 - Reading Time: 54-76 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Blood Vice
by Keith Melton
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Business has never been better for hit man Karl Vance. Boston is awash in mafia blood, and Vance has a certain fondness for blood. He's a master vampire--one of the most powerful of his kind. Having sworn to never again feed on the blood of innocents, Karl preys instead on Boston's criminal underworld. Which makes him a valuable asset to those who deal in death. Maria Ricardi intends to use that asset to its full extent in order to gain power within her patriarchal crime family. Vance thinks he'... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 95897 - Reading Time: 273-383 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Bloodlines
by Skyla Dawn Cameron
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After three hundred years of unlife, sexy vampire Zara Lain has seemingly done it all, and she's now making a living as a successful thief-turned-assassin. Her newest assignment seems simple enough--kill the aging leader of the O'Connor Coven and his only heir, and she'll have another ten million in the bank. But in the dangerous world of the supernatural, few things are ever "simple." When a massive assault decimates the continent's population of powerful witches and warlocks, and its orchestra... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 67130 - Reading Time: 191-268 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Bloodlines: Legacies of Madness
by Terry L. Vinson
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One by one they walk to the podium to tell their story. Family members whose relatives became infamous for crimes of unspeakable violence and unbridled insanity. They unweave their tales to an auditorium filled with young medical students tasked with writing extensive essays on the criminally insane mind. The victims of the gene pool step forward, some young and some old, some in good spirits and others solemn and grim, and regale the fascinated group with tales.... Every family has buried skele... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 66650 - Reading Time: 190-266 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Bright Star
by Grayson Reyes-Cole
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In a clash of love and destiny, who pays the price? Jackson thought he was the most powerful shifter in the world. Blessed with gifts and popularity, he's always felt bad for his brother Rush, who'd been born with the disadvantage of being normal. But when a beautiful shifter named Bright Star appears on the scene, Jackson learns his brother is far from normal. Bright Star forces Rush to reveal unimaginable talents he's always kept hidden-talents Bright Star claims will save the world?whether Ru... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 96537 - Reading Time: 275-386 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Fantasy
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Brutal Light
by Gary W. Olson
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When the light comes? pray for darkness. All Kagami Takeda wants is to be left alone, so that no one else can be destroyed by the madness she keeps at bay. Her connection to the Radiance--a merciless and godlike sea of light--has driven her family insane and given her lover strange abilities and terrible visions. But the occult forces that covet her access to the Radiance are relentless in their pursuit. Worse, the Radiance itself has created an enemy who can kill her--a fate that would unlea... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 109709 - Reading Time: 313-438 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Burn Witch Burn: The Fantasy Classic
by A. Merritt
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Mafia Versus Witchcraft! "With such consummate skill," wrote the New York Times, "has Mr. Merritt told his story in Burn Witch Burn that one is almost ready to believe that such things can be, even in this twentieth century of ours." Not available in paperback, here is the fabled novel of an eminent physician who agrees to work along side one of the city's most notorious gangsters to put an end to a strange and mysterious series of deaths that have claimed a child, a millionaire, one of the don'... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 58368 - Reading Time: 166-233 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Camdigan
by C. Dennis Moore
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A wrong turn off the highway finds David lost in Camdigan. He would never have gone to Camdigan by choice. But then, no one did. It is an eerie, otherworldly town, where the sky is gray, the air is gray, even the people are gray in attitude and manner. The only glimmer of life is Beth, a young girl who claims to be the reincarnation of his deceased wife. She pleads with him to leave. "Everyone here is dead," she says. "We move and think, we feel, we even grow, but this place is dead. We don't sl... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 17798 - Reading Time: 50-71 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
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Cara Mia [Book One of the Immortyl Revolution]
by Denise Verrico
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Vampires Mia and Kurt become involved in a deadly mission to harness the power of immortality. Mia Disantini is a vampire whose greatest desire is to walk in the sun again. She is enslaved by her charismatic master, Ethan, and plunged into an ancient, unenlightened Immortyl culture. As Mia struggles for the freedom to live as she chooses, she is trained as Ethan's Bird of Prey. Soon she becomes the pawn of their powerful, enigmatic elder, Brovik, in his deadly games of deception and intrigue aga... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 87198 - Reading Time: 249-348 min.
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Casting Stones
by Laurencia Hoffman
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The act of revenge is short-lived. The feeling of regret lasts forever. Avery Stone was a normal guy who never did anything important in his life. After a tragic childhood, he found a family ready and willing to take him in. Though he never really felt that he belonged there, he knew that it was better than being alone. When someone starts murdering random werewolf families Avery finds himself fighting to keep his loved ones safe. Excerpt: Chance got to his feet, waiting for everyone to say som... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 33312 - Reading Time: 95-133 min.
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Castle Darkest Night
by Joe Vadalma
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Castle Darkest Night is a dark fantasy in the Gothic tradition. It concerns a Medieval castle, a woman on the edge of madness, the paranormal, obsessed scientists, mysterious events, murder, a torrid love affair and an unholy experiment. Amy is led from horror after horror which sinks her into a quagmire of death, madness and sin. And what of the young Ray Smart? Will he save Amy from the horrors that haunts her? Or will he tempt her into a forbidden love affair?
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Changing Woman Ways
by Conda V. Douglas
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An evil lurks beneath the Navajo sands... Mora believes she knows all about the Navajo world. But when she enters that world, she discovers an evil lurking within the desert sands. Excerpt: Mora didn't want to touch the beams. She thought of Auntie Aggie's mocking laugh and wondered what Auntie Aggie would think of her loom, here. Had Anne breached the taboo of a death hogan to retrieve the loom? She shivered at the thought of the dirty, cold hogan, and Auntie Aggie's body laid in a corner, wr... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 6120 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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CHILD OF THE LIVING DEAD [THE EVILS OF MASON THURLOW, BOOK I]
by Adrian Scott
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In 19th century New Orleans, Mason Thurlow, a mysterious man with strange powers and an enormous capacity for evil, hatches a sinister plot to overthrow the goverment of Hati. Weilding black magic and the power of his almost unlimited wealth, Thurlow sets off a slave uprising that will eventually leave 60,000 dead. But the true story begins long before - when Mason, age seven, is killed for the first time and raised from the dead. It's the beginning of an epic series of novels written from the p... more info>>
Words: 59686 - Reading Time: 170-238 min.
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Chloe of the Night
by Keith Kekic
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Return to me and the streets will run red with blood. They thought I was crazy. They told me it was all in my head. For years I believed them. Then I found a note, and a blade, and I now realize that although I turned my back to the night, it never turned its back on me. It just keeps calling, calling me back. We called ourselves nightwalkers. Together we ruled the night, alone I broke us apart. I now search for them in the darkness, their shining green eyes, their shining silver blades, but I f... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 106647 - Reading Time: 304-426 min.
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Claimed
by Cammie Eicher
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Chiana McFain is a tough as nails, no-holds-barred senior agent with Guardian Security, assigned to trace and dispose of hell rats, rogue vampires and other paranormal creatures. But she goes from hunter to hunted in a matter of seconds after a ghostly apparition touches her and brands her arm. Forced to face the reality that she's only half-human, she reaches out to the only other person who knows she's the daughter of a Valkyrie, the doctor who has developed a unique serum to hide her heritage... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 50561 - Reading Time: 144-202 min.
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Corrupts Absolutely: A Dark Metahuman Fiction Reader
by Lincoln Crisler
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Power corrupts, and absolute power?well, you know. The only family member to survive the 9/11 attacks. A sidekick-turned-construction-worker. The teenaged products of an institute for unwanted metahuman children. The man who can make anyone do anything. Are they heroes? Are they villains? Sometimes they're both. Often, even at the same time. Corrupts Absolutely? collects twenty brand-new stories from veteran authors and newcomers, each with a unique perspective on what it might really be like t... more info>> (Published: 2012)
Words: 79931 - Reading Time: 228-319 min.
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Creep, Shadow!: The Dark Fantasy Masterwork
by A. Merritt
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This Two Thousand Year-Old Sorceress Had the Power to Turn People into Shadows! Here is A. Merritt's masterwork, our publisher's pick for the best of all his classic fantasies. Creep, Shadow! Is based on legends of Ys and an old Breton song. "Fisher, fisher, have you seen/White Dahut, the Shadow Queen/Riding on her stallion black/At her heels her shadow pack?" Had the last King and Princess of wicked Ys, returned after three thousand years? Why were they creating an exact replica of Stonehenge o... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 79340 - Reading Time: 226-317 min.
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Creeping Dread: The Fantastic Journals of Luther Henry
by Terry L. Vinson
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As part of a secretly assembled crack team of confederate soldiers dubbed 'The Phantom Rebs', former Civil War sharpshooter Luther Henry thought he'd survived the worst that infamous conflict had to offer. (Published: 2008)
Words: 100414 - Reading Time: 286-401 min.
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Crimson Dreams
by Margaret L. Carter
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The summer when Heather was eighteen, her dream beast's nightly visits warded off loneliness and swept her away in flights of ecstasy. Now, returning to the mountains to sell her dead parents' vacation cabin, she finds her "beast" again. But he turns out to be more than a dream, and she is not the only woman who craves his kiss. Devin's first love, centuries in the past, died horribly because of her devotion to him. Does he dare to expose another mortal woman to that risk? (Published: 2003)
Words: 68592 - Reading Time: 195-274 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy/Romance
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Dancing in the Dark [The Shield & The Darkness Series Book 1]
by T. D. McKinney
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Jack Niemczyk is a mindhunter, a profiler. An expert at putting himself inside the minds of some of the most twisted killers ever to plague the country, he has been a FBI Special Agent for nearly twenty years. There isn't much he hasn't seen or hunted. Now he's been sent to New Orleans to find yet another serial killer. He hates the city, he hates the case, and he hates his partner on the task force, a Cajun loose cannon named Remy Lambert. With the investigation rapidly heading south, the last ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 67831 - Reading Time: 193-271 min.
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Dark Angels
by Rick Magers
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A word of warning from The Grizz before you take this book home to read. Somewhere in these 8 stories you will find some of the people that you see every day. I have simply lifted their mask to reveal the person beneath who is capable of committing acts that until they happen, you will not believe it possible. Almost everyone who met Ted Bundy considered him a charming and affable fellow, even the women--UNTIL. If you decide to buy it anyway, then don't forget to lock your windows and doors befo... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 62048 - Reading Time: 177-248 min.
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