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The time has come for the fate of Heaven and Earth to be decided. Darshan will now seek out the Reborn King for a final confrontation. But will his power be enough to free the world from certain annihilation? Will he be strong enough to save the people he loves?

There are thousands of mages in the world, but only one slayer.

People are going missing in rural California. That might not make it onto August’s radar, but their sudden reappearance with tales of alien abduction sure does. It’s not just some wilderness bumpkins with too much moonshine in their bloodstream though, a US Airforce pilot had to ditch his plane in the wake of a close encounter and that’s much harder to ignore. Just what is going on in the desert? Can it really be something not of this world?

Joan ha fallito. Non è riuscita a fermare Eleanor, e ora il mondo appartiene ai mostri. In questa nuova realtà, le regole sono cambiate: gli umani vivono nel terrore, rinchiusi in gabbie d'oro, schiacciati da leggi crudeli e puniti aspramente. E il tempo è diventato un'arma. Solo pochi ricordano la verità e, tra loro, Joan, Nick e Aaron sono gli unici a sapere che esisteva una realtà diversa. Nick, una volta eroe e cacciatore di mostri, è consumato dal rimorso per la scelta che ha condannato il mondo.

Zeus' Ermordung hat einen Keil zwischen Briar und Phobos getrieben. Doch während er nicht wagt, sich einzugestehen, dass er für Zeus' Ableben sogar insgeheim dankbar ist, verschweigt Briar ihm weiterhin, dass der Göttervater nur der Anfang war. Phobos' vermeintliches Streben nach Macht versetzt die Götter in Aufruhr und macht nicht nur ihn, sondern auch Briar zur Zielscheibe. Gleichzeitig müssen sie nach außen hin das perfekte Liebespaar spielen, um es so aussehen zu lassen, als hätte Phobos Zeus' nur wegen seiner überwältigenden Gefühle ermordet.

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long since faded. For Maevyth and Zevander, the only chance of escape is through The Eating Woods. But fate has woven a new web, tangling the threads of destiny, and crossing the mystical boundary to Aethyria might not be so simple.

It's been nearly a millennium since wolves prowled the earth. They're only spoken of as mythical destroyers of life. But one solitary wolf, born a simple, primal beast, is becoming the very monster of legend feared by both humans and otherworldly creatures. A multilimbed shapeshifter, it slaughters anything that threatens it or the pack of allies it has sworn to protect, including Emhreeil; her human friend, Katherine; and a goblin known as Scruffy. All three are grateful for the wolf's guidance but frightened of its growing power.

In case the Council of Athyzia did not end disastrously enough, even more dire consequences await the sorceress Nauveena. Looking to blame someone for the council's outcome, the Academy of Mages casts her out, sending her into exile. Now she is without her magic and without a home. With nowhere to turn, she settles at the tiny Clovis Monastery in Jenor's remote wilderness. It will be in this lonesome corner of Jenor that she will try to save the rest of it. Nauveena has only one motivation now, overturning the council. At Clovis, she will study the issue. However, the monks are not helpful.

In the Haunts of Goblin Men is a standalone installment in A Horde of Dead Poets collection featuring seven authors and their stories inspired by famous literary poems. If you find yourself steering toward a dark, mysterious, isolated location, or family curses haunt you and unreliable narrators keep you in suspense, you won’t want to miss a single volume in this gripping collection.

يسمونني (حفار القبور)، وأيضًا (مصطفى القط)، وذلك لأني مِتُ أكثر من سبع مرات. لحظة، هل قلت إنني مت؟ لماذا تستغرب؟ نعم، لقد مت ليس مرة واحدة، بل قل أكثر من سبع مرات. وهذا ما سيدفعك لتكذيبي وإنكار قصتي.

He stole her throne, she's come back to reclaim it. Anne was a reckless, arrogant royal who had never tasted defeat. After a brutal betrayal on her wedding night, Anne vanishes from the kingdom she was meant to rule. Years later, she’s returns from the grave—no longer a princess but a terror of the seas. Known only as Blackbeard, she’s hunting down the men who destroyed her, one by one. But vengeance doesn’t come without a cost. Brutal bargains collar her, and bind her to a dark promise.

The residents of a village outside Moscow wake up to discover that the road out to the motorway has disappeared without a trace and the usual paths into the woods somehow lead back into the village. And the woods? Overnight their weedy and rubbish-strewn copse has become a dark and overgrown forest inhabited by something mysterious and unfriendly. Anyone who makes it into the trees either vanishes into thin air or returns, not quite themselves . . . And, of course, the Internet, radio, and TV have stopped working and the weather never changes.

Flynn and her friends plan to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history, but their planned night of drinking and teenage debauchery twists into a surreal nightmare. Suddenly forced into strange choices and places, the tight–knit group starts to fall apart. And then Jackson falls to his death. In the days that come after, Flynn finds herself trapped, as if she never left the house. Consumed by the lost secrets of her family past, and haunted by the specter of a Victorian woman, she finds herself losing time and seeing things that aren’t there.

Set against the backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Diptera is a lusty tale that follows the journey of an entomology professor, Boris, who is awarded a top-secret military project to study the Robber fly. After the initial phase, his government unveils the project's true aims; aims that would ultimately test his patriotism, his resolve, and his humanity.

Vane and the Crocodile AKA the Madd Brothers, have been stripped of their titles and their assets after their father’s failed coup of the Darkland Court. Immortal, powerful and monstrous, it doesn’t take them long to make their way back up the ladder, but this time it’s not in the manors and mansions of the Darkland elite, it’s the dark underbelly known as the Umbrage.

"The eyes never lie even when the mouth will oblige." The rumblings of war stir the kingdoms of Kresha, where legends are born in blood. Decades after an uneasy peace divided the continent, old grudges ignite as kings strive for power and dark magicks arise.

NELLA FORESTA DI ROKTHAN, un piccolo, insignificante villaggio come ce ne sono tanti, gli animali cominciano a sparire. Sorin, un cacciatore, cerca di comprenderne il motivo. Ma la diminuzione delle prede non è la sua unica preoccupazione: da un paio di giorni, infatti, suo figlio Jas è vittima di strane crisi di violenza. Intanto, un vecchio straniero dall'aspetto emaciato che si fa chiamare Maestro fa la sua comparsa nel paese, portandosi dietro una scia di sangue e di misteri.

After a brief stint commanding the halls of Hope's Memorial hospital, Walter has made it out relatively unscathed—and with a few lasting friends to boot. Now, all he wants is a cozy vacation away from the chaos of Site 1102, but unfortunately, things are about to take a turn for the worse.

Erion hat es geschafft, die sagenumwobene Graue Schar der Sechzehnten zu finden. Doch sein Traum, Teil dieser Legende zu werden, rückt in weite Ferne. Denn die Sechzehnte ist nicht, was er erwartet hat. Außerdem stößt Erion in deren Reihen auf einen mächtigen Gegner. Während die Rebellen sich auf einen verzweifelten Feldzug begeben, um ein Dunkles Zeitalter zu verhindern, muss Erion sich nicht nur im Kampf beweisen, sondern sich auch den Schatten seiner eigenen Herkunft stellen.

Tales of fantasy and horror from the author of We Burn Our Dead.