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One moment, everything was normal. Then the World Core woke up and slaughtered almost everything alive so it could harvest their Chi. After that, it rebuilt everything and put the survivors in a game-like environment, pitting them against monsters and each other. The rules are different now. Chi power is as important as being able to fight. I'm one of the survivors. With my knowledge of martial arts and my special Chi skill, I'm turning myself into a force to be reckoned with. And the women I meet along the way? Let's just say there's more than one advantage to joining my party.

A fox waits at a window with a warning too late to ignore. A dog mourns its master without knowing it is the last goodbye. A crow tallies the debts of a village that forgot how to care. A whale sings beneath the floorboards for what was buried but never gone. In Strange Companions, animals speak in riddles, offer prophecies, and hold mirrors to the hidden corners of our humanity. Each story balances the uncanny with the intimate—dark fables and tender reflections that explore grief, greed, love, and the strange beauty of being alive.

Morgana kennt nur die Dunkelheit der Höhle, in der sie gefangen gehalten wurde – bis sie endlich entkommt. Doch auch in Freiheit lassen sie Ängste und düstere Träume nicht los. Plötzlich erkrankt der Baum, unter dem das Herz ihrer Mutter, der Göttin Terrent, schlägt. Nun liegt es allein an Morgana, die sterbende Insel zu retten. Gemeinsam mit dem Wolfsprinzen Lycan begibt sie sich auf eine gefährliche Reise durch verwunschene Wälder, um ein Heilmittel für den Baum zu suchen.

Embark on an epic journey where danger is around every corner, mysteries of the past come back to haunt and dragons awaken.

Warren is just a guardsman with a haunted past eager for a new castle to defend. All that changes when he's summoned to the edges of the kingdom, where walls protect cities against the diabolical foes of the wildlands. His mission is simple: save the Dragon Farm he just inherited, settle down as a lord, and help his new city thrive. As a soldier who normally lives by the blade, he's out of his element but up to the task... especially since tame dragons seem to like him.

In the Empire of Carpathia, judgment is swift—and silence, absolute. When a sealed Directive sends the Administrator to the remote fortress of Velgrade Keep, no details accompany the mission. Only one order: execute the condemned. What he finds instead is a man already in chains—a man who surrendered without resistance, speaks too calmly, and knows things he shouldn’t. The silence echoing through the corridors feels too measured. And the man at the center of it all isn’t fighting back.

D. C. Barletta is a writer, software developer, and unapologetic science geek who loves living at the intersection of code, creatures, and story. With a background in biological research and a deep interest in how life evolves under pressure, he builds fantasy worlds where ecosystems feel lived-in, and where rivers, roots, and bond-creatures shape the fate of cities hanging on by their fingertips. His ongoing World of Tethys saga follows exiles, wranglers, and root-listeners clinging to a cliffside civilization above a dangerous prehistoric sea.

Masques et visages couverts défilent dans ce recueil d’histoires. Un roi au masque d’or, un sauvage au mufle de fourrure, des routiers italiens à la face pestiférée et des routiers français aux faux visages, des galériens aux heaumes rouges, des jeunes filles subitement vieillies dans un miroir: voici la singulière foule de lépreux, d’embaumeuses, d’eunuques, d’assassins, de démoniaques et de pirates que Marcel Schwob assemble.

Dans ce Cabinet des Fées, le merveilleux français déploie ses fastes: un recueil de contes classiques signés Gérard, Leprince de Beaumont et Perrault. Entre palais ensorcelés, forêts profondes et épreuves secrètes, s’entrelacent magie, morale et destin. Ici, l’esprit l’emporte sur la force, la vertu se révèle à l’épreuve, et chaque enchantement recèle une leçon. La prose vive et délicate de l’époque confère à ces récits une grâce intemporelle.

Aux confins de la veille et du songe, une porte s’entrouvre. La Porte des rêves rassemble quinze contes fin-de-siècle où le fantastique se teinte de symbolisme. Sous l’influence de Poe et de Stevenson, Marcel Schwob cisèle des visions brèves, inquiétantes, parfois ironiques, où l’invisible affleure et la réalité chancelle. Voix, silhouettes, présages et mirages y composent un dédale de sensations: moins des intrigues que des atmosphères, où chaque image éclaire une ombre.

A mysterious island, a tribe of lovely monster gals, and a fight for survival. Troy Thunder, ex-US Secret Service, finds himself stuck on a mysterious island with nothing more than a knife and the shirt on his back. To survive, his skills will be put to the test.

Mark wanted to clock out of work, like an average guy, to have an average night with dreams of kicking his feet up. Fate happened to have another plan. After a dust storm envelops him, Mark awakes in the mythical land of Lathinia where adventure awaits. The land is teaming with magical monsters, and yes, fearsome dragons. Armed with a legendary sword and a very unique mount, he'll utilize a skill point system in the hopes of returning home.

Baron Dent grew up thinking his father was crazy, a mad scientist who believed in worlds beyond Earth. Turns out his father was not only sane, but a genius. When Baron went riding on a US military helicopter in the Indian Ocean, the last thing he expected to find was a waygate to another realm. Soon after, he discovers he’s not originally from Earth but from Agartha. What follows is a whirlwind of beautiful goddesses, past lives, and elemental magic.

Les Contes du vent et de la nuit, c'est avant tout une atmosphère. une sensation d'étrange, voire de fantastique, le sentiment angoissant que l'inconcevable va surgir du quotidien, la folie de la sagesse, la mort de la vie. Anatole Le Braz sonde les tréfonds de l'âme bretonne, en dévoile les pans les plus obscurs et passionnés. Nul étalage tapageur ici, mais l'amour, la vengeance, le remords, le chagrin sont autant de passions sourdes, rentrées, qui couvent silencieusement, mais débouche sur la folie ou la mort, sur le don total de tout son être.

The order requires three things: Dedication, Discipline, and complete Obedience. Chiara is anything but obedient. She has too many secrets. Chief among them Ness, her soul-bound Jaguar. On a mission gone wrong, Chiara must choose between the order she's always dreamed of joining, and the people she's sworn to protect.

In March 1987, Mercedes Lackey, a young author from Oklahoma, published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. No one could have envisioned that this modest book about a magical land called Valdemar would be the beginning of a fantasy masterwork series that would span decades and include more than two dozen titles.

Schauer, Spannung und Schwarze Romantik, Vol. 2: 10 weitere spannende Meisterwerke der klassischen Literatur. Von der schwarzen Romantik eines Edgar Allan Poe und Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mystery von Robert Louis Stevenson und Washington Irving, Grusel von Guy de Maupassant und Rudyard Kipling bis hin zur Spannung à la Jack London und H.P. Lovecraft! Mit dabei: 1. Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (Poe, Track 1), 2. Der junge Goodman Brown (Hawthorne, Track 2), 3. Das Flaschenteufelchen (Stevenson, Track 3–4), 4. Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Hoffmann, Track 5–7), 5. Blutrache (Maupassant, Track 8), 6.

After traveling across the entirety of the Sealance Empire and the deserts of Lowenthal, Larek has returned home to the Kingdom of Androthe to find that the situation is quite different from what he remembered. Not only are there massive Apertures called Calamities consuming large portions of the landscape, but most of his friends are also scattered to locations unknown around the Kingdom. Worse yet, they have no idea who he is because of the Dominion magic used on them before he was transported to the Empire.

Dies ist eine Anthologie, die die Entwicklung des Autors widerspiegelt und zum Gruseln, Lachen, Träumen, Hoffen und Bangen einlädt. Ein Mann auf der Suche nach seinem Feuer. Ein frecher Junge im Angesicht eines Fratzenmannes. Ein Ronin und ein Fischermädchen auf der Spur einer sagenumwobenen Stadt. Eine Reise zwischen Alptraum und Wahnsinn. Ein Jäger und sein Begleiter im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Mal poetisch, mal phantastisch, mal frech oder nachdenklich präsentieren sich die fünf unterschiedlichen Reisen an der Seite von Jonathan, Tim, Ketsui, der Dante und Abijaht.

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Welt von Edgar Allan Poe – dem Meister der unheimlichen Erzählung, des psychologischen Schreckens und der morbiden Poesie. Diese umfangreiche Hörbuch-Compilation versammelt 30 seiner besten Geschichten: von frühen phantastischen Erzählungen wie Metzengerstein und Das Manuskript in der Flasche, über legendäre Krimiklassiker wie Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue und Der entwendete Brief, bis hin zu psychologischen Meisterwerken wie Das verräterische Herz und Die schwarze Katze.