Contemporary

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world....

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.,,,

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention....

Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life. Until the day one of her favorite customers—a lonely yet charming old man—dies right in front of her....

Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana....

With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon....

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves....

Alice Hoffman's enchanting witch's brew of suspense, romance and magic - now a major motion picture from Warner Bros....

Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's a determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is Chicago's only openly practicing wizard. He is also dead broke....

On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park....

Something is stirring up angry apparitions all over town. Something that can break all the laws of supernatural physics. Something that doesnt like Harry....

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end....

The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council - and there's only one, final punishment for that crime....

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet....

Al MacBharrais has a most unusual job: He’s a practitioner of ink-and-sigil magic, tasked with keeping order among the gods and monsters that dwell hidden in the human world. But there’s one supernatural mystery he’s never been able to solve.

All the world's a stage...even when you're teleported to a new world. Struggling actress Cara O'Sullivan was walking down the street of Galway one moment, and the next, she was in an ancient tomb in a faraway world....

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead....

When a killer vampire threatens to destroy head of Special Investigations Karrin Murphy's reputation, unless Harry delivers the powerful Word of Kemmler to her, he has no choice.....

After being murdered by a mystery assailant and then brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad....

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas, only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.....

Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk....

The specter of graduation looms large as Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling trilogy continues in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education....

The Naming Song is an audiobook of deep secrets and marvelous discoveries, strange adventures and dangerous truths. It's the story of a world locked in a battle over meaning. Most of all, it's the perfect fantasy for anyone who's ever dreamed of a stranger, freer, more magical world.

The moment we felt the mate bond, Kaci had only one choice to make: surrender to instinct and bear our pups like a good girl or force us to chase her down, belt her ass, and breed her hard. She chose hard, and she got it. Over and over again. But the truth is she was ours long before we marked her.

When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.

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.

This collection contains all-new stories of coulrophobia (fear of clowns) from some of the most talented horror writers alive!

This is the story of the peculiar and magical photo studio owned by Mr. Hirasaka, a collector of antique cameras. In the dimly lit interior, a paper background is pulled down in front of a wall, and in front of it stands a single, luxurious chair with an armrest on one side. On a stand is a large bellows camera. On the left is the main studio; photos can also be taken in the courtyard. Beyond its straightforward interior, however, is a secret. The studio is, in fact, the door to the afterlife, the place between life and death where those who have departed have a chance—one last time.

RELICS—The Chronicles of Solomon Drake, is an Urban Fantasy story set in modern day Detroit. On a brisk Monday in December—after staying up most of the night looking after a pack of sick Werewolves—Solomon's world is turned upside down when a small Cob Elf is found in the back of Blackmane’s with a strange crystal in his possession, a crystal that contains the spirit of the powerful Wizard Merlin.

Dunkle Magie, gefährliche Abenteuer und eine verbotene Liebe – der Auftakt der neuen Saga von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Deborah Harkness. Diana Bishop und Matthew Clairmont sind ein ungewöhnliches und verbotenes Liebespaar: In der Historikerin fließt das Blut eines uralten Hexengeschlechts, während ihr Mann nicht nur Naturwissenschaftler ist, sondern ein 1.500 Jahre alter Vampir. Mit ihren siebenjährigen Zwillingen haben die beiden ein neues Leben in Connecticut begonnen, als Diana erfährt, dass sie ihre Kinder zu einem großen Ritual zum Stammsitz ihrer Familie bringen muss.

In einer geheimnisvoll-düsteren Schattenwelt treffen rauschende Feste und höfische Intrigen einer adeligen Elite auf magischen Staub und zwielichtige Drogenkartelle. Was, wenn Albträume Realität werden könnten? In den Schatten von Paris herrscht Krieg. Seit Jahrhunderten halten die Saints monströse Albtraum-Kreaturen davon ab, in die reale Welt einzudringen. Doch während die mächtigen Adelsfamilien damit beschäftigt sind, sich untereinander zu bekämpfen, macht sich eine ganz andere Gefahr breit: Eine neue Droge lockt mehr und mehr Menschen in die Abgründe der Schattenräume.

Kelsey Strand's encounters with a hunting panther and a mysterious stranger force a dangerous magical talent to the surface and change everything she thought she knew about herself and the world around her. Only the sudden arrival of Marti Rider, a Sidhe sorcerer allows Kel to escape with her life.

A captivating journey awaits Jonah, a young Black man whose brush with the unknown leaves him grappling with the pieces of a life he can no longer remember. When he awakens to a world that feels intimately familiar and unsettlingly distant, Jonah must connect the scattered dots of his existence, guided by a mysterious presence whose intentions are as cryptic as the shifting realities around him.

With nothing left, Lucas arrives in Ember, Colorado—a town that holds the only clue to his past and the parents he lost at a young age. Taken in by Rocko, the compassionate local bar owner, Lucas dedicates himself to saving money for top surgery and building a new life. Everything changes when Veronica walks into the bar. Unbeknownst to Lucas, she is a vampire sanctioned by the council to take his blood. Neither of them realizes that Lucas carries a hidden legacy—his parents were vampire kin, genetically predisposed to being turned.

Step into a world where shadows have a voice, and nightmares linger long after the lights go out. Whispers in the Dark is a spine-chilling anthology of short horror stories that will haunt your imagination. Each tale is a gateway to the unknown, where ordinary moments twist into terrifying encounters and the mundane transforms into the macabre.

This Earth is a planet where technology and science rule. Their advance technology is far reaching. Explore this universe with me as we navigate the most interesting developments.

Ein plötzlicher Todesfall. Eine geheimnisvolle Entdeckung. Eine zum Scheitern verurteilte Mission. Elusyan wird beauftragt, die seit 150 Jahren verschollene Prinzessin des Königreichs Latura zu finden. Dazu begibt er sich in die Welt der Menschen, denn er benötigt Svejas Hilfe. Doch Sveja kämpft gerade mit eigenen Schwierigkeiten und denkt gar nicht daran, Elusyan zu treffen. Als Sveja überfallen wird, landet sie versehentlich allein in seiner Welt, die für Menschen unzählige Gefahren bereithält.