Modern Occult Fiction

Perfume is memory. Blood is obsession. And love? Love is the sharpest thing in the room. I bottle desire for a living. Perfume is my life. One lucky haul of antique glass—exquisite, all different, all purring like they’ve got secrets—and my new indie perfume company blows up overnight. Orders spike. A glossy interview drops. My little brand catches fire. Then the bottles start to hum. Enter Gabriel de Clermont: tall, inconvenient, and very much the kind of trouble I swore off. He recognizes the truth I really didn’t order—those bottles were forged with vampire blood. His blood. ...

Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.

“Mara Wilson's sober narration style and consistent pacing create an amusing juxtaposition with the unlucky events that unfold.” — AudioFile “An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of...

From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder—a world where women...

I got the cat because my therapist said I needed “connection” and my sister said I needed “less silence.” I did not realize this would involve chanting, blood contracts, or a pamphlet printed on unsettlingly good paper. At first, it’s just a cat. Aloof. Judgmental. Stares at the corner of the room like it’s watching something I can’t see. Normal cat stuff. Then he starts leaving the flat at night. Coming back smelling like incense and damp carpet. Then I find the symbol. Then the meetings. Then the gentle but very firm suggestion that I’m holding him back from his destiny. ...

Over 100 years ago, a group of witches made their way from New England to Whitewater, Wisconsin, known as Second Salem. Others also made their way to the city and, through their ignorance, unleashed an evil entity. Three sisters, the Willoughby Witches, created an incantation strong enough to ensnare the demon. Lord Henry McDermott, college professor, anthropologist, and archaeologist, has yearned to learn more about the legend of the Willoughby Witches. Taking the summer off to research the folklore, Henry discovers that there is more waiting for him in Whitewater than just a story.

Explore the occult from ancient times to the modern day with one of its most respected scholars and practitioners. Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from around the world. John Michael Greer delves into two millennia of tradition, from the earliest alchemists to pagan rituals; from the philosopher's stone to cabala, the first tarot, and the Knights Templar; and from the first horoscopes to fortune-telling trials and the birth of modern witchcraft, or Wicca.

In his most sweeping historical work, occult scholar and widely known voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz presents a lively, intellectually serious historical exploration of modern occultism, from astrology and alchemy to the dawn of Theosophy and modern witchcraft—and the spiritual revolutions that followed.

[This is book 3 in the complete four-book series, Bittersweet Vampire Curse.] Blood magic. Witch fire. Fallen vampires. One full moon to decide everything. The blood curse will kill Lucas. And Annie refuses to lose him. Their search for a cure leads them to Thornhaven, a witch fortress at the edge of the world owned by Annie's Aunt Lucinda. Here, ancient magic waits—along with Lucas’s last chance at life. Annie and Lucas must survive vampire zealots, shadowed pathways, giant spiders, and the secrets of Annie’s own bloodline… all while fighting the hunger burning inside Lucas and the...

Guy is about to finish writing his breakthrough online article. He overheard the story by chance in a pub and it’s guaranteed to go viral - all he needs to do is persuade the World’s Unluckiest Man to talk to him. His best friend Larry’s quest for killer clickbait material has led him to a recently appeared shanty town in Glasgow, where he finds some kind of urban voodoo cult. Ex-cop Sam has already come face-to-face with the terrifying force behind both these phenomena, but he’s been trying to put it out of his mind.

The truth didn’t save them. It changed them. In a world protected by secrecy, power always comes with consequences. After the events that nearly tore reality apart, the Occult Division is still standing—but barely. Cursed artifacts are resurfacing. Impossible deaths are leaving no evidence. And the boundary between legend and modern life is beginning to fail. As history itself turns hostile, the Division must contain threats that were never meant to exist in the present day. This is not a story about heroes. It is a story about what comes after survival. The Occult Division operates in ...

Vampire Celeste captures Gabriel de Clermont, her progeny—and she thinks that’s the end of the story, as his evil Maker. She wants him as leverage to get the enchanted bottles and grow her power and wealth. Perfumer Aria Holt, who has fallen for Gabriel, knows better. With Loki (a shifter, warrior & loyal menace), Luna (a witch with rules), and new ally Apollo Knox (old-world vampire with debts and teeth), she hunts the one ritual that can free him from Celeste. Saving Gabriel is only the beginning. Because their original mission still waits: steal the Choir—a vault of cursed bottles ...

Enchantress witch Elle, werewolf - warlock Fergie, and spell witch Rebecca face their most difficult case yet, when a stolen medieval document leads them to discover a 450-year-old familial curse—a curse they need to break! They learn that the document is connected to murders and magical mayhem that has plagued two Scottish families for centuries. The stakes are raised when the purloined parchment will be the ransom for two kidnapped witches. But where is it? In this multi-layered witchy mystery romance novel, Elle and Fergie explore their growing romantic feelings when they join their ...

Accused of murder by a coven, enchantress investigator Elle Chambers prepares to defend her life, her powers, and her reputation in a harrowing trial by the coven. When Elle slips into a powerful witch dream, she makes contact with her mother—who may still be alive in another reality. The dream brings not only emotional upheaval but also, a mysterious artifact with dangerous implications. Soon, Elle finds herself drawn into a new investigation involving ancient dodecahedrons, lost magical powers, and the power of time and place travel. As Elle faces her past, she confronts a growing ...

From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice. Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer...

Unlock the door to a world where myths breathe, mysteries fester, and fiction blends with reality. The Horror Files brings together an enthralling collection of short stories that merge the eerie beauty of legends with gripping mysteries, unsettling horrors, paranormal activity and mystery. From cursed relics, ghostly enigmas, modern day vampires, and real life fight for survival stories, these tales transport readers into dark corners where the boundaries of imagination dissolve. For fans of spellbinding horror and stories that linger in your mind long after the last page, The Horror Files...

Some small towns keep their secrets. Crescent Pines buries them in blood. Alex Castillo never planned to return to Crescent Pines. The remote Northern California town was little more than a ghost in his past—a place he left behind years ago. But when he decides to visit his aging aunt, Rosa, Alex can’t ignore the sense of urgency in the town's residents voices. They sound scared. Desperate. Like they know something he doesn’t. From the moment he arrives, the town feels wrong. The streets are too quiet. The locals avoid his gaze.

Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancee was Ben's first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, "There's no such thing as an evil building." Now he's caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.

Amazon Bestselling Author D.K. GREY, creator of INHERITED SECRETS and DARKENED SECRETS, returns with ECHOED SECRETS— Book Three in the chilling Hale Mansion SECRETS Collection, where supernatural horror, spiritual warfare, and the evils of humanity collide. Nearly twelve years have passed since the events of INHERITED SECRETS, and six years since the haunting aftermath of DARKENED SECRETS. Amber Hale’s intuitive gifts and extrasensory perception (ESP) are intensifying as she steps into adolescence. The Hybrid Curse stirs once more—rooted in ancient forces, shaped by psychology, and ...

Lysandra Duke didn’t lose her faith—she just outgrew the version that came with fear. Once, she was the woman who could bend reality with a whisper and a candle flame. Her magick was precise, her intentions clear, her results instant. The Goetia never disappointed her. Humans did. And God? He stayed suspiciously quiet. But when her rituals stop working and the silence starts to hum with something sacred, Lysandra finds herself pulled into the one initiation she never expected—trust. Not the kind preached from pulpits, but the raw, uncomfortable kind that demands you stay when your ...