Occult fiction

These fascinating cousins share a secret that’s been handed down through generations — a secret that sets them apart... CharmedHer legacy had been as much a curse as a blessing, so Anastasia Donovan had learned to keep it hidden. But when single dad...

She’s kind of a witch. He’s definitely a nerd. And this Halloween they’re letting their geek flags fly in this playful romantic comedy from bestselling author Katherine Garbera. Dungeons and dragons and nerds, oh my...The spooky season is almost here,...

The 400 million copy worldwide bestseller Dean Koontz is at his very best in this critically-acclaimed page-turner – soon to be a major motion picture. Find out why Odd Thomas is the master storyteller’s most-loved creation. Odd by name, a hero by...

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2023‘A hugely impressive debut’ SARAH WATERS‘[A] haunting and moving story’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A powerful and inspired achievement. This one is not to be missed’ NATHAN HARRIS’A haunting, powerful and...

'As stunning as it is unsettling. A contemporary gothic masterpiece' KATY HAYSIn the hallowed halls of Cambridge, a dangerous obsession takes hold… When a young man arrives in Cambridge as a first-year student, he finds himself an outsider. There’s the...

The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty’s Royal CovenAll is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven… Despite thinking they’ve thwarted the prophecy, the witches are still reeling from the events of...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe dark, dangerous, funny and uplifting new novel from the author of Annihilation, the inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Alex Garland. ‘Neither of us had control of our monsters anymore’In a ruined...

The fourth novel in the bestselling Serpentwar series. The demon is no more . . .The enemy has been routed, yet peace still eludes the Kingdom. Midkemia lies in smouldering ruins following the Demon King’s siege.And a new threat is arising from the...

The first book in a brand new series by the master of epic fantasy, Raymond E. Feist. Ten years after the cataclysmic events of Wrath of a Mad God took place, Midkemia now faces a new danger thought buried in myth and antiquity. A lost race of elves,...

The conclusion of the bestselling Demon War series, which began with Rides a Dread Legion Recent events have devastated the Conclave of Shadows; the discovery of the demon horde on the heels of the taredhel invasion of Midkemia, the threat of the star...

Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...

Winner of the 2023 FICCI India Book of the Year award - a powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer.Drawing on ancient tribal tales, Spirit Nights tells of a prophecy fulfilled when a number of villages are...

Beware of jewelry that calls to you.Andi Wyndham has been able to communicate with spirits since she was a kid. When a bone pendant carved into the likeness of a girl's face calls to her at a gem show in Pennsylvania, she can't resist buying it and a...

"Friedman's lyrical style will lure you in and scare you senseless." -Annette Dashofy, USA Today bestselling author of the Zoe Chambers Mysteries"Heart-pounding and heart-wrenching." -Library Journal, audio starred reviewBeware the Fisherman.Andi Wyndham...

At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather's library. The...

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new horror novel focused on a father's journey to find his missing daughter.Henry's daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he's been burying pieces of her ever since. Each totem...

"[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist Seth ... [offers] chills-and charm."-New York Times Book Review World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2023.Reverend...

A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal Winner "Original, hilarious, and completely inspirational." -Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The House Guest "Funny, poignant, spooky, and uniquely clever . . ." -J. T. Ellison, New York...

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors.A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she...

Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs...Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the 'unholy trinity' of cult classics which gave birth to the film genre that would become known as folk horror...

Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last.Long before the latest vogue for auto fiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own...

Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeThe perfect marriage of literary and speculative fiction for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro and NK Jemisin.When Freya Tanangco was ten, she dreamed of her mother's death right before it happened. That's when...

Thomas Kemp, the Libertine, turned cruelty, torture and humiliation into works of art.It was said that he had given his soul to something inhuman to be part of artistic immortality. It was said that his very ashes were used to make a set of charcoals...

In each of these stories, the reader is lured into a sinister shadow space, one both familiar and uncanny.Life is strange, beautiful, and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe's debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy...

Lucifer causes a curse that could change mankind's destiny.The prophet Jeremiah announces a curse which states the descendants of the Jewish King Jehoiachin will not become king of Judah and that Jehoiachin will be put in prison in Babylon. Lucifer tries...

Lucifer is preparing for his ultimate reign.And he has a plan literally out of this world for creating the perfect human who can influence and dominate the earth so he can come to power and rule all. Since the time of the Tower of Babel he has been...

Sandy Kurtz has problems. He's got a baby on the way, his wife doesn't love him, and he's struggling to find passion or purpose at his big-box retail job. And, once a month, he turns into a werewolf. In Darrin Doyle's deft hands, Sandy's story is a tall...

Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma after a very suspicious "accident." Even if it means infiltrating the last place Seraphina knows Eff was alive: a once-abandoned amusement park now populated...

This almost silent comic tells the story of an amateur alchemist and getaway driver for a bank heist. When the holdup goes wrong he finds himself with a bag full of hot cash, orders a build-your-own homunculus kit, and goes on the run. Tessler's dense...

This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West is the second entry in the Divide anthology series attempting to capture the newness, vastness, territoriality, and sense of transience alive in the American West. In this collection legends, myths,...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.The dead sleep peacefully-until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the count's dying wife begs to be buried near the...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.After attending a sance at an acquaintance's home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But when a prisoner begs...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, her ladyship solemnly digs her fractured companion a grave. Luckily Mr Puckler, renowned doll doctor, thinks...

When a mysterious head injury causes amnesia, Manson Digby finds himself plagued by violent thoughts and dark dreams-which cause him to wonder if he might be going crazy. Embarking upon a journey of self-discovery, Manson will need to figure out if he...

Young couples in conflict, overcoming or succumbing to their hearts, finding forgiveness or seeing the truth . . .Monsters, those of the past, those within us, and those that are real, changing or destroying us. A man turning into a monster or a monster...

Izzy Ames lives with her high school sweetheart, Cyrus Rivera, in the Salton Sea. They cling to each other and to their close friends Nephy and Seth to cope with thetrauma of their pasts. Until the morning Izzy awakes to find Cyrus has vanished.When she...

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldlymaking their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming havenstifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parishpriest. The...

In Urban Creatures, Sarah Gray's short stories shift from the unsettling to the surreal to the frightening, all cut through with her characteristic black humour. Urban survival makes creatures of us all. Urban Creatures skirts the edge of...

Cover art by Jon Langford of The Mekons An eldritch Western noirAuthor has 2 books out in 2021 building up to this novel in 2022

The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten features classic stories by masters of occult fiction including Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more--the very authors and tales...

Horror Takes Its TimeLooking for a thoughtful fright? Or perhaps a frightful thought? Packed with stories selected by one of today's leading esoteric scholars, this book will do more than make your toes curl and your skin crawl. These tales reveal hidden...

The Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path. Vivien has the ability to transform herself into magical images, and...

Scientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers of his day.His stories of adventure, utopia, and...

Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horrorArthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James,Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Michael...

During a trip to a nearby village, the proudly unmarried Sir Ashleigh Carruthers attends an evening service in the small local church. There, he finds himself seated next to the alluring and hypnotically beautiful Woman in Black and is instantly...

An original novel in which the 15th and 20th centuries meet with uncanny results, due to the invocation of Pan. This work is of special interest to students of magic and the Western Mystery Tradition.