Kaimo de Morté is a trained optometrist but, living in a small town, he has to work in the mines to save money that will fund his planned optical emporium. Living under an emperor who is seen as a god, some revolutionaries fight for political...

Tom and Lovey II: Pursuit of the Thunderbird by G. R. Jerry continues the story of Tom and Lovey as they face more challenges. Lovey was struggling with her newly enhanced abilities. Her panther form was still a little foreign to her, but nothing tested...

Greedy as a Ghoul is a work in the dark fantasy, adventure, and action subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience due to its graphic violence and gore. It forms the prequel story for the upcoming novel Malfus: Necromancer Unchained. In...

Vladimir is dead, vampires and werewolves are working together, and things should be going well, except they’re not. A Dance Between Light and Darkness by M.C. Ryder follows Vince as he tries to uncover the reason behind the sudden appearance of dead bodies, which all...

Liza Clarke’s novella The Night Woods is a fantasy romance. Lorelai has taken a shortcut through the Night Woods. She doesn’t heed her brother Rowan’s warning to stay away from the woods. Lorelai dismisses the rumors of disappearing people as superstition. It has turned dark,...

Endless Journey is an epic dark fantasy novel by Frederick T.J. Ramazzo. It opens with a young warrior named Maztli traversing the dreaded Deadlands alongside his two companions, his lover Evelina and the deadly Elysian, Yofiel. Soon, following Bune's guidance, the trio stumbles upon a...

Ninth Planet is a set of short stories in the speculative and anthology subgenres. It is best suited to the mature adult reading audience and is penned by Jason Palmer. In this unique collection of nine short stories with deeply multi-layered and multi-genre influences and...

The Queen’s Scribe: Sea and Stone Chronicles by Amy Maroney is a medieval romance adventure set on the island of Cyprus in the mid-fifteenth century. A beautiful young Frenchwoman, Estelle de Montavon, leaves her family on Rhodes to travel to Cyprus, where she will be...

As D.L. Rhodes notes, speculative fiction is a mixed bag of genres that includes but is not limited to horror, science fiction, fantasy, magic, and just plain weird and otherwise unidentifiable themes. In The Woods, Dark & Deep is all that and more. For older...