Ergebnis für "Gothic" in Urban Fantasy

For fans of KJ Charles's The Magpie Lord and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, this Lammy-nominated twentieth-century American romance follows a graduate student through a magical, queernorm version of the 1960s as he joins forces with an archivist to fight a god. Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov...

The year is 1996, and Los Angeles is a strange and sensuous place. Morgana, a Vampire and fledgling reporter, lives in a world that could only be described as a fantasy; one where Humans, Vampires, Orcs, Elves, and other mythic races coexist in a tumultuous society. Her life is thrown into chaos when the story of a missing teenage girl lands on her desk. Her investigation thrusts her into the dark recesses of the city, finding herself undercover as a sex worker in the macabre and alluring underworld.

Eigentlich hat Jocasta alles, was eine normale Studentin braucht: einen sicheren College-Platz an der renommierten Beecher Universität, einen Job und eine verkorkste Affäre mit ihrem Dozenten. Doch Jo ist alles andere als normal. Als Tochter des Todes muss sie sich von negativen Gefühlen ernähren, um zu überleben: den kleinen Toden des Alltags, Enttäuschung, gebrochene Herzen, Misserfolgen. Niemand in ihrem sorgfältig errichteten Umfeld kennt Jocastas wahres Gesicht.

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is... but Sookie's got a bit of a disability. She...

Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the August Derleth award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Perdido Street Station is an imaginative urban fantasy thriller, and the first of China Miéville's novels set in the world of Bas-Lag. The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its...

The first installment of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series, Night Pleasures. The Dark-Hunters are ancient warriors who have sworn to protect mankind and the fate of the world is in their hands. . . He is solitude. He is darkness. He is the ruler of the night. Yet Kyrian of Thrace has just...

Willkommen in der Dämonen-WG! Avery wollte nur Paris genießen – doch dann wird sie im Louvre gekidnappt. Ihr Entführer: Prinz Deavon, der sie in die sieben Kreise des Devar – die Hölle – verschleppt. Plötzlich findet Avery sich einer Dämonen-WG mit einem Haufen labil-irrer...

She’s trained with him. She’s hunted with him. She’s killed with him. Now he’s missing. After the loss of her mother years ago, he is all she has left, and she will do whatever she can to find him. They had made a pact, a rule never to be broken: If we don't hear anything after three days, we investigate. Three days passed. Now Bethany must take all her years of training, all the skills she developed, and leave the place she’s called home her whole life.

Sookie is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed and no one seems to care. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously sucks the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). The...

Bloomsbury presents I Hear A New World by Alan Moore, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. 'Extraordinary' Susanna Clarke, bestselling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell A continuation of The Great When; a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London - fictional and real -...

The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth Just when you thought doomsday was over . . . Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by...

'One of the best books I've read in years' - VE Schwab, author of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops...

Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to...

As an ancient Sumerian god, Sin was one of the most powerful among his pantheon. . . Until the night Artemis brutally stole his godhood and left him for dead. For millennia, this ex-god turned Dark-Hunter has dreamed only of regaining his powers and seeking revenge on Artemis. If only life were...

The second installment in Sherrilyn Kenyon's bestselling Dark-Hunter series, Night Embrace. As an ancient Celtic warrior, Talon made one giant mistake— he killed the son of the war god Camulus. In anger and outrage, Camulus cursed him—Everyone Talon loved would die a horrible death in front...

INTRODUCING YOUR NEXT DARK PARANORMAL OBSESSION . . . 'A stunning fantasy debut steeped in mystery, betrayal, and powerful magic' - Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching and An Academy for Liars **** A WITCH FATED TO RISE. A TRUCE ABOUT TO CRUMBLE. ONE WOMAN TO STAND BETWEEN PEACE...

Zarek's Point of View: Dark-Hunter: A soulless guardian who stands between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. Yeah, right. The only part of that Code of Honor I got was eternity and solitude. Insanity: A condition many say I suffer from after being alone for so long. But I don't...

Valerius isn't a popular Dark-Hunter-he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superceding them. To make things worse, he's very conscious of his aristocratic background and breeding. So it serves him right when he runs into...

Bride McTierney has had it with men. They're cheap, self-centered, and never love her for who she is. But though she prides herself on being independent, deep down she still yearns for a knight in shining armor. She just never expected her knight in shining armor to have a shiny coat of fur...

Traveler, Cleric, Witch. The villagers in the sleepy hamlet of Lychford are divided. A supermarket wants to build a major branch on their border. Some welcome the employment opportunities, while some object to the modernization of the local environment. Judith Mawson (local crank) knows the...