"Showing one's true self comes with consequences."After the death of a college student. Caleb Jensen and the eight other students encounter a governmental organization. The Umbra make their move to achieve their goal of showing the world their true selves. Will the Umbra achieve their goal or will Caleb and the others stop their plan before it's to late?

Includes Vol. 1-3Caleb Jensen world changes when he and eight other college students encounter their shadow selves.As this strange event unfolds around them they meet a professor who gives them more information on these shadowy creatures. As the nine students all split up across North America they all encounter horrors of what these shadows are capable of.

Bright lights, big city . . . magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural beings to protect them or have such powers themselves. Brujeria may be part of your way of life. Crimes can be caused (and solved) with occult arts and even a losing sports team's "curse" can be lifted with wizardry. And be careful of what cab you call—it might take you...

Three Slices is the only collection of novellas about cheese wizards in the world—and it's written by New York Times bestselling authors! You therefore need it as a matter of principle.A Prelude to War by Kevin HearneAfter an old friend is murdered in retaliation for his mercenary strikes against the oldest vampires in the world, ancient Druid Atticus O'Sullivan must solicit the aid of another old friend in Ethiop...

Hal spoke of taming the animal within. But I think he was wrong. I think we're meant to let it free.Josi is lost in the wilderness, surrounded by the savagery of an animal world. With the horror of her memories finally revealed, she becomes more and more like the creatures holding her captive.This is what it takes to survive, and surviving is what Josephine does. If cutting ties to her once-happy life is the price she must pay for the atrocities she's commi...

A fictional hero on his final questA reclusive author lost in her headThe only story that's ever mattered.Theirs.The secret to their past lies in a tale written by the author as a ten-year-old girl. Fan fiction, 80s nostalgia, and the imagination of a child combine to form a story that's equal parts baffling and brilliant – and dangerous for anyone living through it firsthand.But as the world evolves and the story matures, author and villain grow clos...

Welcome to a world of horror viewed through a kaleidoscope lens. Embark on a journey to untangle the writhing tendrils of human terror in a dimension where the possible and impossible blend—an unstable realm where comfort can be found in the coldest pits, and dark gods feast upon the sweetest suffering—where infernal sounds birth silent letters that drift along midnight shores and the unexplained lurks beneath crumbling urban structures. Step over the edge of what you think you know, and f...

----- She's an exasperated guardian angel. He's a stubborn human. Can she protect him from a demon's wrath, or will she lose her wings forever? -----I don't hate being a Guardian angel. What's frustrating is being confined to this rank for a millennium while everyone around me has earned their colored wings and gone off to help the humans plan their lives, inspire art, and fight demons. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong!My latest Ward, a human named Daniel, refuses to...

The only place left to hide was in the past.Fire Elemental Leda and her plainfolk companion, Grey, are running from a demented time traveler, a man obsessed with creating a creature who can read thoughts. Convinced that Leda can produce this unnatural child, he has threatened to hunt her down to the ends of the earth-and he has kept his word. Their only escape is a one-way trip through the time portal.With death on their heels, salvation appears in the form...

Stephen Blackmoore's dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.Necromancer Eric Carter's problems keep getting bigger. Bad enough he's the unwilling husband to the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte, but now her ex, the Aztec King of the dead, Mictlantecuhtli, has come back -- and it turns out that Carter and he are swapping places. As Mictlantecuhtli breaks loo...

**Sixteen stories by bestselling and award-winning authors that explore the Black experience through fantasy, science fiction, and magic—coming together in one stunning narrative of hope.“Fulfills its promise of celebrating Black girl protagonists . . . an enormously electric and entertaining collection.”—Locus“As interrogative as Octavia E. Butler, as fierce as Beyoncé, as thoughtful as Phillis Wheatley, [and] as revolutionary as Ida B. Wells.”—Tor

Utopian anarchists are pitted against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic."Searching for clues about her best friend's mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and witnesses a protector spirit—in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer—begin to turn on its summoners. She and her new friends have to act fast if they're going to save the town—or get out...