What if you were born different? Deformed and shunned by your race? What if you could change that and become all that you ever hoped to be? All it would cost you was an oath to a god. Loki. The notorious Trickster of Norse mythology and bonded-brother to the god Odin. How did these sworn brothers turn to enemies? How did they break apart the Nine Worlds and initiate Ragnarok—the end of everything? Take a peek behind Loki's mask in this new dark fantasy retelling of Norse mythology and the ...

Enter a world of shadows and whispers where folklore comes alive. Leanbh Pearson weaves a tapestry of dark tales inspired by ancient myths and legends. Bargain with mischievous Fae, tread carefully through haunted forests, and confront vengeful deities in this collection of reimagined stories.Three Curses and Other Dark Tales explores the intersection of history and horror, featuring LGBTQI themes and disability representation. Perfect for readers who crav...

Enter a realm of dark folklore and shattered magic.Cursed Shards: Tales of Dark Folklore is a collection of ten dark fantasy stories inspired by folklore, legends, fairy tales, and mythology. Journey through deserts, icy mountains, and dark forests alongside legendary warriors and mythical Fae. Discover a realm where the landscape is as volatile as its rulers.An ancient cursed mirror, a powerful magical artifact created with blood magic, has been s...

The War to End All Wars . . . and the world. What if the world changed with the Great War? What if the future we know never occurred? It's 1917 and in the aftermath of war, a dystopian visage of climate altered by biochemical warfare, populations decimated by a virus and governments collapsed. In the isolated town of Berrima, Australia, Anna Baylon waits for her older brother, Peter - enlisted in the war years before, to return. When all hope of Peter's return seems abandoned, the arrival ...

Tricking a trickster...Norse trickster Loki is outmanoeuvred, memory fragmented and cast from the Norse cosmos into a void between worlds.But Loki's luck is with him when plucked from oblivion, given a new body and wakes into an Australian shadow-realm of strange landscapes, ancestor-gods and vengeful beings.But Loki is not alone. Accompanied by the Trickster crow Wahn, they must reunite Lok...

Yuletide is a time of darkness and the veil between living and uncanny is thinnest. Yuletide - stretching from December and the pre-Christian Christmas and into New Year - is full of folklore, magic and the fantastic.Dark Yuletide contains story-specific images reflecting each tale. From the malevolent Kallikantzaroi, the Yuletide sister witches offering blessings or cures, the child-stealing Krampus and the Icelandic Yule Lads who kidnap badly behaved children for the the...

From The Waste Land - stories inspired by T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" Plaintive ghosts, deep space, medieval castles, rising seas, parched deserts, abandoned villages…Inspired by its powerful themes—still highly resonant in an era looking for hope—nineteen original tales mark the centenary of Eliot's poem. From the Waste Land brings together decorated writers and new voices in fantasy; ghost tales, horror, dystopia and science fiction. With a blend of the grotesque and the sublime, the p...

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF NETFLIX HIT THE SANDMAN'With the deftest of touches, the characters are once again brought to life' JOANNE HARRIS'The halls of Valhalla have been crying out for Gaiman to tell their stories' OBSERVERThe great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman. Tales...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the modern masters of fantasy writing,” (Huffington Post) a dazzling, witty telling of the Norse myths."A lively, funny, and very human rendition of Thor the thunder god, his father Odin, and the dark-hearted trickster Loki (plus countless other gods and monsters)." — Petra Mayer, NPRNeil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms ...

When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive national bestselling debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology.Angrboda’s story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is f...

The beautifully lyrical retelling of the Norse myths, told from the captivating point of view of the trickster god LokiThe novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods - retold from the point of view of the world's ultimate trickster, Loki. It tells the story of Loki's recruitment from the underworld of Chaos, his many exploits on behalf of his one-eyed master, Odin, through to his eventual betrayal of the gods and the fall o...

She tells Greek legends to entertain Norse gods—until one of her stories leads to murder.When Euthalia’s father trades her to Viking raiders, her best hope is to be made a wife instead of a slave. She gets her wish—sort of—when she is sacrificed as a bride to a god.Her inhuman husband seems kind, but he visits only in the dark of night and will not allow her to look upon him. By day Euthalia becomes known as a storyteller, spinning ancient Greek tales to entertain Asgard’s ...