"He had seen it! He had seen it!"When a desperate sea captain glimpses upon an indescribable figure within the waves, his determination to uncover its truth becomes all-consuming.Swept onto a mysterious island following a deadly storm, the captain's obsession with the elusive entity grows, threatening not just his sanity, but the lives of those around him. Isolated from known society, the crew, once united by survival, begins to fracture as old sins and new...

Sent by the spy master of Neverwinter to investigate a group of rebels, Rucas Sarfael finds a worthy adversary in the beautiful fencing master Elyne. Matching wits and blades with the rebel leader, Rucas strives to prove himself and rise in the rebel ranks in part 1 of this four-part novella set in the renowned city of Neverwinter.

A Captive Elven Princess . . .In a time of war, a princess of Qualinost and an elite band of warriors sail forth to rescue their contrymen from the collapsing Ergoth Empire. Their journey goes awry when a strange mist engulfs Princess Vixa's ship and transports them to a phantom island.Who are the mysterious masters who imprison them in their undersea city?No soul has encountered the fabled Dargonesti or visited the city of pearl marble that rises from the sea floor...

Classic Lovecraftian horror from one of the masters of the form, the British Fantasy Award–winning author of the Necroscope series.The volcanic eruption that created the island of Surtsey in 1967 also revealed a long-hidden cache of documents that told the fantastic history of Theem'hdra as written by the sorcerer Teh Atht. Building on translations begun by the scholar Thelred Gustau—who vanished under mysterious, some say magical, circumstances—Brian Lumley brings...

Returning to Ashok K. Banker's brilliant epic fantasy world of the Burnt Empire, A Dark Queen Rises features Aqreen and Krushita, a mother and daughter on a quest to protect the innocent and bring down tyrantsQueen Aqreen of Aquila leaves her husband Jarsun and flees across the Red Desert. She is determined to keep her daughter from being used by Jarsun to stake his claim to the Burning Throne of Hastinaga, seat of the all-powerful Burnt Empire. But Jarsu...

A stranger claiming knowledge of realms beyond the known world attempts to stop a war... in Max Gladstone's The Scholast in the Low Waters Kingdom, a Tor.com Original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Deltora Quest meets Dinotopia in this classic fantasy quest from the bestselling Australian author of the Laws of Magic series!While Adalon and his friends, Targesh and Simangee, gather supporters at the Lost Castle, the mad queen and her ruthless general continue to wage war on the seven kingdoms of Krangor. It is only when Simangee finds a legend in an ancient text that the rebels begin to hope once more. Do the Missing Kin really exist? Can the three friends fin...

In a time before the Dragon Wars consumed Tarmor, the Dragonsouls ruled over the five races. Then, during the destruction of the Cataclysm that followed the wars, the Dragonsouls disappeared. Most wizards thought them destroyed forever, and a great peace settled over the land, each of the five races finding its place, decimated and hidden as it may be. But the winds of Chaos blow eternal, and peace can never last. Secrets thought hidden are oft discovered. Though magic only remains in the ...

From the void, you awaken. Not to life, but to the Factory.Here, darkness breathes. Iron chains bite cold. The air is thick with the ghosts of industry—oil, sweat, and the metallic tang of despair. Towering over all, a gleaming monument to suffering scrapes against a sky that has never known light. You are a number, a shadow, fuel for the machine. Memory is a luxury; survival, a curse.But even in the deepest hell, a spark can catch.A soldier's glanc...

A medieval fantasy set in an ancient age near the beginning of time. A High Host named Gramoroth who had become filled with a lust for power has rebelled against the Laws of Truth. Pursuing an advantage to take control he becomes a master of deception to gain it. After discovering a new power he masterfully uses it to take control and diminish the light of the truth to become the worlds Dark Lord. The remnants of good still struggling to survive have discovered a chance to turn the tide. A...

"[This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to that work, a cycle of eleven stories set "in the time of the death of the Goddess." This is an Earth of the far future, when the planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of human history. Here you'll meet...a dadar, a wizard's shadow attempting to become a man; two sorcerers grotesque...

Outside, a host of savages has laid siege. Inside, it’s every man against himself.Langden Hawke’s bloody history has led him into some pretty tight scrapes, but none tighter than Fort Valiant. When the mercenary captain sells his sword to the fort’s desperate defenders, Langden believes he’s finally found an escape from his violent profession — if he can stay alive long enough to cash in the contract. Hopelessly outnumbered, it doesn’t take Langden long to realize ...