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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    12 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  dark  magical-realism  romance  horror  fantasy
  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
  • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    5 ratings
    Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.Almost singlehandedly--although backed by an increasingly large cadre of genuine friends--El has changed the nature of the Scholomance forever...
  • The Clown by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Clown by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    11 ratings
    A friendly face and laughing heart…will be what tears her soul apart.Finally accepting that there would be no leaving Harrow Faire, Cora sets out to try to find her new way of life as part of the Family. With that comes her slow acceptance of her attraction toward and, even worse, her feelings for the Puppeteer...
  • The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Ringmaster by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    11 ratings
    As above, so below…who was once friend is now a foe.The Faire is alive. It’s alive, it’s sentient, and it wants more from Cora Glass. Reeling from the revelations that Clown left her with, she struggles once more to find her footing. She never gets the chance.Harrow Faire wants Cora for murder. She assumed it was her death that it was after. She was wrong. It wants her to kill…to save them all...
  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

    Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

    35 ratings
    Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.This is the story of what happened first…Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline...
  • Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin

    Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin

    6 ratings
    Something has gone very wrong on the sleepy Scottish Isle of Mab. The tides are angry. Reality has shifted. Selkies are coming up from the ocean, boys are missing, magic is going haywire, and memories are being pulled from people’s minds. Thomas Madigan is living in a nightmare. Isla just wants to go back to the sea. Kit Macrae thinks he’s drowning. Tanis Hughes needs to feed...
  • The Shadows of Dark Root by April Aasheim

    The Shadows of Dark Root by April Aasheim

    8 ratings
    From The Wandering Witch (circa 1892) In the beginning there was only darkness. And then the Goddess, in her infinite wisdom, gave us light. But in those moments when she separated the light from the darkness, she created shadow. Formed by her divine hands, the shadow grew. And grew. Larger than our own world and without the limitations...
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    dark  magic  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  cozy  fiction
  • Imajica by Clive Barker

    Imajica by Clive Barker

    26 ratings
    Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension...
  • Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    Sworn to the Night by Craig Schaefer

    12 ratings
    Marie Reinhart is an NYPD detective on the trail of a serial killer. When she sleeps, though, she dreams of other lives; she dreams of being a knight, in strange wars and strange worlds. On the other side of the city, Nessa Roth is a college professor trapped in a loveless marriage, an unwilling prop in a political dynasty...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  fiction
  • The Puppeteer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    The Puppeteer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

    14 ratings
    Silver strings she can’t outrun…her trouble now has just begun.After Cora Glass’s life was stolen by Harrow Faire, things just keep going from bad to worse. Unable to run, unable to escape, there seems to be no way to avoid what she’s become—the Contortionist. But a girl can only take so much.Haunted by an abandoned and seemingly sentient circus? Fine...
  • A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

    A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

    28 ratings
    The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America!Vintage photographs reveal the never-before-seen world of peculiar America with a stunning addition—full-color images.Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida...
  • Storm by Skye Knizley

    Storm by Skye Knizley

    6 ratings
    On a rainy night in 1971 the cruise ship Crescent Star vanished in the North Atlantic without a trace. No crew, no lifeboats and no wreckage was ever found, in spite of a three-week search. Two days ago, she crashed through and sank a pleasure yacht off the coast of New York, leaving five people dead. The ship has answered no hails and no one appears to be aboard...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    New Day Rising by J.J. Arias

    6 ratings
    Would you do anything for your happily ever after? After fighting impossible odds to get back to each other, newly-turned Vampire Erin and her Queen Lucía want nothing more than to run off into the sunset and enjoy a moment’s peace. But when a group of Hunters emerges poised to put all supernatural life in their cross-hairs, their bubble barely has time to form before it implodes...
  • The Empath by Jody Klaire

    The Empath by Jody Klaire

    6 ratings
    Aeron Lorelei is a young woman with a troubled past and a troubling gift. Blessed and cursed with the ability to sense the feelings, past, and future of those around her, Aeron lived as a misfit child. When she was sixteen, she took the blame for the death of her best friend’s little brother...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Raven by Skye Knizley

    Raven by Skye Knizley

    6 ratings
    All Hallows Eve approaches and for once Raven Storm has plans to spend the holiday enjoying a party at Isle of Night with family and friends, something she hasn't done since high school.But someone has other plans and Raven is called to investigate the grisly murder of Monsignor Quinn, a priest left to drown in his own blood...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Queen by Claire Farrell

    Queen by Claire Farrell

    6 ratings
    Three kings. Two queens. One heir. Chaos will rule..
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    dark  magic  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • Usurper by Claire Farrell

    Usurper by Claire Farrell

    6 ratings
    It’s been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire...
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    dark  magic  paranormal  adult  book  fae  fiction  horror
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • A Clever Sacrifice by A.J. Merlin

    A Clever Sacrifice by A.J. Merlin

    6 ratings
    Everything was supposed to have gone back to normal. After watching and waiting for weeks, I’d been sure that the threat of more ritual sacrifices was over. However, when I wake up in the middle of an unfamiliar swamp during a storm that’s the worst I’ve ever seen only to stumble on an unwelcome surprise, I have to admit that I was right all along. Something worse is out there...
  • Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    Shadowstorm by Skye Knizley

    8 ratings
    In the spring of 1984, just before his daughter's birth, Detective Mason Storm began an investigation into the ritualistic slaying of seven women, their bodies defiled and left covered in black rose petals. The case ended with Storm suspended. The bizarre murders were left unsolved...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Fade by Claire Farrell

    Fade by Claire Farrell

    8 ratings
    Cara Kelly should have left the faery realm now that it has a king to rule all, but nothing is that simple. The real king is trapped in the Fade, and Cara’s journey is just beginning. Guilt-ridden by the fact Brendan’s soul was sacrificed for hers, she’s determined not to desert him after his one pure act of goodness...
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    dark  magic  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  fae  fiction
  • The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy

    16 ratings
    In Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures...
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    lgbtq  magic  magical-realism  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  demons
  • Undercover by Tamsyn Muir

    Undercover by Tamsyn Muir

    16 ratings
    When a stranger comes to town, secrets are sure to come out. New York Times bestselling author Tamsyn Muir spins a twisty—and twisted—short story of revenge and survival.A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though...
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    lgbtq  wlw  dark  paranormal  fantasy  horror  fiction  audiobook
  • The Night Dahlia by R.S. Belcher

    The Night Dahlia by R.S. Belcher

    6 ratings
    Laytham Ballard once protected humanity as part of the Nightwise, a secret order of modern-day mages dedicating to holding hellish supernatural forces at bay, but that was before a string of sadistic ritual murders shook everything he believed in--and sent him down a much darker path. One that has already cost him most of his soul, as well as everything he once held dear...
  • A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olson

    A Forgery of Roses by Jessica S. Olson

    6 ratings
    From the author of Sing Me Forgotten comes a lush new fantasy novel with an art-based magic system, romance, and murder… Myra has a gift many would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control: she’s a portrait artist whose paintings alter people’s bodies. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone...
  • The Witch Who Courted Death by Maria Lewis

    The Witch Who Courted Death by Maria Lewis

    6 ratings
    For some, death is a way of life . . .Considering her status as the world's most powerful medium, Corvossier 'Casper' von Klitzing and her twin brother Barastin had a pretty normal life. Her unrivalled ability to speak with and control the dead had made her a living, made her notorious ... and made her a target.After a horrific incident in her home city of Berlin, Casper's life is forever changed...
  • Legacy Witches by Cass Kay

    Legacy Witches by Cass Kay

    6 ratings
    Coming from a long line of murderous witches hasn’t exactly been sunshine and rainbows for Vianna Roots. When she inherits the family’s haunted house after her mother dies, she decides flipping the rundown dump is her smartest move—but the ghosts that haunt her have a different plan...
  • A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

    A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

    8 ratings
    When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest—and the growing darkness in herself—in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  magical-realism  paranormal  wlw  audiobook  book
  • Banished by C.J. Archer

    Banished by C.J. Archer

    8 ratings
    An infestation of evil ghosts is too much for spirit medium Cara to handle alone. She summons Quin, and together they attempt to discover where the ghosts came from, and why they refuse to leave this realm. To protect the residents, Cara and Quin must work closely together, leading to old feelings resurfacing between them...
  • Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

    Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap

    8 ratings
    “Am I dead?”Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask.Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, 'A Spell for Foolish Hearts' to the terrifying tension of the urban legend 'Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez'...
  • Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel

    Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel

    8 ratings
    "Beauty and the beast like you've never imagined!" —New York Times bestselling author Pintip DunnKEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways.Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom...
  • Wendigo Rising by James A. Hunter

    Wendigo Rising by James A. Hunter

    9 ratings
    Bigfoot is real. Yancy Lazarus—mage, bluesman, and rambler—knows because there happens to be a nine-foot-tall, walking myth standing in the road, flagging him down. Yancy just can’t escape his reputation as a supernatural Fix-it man even when cruising through the forgotten backwoods of Montana...
  • Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older

    Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older

    10 ratings
    The author of Half-Resurrection Blues returns in a new Bone Street Rumba Novel—a knife-edge, noir-shaded urban fantasy of crime after death.The streets of New York are hungry tonight...   Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York’s ghostlier problems...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Somewhere Beneath Those Waves by Sarah Monette

    Somewhere Beneath Those Waves by Sarah Monette

    10 ratings
    Monette's diverse collection delves deeply into the mythic and reaches far beyond everyday reality. Readers cannot resist journeying with her into realms-dangerously dark or illuminatingly revelatory-they could never imagine without her as their guide. From ghost stories in the tradition of M. R...
  • Soul by Claire Farrell

    Soul by Claire Farrell

    10 ratings
    Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.A novel inspired by the short story collection, One Night with the Fae. Soul is the first in a brand new series by Claire Farrell. Cara Kelly’s life is going nowhere when she’s lured to a faery festival...
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    dark  magic  paranormal  wlw  action-adventure  alpha-mc  book  fae
  • Twenty Palaces by Harry Connolly

    Twenty Palaces by Harry Connolly

    12 ratings
    When Ray Lilly was 13 years old, a handgun accident landed his best friend, Jon Burrows, in a wheelchair and turned Ray into a runaway and petty criminal. Fifteen years later, Ray returns home after a stint in prison; he’s determined to go straight, but he knows he can’t do that without making peace with his old friend...
  • Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    14 ratings
    The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Trader by Charles de Lint

    Trader by Charles de Lint

    16 ratings
    A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope.Max Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is chronically unemployed. Max is solitary, quiet, responsible. Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser...
  • Jilo by J.D. Horn

    Jilo by J.D. Horn

    16 ratings
    Aged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic…but once upon a time, she was just a girl.1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the “beautiful woman with a dirty face,” its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption...
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    26 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar...
  • The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    12 ratings
    Tom Renfield, janitor-cum-taxi driver, has always had some weird abilities - seeing ghosts, perceiving other 'currents' of energy... but he's always tried to ignore them. Running from himself seems to be a large part of how he ended up in the tiny town of Arcadia...
  • Spells & Ashes by Kim Richardson

    Spells & Ashes by Kim Richardson

    12 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.My name is Samantha Beaumont and I’m a Dark witch.Hidden from the world are supernatural baddies. That’s where I come in. I spend my nights hunting and vanquishing demons and otherworldly nasties.New threats emerge daily, menaces that require my unique pedigree: a splash of magic and a dash of attitude...
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    dark  magic  magical-realism  paranormal  angels  book  demons  fiction
  • The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy

    The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy

    10 ratings
    Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle Cain against eternal spirits, hypocritical ideologues, and brutal, unfeeling officers of the law...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  magical-realism  paranormal  adult  book  comedy
  • Passenger by Andrew Smith

    Passenger by Andrew Smith

    10 ratings
    Best friends Jack and Conner can’t stay away from Marbury. It’s partly because of their obsession with this alternate world and the unresolved war that still wages there. But it’s also because forces in Marbury—including the darkest of the dark, who were not revealed in The Marbury Lens—are beckoning the boys back in order to save their friends . . . and themselves...
  • The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

    The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

    10 ratings
    A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales--the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada...
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    dark  lgbtq  magic  magical-realism  paranormal  wlw  adult  audiobook
  • Fox Revenge by Robin Roseau

    Fox Revenge by Robin Roseau

    8 ratings
    Lara is pregnant with twins, and Michaela is fiercely protective. This turns out to be a very poor time to take in a refugee from a neighboring wolf pack, and things grow more difficult when the neighboring alpha demands the wolf's return.The resulting troubles put Michaela on the opposite side of the issue from Lara, Elisabeth and the rest of the pack, adding stress to all relationships...
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    dark  lgbtq  paranormal  wlw  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Dark Carnival by Nancy K. Duplechain

    Dark Carnival by Nancy K. Duplechain

    8 ratings
    "I noticed countless eyes following me. They belonged to shop-keeps closing up for the night, the homeless watching me from their makeshift beds, call girls pretending to wait for their next tricks on the corners, but all the while, wary of my every move. I didn’t belong here and they knew it...
  • Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson

    Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson

    6 ratings
    Being the chosen one isn’t always a good thing...Oscar Tundale is not a hero. Anxious, indecisive, and awkward, he can barely get through a normal day. Now he’s about to find out monsters are real. Oscar’s friends: brave, stubborn Zara, and hyperactive, paranoid Marcus, might help discover what hunts him, and unravel the truth about the handsome doctor he pines for...
  • To Kill a Kettle Witch by Barb Hendee

    To Kill a Kettle Witch by Barb Hendee

    6 ratings
    National bestselling author Barb Hendee returns to the world of the Mist-Torn witches, as two sisters who can see the secrets of the past and the mysteries of the future begin a quest to save the family they never knew existed.…Powerful prince Malcolm is facing ruin in the wake of a curse that has destroyed his harvest...
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