Fantasy Short Stories

Step inside the room in Grandma's house. What if there was a locked room in our grandparents' house that gave you a glimpse into their past? A mysterious room that held their secrets, their hopes, and their dreams? When Tiffany Warren is sent to pack up her grandmother's house, she finds a locked room on the third floor, but where is the key? After searching the house from top to bottom, she finds the key and opens the door, and what happens next changes her life forever. The Room in Grandma's House is a short, fantasy story of about 12,000 words that can be read in under two hours.

"How to Write a Short Paranormal Story: A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting Ghostly, Spooky Narratives" will help you unleash your imagination in the realm of the unexplained. This comprehensive guide gives both aspiring and experienced writers the tools they need to create captivating short Paranormal stories. Learn about the nuances of the genre, the secrets of suspenseful storytelling, and how to create unforgettable characters. We've got you covered from initial inspiration, world-building, and plotting to revision, feedback, and the path to publication. This book provides step-by-step ...

Sometimes you just need a sexy story to get you through the doldrums. Well, today is your lucky day. Morgan Kelley has decided to give her readers exactly what they want. In this book, you'll get eleven shorts that will make you fall in love with her most popular characters all over again. Elizabeth, Ethan & Callen Callie & Quinn Tori & Julian Jolie, Jacques & Flynn Emma & Greyson Tessa & Paris Cyra & Christopher You can read this book as a stand alone, or with her five other series. Either way, you're bound to get hot and bothered, just like the couples. Warning: Threesomes, sex, and adult...

This boxed set contains the first three books in C. J. Archer's popular Ministry of Curiosities series. Titles in the set include The Last Necromancer, Her Majesty's Necromancer, and Beyond the Grave. Description of The Last Necromancer: For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man.

Desert Storm. A mysterious figure half-seen in the heat rising from the hot sands of Kuwait. A series of supernatural events that leave the crewmen of an American IFV wondering if there is more to the legend of the djinn than they knew.

On Mars, a scientist experiments with a new engine that will one day become the drive that fuels humanity's journey into the stars. On an asteroid station, a group of prisoners are oblivious to the catastrophe that awaits them. On a future Earth beset by overpopulation, pollution, and poverty, a crime boss desperately seeks to find a way off planet. On an alien world, a human family struggles to establish a colony and make a new home. All these stories and more are featured in this unmissable collection of short fiction set in the hardscrabble world of The Expanse.

The idea of steamy adult romances, sexual encounters that set your pulse racing or activities you may never be brave enough to try for yourself, is something that lurks deep inside many of us. Being involved in a threesome or a gangbang may sound like something you’d never get involved in but listening to it may be just enough to satisfy your curious nature.

Heart-pounding Fear. Chilling Anguish. Heartbreak. Priceless Love. The Ultimate Sacrifice. All in less than a minute. Sometimes precious moments is all there is. Between one heartbeat and the next, Susa is plunged into a devastating nightmare, wounded and broken, yet desperate hope filled her heart and soul. Nothing in her life had ever prepared her for this. Adam Manning arrives at a crime scene and quickly sees that not everything is as it seems. Unknown to the town’s small police force, neither is he. If you enjoy clean mystery romance and inspirational women’s fiction filled with ...

A steaming hot collection of gay erotica that will blow you away and leave you panting for more! You never forget your 1st time!

A collection of 20 classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”.

A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Seductive stories for those with a wild imagination. Included in this volume: Centaur's Ride Basilisk's Seduction Troll's Price Early versions of these shorts were first published on Kindle Vella but have been enhanced for your reading pleasure. Three complete stories with happy for now endings. Look for the rest of the Monsterly Bites Series: Centaurs Ride, Merman's Lure, & Abominable's Mate.

Monster Hunter International may have had its roots in the United States of America, but there are plenty of monsters in the big old world. And wherever there are monsters, humans will need monster hunters. Here then, stories of the things that go bump in the night and the men and women who bump back—focusing on the myths, legends, and folklore of Czechia, by Czech authors. Includes a new short story by Larry Correia.

In a post-apocalyptic America, range rider Deaver Teague is trying to get to the town of Moab to replace his dead horse. Along the way, he's picked up by the Aal family’s pageant wagon. When Deaver decides to help them set up their next show, he becomes embroiled in a family crisis.

This story is included in Orson Scott Card's collection The Folk of the Fringe.

I’m not insane The wedding had been beautiful. The honeymoon was meant to be better, but creatures told in stories and romanticized in movies stole what could have been from her. On their way to their BnB in the mountains, her husband gave his life so she could live. No one believed her and his parents blamed her for his death. Stuck in a psychiatric facility, Diane misses her husband’s funeral and her thirst for revenge multiplies. Now two years later, Diane has the proof she needed to prove werewolves existed. It was time to make sure that wouldn’t last long. Watching from the ...

Tales of the Blade collects 9 heroic fantasy tales previously published by James Alderdice/David J. West. Take the weird adventure and journey to eldritch temples and witness strange rites among the barbaric splendor of elder days. Follow brave warriors and daring thieves as they defy the grip of monsters, wizards and terrible gods. Sword and sorcery is alive once more. Tales of the Blade is an action-packed heroic fantasy collection in the vein of classic pulp fiction and old school D&D. If you like gory battles, larger-than-life characters, and witty humor, then you’ll love James ...

Dive into a world of forbidden desire with BDSM Short Stories: Please Daddy, I’m a Good Girl, a scorching collection of five electrifying tales crafted to ignite your deepest fantasies and keep your vibrator humming night after night. Penned by the sultry maestro Celeste Moreau, this anthology is a siren’s call to women craving intense, consensual BDSM that pushes boundaries and delivers explosive pleasure. Each story—The Velvet Cage, The Midnight Masquerade, The Crimson Altar, The Penthouse Pact, and The Garden of Surrender—pulses with raw, filthy passion, designed to make you wet,...

In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

A brand new collection of short stories and poetry from various authors in the Kansas Writers Association. From professional writers to those who are brand new, there is a little something for everyone. Experience sci-fi, fantasy, romance, drama, etc.

From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre", through classic stories including "The Star", "Earthlight", "The Nine Billion Names of God", and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God", this comprehensive short story collection encapsulates one of the great science fiction careers of all time.