A macabre tale beyond imagination! When Mortician Johnathan Briggs stumbles across a copy of the Necronomicon, and dares to perform one of its necromantic rituals, he unwittingly attracts the attention of sinister otherworldly forces. Entry for the January 2025 Royal Road Community Magazine contest....

Main character Yuzu is an 18 year old girl who awakens in a completely unfamiliar room. She realizes that she is not alone in this room and there are about 50 other girls in the same room as her. All of them realize that their mobile phones and other electronic devices are missing alongside any memo...

Yuiko has been many things in her long life... the daughter of a Japanese Yokai, a feral City Gangrel on the mean streets of Detroit, Ahrimane Ductus for a Montreal Sabbat pack, and now survivor of the aftermath of The Night of Ashes. With her pack, home, and sect gone she has returned to the States...

Rowan, our bold, courageous hero, confronts the terror of the past millenia, the Lich. He fails and gets trapped in the Lich's book, but he's not the only one there..  Dead Men Tell The Best Tales submission...

Calia is one of the few magically gifted, A special condition plagues her which requires her to partake in sensual activities to ease her magic. Recently she has turned 19 and she is forced to attend a magical academy, by law and tradition.Betrothed to a the son of powerful noblewoman, she has no ch...

What would you do, if a piece of a God chose you? When Haley, a Godshard with a gift for botany arrives in a small town to meet with a friend, she discovers a dire threat that could cost her everything....

Jack Matthews, your average Joe suddenly gains unlimited power. Nothing could possibly go wrong... right?...

The Neon Realm Arcade is a mysterious, ever-changing attraction that appears unexpectedly, blending retro and futuristic technology. Its origins unknown, it challenges players with shifting rooms, puzzles, and animatronics-some friendly, others dangerous. The arcade warps reality, tailoring challeng...

Set in late 18th century England, Victoria is a young lady's maid who becomes entrapped against her will by a monstrous viscount. A narcissistic vampire bent on taking over the crumbling estate he has been invited to as an esteemed guest. Torn by her unwilling servitude to him, Victoria must battle ...

What did Christopher do to deserve this? What did anybody do to deserve this? The Lumis lived a regular life in their home. Of course, though, it couldn't last long. These people—these things—felt envy flow through their veins at the thought of Christopher's perfect life. These creatures of the nigh...

22 years ago, a storm of darkness fell over New York City, forever shrouding it and coating its buildings in obsidian casts. Making matters worse, some people have become Grays—mindless and strong variants of themselves. Now The Numbers—nameless young adults trained to fight in the city, must set ou...

With one touch of the stone, Tyron receives his Class and his life changes forever. In an instant his bright and promising future as the scion of two powerful Slayers is torn apart and he must make a decision. Will he allow his Class to be purged from his soul, or will he cling to it, abandon all th...

How long will it take for a murdered thief to distill into something monstrous? In this story the darkness only grows stronger, and its reach only grows wider as it expands by devouring the life that surrounds it. This is a dark fantasy where evil is a where, not just a who that focuses on slow prog...

Nothing walks the black cinder of Earth except the undead leftovers, reanimated by science so advanced it may as well be magic. Twisted into unimaginable forms by flesh-shaping and machine-grafting, the undead are the only remnant of a civilization reduced to bitter ash and organic slurry. Zombies s...

It is the year 20XX and something bad happened to Earth and humanity, but much worse to humanity to be precise. The thing it has happened, it is known as a zombie apocalypse by the modern generation. Groups of survivors around the world, seeing their locally Government and Military won't help them ...

William Setford, is a young twenty something werewolf. Every full moon the lunar mother changes him from a young man, to a seven-foot-tall beast who hunts and roams with his adopted wolf pack in an idyllic mountain valley somewhere in central California. He is soon forced from his self-imposed solit...

In a vast multiverse ruled by divine entities, a unique epoch ushers in a competition for ultimate dominion. For the first time ever, humans are chosen to participate, and among them, Scott is chosen. Accused of a crime he hasn't committed, he's left for dead but saved by an otherworldly being. Empo...

In a world filled with corrupt gods and evil, Jonathan is sent to save it. However, some things go awry. Upon arrival, Jonathan is slain by one of the gods, and sent to the Infinite Hells, an immense land of torment and punishment, created for the souls of the damned to be punished. However he will ...

Jake Thorne is in trouble. He lost his job in AI safety; he recycled all his possessions; he got to the end of his rope in a doomed future.Fortunately, there's another world that still has some use for him. Yakumo Yukari offers him a deal he can't refuse; immigrate to Gensokyo and escape those pesky...

Happy ever after? Not for the Hero of one specific World. His steady effort was thanked with sending him back to his World... but even that was a lie. In the End he was thrown in the place between Dimensions called the Void. Survival inside is nearly impossible, but the God who banished him into thi...