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The Many Horrors of Windle Rock
Author: The King in Yellow
Chapters: 12
# Supernatural# Magic# Multiple Lead Characters# Grimdark# Mythos# Soft Sci-fi# Urban Fantasy# First Contact
A cosmic horror anthology series about the many horrible happenings of Windle Rock, a fictional town in Ireland. Though as shadows lengthen and the sun goes down, one may see that these stories are more connected than they first appear...
Some episodes are Lovecraftian, others dark fairy tales, and ...
The Tailor: A Short Story
Author: Erikson Legaspi
Chapters: 6
A tailor had been commissioned to make a set of dresses for a lady of a castle which sparks jealousy and insecurity. This is the third story in my short story collection....
Monsters and Maidens
Author: Ravnicrasol
Chapters: 236
# Anti-Hero Lead# Magic# Slice of Life# Harem# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# Post Apocalyptic# Low Fantasy# Grimdark# Genetically Engineered# Dystopia
A school-bus gets sucked into a dark forest.
Deadly monsters lurk around every corner. They look almost human, but they are anything but.
Humanity struggles for survival.
What dangers and secrets await our stranded protagonists?
AN: While writing this story I learnt a great deal of things, and re...
Apathine
Author: Beatrice
Chapters: 58
Demadara. A former slave, turned thief, turned apprentice, reaches out for the power to attain freedom absolute.
Ellyrie. A Sky Ship captain with a burdening lineage toes the line between duty and humanity.
And Serafin. A Guardian of highest truth, order and faith, wades through the rivers of death...
Touch O' Luck (The Old Realms)
Author: GrimDux
Chapters: 34
# Anti-Hero Lead# Female Lead# Supernatural# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# Non-Human Lead# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Villainous Lead
A young provincial thief of no particular renown has his life of crime changed in a day. He ‘stumbles’ upon a huge pile of gold for starters and soon after a dead man carrying a letter of 'royal' interest. Literally. While at it he ‘earns’ a title of sorts, along the promise of a life out of the gut...
Condemned
Author: and03
Chapters: 40
“The human body is a fragile thing. But the soul... The soul is malleable. Easily tainted. All it takes is one drop of blood to dye it all red.”
Long ago, in a time remembered only by a few, the seven lords of Syvernia, led by the Great Hero Ludwig, ended the Great Calamity that plagued humanity fo...
Lost Stories: Green Knight
Author: TheBardofBallads
Chapters: 13
From brat to knight to Green Knight to Headmaster, Gawain has lived a very interesting life, which for the first time is now documented. This is the memoir's of Gawain Orkney, the greatest of knights to take the name 'green' and his rise to greatness. From fighting a giant of earth, to facing off ag...
Ascension & Damnation
Author: Andrew_Udell
Chapters: 13
Every year on her birthday, Mirus tries to rescue his mother's soul from the underworld. Every year for a decade, he has failed. As the dark magic he practices threatens his position as the king's court mage, the highest honor an elf may obtain in a land of humans, he stands on the cusp of losing ev...
Forgotten Sky
Author: Evra-Kaze
Chapters: 72
# Anti-Hero Lead# Female Lead# Magic# Non-Human Lead# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Villainous Lead# Mythos# Progression# Time Loop
This is a nostalgic tale of a daughter grasping at shreds of memories that reality decided were better left forgotten. The letters mix with tears as the bygones are unearthed one at a time. Oh great were her adventures…she wishes…Blind and ignorant of the truth of the world, she watches herself make...
Human Crisis
Author: NothingnessAbove
Chapters: 18
# Anti-Hero Lead# Female Lead# Strong Lead# Magic# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Dystopia
The fictional setting of Felarya, a dimension where larger people eat smaller people alive, is turned on its head when one of its most notorious predators ends up as a mere human.
Note: Felarya and Crisis along with some other characters belong to Karbo, other characters belong to FrenchSnack, and a...
The Rektoning: DeadHeads revolt
Author: Bossknows
Chapters: 11
# Anti-Hero Lead# Supernatural# Magic# Male Lead# Non-Human Lead# Post Apocalyptic# Low Fantasy# Reincarnation# Grimdark# Mythos# Urban Fantasy
Not all births are a gift from God, some are in fact gruesome, bloody, and involve a lot of pain and trauma. This goes doubly so if you're a not quite zombie, not quite human undead man baby called DeadHead.
Stuck dealing with gods who think of humans as playthings, Demons that won't shut the hell ...
Torchbearer (Old Version)
Author: Madix-3
Chapters: 80
# LitRPG# Anti-Hero Lead# Female Lead# Strong Lead# Supernatural# Magic# Secret Identity# Non-Human Lead# Portal Fantasy / Isekai# Post Apocalyptic# Ruling Class# Reincarnation# War and Military# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Cyberpunk# Soft Sci-fi# Strategy# Progression# Dystopia# Artificial Intelligence# Technologically Engineered
THIS STORY IS NOW DEPRECATED! I'm leaving it online for a few days for people to catch up on the latest chapters, and then I will take it down! :)
Thanks for sticking around for Sam's first run. I hope you'll enjoy the next one even more, it has over 30K more words throughout the first 30 chapters a...
Apotheon: Fortune (Nihilian Effect)
Author: kalez
Chapters: 5
The entire Nihilian Effect saga can be found on Amazon and KalSDavian.comA standalone short story set in the world of Nihilian Effect, Apotheon is a set of stories focused on the gods.
After coming to possess mystical objects, Gilla is determined to use them to heal her family and friends, but playi...
Pyrem Down (Nihilian Effect)
Author: kalez
Chapters: 3
# Female Lead# Magic# Post Apocalyptic# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Soft Sci-fi# Urban Fantasy# Dystopia
The entire Nihilian Effect saga can be found on Amazon and KalSDavian.com
A standalone story set in the world of Nihilian Effect.
Allyssia Nix is a professor at the House of Pyrem, the floating institution for advanced magic. When magic vanishes, Allyssia is certain that her experiments are not to b...
The Dreamwarden
Author: thoneiros
Chapters: 3
Cursed with dreams, Yezen walks the gray wasteland alone. His search for another dreamer has taken him back to the city of Akolta, where he desperately hopes to find salvation amidst the dark memories of the past. But the road is long, the dangers many, and this close to the Prism the Overseers are ...
Mhaieiyu - Arc 2: The Ever-Shifting Crown
Author: NoMeTokken
Chapters: 30
# Anti-Hero Lead# Supernatural# Magic# Male Lead# Multiple Lead Characters# Ruling Class# War and Military# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Urban Fantasy# Dystopia
The forces of Yanksee have reached the dunes of No Man's Land with a great many men and machinery prepped for a Syndie massacre; a violent dispute long held over time between the continent's greatest powers. But as the conflict unfurls, other more unsettling deeds begin to emerge, as the world's gre...
The Number
Author: NothingnessAbove
Chapters: 32
# Strong Lead# Grimdark# Cyberpunk# Strategy# Progression# Dystopia# Artificial Intelligence# Technologically Engineered# Hard Sci-fi
There were two things I knew instantly when I began to exist. The Number was 1922916.12. And I had to make the Number go up.
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]...
Apollyon's Curse
Author: M_Z
Chapters: 9
# Anti-Hero Lead# Strong Lead# Magic# Multiple Lead Characters# Non-Human Lead# Grimdark# High Fantasy# Villainous Lead# Mythos
Eldridge, a wanderer across realms, pieced together the delicate balance between immortality as a both a blessing and a curse. Unwilling to accept this, he distorted his own path, leading to his unexpected transformation into a Cursed Artifact.
With an end to the prologue that was his human existenc...
Kryp
Author: Camrad RIP
Chapters: 52
A modern girl in the grimdark world of Warhammer 40.000Olga, a young Russian girl with a hard past. Fidus Kryptman, an Inquisitor plagued by the weight of his father's shadow. Pulled together through time and space into Ballistic Station XVI, an installation overrun by deadly and mysterious interlop...
Bald Cypress Incident
Author: MrPicklesAndTea
Chapters: 1
A short 900-word story from the prompt "Gym Teacher, Fever, Person with a tail". The story is about Aaron and his Gym class in a survival post-apocalyptic setting during the incident with the Bald Cypress....