Dark Humor

The spirit of Machiavelli presides over The Jew of Malta, in which the title character relentlessly plots to maintain and extend his political infl...

Reducere. Magical friends Unicorn and Yeti love to help each other Pick a Book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, a...

DescriptionAt first, Maisie didn't know much -- she was only six years old when her mother and father divorced. Her embittered parents shared custo...

This sparkling shark-tastic board book is a deep-sea twist on the popular bedtime lullaby, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " Twinkle, Twinkle, Littl...

Reducere. Equal parts eerie, humorous and heartwarming, Harvest is a short story of down-home fantasy and a fairytale for grown-ups best told in the dark..."...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and Newbery Honor winning author Jennifer Holm teams up with Matthew Holm to bring you a fully illustrated graphic novel...

Reducere. ``An African American nun challenges the beliefs of her second-grade students in this thought-provoking picture book set in the 1960s.``--Publisher...

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of m...

Description"A playful, punchy paean to the pervasive poot." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) Grandmas fart. Teachers fart. Terrifying creatures fa...

Reducere. Description"Have no fear, citizens Captain Superlative is here to make all troubles disappear "Red mask, blue wig, silver swimsuit, rubber gloves, ...

DescriptionShe can trust him with her heart, but can she trust him with her life? Growing up as a foster kid, Jessica Jensen found her escape in mo...

SURROUNDED BY DEATH, THE SECRET OF IMMORTALITY IS WITHIN REACH When a mysterious alien probe materializes from Jump Space and remotely reprograms U...

Reducere. Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and fo...

Reducere. This best-selling series engages readers of all levels by making them part of the story. Readers will become the main character and can revel in th...

Reducere. Although he's best known for his works of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft for most of his life considered himself primarily a poet. This cycle of 36 ...

Today we think of Abraham Lincoln as America's greatest President. He's celebrated for his leadership and his numerous moving speeches, and for hel...

Reducere. Predators get a pretty bad rap. Sure, they prey on helpless animals that never stand a chance. But behind those jagged teeth, powerful jaws, and ra...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries brings her "hallmark humor, poignancy, and sensuality to perfection" (RT Book Reviews) to this f...

Reducere. "Koontz givesOdd Thomas] wit, good humor, a familiarity with the dark side of humanity--and moral outrage."--USA Today Once presided over by a Roar...

Fast-paced and razor-sharp dark fantasy for readers of Nicholas Eames, Anna Smith Spark and Robert Jackson Bennett A fantastic book, full of wit an...

Reducere. Bahzell of the Hradani is back Exciting fantasy adventure by the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the Honor Harrington series. In...

He is a detective in the town he lives in, a military veteran, and a loving husband. He can now add murderer to that list when he catches and kills...

Reducere. Just when William is ready to fall asleep in his cozy cabin, there is a tap on his window. A chilly chipmunk asks to stay, and Will scooches over i...

DescriptionA 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 Following her 2013 debut This is Ya...

From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale...

Description"A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . ."So begins Ann Quin's madcap f...

DescriptionClaire Williamson's Visiting the Minotaur is full of artful reflections, refractions, and re-workings of incidents that reveal a fraught...

Reducere. Get Ready to be Spooked It was eleven o'clock at night. Peter was in bed on the second floor of the old house where he lived alone. It had gotten s...

Reducere. This book reveals the dark journey through abuse and the triumph of overcoming it in the hope of connecting with other abuse victims that are strug...

Reducere. In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offer...

The myths and legends of the Norseman have entertained the young and old for hundreds of years. Collated here in this thrilling treasury, these tal...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dawn Lee McKenna Southern mystery and suspense, liberally seasoned with coastal atmosphere and dark humor. Karma's alive an...

Reducere. DescriptionFashionable-paranoia is a mix of splatter violence, humor and titillation, and manga artist, Shintaro Kago has helped define the genre o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her debut collection of stories, Pretend We Live Here, Genevieve Hudson explores the idea of home and what it means to find one: in t...

My Little Occult Book Club is a hilarious collection of Steven Rhodes' parody book covers for the aspiring occultist, exorcist, necromancer, and mo...

You're stupid. Ugly. Too short, tall, skinny, fat, dark, light, slow. You'll never amount to much. You don't measure up. You're not good enough. I ...

Reducere. "Action-packed, gory, and hilarious. I loved it!" - Michelle GarzaAbsolute Unit is a dark carnival ride through the underside of the American Dream...

Reducere. Twelve stories, fraught with an unapologetic voice of firsthand experience, that pry the lock off of the addiction, fanaticism, violence, and fear ...

Ripe with mythic awareness and dark, fairytale-turned-feminist humor, Taisia Kitaiskaia's debut poetry collection catalogs magical beasts, language...

Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard's plays have ear...

DescriptionRiga may be over 800 years old as a city, but its status as capital of an independent Latvia is only a century old, with half of that ti...

Life might be no joke right now--but laughter is on the way.There are two kinds of laughter. One is hollow hilarity that masks pain far too deep fo...

In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, div...

DescriptionA man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolve...

The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imagi...

Reducere. The characters in this collection of 21 short fictions hum with restlessness. They pine for lost loves and pop music romances, Hollywood heartthrob...

DescriptionDeep within the nightmare realm of Casca's dreams, Schierke and Farnese battle endless horrors to reach the dark secret that has impriso...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kentaro MiuraBerserk has conquered the worlds of manga and anime, and now comes the essential roadmap to the sprawling Bers...

Reducere. Dan Rupley has 24 hours to survive a cursed killer gun and get his dead fianc e back. What could go wrong? "Perfect for Stephen King fans. It's a t...

Reducere. ``With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang di...

Reducere. DescriptionOur love songs have no shadows. We dare not acknowledge the deep love that can coexist with loss. But in this timely and timeless collec...

Reducere. From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark en...

Reducere. "Poso Wells is ironic, audacious, and fierce. But what is it, exactly? A satire? A scifi novel? A political detective yarn? Or the purest reality o...

Reducere. Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardIn this comprehensive collection of Ellie Schoenfeld's poems, ..".one finds a tenderness mixed with bewilderment, ...

DescriptionDesperate as Guts, the Black Swordsman, has been to reunite with his former captain and lover, the now-mad Casca, he's quickly learning ...

Reducere. Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World. Cy...

Description"Superb characters, sparkling dialogue, and a gripping, terrifying plot, plus flashes of humor to boot; JoAnn Chaney's What You Don't Kn...

DescriptionInspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair i...

Reducere. Released in celebration of Mother Teresa's canonization on September 4, 2016.I Loved Jesus in the Night is one priest's compelling account of meeti...

DescriptionDuckworth's parents think he is a difficult child, so when a snake slides right up and swallows him whole, his parents don't believe him...

Reducere. "A modern masterpiece." -- BookPage Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, "Best Crime Novel of the Year" "As daring in execution as imagination, ...

Reducere. The poems in Jennifer L. Knox's darkly imaginative collection, Crushing It, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms, voices and subje...

Reducere. From humor to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 1...

"Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikor...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Kim Dower's fourth collection, Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's Grave, death has never felt so alive Alluring titles to haunting last lin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Beverly JenkinsBelle Palmer is finally freeSeparated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until...

DescriptionThe Book of African Proverbs collects over 1, 200 of the best, most profound and illuminating proverbs from Africa, its nations and its ...

Sinister sorcery. Gallows humor. A queer romance so glorious it could be right out of fae legend itself. Master of One is a fantasy unlike any othe...

DescriptionHarper Voyager Trade Paperback OriginalThe Compton Crook award-winning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling sta...