Urban Fantasy Stories
Explore our collection of 324 amazing stories tagged with urban fantasy. Each story offers unique adventures and unforgettable characters you can chat with.
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Echo of a Drowned God
Author:Caspian Graves
In a desert town built on a man-made lake, people are drowning miles from water. Liam, a freshly recruited apprentice to the Reaper, is thrown into his first case. His mentor is an ancient entity who once dismantled a god to save this very land. But the killings have started again, and this time, it's not the old god they're hunting. It’s a parasitic echo, a creature born of modern fear that wears a god’s face, and it's hungrier than the original ever was. Liam must unravel a divine mystery before the desert oasis becomes a graveyard.
The Reaper's Seed
Author:Becky Howard
Eddie was a Reaper, a cosmic janitor for the Bureau of Afterlife Management. His job: clean up cults worshipping things older than God. But when he investigates the Green Faith, he's not just an observer—he's chosen. Marked by a primordial nature goddess, his badge of office is replaced by a single, glowing seed. Now, hunted by his former masters and haunted by the whispers of a waking god, he must master a terrifying new power to survive the coming war between the sterile order of Death and the savage, all-consuming green of Life.
The Reaping Hour
Author:Adrian Chambers
When Kaelen Vance took a job to escape his dead-end life, he didn't expect his boss to be Death himself. Now, as a Liminal Agent, he's permanently on the clock, investigating impossible deaths that defy mortal logic. His first case: a couple who drowned in their own living room, their clothes bone dry. Armed with a cynical wit and a supernatural Sigil he barely understands, Kael must navigate a hidden world of vengeful spirits and cosmic rules where a single mistake could get him reaped.
The Terminal Rulebook
Author:Elias Thorne
When the lights in the airport die, Liam Carter is plunged into a nightmare reality governed by a set of impossible rules. Surrounded by passengers twisted into smiling monsters and hunted by silent, faceless staff, his only guide is a cryptic list that appears on every screen. But the rules are lying. To survive this endless terminal where every flight is a trap, he must decipher the deadly game before he becomes another permanent resident with a broken smile.
The Soul Broker's Loophole
Author:Emma Gonzales
Kaelen Thorne is Hell's most efficient Acquisitions Agent, bound by an unbreakable contract to collect damned souls. But for every soul on his list, he seeks a way out, a forgotten clause in the infernal fine print to set them free. Each soul he saves pushes him closer to redemption, but also deeper into the crosshairs of his infernal masters. When his next target is linked to the one person who sees the man behind the monster, Kaelen must risk eternal damnation to expose a conspiracy that reaches the very throne of Hell.
The Midnight Menu at Smiley's
Author:Joe Romero
To pay for college, Leo Clarke took the midnight shift at Smiley's, a 24-hour fast-food joint. He expected greasy floors and drunken customers. He didn't expect the rules. Rule #1: Serve everyone, no exceptions. Not the man whose legs are too long, not the child with eyes of coal, and not the static that orders through the void. A stained employee handbook is his only guide to surviving the eldritch horrors that crave a combo meal. But every night, a shadowy figure named Bill waits for him to make a mistake. Because at Smiley's, the penalty for bad service is your soul.
The High Desert Reaper's Temp Job
Author:Quinn Ledger
When laid-off warehouse worker Eddie Ramirez takes a temp job to pay the bills, he doesn't expect his new boss to be the Grim Reaper. His assignment: catalog the increasingly bizarre deaths in California's High Desert. The perks? He can't permanently die, respawning at a Circle K after each fatal incident. The catch? He's forbidden from intervening. But as ancient evils crawl from the sun-scorched earth and cosmic horrors start eyeing his hometown, Eddie decides some rules are meant to be broken, even if it means generating a hell of a lot of paperwork for the afterlife's most overworked middle manager.
The Echo of Hooves
Author:Harper Lane
Jennifer wanted a quiet weekend housesitting. Instead, a terrified friend brought a warning from the woods: a creature that sounds like a goat, and a rule that can't be broken. Don't look at it. Now, trapped by a secret that spreads like a virus, she's hunted by a horned shadow that whispers in familiar voices. It only wants one thing—for her to see it. And as the hoofbeats echo closer, Jennifer learns that some knowledge is a death sentence, and the only way to survive is to condemn someone else.
The Concordance of Concrete and Chaos
Author:Clarence Roberts
Corbin Pierce, a disgraced mage hiding as a community college professor, just wanted a quiet life. But when he leaps off a skyscraper to save a mystical raccoon, he's dragged back into a world of magic and murder. A secret cabal is sacrificing souls to awaken a sleeping god beneath the city streets. Armed with a cryptic System interface and a burgeoning apprentice, Corbin is the only one who can stop them. But to save his city, he may have to sacrifice his own soul.
The Reaper of Sunny Side Up
Author:Mortimer Wry
When down-on-his-luck Kael Vance takes a temp job from a shady agency, he expects to be stacking boxes, not souls. Now, as the newest field agent for Death himself, he's tasked with cataloging the impossibly weird deaths plaguing his desert hometown. The rules are simple: observe, record, and never, ever get involved. But when a dark conspiracy begins to unravel, Kael must choose between keeping his supernatural job and saving the home he's always tried to escape, even if it means dying over and over to do it.
Dream-Eater's Mark
Author:Alistair Thorne
For 25 years, Daniel's nightmares have been his only constant. But when the monstrous wolf from his dreams starts leaving real claw marks on his door and bruises on his skin, he discovers a terrifying truth. He is being hunted. The creature is a Mare, a dream-eater who has been feeding on his fear his entire life. And now, revealing herself as a beautiful, terrifying woman, she has come to claim him, body and soul, dragging him into the darkness where the nightmares are born.
Grimm's Gloom: The Case of the Stolen Child
Author:Cassandra Perry
A down-on-his-luck PI with the power to see through the glamour of the fae takes on a simple missing-child case. But in the neon-drenched, rain-slicked streets of Evernight, 'simple' means a one-way ticket into the treacherous politics of the Unseelie Court, a confrontation with a creature of forgotten nightmares, and the discovery that the child he's looking for might be the key to a supernatural war.