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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Dean Koontz

B64/100
Detectives O'Connor and Maddison delve deeper into the mysterious life of Victor Helios, trying to uncover his ultimate goal, while members of Victor's "New Race" begin to show they are not as perfect as he assumed. Randall Six continues his quest to escape from Hands of Mercy as Officer Harker descends into madness, and Erika Helios discovers some of her husband's unfinished creations. Mysteries are revealed and revenge is exacted as this horror epic reaches its apocalyptic conclusion — a story of fast-paced action, gripping horror, and thrilling adventure, adapted by Chuck Dixon with illustrations by Tim Seeley and Scott Cohn.
Goodreads4.24· 1.6K
GrimdarkHorrorMystery

Unbroken Disguise

WalletzFailz

B64/100
Something is off about a peculiar Mimikyu, and N will find the Truth no matter how many conspiracies or odd detours stand in his way. A wondrous world, tainted by a cruel society. A plot to tear it down and replace it with an Ideal structure. A creature of distortion with an alien perspective telling him to stop and smell the roses. Set prior to the events of Black and White, this AU mixes aspects of the anime and games, told through multiple perspectives focused on the misadventures of N and an out-of-place Mimikyu.
Royal Road4.68· 257
IsekaiMysteryNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Bones in the Dark

TF Warden

B64/100
Ester Mazar wants nothing more than to serve Her Eternal Majesty and the Empire — the greatest nation to have ever existed. As a commonborn graduate of the Academy, she must work off her debt to the Throne. Armed with the best magical education the Empire can provide and finally permitted to wear the crossed lightning bolts of a Chartered Mage, Ester is sent far from the bright lights of the capital to Vass Karan — a city so riddled with corruption and crime that even she has heard whispers of it. There, Ester will learn that the world is not quite as black and white as in the books. Nevertheless, she is determined to overcome prejudice, scepticism, and murderous criminals to become the hero she needs to be.
Royal Road4.66· 470
Competent MCHard MagicMysterySchoolSecondary WorldUrban Fantasy

Applied Cultivation

CatVI

B63/100
They called him trash — until he put the Dao under the microscope. When demons slaughter his new family, computer scientist Johan — now reborn as Yu Han — survives by pure wit. He gains access to the mysterious system that all cultivators use to defy the heavens. But it won't be enough. Betrayed and stripped of everything, his only path forward is joining a prestigious immortal sect. Before he can even step inside, he slaps the faces of two powerful young masters. Yu Han should have no path forward — but in his past life he was a corporate warfare consultant who treated business rivals like failed hypotheses to be mercilessly eliminated. Trash talent? He'll prototype his own. Watch this blood-thirsty fatty sprint toward immortality, bringing algorithms to sword fights and treating cultivation like a hostile takeover.
Royal Road4.28· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+6

String

Sivam

B63/100
After a short-sighted endeavor to quietly make some money, Maxis Troy finds himself a target of the Brotherhood of Cain — a violent gang led by a man renowned worldwide as the Grim Reaper. Luck appears to be on his side when a girl with her own agenda comes to his aid. Armed with the superpower to alter and improve any technology with just a touch, the two enter a three-way stalemate between the embodiment of death itself, a worldwide organization of religious zealots, and a woman who fancies herself a Goddess. In a world rampant with superpowers, criminal organizations, and questionable authorities, Maxis will quickly learn that a cruel world only breeds crueler people.
Royal Road4.63· 880
Competent MCGrimdarkLitRPGMysterySci-fiSecondary World+2

The Agartha Loop

RavensDagger

B62/100
They asked Amber to become a magical girl three times. She refused. That only made her more interesting. The fourth time, she asked them.
Royal Road4.66· 354
CozyIsekaiMilitaryMysterySchoolTime Loop

The Drake of Craumont

Origami Narwhal

B62/100
Ivy Crawford has done her best to put Craumont, and her past, behind her. She'd much rather live life as a Delver — exploring rifts in the world, battling monsters with claws and magic in equal measure. But the past has come calling, and Ivy finds herself back in the city she once called home. Ivy has changed since she left, with scales, claws, and a tail earned from years of magic and Delving. Craumont has changed too: new shadows cling to familiar buildings, and old mysteries have only deepened. Something has sunk its claws deep into the city, and just won't let go. If Craumont is to survive, Ivy has no choice but to slowly unravel the darkness over her old home.
Royal Road4.66· 344
Dungeon CrawlingLGBTQ+MysteryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

Millisecond: Superspeed is a Curse

CrowsCrowCrow

B62/100
In a world of superheroes, Milly awakens her power as a speedster — only to find herself slowly drifting away from everyone around her. Her superspeed doesn't come with an off-switch, and her new perception of time threatens to alienate her from the world entirely. At the start of high school, Milly enrolls at Arkwright Academy, an all-girls boarding school far from her childhood home. There she must navigate new friendships, emerging feelings, superheroes and villains, mysteries, and above all, a power that is as much curse as gift.
Royal Road4.65· 542
LGBTQ+MysteryOverpowered MCSchoolSlow BurnSuperpowers+1

Theseus

Sigil of the Void

B61/100
Meryll Watkins is a corporate IT consultant on her way home to Titan after an exhausting business trip on Mars. After a run-in with security, she's ready to spend the first wing of the flight getting some well-earned sleep. When she wakes up, she finds herself floating in an empty void with several new cybernetic implants jutting from her skin — and when she closes her eyes, she can see a dizzying display of data and machinery. She has somehow ended up inside an unfamiliar starship, acting as its living central processor. Coaxing the ragtag crew to release her back into the physical world, she discovers she's been unintentionally recruited by a band of pirates who mistook her for a human-like ship core. What follows is an exploration of her bizarre new existence, the day-to-day life of a space outlaw, a grand conspiracy, and the importance of an imperfect found family.
Royal Road4.69· 280Goodreads3.59· 500
Genius MCLoner MCMysteryNon-human MCSci-fiVRMMO

Secrets

David Musk

B61/100
Mana artists rule the world, and the path to power is a well-kept secret — restricted to state-approved programs and schools. Akari Zeller will never be a mana artist. Not if society has its way. She's a Bronze with no money, no family, and no connections. But technology is advancing too. And to a skilled hacker like Akari, no secret is safe forever. The dark web holds the keys to true power, advancement, and her only chance of survival.
Royal Road4.52· 1KGoodreads3.67· 65
Anti-heroCultivationGenius MCHard MagicMysterySchool+2

This Venerable Demon is Grossly Unqualified

Turniper

B60/100
Elder Hu Xin, the Crimson Saint of the Pathless Night Sect, is missing — not physically, his body is still walking the sect like he owns the place. But behind his eyes, a stranger is panicking, because his transmigration experience came with no instructions and none of Elder Hu's centuries of memories. Fellow elders, disciples, and dogs of the orthodoxy all have expectations about who Hu Xin is — and Hu Xin has no idea what those expectations are, let alone how to meet them. He doesn't even know how to work his own cultivation, let alone nurture someone else's. Shielded by audacity and armed with bullshit, this newly venerable and grossly unqualified demon is making it up as he goes.
Royal Road4.64· 666
ComedyCompetent MCCultivationIsekaiMysteryOverpowered MC+3

Ten Thousand Tragedies

NMR-3

B60/100
Death is the greatest teacher, and 721 has a lot of learning to do. The Martial Arts Alliance stands at the precipice of defeat as war threatens to consume the world — its sects and great families rotten at the core. As a slave soldier of the Red Dawn Sect, 721 is not allowed a name, feelings, or thoughts. His death is not a tragedy, only a statistic. But death isn't the end for him: every time he dies, he wakes up again 24 hours before it happened. With only a vague memory of who he once was, he will rise to the highest peaks — his road paved with his own bones.
Royal Road4.65· 437
CultivationGrimdarkMilitaryMysteryPost-apocalypticTime Loop+3

Coeus?

Andur

B60/100
A boy who doesn't see himself as quite human begins to learn the truth about his world — and not everyone is pleased about his existence. The story is intended to evolve into a full space opera with elements of magic woven through it.
Royal Road4.63· 820Goodreads4.49· 76
ComedyCozyMysteryNon-human MCSchoolSci-fi+2

Hard Luck Hermit

MrMander

B60/100
Two years ago, Corey Vash got abducted by aliens. A few months later, mostly by accident, he saved the universe. The parades and free drinks are long over, leaving his crew of bounty hunters with nothing but the expectations of a frightened galaxy and the overbearing attention of governments who want picture-perfect heroes. Now a murderous new threat is stalking their every move, forcing Corey and the crew of the Wild Card Wanderer to move past the bullets, booze, and blind luck that kept them alive — and become actual heroes, even if they aren't very good at it.
Royal Road4.66· 251
ComedyCompetent MCMysterySci-fi

Keeper of Totality

Infinityphoenix

B60/100
The death of the Hero reset the timeline — not what Lucy had intended when she made that last soul attack while dying. Returned to Earth, she attempts the obvious: use her knowledge of the future to dominate the System's five realms. Except things go wrong immediately. A Shard of Totality is now lodged in her eye, her Status is broken, and the Hero remembers everything — and has his own agenda involving her other identity, Adrianna Riftmire. She may be doomed. But as a master of soul magic and former Archmage, she is far from defenseless. This might just be her best chance to permanently defeat the Hero of Light, whose powers distort destiny to ensure his success.
Royal Road4.64· 598
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationIsekaiLitRPGMystery+5

Superworld

Benjamin Keyworth

C59/100
Matt Callaghan is in trouble. In a world where everyone has superpowers, he's got none, and has spent five years faking clairvoyance to avoid getting caught. When a desperate bluff backfires, he'll need every ounce of cunning and juvenile delinquency to stay alive. Jane Walker is trouble. In a world where everyone is powerful, Jane stands alone and apart, hated for her ability to copy abilities and atrocities far beyond her control. A chance encounter sends her hurtling toward her lifelong dream — or a violent, painful death. Unbeknownst to both, their paths are intertwined, and an unseen force draws them toward a secret whose existence threatens not just their lives, but the fate of the entire world.
Royal Road4.52· 932Goodreads4.09· 248
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

Grand Design

TMarkos

C59/100
Humanity once ruled space, building an empire that stretched across hundreds of stars. Now Earth is a cold cinder in the void, its colonies and ships annihilated in an instant. For five thousand years, the surviving races have huddled in the dying light of the few stations that avoided total destruction, eking out their existence in the shadow of the long-dead humans who built their homes. When a piece of that lost legacy resurfaces, the few who still remember humanity have one last opportunity to find the truth and avenge the fallen.
Royal Road4.64· 557
MysteryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary World

Path of the Last Champion

TheWanderingWind

C59/100
Nar was born in darkness and was meant to die there — a slave, shackled by a sin long forgotten, doomed to a life beneath the surface. His eyes were never meant to see the Infinite Nexus or the wonders of the Endless Labyrinth. He was never destined for power, a class, or the System. But he made the choice few sinners dare: to Climb. Now he must forge a hybrid tank/DPS class, conceal a secret that could destroy his party, and achieve the impossible to save his dying father. With every step toward the City Without End, Nar unknowingly draws to a close a play that has spanned eternities — and no one is expecting him.
Royal Road4.59· 841
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMystery+4

Unfathomable Power for the Low, Low Price of Someone Else's Soul

RaReason

C59/100
Colm Avery is a warlock — you know, the "sell your soul for unlimited power" kind. Except he never sells his own soul. Instead he trades the souls of murderers, those already destined for hell, in exchange for hellish gifts. It's hard work, and after six years of 18-hour days he finally has a windfall that lets him take a vacation. A cruise, specifically. Unfortunately, disaster after disaster strikes: food poisoning, bad weather, and pirates. Colm will have to use his magic and his gifts to survive — and to unravel the plot behind all these seemingly unrelated catastrophes. This cruise to Hawaii turned out to be more than he bargained for.
Royal Road4.64· 534
Anti-heroHorrorMysterySecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban Fantasy

Transcripts

SquiggleStoryStudios

C59/100
Dr. Uru'Nav Xant, Department Head of Research, has been documenting his interviews with a newly discovered "Creator level" intelligent species: Human. His subject, Jasmine, displays many unique quirks — most intriguingly, an incredibly strong "frequency" she produces with the help of an implanted alien translator. Together the pair navigate cultural misunderstandings, corporate politics, and animal companionship while uncovering the mysterious circumstances of Jasmine's abduction.
Royal Road4.65· 346
ComedyCozyIsekaiMysteryNon-human MCOverpowered MC+1