New Web Novels

Start fresh with newly added web novels and recent series launches on NovelCult. This hub helps readers catch stories near the beginning of their public shelf life, before the catalog gets crowded and while early chapters, tags, and author signals are still easy to inspect.

A Tale of Seven Villains and a Jerboa

Tags #Mature #Villain-centered dark epic fantasy #High-fantasy #Secondary-world-fantasy #Rival Kingdoms #Supernatural #Bromance #Angst #Found-family #Action* * * On his way home to the Empire of Arkosia, Vermon, son of Uthus, causes trouble in the central mountains of the Empamalangon Kingdom when he burns an ancient temple and enslaves a sick young man discovered hiding within its secret underground chamber after a fierce confrontation between them. As time passes, Vermon realises that Orb, his new slave, is no ordinary man. Behind his frail appearance lies an astonishingly blood-stained history and secrets far more dangerous than Vermon could have imagined. Their meeting was destined to unearth a past Vermon had forgotten entirely and set in motion a chain of events that would draw him together with five other villains, all bound by the same desperate longing: to have a family. * *

Lazarus · Fantasy · 5 ch

Fame, Glamor, and Control [Short Story]|Anchor Towns Tales #0.5

Every villain sees themselves as a hero in their story, a “good” guy. While Roxanna Bach and Mark Kestrel have selfish intentions, they are willing to do anything to maintain success in the music industry. Working in the secret underground world of mythical Hollywood has its perks, but recruiting new members of a Supernatural Supremacist cult and amateur rising stars is never an easy task for them. Will their successful track come to an end? [COMPLETED][Pre-Sequel short stories taken place before the events of The Melodies of Secrets.]

Nellie V. Parkinson · Fantasy · 10 ch

Yubiwa: The Wanderers in Frozen Time

Tansetsuki Yuume just wanted to revive his older brother, sister-in-law and little niece. He didn't know that he would have to save one more person. And why this person had suddenly become so important to him? _________ Cover and other arts by Kann ("Aoihito", "The Middle of Nowhere") Updates: Sundays

adawinry · Urban Fantasy · 4 ch

Devil Town: While the Demon's Away

Death was supposed to be the end. For Juno, it was just the beginning. A desperate pact with the Time Devil saves her life, freezing her illness and dragging her into Devil Town on borrowed time. There she meets the Creator, the most dangerous demon in existence, who insists they share a soul and won't stop smiling about it. He says he can help her, says they're connected. But he's also a liar. When the people she swore to protect start dying in visions that feel disturbingly prophetic, Juno has to decide: trust the monster who claims he can save them, or refuse and watch the prophecy unfold exactly as written. The problem is, she's starting to think he wrote it himself. • • • Content Warning: Contains scenes of violence and dark themes that may be disturbing to some readers.

dev7sita · Urban Fantasy · 14 ch

The Daisy Theory

Cheryl Sakurai is a young woman with a fondness for portal fantasies. Her two friends are harmless theorists who think a cartoon character named "Jax" from a show called The Amazing Digital Circus is a trans woman they nickname Daisy. One day, Cheryl wakes up in another universe. Here, her friends think a flesh-and-blood popstar named Daisy Butler is a closeted lesbian. Oh, and they want to murder her boyfriend. … Also on Wattpad, Tumblr, and Tapas!

SnarkyLisa · Drama · 19 ch

Light in the Dark

"Light in the Dark" tracks the invisible warfare waged over human sanity when twin novice angels, Stella and Bella, are stripped of their cosmic memories and deployed to Earth in the fragile bodies of rescue kittens. Under the grand directive of their commander, Claudita, the young guardians must absorb and filter raw mortal trauma without letting the toxic negative energy curdle their own souls into hatred.

Kyupol · Supernatural · 4 ch

Night's Children

Just some story about overdramatic vampires, often tiptoeing on the border between comedy and parody. _________ Cover and other arts by Kann ("Aoihito", "The Middle of Nowhere") Updates: Tuesdays and Fridays

adawinry · Supernatural · 9 ch

The Life of Modret

The tool, Maz, spends his days as a normal kid in the Underworld until, one day, he meets a mysterious person and comes to realize that he's connected to a much larger social and political scheme, built on warring factions, forgotten truths, and conspiracies hidden within the shadows. And, throughout it all, the tool, Maz, must walk the blurry line between fact and fiction, love and hatred, virtue and villany, if there was ever a line at all. Above all else, Maz must navigate the line between his self and his purpose as a tool. ************************************************* You can also read on Novellek or Royal Road My progress on Novellek is slower but I am trying to migrate the novel onto those platforms as well. All available chapter are already released on Royal Road.

TheFantasticODD · Mystery · 33 ch

Ayame Kessho: The Legend of Crystal Iris

Group of non-human strangers wants to find crystal iris which makes dreams come true. Magic, dragons, elves, mermaids, other magical species and almost everyone isn't straight. That's it, that's the plot. Oh, and there is d r a m a . A lot of drama. _________ Cover and other arts by Kann ("Aoihito", "The Middle of Nowhere") Updates: Mondays and Thursdays

adawinry · Fantasy · 9 ch

My Roommate Is The Antichrist

Everyone has a beginning, even the most hated person yet to be revealed in human history... The Antichrist attends your school, so what? At Saint Laststone Boarding School, life is filled with friendship, faith, comedy, chaos, and things that probably shouldn't exist. What could possibly go wrong?

TimGerrardo · Horror · 4 ch

Overseer - [Psychological Urban Fantasy]

Every criminal in Anderis dreams of being hired as a Receiver for the Syndicate. And for good reason: they'd be guaranteed work and pay, gain a fearsome reputation, and, for those few gifted with supernatural abilities, they'd be granted free rein to use their powers. However, for the former-office worker—codenamed Rookie—the Syndicate's Retirement Scheme is all that matters. "50,000 shares. That's all I need to erase myself from the outside world. Past, Present, and Future... I'll leave it all behind." But with tensions rising between the nation's factions, rumblings of another War, and the headache-inducing voices he keeps hearing—cracks have formed in the thatched walls of Rookie's life, making way for his past to come pouring through. One dreadful wave after the other. Will Rookie attain the freedom he desperately desires? Or will he instead be drowned beneath the crushing tides of his past? - Current release schedule will be daily: from Monday to Friday at 17:30 GMT. - Backlog is about 250k words. So this story won’t be disappearing/going on hiatus for a good while! Cover Art by @NadiaDibaj

rstonefield · Urban Fantasy · 28 ch

Akumarou: The History of Forbidden Feathers

Shinohara thought that he's just a normal bookworm, but he found out that his real name is Akumarou and that he's a son of the leader of demons. So he thought that his life can't be more complicated. But then he met a guardian angel and his life became a total mess. _________ Cover and other arts by Kann ("Aoihito", "The Middle of Nowhere") Updates: Wednesdays and Sathurdays

adawinry · Fantasy · 9 ch

Entropia

Taavi has spent most of his life learning what it means to belong nowhere. Half-Elf and half-Human, he is despised by both races. After years of captivity and abuse, he has learned to survive by keeping his head down and expecting nothing from anyone. Enslaved by General Arkros in the Kingdom of Aterion, he survives by following his master’s every command, knowing that obedience is his only protection from hatred and persecution. But when Taavi falls into a trap, he is thrust into a dangerous situation far beyond his control. With new threats closing in and his fate hanging in the balance, Taavi must find the courage to break free from the path chosen for him and discover a strength he never knew he had.

Nica Satter · Fantasy · 5 ch

Veil of Ashes

Veil of Ashes is a slow-burn, character-driven novel about survival, growth, and found family in a world rebuilt from ruins. When strangers arrive, Jo must navigate the fragile line between trust and danger, all while learning to love herself in a place that often feels unloving. Every choice carries the weight of life or death. This is a tale of resilience and connection — of fighting to reclaim hope and rebuild a life worth living. For mature readers: adult themes, strong language, and open-door romance.

Mattie Caird · Sci Fi · 11 ch

Damn Reincarnation: Ashes of Glory

The demonkings are no more alive and destruction had finally come to an end. ‎‎‎After countless battles— Eugene Lionheart finally fulfilled his purpose to kill every demon king and saved the world from ruin but ending doesn't seems satisfactory. ‎‎Beyond the ashes of war, a new fate begins As ancient scars slowly reopened the world and Eugene discovers that true of source of destruction wasn't the demon king themselves. But the outer entities lurking beyond reality. ‎‎Amid this growing darkness stands Noir Giabella. The woman who tied to Eugene by a curse neither of them can escape. One carries the light, other walks besides in darkness, yet together they become guardians chosen to watch over the world after fall of the demon kings. ‎‎But some fates are cruel. No matter how deeply they love each other they can't be able to together because of their fate prevents them.

TwilightGod · Action · 9 ch

Crime & Regret

[BISEXUAL PROTAGONIST WITH GL] In a world where people are separated into ability users and unabilitied, Luna Ione is an 18 year old ability user with only one goal: to find her missing siblings. Six years after their disappearance, a chance encounter leads her to two secret organizations. Regret; an organization that uses their abilities for good and wants to resolve things peacefully, led by the heroic and mysterious Blaze Winslow. Crime; a criminal organization that uses their abilities to take revenge on the unabilitied, led by the elusive and mystifying Thorn Shadows. But Blaze and Thorn have a feud that runs deep, and now that Luna has become entangled in it, she's about to find out that the war between Crime and Regret may be more complicated than she could have imagined... Rated Teen+ for violence, mentions of abuse, and depictions of obsessive/toxic one-sided love. Logo with help from @/Meowssey

Lilyflowerv · Urban Fantasy · 33 ch

Project Euthanasia

Euthanasia. Quite the... macabre, but merciful concept. The idea that it is better to "die with grace" than to fight to delay the agonising inevitable, to give the suffering a way out without shame, pain, fear... To kindly lead them towards... peace. But how do you apply that to someone whose existence is as certain as the universe itself? To a “god”? ... Step 1: Orchestrate a genocide.

Aims_the_sloth · Supernatural · 21 ch

Desio Jokoa

Ellis Ranger is a strange boy with an unusual gift of tasting people's emotions. After moving once again for the seventh time, he thought this would be his chance to be normal, but when a wraith attacked his new school, Ellis's desire for normalcy was shattered. Desperate for finding answers about himself and for an ordinary life, he joins a mysterious organization that swore to protect humanity from the unknown. As Ellis dives deeper into the world of monsters, he realizes that secrets won't remain hidden forever. Ancient horrors inch closer, forbidding magic resurfaces, and the thread between reality and nightmares becomes shorter.

CLG · Supernatural · 6 ch

Guiding Paradise [BL]

Kyrian Averin is a highly capable S-Class Guide and Alpha, who has been contracted to Guide a Cerberus Esper with strong resistance to Guiding. Unit S-1 Eiden is an S-Class Esper who refuses to give control of himself to another human being, even at the expense of his own life. Will Kyrian be able to earn this Esper’s trust despite the growing attraction between them and fulfill his contract? Or will it end in yet another horrible tragedy?

shadowmark_umbra · Romance · 30 ch

Journey of the Poison Sovereign

The Rushu village once existed peacefully, in the valley of the wailing phantoms. But one day, they were unannouncedly attacked. By a force unknown and immune to their poison arts. In the midst of this one-sided massacre, a singular boy survived and was saved by his lone ambition of exploration that had led him far from his village. And far too late back. Alone, and standing on the slope if the hill that bordered his village to the left. Only two things remained between the boy and air itself. Despair. And a deep longing for revenge!

Gyrr0Glyph1c · Adventure · 4 ch