Also known as "webfiction" or the "online novel", web serial novels are the prose equivalent of Webcomics which happen to have distinct Story Arcs. An author, usually an amateur, publishes a novel in many short installments (often daily or weekly) on a website.
Quite often, the work in question is some sort of Fanfic, but also included in this category are completely original works. Most long-form fanfic is posted on places like FanFiction.Net in installments, and thus would qualify as this trope.
Web serials are the Spiritual Successors to the Serial Novels which Charles Dickens (and many other authors of that time) originally published in serial form in newspapers and in Dime Novel form.
See Web Fiction Guide
and Muses Success for incomplete listings of serial novels, among other forms of online prose fiction. Top Web Fiction keeps a list of active/popular English-language web serials, employing a weekly voting system in order to stay consistently current.
In the years leading up to The New '10s, Japanese-language "web novels" began to attract attention from publishers — Recuts of these stories now make up a significant chunk of the Light Novel market, and in turn a number of these have gone on to become mainstream hits with anime and manga adaptations. Shousetsuka ni Narou ("Let's Become a Novelist") is one of the most popular hubs for this in Japan, with over a hundred of the works on the site having been adopted for publication.
Please note that these works go in the Literature/ namespace, and not Web Original.
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- Abominable
- Above Ground is a post-apocalyptic Dark Fantasy where humans live underground and the infected live above ground. The story follows the adventures of the human girl Lilith, who is trapped upon the surface alongside werewolves, witches, and the like.
- Addergoole is a contemporary fantasy with erotic, Dark Fantasy and Fractured Fairy Tale elements taking place in a Boarding School.
- The Adventures of Fox Tayle is about a regular fox made to be a soldier, but then the government project is cancelled. Fox escapes being killed and is hunted by the FBI for the majority of the story. First published on deviantART.
- The Adventures of Pat O'Neil is a self-narrative of the life of Pat O'Neil, a "regular guy from Iowa" that somehow ended up battling the forces of Clan Platypus, a organization of ninjas trying to take over the universe by selling meth.
- Adventures in the Pirate Continent a girl gets lost in the pulp adventurer filled world full of Vikings, Nazis, and Sea Monsters.
- Aethernea is a fantasy series set in an original world created by Cloe D. Frost, where everyone can use magic. The story follows the adventures of Kiel Rroda and Elaru Wayvin who attempt to enroll into the most prestigious university of magic, become the most powerful mages and uncover secrets of their world.
- Aivoton Aikamatka
- Almost Nowhere is Cosmic Horror and hard science fiction web serial by nostalgebraist about humanity's First Contact with a species of Starfish Aliens.
- Akuyaku Reijou no Naka no Hito
- Am I Actually the Strongest?
- Anachronauts is a web novel series in which multiple realities converge onto a single planet, and all the consequences that ensue because of it. Thus, its tagline: "a web novel series of broomsticks, semiautomatics, and jetpacks."
- Anathema is an ongoing serialized novel that explores the stories of three superpowered characters with diverse backgrounds and motivations in an alternate universe very similar to our own. Their plotlines impact one another and eventually begin to converge. The story features tropes such as Anti-Villain, Crapsack World and Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Tagline: Those comic books were lying about superpowers.
- Anesthesia is a sci-fi adventure about a crazy boy, who is the heir to an incredibly wealthy company, and his twin sister.
- The Angaran Chronicles short stories fit into this genre which are based in a Diesel Punk setting about the Hunters, magically enhanced super spies and assassins as they wage a Secret War against the oppressive theocracy which dominates the continent of Angara. Mostly following the elf Hunter Anargrin and his elite team in their morally ambiguous black ops missions.
- Angel of Death is an Urban Fantasy Web Serial about a lich named Cody Giles coping with the guilt imposed by his need to devour human souls while trying to use his dark powers for good.
- Angry Remembrance [1] is a Coming of Age story with an Urban Fantasy bent. Brian Cargill learns that the father he thought walked out on his family actually died a hero—fighting an ancient battle between two warring factions of shapeshifters who call upon the powers of legendary heroes and their nemeses.
- Animas Conquest is a web serial novel that updates at least once weekly. It is about a School for Scheming in a semi-post-apocalyptic setting.
- The Antithesis revolves around the conflicts of a uniquely-perceived Heaven and Hell, narrated by the main character, Alezair Czynri, who is a member of the "Jury", a sect of non-Celestials who live in Purgatory and enforce "The Code".
- Antlers, Colorado is a horror/supernatural serial about a young medium who runs away from home and ends up solving mysteries with the sheriff's department in a weird small town.
- Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World
- Arcana Magi is a young adult fantasy universe written by H-M Brown. It features a web serial novel of the main series about a teenage girl, who received a mystical item from one of The Four Gods, and was captured and brainwashed by an Evil Company to serve their needs. He also wrote Arcana Magi Zero, an Alternate Universe Short Story Trilogy about the beginnings of two teenage girls, who received their magical items from The Four Gods, and try to understand their place in the world.
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
- Arrow and Ace is a Slice of Life type story where everyone in the world has superpowers. It follows multiple characters and their struggles with both accepting their powers and more typical teenage concerns.
- Ars Harmonia [2] is a collection of short stories told in Light Novel format, set in the same universe as Vacant Sky. It's an Urban Fantasy tale about a nameless demon hunter who fights to keep various supernatural entities from encroaching upon the unsuspecting society at large, and what happens when she fails.
- Ascendance of a Bookworm: Follows a Bookworm who died and was Reincarnate in Another World. However, she was born with a weak body, the world is medieval, and her family poor, so she starts trying to make her own books with the help of her friend. Started publishing as a web novel in 2013 on Shousetsuka ni Narou and was later released as a light novel series by TO Books.
- Ash & Cinders is an episodic fantasy story written by Connor M. Perry. It is a Fetch Quest and self-described Epic Fairy Tale where the two siblings and their mentor on a race to retrieve their half brother after he is stolen by a Wizard.
- Associated Space is an often-hilarious science fiction story written by a friend of a troper.
- ATL Stories From The Retrofuture is a sci-fi Post Cyber Punk story about a twentysomething slacker with technologically-enhanced superpowers who has to protect the city from Atlanta from whatever threat emerges this week. It's mainly a comedy, but has some elements of Detective Drama, with a bit of Slice of Life mixed in.
- Avalon's Reign is a cyberpunk serial novel.
- Ave Xia Rem Y
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- Babe Ruth: Man-Tank Gladiator is the half-remembered story of Babe Ruth, the world's greatest man-tank gladiator, as told by a priest in the year 4025.
- Bad Influences is a blogged disaster fiction about a global flu pandemic.
- BANG! Series (taken down) is about a Robot Cat of Mass Destruction who joins a La Résistance to overthrow the Corrupt Corporate Executive who has taken over and destroyed the world.
- Banished from the Hero's Party
- Barkwire is a series of articles that imitate a social network for the obsessive fans of a small town's canine population.
- Battle is an Art is a serial about a dragon-girl trying to please her Maker, who she hates, so as to not get her universe destroyed.
- Battle Kreaturez - Comeback is an adaptation/Continuity Reboot of the early chapters of the webcomic Battle Kreaturez.
- Beast Tamer: The Beastmaster is kicked out of the hero party in a Standard Japanese Fantasy Setting and sets out on his own, acquiring a Battle Harem of animal-eared girls.
- Becoming a better writer is a group of books written by an amateur New Zealand author and serialized on his website. So far involves Demon Hunting and Werewolf Law.
- Behind Closed Doors is a Spiritual Adaptation of Your Turn to Die and a Spin-Off of SWAP Ensemble that takes place 15 years after.
- Beware of Chicken is a light-hearted, comedic Deconstruction of Wuxia and Xianxia novels, Isekai Power Fantasies, and Slow Life Fantasies. What if someone transported into a fantastic world with incredible powers decided they'd rather not get involved, and instead tried to find the most remote, isolated place possible to start a farm? And what if the farm animals start treating things as seriously as the normal protagonists of this kind of story?
- Beyond Logic
- Though the results aren't nearly long enough to be considered "novels", BIONICLE includes web serials as part of their canon. They supplement the books and comics in that they can focus on and flesh out side characters—including the villains—or continue to tell adventures of those whose toys are no longer on the market. The final novel of the series was only available to read on-line (in English, at least... some European countries printed it into an actual book), so there's that for a novel-length serial.
- Birthright (2017) follows a princess who has been cursed and impersonated, as she tries to find a way to break the curse and warn her family what has happened, all while avoiding the watchful eye of her captor.
- Blackheart
- blacklight is a modern fantasy web-serial about making the best of a really, really, really bad situation.
- Blacktop is a horror/thriller web serial that follows one Gael Gonzalez, a man that can spout vines from his palms who works for an agency tasked with hunting down rogue daemons. Despite being a veteran of this agency and loved by the people, Gael's bored with his life and wants something interesting to happen. And he just may get that wish when, one day, daemon readings in the city end up spiking higher than they ever have in years...
- Blank Rune follows the story of Tana, a girl who lost her magic after the defeat of her masters.
- The Book of the Gear is the most complete part of the Gearworld setting from Ursula Vernon. Now abandoned and unlikely to continue, it never had much real plot to begin with and was more of an exploration of a compellingly strange world.
- Blank Mastermind concerns an amnesiac villain who has to convince his henchmen that he hasn't lost his memories, stop his own evil plans and save his archenemy.
- Blasphemous And Unintentionally Racist Things Keaton And Wyatt Say
- Book of the Dead (2021)
- Border, KS is a modern fantasy story about a fictional town in southern Kansas which is both on the border with Oklahoma, and the Border between supernatural realms. It updates Tuesday and Thursday at Border, KS.
- Borrasca
- The Brave New World Universe is a superhero story about people who are randomly Chosen to gain superpowers, which also changes their sex. It is hosted on tgstorytime.com.
- Brennus is a story that's (mostly) about a teenager with Super-Intelligence trying to become a superhero.
- Building Tales is a set of serialized short stories, novellas and, apparently, will contain novels in the future, written by the artist of The Life of Nob T. Mouse and All Over The House.
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- Caelum Lex, is a sci-fi web serial about a woman who boards a space pirate vessel called the Dionysian and the ramshackle crew that mans it.
- Canticle, a web novel series about a demon assassin who is banished to futuristic Earth after refusing to kill an innocent girl. Due to this, he's now hunted by his former comrades while he searches to uncover a sinister plot.
- Can You Spare a Quarter?, a web novel about a 12-year old boy who has run away from Abusive Parents and eventually meets a kind man who takes him in.
- Cardboard Chronicles, a collaborative chat-based narrative that spawned out of a number of running gags on the Spinnerette comment board in October of 2012. It has since spread to DeviantArt, where it has its own group page.
- Card Force Infection is a Yu-Gi-Oh! inspired story about a trading card game powered by magic, cursed cards, and a plot to summon the devil.
- Card Rood Rebirth, about a university professor who ends up in a Deadly Game.
- The Case Files of Ibrahim Helsing is an ongoing serial about the black sheep of the van Helsing family,Ibrahim Helsing and his adventures in defending the innocent, whether they be humans or monsters.
- The Champions (2011) is a superhero serial about a team of superheroes in both their public and private lives. is a web serial novel about a group of superheroes. The story follows these heroes as they struggle to defeat villains and their personal problems. The story is being published on a web site called Fiction Press one chapter at a time. A chapter is added to the story every Saturday. It has over 100 chapters.
- Chaos Fighters, a serial novel series with extreme amounts of fighting scenes.
- Chaos Timeline, an Alternate History 'verse beginning with the premature death of Genghis Khan and exploring the For Want of a Nail down the centuries that results from it.
- Chatoyant College is an Urban Fantasy series about a group of friends of are studying at the only university in America that teaches magic.
- The Chronicles of Steve Stollberg is a satirical web serial novel about 3 young boys (Steve, James, and Harrison) who hang out together at Northville Middle School.
- The Chronicles of Taras is a regularly updated Horror/Science-Fiction Diesel Punk Web Serial by N. Somniack involving a teenage girl sent to an alleged Summer Camp called 'Camp Moric' that has some shady staff and hardened "Campers". Though, unfortunately, the worst of it is probably The Rake and the other horrible entities lurking about Camp Moric.
- Chrysalis:
- Chrysalis (Beaver Fur) follows a consciousness known as the Terran who seeks to avenge the scouring of the Earth at the hands of an alien empire.
- Chrysalis (RinoZ): LitRPG following a teenager who is reincarnated in another world as an ant monster.
- Cirno & Purple Steve is the story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons. It's an experimental adventure story published weekly.
- Citadel follows a class of trainees through a brutally pragmatic Superhero School
- City of Angles is a serial about a perpetually changing urban world of Alien Geometries and the people who end up trapped there, trying to eke out a living amidst the weirdness. The ongoing mystery about the origin of the City and its true nature forms the backbone of the series.
- City on the Edge of Nowhere, a multi-part multimedia recap of the alien monster invasion depicted in the author's novel, Eden Green.
- The Clockwork Raven [3] is a Miyazaki-inspired Clock Punk saga about two teens, Action Girl Karla and Badass Bookworm Kio, who fight to survive on the floating castle where they've been trapped alone for ten years. Magical twists abound as their world gradually becomes more expansive and terrifying.
- Codex Nekromantia [4]: life, love, necromancy, the fragile human condition when caught between the jaws of a very robust human condition, and wholesale zombie slaughter.
- The Cockroach Metamorphosis is the transformation of people from having just suffered into becoming genuinely happy with themselves again, but not before they've had to deal with Lovecraftian monsters and worlds that cannot make sense.
- Coiling Dragon follows Linley Baruch as he goes to the Ernst Institute to master magic, and then moves on reclaim his clan's legacy, find revenge for his parents, and seek a place among the gods. This 800+ chapter story is described as a mix of wuxia and Daoist fantasy.
- Cold Obsidian is a story of a young man who becomes an apprentice of the creators of his world.
- Color Shock is a tale of two cities. One is an unmappable, black and white maze called the city of all cities where street addresses are replaced with dates that mysteriously stop right before the millennium and musicians play the only color in the world into existence. The other is a high-tech metropolis where three teenage gangs (the Reds, the Blues, and the Greens) fight with colored solid light they can throw from their fingertips. In both cities, a mysterious force seeks to blot out all the color in the world forever.
- The Comfortable Courtesan by L A Hall is a novel, originally published as a Dreamwidth blog, about a Regency High-Class Call Girl and her circle.
- The Cool Kids Chronicles is an ongoing Coming of Age Story about a group of superpowered kids and their friends that slowly gets darker as the narrative becomes more unified.
- Correspondence From the Goddess is an ongoing Epistolary Novel from Lydia Devin, a normal woman who was mysteriously raised to the level of divinity, and her sister Elana. Through a series of flashbacks, Lydia tries to understand the events that lead to her destroying the universe and putting it back together.
- The Countryship Yoors [5] follows the adventures of an oddly Genre Savvy protagonist who, without explanation, ended up in space, aboard a ship the size of a country.
- The Court Of Tales is a fantasy story about the last human on the Land of Faerie and what goes on in the courts of these lands.
- The Crusaders is a serial following the adventures of Kon Dui, a young, wealthy, alien immigrant struggling to fulfill his life-long aspirations to superheroism instilled in him by the first Age of Superheroes, and the team of inexperienced psychological train-wrecks he was assigned to lead.
- The Crush, a discontinued serial set in an Alternate History with Elemental Powers. It centers around two friends on a Redemption Quest to make things right after a devastating defeat.
- Cryptocracy Novel is a scifi drama/comedy serial by Dan Sabato which follows the exploits of a group of former space marines who defect to a band of pirates and unravel a government conspiracy
- Curse Words is a magical boarding school fantasy about teenagers uncovering political conspiracies, mucking about with magic, and generally making poor decisions.
- Curveball is Super Hero fiction about a mysterious conspiracy surrounding the murder of Liberty, America's Greatest Hero.
- Cupid Able is a romantic comedy about an Otaku who has a hopeless crush on his neighbor until Cupid is delivered to his house one morning.
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- The Daily Grind is the story of a tech-support guy and his infinite office-space dungeon. At least at first.
- Daily Life Of The Immortal King.
- Damn Reincarnation, the story of Eugene Lionehart, the reincarnation of the hero Hamel Dynas who suddenly finds himself as the descendant of his friend and The Hero, Vermouth. He uses his second life to figure out what happened to his friends in the centuries after his death and figure out why they chose to make peace with the demons instead of killing them as they'd planned.
- Dandere General And His Lord is the story of Cheng Qianye, a modern woman who transmigrates into the body of a noblewoman who commited suicide. Learning that the woman’s twin brother was the ruler of a city poisoned by a rival claimant and the besieging army of said claimant is about to take the city, Cheng Qiayne passes herself off as the brother and defeats the invaders, then rides off to one of the never-ending wars she is summoned to. After meeting Mo Qiao Sheng, a slave on the verge of death, she saves him and sets about abolishing slavery and unifying the country.
- Dantes Infanzia is the story of Dante Willis who, after dying on his 18th birthday, winds up in Limbo where he will be treated like a baby for all of eternity.
- DarkWatch [6] follows a team of agents who protect the world from supernatural threats. Relatively new, but updated frequently.
- Dear Nemesis: A Peggy Sue story of an arguably successful villainess suddenly finding herself flung 20 years into the past and betrothed to her original political enemy. After realizing how much she was actually manipulated in her first life, and still unwilling to give up on her political ambitions, she formulates a plan how to succeed on her own using what tools she has at her disposal.
- The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time: Follows a reincarnator, who after being killed as a teenager in a terrorist attack on Earth and then spending his second life as an illegal human test subject in a Magitek world, is out to do everything in his power to not lose his latest life as an orphan half-vampire death mage in a High Fantasy world and have to find out just how much worse a fourth reincarnation could get.
- Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody follows a 30 something programmer who finds himself trapped in a fantasy world after some particularly bad crunch time / "death marching" to finish a mobile game, and decides to go on a sight-seeing tour vacation.
- Decembersville tells the tale of a young girl who is sucked into a world of freaks, murder, and mystery.
- ‘’Deeper Up the Tower’’ is a queer fantasy serial about a mysterious knight named Florian who enters the titular Tower and finds a world of strange magic and disco dreams. Each floor of the Tower is a new adventure for Florian where they may make a new friend or meet their end.
- Defection is the story about Alecia, and Jessica. One knows too much, the other is caught in middle of a web of lies. Everything is progressing towards a collision of tectonic proportions and there is going to be collateral.
- Delve, a Iseka Adventure novel that follows Rain Stroudwater as he navigates a RPG Mechanics 'Verse full of dangers and mystery.
- Demon Lord, Retry!
- The Descendants is a Super Hero story formatted in such a way that it's a comic book without pictures.
- Desolate Era is the wuxia story of Ji Ning, an Earth teenager that is killed and reincarnated on a world of immortal wielding fantastic supernatural abilities. The story follows him as he develops his powers to first protect his family and then to avenge them.
- Deucalion Chronicles is a Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, with time travelers, mages, androids, werewolves and more all rubbing elbows and often as not beating the crap out of one another.
- Deviant is a story about the rise of superhumans with the destruction of Seattle. A teenager gets involved in a world of violent vigilantes and seedy gangs, struggling to hold onto their morality in a world that seems to be lacking it.
- Diaclone VS. Gridman, a four-chapter crossover between Denkō Chōjin Gridman and Diaclone toy series, as well as the prequel to SSSS.GRIDMAN.
- Digimon Seekers
- Dimension Heroes, a web novel series skewed towards a younger demographic featuring five teens who discover futuristic battle suits and are subsequently thrust into an adventure in which they must save their world from colliding with a parallel dimension.
- Ding Hai Fu Sheng Lu
- The Dionaea House, which was told in segments appearing on different websites, every October for three years.
- Dis Acedia A Dark Fantasy where the main cast is trapped in Dis, a hellish prison dimension ruled by the Mad God Lazarus and filled with the most horrible monsters in all of fantasy with Dis' actual denizens being worse.
- Disciple of the Holy Sword is a Korean fantasy novel about a would-be swordmaster named Leon who struggles to keep up with his noble and genius peers despite his tireless efforts to improve himself. His fortunes change when the holy sword Elsyd descends from the sky and chooses him as his wielder, giving him a teacher who will shape him into someone worthy of being called the Warrior.
- The Distinguished Cute Master is a Chinese transmigration and cultivation novel where the supposed villain is brought back to when she was a child and decides that this time around she's going to raise the protagonist to find treasure for her so she won't end up fighting him for it in the future. A bigger mystery surrounding why she was sent back and if she was the only one gradually emerges.
- The Distortion Detective is a mystery novel set in the world of Library of Ruina, showcasing the life of Moses, a detective able to see the "Distortion" phenomenon that turns people into monsters.
- Division by Zero is a Science Fantasy Cosmic Horror Story. In a multiverse abandoned by God, its denizens are condemned to be free. Cast into an unsympathetic existence, two planets wage war that spans eons and spares none, sweeping Kohana Outtaike, a 15-year-old girl from Earth, into its chaos. Guided by Hiroyuki D’Accardi, her Spectrian Advisor, she becomes a general in a conflict upon which the fate of the multiverse hinges. Allied with 7 others like her subjected to the same fate, Kohana must confront God, who created the multiverse out of nothingness, and its creations, who create nothingness out of the multiverse.
- The Dogs is an erotic deconstruction of the common stereotypes found in the transformation genre common in the Furry fandom, but meant to be read as Lit Fic.
- Domina is a series about the titular city, which has evolved a unique culture based around Bio-Augmentation. Also, it is written by a troper.
- DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS is a Lovecraft-inspired weekly serial about a man who visits a coastal village that is not quite what it seems.
- Doom Valley Prep School, is the story of Peter who is unwillingly sent to a school of villainy by his parents. Hilarity ensues as he's turned into a girl on the first day and nearly brainwashed into being a perfect girlfriend. Now called Petra, she is just trying to survive while the Fate seems to hate her.
- Doppio Senso is the story of Lee Eun Ha, a Mafia Princess who has been waiting to kill the man responsible for her parents' deaths. The opportunity comes when she is ordered to kill Shin Kyung Hyun, the right-hand man of her parents' murderer. However, as she begins to unravel the mystery behind Kyung Hyun, Eun Ha finds herself being the one seduced.
- Douluo Dalu, a series that follows the second life of a prodigy from a Martial Arts sect that used Poison and Hidden Weapons, who after his death was born in a world of Spirits and Great Powers, he now looks to create his sect again and grow to the very top.
- Dragomir's Diary is a daily fantasy serial about the man himself, who tries to live a normal life in a not-so-normal castle, and the consequences of this silly decision.
- Dragon Queen is a young adult fantasy web serial following a girl's quest to find her mother.
- The Dragon Wars Saga is a young adult fantasy serial in which four British teenagers are dragged into another world to become warriors and save said world from disaster.
- The Dread Eclipse is an ongoing Grimdark switchblade-and-sorcery web serial by Mabel Harper and Cassidy Webb about two modern-day mages attempting to solve a mass murder within the city of Philadelphia. Notable for having two Transgender protagonists.
- Dream High School is a variation on the Choose Your Own Adventure that tells stories of a high schooler who takes night classes in a shared Dream Land. Pages are uploaded bi-weekly, and readers vote on what happens next after each upload.
- Dreams of the Dying is an ongoing fantasy/horror web serial that follows a cynical mercenary into an ultra-capitalistic island nation where he has to enter the mind of a merchant king. It's a Prequel to Enderal.
- Drugstore in Another World
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- The Ed Stories, a series of short stories about a Mad Scientist Slacker college student who does everything from teleporting the Sun to sending the entire Earth backwards in time.
- EHUD Prelude To Apocalypse
- Elcenia is the High Fantasy / Slice of Life story of half-elven mage Rhysel, who has been summoned from one superficially Standard Fantasy Setting to another and is stranded there. Despite superficial similarities the two worlds are at least as different from each other as either is from Earth.
- Ellipsis, a story where one-hundred souls of the recently deceased wake up to find themselves in Limbo. They are forced into a gauntlet of Battle Royale Games where the last man standing will win back their life and return to Earth. Those who lose, however, are sentenced to eternal damnation in Hell.
- Emerald Prince, about a young man who is Trapped in Another World and has to impersonate the prince, but then finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
- Emily H The Viking Princess: A Norsewoman and her boyfriend in a very historically inaccurate Viking-era Scandinavia adventure to rescue her missing father.
- The Eminence in Shadow
- Encryption Straffe: New Illyrica, city of the future, has hired Genie to fight in its privatized war. One day, his enemy turned the war into a blind chase for keys hidden in the city’s history. Evade his employers, ward off a sinister digital spirit, hunt down himself. It’s like Ready Player One meets Metal Gear.
- Engines of Creation, is the story of a small Canadian town that finds itself trapped knee-deep in political turmoil and medieval magick when it is suddenly and mysteriously transported into the mystical Pactlands.
- Enter the Farside is the story written by Saramoff about a young adult with superpowers who joins the superpowered police of Manchester. The world is full of Eldritch Horrors, with Earth being linked to a parallel plane of alien, inscrutable madness called the Farside.
- Entirely Presenting You is the story of Alexis, a girl coming to terms with her new superpowers, and becoming the world's first superhuman.
- Ephemeral Prince, a sequel to the freeware RPG Star Stealing Prince.
- The Erratical Saga
- Eternal Bushido is a Wuxia work written by K. W. Robertson that focuses on a young woman who must rely on a stranger to help bring her home's attackers to justice, all the while risking to plunge the empire of Vesitgia into civil war.
- Expecting to Fall into Ruin, I Aim to Become a Blacksmith: A light fantasy adventure series about a man who gets reborn as a minor character from a game he played, Kururi, and figuring You Can't Fight Fate, prepares to improve his future living conditions with his destined wife, the Tsundere Defrosting Ice Queen Eliza, while getting in zany hijinks and magical adventures. Has light novel and manga adaptations.
- Expedition Z is a StoryShift-hosted post-apocalyptic zombie story written by James Renner, depicting a newly-graduated cadet with his partner on a Lewis and Clark-esque expedition to the West to document any survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse.
- Existential Terror and Breakfast Malcolm Steadman is driven mad by a series of existential dread. The plot is carried along as a 90-day countdown to the day that he dials a suicide hotline ticks away. He also eats breakfast.
- Expiry Date is a work by the creator of Ro.Te.O. One of the protagonists, Kieran, knows the day of his death - in fact, there's a permanent reminder on his wrist. But with creatures called Barcodes to defeat and schoolwork to be done, Kieran's life might be gone before he knows it.
- The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and SOAP!
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- Fae Tales is a series of original dark fantasy/explicit erotica. Gwyn ap Nudd, renowned warrior and king of the Seelie Court, and Augus Each Uisge, Unseelie predatory waterhorse, should have had nothing to do with each other - but dark secrets, ancient grudges, and a growing understanding between the two faes come together to change the course of events throughout the fae realms.
- Fake Saint of the Year: A comedy and mystery series about a somewhat twisted young man Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex in a game world, wishing to correct a Downer Ending. The comedy comes from the contrast of Elrise's shameless Inner Monologue with the Hero-Worshipper reactions she gets from those around her, and the mystery comes from how she keeps on coming back to her past life aparement on earth, and the way that alters both realities. Recieving Light Novel and Manga adaptations.
- Fartago [7], a serialized blog novel by author Tony Caroselli about the adventures of a tribe of cavemen who have found a monolith similar to the one from the opening chapters/scenes of the book/movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not fanfic as Caroselli has said the cavemen are not the same ones seen in the book and movie (the lead one of whom is named "Moon-Watcher" in the book, a name not seen in the blog novel). Indeed, Fartago takes place at least 1 million years after the opening chapters of the book 2001, the tribe in Fartago is apparently much larger and better organized than the one in 2001, and Caroselli has said the monolith has not been created by the same race and not for the same purpose. Caroselli insists the premise is an homage, not fanfic.
- Fabled Hearts is a collection of traditional untraditional fantasy short stories in web serial format. The stories are frequently kind of weird.
- The Facility an upstart web serial, the story centers around a boy named Matsuo Kōdaina in a dystopian alternate Japan where children that "dishonor" their families with criminal behavior are sent to a large high school converted to a maximum-security prison filled with high school cliché gangs that are at constant war with each other.
- Fairy Tales Of Mourania, a fantasy story.
- Female General and Eldest Princess is an original Chinese web serial novel set in a fictionalized and embellished version of Tang Dynasty China.
- "Fighting Monsters" is a superhero story that heavily plays with He Who Fights Monsters.
- Finding Snowflakes is a rather heartwarming Rom Com featuring a book-obsessed Socially Awkward Hero and Genki Girl who, as all teenagers, have their issues standing in their way. Set to be a deconstruction of the usual high-school clichés.
- Fine Structure
- The Finite is a fantasy/romance story set in the universe of Kubera, set around 150 years before the webcomic. It details the meeting and subsequent romance of a revenge-driven human named Ian and the immortal dragon Taksaka, the one she has sworn revenge against.
- The Finite Life of a Dating Sim Heroine, is a Gender Bender story about a boy who gets sent into a Dating Sim and forced into the body of the game's heroine.
- First: Do No Harm is a Web Serial Novel by Insanity Lord (Justin J. on Fictionpress). It follows the life of Chastity 'Vanilla' Jackson, a doctor and scientist in the 22nd Century, and the lives of her family and those close to her.
- Fishbowl is an ongoing science-fiction Web Serial Novel.
- Flesh and Blood is a Web Serial Novel and sequel to Under My Skin by A.E "Asynca" Dooland, once again focusing on Min Lee, a transgender artist, after she has quit her job and entered into a relationship with schoolgirl Bree Dejanovic. Both characters are faced with new issues that stem from their dysfunctional families.
- Flight of the Godkin Griffin was a serial novel by M.C.A. Hogarth that has been published as a duology, with an audio adaptation.
- Floating Point is a Cyberpunk series taking place Inside a Computer System populated by sentient A.I., each living out the social patterns of The Internet... the good and the bad.
- The Flying Cloud, an alternate universe where World War 1 ended early and airships rule the skies.
- Forbidden Book is an Adventure/Fantasy Manga Story on Fictionpress. It focuses on an adolescent boy and his True Companions as he journeys through an unfamiliar land to find his way out of the book. All the while warding off the hostile creatures known as Bakemono sent to kill him. Complete with 22 chapters.
- The Forsaken Children
- Fox Demon Cultivation Manual
- Four Kingdoms
- The Fourteenth Year Of Chenghua / 成化十四年 ( Chéng Huà Shí Sì Nián)
- A Frequent Travellers Guide To Jovan [8] is a political fantasy web serial by Senna Black featuring royal brothers Valentin, Deadpan Snarker and Magnificent Bastard and Cassius, Nice Guy and Oblivious Younger Sibling and their adventures in service of their niece, the Empress of Jovan.
- From A Knight To A Lady tells the story of a young female knight fighting in the war for her country, who, after being treacherously killed by her best friend, wakes up three years later in the body of a young noblewoman in the enemy country. Now she has to navigate her new life in the unfamiliar world as a woman who was her polar opposite, avenge herself, find her old allies and figure out her relationship with her old adversary, now her oblivious fiance.
- From Winter's Ashes is a dark fantasy web serial by Patrick Rochefort and Keith Aksland, following Detective Heather Blackthorne as she struggles against arctic weather, past traumas, and old horrors made terribly new again.
- Funny Business is a deconstruction story about a child who happens to be a Reality Warper.
- Fushi no Kami
- The Future Is Also A Memory is an ongoing web novel focusing on the gay relationship between Commodore General William Masterson and the alien prince Nova ban Irdat after the war between their respective interplanetary governments is ended, published on the author's Neocities page.
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- The Gaiad is an Epic Poem telling the story of evolution.
- Galactic Crucibles is a Science Fiction Shared Universe with numerous authors. It consists mostly of a series of original short stories as well encylopedic-style articles for worldbuilding. It was originally part of the SporeWiki Fiction Universe until it broke off and became its own thing.
- Galactiquest [9] is a Science Fiction series involving a ragtag young space crew's journey to Neptune under a bumbling space military.
- The Galactic Series is a Space Opera short-story series set in a pair of colliding galaxies. Whilst very human issues of war, politics, and culture arise, humans, themselves are oddly absent, barring the occasional mysterious occurrences of time travel and their parting gift of "the human database".
- The Gam3 is a Science Fiction series where Earth has been introduced to the Game, a virtual reality that controls real-world resources and government through the entire galaxy. Contains large doses of RPG tropes.
- Game Of The Gods is a Science Fantasy that takes place 20 Minutes into the Future in a video game world.
- Gamer Girl is a superhero action-comedy web serial novel following the bizarre adventures of Ralphie Hero, aka Gamer Girl, a costumed vigilante with the superpower to summon the items and abilities of video game player characters. Working alongside her partner Comikazé ‘Kazé’ Maniakku, aka Fangirl, a superhero fanatic with an electric fan gun, Ralphie sets out to make a name for herself in a city already full of crime fighters. Between the monsters, the supervillains, and Ralphie’s mild sociopathic tendencies, it does not go well.
- The Gates Of Dawn
- Genkai Level 1 Kara No Nariagari
- Genocide Online is a story about daughter of a duke playing VRMMORPG game built around Karma Meter.
- Girl: "Who are you?" Alien: "Er, I'm an alien." is a story about an alien landing on a planet in search of emotions to fuel her ship, then comes across and befriends a girl who helps supply the fuel.
- Glimmer in the Dark – is an Erotic Horror multi-genre (includes superhero, supernatural, science fantasy) is set in an alternative history future version of Australia. The plot centers around a teenage girl who is fascinated by the paranormal and wants to believe that superheroes can really exist but learns that means supervillains can be real too.
- God Complex is a mash-up of mythology, post-apocalyptic, and fantasy tropes. Mortals are extinct but now all the mythology gods are back trying to figure out what to do now that they have no one left to pray to them.
- The Gods Are Bastards is High Fantasy Western set at the end of the Age of Adventurers.
- The Golden Feather is a deconstruction of several Boys' Love Genre clichés, in which a Shrinking Violet randomly receives a letter one day from a boy claiming he's lonely and in need of a friend... and said boy turns out to be the school player. All that's left is following the cliché, right? Ha, one could only wish...
- The Good Witch: Initially started as a webcomic before switching over to written format, it tells the story of a young boy-turned-girl who receives incredible magic powers...and then starts using them to get revenge for all the wrongs done to him/her.
- Good Fae [10], a story about a member of the Italian Mafia. Oh, and he's also a medium who regularly works with and against fairies, ghosts, gods, and monsters and is tasked with dealing with magical threats.
- God Clads
- Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi - Chinese Xianxia boys' love. A dead necromancer is summoned back and forcibly offered a new body in exchange for murdering the whole family of the body's original owner and is found by his former archenemy. They solve the mystery of a dismembered evil body together and fall in love along the way.
- Grandmaster of Theft is an Action Thriller / Mystery which features multiple volumes of story lines and overarching story starring 1st person Classy Cat-Burglar Cassidy Cain.
- The Graystone Saga
- The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan
- A Grey World is an action/coming of age story with science fiction elements. The plot centers around a young girl, Alexis, as she contents with issues ranging from severe bullying and gang violence to social anxiety.
- Grimoire's Soul a fantasy web serial novel involving spirited teenage noble Ceyda Lucrece and their talking spellbook, Doc.
- Grunvale, P.R. Storm's web novel about anthropomorphic animals.
- Guide To Moral Living In Examples [11], an ever-growing collection of short stories about the daily challenges of life, such as what to do if you are attacked by a six-foot bacteria or if the company that you're applying to has been infiltrated by Hideous Telepathic Space-faring Lizardmen in Mansuits.
- Guns Swords And Steam
- Guts and Sass: An Anti Epic deconstructs many popular fantasy tropes, providing both parody and serious exploration of being zapped to a Magical Land with feudal agriculturalist monarchy, semi-domesticated pastoralist, Proud Warrior Races, and hunter-gatherers.
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- Hack Alley Doctor is a Cyberpunk web serial novel following an apprentice mod-doc named Derrick as he struggles to keep his mentor’s mod shop afloat in a gang-infested Chinatown. While struggling to pay the bills and trying to help the Chinatown residents live normal lives, Derrick finds himself on a collision course with violent gangsters who drag him into their problems.
- Hackett is a serial novel that details the adventures of an interdimensional taskforce that works for (and with) the titular Hackett.
- HALF Adventures [12], a comedy/Science Fantasy web serial about a young backwoods "Fuizan" recruited to work for the titular H.A.L.F. Technologies, a shadowy galactic Mega-Corp that hunts down magical artifacts (among many other questionable services and products).
- The Hammer (2022), a Korean Fantasy web novel about a hammer-wielding knight named Tiny who is given the chance to use Mental Time Travel to return to his childhood and train himself while working to avert the catastrophes that led to The End of the World as We Know It.
- Hands Held in the Snow is a Yuri Genre young adult fantasy serial about two young women falling in love in a wintery city. One girl is training to be a (celibate) priest, and the other is set in an arranged engagement to a noblewoman from a foreign country. W.A.F.F. ensues.
- Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
- Harem Prince, a comedic Light Novel-esque parodies the Harem Genre as it follows a Moe Otaku who is forced to make friends and uses it to build a harem in the real world. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs.
- Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu
- Heavenward on Golden Wings, hosted on LupineKing.com is a xuanhuan-esque heroic fantasy novel series centered on Valerian Steelborn, a boy genius clawing his way to the top in a magical world where might is right.
- Hell's Kitchen Sink An Urban Fantasy setting about those who get stuck in the business of the Masquerade, in a modern world where All Myths Are True.
- Henshin Sisters is an adult Science Fantasy Henshin Hero novel focused on three sisters who gain different powers and equipment to fight an evil self-proclaimed emperor attempting to invade their town and turn the townspeople into his soldiers. It also involves magic and fantasy creatures, aliens and advanced technology.
- Heretical Edge a novel centering around Flick Chambers who is recruited into Crossroads Academy and brought into a world where she and her fellow students will be made into Heretics and taught to use their extraordinary gifts to protect the mundane world from Strangers, the endless variety of beasts and monsters that lurk within the shadows.
- Heresiarch a novel about Ana Metremte, an inquistor hunting down a witch in a nearby village by herself, and the consequences of this action in a fantasy world.
- The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, a web novel about a summoned hero who refuses to do anything without considerable preparation.
- Heroes Save the World, a superhero novel about geopolitics, the concept of tragedy as a conflict between irreconcilable goods, and what happens when one hundred fourteen-year-olds get superpowers.
- HIFIVE [13], a superhero serial novel about a group of teenage superheroes tasked with defending the planet after their parents leave earth to deal with an alien presence.
- Holly Woods [14], a serial novel about a young actress in Hollywood as she struggles to make it in show business and deals with romantic issues along the way.
- Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi is a slice of life and romance about a modest nobleman from the frozen north and a decorated former soldier getting to know each other and fall in love over the course of a one year "trial marriage".
- The Holy Grail of Eris is a mystery story reminiscent of a "villainess" story with the "evil duke's daughter", who was condemned and abandoned by her crown prince fiancé in favor of a lower-ranked noblewomen who fell in love with the prince. Ten years later, the spirit of the executed duke's daughter cooperates with a young girl to find out who was responsible for her death. Was later picked up as a light novel and also received a manga adaptation.
- Some argue that Homestuck is a script-based version of this. The story is well known for its word-count and a format that sometimes edges closer towards an illustrated novel than a traditional comic.
- The Homestuck Epilogues, the non-canon sequel/finale to Homestuck written by its authors, is all text and was broken up into multiple parts and released gradually online.
- House Cerberus, also known as This One Time At Larp Camp, is a series of Live Action Role Playing adventures posted anonymously to 4chan's /tg/ board
- How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis is an adventure comedy about a Borderline Sociopath being dropped into a fantasy world and being grouped into a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
- How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King is a now-Light Novel series that began life on the Internet, about an Evil Overlord building an empire while ravishing every female he comes across.
- How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse is a comedic parody depicting the usually grim Zombie Apocalypse scenario while following the train wreck of a group called the Anti-Zombie Squad, which tries nothing less than ending the After the End world of walking dead. Hilarity ensues.
- How to Survive Camping is a series of horror stories revolving around a campsite that is home to many creatures of folklore, with the campsite owner having established a list of rules in order to preserve the mystical nature of the site all while ensuring the survival of the campers.
- The Husky And His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun
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- I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With: Super Hero action comedy. A Korean mega-fan Da-in finds himself transmigrated into his favorite comic book, Stardust!, and decides to both help and get the attention of his favorite superhero by becoming her Arch-Nemesis Egostic, murdering her worst enemies, and challenging her with Engineered Heroics fights where no innocents die as training. Due to being Master of the Mixed Message alternating between taunting her into his schemes, and advising and reassuring her, unbeknownst to Da-in, Stardus develops a Yandere obsession with him.
- I Do Not Want To Do This is set in a modernized fantasy world, where heroes and quests are largely considered relics of a past Age. The protagonist, Brad, believes such things are best left in the past, and wants nothing more than to be left in peace so he can focus on his career as an enchanter at a firm building magic-powered cars, but the world has other plans for him...
- Ilivais X can be summed up as the tribulations of a slightly psychotic young woman and her Humongous Mecha, the titular Ilivais X.
- Imperial Dawn
- I'm In Love With the Villainess is a web novel by Inori about a Japanese woman who is reincarnated as the protagonist of her favorite otome game, "Revolution," only to ignore the three handsome princes that would normally be her love interests in favor of the rival character in the original routes. I'm In Love With The Villainess has been adapted into a Light Novel format for the print edition as well as a Manga adaption.
- Immortal Sun Mist Emperor is a story written by Gustavo J. under the pen name ImperialSun. It's about a young boy who seems to become the strongest mage in the universe of Xeleria. The story is currently updating weekly on Wattpad and is on its second entry (technically it has three, but one of those is a prequel).
- The Impossible Man is a comedy web novel also written by H-M Brown, about an Anime and Manga Store owner and the random antics he gets into.
- I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! is a sci-fi isekai story of a man who aims to only live for himself as an evil lord, but who ends up bringing peace and prosperity to his people and the empire. Started as a web serial novel on Shousetsuka ni Narou in 2018, and started publishing as a light novel series in 2020. One year later, it received a manga adaptation and the light novel series was licensed by Seven Seas.
- Industrial Zone
- Inferno Unleashed
- Inheritors is a superhero web serial about Gabe, a clone of his world's Superman.
- Intertwined
- Interviewing Leather is a short story about a freelance writer for a music magazine who is sent to interview a supervillain.
- Impractical Magic A Wizarding School where competition is fierce, godhood is a career aspiration you can put on your forms, and where the medical students will push you down a staircase so they can practice. "Study, survive, and hold your secrets close."
- Invisible Werewolf Dracula Meets Vampire Mummy Frankenstein
- The Iron Teeth is a dark fantasy web serial about a Goblin named Blacknail struggling to survive a killer forest in a harsh medieval world full of savage beasts, and ruthless people.
- Isekai Battle Royale is a comedic web serial wherein a young man named Brent fights for survival after being transported to another world that seems to run under Battle Royale rules.
- I Shall Survive Using Potions!: A woman was reincarnated into a younger version of herself, with the ability of creating potions with any effect she wants. And how her actions change the lives of those who meet her.
- I Swear I Won't Bother You Again!: Follows a young woman who regretted the actions she took in her life. For some reason, she is able to travel back in time and now vows to live a quiet and simple life without hurting anyone. Started as a web novel in 2017 on Shousetsuka ni Narou and soon after got a light novel and manga adaptation by Gentosha.
- The Villainess Flips The Script A young woman relives the plot of her favorite novel as the abusive aunt of the main character, deciding to be a better caretaker to her nephew and to help him avoid the pain and loss he suffered from in the original story.
- Ive Been Reborn As A Dungeon Monster is a web novel about a guy who is reborn as a monster and focuses on him trying to understand this new world and find his place in it. The story updates weekly on SpaceBattles.com.
- I've Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills
- I Was Caught Up In A Hero Summoning But That World Is At Peace
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- Jake and the Dynamo is a serial novel about a city protected by Magical Girls and the unlucky teenage boy who gets more involved with one of the girls than he'd like to be.
- John Dies at the End got started as a bunch of self-proclaimed "retarded horror stories" written as Halloween specials. However, it was taken offline when it was published in book form.
- Jolt is a web serial novel about a dorky superhero, a mean girl supervillain, and a schizophrenic anti-hero, living in a world where 20% of Earth's population has superpowers.
- Junction Point is a hard sci-fi serial about humanity traveling to a nearby star and making first contact, as well as trying to find the originators of the signal that brought them.
- Justice Squad was a Script Format series that followed the adventures of a team of superheroes as they attempted to save the world from all sorts of strange and kooky dangers.
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- Katabasis is an is an illustrated web serial about the relationship between an immortal woman and the monster she’s magically bound to.
- Katalepsis, is an ongoing urban fantasy web serial set in a creepy English town, with some cosmic horror overtones, and a lot of lesbian romance.
- Kat And Mouse Guns For Hire, It's 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City. Kat and Mouse are a pair of ronin—guns for hire—trying to eke out a living.
- Keit-Ai Tomoyuki x Seiko is the web novel version of the notorious meme copypasta from 4chan. It involves an asthmatic wimpy boy and a tomboyish athletic girl's alternate self trying to get their AU selves from their own universes to fall in love with them. Drama ensues as they fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.
- Ketrin is an ongoing story with many erotic elements about the eponymous Wild Child character and his friends' struggles against an evil entity. Updates are, by the author's own admission, insanely slow, partly due to the incessant encroachment of Plot Tumors.
- Killer King
- Kinda Super Gay is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a gay superhero comedy.
- Kindness From Strangers [15] by Leradny; a series of generally unrelated short stories with five common themes.
- The Kingdoms of Evil, in which an Ordinary High-School Student finds out he's the Big Bad of a Crapsack World. Hilarity and Belligerent Sexual Tension ensue.
- The King's Avatar, based on a fictional Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game called "Glory", whom the Experienced Protagonist Ye Xiu is a former professional player in Glory's competitive league. After being kicked out of his pro gamer team, he replays Glory from the very bottom with a brand new character.
- King's Game: When one boy's classroom starts getting texts from someone claiming to be "The King", They have to stay sharp and keep to the sender's rules lest they get a grisly punishment.
- Knights Of Jebalot: Follows an ensemble of reapers, supers, wizards, robots, and more as the end of the world unfolds in a small Florida town.
- Koan of the Day is a collection of short flash fiction that tells the story of a guru, his philosophy school, his philosophy, and his friends, including a tortoise, a sunflower, the Goddess, and lovebug.
- The Krockman
- Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
- Kumiko The Demon Girl: The web novel is an ecchi story about a demon girl who falls in love with a Chivalrous Pervert. When she becomes his Magical Girlfriend, they end up dealing with an ever-expanding cast of characters and relationships.
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- The Langya List is a historical/political novel set in ancient China that follows Mei Changsu's plan to clear his father's name.
- The Last Angel follows the last Human Dreadnaught, Nemesis in her quest for vengeance against the alien empire that wiped out Human civilization.
- Last Mage is an Urban Fantasy story about Elijah Valentine's struggle to protect the Earth from forces Humans cannot comprehend.
- The Last Skull [16] is a comic-book-inspired series featuring "teenaged superheroism, explosions and time-travel".
- The Late Crusader [17] is a road trip comedy about a 12th century knight hitching a ride with an unfortunate Portuguese teenager to the Holy Land... in the modern day.
- Legends Now And Then A Web novel just starting, it's about a teenager accidentally summoning three heroes from the past and the troubles they have to deal with in the present.
- Legend Of The Five Knights is a fantasy web novel about five young adults chosen by their kingdom's king to save not just their nation, but the entire universe itself. Takes place in modern-like times but mixed with some medieval elements.
- Legion of Nothing is a web novel about the descendants of Golden Age superheroes who inherit their grandparents' powers and take on their costumed identities.
- Level Up Hero is a web novel about Sam Shepard a Zeta level hero who gained the power to level up with the help of Chiron.
- Little Mushroom Xiao Mo Gu: A sci-fi novel set in 2020 where a mushroom manages to mutate itself into a human form and seeks out a human colony so he can retrieve his spore.
- A Little Vice: A trans magical girl story for a nonexistant show in which the the main character, C, is the best friend of the leader of teh Saints, who fight against the Beasts of the Abyssal Forest.
- Liv in the Future: A high-school graduate accidentally finds herself in the year 3000 and tries to prevent anyone from finding out she's from the past.
- Log Horizon
- Lovebird is a web novel about a young girl who unwittingly becomes a Legacy Character.
- Lovelace ½ is a serial about a boarding-school student who spontaneously develops Super-Intelligence during her freshman year of high school.
- Lovers and Beloveds is a story following the young Prince Temmin as he leaves his childhood home for the courtly intrigues of the capital city. It started as the web serial An Intimate History Of The Greater Kingdom [18]. The serial drew significant crowdfunding from the readership, and has been edited and published in paperback. It is Mei Lin Miranda's first novel.
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- Mage Life A story about the newly minted mage, Tristan, and his adventures after a cataclysmic event that devastated the fantasy world he lives in.
- Mabaka! Magic is for Idiots! follows the story of an amateur wizard who falls through a black hole-like transportation system, and winds up crashing into a girl's yard in the first dimension - Earth. Thing is, he's not strong enough to get back by himself, and that transport system only comes around once a year... Let's just say that he and the human girl end up living together for a while. Updates are freqeunt, but not following any kind of schedule. Found on FictionPress.
- The Magic Trials centers around a once-ordinary middle schooler who gets chosen to participate in a famous competition where magically-gifted kids and teens alike go head-to-head in battle.
- The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess
- Mahou Shoujo Alleys Inferno is a 2023 Magical Girl series that centers on the concept of what happens when an ordinary barista makes an extraordinary wish to become a magical girl while dealing with how her problems become the foes she must fight in her new form and what has become of her world.
- Mahou Shoujo The Glowing- a mMgicalGirl story written in prose, somewhat inspired by Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
- Mail Fox Tales is an Urban Fantasy Slice of Life webnovel following the daily live of Eva Mayer, a former human turned Kitsune, and her her mostly non-human group of friends and acquaintances.
- Magik Online follows a young man discovering the titular Magik Online, a website where one can purchase magical powers after fulfilling quests in real life. The protagonist decides to use his newfound abilities to take down the Magitek dictatorship having taken over Earth.
- Magical Girl Policy (MGP) follows Robert as he moves into Kesia City where he gets drafted by Fate into a squad of magical cheerleaders protecting the city from monsters.
- Magical Security Taskforce follows a group of high schoolers drafted into the titular peacekeeping organization.
- Magistellus Bad Trip: In a World… where entire national economies revolve around the open-world MMORPG Money (Game) Master, Kaname Suou and his AI helper Tselika set out to collect and destroy a set of cheat-level weapons called the Overtrick that were created by a now-disgraced player.
- The Man with the Terrible Eyes is a surreal horror series about a lowly office worker with inexplicably terrible eyes and how the background weirdness of his life slowly becomes more and more overwhelming.
- Many: The Blog of a Space Probe [19] follows the adventures of a sentient space exploratory probe.
- Many Words [20], extremely irregularly-updated (but getting better!), presently running an Alternate History 1920s globetrotting zeppelins-and-skypirates Nazi-punching Adventurer Archaeologist pulp story, Nathaniel Cannon and the Lost City of Pitu. The archive has a finished naval-war-in-space short and the presently-abandoned start to a longer fantasy story.
- Mark Of The Fool follows a divinely chosen hero from a Five-Man Band who gets the worst power and refuses the call, deciding his life expectancy is much higher at the world's premier magical university.
- Marry My Husband
- A Martial Odyssey is a xianxia web serial, written by Kay Tea, where a young master who fell from grace tries to pick up the pieces that were scattered in his ruin, as his family and clan descends into chaos due to threats both external and domestic. To bring peace, to quell the disdain from everyone, he begins to climb the journey to strength once more.
- The Marvelous Mateo Mandelson
- The Maximus Universe [21] is a superhero/fantasy Shared Universe, with solo novels following individual characters and an overarching plot that ties each story together, with the characters from some stories frequently guest-starring in others.
- Me, a Genius? I Was Reborn into Another World and I Think They've Got the Wrong Idea!
- Memory Of AUSOS [22] is a tale of mechs, gods, and love, taking place in a late Industrial Age island kingdom with a handful of dark secrets.
- The Mech Touch is a sci-fi story about designing and building mechs while possessing RPG Mechanics 'Verse powers.
- Memories of Alkaline
- Metafictionized Phlebotinum Poisoning
- Metamor Keep is a shared universe fantasy setting with several serialized short stories and novels by a number of different authors.
- Metamor City takes place in the same universe, and features short stories (and so far one novel, "Making the Cut") in its podcast tales.
- Metro City Chronicles focuses on the adventures of the superheroes of Metro City.
- Million To One takes place after the presumed apocalypse of December 21st, 2012. A group of teen survivors are teleported back to a week before and forced to fight to the death by a sadistic entity called, God.
- Mind The Thorns [23] is an urban fantasy novel driven by reader input. Updated every Monday, it is written from the point of view of a newly made vampire, and accountant.
- Mirrorfall - a geeky urban fantasy series whose Playful Hacker main character is more likely to sneak off and look at Tropes than do her Men in Black paperwork.
- Mistakenly Saving the Villain
- Mix Beer With Liquor And You Will Get Sicker - A character driven romance between a dysfunctional pair of men in a victorian esque setting.
- Monsters Among Humanity
- The Mook Maker
- Moonlite Seasons is the story of a seventeen year old witch moving to a cottage near a town, and follows her daily life and the friendships and development she gains.
- Mother of Learning follows Zorian Kazinski, a student at Cyoria Magic Academy returning for his third year, as he finds himself caught in a month-long timeloop, not as the hero but as a bystander unwittingly made aware of his circumstances by the true hero, his up-until-now inexplicably talented classmate Zach.
- Mr. Hook's Big Black Box is the Rashomon-style story of five college friends who are all trying to open a mysterious box without the others finding out. The original announcement for the story described it as fantasy, but fantasy elements are taking a long time to materialize.
- Mysterious Ways: A Divine Comedy - an absurdist, comedic, and philosophical furry fantasy + science fiction story centering around the interactions of magic, modern culture, religion, and technology in the world of Alicrow.
- Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
- The Mystery Sphere - a strange but interesting story about a pirate accused of the theft of a nobleman's dragon.
- My One-Hit Kill Sister
- My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister
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- The Nature of Predators: Humanity reaches the stars, only to discover that the immense majority of alien species are herbivorous, and see them as predatory monsters. Follows the struggles of Humanity to survive in a hostile galaxy, starting from first contact.
- Neo Akihabara Meipouchou
- @NeverwhenGov - a story in the form of a Twitter account detailing the life in Neverwhen, Nova Scotia; The Town of Lost Things.
- The New Hansel And Gretel: Jack and Jamie are a young couple who have just gotten a great deal on an old abandoned house. Too late they learn that the house was abandoned for a good reason.
- The New Narnia: Tommy finds a portal to a magical land in his grandfather clock and becomes The Chosen One, unaware that the whole thing is an insidious trap.
- The New Humans
- Newshound is an urban fantasy slice-of-life/thriller about a werewolf journalist struggling to survive in Phoenix, AZ.
- The New World
- Night Hunters
- Nine Star Hegemon Body Art
- Nocte Yin is about a fairly normal girl who is expected to carry on the Family Business being evil. She really doesn't want to, but circumstances force her hand sometimes. Can be found here.
- The Northern Caves: A group of fans of fantasy author Leonard Salby try to understand his bizarre, unpublished final work. They get more than they bargained for when they uncover some new information about Salby's life and motivations for writing.
- Not All Heroes is a Cape Punk story exploring the lives of three very different individuals in a post-apocalyptic world.
- Nowhere Island University is a story exploring the lives of unpowered Mooks and their training in a superhero world. Told from the perspective of Nathan Jacobs, it shows just how deadly life can be. Updates every Wednesday here.
- Nowhere Stars is a rather dark story about a terminally ill girl who becomes a Magical Girl.
- The Nullweaver Cycle features a queer cast, apocalyptic themes, and aesthetics inspired by action-adventure anime series. The story follows two protagonists: prodigy apprentice Jules Nimri and young ex-mage Rory Navarrete in modern-day Chicago. The star-crossed odd couple join forces to investigate a coven of apostate mages after a hijacked war golem turns on the crowd at a meeting of the local Magical Society — only to find clues of a deep conspiracy, and a malignant magic long thought extinct. Their discoveries could prevent tensions from boiling over, but finding proof is no easy task, and time's working against the two young men, as Hunter Lockwood, scion of a potent magic dynasty — and Jules' depraved ex-betrothed — stokes the fires of separatism to fuel his own political rise, threatening to plunge the arcane world into war. Can be read here.
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- Object Oblivion, an Object Show web fiction where 12 Objects compete for $10 Million Dollars.
- The Obsessive Shou Moves On, a danmei novel about a man who's reborn after his suicide.
- The Occupation Saga, a Military Science Fiction Work Com about a human from Vichy Earth who is conscripted into the occupying aliens' Space Marine corps in lieu of jail time. Originally published chapter-by-chapter on r/HFY.
- Of Fear and Faith, a book exploring the themes of fear, faith and the darkness of the human soul through the use of anthropomorphic animals.
- OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING, based on The Fear Mythos, is a four-act epic that blends prose with a stream-of-consciousness journal-style making it seem more like Twitter. It's an Alternate History tale of Rapture actually coming on October 21st, 2011.
- Okadu Realm is an interesting collection of stories about a collection of characters in the Okadu Realm, a fantasy serial novel on DeviantArt. Interesting from the fact that the high level of well-written description is perfectly fitting and some pieces are inspired by pictures from the site, whole chapters were practically written based on one image.
- Okies is a 2022 story about a young artist who spends her days trying to save up for an easel while exporing the balance between art and life. It updates at the beginning of every first Sunday monthly.
- Oktober updates weekly on Fridays; hasn't missed an update yet. Each chapter is told four different times, once from each character's perspective. It follows the adventures of a journalist, a rock star, a hunter, and an assassin as they drive across the US, and has a feel of an American-road-trip novel mixed with House of Leaves.
- Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint focuses on an RPG-style apocalypse that the main character recognizes as being exactly like the web novel he was a loyal reader of. He decides to take the story's ending into his own hands.
- The Once and Future Nerd is a radio play about four high school students sucked into a magical world.
- One Nation, Under Jupiter: An Alternate History about a world where Christianity faded out and people still worship the Roman gods in the present day.
- Only Villains Do That: A half-Japanese, half-American wannabe musician is isekai'd to a fantasy realm. Except it was by the goddess of evil and she wants him to be her new Dark Lord, much to his displeasure.
- On My Radar completely deconstructs the usual high school clichés. Sasha, a cold, quiet seventeen-year-old is known as the "love huntress". She makes boys fall in love with her to then break their heart while they try to do the same to her—and fail. One day like any other, she meets shy, unassuming Lucas Samuels. And it all falls downhill from there.
- On The Road To Elspar: A fantasy Interactive Fiction quest. Neianne enrolls one of Caldrein's mercenary academies, a training ground for elite mercenaries renowned all across the continent, to fight back against a neighboring invading superpower, only to grow and realize that the conflict isn't just about good-versus-evil and that her country is not as perfect as it once seemed.
- Ordinarily United: A parody of overpowered harem stories where a man good at almost everything teams up with a duplicating demon-like being also good at almost everything so they can save the world from ninety-nine invaders from the latter's home dimension.
- The Other Kind Of Roommate: When the wrong address starts a superpowered recluse running for his life again, the voice in his head drags him into a second nightmare: saving a chatty artist.
- Otherverse
- Otoko no Ko wa Meido Fuku ga Osuki!?
- An Outcast in Another World is a stuck-in-another-world LitRPG series that focuses on survival, characterization, and plot progression. The main character is kidnapped and struggles against horrible monsters and societal exclusion, determined to triumph over both.
- Outliers: The superheroes are corporate. The vigilantes are trying to do good, with emphasis on ‘trying’. The girl is in way, way over her head. Welcome to New Chicago. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays here.
- Outta Time
- Overgeared
- Overwatch (Taulsn)
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- Paladin Academy: A Dungeons & Dragons inspired story on the Giant In The Playground forums.
- Several books in the Paradox setting by M.C.A. Hogarth were serialized on the web. Most recently was Earthrise.
- Pale Lights, set in a Lovecraftian Renaissance, follows Tristan Abrascal and Lady Angharad Tredegar as they join the elite god-killers of the Watch to unravel the vast conspiracies set against them.
- Palus Somni
- Parahumans:
- Worm is a finished Capepunk web novel about Taylor Hebert, a girl with superpowers that let her control bugs. She wants to become a superhero, but soon becomes embroiled in local cape politics. Things escalate. Known for it's Wham Episodes, a frequently used Godzilla Threshold, and Grey-and-Gray Morality, it currently stands at over 1.6 million words with thirty-one arcs.
- Ward is Worm's direct sequel, following Victoria Dallon as she makes her way through a fractured world.
- Paranoid Mage is an Urban Fantasy, following a novice spatial mage on the run from a totalitarian Magical Society.
- Parasite Code, a Pastiche of shonen Fighting Series, follows an Anti-Hero Cute Bruiser who gets stung by a genetically engineered parasite that imbues her with the power to punch things really, really hard, and from there gets dragged into a world of danger like nothing she'd ever known before.
- Patchwork Champions, a Super Hero story, was a webcomic for two-and-a-half years and continues to this day as one of these.
- Pay Me, Bug!: The Caper in space, "...featuring cunning smugglers, star-spanning empires, cheerful amorality, evil cyborg slavers, and a hyperintelligent bug."
- The Perils of Enhancegirl
- Petow: A story on an alternate Earth where there are werebeasts.
- Phaeton is a web novel about child superheroes set in an alternate reality where just about anything can happen, it sounds like something you've scene on television already, but this can actually get interesting.
- Phantalleum is a web serial novel series being a spiritual successor of Chaos Fighters.
- The Philosophical Significance Of Soda Bubbles [24] is a web novel which begins as a coming of age story and before Deus ex Machina-ing into a science fiction satire on philosophy, revolving around a group of immortals confused by whether they are gods or scientific flukes, searching dysfunctionally for a messiah.
- Playing for Keeps [25] was also a podcast novel/comic book before getting published.
- Play Places is a story about future Earth where everyone lives inside a digital world, the genetically-modified Kems follow their Chosen Onenote , and Central Ai-Eye provides addictive games to lull the people.
- Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess! is a Chinese take on the "Reborn as Villainess" Story / Girls' Love hybrid.
- Podiobooks is a treasure trove for this kind of novel.
- A Practical Guide to Evil is set in a world where the Theory of Narrative Causality (essentially, tropes) influence reality, and Creation itself is all part of a Cosmic Chess Game between the "Good" and "Evil" factions of Gods. The story follows orphan Catherine Foundling as she struggles to free her home kingdom from The Dread Empire's occupation... by becoming a Villain and putting down heroic rebellions.
- Project NRI is an illustrated novel uploaded by chapter on Tumblr. Exactly 10 print versions of the prologue and Chapters 1 and 2 also exist.
- Project Shelf Life
- Protect And Serve [26] is a science-fiction mystery story with Noir influences. It follows a detective in a dystopian police force, investigating the murder of a major crime lord by rail-gun.
- Pyrrhic is an epic thriller/supernatural novel inspired by Battle Royale that follows a group of students as they're kidnapped by a terrorist organization that intends to use them for their own ends.
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- Qiang Jin Jiu is a historical danmei novel about Xiao Chiye and Shen Zechuan, two enemies who eventually fall in love.
- Qian Qiu is about a Daoist priest named Shen Qiao and a demonic cultivator Yan Wushi who wants to see how far he can push Shen Qiao before the other succumbs to the evils that plaque humanity.
- The Queen of Darkness Does Not Want to Be the Villain is a story about a Hero with Bad Publicity that unintentionally spreads terror everywhere she treads. Due to being manipulated by a prophecy, she may well Takeover The World by complete accident on her part, in order to force the heroes opposing her to become strong enough to deal with an ancient returning threat.
- Quoria is a fantasy/detective/LGBT+ web-serial detailing the often supernatural adventures of conman-turned-detective Colton McKinley as he tries to make an honest living in the bustling port city of Quoria.
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- Ra is about magic as physics, starring a very capable young thaumic engineer named Laura Ferno.
- Ragnatela
- Raising Angels is story about a girl who meets a dragon in dream, who succinctly offers to make her an angel.
- Rasa is an epic fantasy set in a world where the soul manifests outside the body.
- Rats 252 Chances At Redemption
- Raya is a Magical Girl Warrior novel.
- The Reader And Protagonist Definitely Have To Be In True Love is a Chinese Boy's Love fantasy novel.
- Reaper (Taulsn) is the story of Corvid and his Grim Reaper familiar.
- Reborn on a Systemless Earth...with a System is an fantasy-comedy isekai subversion that's exactly what it sounds like.
- Rebuild World is an action Genre Mashup of Cyberpunk, After the End, and Military Science Fiction about an Unscrupulous Hero Akira climbing his way out of the gutter with the help of his Virtual Sidekick, working as a Private Military Contractor who explores for Lost Technology while being a slowly Defrosting Ice King. Has recieved light novel and manga adaptations. The light novels are mainly different in how they tone down Akira's darker side.
- Reconstruction Series is a Cattle Punk serial being published on Jukepop.
- The Record of Unusual Creatures is a series about a ordinary landlord who suddenly got a bunch of supernatural tenants, a contract from god and their adventures.
- The Red and the Rest is a deconstruction of the Red Shirt Army and Action/Adventure Tropes in general.
- Registry of Time is a series of sci-fi stories set in The Future, exploring the various cultures and technology the universe has to offer.
- Reincarnated as a Sword
- The Reincarnated Vampire Just Wants To Enjoy Her New Life involves a man, waiting in the afterlife to head to his final destination, whatever that may be, until a scuffle between another soul and the after-life's security allows him to peek behind the curtain, find a completely unsecured terminal, and reincarnate himself into the female vampire Scarlet in another world, along with swiping admin rights. When the afterlife finds out, they are not pleased.
- Relativity is a series about a team of superheroes. They don't have super powers and rely mainly on detective work to solve crimes, but the focus of the series is their out-of-costume ("civilian") lives.
- Release That Witch is a series about a modern day mechanical engineer being transported into the body of a prince in a Medieval European Fantasy world, where he attempts to use the power of witches and magic to start a One-Man Industrial Revolution.
- The Remarried Empress, a story of an empress, who, after her entire life has been upended by her husband's concubine, decides to Take a Third Option, and get remarried to man who actually loves her.
- Restaurant to Another World
- The Return Of The Disaster Class Hero: After being betrayed by one of his fellow Zodiacs and left for dead in a tower twenty years ago, Lee Geon returned fully rejuvenated and on a quest to find out who betrayed him.
- Return Of The Runebound Professor: Noah gets reincarnated in another world, but because the goddess of reincarnation was attacked and the Waters of Life corrupted, his reincarnation went wrong. Now he's stuck in someone else's body, and respawns whenever he dies. Happily, there's some very interesting magic to explore with all these second chances.
- Reverend Insanity : A xianxia by Gu Zhen Ren which follows an amoral protagonist in his quest for eternal life.
- Re:Zero
- Revolving Door is a multiverse science fiction series about a duchess who holds reality together and eight superpowered individuals in eight other universes whom she goes searching for.
- Right Hand of God is a series in which Jacob Davidson, a seventeen-year-old ghostbuster from the fictional town of Normal, Ohio, protects his city from a slew of supernatural creatures while his older brother Daniel tries to win the special mayoral election.
- The Rising of the Shield Hero began as a web novel on "Let's Become a Novelist" by Yusagi Aneko, which was later re-written and expanded as a light novel and adapted into manga and anime series.
- Rock City Chronicles is a Furry Fandom superhero series.
- Rollerskater is a saga following "Socks", a university student, who invites a mysterious rollerskater known as K-Os to a Christmas party, and, after being attacked on his way home, finds himself reluctantly pulled into K-Os's weird world, pursued by dark supernatural forces that are out for blood. It is complete as of October 2022.
- Rooftop Sword Master
- Rose Princess Hellrage
- RoTeO is a series about an angel and a demon/devil who fight crime while doing the Masquerade.
- RoundTableTexts is an epistolary web fiction series in which the stories of King Arthur and his knights are told entirely through a series of text messages.
- Rumor's Block is a series about an ex-super hero in charge of a support group for young heroes thinking about quitting.
- Rune Breaker is the ongoing tale of an ex-slave unwillingly given control of an ancient, evil wizard.
- Running with Rats is a Diesel Punk fantasy about an escaped slave named Alix Black-Eyes and the Rat Runners, a group of rebels she joins.
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- Sacreya's Legacy is a completed web serial about a zombie private detective whose case forces him to return to the doomed city he came from.
- Sadira [27] is a completed web serial, published in the late 1990's.
- The Saga of Tuck has been running since 1997, and currently comprises 142 chapters and a bit more than a year of in-story time, not to mention an Alternate Universe side story.
- Saga of Soul tells the story of Eriko, an intellectual Magical Girl who tries to protect Earth from various threats waging a war over multiple universes. It is a Reconstruction of the Magical Girl genre, and the rules of magic are consistent and well understood.
- Sailor Nothing is a very dark take on the Magical Girl genre that predates Madoka by at least a good decade.
- The Saintess and the Villainess is a Media Transmigration Fantasy/Romance novel following a woman who becomes the heroine of a novel she had been reading and sets out to save the life of the villainess.
- The Saints The plot follows The Saints, a coven that uses their supernatural abilities to commit crimes.
- The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent
- The Salamanders A slice-of-life, LitRPG fantasy web serial.
- Sapphire in short terms: Espionage Fantasy.
- Sanctioned follows several young women, after they have been rejected from superhero training, as they adjust to their new powers, and try to find out what they want to do with their lives.
- Savage Divinity follows Falling Rain, a modern man that finds himself reincarnated in the body of a young slave. He quickly has to learn to survive in an unforgiving world filled with myths and legends.
- Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement
- Schrodingers Cat [28] is a web serial about teenagers who are trying to save the world and stop the Heisman Technological Initiative before supernatural aliens kill them, or Dr. Heisman finds out they are still alive.
- The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong
- The Seichi Chronicles is a fantasy series about a different world in which terrible monsters try to kill all of humanity, and Hunters (special humans with awesome powers) search for and try to stop them.
- Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles
- Sekhmet is the first story in the Legends of Panthera series. It follows the adventures of Kalima, a kanji princess as she is chosen to be Bastet's champion and her friends.
- Shades Of The Moon
- Shadow of the Templar
- Shadowrun Storytime
- Shadows of the Limelight by Alexander Wales.
- Sha Po Lang (Novel)
- She Is The One, the story of Jack Harrison and his One True Love, Kayla Hannigan, and their trials and tribulations through high school and college.
- Sherwood Forest
- The Sick Land: an Apocalyptic Log written by a researcher stationed on the outskirts of an Eldritch Location.
- Silicon Wolfpack is an Urban Fantasy story about a werewolf, a Nice Guy, and a Grey Hat Hacker being chased by Mooks and a Hunter of Monsters. Can be found here.
- Sins Of The Fathers [29] is a superhero serial focusing on the legacies of famous heroes and villains.
- Six Chances features six individuals from six different warring countries who suddenly becoming psychically connected with one another. Needless to say, things hit the fan when one of the six is nearly assassinated by someone sent from a neighboring country. It can be read here[30].
- Skies Unbroken in a Steampunk World in the Sky, the crew of Serenity-esque airship The Wink and Smile is on constant lookout for jobs since the war ended, taking the old political order with it.
- Skipjack is a story of a submarine crew adventuring on a Mars that has been terraformed into an ocean world.
- Skye Emery: Bluebird is a superhero story set in Toronto starring a superpowered young woman who sets out to expose a conspiracy that's targeted her with the help of two friends she encounters in The Six.
- Skyway Mechanix A web serial about an ex-mob hit-girl and her robot partner making a living as heroes-for-hire in Minnesota. Running since 2009.
- The Slave Breakers is a long-running series of erotica novels and stories about a dysfunctional family that trains and sells slaves in a world where slavery is an acceptable means to control poverty. Despite the premise, it's very fluffy for its genre. Can be found here.
- Small Problem is a blog written by a woman six-and-a-half inches tall.
- Small Worlds: His entire life, Ryan was followed by a man in a suit - until one day, that man left him. Now he has a nanoverse, divine friends, and needs to find a nice way to end the world.
- Soft Touch is a web novel about a young man who finds himself falling for his reformed high school nemesis while dealing with a ghost, among other small town problems.
- So I'm a Spider, So What? began as a web novel by Baba Okina before being adapted into a Light Novel, manga, and anime.
- Solo Leveling is a web novel about a man who, amongst superhumans, is the only one who can continuously learn new abilities and get stronger.
- The Solstice War is a web serial about an alternate fantasy world having its own World War II, with equipment and tactics paralleled. Viewed primarily through the eyes of a Hindu-African mélange Soviet Union. Makes for a challenging read, but very worthwhile and pretty unique. You can find it here.
- "Sorcerer Girl The Grey Fairy" a magical girl urban fantasy.
- Space Pirate Captain MacTaggart is a humorous space opera tale.
- SPARK Of Tyranny is a Space Opera featuring an Anti-Hero Captain and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits struggling against the behind-the-scenes machinations of the Kilon Federation, which has created a Vichy Earth.
- Sparrow And Bright a serial adventure fantasy about a female barbarian and magical princess seeking glory and meaning.
- Spectral Shadows is a web serial started by Furry author Perri Rhoades. The story follows the adventures of Jon and Rael, two anthropomorphic deer that travel space and time and take on different forms, and their human friend Christine James. Contains Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and tons of characters.
- The SporeWiki Fiction Universe is a Shared Universe that grew out of fan fiction on the wikia for the video game Spore.
- Spots the Space Marine was originally a web serial by M.C.A. Hogarth in a screenplay format.
- Sprig is an ongoing fantasy adventure web serial about overcoming hatred. It follows a girl named Kaia, one of the last members of the Treek race.
- Squid Sisters Stories is a short web serial written to promote Splatoon 2, setting up the plot of the game while also explaining the events that occurred during the two year time skip between entries.
- Starsnatcher is a Sci-Fi web serial novel about a young man who got Trapped in Another World on an alien moon and now has to find his way back to Earth.
- Starting Today I Work As A City Lord: A Dimensional Traveler gets rich selling thinks for our work to a Chinese Fantasy one. Managed to buy the entire city.
- Starwalker is a web serial novel about an experimental AI ship and her adventures.
- Statless and Tactless is a serial story of a dysfunctional group of roleplayers slogging through a Steampunk campaign.
- Stay Gold is a High School Slice of Life novel, which follows a group of young kids and their adventure. Unfortunately, it was deleted of Wattpad.
- Steve Buhvillens Intriguing Group: A man goes on a journey through a weird fantasy world to save it from the evil rule of his older brother, teaming up with bizarre allies along the way.
- Stone Burners: A girl wakes up in a dark, damp, dirty alley way, with no recollection of her past.
- Stone Soul [31] is a high-fantasy serial written similarly to the print fantasy serials of yesteryear.
- Stray Cat Strut: It is a Cyberpunk Alien Invasion story with a few Lit-RPG elements.
- Storybro's Magically Lewd Adventures: A series of novels written in 4chan greentext, about an anon's teenage friendships with a group of girls and the tangled web of sex and heartbreak that resulted. The longest greentext that will likely ever be written.
- The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest
- Summer Camp [32] is a series of very long novel-length erotica/Coming of Age stories, initially set at a nudist camp. The story is compelling enough that, during my Archive Binge, I ended up skipping most of the sex scenes, or at least just skimming them quickly to check for plot points.
- Summus Proelium
- Super [33], a serialized novel following several Differently Powered Individuals Not Wearing Tights as they try to save the world, as well as find a place in it.
- Super Cub
- Superluminary is an epic-scale Space Opera published online in weekly installments by John C. Wright, originally meant for a magazine which folded.
- Super Powereds: A planned four-book collection (currently two-and-a-half) with an interesting twist about the standard superhero coming-of-age theme. It is about five Supers who were previously Powereds, beings unable to control their abilities, but who now can, and are training to become official Heros.
- Super Stories is a new series about superpowered people trying to leave their mark on the world.
- Survival in Another World with My Mistress!: It's Minecraft meets Isekai.
- Surviving As A Cannon Fodder: It's a reincarnation fantasy story featuring an unhinged protagonist trying to avoid her predestined fate.
- Subject F 921 is a scifi lesbian novel.
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- Tails Series: Hundreds of years in the future, in a distant galaxy, human beings, aliens, and anthros coexist and engage in a multitude of conflicts and tribulations throughout space.
- Tale of Yashima is a fantasy set in the Sengoku Era of Japan, a time where man and yokai co-exist. It follows the adventures of several clans as they vie for control of the country, unaware that the yokai are up to something big behind the scenes. It's clan vs clan, but soon they'll have to unite if they want to survive what's coming. The Night Parade takes no survivors, and not everyone will make it until the end.
- Tales of Aquila: This story is about different groups of academy students who use the power of nuclear energy manipulation to overcome various challenges that threaten the national securities of their respective nations. The current main character, Roy, has to work with a special team known as SODA, as well as his dead sister, to recover three missing students from a distant land.
- Tales of Elethiya: The stories of a noble, and sometimes misguided group of heroes, each dealing with their own baggage, fears, and beliefs as they try to find and rescue the missing Princesses of The Great Marrow.
- Tales of MU, about a half-demon enchantment student and her (mis)adventures in a setting where D&D-style magic takes the place of technology.
- The Tales of Paul Twister:
- The Lay of Paul Twister: A snarky college kid from Earth ends up stuck in a magical world, and finds that he can break magic by touch. Unfortunately, with no useful skills that are really applicable to a pre-technological society, all he has going for him is his power, which, as he finds out, is most usefully employed as a thief-for-hire, breaking magical wards that protect valuable items.
- The Fate of Paul Twister is the sequel, continuing Paul's story after the events of the first book.
- And the third: The Return Of Paul Twister
- The Voyage Of Paul Twister
- Tales of the Eerie Saloon: Follows the story of outlaws who are turned into women with a magic potion, and are forced to be waiters in a local saloon.
- Tales of the Space South, about the adventures of a Reluctant Psychopath in Space Alabama, a racist planet-state dystopia.
- Tales of Wyre is a fantasy epic based on the author's Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
- Talion: Revenant's sequel Talion: Nemesis is in publication through author Michael Stackpole's e-zine Scratch! on his Patreon page.
- Tasakeru, a serial novel series using warring humanoid animals as allegories for human conflicts. It's described as "Redwall or Zootopia for teens and young adults," and stars a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits living in exile.
- Tales Of The Big Bad Wolf is an example of a Fairy Tale and Fantasy trope mixed together using the Red Riding Hood story as the entryway into a larger number of other stories.
- Tattúínárdǿla saga is Star Wars retold as an Icelandic saga.
- Team Omega is a superhero universe focusing, on one hand, on the eponymous Cape Busters and, on the other, on an independent superhero whose deposing of the Congo's warlords sets a dangerous new precedent.
- Tearmoon Empire focuses on a Villainous Princess who is reborn into her 12-year-old self with memories of her future, as she sets out to prevent the events that led to her execution. Started as a web novel in 2018 and later received light novel and manga adaptations.
- Tech Infantry, an earlier project involving the author of Associated Space, a collaborative series of stories by multiple authors set in a future world that combines elements of the Old World of Darkness and Starship Troopers.
- Ted's Caving Page was presented as a spelunker's series of journal entries revolving around a mysterious cave and a creature inside (the actual cave being "Freeway Cave", as the author originally discusses here and is reposted here. The original story is intentionally left unfinished, leaving the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. The story was later used for Thomas Lera's short story "The Fear of Darkness", a backdated hoax that attempts to explain all of the supernatural elements of Ted's story with an added chapter.
- Templeton Barliman is a semi-post-apocalyptic Coming of Age Story for the titular character.
- Tethralin: A web novel about a game that runs on RPG mechanics and a man on his last life.
- Theatrica was a serial novel focused on a man adapting to life in a City in a Bottle. No longer online.
- There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns is a non-conventional Dungeon Core story involving avoiding murder.
- There Must Be Happy Endings: A woman in a (seemingly) loveless marriage finally seeks divorce, but is having second thoughts when her husband is suddenly killed. Then she finds herself waking up three months before his death, with a chance to change their fates.
- Theriomorph Chronicles: A dark science fiction story about an 11-year-old boy named Warren who is transmuted into a Bald Eagle Theriomorph against his will by Megiddo and must fight with the Blood Order in order to defeat Megiddo.
- This Used To Be About Dungeons
- 3:1 Ratio by Half Demon Cali, a supernatural genre written-out graphic novel about a ghost who is given six months to survive on Earth while wearing a human skin and living with a Tsundere martial arts girl.
- There Are No Heroes [34] is one of the up-and-coming superhe-, well, superhuman serials. Somewhat starved for readership and comments, it's rated as "pretty good, I guess. What are we talking about, again?"
- These Days is a yuri story focusing on the relationship between two young girls, and the insane events that begin to happen around them.
- Three Worlds Collide by Eliezer Yudkowsky is a science-fiction First Contact story concerning the ethics of deals with aliens of very different morality.
- Through the Motions is about a curious young artist who develops an interest in magic after a chance encounter with an apprentice witch.
- Tian Bao Fu Yao Lu
- Time Reaper by James Dusenbery is a fantasy story involving a young man that is summoned after his death to reap unwilling souls for a group called the Ankou.
- Time to Orbit: Unknown: Colonist Aspen Greaves wakes up from chronostasis with five years left in their colony ship's journey and no living crew to explain what happened.
- Tokyo Demons is a prose serial in Japanese light novel style focusing on superpowered youths getting deeply involved in an underground gang war. Serialized in Sparkler Monthly.
- Tomorrow Girl in Bismarck a superhero whose universe was destroyed and is now in the boring non-superhero world of Bismarck, North Dakota.
- Touch (2017) ("a survival story") is a superhero novel that emphasizes the Traumatic Superpower Awakening trope. The protagonist, James, gets Blow You Away powers, with the first being Flight, after being raped and soon befriends other young heroes.
- Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, a Science Fantasy action comedy series about a Jerk with a Heart of Gold Leon who dies from being overworked by his Spoiled Brat sister, only to be reborn in the world of an Otome Game that turns out to be a Crapsaccharine World. Leon befriends his Servile Snarker Robot Buddy Luxion and then female admirers while getting dragged into noble politics when he just wants an easygoing life. Received light novel and manga adaptations and is getting an anime in April 2022.
- Trash of the Count's Family, a Korean action, comedy, and fantasy series about a guy who is reincarnated into the world of a book series that he was in the middle of reading, and finds himself in the body of a minor antagonist in the first novel. Trying to manipulate events so he can live a lazy life away from the plot only changes that plot so much that he gets sucked into it, so he finally decides to help stop the Nebulous Evil Organization with his knowledge of the plot and the world building from the novels. He reluctantly attracts allies, gathers ancient powers, and tortures bad guys along the way.
- Travelers (BlueCoffeeJava), a LitRPG story.
- Trinton Chronicles, an Urban Fantasy series compiled from the message board RPG of the same name over 10+ years.
- Twig, a story by wildbow about a group of four tweens who hunt Mad Scientists and their creations for an Academy set in an alternate early 20th Century.
- Twisted Cogs is a story set during the Renaissance with a twist. The narrative follows a young woman named Elena as she moves away from home to become an artist. However, as it is wont, the world has more in store for her than just paintbrushes and canvas.
- The Wandering Inn is a fantasy story following a young woman who finds herself in a fantasy world where leveling up and classes exist. Instead of becoming a warrior or mage though, she becomes an innkeeper.
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- The Ugly Empress, a Chinese web serial novel about a man who wakes up in a woman's body.
- An Unauthorized Fan Treatise, a murder mystery set in the fictional fandom of Loch & Ness.
- Under the Oak Tree, a Korean web novel. A young noblewoman who has been beaten and abused since childhood is married off to a commoner knight to get her off her father's hands. When he becomes a heroic dragon-slayer and lord of a land, he whisks her off to his castle, where she is shown kindness and concern for the first time in her life, and begins her slow journey to healing and self-confidence.
- Unhallowed [35], a surreal horror story about a college freshman who turns to her skeptical older sisters after making a deal with the devil to bring her boyfriend back from the dead. Set in a reimagined Massachusetts created by H. P. Lovecraft, this Genre-Busting tale blurs the line between witchcraft and madness.
- Unimaa, an eight-chapter story about the titular location, a Dream Land for children that's been turned into a Lotus-Eater Machine by an evil spirit with a benevolent appearance and a black orb around her neck.
- Unjust Depths is a sci-fi web serial novel about an underwater society hundreds of years after the surface became uninhabitable by humans, focusing on a mecha-based guerilla force trying to overthrow an Empire.
- Unruly Phoenix Xiaoyao, a Chinese web serial novel about a genetically-enhanced heroine from a far-future Zombie Apocalypse who is reincarnated in the 13th century as a girl, disguised as a boy, who has just become the Emperor of China.
- Unlikely Eden is a weekly-updated web serial told from the alternating points of view of two 10-year-old girls. The story begins with the destruction of the girls' home, which forces them to escape into the surrounding area. They immediately run afoul of the residents of a small outpost and, through fortunate coincidence, encounter a crotchety old trucker and his teenage ward, who become their only friends besides each other. Throughout the course of the story, they gradually begin to learn the complicated sequence of events that led to the destruction of their home. From prophecies to roller skates to robot teddy bears, there's never a dull moment.
- Unsong is a Kabbalah-inspired speculative-fiction story set in an alternate history where people are much the same and the rules of reality are most definitely not.
- Urban Reverie is a weekly updated serial about two people, Quinen and Chrysanthemum that live in a strange, New Weird city in which they don't belong. It is set in an Urban Fantasy world where sapient insects walk alongside intelligent amphibious reptiles. The story focuses on the truth behind Chrysanthemum's true existence, as well as Quinen's past.
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- Vacant Throne: A woman challenges destiny and kills burglars in her home, rather than being murdered herself. Angel consequently transfers her off to an alternate world filled with magic and monster.
- Villager A Wants To Save The Villainess No Matter What: A fantasy romance Media Transmigration story about a boy reincarnated as a mob, who gains power as an adventurer to save his favorite villainess from the game, while clashing with the Manipulative Bitch woman reincarnated as the game's protagonist.
- The Villainess Lives Again: A powerful political woman who ruined her country with her evil schemes turns back time to make amends for her past sins by supporting an honorable man instead of her despicable brother.
- The Villainess Turns The Hourglass: After dying on the gallows thanks to the machinations of her step-sister, a young woman suddenly finds herself back in the past and decides to do anything in her power to prevent her own death and avenge herself on people who wronged her.
- The Villains Need To Save The World?: A man is reincarnated as a female Demon God. She then proceeds to create a harem of the most beautiful girls in the world.
- Vainqueur The Dragon: a dragon realizes that he can grow his hoard faster by becoming an adventurer, and drags an unwilling human minion in his quest for gold.
- Vigor Mortis: a half-dead starved orphan discovers they can innately use Necromancy, an illegal and blasphemous branch of magic. Can they balance the need to use it to save them and the ones they care about from abject poverty with the need to not get executed?
- Villain Academy: A Villain Protagonist that died is revived and informed they have been a superhero comicbook character all along by an Artificial Intelligence that also tells him he is currently in the Cosmic Horror-genre and they need to work together to escape.
- Void Domain: A young mage is accepted into a school for magic. Necromancers, demons, and nuns all disrupt regular school proceedings. Completed in November 2017.
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- Warlock Of The Magus World
- Way of Choices
- Welcome to the A-Class Tells about about the titular class which is considered the best class with talented students, but consisting of troubled teens. And they are guided by their teacher, Mr. Oliver Graviolens.
- The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother: A Darker and Edgier take on the popular "Reborn as Villainess" Story genre. A young woman from our world finds herself reincarnated as a member of a villainous family from the adult novel she read in her previous life. To avoid the terrible fate awaiting her, she decides to save the titular heroine's brother, all while doing everything to stay alive in her murderous family.
- Welcome To Omega:
- Welcome to the Impregnable Demon King Castle: A series about a black mage who was kicked out of his party and was then invited to join the Demon King's army. Originally published on Shousetsuka ni Narou, then picked up by GA Bunko.
- When the Hunting Party Came: Superhero Series about the aftermath of several teens being kidnapped and given powers.
- ''Witchery Prep':
- Who Is The Prey: A psychological drama that serves as a deconstruction of the abusive CEO romance. It's about He Yan, a woman who sends a man to jail, where he's executed. Only for him to return four years later to make her life a living hell.
- Why Polly?: Polly, while impersonating the princess, is kidnapped by an enchanter and his trainee and taken far, far away from her home—where she meets the very princess she was impersonating. It is revealed that they all are being threatened by a malevolent magical being known as a jadess. Can she get along with the arrogant enchanter long enough to figure out how to survive with a jadess after them? And why does the jadess want Polly? (First serialized on WordPress in 2011, now being re-edited and updated.)
- Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion
- Winchester: A post-apocalyptic Alternate History that follows the crew of one of the trains that brave the dangerous ruins of America to deliver cargo between the nations rising from the rubble.
- Wingspan: Based on the "Chaotic Good angels fall" theme with a twist; did you know the Christian idea of redemption had Power Perversion Potential?
- The Withering Sword: An Epic Fantasy novel about the downfall of an empire loosely based on the empires of Imperial China. Updated weekly.
- The longer Whateley Universe stories would qualify if anyone cared to run them through a word-counter. ("Ayla and the Tests" is longer than six of the seven Harry Potter novels.) Further, in a sense, the stories make up a single multi-author work, with many stories covering the same events from different points of view.
- The Witch of Knightcharm: A dark fantasy novel focusing on a teenage witch who, in a desperate quest for redemption, infiltrates an evil magic school in order to undermine it. Once there, however, she finds that not only must she survive inhumane lessons and murderous classmates, but also must resist the constant efforts of the school's monomaniacal leaders to corrupt her.
- Wonder City Stories is an story focusing on the lives of the super powered residents of Wonder City, with a focus on gender, race and sexuality issues.
- World Domination in Retrospect is a story about the Powered Armour-clad supervillain PsychoGecko and his insane crimes.
- A World Less Visible is a Dark Fantasy set in the modern world. Witches, werewolves, and other such creatures are real. Published on deviantART. It consists of a group of short stories, but there are multiple crossover episodes.
- Worth the Candle is a web serial about a teenage boy who winds up in a world that's reminiscent of his homebrew D&D games.
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- Wu Chang Jie
- Wushuang
X
- Xanadu (Storyverse) is a Shared Universe setting centered around the Change, an event where the attendees of a large fandom convention are suddenly and inexplicably transformed into their costumes.
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- you could make a life started as a short story about a Queer Romance between two Canadian NHL rookies and has since then expanded to a 11-chapter story and an entire universe consisting of multi-chaptered stories for at least six other gay NHL couples with a good amount of crossover happening between them.
- You Yao
Z
- Zhen Hun
- The Zombie Knight is about a young guy who is revived by a Grim Reaper in order to save the lives of others. The guy in question, however, is quite the Shrinking Violet and encounters difficulty with the responsibilities of his new unlife. The story is a mixture of dark fantasy, drama, and humor.
