Prompts

What are your favorite dark fantasy books?

Fantasy spans the spectrum from lighthearted fun to kick-you-in-the-teeth realism. When done right dark fantasy explores themes that are often taboo or emotional. Exploring these dark themes in fantasy offers a safe space to explore concepts like these in a new world without the limits of our own reality. What dark fantasy books do you recommend to other readers?

Interview With The Vampire

1976 • 916 Readers • 360 pages 3.8

Coraline

2001 • 1,284 Readers • 176 pages 4.1

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1849 • 282 Readers • 821 pages 4.4

A Game of Thrones

1996 • 3,104 Readers • 819 pages 4.4

Gideon the Ninth

2019 • 1,599 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Poppy War

2018 • 1,887 Readers • 544 pages 4

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

2015 • 470 Readers • 400 pages 3.9

The Blade Itself

2001 • 1,683 Readers • 536 pages 4.1

Kushiel's Dart

2001 • 309 Readers • 930 pages 3.9

Blood of Elves

20 • 870 Readers • 416 pages 4

Berserk Volume 1

1990 • 194 Readers • 224 pages 4.2

Tales from Earthsea

2001 • 183 Readers • 296 pages 4.1

The Gunslinger

1976 • 1,550 Readers • 238 pages 3.6

Stormbringer

2022 • 46 Readers • 864 pages 4

The Malazan Empire Series

2017 • 3 Readers • 3,408 pages 4.5

The Fifth Season

2015 • 2,172 Readers • 421 pages 4.4

Berserk Volume 6

2005 • 79 Readers • 223 pages 4.3

The Raven Tower

2019 • 318 Readers • 432 pages 4

The Shadow of the Torturer

1980 • 491 Readers • 276 pages 3.7

Perdido Street Station

2000 • 597 Readers • 24h 9m 4

Prince of Thorns

2011 • 679 Readers • 389 pages 3.6

A Darker Shade of Magic

2015 • 1,723 Readers • 400 pages 4

She Who Became the Sun

2021 • 866 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

The Book Eaters

2022 • 451 Readers • 416 pages 3.6

The Metamorphosis

1915 • 283 Readers • 106 pages 3.9

Our Share of Night

2019 • 309 Readers • 720 pages 3.9

Black Sun Rising

1991 • 177 Readers • 496 pages 3.6

Dragonsbane

1985 • 61 Readers • 292 pages 3

The Vampire Genevieve

1989 • 16 Readers • 763 pages 3.8

One Dark Window

2022 • 797 Readers • 421 pages 4.1

The Night Watch

1998 • 169 Readers • 496 pages 3.9

Who Fears Death

2010 • 203 Readers • 386 pages 3.7

The Vagrant

2015 • 101 Readers • 416 pages 3.3

Between Two Fires

2012 • 410 Readers • 436 pages 4.2

Rubicon

2023 • 48 Readers • 469 pages 3.6

The Winter Road

2018 • 22 Readers • 480 pages 4.3

Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore

1994 • 5 Readers • 274 pages 4

The Bone Doll's Twin

2001 • 79 Readers • 545 pages 4.2

Priest of Bones

2018 • 179 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)

2019 • 535 Readers • 612 pages 3.1

To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

2021 • 79 Readers • 479 pages 3.4

Merchants of Knowledge and Magic

2022 • 9 Readers • 530 pages

Magic's Pawn

1989 • 110 Readers • 349 pages 3.8

Brother Red

2021 • 25 Readers • 512 pages 4

A Little Hatred

2014 • 577 Readers • 20 pages 4.4

The Thirteenth Hour (The Cruel Gods, #1)

29 Readers • 535 pages 4.1

The Drawing of the Three

1981 • 707 Readers • 463 pages 4.1