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?
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 Interview With The Vampire
| 3.81 | 503 reads | ||
 Coraline
| 4.08 | 747 reads | ||
 The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
| 4.41 | 115 reads | ||
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.39 | 2,104 reads | ||
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.06 | 686 reads | ||
 The Poppy War
| 4.02 | 691 reads | ||
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.84 | 170 reads | ||
 The Blade Itself
| 4.1 | 776 reads | ||
 Kushiel's Dart
| 3.9 | 134 reads | ||
 Blood of Elves
| 3.96 | 513 reads | ||
 Berserk Volume 1
| 4.29 | 114 reads | ||
 Tales from Earthsea
| 4.1 | 73 reads | ||
 The Gunslinger
| 3.64 | 888 reads | ||
 The Malazan Empire Series
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 Stormbringer
| 4.04 | 20 reads | ||
 Berserk Volume 6
| 4.33 | 57 reads | ||
 The Raven Tower
| 3.96 | 115 reads | ||
 The Shadow of the Torturer
| 3.64 | 148 reads | ||
 Perdido Street Station
| 4 | 204 reads | ||
 A Darker Shade of Magic
| 4 | 775 reads | ||
 The Fifth Season
| 4.34 | 913 reads | ||
 She Who Became the Sun
| 3.82 | 211 reads | ||
 The Book Eaters
| 3.62 | 99 reads | ||
 The Metamorphosis
| 3.88 | 204 reads | ||
 Our Share of Night
| 3.92 | 60 reads | ||
 Black Sun Rising
| 3.54 | 64 reads | ||
 The Thirteenth Hour (The Cruel Gods, #1)
| 4.13 | 6 reads | ||
 Dragonsbane
| 3 | 16 reads | ||
 The Vampire Genevieve
| 3.78 | 10 reads | ||
 One Dark Window
| 4.12 | 216 reads | ||
 The Night Watch
| 3.88 | 100 reads | ||
 Who Fears Death
| 3.72 | 60 reads | ||
 The Vagrant
| 3.18 | 24 reads | ||
 Between Two Fires
| 4.23 | 97 reads | ||
 Rubicon
| 3.58 | 6 reads | ||
 The Winter Road
| 4.25 | 5 reads | ||
 I racconti del Necronomicon - Volume secondo
| 0 | 1 read | ||
 Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 The Bone Doll's Twin
| 4.19 | 28 reads | ||
 Priest of Bones
| 3.7 | 42 reads | ||
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 3.07 | 104 reads | ||
 I racconti del Necronomicon - Volume primo
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
| 3.5 | 7 reads | ||
 Magic's Pawn
| 3.78 | 45 reads | ||
 Merchants of Knowledge and Magic
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 A Little Hatred
| 4.4 | 201 reads | ||
 Prince of Thorns
| 3.58 | 276 reads | ||
 The Drawing of the Three
| 4.14 | 492 reads | ||
 Brother Red
| 4 | 5 reads |