What are your favorite dark fantasy books?Answer

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?

The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

1849 • 376 Readers • 821 pages 4.4

Why this book?

for sure anything by Edgar Allen Poe is dark fantasy, his writing is just creepy and disturbing in so many ways. The erie feeling he creates with his dark tales of madness and insanity are just creepy dont know how else to put it lol