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
| 3.77 | 701 reads | ||
 The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
| 4.36 | 164 reads | ||
 Coraline
| 4.08 | 993 reads | ||
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.37 | 2,883 reads | ||
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.08 | 885 reads | ||
 The Poppy War
| 4.01 | 923 reads | ||
 Tales from Earthsea
| 4.05 | 107 reads | ||
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.85 | 222 reads | ||
 Blood of Elves
| 3.94 | 709 reads | ||
 The Blade Itself
| 4.1 | 1,043 reads | ||
 Kushiel's Dart
| 3.87 | 183 reads | ||
 Berserk Volume 1
| 4.26 | 169 reads | ||
 Stormbringer
| 4.22 | 25 reads | ||
 The Fifth Season
| 4.34 | 1,211 reads | ||
 The Gunslinger
| 3.61 | 1,206 reads | ||
 The Malazan Empire Series
| 4.5 | 2 reads | ||
 A Darker Shade of Magic
| 3.97 | 1,010 reads | ||
 The Metamorphosis
| 3.91 | 235 reads | ||
 Berserk Volume 6
| 4.43 | 83 reads | ||
 The Book Eaters
| 3.6 | 139 reads | ||
 The Raven Tower
| 3.94 | 155 reads | ||
 Prince of Thorns
| 3.59 | 353 reads | ||
 She Who Became the Sun
| 3.85 | 276 reads | ||
 Perdido Street Station
| 3.99 | 288 reads | ||
 The Shadow of the Torturer
| 3.7 | 209 reads | ||
 One Dark Window
| 4.1 | 360 reads | ||
 I racconti del Necronomicon - Volume primo
| 4 | 1 read | ||
 The Drawing of the Three
| 4.12 | 679 reads | ||
 Magic's Pawn
| 3.9 | 61 reads | ||
 Who Fears Death
| 3.79 | 80 reads | ||
 Dragonsbane
| 3.31 | 21 reads | ||
 The Bone Doll's Twin
| 4 | 41 reads | ||
 The Night Watch
| 3.85 | 142 reads | ||
 A Little Hatred
| 4.41 | 266 reads | ||
 The Atlas Six
| 3.46 | 462 reads | ||
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf
| 3.11 | 137 reads | ||
 Priest of Bones
| 3.72 | 51 reads | ||
 The Vagrant
| 3.4 | 41 reads | ||
 Black Sun Rising
| 3.57 | 88 reads | ||
 Brother Red
| 4 | 5 reads | ||
 The Thirteenth Hour (The Cruel Gods, #1)
| 4.2 | 8 reads | ||
 The Winter Road
| 3.8 | 6 reads | ||
 Between Two Fires
| 4.19 | 149 reads | ||
 A Study in Drowning
| 3.56 | 153 reads | ||
 Merchants of Knowledge and Magic
| 0 | 0 reads | ||
 Our Share of Night
| 3.86 | 83 reads | ||
 The Vampire Genevieve
| 3.78 | 10 reads | ||
 To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
| 3.32 | 14 reads | ||
 Rubicon
| 3.82 | 15 reads | ||
 Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore
| 4 | 2 reads | ||
 I racconti del Necronomicon - Volume secondo
| 0 | 1 read |