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
| 3.81 | 456 reads | |
 Coraline
| 4.08 | 705 reads | |
 The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
| 4.4 | 112 reads | |
 A Game of Thrones
| 4.39 | 1,937 reads | |
 Gideon the Ninth
| 4.05 | 634 reads | |
 The Poppy War
| 4.02 | 646 reads | |
 The Traitor Baru Cormorant
| 3.82 | 165 reads | |
 The Blade Itself
| 4.08 | 726 reads | |
 Kushiel's Dart
| 3.93 | 123 reads | |
 Blood of Elves
| 3.95 | 467 reads | |
 Berserk Volume 1
| 4.29 | 103 reads | |
 Tales from Earthsea
| 4.17 | 61 reads | |
 The Malazan Empire Series
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 The Gunslinger
| 3.64 | 813 reads | |
 Stormbringer
| 3.95 | 16 reads | |
 Berserk Volume 6
| 4.33 | 57 reads | |
 The Raven Tower
| 3.98 | 111 reads | |
 The Shadow of the Torturer
| 3.64 | 142 reads | |
 Perdido Street Station
| 4.01 | 190 reads | |
 A Darker Shade of Magic
| 3.97 | 742 reads | |
 The Fifth Season
| 4.33 | 848 reads | |
 She Who Became the Sun
| 3.8 | 203 reads | |
 The Book Eaters
| 3.56 | 89 reads | |
 The Metamorphosis
| 3.91 | 193 reads | |
 Brother Red
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 Black Sun Rising
| 3.46 | 52 reads | |
 The Vampire Genevieve
| 3.78 | 10 reads | |
 The Thirteenth Hour (The Cruel Gods, #1)
| 4.13 | 6 reads | |
 Dragonsbane
| 3.14 | 12 reads | |
 Rubicon
| 3.58 | 6 reads | |
 One Dark Window
| 4.1 | 183 reads | |
 The Night Watch
| 3.85 | 79 reads | |
 Who Fears Death
| 3.84 | 55 reads | |
 The Vagrant
| 3.16 | 21 reads | |
 Between Two Fires
| 4.23 | 89 reads | |
 Vita Nostra
| 4.14 | 80 reads | |
 The Winter Road
| 4.25 | 5 reads | |
 I racconti del Necronomicon - Volume secondo
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore
| 5 | 3 reads | |
 The Bone Doll's Twin
| 4.19 | 28 reads | |
 Priest of Bones
| 3.7 | 41 reads | |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 2.98 | 98 reads | |
 I racconti del Necronomicon - Volume primo
| 4 | 1 read | |
 To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
| 3.5 | 5 reads | |
 Magic's Pawn
| 3.73 | 43 reads | |
 A Little Hatred
| 4.42 | 176 reads | |
 Merchants of Knowledge and Magic
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Drawing of the Three
| 4.16 | 445 reads | |
 Prince of Thorns
| 3.55 | 261 reads | |
 Our Share of Night
| 4.02 | 53 reads |
