Dark Fantasy
Combines elements of fantasy with horror, often exploring grim and frightening themes.
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
- The Land of Lost Things by John Connolly
- The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce
- The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Changeling by Victor LaValle
- Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
- Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
- No Gods For Drowning by Hailey Piper
- Tonight I Burn by Katharine J. Adams
- The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- Lord of Silence by Mark Chadbourn
- Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Talisman by Peter Straub
- Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Scar by China Mieville
- The Scar by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko
- Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Deep by John Crowley
- Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook
- Dreams of Steel by Glen Cook
- Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
- The Fade by Chris Wooding
- The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen
- Foxglove by Adalyn Grace
- Cave 13 by Jonathan Maberry
- The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
- Once by James Herbert
- The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
- Nightborn: Coldfire Rising by C.S. Friedman
- The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
- She Is the Darkness by Glen Cook
- Soldiers Live by Glen Cook
- Malice by Chris Wooding
- Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
- The Core by Peter V. Brett
- The Skull Throne by Peter V. Brett
- Bleak Seasons by Glen Cook
- The Great Ordeal by R. Scott Bakker
- The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan
- The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
- Bone Dance by Emma Bull
- The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker
- The Unholy Consult by R. Scott Bakker
- The Mad Man by Samuel R. Delany
- Water Sleeps by Glen Cook
- Havoc by Chris Wooding
- Dark Dance by Tanith Lee
- The Bone Roots by Gabriela Houston
- Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- The Darkness Before Them by Matthew Ward
- Heroes in Hell by Janet Morris
- The White-Luck Warrior by R. Scott Bakker
- The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett
- The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
- The Night Watch by Sean Stewart
- The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett
- The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
- Jackal Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic by Tobi Ogundiran
- Shadow Games by Glen Cook
- The Dark Defiles by Richard K. Morgan
- Gone South by Robert R. McCammon
- The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett
- The Silver Spike by Glen Cook
- Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- The Dollmaker by Nina Allan
- Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
- Crown of Shadows by C.S. Friedman
- The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe by Peter Clines
- The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
- Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peake
- The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard
- The Queen of Days by Greta Kelly
- The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
- Boy in Darkness by Mervyn Peake
- Saevus Corax Gets Away With Murder by K. J. Parker
- The Dreaming Earth by John Brunner
- Threshold by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- War in Hell by Janet Morris
- Malarkoi by Alex Pheby
- Shadowfire by Tanith Lee
- Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman
- Hard Light by Elizabeth Hand
- When True Night Falls by C.S. Friedman
- The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard
- The Star and the Strange Moon by Constance Sayers
- Cage of Dreams by Rebecca Schaeffer
- Wings of Wrath by C.S. Friedman
- Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman
- Galveston by Sean Stewart
- Black Light by Elizabeth Hand
- Prodigal by Melanie Tem
- The Iron Dragon's Mother by Michael Swanwick