Best Dark Fantasy Books

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price_x0097_and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can_x0092_t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can_x0092_t ...

Original cover edition here THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. AGAIN.Three terrible things happen in a single day.Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's b...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _x0095_ THE BOOK BEHIND THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES Don_x0092_t miss the thrilling sneak peek of George R. R. Martin_x0092_s A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Six, The Winds of WinterDubbed _x0093_the American Tolkien_x0094_ by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of...

The first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dash...

While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York. Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the bea...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Dark, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Where ash falls from the sky, and mist dominates the night, evil cloaks the land and stifles all life. Criminal mastermind Kelsier teaches Allomancy, the magic of metals, to another Mistborn, urchin Vin 16. The unlikely heroine is distracted by rich Venture heir Elend. Can Kelsier's thieving crew take on the tyrant Lord Ruler and bring back colour ...

Captivating and actionpacked, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected Fantasy, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laura Thalassa. A Maiden_x0085_ Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy_x0092_s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris ElbaThe fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is _x0093_splendidly tense_x0085_riproaring_x0094_ (Publishers Weekly)_x0097_a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is _x0093_at his most ebullient_x0085_sweeping readers up in_x0085_swells of passion...

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save ...

In America, demons wear white hoods.In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.Standing in their way is ...

The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteenyearold Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang_x0097_a network of criminals far above the l...

On the distant world of Erna, four peoplePriest, Adept, Sorcerer, and Apprenticeare drawn together to battle the forces of evil, led by the demonic fae, a souldestroying force that preys on the human mind....

Ein is on a mission from God. A God of Death.Time is up for the Emperor of Ten Kings and it falls to a murdered eight year old boy to render the judgement of a God. Ein knows he can't do it alone, but the empire is rife with heroes. The only problem; in order to serve, they must first die.Ein has four legendary heroes in mind, names from story book...

Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent ...

Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.Until the prophecy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.There must be a way for...

Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn_x0092_t know, friends h...

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All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, are now available together in a collectible paperback boxed set. The books have gorgeous new covers, maps, forewords, and bonus content.Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. Enter the secret world of the Shadowhunters with this handsomely packaged boxed set that includes...

Death is her destiny.Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the London streets for centuries. Expected to obey the harsh hierarchy of the Reapers who despise her, Ren conceals her emotions and avoids her tormentors as best she can.When her failure to control her Shinigami abilities drives Ren out ...

The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever.On the bloodsoaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, is...

The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battleweary Malaz 14th Army uneasy. For it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was...

The Bonehunters march for Kolanse, led by Adjunct Tavore. This woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, will challenge the gods if her own mutinous troops don't kill her first.Her enemy, the Forkrul Assail, seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate everything. In the realm of...

For the first time ever in a single box set, all of Stephen King_x0092_s eight Dark Tower novels_x0097_one of the most acclaimed and popular series of all time_x0097_soon to be a major motion film starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower series features one of Stephen King_x0092_s most powerful crea...

A mother struggling to repress her violent past,A son struggling to grasp his violent future,A father blind to the danger that threatens them all.When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shoresHigh on a ...

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_x0093_The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm._x0094_Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior...

An Alabama boy_x0092_s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times_x0096_bestselling author of Swan Song.It_x0092_s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It_x0092_s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelveyearol...

The ravaged continent of Genabackis is a terrifying new empire, the Pannion Domin, that devours all. An uneasy allliance resists: Onearm's army, Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners and former enemies forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii mages, and the Rhivi people of the plains. And the Crippled God intends revenge....

After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur are united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of the Hiroth. But the price of peace is a pact with a hidden power whose motives may be deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether has devoured all lesser neighbors except the Tiste Edur....

All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor, while the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against its own people. The Errant, once a farseeing god, is suddenly blind to the future. Conspiracies seet...

IN A RICH, DISTINCTIVE WORLD THAT MIXES MAGIC WITH Technology,, WHO COULD STAND AGAINST MAGES THAT CONTROL GUNPOWDER AND BULLETSThe capital has fallen...Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are in...

The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medalwinning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, el...

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Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace It_x0092_s enough to make a torturer want to run _x0096_ if he could even walk without a stick.Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fir...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Assassin, Fiction, Dark, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Beranabus and Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholy alliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind, held on Earth against his will. Grubbs is mad with grief and spinning out of control.The demons are crossing.The Disciples are falling.The Shadow is waiting.Welcome to the end.Steel your stomachs and grit your teeththe tenth book in the saga of the ...

In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every soldier in every world_x0085_In Letherii, the exiled Malazan army commanded by Adjunct Tavore begins its march into the eastern Wastelands, to fight for an unknown cause against an enemy it has never seen.And in these same Wastelands, others gather to confront their destinies. The ...

King Jorg Ancrath is twenty now_x0097_and king of seven nations. His goal_x0097_revenge against his father_x0097_has not yet been realized, and the demons that haunt him have only grown stronger. Yet no matter how tortured his path, he intends to take the next step in his upward climb. Jorg would be emperor. It is a position not to be gained by the sword but rather ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Dark, Fantasy, Epic lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

An alternate cover edition can be found here.In Northern Genabackis, tribal mountain warriors raid southern flatlands. Years later, Tavore, Adjunct to the Empress, enters the last Malazan stronghold. New to command, she must hone 12,000 recruits to resist the Whirlwind of her sister Sha in the Holy Desert. The power struggle of the seer's warlords ...

The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the BloodyNine to come home. With too many masters and too littl...

When sorcerers and demigods go to war, those wars are fought by mercenaries, "dog soldiers, " grunts in the trenches. And the stories of those soldiers are the stories of Glen Cook's hugely popular Black Company novels. If the Joseph Heller of Catch22 were to tell the story of The Lord of the Rings, it might read like the Black Company books. Ther...

I am Grimalkin, and I have already chosen those I will kill . . .'Grimalkin has made it her lifetime ambition to destroy the Fiend, avenging the brutal murder of her son.Having grudgingly joined forces with the Spook and his apprentice, Tom, and assisted them in the binding of the Fiend, she is now on the run. And her mission is deadly.She has to ...

Fire! It's all around me, fierce, intense, out of control. I feel the hair on my arms singe and know I have only seconds before I burst into flames. Total panic. There's a horrible shrieking sound, piercing and destructive. My eardrums and eyeballs should burst. "It's hell!" I moan.One boy's life ripped to shreds before his eyes...One wrathful demo...

Who will be lost to the darkThomas Ward has served as the Spook's apprentice for three years. He has battled boggarts, witches, demons, and even the devil himself. Tom has enemies: The Fiend stalks him, waiting for a moment of weakness. The terrifying Morrigan, goddess of witches, warned him never to set foot on her homeland, Ireland.But now war h...

An orphan_x0092_s life is harsh_x0097_and often short_x0097_in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of lightfingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld_x0092_s most feared ruler. But...

From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, the thrilling conclusion to the Red Queen_x0092_s War... Mark Lawrence_x0092_s _x0093_epic Fantasy,_x0094_ (The Washington Post) continues as a reluctant prince returns from the bowels of Hell to engage in his greatest battle yet_x0097_among the living and the dead. All the horrors of Hell stand between Sn...

In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk i...

"I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to...

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha_x0092_ik and her followers prepare for the longprophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the Malazan Empire in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known, shaping destinies and ...

"Rich in plot twists, byzantine intrigues and hidden secrets, Imajica is a Chinese puzzle box constructed on a universal scale...Barker has an unparalleled talent for envisioning other worlds." _x0097_ Washington Post Book WorldFrom master storyteller Clive Barker comes an epic tale of myth, magic, and forbidden passionImajica is an epic beyond compare:...

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must undertake a d...

There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan_x0092_s first_x0097_and favorite_x0097_lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Pete...

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father_x0092_s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hu...

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first install...

The second novel in the Night Angel trilogy, the breakneck epic Fantasy, from New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks.Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life. The Godking's successful coup has left Kylar's master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.But when he learns tha...

Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuriesdead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mu...

Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task.Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to send the greatest of his servants against him Siscoi, a Vampire God more ferocious than anything he has yet faced. Tom must risk his life to prevent the ...

He's the seventh son of a seventh son. His name is Thomas J. Ward and he's my gift to the County. When he's old enough we'll send you word. Train him well. He'll be the best apprentice you've ever had and he'll also be your last.'These were the words of Tom's Mam to the county Spook some years ago. As Tom, the Spook and their allies prepare to bat...

As the Spook's apprentice Tom's first duty is to protect the County from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece. One of the most dangerous of the old gods, the Ordeen, is about to return there, bringing slaughter and devastation. Meanwhile, the Devil himself is still loose and if he and the Ordeen join forces, a new age of d...

Sword and Swordsman... But which is masterStormbringer, the mighty runesword, hangs far away in the city's armoury. Elric, haunted albino warriorking, has sworn never again to touch the enchanted blade.But now he needs it as never before. Evil supernatural beings have abducted Zarozinia, his lovely wife. He would sacrifice the world itself to res...

The Black Song is the actionpacked conclusion to the Raven's Blade series by Anthony Ryan, which began with The Wolf's Call.The Steel Horde has laid waste to the Venerable Kingdom, unleashing a storm of fire and blood. Now the leader of this mighty host Kehlbrand, the warlord who thinks himself a god turns his eyes to the other merchant kingdo...

As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise_x0097_demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards_x0097_symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly frag...

It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeenyearold sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.Raffe i...

"Dreams of Steel" is Book 5 in Glen Cook's Fantasy, masterpiece, The Chronicles of the Black Company.Croaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost.But in assembling a new fighting force fro...

When a Russian tourist is murdered while visiting the Edinburgh Dungeons, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton is detailed to the investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realise that there is much more to this story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder....

In Victorian England a witch and a detective are on the hunt for a serial killer in an enthralling novel of magic and murder.After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London. Among his effects: a bloodstained business card bearing the name of a mas...

From New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks... For Durzo Blint, assassination is an artand he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Dark, Fantasy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Kerri Maniscalco introduces her next series, a dark tale of a beautiful young witch, a troubled demon, and their epic romance, set against a 19th century Italian backdrop.Emilia and her twin sister Victoria are streghe witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Victoria misses dinner service at the family'...

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art decoinflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both...

In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees...Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figu...