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Here's a hand-picked roundup of dark fantasy. Every entry below is a fantasy title worth your time, chosen for lasting impact and reader ratings.

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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

by Paula Guran

2022

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real. . . Such tales of the dark and the unknown have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle u…

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Midnight Bites

by L.K. Latham

2023

CC thought she understood unhumans, but a new monster has moved into town. Even her unhuman friends are afraid. She needs more than her hunting skills; she needs a team to catch it before it kills, again. Luckily, she has one: a couple of o…

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The Leviathan's Pact

by David G Stone

2025

When marine archaeologist Dr. Maya Currents discovers an impossible heartbeat beneath the ocean floor, she awakens something ancient-the Leviathan, a planetary consciousness that granted sentience to the mer-people fifty thousand years ago.…

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The Mercy of Dawn

by ASHLEY. BRESEE

2025

A series of gruesome murders. A playboy fae prince. A reclusive foreign kingdom. None of them are what they seem, and they are all about to turn Cyril Rhodea's life upside down. The Mercy of Dawn is an adult, dark fantasy romance and bo…

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Bound to the Shadow King

by Elena Nightshade

2026

Bound to the Shadow King When Lyra is taken to the Black Palace and forced into a deadly bargain with the feared Shadow King, she expects cruelty, darkness… and death. King Kael is whispered about across kingdoms as a monster born from shad…

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Devoured by Shadows

by Rosalyn Stirling

2025

Love between enchantresses and demons is forbidden. And the price for their love will cost them everything. As an enchantress, Arabella protects the realm from demons that feast on fear and flesh. She was never supposed to fall in love with…

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The Emberborn

by Mister Amiri

2025

THE GODS FEARED HIM. THE VOID CLAIMED HIM. THE WORLD WILL REMEMBER HIM. When a cosmic fracture tears open the sky, Kaelen Vair becomes the unwilling vessel of a legendary fire-the heart of a forgotten god. His new power can reshape the worl…

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The Third

by Misty Qiu

2025

She lost her past. He lost his present. Together, they might rewrite the future, if they don't tear each other apart first. For Emilia, he was an escape. All the thrill and torment she'd been craving. But a prince saving a princess …

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The Last Circle

by Fry

2026

Power is never taken without cost. Bound by an ancient system of rules designed to control and contain, Blair lives within a world shaped by ritual, obedience, and carefully hidden truths. As she is drawn toward the final stage of a cycle l…

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The Devil's Mercy

by Abby McCormick

2023

“When you get whatever it is you’re looking for, are you going to let me go?” Mercy asked. "Yes," he replied simply, his gaze holding hers. “I’m not the Devil.” Do they realize who they abducted? I am Mercy, born of darkness as th…

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