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  • Bid Time Return (1976)

    Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson won the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

  • A Land Fit For Heroes

    Subversion gone over the edge is how you can describe Richard Morgan's anti-fantasy series A Land Fit For Heroes. Morgan writes some of the blackest grimdark you'll ever read and...

  • Murder And Magic

    The book is set in an alternate universe where Richard the Lion-Hearted did not die in 1199. Instead he went on to procreate and his heirs rule a combined Anglo-French...

  • 1976: Bid Time Return

    Set in 1971, a young Richard Collier is sick with a brain tumor and decides to flip a coin to see where it will take him. He ends up in...

  • Neverwhere

    Most (all?) of Gaiman’s works are urban fantasy. The crowd favorite is Neverwhere, which is an interesting take on the whole multiverse conceit found in science fiction. The premise is...

  • The Steel Remains

    This book is a thoroughly grimdark adventure, following a world-weary PTSD sufferer on his quest to save the world he doesn't much care for. It's messy, gross, intense, brooding and...

  • Herald Of The Storm

    A new author who pays some serious tribute to Abercrombie with his style of grimdark. Do read if you like depressing, action ridden fantasy with a cast of troubled heroes....

  • Tome Of The Undergates

    Another one of those grimdarks that borrows heavily from the Joe Abercrombie style of it. But, perhaps a bit much of it. If you like your world bleak and dirty...

  • Altered Carbon

    After dying in a particularly gruesome death, ex UN-envoy Takeshi Kovacs wakes up to find himself "re-sleeved" into a fresh body with a job offer: find who killed Laurens Bancroft...

  • The Sword Of Truth

    Most would argue that this series gets worse with every addition. But Wizard's First Rule is good enough to get the series included on the list. It's probably more of...

  • I Am Legend

    This is the story that influenced the zombie genre and popularized the concept of a worldwide zombie apocalypse. Robert Neville is the last human on the earth. He is immune...

  • The Shadow Campaigns

    If you are looking for some of the best military fantasy to come out the past decade, look no further then Django Wrexler's Shadow Campaigns series. The series has all...

  • The Shape Of Water

    Explore the art and making of Guillermo del Toro\'s new masterpiece, The Shape of Water, now nominated for thirteen Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture.From master storyteller Guillermo...

  • Sandman Slim

    Of all the books on this list, Sandman Slim is probably the darkest and most brutal. But it's disturbingly good a story about a sort of Harry Dresden character who...

  • Sword Of Truth

    This one falls under the "Terribly Written Books" category AND the "Overrated Books With Undeserved Hype". Woah, double kill!Some people might be wondering why bestselling author Terry Goodkind is missing...

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  • Best Grimdark Fantasy Books

    One of the more popular subgenres of Fantasy now (there’s debate as to whether it’s a legit subgenre or just an artistic category) but one can hardly argue its prevalence...

  • Best Fantasy Books of 2014

    These our our picks for the best fantasy books of 2014. 2014 was a phenomenal year for fantasy and there was a stack of highly anticipated book released by some of...

  • Best Early Modern Fantasy Books (1930's to 1950's)

    After the development of Fantasy in the early part of the 20th century, it truly seemed like the genre was moving towards a golden age. Then the real world became...