Dark Fantasy Books

List of articles, reviews and reading suggestions published on the blog. Here you find dark fantasy novels. Also articles on writers. More is added frequently. Any suggestions, let me know!

July Suggested Reading: The Named by Marianne Curley - Review of the Fantasy novel, with excerpt.

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Controversial & Visionary - Article on this amazing sci-fi/fantasy writer, whose opinions were controversial and ahead of her time.

June Suggested Reading: Song of Scarabaeus by Sara Creasy - Review of the Science Fiction novel. The story is about a technician who is kidnapped by rebels to fight a top secret government agency, and has to team up with her bodyguard. It has a widget with excerpts from the book.

May Suggested Reading: The Greywalker by Kat Richardson - Review of the paranormal novel. The story is about a detective whose life is changed totally after a near-death experience, after which she started seeing ghosts, vampires, and other Grey creatures. While still coping with her new abilities and that strange reality, she has to solve two mysterious cases. The Greywalker is the first in a five-book series.

Book Review: The Darkness Reaches by Kristin Landon - Review of the science fiction novel, which is about two pilots who get back to help the last human survivors on Earth from the threat of their robotic foes.

Book Review: Darkness Calls by Marjorie Liu - Review of the novel, which is about a demon hunter whose body is covered in tattoos that turn into her protectors at night, and her fight to save her lover from the hands of her enemies.

March Suggested Reading - Reviews of the novels: Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley, Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson & Dhampir by Barb Hendee & J. C. Hendee

February Suggested Reading - Reviews of the novels: Unclean Spirits by M.L.N. Hanover, Zandru's Forge by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross, Circle Of The Moon by Barbara Hambly

January Suggested Reading - Reviews of the novels: Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr & Ghosts of Albion: Accursed by Amber Benson & Christopher Golden

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - Review of the novel, which is about a man who suffers severe burns in a car crash and meets a woman who shares with him stories about previous lifetimes and ends up giving him a new meaning.

Lord Byron: Gothic Bad-Boy Genius - Article about the poet, writer and playwright, with a selection of poems.

December Suggested Reading: Meridian by Amber Kizer - Review of Meridian by Amber Kizer. The book's story is about a girl who attracts death and discovers she has supernatural abilities to open a portal between the world of the dead and that of the living, and has to fight forces that strive to disrupt the balance.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Dreams in Words - Biographical article about the English poet and writer, with two poems and some quotes.