Sometimes there is nothing better than a dark fantasy story to take the edge off of your frustration at the world. Or even to remind yourself that things aren’t anywhere near as bad as it could be.

Series

• Shutter series by Courtney Alameda
• Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong
• Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance
• Buying Trouble by Karen Chance (Dorina Basarab #1.1)
• Foundling by D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo #1)
• The Corsers’ Hinge by D.M. Cornish (Monster Blood Tattoo #2.5)
• Something Dark and Holy series by Emily A. Duncan
• Elemental Assassin series by Jennifer Estep
• Otherworld series by Yasmine Galenorn
• Ghouls Night Out by Terri Garey (Nicki Styx #2.5)
• Lucy, at Christmastime by Simon R. Green (Nightside #8.4)
• How Do You Feel? by Simon R. Green (Nightside Companion)
• Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
• Cherry Kisses by Erica Hayes (The Shadowfae Chronicles #4.5)
• Quid Pro Quo by Tanya Huff (Henry Fitzroy #8.7)
• Jane Yellowrock series by Faith Hunter
• Blue Moon by Nikki Kelly (The Styclar Saga #0.5)
• Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
• Hunter Kiss series by Marjorie M. Liu
• Monstress series by Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda
• Cin Craven series by Jenna Maclaine
• Guns for the Dead by Melissa Marr (Graveminder #1.6)
• Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr
• Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson
• Love Bites by Kimberly Raye (Dead End Dating #3.5)
• Psy-Changeling series by Nalini Singh
• Psy-Changeling Trinity series by Nalini Singh
• Nigsu ga Tesgu by Jeff Somers (The Ustari Cycle #4.5)
• Mona Lisa Three by Sunny (Monere: Children of the Moon #1.5)
• Mona Lisa Betwining by Sunny (Monere: Children of the Moon #2.5)

Short story collections

• The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic edited by Mike Ashley
• On the Prowl by Patricia Briggs, Eileen Wilks, Karen Chance & Sunny
• The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
• Inked by Karen Chance, Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn & Eileen Wilks
• The Monstrous edited by Ellen Datlow
• Dark and Stormy Knights edited by P.N. Elrod
• Strange Brew edited by P.N. Elrod
• Evolve edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Red as Blood by Tanith Lee

Standalones – Novels

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Standalones – Novellas

• Two Lines by Melissa Marr

Standalones – Short stories

• Giants in the Earth by Dale Bailey
• The Closed Window by A.C. Benson
• The Walker Behind by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Beacon by Shannon K. Butcher
• The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter
• The Lady of the House of Love by Angela Carter
• The Werewolf by Angela Carter
• Wolf Alice by Angela Carter
• The Totals by Adam-Troy Castro
• Sweet Bruising Skin by Storm Constantine
• No. 252 Rue M le Prince by Ralph Adams Cram
• Eternal Altercation by Peter Crowther
• No Problem by Don D’Amassa
• Down Among the Dead Men by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois
• The Sweet of Bitter Bark and Burning Clove by Doris Egan
• Sisters by Brian Evenson
• A Wish from a Bone by Gemma Files
• Witch Hazel by Jeffrey Ford
• In the Realm of Dragons by Esther M. Friesner
• Puss by Esther M. Friesner
• Pack by Jeaniene Frost
• Thin Walls by Christopher Golden
• Knowledge of Evil by Raven Hart
• The Infestation by Tom Holt
• The Game of Magical Death by Doug Hornig
• The Sage of Theare by Diana Wynne Jones
• Dirtmouth by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Ode to Edvard Munch by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• Squatter’s Rights by Rochelle Krich
• The Rite Stuff by Michael Kurland
• The Bones of the Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Forever by Tim Lebbon
• The Golden Rope by Tanith Lee
• Paid Piper by Tanith Lee
• The Princess and Her Future by Tanith Lee
• Their Monstrous Minds by Tanith Lee
• When the Clock Strikes by Tanith Lee
• Sympathy for the Bones by Marjorie M. Liu
• Villaggio Sogno by Richard A. Lupoff
• A Small Taste of the Old Country by Jonathan Maberry
• Spellcaster 2.0 by Jonathan Maberry
• Transition by Melissa Marr
• Where Nightmares Walk by Melissa Marr
• With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds by Seanan McGuire
• Master of Chaos by Michael Moorcock
• Timekeeper by John Morressy
• The Chill Clutch of the Unseen by Kim Newman
• The Highest Justice by Garth Nix
• The Seventeen-Year Itch by Garth Nix
• Vampire Weather by Garth Nix
• Wick’s End by Joanna Parypinski
• The Witch’s Bicycle by Tim Pratt
• The Werewolf Before Christmas by Kat Richardson
• Rookwood and Mrs. King by Lilith Saintcrow
• The Wizard of Ashes and Rain by David Sandner
• Disillusioned by Lawrence Schimel & Mike Resnick
• To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer
• The Double Shadow by Clark Ashton Smith
• Hell in a Handbasket by Lucien Soulban
• The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
• PR Problems by Eric James Stone
• Ashputtle by Peter Straub
• The Monster Makers by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Ten Things I Know About the Wizard by Steve Rasnic Tem