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Best Grimdark Fantasy Books

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...

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The Monarch Of The Glen

The Monarch Of The Glen

A special illustrated edition of The Monarch of the Glen by bestselling storytelling legend, Neil Gaiman. This American Gods world novella will thrill Games of Thrones devotees and Terry Pratchett...

Gaiman, Neil
Cruel Zinc Melodies

Cruel Zinc Melodies

View our feature on Glen Cook's Cruel Zinc Melodies. Garrett uncovers the dark side of the fantasy city TunFaire, where no one is to be trusted especially beautiful women. When...

Cook, Glen
The Tyranny Of The Night

The Tyranny Of The Night

Another entry from the always awesome Glen Cook, a new almost mystical figure in the fantasy world with his genre defining work The Black Company which pretty much helped birth...

Cook, Glen
Bleak Seasons

Bleak Seasons

The first three books in Glen Cook's Black Company series.

Cook, Glen
Dust Of Dreams

Dust Of Dreams

In a faraway land and beneath indifferent skies, the final chapter of The Malazan Book of the Fallen has begun. This masterwork of imagination may be the high-water mark of...

Erikson, Steven
The Black Company

The Black Company

In an era when fantasy was about honorable farm boys with magic swords and a noble destiny, Glen Cook said 'fuck that mess; let's have some amoral pricks doing bad...

Cook, Glen
The Black Company

The Black Company

This is a different breed of fantasy fiction than its pulp fiction brethren. However, there are many elements found in the Black Company that have Sword and Sorcery qualities to...

Cook, Glen
Bloodsounder's Arc

Bloodsounder's Arc

I read the fist in the series, Scourge of the Betrayer, late 2014 and was blown away with how good Salyards' tale was. A sort of a cross between The...

Salyards, Jeff
The Shadow Throne

The Shadow Throne

This was a pretty good follow up to his amazing first The Thousand Names which set a new standard for colonial military fantasy. It was a compelling read and had...

Wexler, Django
The Shadow Campaigns

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...

Wexler, Django
Surrender To The Will Of The Night

Surrender To The Will Of The Night

Piper Hecht's first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. What's not a secret is that he knows how to win wars. Hecht's secrets make him...

Cook, Glen
Working God's Mischief

Working God's Mischief

Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the...

Cook, Glen
Son Of The Morning

Son Of The Morning

Wow, what a ride this novel was. Highly ambitious and imaginative, Son of Morning proves itself a player in the genre. The book is a blend of alternative history blended...

Alder, Mark

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