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Laird Samuel Barron (born March 5, 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, or horror noir and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review.
Alternatively, dark fantasy is sometimes used for "darker" fiction written by authors best known for other styles of fantasy; Raymond Feist's Faerie Tale [8] and Charles de Lint's novels written as Samuel M. Key [9] would fit here. Roald Dahl's novel The Witches (and its film adaptations) is described as dark fantasy. [10]
Dark fantasy novels, a subgenre of fantasy that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes of fantasy. It often combines fantasy with elements of horror or has a gloomy dark tone or a sense of horror and dread.
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Glen Cook (born 1944), author of The Black Company novels and Garrett P.I. novels; Hugh Cook (1956–2008), author of the Chronicles of an Age of Darkness; Rick Cook (1944–2022), author of the Wizardry series; Louise Cooper (1952–2009), author of The Book of Paradox; Susan Cooper (born 1935), author of The Dark Is Rising Sequence
John Clute defines weird fiction as a term "used loosely to describe fantasy, supernatural fiction and horror tales embodying transgressive material". [5] China Miéville defines it as "usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic ('horror' plus 'fantasy') often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus 'science ...
Summer of Night is the first in a series of horror novels by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1991 by Warner Aspect. It was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 1992. [ 1 ] The subsequent books are Children of the Night (1992), Fires of Eden (1994) and A Winter Haunting (2002).
This is a list of the published novels set in the fantasy world of Dark Sun, which was originally a campaign setting for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Please refer to the main Dark Sun article for further information. Prism Pentad – Troy Denning. The Verdant Passage (October 1991), (ISBN 1-56076-121-0)