Top Ten Tuesday: Dark fantasy recs for your spooky needs

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl, wherein each week bloggers list out their Top Ten.

This week is a Halloween freebie and what better way to celebrate it than give you folks recommendations in one of my favorite genres – dark fantasy?!

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

• Spooky curse thingy
• Quite gay
• So gothic

Down Among the Sticks & Bones by Seanan McGuire

• Very gothic and very gay
• Has a vampire and a mad scientist
• Quite morbid

Beware the Wild by Natalie C Parker

• Southern gothic vibes
• swamp that gives you faerie vibes
• missing people

Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace

• dark and morbid
• main character hunts killers
• Supernatural Season 1 vibes

Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter

• dark faerie story that jumps right into horror territory
• messed up family dynamics
• well contained in a standalone story

Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

• Vampires are sexy but also not
  
• dystopian vibes
• gritty and dark

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

• short but not sweet
• spooky vibes
• ending leaves you guessing

Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

• has blood mages so that automatically puts it in dark territory
• somehow gave me an impression of constant night throughout the book
• quite monstrous characters

  Damsel by Elana K Arnold

• subverts tropes
• loads of rage and anxiety
• has dragons

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

• merges many retelling into one historical tale
• women get shit done
• only wish it was more gay

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

• Tamlin retelling with nightmare fae vibes
• sisterhood is the most important thing
• artists under stress

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Which are you favorite dark fantasies?