Dark Fantasy
- Kelley Armstrong -- Women of the Underworld (Bitten)
- Clive Barker -- The Great and Secret Show
- Clive Barker -- Weaveworld
- Anne Bishop -- Black Jewels Trilogy (Daughter of the Blood)
- K.J. Bishop -- The Etched City
- James P. Blaylock -- All the Bells on Earth
- Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Jim Butcher -- Dresden Files series (Storm Front)
- James Clemens -- The Banned and the Banished (Wi’tch World)
- Glen Cook -- The Black Company
- Mark Z. Danielewski -- House of Leaves
- Stephen R. Donaldson -- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (Lord Foul’s Bane)
- Sara Douglass -- The Crucible series (The Nameless Day)
- Lynn Flewelling -- Tamir trilogy (The Bone Doll’s Twin)
- C.S. Friedman -- Coldfire Trilogy (Black Sun Rising)
- Neil Gaiman -- Neverwhere
- Neil Gaiman -- Sandman series
- Christopher Golden -- The Nimble Man
- Christopher Golden -- Shadow saga
- Lisa Goldstein -- The Alchemist’s Door
- Ian Graham -- Monument
- Elizabeth Hand -- Waking the Moon
- Kim Harrison -- Dead Witch Walking
- Barb & J.C. Hendee -- Dhampir series
- Tanya Huff -- Keeper’s Chronicles (Summon the Keeper)
- Graham Joyce -- Requiem
- Graham Joyce -- The Tooth Fairy
- Stephen King -- The Dark Tower (The Gunslinger)
- E.E. Knight -- Vampire Earth series (The Way of the Wolf)
- Dean Koontz -- Watchers
- Elizabeth Kostova -- The Historian
- Katherine Kurtz & Deborah Turner Harris -- The Adept series (The Adept)
- M. John Harrison -- The Course of the Heart
- Tanith Lee -- Secret Books of Paradys (Book of the Damned)
- H.P. Lovecraft -- any book
- Brian Lumley -- Necroscope series (Necroscope)
- George R.R. Martin -- Fevre Dream
- Robert R. McCammon -- Swan Song
- Robert R. McCammon -- Boy’s Life
- Patricia McKillip -- In the Forests of Serre
- China Mieville -- Perdido Street Station
- Michael Moorcock -- Elric saga
- Garth Nix -- Abhorsen series (Sabriel)
- Mervyn Peake -- Gormenghast Trilogy (Titus Groan)
- Tim Powers -- Expiration Date
- Lucius Shepard -- A Handbook of American Prayer
- Dan Simmons -- The Hollow Man
- S.P. Somtow -- Riverrun Trilogy
- Gene Wolfe -- New Sun series (Shadow & Claw)
- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- Saint-Germain series (Hotel Transylvania)
