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series14 books1978

completed

Fantasy, dark in tone, about demons, set in secondary world.

“The novels take inspiration from One Thousand and One Nights and are similarly structured as interconnected stories.”
from the catalogue

Start with Night's Master →

DarwathSeries

series7 books1982

Fantasy, dark in tone, set in secondary world.

“Darwath begins with two modern-day Californians pulled through a portal into a dying medieval world under siege from the Dark, shape-shifting monsters that hunt by night and are driving civilization underground.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Time of the Dark →

WinterlandsSeries

series7 books1986

About dragons.

“Once there, they learn Gareth is the crown prince, acting against his father's wishes, and that the dragon Morkeleb the Black is only one thread in a web that includes a sorceress with a grip on the king.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dragonsbane →

Kingdom of the Wicked (Kerri Maniscalco)Series

series6 books2020

Romantasy.

“Kerri Maniscalco's trilogy follows Emilia, a Sicilian witch whose twin sister is murdered by a serial killer targeting witches, forcing her into an uneasy bargain with Wrath, one of the seven princes of Hell, to hunt the culprit.”
from the catalogue

Start with Kingdom of the Wicked →

The Demon CycleUniverse

universe18 books2008

Epic fantasy.

“When the sun goes down, the ground breathes out murder.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Painted Man →

includes Demon Cycle, The Nightfall Saga

Brak the BarbarianSeries

series16 books1963

completed

Sword and sorcery, adventurous in tone, about quests.

“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
from the catalogue

Start with Brak the Barbarian →

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