If Mark Lawrence rewrote Frozen…
Overlord
Is Frozen too cute and cuddly for you? Feel cheated by Disney’s lack of blood and horror? Think it would be for the best if Mark Lawrence, Joe Abercrombie, George…
dark fantasy
Sword of the North by Luke Scull
Charlie Hopkins
This is definitely some high quality grimdark, with a brilliant cast of flawed and complex protagonists that you cannot help but become invested in. The major story careens between Brodar…
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
Richard Bray
Half the World continues the story of Yarvi, now the “deeply cunning” minister of Gettland, but rather than continuing Yarvi’s story through his own eyes, as Abercrombie did in Half…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Seven Deadly Sins
Xiagan
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Taboos
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…
Dear Grimdark… Guest Post by Sam Sykes
Sam Sykes
As most of you know, Sam Sykes has a new book out this week, The City Stained Red. We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on a copy and…
On The Trail Of Evil – A Look At Villainous Main Characters
Aaron Miles
The skies have darkened and night has come to the world. Thieves and assassins skulk in every shadow, waiting for their chance to strike. Ruthless politicians claw their way up…
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
James Davies
Around a week or two ago I had the imponderable pleasure of meeting Joe Abercrombie at Fantasy-Faction’s Grim Gathering. I was reading Best Served Cold at the time, my Abraham…
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
What Half a King does is remind us that it’s not the violence or occasional profanity that has made Abercrombie such a tour de force – it’s his perceptive ability…
The State of Fantasy: Videogame News from the Scrying-Glass of E3
Nick Clark
Fantasy has always been a salient feature in the videogame landscape, right down to the essential footprint of guiding an idealised persona through an imagined world. The hallmarks of fantasy…
Sworn in Steel by Douglas Hulick
This review contains spoilers for Among Thieves. Read with caution if you have yet to finish the first book. It’s no surprise that Douglas Hulick’s Sworn in Steel, the second…
The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb (spoiler free)
Lew Kelly
For Robin Hobb, the power to construct such masterful, compelling stories must be innate. With thirteen books set in the Farseer world already written and the next instalment due in…