Dark Fantasy Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Shen Tao
- Dark Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2026
Debut author Shen Tao introduces readers to the lush, deadly world of The Poet Empress, a sweeping, epic and intimate fantasy. Wei Yin is desperate. After the fifth death of...
- by R.F. Kuang
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2025
Two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of...
- by Kamilah Cole
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Romantic Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2025
A modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist. Warren University has stood amongst the ivy elite for centuries, built on the bones―and forbidden magic―of its most prized BIPOC students…hiding the...
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson. Veycosi, in training...
- by M.L. Wang
- Dark Fantasy, Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2024
For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted...
- Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Fantasy, Fiction, Folklore Fiction
- Publication Year: 2024
A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed. At the northern edge...