Make it Darker: Suggestions for fans of Dark Fantasy and Horror

Not everyone is thrilled by the adventures of Superman or stories about the blind lawyer by day turned brutal vigilante by night. Everyone has different tastes. In this post, I've included some recommendations for the people that want something a little darker. These are a few suggestions for Dark Fantasy and Horror lovers. Of course, this just scratches the surface. The opportunities are truly endless.

Dark Fantasy

• Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman - Taking place in the year 1602, superheroes start being born and growing up in this era. They start to realize something is wrong in the universe and have to figure out how to fix it while also hiding their powers and blending in to avoid being labeled a "witchbreed" and gain the attention of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI. (Image Credit: Cover Art by Scott McKowen & Marvel Comics)
  
  
• Fables by Bill Willingham - Characters from fairy tales and folklore find themselves displaced from their homelands and have to settle in a community within New York called Fabletown. Centuries later these characters live among us in modern-day New York where Fabletown's Sherrif, Bigby Wolf (aka Big Bad Wolf) finds himself in the middle of intense crimes, conspiracies, and more, all involving fairytale creatures. This comic also inspired the video game "The Wolf Among Us". (Image Credit: Cover Art by James Jean & Vertigo/DC Comics)
  
  
• Saga by Bryan K. Vaughn & Fiona Staples - Two lovers from long-warring extraterrestrial races, Alana and Marko, fleeing authorities from both sides of a galactic war as they struggle to care for their newborn daughter, Hazel, who occasionally narrates the series. (Image Credit: Cover Art by Fiona Staples & Image Comics)

Horror 

• The Batman Who Laughs by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo - Half Batman. Half Joker. Combining everything that makes the Caped Crusader a hero and the Clown Prince a killer, the Batman Who Laughs is the Dark Multiverse's deadliest criminal mastermind. Now he's come to Gotham to turn Bruce Wayne's home into an incubator for evil. And he hasn't come alone. (Image Credit: Cover Art by Mark Simpson aka Jock & DC Comics)
  
  
• Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera - When the children of Archer's Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to see what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it MUST be done. (Image Credit: Cover Art by  Werther Dell'Edera & BOOM! Studios)
  
  
• Hellblazer by Jamie Delano, Garth Ennis, and more - John Constantine, the main character of Hellblazer, was an occult detective who did morally questionable things, arguably for the greater good. He usually triumphed through guile, deceit, and misdirection, but often made more enemies in the process than he defeated. While sometimes striving for the good of mankind, Constantine was often manipulative and a dangerous person to have as a friend, as the lives and souls of those around him became perilously involved in his misadventures. (Image Credit: Cover Art by John Ridgway & Vertigo/DC Comics)
  
  
• Marvel Zombies by Robert Kirkman - Earth has been overrun. Packs of zombies wander the streets in undead hordes, feeding on live flesh. But those bitten don't lose their powers. Welcome to the dystopian world of Marvel Zombies, a reality where not even Earth's heroes are safe from the takeover! (Image Credit: Cover Art by Arthur Suydam & Marvel Comics)
  
  
• Red Room by Ed Piskor - Aided by the anonymous dark web and nearly untraceable cryptocurrency, a criminal subculture has emerged. It livestreams murders as entertainment. Who are the killers? Who are the victims? Who is paying to watch? How to stop it? (Image Credit: Cover Art by Ed Piskor & Fantagraphics)