The Greatest Books of All Time on Darkness

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1425 And The Darkness Falls Boris Karloff 1943 British English
1757 Books of Blood Clive Barker 1984 British English
2146 The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 1912 British English
2739 Dark Night of the Soul St. John of the Cross 1578 Spanish Spanish
3211 Neverwhere Neil Gaiman 1996 British English
3510 Alone With The Horrors Ramsey Campbell 1993 British English
4257 Jack Of Shadows Roger Zelazny 1971 American English
4309 The Lurking Fear And Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1923 American English
5010 The Hungry Moon Ramsey Campbell 1986 British English
5230 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5616 Our Share of Night Mariana Enríquez 2019 Argentinian Spanish
5998 The Cipher Kathe Koja 1991 American English
6228 Shadowland Peter Straub 1980 American English
6461 Things We Lost In The Fire Mariana Enríquez 2016 Argentinian Spanish
7670 Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo 2012 American English
9372 The Haunted Hour Margaret Widdemer 1920 American English
10908 Gaspard De La Nuit Aloysius Bertrand 1842 French French
11465 Furnace Livia Llewellyn 2016 American English
12070 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
13941 The Tale Of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo 2003 American English
14983 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
15715 The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien 1954 British English
16975 Black Comedy Peter Shaffer 1965 British English
17114 The Black Company Glen Cook 1984 American English
17114 The Reddening Adam Nevill 2019 British English
17114 Book Of Night Holly Black 2022 American English
17114 The Shadow At The Bottom Of The World Thomas Ligotti 2005 American English
17114 Darkfever Karen Marie Moning 2006 American English
16990 Nightfall And Other Stories Isaac Asimov 1969 American English
17114 The Darkness Manifesto Johan Eklöf, Elizabeth DeNoma 2020 Unknown Swedish
17114 Mapping The Darkness Kenneth Miller 2023 Unknown English
17114 Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 Kentaro Miura 2019 Japanese Japanese
17114 All The Fiends Of Hell Adam Nevill British Unknown
17114 Girls Against God Jenny Hval 2018 Norwegian English