Dark Fantasy recommendations, need some inspiration

[Yog-Sothoth]

I'm currently writing a dark fantasy type of story, and its going well, but I always write better when I immerse myself in similar literature. I need something that is dark, has some romance, maybe a hero/damsel type of relation where the female eventuallly holds her own. I grew up with Buffy and Angel, and look for something similar.

Other mediums such as films, comics are welcome.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Put aside your childish things. (Buffy, Angel, comics)
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Gene Wolfe -- "The War Hound and the World's Pain," "The Soldier of the Mist." "The Shadow of the Torturer." (et al)


Michael Moorcock The Elric Series.

 

[j d worthington]

Put aside your childish things. (Buffy, Angel, comics)
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Gene Wolfe -- "The War Hound and the World's Pain," "The Soldier of the Mist." "The Shadow of the Torturer." (et al)


Michael Moorcock The Elric Series.

Err... The War Hound and the World's Pain is also by Moorcock, not Wolfe... it is the first of the von Bek set (which also includes The City in the Autumn Stars, which also just might fit with what the poster is looking for....). There are also other fantasies by Moorcock which have many of these elements: The Eternal Champion, The Dragon in the Sword, the Corum books, the Dorian Hawkmoon set, perhaps even Blood or The War Amongst the Angels. (The Rose pretty much holds her own in just about anything, and Moorcock has several other very strong female characters as well.)

 

[Alex The G and T]

"Err... The War Hound and the World's Pain is also by Moorcock, not Wolfe..."

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D'oh. };-}

Long time since I read that one...

 

[paranoid marvin]

Doesn't get much darker than the Thomas Covenant Chronicles. Not at all like Buffy though!

 

[Yog-Sothoth]

Alex lol, I will never lose the child within me, it would be the end of the world imo lol.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will look them up.

ps, if I may expand the request, is there anything with a biker-theme/road-trip type of fantasy (involving small towns, isolated petrol-stations/dinners, vast stretches of highways and roads, etc) you may have encountered during your reading?

 

[beenorthern]

For road trip fantasy, try Roger Zelazny's *Roadmarks*, Maybe *Gypsies* by Robert Charles Wilson.