File:The_Dark_Tower_–_The_Gunslinger_(1982)_front_cover,_first_edition.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata facts
Show 2 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Dark fantasy
- Commons category
- Dark fantasy
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The cover of The Gunslinger, the first volume of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Dark fantasy or fantasy horror is a subgenre of literary, artistic, and cinematic fantasy works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror elements with one or other of the standard formulas of fantasy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dark fantasy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 38 languages
- Español
- Français
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Asturian
- Azerbaijani
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bangla
- Basque
- be_x_old
- Belarusian
- Breton
- Catalan
- Central Kurdish
Show 19 more
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0