16 Horrifying Thoughts Torn from the Annals of the Black Company

One of the things I love most about dark fantasy books is their cynical wisdom and fearless truth-telling.

You know the kind of book I’m talking about. The kind the world doesn’t want you to read. The kind that smells of “mystery and dark doings, of skullduggery and revenge,” as Croaker might have said.

These are the books you can be intimate with, because both author and reader are yearning to hear what you are not free to ask nor free to tell when the sun is up. And when the human heart is fr...