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A mythic, hardboiled descent into a surreal world split between science and magic, led by an antihero consumed by vengeance. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Jack of Shadows.
- brooding
- surreal
- shadowy
- atmospheric
- 01
Creatures of light and darkness
Roger Zelazny · 1969
A hallucinatory, poetic fever dream where Egyptian gods wage cosmic war across the stars.
- 02
A Night in the Lonesome October
Roger Zelazny · 1993
A cozy, clever, and delightfully macabre countdown to Halloween told by the best boy in Victorian London.
- 03
Cugel saga
Jack Vance · 2000
A delightfully cynical romp through a decaying world, led by fantasy's most eloquent and unrepentant scoundrel.
- 04
Tales of the Dying Earth
Jack Vance · 2000
A darkly comic, baroque stroll through the decadent twilight of a dying world where magic and cynicism reign supreme.
- 05
God Stalk
P. C. Hodgell
A delightfully chaotic plunge into a labyrinthine city of thieves and thousand-faced gods.
- 06
Morningstar
David A. Gemmell
A gritty, blood-soaked ballad of reluctant heroes and dark magic, where cynical rogues are forced to forge their own legends.
- 07
The death of the necromancer
Martha Wells · 1998
A shadowy, gaslamp-lit romp where a gentleman thief's quest for vengeance collides with ancient, creeping horrors.
- 08
Gather, darkness!
Fritz Leiber · 1976
A tense, shadowy plunge into a post-apocalyptic dark age where science masquerades as divine magic and rebellion sparks a holy war.
- 09
Doom of the Darksword
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
A classic, party-based epic fantasy adventure centered on a brooding outcast wielding world-shattering power against a dogmatic empire.
- 10
Sorceress of the Witch World
Andre Norton
A mythic, shadowed journey of a vulnerable magic-user reclaiming her power in an ancient and perilous world.
- 11
When Gravity Fails
George Effinger
A neon-drenched, hardboiled descent into a futuristic Middle Eastern underworld where identity is just another commodity to be bought, sold, or stolen.
- 12
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe · 1980
A dense, dreamlike wandering through a dying world where memory is a labyrinth and nothing is exactly as it seems.
