Recommend me your Dark Fantasy/Horror Comic. Mythology elements preferred!

[ameliori]

Hello! My name is Ame and I'm new to Tapas! I would like to find common creators who make stories with the elements I like! There's just not enough Dark Fantasy out there in my opinion, and I'm craving for some really good ones!

If your story has 2 or more of these elements that float my boat, I will read them and give you feedback:

• Mythology. Gods/Goddesses/Divines
• Affable Monsters / Supernatural
• Demons/Angels
• Witchcraft/Wicca
• Rituals
• Dark or Twisted Fairytales or retellings
• Royalty. Prince, princess, queens, kings
• Victorian era/Gothic

Genre could be anything. From Comedy to Romance to Thriller, as long they have those elements. Mature content okay. LGBTQ content okay.

Nevertheless, please do not reply if your story falls under these genres (no offense intended. it's just not what I want to read atm.):

• Heavy Action/Martial Arts/Fighting These tire me out! Swordplay is okay, but I'm not into training montages, leveling up, competitions, etc.
• Science Fiction. Not my cup of tea, sorry!
• Gaming. I don't know enough about gaming to give a good opinion. Isekais are fine, as long as they feature the content I put up on my list.
• High Fantasy/Adventure. DnD/Lord of the Rings type stories are a little too much for me.

Anyway, I'm really excited to meet you all. I'm sure I'm not the only one in the dark, deprived murder corner! Let's band together and conquer the world lol!

[julipow]

Welcome! It's always nice to see new creators joining in! I definitely have to agree with you and say that Dark Fantasy doesn't get as much love as it should, there are so many amazing works out there that showcase some amazing dark fantasy vibes!

But since you mentioned you are interested in finding new works, my novel "Essence of Life" might be interesting for you! It's more of a Mystery - Dark Fantasy with minor elements of Drama, Comedy and Horror (I like to throw the reader onto a rollercoaster of emotions I feel like )
Essence of Life actually has more than two elements than what you are looking for with lots of Mythology, Greek Gods (& Mythology), Japanese Gods (& Mythology), Supernatural beings, demons and angels as the main theme focuses on Heaven and Hell, Rituals (later on), royalty and even the victorian era will have some minor play in the future of my novel. So, there's plenty of potential interest if you wish to check it out. A fair warning though, it does have quite some gorey and angsty scenes in the future. (You can blame most of that on my main antagonist. Smh.)

Either way, if you are interested it would be an honor if you could check it out! I hope you will enjoy reading it if you chose to and thank you for making such a great thread!

Here's the link to my novel:

Essence of Life | Tapas

[KhanSpring]

Hey and welcome to Tapas!
This is my novel, Daystar. It follows the life of four royal/noble siblings, one of which is a witch.

Dennica (Daystar) | Tapas

[DaphnePanda]

I feel like my comic might toe the line of what you're looking for. It does have three of the elements that you listed: Mythology, affable monsters, and royalty.

However, it is a drama/action so there might be too much action in it for your tastes? It's like... 2 parts action for 10 parts drama. The story is still pretty early in it's run (despite how many updates are out. I've only just finished introducing the main cast a few updates ago ), but it'll gradually shift towards more dark drama as it progresses. No hard feelings if it doesn't suit you.

Lycoris Rising | Tapas

Also, not my story, but "Litany to Stars and Other Stories" by @Ramonkey might be up your alley. Here's the link to that one:

Litanies to Stars and Other Stories | Tapas

[Freemints30]

My novel is very non-traditional fantasty, has an unusual version of angels and religion..so that's something ..it gets very dark later on and Im about to edit the hell out of the first few chapters so there would be massive change (not in content but in writing. My grammar needs work in the beginning and I now have someone to help me out)

Smoke and Murders | Tapas

[Iridium]

Well, I consider mine a bit of Dark Fantasy; there is magic and supernatural in a more somber aspect. You'll be able to find much of pre-Islamic folklore merged in a fictitious world, which I hope it's to your liking:

Menmar (EN) | Tapas

Menmar (PTBR) | Tapas

A new update will come around next week ^^

[Llyrel]

Hey there and welcome! Agreed, lol, dark fantasy definitely needs more love on here.

My comic doesn't strictly feature mythology and gods/goddesses, but it does fall in quite a bunch of the other categories you've mentioned. It's a supernatural mystery/horror featuring a large cast of wizards & witches from different faiths/backgrounds (a couple of them are wiccan!) who will be facing a group of demon worshippers. Rituals are definitely going to be involved :'D also, although the story is set in the modern age, there's a goth vampire... not sure if it counts, lol.

You can find it here:

The Emergency Coven | Tapas

[surenlicious]

Hey, my webcomic is a series of short comics loosely following the Veda legend of Vritra, and taking place in the Kingdom of Jade. So lots of Royalty OCs, but honestly its my novel that is the star of the show. I made this webcomic to lure people in to read the actual story that is in book form. I've further developed my own mythology which is just too much to explain here.

Fragments of Jade Kingdoms | Tapas

[All_and_None]

My comic draws from mythology themes during Victorian era Germany. It has a gothic mood and features Royalty of the time. Hope you like it

Ubermensch | Tapas

[RosesnWater]

Hello! Thought I might as well suggest mine which has: affable monster (although he doesn’t seem that way right now), is a twisted fairytale (beauty and the beast), has princes, kings, queens, is a little dark, and focuses mainly on the fantasy/romance, and a little of the horror. Does have some lgbt+ content altho wish I had included more.

Either way, thanks for making this thread, I’m excited to see what else gets posted here as I also love the aspects you pointed out

Netvor: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast | Tapas

[JeanGuillet]

This sounds like whatever it is I'm doing. Mythology, yeah, angels demons gods and other things...retellings, witches, gothic, affable monsters? I think they prefer 'misunderstood'. the other comics in this thread look like great reads! thanks for this.

https://tapas.io/series/chateaugrief

[Chiaroscuro]

Do you do webtoons too? Sorry I've been meaning to convert to Tapas but I just can't manage 2 platforms.

My web comic has most of the elements you're looking for. It deals with the stories of angels and demons from their point of view. Each story arch is set into different acts like in acts of a play, but only part of the first arch is uploaded now.

Adamantine Acts

[redstocholm]

Helo, this is my novel about Apocalyptic world. I hope you like it.

https://tapas.io/series/Last-Dance

[ameliori]

Thanks everyone for the nice recos! I'll get to you guys one by one ;3 Edit: I will give more preference to the comics though, since I draw as well

@Chiaroscuro Yep! link webtoons or tapas! I don't mind the webhost

[Eiranyx]

First of all, Welcome to Tapas! I just started not so long ago but my comic has:
- Supernatural elements(there's Vampires and brief mentions of werewolves in it)
- kinda dark themed fairytale-ish setting ( I mean it started with a guy being auctioned being rescued by a duke shrouded in mystery so...)
-Royalty
-And yes it is Victorian/Gothic style fantasy world
- It is BL, (Omegaverse and it's dark but even though, it leans more on a plot heavy, mystery solving type of thing and not the usual trope in that setting ^^)

Day Until Night | Tapas

[lynestjules]

My comic currently touches a lot of different things, but it definitely seems like it falls within the stuff you're interested in reading..

• It has prophecies.
• Gods/Goddesses aspect to it.
• Demons
• Royalty. Mainly princesses.
• It dips into comedy, fantasy, probably dark fantasy, mystery, adventure.

Basically, I'm a person who grew up watching Sailor Moon religiously, but I love horror, psychological thrillers and crime documentaries. Smush that together and you get something with layers.

Megami Shiizun | Tapas

[Chiaroscuro]

Thank you for the comment on webtoons! Seriously, it is so hard to promote a webcomic, so I really appreciate your comment!

[LWriter]

If you like Dark Fantasy, you might enjoy the first issue of my latest comic, Santa Fae! Two elf knights have to solve a murder and stop a group of villains with big plans for the city of Santa Fae! I just finished the first issue and put it on my Gumroad! But you can see the first 5 pages here as a sample ^^

Santa Fae | Tapas

[CosmicLeon]

I do have a dark fantasy, that is a bit action heavy, but I try to balance it our with lore, and character interaction. Um, I guess it is high fantasy, but it is not the Good VS Bad story line you get in dnd. So. . . I'm not sure if you will like it. But it does check off marks such as mythology, Alchemy, Witchcraft (its very subtitle so far). Lots of monsters.

Eidolon Guild of Thorns | Tapas

[slowdownbaby3]

Boldtoon now creating Original manga, Illustration, Storyboard and Comic with Japanese style. But now focus on growing our WEBTOON on Tapas application you can acces also in this link :

https://tapas.io/series/Grave-of-memories
Ongoing Project on our webtoon is "Grave of Memories" Now reach 37 Episodes
Genre : Action/Fantasy.

This is the saddest part when you are fighting for your shelter from other people's attacks. Did they all can survive on their village ?
Lets read now on tapas or webtoon.

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