Dark Love Books

On the topic of Dark Love I found mostly poetry collections, but a couple of novels as well, one I think looks good is Devil’s Decent 1: Purgatory by Claudia D Christian. Julian Douglas is a vampire, he has found a new pet in a woman obsessed with the night named Lily. Julian loves Liliy and Lily loves him. Can love work between a psychotic vampire and an equally-unstable girl? Only time will tell.  I read up a little on Claudia D Christian, she categorizes her work as dark romance and likes to write about love/hate relationships in the horror genre. As she puts it: “I see beauty in pain, suffering and uniqueness. I see ugliness in bliss…joy…perfection.”

Another novel is Beyond the Darkening by Kerry Allen. Amanda Tessler is working undercover in the  society for the preservation of humanity which is dedicated to ridding the world of vampires.  One day a vampire named Nathan whom she once loved and was dumped by, comes into her lab after being tortured by the preservation of humanity. Nathan has no reason to believe that the woman he once jilted will help him and Amanda can’t blow her cover. Despite his fears that he will be destroyed by Amanda, Nathan thinks that he may still love her.

Logos by Cheryl Anne Gardner is a novel that includes heartbreak, pain, acceptance and redemption through love. It tells the story of an immortal being named Caline. Caline looks like a normal woman but she is actually one of the four horseman. She is death and this novella follows her life from ancient rome to the present day where she has fallen in love with a schizophrenic artist. Caline has been in love before but love between death and a mortal never seems to work out.

Those were the only three novels that I found that fit into the dark love genre. There are quite a few paranormal romance novels out there that I can mention but they seem to lean more towards romance and really aren’t very dark. I did find two poetry collections that fit the dark love topic one is Blood and Romance: Poetry for the Hopeless Romantic in Every Horror Fan by Anthony Avina. I couldn’t find a lot of information on this one except that it includes poems about tragedy, love and horror and some of the author’s other works include I was a Teenage Zombie and One Foot in the Grave.

The other poetry collection is Dark Poetry from a Gothic View by Rev. Magus M. Douglas Hockett. This collection includes poems on tragic love, depression, suicide, war and betrayal. This one sounds very depressing but I felt it fit the topic so I wanted to mention it.

Lastly, I wanted to mention Hungry for Your Love an Anthology of Zombie Romance edited by Lori Perkins.  Stories of love and zombies, I can’t think of anything more dark. This anthology includes stories by Brian Keene,  Kilt Kilpatrick and Jan Kozlowski who comments on this blog regularly and has a guest post coming up. Jan’s story is called First Love Never Dies and tells the tale of a couple of cops trying to take down a zombie pimp and rescue an old high school love. Another story in this anthology is Everyone I Love is Dead by Elizabeth Coldwell about a man who comes back from the grave to see his old love but finds that she has moved on to a new lover.