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Dark Emu
Dark Emu is a 2014 book by Australian writer Bruce Pascoe arguing that Aboriginal Australians practiced agriculture and lived in villages before European colonization, drawing on explorers' journals.
Dark fantasy
Dark fantasy: fantasy subgenre blending horror elements with fantastic settings; coined variously by Bennett, Grant, and Wagner; distinct from grimdark; spans Berserk, Elric, Sandman, Dark Souls, Ravenloft.
Dark Heart of the Night
Dark Heart of the Night (French: L'Intérieur de la nuit) is a 2005 debut novel by Cameroonian-French writer Léonora Miano, set in a fictional central African country.
Dark Matter (prose anthologies)
Dark Matter is a series of speculative fiction anthologies edited by Sheree R. Thomas collecting science fiction, fantasy, and horror by writers of African descent; the 2000 first volume won the World Fantasy Award and a sequel, Reading the Bones, followed in 2004.
Dark Nights: Death Metal
Dark Nights: Death Metal is a 2020–2021 seven-issue DC Comics event by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, sequel to Dark Nights: Metal, featuring the Batman Who Laughs, Perpetua, Wonder Woman, twelve tie-in one-shots, and Justice League #53-57.
Dark Nights: Metal
Dark Nights: Metal is DC Comics' 2017–2018 six-issue crossover by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo in which Barbatos and seven evil Batman variants from the Dark Multiverse invade Earth-0, defeated by the Justice League using Tenth Metal.
Dark Places (2015 film)
Dark Places is a 2015 American-British-French crime mystery film directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, and Chloë Grace Moretz, adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel.
Dark romance
Dark romance is a romance fiction subgenre defined by darker themes, morally grey characters, taboo relationships, and uneven power dynamics. Emerging in 2010s self-publishing and boosted by BookTok and Haunting Adeline (2021), it drove US romance print sales up 24% in 2025.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay's 2004 Doubleday debut thriller, introduces serial-killing Miami blood analyst Dexter Morgan; it won the 2005 Dilys Award and inspired Dexter season one.
Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's 1940 political novel (German original "Rubaschow"), portrays Old Bolshevik Rubashov's interrogation and confession during Stalin's show trials; lost German manuscript rediscovered 2015, retranslated 2019.
Darkover series
The Darkover series is a science fantasy sequence by Marion Zimmer Bradley, begun in 1958, set on a lost colony world ruled by telepathic feudal families.
Darna
Darna is the Filipina superheroine created by Mars Ravelo and Nestor Redondo, debuting as Varga in Bulaklak in 1947 and as Darna in Pilipino Komiks on May 13, 1950; alter ego Narda transforms by swallowing a magical stone, spanning film and TV.
Darraðarljóð
Darraðarljóð is an eleven-stanza Old Norse poem, preserved only in Njáls saga, in which twelve valkyries weave the outcome of the 1014 battle of Clontarf.
Darth Plagueis
Darth Plagueis, also known as Hego Damask II, is a fictional Dark Lord of the Sith in Star Wars, master of Darth Sidious, who could create life and cheat death.
Das Marien-Leben
Das Marien-Leben (The Life of Mary) is a cycle of thirteen German poems on the Virgin Mary that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in a week at Duino in January 1912.
Dasakumaracharitra
Dasakumaracharitra (Daśakumāracarita) is a Sanskrit prose romance attributed to the poet Daṇḍin, in which ten exiled princes recount their adventures; a Telugu translation by Ketana around 1250 made it a classic.
Dasakumaracharitramu
Dasakumaracharitramu (దశకుమారచరిత్రము) is a Telugu verse rendering of Dandin's Sanskrit romance about ten young princes, made by Ketana in the 13th century and counted the first katha kavya in Telugu.
Dasarathi Satakamu
Dasarathi Satakamu (దాశరథీ శతకము) is a 17th-century Telugu devotional shataka in praise of Rama, composed by Kancherla Gopanna, the saint-poet known as Bhakta Ramadasu of Bhadrachalam.
Dashakumaracharita
The Dashakumaracharita (Daśakumāracarita) is a Sanskrit prose romance (gadyakāvya) by Dandin, dated to the late seventh or early eighth century, telling how ten young men separated by fate reunite and recount their adventures.
Dasham Skandh
Dasham Skandh (દશમ સ્કંધ) is the tenth canto of the Shrimad Bhagavata Purana, narrating Krishna's birth and childhood, retold in verse by Bhalan and Premānand.
Dast-e-Saba
Dast-e-Saba (دستِ صبا) is the second poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, published in 1952 and written largely during his imprisonment in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.
Dastan-e-Amir Hamza
Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (داستانِ امیر حمزہ) is an epic Urdu tale of fantasy and adventure built loosely around Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.
Đất nước
Đất nước is a Vietnamese lyric-epic poem by Nguyễn Đình Thi, begun in 1948 during the resistance war against France and celebrated for its closing lines.
Đất rừng phương Nam
Đất rừng phương Nam ("The Land and Forest of the South") is a Vietnamese children's novel by Đoàn Giỏi, first published in 1957, following the boy An through southern Vietnam.
Data Tutashkhia
Data Tutashkhia (დათა თუთაშხია) is a novel by the Georgian writer Chabua Amirejibi, his most famous work, set in Georgia at the turn of the 20th century.
Datang Sanzang Qujing Shihua
Datang Sanzang Qujing Shihua (大唐三藏取經詩話), also titled Xindiao Datang Sanzang Fashi Qujing Ji, is an anonymous Song-era verse-and-prose narrative of Xuanzang's westward journey to fetch Buddhist scriptures.
Date A Live (デート・ア・ライブ)
Date A Live (デート・ア・ライブ) is a Japanese light novel series by Koushi Tachibana and Tsunako, 22 volumes 2011–2020, about Shido Itsuka sealing Spirits by dating them; adapted into five anime seasons, manga, and Yen Press English editions.
Đau thương
Đau thương (Thơ Điên) is a 1938 poetry collection by the Vietnamese poet Hàn Mặc Tử, unpublished in his lifetime, a central work of the Thơ mới movement.
Daughter of the Empire
Daughter of the Empire (1987) by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts, book one of the Empire Trilogy set on Kelewan in the Riftwar universe, follows seventeen-year-old Mara of the Acoma as Ruling Lady surviving the Game of the Council against the Minwanabi.
Dausi
Dausi is the epic cycle of the Soninke people of West Africa, an oral tradition preserving the legendary history of Wagadu, the Ghana Empire, most of which has been lost.