Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

There are so many unique storytelling genres that dominate the anime industry, some of which subversively blend together competing sensibilities, like dark fantasy. Dark fantasy is a specific style of ...

Shadow & Bone has a universe that, in theory, is quite interesting: Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) is an orphan who discovers she has a rare ability that could save her country, divided by a dark ...

The subgenre can feature elements of fantasy, historical fiction, mystery, mythology and more By day, Marianne Gordon works as an editor at an academic publisher, and by night she loves to write ...

Dark fantasy is a subgenre that leans just slightly more into the realm of horror. Rather than outright scaring the audience, a dark fantasy might include aspects that unnerve or gross out the ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...