I believe Pulmonaria, Epimedium are two good shade and deer resistant perennials. Somewhere I have a list from a nursery in PA. Of course if the deer population is too dense, they will eat almost anything.

ferns, digitalis, delphiniums, hellebores, jacks-in-the-pulpit.

Epimediums, hellebores, brunneras, polemoniums, ferns, lamiums, grasses (Hakonechloa macra 'aureola', Chasmanthium latifolium, Calamagrostis brachytrica all grow in shade), cimicifugas, many of the spring ephemerals (though not trillium),digitalis, geranium maccrorhyzum (though not most of the others).

Deer ate my delphs, so I wouldn't say they are deer resistant (sorry). I've found they don't eat fuzzy plants often. Thorny, yes, but they don't seem to like the fuzzies. So I would say artemesia, dusty miller, stachys, etc. Also grasses. Oh! And Cleome (though they want sun).

Hi, ground cover-lily of the valley, myrtle. Foxglove (bi- & perennial), primrose, virginia bluebells, columbine, trillium, blood root, mayapple, geranium sanguineum, are some.

We are having great luck with Lungwort "Margery Fish". Very pretty blue flowers right now. Last year they did not bother the Plumbago (Ceratostigma plubaginoides) but this year it did not come up so go figure. Last year they ate the Columbine but not this year. Maybe it was rabbits, because the coyotes and foxes have thinned the rabbits out noticeably this year. Really, the one I can solidly recommend for shade, looks, and deer is the Lungwort.

-Don