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Nocturnal by Clio Evans
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI was his toxic obsession. He was my sadistic monster.Nora:When I took a job at St. Thorns university as a psychology professor, I encountered something—someone—unexplainable. Fascinating. And deadly.Alec Briar had the eyes of a killer.He’s a botanist who would rather rot in his greenhouse alone than deal with students, professors, or me... -
![The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis]()
The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSomeone is killing Britain's warlocks.Twenty-two years after the Second World War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Great Britain and the USSR. For decades, the warlocks have been all that stand between the British Empire and the Soviet Union-- a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel... -
![Hollow City by Ransom Riggs]()
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 76 ratingsThis second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises...Categorized as:
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![The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon]()
The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsD-Day is threatened, but one man could rip the heart of the Nazis -- with his bare claws....He is Michael Gallatin, master spy, lover -- and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury, he proved his talents against Rommel in Africa. Now he faces his most delicate, dangerous mission: to unravel the secret Nazi plan known as Iron Fist...Categorized as:
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![Magistrates of Hell by Barbara Hambly]()
Magistrates of Hell by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJames Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking . . . October, 1912... -
![The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells]()
The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien..Categorized as:
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![Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice]()
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsThis is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life... -
![Bloodcircle by P.N. Elrod]()
Bloodcircle by P.N. Elrod
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Critics are thirsting for "Vampire Files"...An entertaining blend of detective story and the supernatural". Science Fiction Chronicle"A blend of the hard-boiled detective novel and the vampire tale.. -
![The Satanic Mill: Evil Lurks Within by Otfried Preußler]()
The Satanic Mill: Evil Lurks Within by Otfried Preußler
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn seventeenth-century Germany, a boy desperately wants to escape from a school for Black Magic where he is held captive by demonic forces...Categorized as:
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![Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones]()
Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Chilling . . . A neo-gothic treat; original, richly imagined, and powerfully told." --The Guardian (UK) for The String Diaries See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town...Categorized as:
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![The Mammoth Book of The Best Of Best New Horror by Stephen Jones, Brian Lumley]()
The Mammoth Book of The Best Of Best New Horror by Stephen Jones, Brian Lumley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis twentieth anniversary showcase includes a single story from each of the Best New Horror annual anthologies.Contents: 1989. No sharks in the Med / Brian Lumley --1990. The man who drew cats / Michael Marshall Smith --1991. The same in any language / Ramsey Campbell --1992. Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death / Christopher Fowler --1993. Mefisto in onyx / Harlan Ellison --1994... -
![The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu]()
The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlma Katsu, the visionary author of The Fervor, The Hunger, and The Deep, brings readers a terrifying short story about monsters among men—and the thin lines that divide them.Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother... -
![The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers]()
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 30 ratings'The Drawing of the Dark is not only one of my favourite Tim Powers novels, it's simply one of my favourite novels. The seamless and seemingly effortless blend of action and humour, the wonderful characters, the rich settings, the brilliant plot - all of it is perfect' James P...Categorized as:
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![Lifeblood by P.N. Elrod]()
Lifeblood by P.N. Elrod
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJack Fleming was an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago until he got shot by an unknown assassin, bitten by his vampire girlfriend, and became one of the undead. Now, this nice-guy nosferatu has a bunch of crazy vampire hunters on his trail armed with crosses, silver bullets, and sharp wooden stakes... -
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![The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers]()
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBrendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time...Categorized as:
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![Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss]()
Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsRed as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy tales, who upon discovering a ragged woman outside the castle during a storm, takes her in--certain she’s a princess in disguise... -
![Blood Maidens by Barbara Hambly]()
Blood Maidens by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe new ‘James Asher’ vampire novel from the best-selling author - It’s 1911. War is coming, and according to one of the vampires of St. Petersburg, the Kaiser is trying to recruit vampires. James Asher, Oxford don and formerly on His Majesty’s Secret Service, is forced to team up again with his vampire partner Don Simon Ysidro for a journey to the subarctic Russian capital... -
![Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly]()
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition can be found here. At the turn of the twentieth century, a former spy is called into service to hunt down a vampire killer...Once a spy for Queen Victoria, James Asher has fought for Britain on every continent, using his quick wits to protect the Empire at all costs. After years of grueling service, he marries and retires to a simple academic’s life at Oxford...Categorized as:
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![The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus]()
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIt is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not for Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, she doesn’t know how she’d make it through the day... -
![The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice]()
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsLibrarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat... -
![Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy by Dennis Detwiller]()
Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy by Dennis Detwiller
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThule, the Nazi Atlantis, legendary home of Aryan superbeings that ruled prehistory. Thule was supposed to be a Nazi myth, but when a defector from the SS occult sciences division, the Karotechia, brings proof of Thule's reality, Delta Green's course is clear: the alien city and its technological and occult secrets must be denied to the enemy at all costs...Categorized as:
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![Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber]()
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy:What if half the world’s population—the female half—practiced witchcraft and kept it a secret from men? Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers that his wife, Tansy, has put his research in the field of “Conjure Magic” into practice for the sake of protecting him from other spell-casting faculty wives wishing to further their... -
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Lasher by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsThe Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, is another species altogether and now in the corporeal body, represents an incalcuable threat to the Mayfairs... -
![Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente]()
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsKoschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations... -
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![Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand]()
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLike all new students, Sweeney moves with caution at Washington, D.C.'s University of the Archangel and St. John the Divine. It is a strange place of brooding shrines and gleaming towers, guarded by stone angels. For Sweeney, college is a time to experiment with sex, to explore new friendships. It is a time of freedom and discovery--until she makes the wrong discovery... -
![Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin]()
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWhen struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade... -
![Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury]()
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 70 ratingsOne of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin...Categorized as:
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![The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers]()
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWorld Fantasy Award Winner Michael Crawford is forced to flee when discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed. Yet it is not the revengeful townspeople he fears but the deadly embrace of the malignant spirit that is claiming him as her bridegroom.Crawford will not travel alone; soon he is aided by his fellow victims, the greatest poets of his day—Byron, Keats, and Shelley...Categorized as:
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![Moon Dance by S.P. Somtow]()
Moon Dance by S.P. Somtow
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet against a brilliant panorama of European expansion into the West in the late 1800s, Moon Dance is the horrifying tale of the illegitimate son of the Count von Bachl-Wolfling, leader of a pack of Viennese werewolves, and of the boy's all-too-human governess, Speranza. The pack has decided to emigrate to America, in search of wild lands and unsuspicious human prey...Categorized as:
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![Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King]()
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsFive interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation...Categorized as:
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![Carnacki, The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson]()
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCarnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson... -
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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Hope Hodgson's Carnacki is an extremely unusual detective. Where other sleuths specialise in tracking down villains in this world, Carnacki's talent is for combat with the evil, unearthly forces of the Outside. In this volume the reader can join him on nine chilling supernatural hunts into the icy realms of otherworldly horror...'The Thing Invisible.''The Gateway of the Monster...Categorized as:
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![Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock]()
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping primal fears and desires subdued through the millennia...Categorized as:
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![Taltos by Anne Rice]()
Taltos by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsRice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilization part human and part of wholly mysterious origins, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt... -
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![Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis]()
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in betweenRaybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him...Categorized as:
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![Bloodlist by P.N. Elrod]()
Bloodlist by P.N. Elrod
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJack Fleming, ace reporter, always had a weak spot for strange ladies. And he certainly should have listened to the one who said she was a vampire! Because when a thug blasts several bullets through Jack's back, he does not die--and discovers that he is a vampire as well! First in an exciting new vampire adventure series. Original... -
![Anno Dracula by Kim Newman]()
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIt is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club as they strive to solve the mystery of the Ripper murders...Categorized as:
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![A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington]()
A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 16 ratings1918. A First World War battlefield becomes the cosmic battleground for two vampires, as Karl von Wultendorf struggles to free himself from his domineering maker, Kristian.1923. Charlotte Neville watches as her father, a Cambridge professor, fills Parkland Hall with guests for her sister Madeleine's 18th birthday party... -
![The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice]()
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsIn the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel... -
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Pandora by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsAnne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora... -
![Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber]()
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMiddle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave... -
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The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA mysterious house harbors an unimaginable secret. . . .It’s wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they’ve recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. In that mysterious house there still lurks the spirit of Jacob, the previous owners’ son, who died by drowning...Categorized as:
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![Children of the Night by Dan Simmons]()
Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAn evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons. Children of the Night will take you to a place that no one knows—yet all of us fear.In a desolate orphanage in post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion—and flourishes rather than dies...Categorized as:
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![Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell]()
Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHot Lead, Cold Iron is the first novel in a brand-new fantasy detective series that will appeal to fans of Rivers of London and The Dresden Files Chicago, 1932. Mick Oberon may look like just another private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's packing a wand. Oberon's used to solving supernatural crimes, but the latest one's extra weird...Categorized as:
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![Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice]()
Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsSERVANT OF THE BONES is Anne Rice's new electrifying novel, with a hero as mesmerising, seductive and ambivalent as the vampire Lestat. Azriel is a restless Jewish spirit, born almost 2500 years ago in Babylon, who can be called forth by whoever holds and understands the arcane mystery of the casket of golden bones he is tied to... -
![Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice]()
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsIn the fifth Vampire Chronicle, Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat like no other mortal ever has, and he cannot get her out of his visions. At the same time, he is increasingly aware that the Devil knows who he is and wants something from him... -
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The Inheritor by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling fantasy and science fiction author comes Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Inheritor. Leslie Barnes has just bought her first home, overlooking San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. It seems the perfect place for Leslie and her sister, a brilliant young musician...but as soon as they move in, a plague of dark events begins, unsettling both women... -
![The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice]()
The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsIn a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone... -
![Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica by Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Engstrom]()
Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica by Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Engstrom
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA sexy new repackaging of the extremely popular anthology of vampire erotica, edited by acclaimed author Poppy Z. Brite.The classic horror tale is about fear. But in the last few years a new literature of the macabre has arisen, one that goes deeper than horror, beyond fear, to explore our darkest, most intimate hungers. The ones even lovers are forbidden to share... -
![The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas]()
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological — rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder...
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