Books like 'Grendel Tales: Four Devils, One Hell'
Readers who enjoyed Grendel Tales: Four Devils, One Hell by James Robinson & Teddy Kristiansen also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Rebirth by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAfter mankind's previous victories at Portsmouth and Kielder, things begin to look hopeful, but unknown to the last human survivors is that they are about to face their worst enemy yet. Crimolok has arrived, and soon, there'll be nothing left. This is the final fight between Hell and Earth - the last battle between light and dark... -
Love and Decay 3, Episode Seven by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and the Parkers have finally rescued Page just in time for their favorite family activity- killing Zombies. When they are attacked in the middle of the night, Reagan heads out with some Parkers to protect the bungalow... -
Love and Decay 3, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Get Page back. That’s the only thing Reagan and her friends can focus on, but that is not the only problem facing them. While new allies provide valuable assistance, the outside world still threatens to tear this group apart... -
Love and Decay 3, Episode Nine by Rachel Higginson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan Willow has made a lot of enemies during her time in the Zombie Apocalypse, but one enemy stands above the rest. He has made it his mission in life to destroy her and he will stop at nothing to get his way. Matthias Allen lost his family because of Reagan and the Parkers... -
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The Stones of Angkor by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe war for survival continues. The fight for Song Island is over. Despite suffering losses, Will and his group have claimed the island as their own and achieved the safe haven they’ve longed for since The Purge. Months later, Will makes contact with another group of survivors, and travels to their base in hopes of striking an alliance and gathering much-needed medical supplies... -
Rising from the Darkness: American Apocalypse: Book 4 EMP Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction by A.J. Newman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRising from the Darkness: Book 4 EMP Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Joe and his band of intrepid survivors have joined a larger group of survivalists. They are making life much better by implementing mutual assistance groups that help protect each other and barter among themselves. While life is getting better, there are still threats to handle and pain to endure... -
Honor Bound by Al K. Line
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithout honor, a wizard's nothing but a scruffy man with a stick in his pocket. But honor comes at a price, and I sure as hell paid it. What started as a favor for a vampire—the kind of favor you can't refuse—quickly turned into something epic and life-changing. A team was organized, and we set about performing the largest heist in magical history. Unsurprisingly, things didn't go swimmingly... -
Psion Omega by Jacob Gowans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSammy, a fourteen-year-old fugitive, accidentally discovers he has the powers of a Psion. The war between the New World Government and the Continental American Government has taken its toll, not only on the two world superpowers, but also on the band of resistance fighters stuck between them... -
Rooster by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHOUNDED, CORNERED, AND RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS, BUT NEVER DEFEATED. Keo has been in tough situations before. Some have been tougher than others, but he’s always managed to come out on top thanks to an innate stubbornness, the skills he’s honed from a previous life, and a whole lot of Lady Luck... -
The Gates of Byzantium by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMan is no longer at the top of the food chain. The Purge has devastated the globe, turning much of humanity into night-dwelling, bloodthirsty creatures (dubbed “ghouls” by the survivors), while small pockets of remaining humans have managed to carry on. With the loss of their sanctuary, Will and his small band of survivors are forced to seek shelter elsewhere... -
Glory Box by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFollow-up to The Purge of Babylon post-apocalyptic series. _________________________________________ FROM THE PURGE, A NEW BEGINNING. It's been six years since a terrifying breed of seemingly unkillable creatures emerged from the darkness to fall the unprepared governments of the world, in the process knocking mankind down the food chain. Survivors called it The Purge... -
Dog Dayz by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Talbot clan has settled in to life at Etna Station. Mike has earned the rank of Lieutenant, but there’s no time to rest. Colonel Bennington has ordered Mike and his squad of misfits on a secretive mission to New York City where they are tasked to complete a complicated rescue that rapidly becomes nearly impossible to accomplish... -
Mist City by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new storyline... A new hero... Same deadly universe... A SHOOTER WITHOUT A TARGET. The man who calls himself John Smith once had a reason to fight: He was committed to a crusade he was willing to kill and die for. Trained by one of the best gunmen alive, Smith’s natural instincts with a handgun were honed to almost perfection... -
Incursion by M.D. Massey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScratch Sullivan just wanted to survive the apocalypse in peace... But when the undead bring their war right to his doorstep, it's time to ranger up and rain hell down on his enemies!Incursion: Vampire ApocalypseTHEM Post-Apocalyptic Series Book TwoIt's been eight years since the bombs fell and the dead rose, and the world has become a very dangerous place... -
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Lost Hope by Al K. Line
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt all started in the usual manner. Vicky fondling slimy beastie tentacles, me shouting at her, everything going wrong, us eventually getting away, even getting paid. But our new client, bored with his life, decided he wanted in on some wizard action... -
Angel Eyes by Al K. Line
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVicky, my annoying sidekick, had gone slightly deranged, my daughter was off with the faeries, literally, and I was frazzled as my insomnia worsened. But who could turn down a job when the payout was so great? Not this wizard. The job was easy, some might say too easy, and that made me nervous. For good reason. Something was out there, and it really wanted what I'd taken... -
Intuition by Leigh Walker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRiley Payne has recently accepted several things. She'll probably never graduate from high school. She's a secret agent. She has telekinetic power--i.e., she can move things with her brain waves. The boy she likes, Finn, is telepathic--i.e., he can listen to all of her thoughts, including the ones involving his bulging biceps...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: Scherzo by Robert Shearman, Paul McGann
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThere were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining.But every good story has to come to an end...With no times or places left to explore, all the two friends have now are each other... -
Resurrection by Laury Falter
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe second and final installment in the two-book series, Apocalypse Chronicles... Kennedy and Harrison's fate is uncertain now that they have been forced into a landscape swarming with Infected. Yet, with her military background and his superhuman abilities, they begin to rescue survivors while they search for one person in particular...a scientist capable of developing a cure... -
Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLife as a corporate drone was killing S.P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason... -
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks—and that’s when his life truly begins... -
Hero by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMonster. Villain. Hero.Four years after the Perdido Beach dome went down, the alien virus that created it is still wreaking havoc, and virus-infested rock has created a new set of humans with mutant powers... -
Shatter Me. Le novelle vol. 1 by Tahereh Mafi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Destroy Me vengono narrate, dal punto di vista di Warner, le vicende che si verificano tra Shatter Me e Unravel Me. Nonostante Juliette gli abbia sparato per poter fuggire, Warner non riesce a smettere di pensarci e nulla gli impedirà di riportarla da lui. Ma con l’arrivo del comandante supremo della Restaurazione, è chiaro che quest’ultimo ha piani ben diversi per Juliette... -
The Way by Mary E. Twomey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world not divided by race, but by blood type, Blue Anders finds herself on the wrong end of fortune’s mercy. Born with a lesser blood type, Blue is raised in The Way, a work camp for A-bloods.The Vemreaux (B-bloods) are the ruling class... -
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The Night Children by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsPresenting a new Escape from Furnace story, “The Night Children,” by Alexander Gordon Smith.It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict’s most brutal battles is raging... -
This Plague of Days, Season Three by Robert Chazz Chute
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's time to discover the secret hidden within This Plague of Days."Just when you think you've got Robert Chazz Chute and his zombies figured out, he ups the ante...it'll kill you." - Armand Rosamilia, author of the Dying Days seriesAs the world falls apart, it's up to one autistic boy to save us all. Season One of This Plague of Days was The Siege. Season Two was The Journey... -
Villain by Michael Grant
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s been four years since the events of GONE.The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread, and now all of humanity is in danger. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters–monsters that walk the cities and countryside, terrorizing all... -
The Maxists by Kirk Allmond
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the second book in the "What Zombies Fear" series. Victor Tookes and his family are still struggling to survive after a parasite that turns people into zombies wipes out civilization. After reaching the relative safety of the family home in Virginia, the danger only intensifies... -
Crab Town by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this town, everyone's a bottom feeder ... Five desperate criminals are robbing one of the last remaining banks in Freedom City, a town devastated by the previous nuclear war. But these are no ordinary criminals. They are members of the House of Cards, an organization designed to help the less fortunate citizens of the city... -
This Plague of Days OMNIBUS EDITION: The Complete Three Seasons of the Zombie Apocalypse Series by Robert Chazz Chute
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll Three Seasons of This Plague of Days in one monster ebook! Welcome to the TPOD OMNIBUS EDITION! A killer virus ends the world as we know it. It's up to one autistic boy to fight for the future and save us all. "Just when you think you've got Robert Chazz Chute and his zombies figured out, he ups the ante...it'll kill you... -
Grim Repast by Marc Collins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Quillon Drask NovelTormented by his past, Probator Quillon Drask’s reputation as the go-to detective for strange crimes has led him to the Polaris district of Varangantua. Warring families, corrupt officials, and a monstrous hunger stalk these streets, and Drask must overcome his own inner agonies to bring justice to the tormented city... -
Devoured by Jason Brant
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here .Day One: A series of terrorist attacks spread a cloud of noxious gas over highly populated areas. Day Two: Higher brain function erodes in those exposed to the gas. Their bodies begin to distort, faces distending, skin sallowing, teeth elongating... -
The Glass Man: A Novel by Anders de la Motte, Pontus Sánchez Giménez
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Leo Asker series, which will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Timesbestselling author), continues with this second installment following wayward detective Leonore Asker on a chilling new murder case. Detective Leonore Asker has just settled in as head of the Department of Lost Souls, a unit for odd cases, when her father contacts her after years of silence... -
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Turn of the Cards by Victor Milán
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPursued by the CIA, the DEA, and the Wild Card mistress of the winds, Mistral, renegade biochemist Mark Meadows uses the three personalities buried in his psyche in order to outwit his pursuers... -
Doctor Who: Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds. Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco.Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood... -
The Phlebotomist by Chris Panatier
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*LONG LISTED FOR THE BOOKNEST FANTASY AWARD*War brought the Harvest. Willa Mae Wallace is a reaper. To support herself and her grandson Isaiah, Willa works for the blood contractor Patriot. Instituted to support the war effort, the mandatory draw (The Harvest) has led to a society segregated by blood type...Categorized as:
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In the Dead: Volume 1 by Jesse Petersen
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the Zombie Apocalypse began in Seattle and spread within days to almost the entire western half the country, the survivors had to figure out how to deal with the plague and live one day at a time. These are their stories... -
Blue Skin by Steven Jenkins
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat will you do when they come for your children? The world has turned inward, away from the sun, in the wake of a mysterious disease that has altered the human race. No longer able to bear healthy human children, our mothers and daughters have brought vampire-like hybrids into the world, and with it a new order... -
The Man on Table Ten by Luke Smitherd
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's a story that he hasn't told anyone for fifty years; a secret that he's kept ever since he grew tired of the disbelieving faces and doctors’ reports advising medication... -
Patterns by Pat Cadigan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFeaturing an introduction by Bruce Sterling, this collection of short fiction by Pat Cadigan won the Locus Award for best collection in 1990. The final story, "The Power and the Passion", was original to this collection... -
Tortures of the Damned by Hunter Shea
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSHOCK… First, the electricity goes—plunging the east coast in darkness after a devastating nuclear attack. Millions panic. Millions die. They are the lucky ones. AFTER SHOCK… Next, the chemical weapons take effect—killing or contaminating everything alive. Except a handful of survivors in a bomb shelter. They are the damned. HELL IS FOR HUMANS Then, the real nightmare begins... -
Undead with Benefits by Jeff Hart
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe living dead are living it up in this hilarious and surprisingly romantic sequel to Eat, Brains, Love, which Kirkus Reviews called “one hell of a road trip...funny, gross, and scary in equal, alternating measures."Jake and Amanda are in love, on the run—and undead... -
The Morbidly Obese Ninja by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese days, if you want to run a successful company . . . you're going to need a lot of ninjas. Neo Tokyo, California is a city built so high that none of its residents have ever seen the ground. It is a place where citizens cosmetically alter their bodies to look like Japanese anime characters. It is a place where ninja battles determine the fate of corporate business ventures... -
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The Mammoth Book of Body Horror by Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA gripping collection which offers for the first time a chronological overview of the popular contemporary sub-genre of body horror, from Edgar Allan Poe to Christopher Fowler, with contributions from leading horror writers, including Stephen King, George Langelaan and Neil Gaiman... -
Diary of the War of the Pig by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Obelisk edition of Diary of the War of the Pig marks the first time in paperback for this fictional chronicle about street terror and disappearances by the greatest living Argentine author... -
The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with—and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan... -
The X-Files: Stolen Lives by Joe Harris, Chris Carter
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe division has been reopened, but nothing is as it seems in this electrifying follow-up to The X-Files: Cold Cases, starring David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and a full cast."In a world filled with shades of gray, we have to carefully choose which cloak we wear...."Out of the ashes of the Syndicate, a new, more powerful threat has emerged... -
Monster by Michael Grant
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's been four years since a meteorite hit Perdido Beach and Everyone disappeared. Gone. Everyone, except the kids trapped in the FAYZ - an invisible dome that was created by an alien virus. Inside the FAYZ, animals began to mutate and teens developed dangerous powers. the terrifying new world was plagued with hunger, lies, and fear of the unknown... -
Doctor Who: Goth Opera by Paul Cornell
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘The time of humanity on this world has come to an end. The long night is starting. The age of the undead is upon us.’Manchester, 1993. The vampires of Great Britain have received a message: the long-awaited arrival of their evil messiah is imminent. It’s time for a recruitment drive.On holiday in Tasmania with Tegan and the Doctor, Nyssa is attacked by a demonic child...
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