Books like 'The Vampire'
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Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiscover that the Highway to Hell really is paved with good intentionsSupernatural, the hit show from The CW, continued its streak of critical praise and ratings gold as the fourth season upped the stakes for Sam and Dean Winchester and introduced another potent supernatural element into the mix - angels... -
The Dark Descent by David G. Hartwell, Clive Barker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis highly acclaimed anthology traces the evolution of horror, from Nathaniel Hawthorn and Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. Adopted by colleges across the country to be used in literature courses, The Dark Descent showcases some of the finest horror fiction ever written.Contents: Pt. 1 - The Color of EvilThe Reach / Stephen KingEvening Primrose / John CollierThe Ash-Tree / M. R... -
Clash by Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaylor looks for a way to get back home, retrieve an ancient artifact to stop the werewolf war, and searches a way to divorce the man she was forced to marry... -
Dead Stream Curse by J.R. Erickson, Nicole Jatho Swanson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA secret they intended to take to the grave. But the dead will tell.. -
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Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural by Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye,
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA gripping, chilling collection of 47 stories and six poems, dating back to Shelley and Stevenson, but also including modern masters... -
Conflicted by Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaylor deals with the aftermath of the millennium ceremony. As she fights to survive, her friends and family stay loyally at her side. Taylor is conflicted about her new condition and nobody knows how to help her. Is there hope for her? Can she survive? Or will her life spiral out of control? Especially when she is deemed Queen of the Immortals... -
Kiss Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I could rely on Bishop, I felt it in every fiber of my being. Only... I’d been wrong before.” Anja’s no longer the geeky newbie who couldn’t bite her way out of a paper bag. Since becoming Elder of the West, Anja stood up for what she believes in and found her place in vampire society... -
Sleepy Hollow: A Novelization (Includes the Classic Short Story) by Peter Lerangis, Washington Irving
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHEADS WILL ROLLIt is 1799, the eve if a new century. In New York City, young Constable Ichabod Crane is eager to use his latest scientific methods and his powers of deduction to solve the most brutal of crimes. But nothing can prepare him for the shocking murders that take him far from the city's cobblestones to the eerie town of Sleepy Hollow... -
The Red House by Tony Abbott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCould the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? After diving into Derek's world in books #1 and #2, readers are in for more spooky, sinister adventure in this latest installment.Derek didn't ask for this.It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war... -
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives-the hopes, beliefs, and fears-of a people... -
A Haunting in Rose Grove by Rockwell Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA malevolent entity. A violent haunting. A house with a bloody history. Jake Nolan left it all behind, but now he must return. Jake has it all — a new home, an amazing girlfriend, and nearing a promotion at work. Best of all, he feels he’s finally moved on from the horrors of his traumatic past... -
A Witch's Feast by C.N. Crawford, Carlos Quevedo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are new rules governing the country--namely, no magic. But Fiona Forzese has never been good with rules... After a ghostly army terrorized Boston, the Ranulf family say they'll help Fiona and her classmates finish up junior year. They say their old Virginia plantation is a safe haven. All Fiona and her secret coven have to to do is show up to a few math and English classes... -
Guardian by Gillian Joy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDestiny is a pitiless mistress. Hannah is the Guardian now. Her mother’s murder by an unknown vampire fuels a journey of vengeance, desire and agony. She must find the one responsible, and in the hunt, finds that death is no mate to destiny. A handsome childhood sweetheart and another, dark and dangerous, vie for her affection as she searches for her mother’s killer... -
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Italo Calvino
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCompiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors... -
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Elemental Dawn by Maddy Edwards
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Charlotte's fourth semester at Public everything is about to change. Princess Lanca's father, King Daemon, has been murdered, and Lanca will ascend to the vampire throne. But danger lurks around every dark corner and no one knows whom to trust... -
A Hint of Darkness by McKenzie Hunter
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen I made a deal with the Prince of the Underworld, I knew a lot of things could go wrong. But I never imagined it would be imprisoned-in-the-underworld wrong. My only goals were to escape and resist the blazing chemistry between me and the Dark Prince.After he discovers I’m more than just a mere human who’s had a streak of bad luck, my escape becomes a game of survival... -
The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path... -
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories by John Gregory Betancourt, H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Colour Out of Space) to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E... -
Fresh Meat by Alice Henderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA rash of strange deaths in the Tahoe National Forest bring Sam, Dean and Bobby to the Sierra Nevada mountains to hunt a monster with a taste for human flesh. Soon walking corpses, bodies with missing organs, and attacks by a mysterious flying creature lead the trio to a cunning and deadly foe which can assume a human form and will do anything to survive... -
Vampirina Ballerina by Anne Marie Pace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOh, to be a ballerina! It's a challenge for any little girl, but even more so if you happen to be a vampire like Vampirina. First of all, you have to find a class that meets at night... -
Not Forgotten by Nancy Holder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEven if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... BURNING BODIES A crime wave has swept the Los Angeles area, which under normal circumstances would be par for the course. But nothing links these particular victims except the cause of deaththeir bodies were burned from the inside out. Obviously supernatural forces are at work... -
Red Creek by Nathan Hystad
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere's a dark shadow over Red Creek. Once a best-selling horror author, Paul Alenn is in a slump. His wife and daughter are across the country, moved away to the West Coast, leaving him alone in his Central Park-adjacent New York townhouse... -
Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you’re fated to fall, rising up to howling glory is the last thing you’d ever expect. My birth — like that of many Shadowborns — was a mistake. A demon hybrid of wolf and dusk, I started life as a dead shifter walking with little hope of survival.Every day death tries to claim me, but somehow I keep living, only to end up in the dangerous hidden depths of Shifter Syndicate... -
Music Box by Anya Allyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final terrifying story of The Dark Carousel series. As the day of Cassie's marriage to the centuries-old spirit, Balthazar, grows chillingly close, she finds a secret way to the high tower. The shadowy inhabitant of the tower has haunted her mind since her first day at the castle. In the tower, Cassie makes a shocking discovery, after which nothing can be the same... -
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Chasing Midlife Demons by Heloise Hull
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA NEW PWF novel from the author of Making Midlife Magic, for those who like their rosé chilled and their demons hot!The last time the police knocked on my door, I lost my husband. Now they’re back, and this time, it’s about my mother.She’s fine, for now, but she’s deteriorating fast. Her mind is failing her, and her body isn’t far behind...Categorized as:
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A Candle for d'Artagnan by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Atta Clemens, immortal vampire, Roman noblewoman, beloved of the Count Saint-Germain-has come to Paris seeking only peace. But the year is 1637, and there is no peace to be found in the Court of Louis XIII, where Cardinal Richelieu maneuvers to control the throne... -
The Great God Pan and other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis edition contains the title novella as well as 5 additional stories with an introduction and notes from the editor, S.T. Joshi.Signed by the editor... -
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps by Peter Straub, Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStraub, a contemporary master of literary horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight. Ghostly narratives of the Edwardian era, lurid classics from the pulp heyday, and modern-day masterpieces are included in these collections... -
The Ghost Road by Tony Abbott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCould the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Reader reviews are in, and Tony Abbott is capturing the middle-grade fantasy audience with this new series!Derek can't claim to be a normal fourteen-year-old anymore. Not after what he discovered at the Red House. His role in the war against the dead is more pivotal --- and more terrifying --- than he could have imagined... -
Night Breed by Lorraine Kennedy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn the daughter of a witch, Sarah is no stranger to magic. But when she meets an immortal, she quickly discovers that nothing can compare to the magic of being loved by a vampire.Night Breed is book 2, in the four book Immortal Destiny Series. -
Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is Amsterdam, 1871, twenty-five years before the start of Stoker's novel, and twenty-five years following Arkady Tsepesh's flight from his family's ancestral castle with his wife and young son, Stefan, after learning that he and his family are bound by an ancient covenant to serve their ancestor, Prince Vlad Tsepesh, who is also known as Dracula... -
The Horror in the Museum by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSome tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored – but all bear the mark of the master of primordial terror.The Horror in the Museum –Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real thing.The Electric Executioner – Aboard a train, a traveler must match wits with a murderous madman... -
The Narrows by Ronald Malfi
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe town of Stillwater has a very unwelcome resident. The town of Stillwater has been dying - the long and painful death of a town ravaged by floods and haunted by the ghosts of all who had lived there. Yet this most recent flood has brought something with it - a creature that nests among the good folks of Stillwater...and feeds off them... -
Terror in the Shadows: Volume 1 by Emma Salam, A.I. Nasser
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe dark can be a terrible, terrible place…A young man’s attempts at breaking parole end in a night of horror. A child realizes his Christmas gift might be more sinister than he originally thought. An editor accidentally uncovers his client’s sinister plan to cleanse the world of all evil... Scare Street’s roster of authors Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Sara Clancy and A. I... -
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Darlings of Darkness by Trina M. Lee, Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings10 thrilling full length vampire novels in one volume10 sexy heroes.10 strong heroines.All for FREE!10 bestselling novels by 10 bestselling authors. This is ten complete novels from some of today's most exciting authors.A star-studded anthology of thrilling, action-packed and totally swoon-worthy first books from ten different vampire series by your favorite women authors... -
The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself... -
Japanese Gothic Tales by Kyōka Izumi
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsResisting the various forms of realism popular during the Meiji enlightenment, Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) was among the most popular writers who continued to work in the old-fashioned genres of fantasy, mystery, and romance... -
Ghost Stories: Stephen Fry's Definitive Collection by Stephen Fry, Washington Irving
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio.From the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow to the tortured spirits of M.R... -
Crusader's Torch by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe time is 1189 A.D. and war rages all around the Mediterranean. Any woman would fear travelling among the pirates, bandits, and renegade Christian Knights, but Atta Olivia Clemens is no ordinary woman--rather, she is a vampire and the perils she faces are even more deadly... -
Sian's Solution by Dale Mayer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis 9k word short story was originally published in 2011 as part of the Entangled anthology - sold to raise money for Breast Cancer awarenessSometimes the depth of love is only understood when it is lost forever...When a vampire discovers the human man she loves has been captured and hung in a blood farm, she goes against her own kind and risks everything to save him... -
Immortal Remains by Sean Cummings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's not a detective and he doesn't give a crap if your spouse is cheating on you. Human and supernatural beings avoid him like the plague because if you get too close he'll gleefully tell you the time and date of your own demise and that's before he punches you in the face... -
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality... -
Aickman's Heirs by Simon Strantzas, Nina Allan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Robert Aickman was a master of what he called 'strange stories,' and though his fiction has been categorized as horror, it's actually its own beast... -
Poems Bewitched and Haunted by John Hollander
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA delightfully ghoulish array of specters and sorceresses, witches and ghosts, hags and apparitions haunt these pages–a literary parade of phantoms and shades to add to the revelry of All Hallow’s Eve.From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jarrell to James Merrill, Poems Bewitched and Haunted draws on three thousand years of poetic forays into the supernatural... -
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Drachenfels by Jack Yeovil, Kim Newman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDetlef Sierck, the self-proclaimed greatest playwright in the world, has declared that his next production will be a recreation of the end of the Great Enchanter Drachenfels - to be staged at the very site of his death, the Fortress of Drachenfels itself... -
Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn ordinary bubble may seem pretty harmless to you. To the monsters of La La Land, however, a fragile, shimmering bubble is an object of terror, and when the frightening habits of bubbles are detailed by a fear-mongering monster, Yerbert, Froofle, and Wumpus run away and cry. But with encouragement from the narrator and from readers--"Go on, Wumpus, you can do it. (Tell Wumpus he can do it... -
Mary Mary Quite Contrary by Cameron Jace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Fifth Prequel.The Devil's take on fairy tales, exposing the origins of some of the most important, yet never explained, elements in the fairy world. Darker things the Brothers Grimm didn't want you to know about. More hints would just spoil the fun.Let's just say that at some point in the Dreamworld even the devil was about so sell his soul... -
Blood Apples by Cameron Jace
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this short diary, Prince Charming tells how Snow White was really killed -- or was she? -- and how he came to meet Rapunzel's and Jack the Beanstalk. Is it true that he really knows who wrote the original fairy tales and handed them over to the Brothers Grimm? And more importantly, Prince Charming explains why apples are red... -
Ravenous by Ray Garton
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA corpse gets up and walks out of the hospital morgue. Minutes later, a policeman is killed outside the same hospital - and partially eaten. Something deadly has come to the coastal California town of Big Rock - something that's leaving mangled and devoured bodies in its wake... -
Witches by Erica Jong
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis witch's brew of a book is back in all its tantalizing glory to enchant a new generation of readers. Best-selling author Erica Jong here turns her attention to the fantastical and factual world of witchcraft...
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