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Readers who enjoyed John Constantine: Hellblazer (2019-) #9 by Simon Spurrier, John Paul Leon, Matías Bergara & Jordie Bellaire also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Last Witch: Volume Three by M.J. Lawrie
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter the turbulent and heart breaking events of Lilly and Gabriel's almost wedding, nothing will ever be the same.The world has been thrown into violent chaos. Hunters have declared all out war on those with magic in their blood and everyone has been caught in the crossfire.But Hunters, it would seem, are far from the world's biggest threat.A dark evil has been unleashed... -
Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a beautiful signed, limited-edition hardcover.Ogres are bigger than you.Ogres are stronger than you.Ogres rule the world.It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites... -
In the River by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn intensely moving tale of survival and madness along the river's edge. A father and son fishing lesson become a nightmarish voyage to the sea in this visionary testament to the lengths we will go for those we love... -
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Shane K.P. O'Neill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA WAR RAGES AROUND US EVERY DAY. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE ALL MANKIND. THE ULTIMATE EVIL. The battle for souls has raged since the truce that followed the First Great War of the Angels. God has struck the ultimate blow and sacrifice to gain the advantage and defeat His fallen angel and estranged son, Lucifer... -
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Tempting Fate by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEurope 1920s. Fifth [published] in the Saint-Germain series, Tempting Fate finds the count as guardian to a Russian war orphan during the Russian Revolution and the end of World War I... -
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales... -
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the luscious, dark sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must face the consequences of what she's wrought - perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching.Elspeth and Ravyn have gathered most of the twelve Providence Cards, but the last, and most important one remains to be found: The Twin Alders... -
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Best of Arthur Machen's short stories: The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Great God Pan, The White People, The Inmost Light, The Shining Pyramid, The Bowmen, The Great Return, The Happy Children, Out of the Earth, N, The Children of the Pool, The Terror... -
Dark Becoming by J.D. Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEma Marx is in a race against time. Or rather, a race against Apollyon. A powerful weapon--the legendary philosopher's stone--could tip the scale in favor of whoever gets their fangs on it first. For Ema, obtaining the stone is an uphill battle through love, alliance, heartbreak, and loyalty... -
The Cockroach King by Andrew Cull
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“We’d been in the house two weeks when Tommy pulled the first bones from the garden.”When Cassie Baker buys the house on Cedar Street, it’s partly because it reminds her of the house she grew up in in the ‘80s. It reminds her of happier times, when her Mom was still alive, before the cancer had taken her. It seems like the perfect place to raise her baby boy, Sam... -
Acluofobia. Zece povestiri macabre by Flavius Ardelean, Mircea Pricăjan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“În România, de-a lungul timpului, am avut puţini, foarte puţini autori talentaţi care să scrie proză (cu accente) horror. Nici la momentul actual lucrurile nu stau mai bine. Există însă câţiva scriitori tineri aflaţi în plină dezvoltare artistică, iar anii următori s-ar putea să plaseze România, în sfârşit, pe harta mondială a creatorilor de fantezii macabre... -
A God of Wrath & Lies by K.M. Moronova
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsImportant Notice - Some of the content in this book may be triggering for some readers. Reader discretion is advised.Trauma is haunting. Twisted.It can take everything we have... can't it? All that we are.Well, at least mine did.Since my dog died, I've been cursed with dreams of blood and cries. Things that were once so clear are now foggy. Why have the gods plagued my life? With loss and rot... -
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen Jones
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature... -
Blood Genesis by Tessa Dawn
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBefore there was a modern-day town called Dark Moon Vale, there was an ancient kingdom nestled in the Transylvanian Alps. Before there was a primordial species called the Vampyr, there was a celestial race begotten of gods and men. Before light battled shadow, the sacrifice became mandatory, or the first Blood Moon adorned the celestial sky... There was the Curse.A punishment.An abomination... -
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Malicent by Cassandra M.D.
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI was raised in the dark, sharpened into a weapon, and sent into the mortal world to secure my coven’s future. The Southern Kingdom holds secrets, and I will uncover them. But it holds my past—Cage, the man who slaughtered my mother, now stands as the King’s most trusted mage.Stronger. Colder. Alive.She was supposed to be dead. A ghost from an old life... -
Doll Face by D.J. Krimmer, C Hebert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDoll FaceShall We Play A Game?Amid the suffocating embrace of night,I stumble upon him, a beacon of light.The Boogeyman, a seductive terror,Whispers haunting promises, cruel and fair.Eyes that glint with otherworldly fire,In his grasp, I’m consumed by dark desire.A love twisted and sickeningly sweet,Tangled in the depths of darkness, where nightmares meet... -
The Tale Of The Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll I ever wanted was the freedom to live life as I pleased, despite my aristocratic parents’ hopes I’d secure a prestigious husband. But my fate was far more terrible than an arranged marriage when my family became prisoners to one of the most fearsome and powerful vampires of all time, Count Vlad Dracula... -
The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrancesco Ragoczy da San Germano, the immortal vampire, seeks only to hide himself in his Florentine palace. But after falling for Estasia, a cousin of Botticelli, the wealthy foreigner loses all his desire for isolation. Her unquenchable passion more than matches his -- and San Germano must have her. While happiness seems imminent, danger lurks around the corner... -
Daughters of Darkness by Chrissy Peebles, Kristen Middleton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFour authors will each take a different daughter born from the Prince of Darkness, Vlad Montour. (Also known as Vlad the Impaler, an evil villain from history) Blair – Chrissy Peebles Jezebel – Kristen Middleton Victoria – W.J. May Lotus – C.J. Pinard Blair: Half witch and half vampire. She lives with a coven of witches and hasn't had any contact with her vampire heritage... -
Bloodforged by Nathan Long
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second book in the Ulrika the Vampire seriesUnable to adapt to Lahmian society, Ulrika seeks her own way, striking out to the Chaos-besieged city of Praag to seek old friends and glory in battle. On her arrival, she finds a devastated but defiant people and the invaders repelled... -
Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: 2-Oct-2016; 4-Feb-2016; 9-Oct-2015.The dead beckon and the little girl obeys. Night after night she answers the graveyard’s call, though she dreads her encounters with the creature that dwells there... -
Welcome to the Show by Doug Murano, John Skipp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings17 horror Stories. One legendary music venue. We all know the old cliché: Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Now, add demons, other dimensions, monsters, revenge, human sacrifice, and a dash of the truly inexplicable. This is the story of the (fictional) San Francisco music venue, The Shantyman... -
A Dark Collection by Mark Lukens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA DARK COLLECTION of 12 horror stories, one for each month of the year.CROW MANOR (January) - A young couple struggling with their finances gets an amazing opportunity to house-sit at a strange mansion where something horrible waits for them.FEARS OF TORTURE (February) - A new twist on the hitman and an assassination... -
The Best of Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe’s allusions and complicated vocabulary. Edgar Allan Poe—his name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word... -
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Paint it Black by Nancy A. Collins
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRed Blood, Black Night Vampire and vampire-hunter Sonja Blue has faced many monsters, but none compare to the Other, the demonic alter ego inside her. Now, as her world grows darker still, her vampiric "grandfather" Pangloss returns. Could he show her the way to redemption? Or is he here simply to drive her further into the abyss? About the Author Nancy A... -
The Vampire's Secret by Raven Hart
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“A masterly tale . . . dark, seductive, disturbingly erotic.”–L. A. Banks, author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series, on The Vampire’s SeductionOnce a mortal with a beloved family, William Cuyler Thorne is now a vampire on the prowl for blood and beautiful women. He has the perfect cover as an admired citizen of Savannah society... -
The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorn under the omen of a falling star, Erzebet Bizecka is a child of prophecy. The only heir of a powerful Hungarian count, she was predicted to die young or to live forever. Determined to survive despite the grim prophecy, Erzebet becomes obsessed with preserving her youth and beauty. Not even her closest friend, Marianna, can understand her crippling fear of growing older... -
Forest of the Forbidden by W.J. May, Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVENOM by Kristen Middleton A vampire novella derived from The Night Roamer's series. When Melody Williams goes missing at a concert, at Club Nightshade, her eighteen-year-old cousin, Chelsey Fairfax, sneaks into the club to find answers. Little does she know that some mysteries are better left hidden... -
Kill the Dead by Tanith Lee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOut of the dusk he comes striding, the stranger, the man in black, inevitable as death itself: Parl Dro--Ghost Slayer.Some have bought his services for gold, and some have blessed him for his work. But not everyone welcomes an exorcist who will remorselessly deprive them of their beloved dead.Dro began his vocation at an early age... -
Awaken At Twilight (A Vampire Anthology) by Kristen Middleton, C.M. Owens
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEight dark fantasy vampire stories to sink your teeth into. 1) Soul Rebel - C.J. Pinard 2) Deadly Beauties - C.M. Owens 3) Crush - Chrissy Peebles 4) Blood & Wings - J & L Wells 5) Venom - Kristen Middleton 6) Courage Runs Red - W.J. May 7) Blair (Daughter's of Darkness) Chrissy Peebles 8) Victoria (Daughter's of Darkness) W.J. May Soul Rebel - A vampire took his soul. He wants it back. -
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition by Paula Guran, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption... -
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition by Paula Guran, Laird Barron
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe darkness creeps upon us and we shudder, or it suddenly startles and we scream. There need be no monsters for us to be terrified in the dark, but if there are, they are just as often human and supernatural... -
Blind Voices by Tom Reamy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"It was a time of pause, a time between planting and harvest when the air was heavy, humming with its own slow warm music." So begins an extraordinary fantasy of the rural Midwest by a winner of the John W. Campbell, Jr., Award for best young science fiction writer. One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstock's Traveling Curiosus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern town... -
The Devil's Scribe by Alma Katsu
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFans of the Taker trilogy will love this original eBook novella featuring the series’ immortal heroine, Lanny...and Edgar Allen Poe!In this eShort story, Lanore McIlvrae returns to America for the first time in 20 years—after decades of running from her past—to confront the source of her fear. The year is 1846 and Lanore—Lanny—has just landed in Baltimore after a long transatlantic crossing... -
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The Wide Game by Michael West
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the advice of his wife, Paul Rice is making plans to attend his 10th year High School reunion. Returning to his boyhood home of Harmony, Indiana, he finds that he is still haunted by memories of that time-memories of Deidra, his first love, and memories of the Wide Game... -
Heart of a Witch by Rebecca L. Garcia
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA vengeful fantasy standalone romance perfect for fans of The Bridge Kingdom and A Touch of DarknessI’d never particularly liked humans, but I’d never wanted to kill one. Until now.Hidden in a kingdom that hates witches, I’m forced to hide what I am... -
Death Comes Home by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Darkness We Must Abide is the epic saga of one young woman caught in the dangerous world of the creatures of the night.Already living in the shadows due to her albinism, Vanora is just a little girl when her older brother inadvertently unleashes a terrible evil from the family crypt that changes their lives forever... -
Strangewood by Christopher Golden
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe young son of a popular children's book author vanishes into the dangerous fictional world his father created. And it's going to take more than a vivid imagination to get him back alive.First time in trade--the acclaimed contemporary horror classic by Bram Stoker Award-winner Christopher Golden. With a new introduction by the author... -
The House of Night and Chain by David Annandale
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnother fantastically horrifying tale from Warhammer Horror. The nightmarish house Malveil awaits the return of an old heir, but what awaits him inside?In a bleak corner of the city of Valgaast, the House of Malveil awaits. A place of darkness, its halls throb with a sinister history. Its rooms are filled with malice. Its walls echo with pain. Now it stirs eagerly with the approach of an old heir... -
Thirteen by Anya Allyn
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA short story prequel set in the thrilling world of Anya Allyn’s The Dark Carousel. This free story also includes five chapters of DOLLHOUSE, the first book in the bestselling horror series tinged with gothic romance. (less)A hidden mansion. A silent carousel. Missing girls... -
The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold, Eric Luke
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“There is something ungodly about these night wire jobs. You sit up here on the top floor of a skyscraper and listen in to the whispers of a civilization. New York, London, Calcutta, Bombay, Singapore — they’re your next-door neighbors after the streetlights go dim and the world has gone to sleep... -
Blue World by Robert McCammon
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the battlefields of a Vietnam veteran's memory to an old-time movie hero's search for a serial killer, from Halloween in a special town--where the rules of trick-or-treat are written in blood--to a Texas road where a wrong turn leads to a nest of evil, horror master McCammon is at his terrifying best in this collection of stories... -
The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction writers... -
He Who Walks in Shadow by Brett J. Talley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Incendium Maleficarum has been lost and Carter Weston presumed dead, but the story of That Which Should Not Be is only just beginning. Now Carter’s only daughter, Rachel Jones, and his oldest friend, Henry Armitage, must embark on an epic journey that will take them from the hell-blasted Tunguska forest to the catacombs of Paris to the shores of the Scottish Isles... -
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 by Paula Guran, Lisa Tuttle
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTake a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark — in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods... -
The Mammoth Book of Vampires by Stephen Jones, Clive Barker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning horror editor Stephen Jones presents thirty-six modern masters of the macabre. Among them are: Harlan Ellison, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Paul McAuley, Peter Tremayne, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Ramsey Campbell.This anthology collects the very best in vampire fiction which blends sheer horror with dark humor, deadly tenderness with tingling terror... -
The Wicked and the Damned by Joshua Reynolds, David Annandale
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA chilling mosaic novel by masters of their craft.On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed... -
The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTen writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses... -
999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense by Al Sarrantonio, Stephen King
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAward-winning writer and editor Al Sarrantonio gathers together twenty-nine original stories from masters of the macabre. From dark fantasy and pure suspense to classic horror tales of vampires and zombies, 999 showcases the extraordinary scope of fantastical fright fiction... -
Hauntings by Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe spookiest of specters inhabit this spine-tingling anthology—compiled by an acclaimed editor of the horror genre—that collects the most chilling ghost stories from the past 25 years. The human obsession with the mysteries of the afterlife is explored in these supernatural tales of haunted houses, lost souls, unexplained phenomena, and “good” neighbors...
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