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Readers who enjoyed Spawn Collection, Vol. 5 by Todd McFarlane & Brian Holguin also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Worm by Wildbow
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals... -
When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who is determined to take down the black market once and for all in the conclusion to the trilogy that started with the critically acclaimed Not Even Bones.Nita finally has Fabricio, the boy who betrayed her to the black market, within her grasp...Categorized as:
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Power Mage 3 by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEY WERE HUMANITY’S LAST HOPE… AND HUMANITY WANTED THEM DEAD. Blamed for the Miami massacre, Brawley lays low with a Carnal biker gang, vowing to train hard and crack strands. Seven orders. Seven amazing powers. Seven beautiful teachers... -
Unleashed Magic: A Wizard in Bremen Part 2 by Steve Higgs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows about them. No one is ready. The false gods are coming. In seven days, I have to surrender myself to a demon. That was what I agreed to. That was the price to rescue a teenage girl. What would you do with your last week? My plan to drink good whisky and relax got shot to hell within hours when the police, who hate me by the way, begged for my help... -
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The Pendergast Files: (Relic, Reliquary) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis discounted ebundle includes: Relic, ReliquaryThe books that introduced the world to Douglas Preston’s and Lincoln Child’s FBI Special Agent Pendergast. Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beat... -
Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhy sell your soul when you can rent it? Mark Vedis is an average cop. Average for a mage in the Paranormal Police Department (PPD), anyway. After years of doing the jobs nobody else wanted, his career, and life, seemed to be on hold... -
The Plot to Kill the Pope by Anonymous
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Red Mohawk returns in a new adventure featuring characters from the Bourbon Kid series. Someone is plotting to kill the Pope. Rodeo Rex knows the exact time the assassination will take place. But the location and the killer’s identity are unclear. Elvis and the Bourbon Kid tag along in a race against time to save the Pope from certain death... -
Allison by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAllison can break your bones with her mind, and she can’t control her power.Now forty-five years old, she’s spent her life trying to stay away from other people. But a random encounter with a couple on the street leaves her believing that she may have done something horrible. Something unforgivable.Killer-for-hire Daxton and his girlfriend Maggie know the truth... -
Off The Grid by John Hunt
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGraham Richards was shopping with his family at an outlet mall when an active shooter began indiscriminately murdering people with a rifle. Graham was shot in the face and when he woke up in the hospital, his family was dead. And now, all he wants is to be left alone... -
Fire Season by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.Los Angeles is burning.During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering mages with fires that burn when they shouldn't, that don't stop when they should... -
Shrouds of Darkness by Brock E. Deskins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBrooklyn is home to thousands of drug dealers, murderers, rapists, thieves, gang bangers, and mafia. There are also some really unpleasant people--like me. My name is Leo Malone, and I'm a vampire. I've lived in Brooklyn for nearly a century, and I've grown to like the place. I used to be a Sheriff; the law enforcement within the vampire enclave... -
Night Stalker: A Tale From The Tome of Bill by Rick Gualtieri
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore he was trying to save the world, he just wanted to save his own ass. Bill Ryder has a problem: the vampires under his rule don't respect him. Unfortunately, in the world of the supernatural, that makes him as good as dead.In order to keep breathing, Bill must become someone else ... something else.Enter the Night Stalker, fearsome predator of the undead... -
My Name Is Lydia by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSupernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a young girl who appears to be possessed by an evil spirit... -
Evolution by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis name is Landon Hamilton, but to the angels and demons wrestling for control of our world he’s known simply as ‘diuscrucis’. He is the balancer, the great equalizer, a once mortal and former god who toes the line between good and evil to prevent the end of days.. -
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Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"You know, we've never really talked about what it means that you've claimed me."Newbie vamp Anja Evans is eager to find out what it means to be claimed by sexy, vampire cop, Bishop. Unfortunately, he's been transferred by the Order and she's left to fend for herself... -
Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Bev Vincent, Ali Seay
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBetween April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first time, these are the stories they were writing at the time of their disappearances.Reader caution is advised. Advance readers of this anthology have reported nausea, feelings of anxiety, paranoia and hallucinations after reading the texts included... -
Power Mage by Hondo Jinx
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsYOU CAN BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD. What if you discovered a secret society living among us? A powerful society split into seven psionic orders, each controlling a separate area: minds, flesh, force, truth, machinery, beasts, or the arcane. And suppose you were the only person on earth who could control all seven psychic energies. All you need is a teacher from each order... -
Ghost Money by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fifth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.The Los Angeles Firestorm killed over a hundred thousand people, set in revenge against necromancer Eric Carter for defying the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Carter feels every drop of that blood on his hands... -
Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA truck full of illegal Mexican immigrants slaughtered with supernatural force is found by the side of a road. Trying to find answers, Sam and Dean are plunged into the dangerous world that exists along the Mexican border. They encounter a tattooed, pistol-packing bandita on a motorcycle who seems be everywhere they go before they get there... -
Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3... -
The Lost Causes by Alyssa Embree Schwartz, Jessica Koosed Etting
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMisfits. Outcasts. And the only ones who can find a killer.They’re the last people you’d ask to help with anything, much less a murder investigation. The rich girl, the obsessive, the hypochondriac, the addict and the hot-tempered athlete—people think they’re beyond help. Lost causes. But where the world sees losers, the FBI sees its only hope...Categorized as:
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The slave in a princess disguise by Kiss Leilani
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPart 2 of 'Beasts of Wrath and Madness'. This cannot be read as a standalone, as it is a direct continuation of Book 1...They don’t know I’m a girl.They all look at me and see a boy. A prince.Their kind purchase humans like me—male or female—for their lustful desires.And, when they storm into our kingdom to buy my sister, I intervene to protect her. I make them take me too... -
Seven Sins by Miguel Estrada
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.Several individuals connected through a series of unfortunate events find themselves as participants in a twisted game of trials set up by a hacker who has chosen them based on their cardinal sins... -
Through the Ravenous Night We Ride by Calvin Demmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSecret societies, serial killers, malevolent criminals, and other evils stalk these pages.A short story collection... -
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Best New Horror by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy... -
AMBER by Nancy Adams, Stormy Summers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE GRUE SERIES: BOOK ONE Amber was a normal eighteen-year-old girl, freshly graduated from high school and on her way to work when an early morning run in with some starving vampires changed her life forever. Bled nearly to the point of death, one of the vampires took pity on her and tried to save her... -
The Touch by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSuddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touch.After a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his scientific nature refuses to accept what is happening to him, but there is no rational explanation to be found... -
Blood Moon by Al K. Line
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet Arthur "The Hat" Salzman. Gangster. Wizard. Screwed. When I was killed for the fifth time, and before breakfast, I knew for sure I'd made a terrible mistake. It was meant to be a simple job. Steal item, deliver said item to my posh broker, get paid. Easy peasy wizard squeezy... -
The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve doesn’t mind juvie. He’s good at dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day is more than his drunk mother provided. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out.So when he’s assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing... -
Consultation With a Vampire by Patrick E. McLean
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant, returns with his manic lawyer Topper and his faithful secretary in this prequel to How to Succeed in Evil. Edwin is approached by a vampire, who offers him the prospect of eternal life if Edwin will help him with the troubles the modern world has presented his kind... -
Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTarget: Smelly the Telepath!Smelly. Hermit by necessity. The world’s most receptive telepath... -
Last Breath by Joe Hill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy... -
Abraham's Boys by Joe Hill, David LeDoux
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsImogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy... -
The Lost Orphans: Book 0 by J.S. Donovan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the winter of 1992, a family was attacked on their drive into Highlands, North Carolina. The parents were gunned down. The children were reported missing. The case went cold. Until now…Rachel Harroway, a tragic detective with the ability to see the dead, discovers a rag-dressed cadaver bearing a serial killer’s mark... -
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Premonitions by Jude Watson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears... -
Gods & Monsters by Lyn Benedict
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsView our feature on Lyn Benedict's Gods & Monsters.Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable. When she finds the bodies of five women in the Florida Everglades, Sylvie believes them to be the work of a serial killer and passes the buck... -
The Chosen Child by Graham Masterton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn post-communist Warsaw, the authorities will do anything to keep Western developers happy. When a hotel construction site is plagued by a series of gory murders, local businessmen and police are eager to solve the case... -
Lies & Omens by Lyn Benedict
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSylvie Lightner is a P.I. specializing in the unusual—in a world where magic is real, and Hell is just around the corner. After escaping secret government cells and destroying a Miami landmark, Sylvie’s trying to lay low—something that gets easier when a magical force starts taking out her enemies. But these magical attacks are a risk to bystanders, and Sylvie can’t let that slide... -
Scream, Jennifer, Scream! by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey knew cheating would be risky. But they never thought it could be deadly. When Shelli and her friends cheat on their college placement test, they think they have just secured their future. Until Shelli's best friend, Jennifer, threatens to turn them all in. Now they must prevent the truth from being revealed. And they will stop at nothing, even murder... But their plan backfires... -
Innocent Blood by Graham Masterton
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA chilling tale set in the heart of glamorous Hollywood When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility for the blast is claimed by a group who say they want to put an end to the decadent Western media... -
Chiliad: A Meditation by Clive Barker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the world of Chiliad, an astonishing two-part novella by the incomparable Clive Barker. A brilliantly composed narrative filled with unforgettable images, this visionary meditation on time, history, and human suffering is surely one of Barker’s most distinctive—and distinguished—creations... -
My Father's Mask by Joe Hill
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis short story was originally published in Joe Hill's collection 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS... -
The Line Unseen by Joe Hart
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of LINEAGE, SINGULARITY, and EVERFALL comes this short story of supernatural horror.A man, walked on his entire life by others, learns of his wife's infidelity, and decides to do something about it. After a deadly confrontation in an alley, he must search the depths of his soul for the line unseen, and face the horror beyond.*Note: Approximately 9000 words... -
We Are Not Good People by Jeff Somers
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the “exhilarating, powerful, and entertaining” (Guardian) storyteller of the Avery Cates series comes a gritty supernatural thriller featuring a pair of unlikely heroes caught up in the underground world of blood magic... -
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The Haunted Counter by W.L. Knightly
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter an ugly breakup, Kinsey Ellerman moves to Adenridge to make a new start, but it's not the quaint little town she was promised. Women have been going missing—women who look like Kinsey—and now the police are finding bodies. When a mysterious girl appears in her bedroom, Kinsey has no choice but to investigate... -
The Diary (Point Horror, #53) by Sinclair Smith
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWas she going to die...again?Delia can't stop reading the old diary which mysteriously appears in her locker one day. Little by little, she starts to become more like the girl whose words she reads - even having her memories and seeing the world through her eyes. A dead girl's eyes. Soon Delia is convinced that she was the girl who wrote the diary - in a past life... -
Raw Power by Ambrose Ibsen
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI'm one of those disgruntled millennials you've heard about on the evening news. I've got a master's degree in Art History, a mountain of student loan debt and no job to show for it. Wait, scratch that. I track down stolen pieces of art for wealthy clients and then beat whoever stole them to within an inch of their life. Say what you will, but it puts bread on the table... -
Captives by Shaun Hutson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDetective Inspector Frank Gregson must investigate a series of savage and apparently motiveless murders. Moreover, they are carbon copies of killings committed years earlier - committed by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain's maximum security prisons... -
Dagger - The Light at the End of the World by Walt Popester
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSon of a god. Raised as a rogue. Hidden from everyone. Searched for by everybody. The power within is waking up. Are you ready? Dagger is a street kid, growning up in a city ruled by a brutal totalitarianism.He came into the world through a blasphemous ritual to resurrect his father... -
His Father's Son by Bentley Little
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSteve Nye's quiet life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a call from his mother. His father attacked her and has been committed to an asylum. The doctor says he's suffering from dementia. But Steve's father seems so calm, clear-eyed, and lucid when he whispers, [I killed her[...
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