Books like 'Essential Ghost Rider, Vol. 2'
Readers who enjoyed Essential Ghost Rider, Vol. 2 by Gerry Conway, Donald F. Glut, Roger McKenzie, Jim Shooter & Jim Starlin also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The End of the World by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSkulduggery and Valkyrie are back, in an exclusive World Book Day novelette, set after the momentous events of Death Bringer…Hey, punks! Skulduggery and Valkyrie are about to make your day…15-year-old Ryan is running away from home, looking for escape and adventure. But unfortunately, sometimes people DO get what they wish for... -
Blue Shadow by Brad Magnarella
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B07B7LF8PPThe price of normalcy In the hopes of curing his curse and returning to his fiancé, Jason Wolfe agrees to command a corporate monster-hunting unit. But the team isn’t exactly what he had in mind… A priest, a ninja, a zombie, and a guy who looks like he should be working crew on the carny circuit... -
Wander by Orlando A. Sanchez
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHe’s not the hero you want. He’s the monster you need. When a new strain of the deadly drug, Redrum creates UV resistant vampires, the streets of New York City are flooded with the mindless creatures searching for blood—human blood. The NYTF and Dark Council refuse to deal with menace and contact the Night Wardens expecting results. What they get is a dark mage with nothing to lose... -
The Thief Who Wasn't There by Michael McClung
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBellarius, saved from utter destruction, is now plunged into vicious civil war. Amra has vanished, and while Holgren has a plan to find her and bring her back, his plan teeters between impossibility and insanity... -
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Veiled by Benedict Jacka
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsREBEL NO MOREAlex Verus is a mage who can see the future, but even he couldn't have seen this day coming. Alex has agreed to join the Keepers, the magical police force, to protect his friends from his old master, the Dark Mage Richard Drakh.Going legit was always going to be difficult for an outcast like Alex, and there are those in the Keepers who aren't keen to see an ex-Dark mage succeed... -
Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHong Kong has been taken over by the Old Ones and has become Necropolis, City of the Dead. Once in, there is no way out… Evil has been unleashed on the world and only five children – with special powers – can save it...Categorized as:
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Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe third book in the bestselling Russian trilogy that is part fantasy, part vampire story, and part detective story, tells of an ancient race of humans who have supernatural powers and swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. In Twilight Watch, they face their greatest threat yet... -
Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher, Clayton W. Snyder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNorylska Groans...with the weight of her crimes. In a city where winter reigns amid the fires of industry and war, soot and snow conspire to conceal centuries of death and deception.Norylska Groans...and the weight of a leaden sky threatens to crush her people. Katyusha Leonova, desperate to restore her family name, takes a job with Norylska's brutal police force... -
Closed at Dark by Rob Blackwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a mysterious creature targets a young boy, only paranormal investigator Soren Chase can stop it. But can Soren save the boy in time?For Soren, the case is personal. The boy's father was John Townes, Soren's best friend who died in a supernatural attack several years earlier. Soren will do anything to save John's son, but he must act fast... -
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... -
The Scour by Richard Swan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifteen years before the events of The Justice of Kings, Vonvalt and Bressinger investigate the imprisonment of a fellow justice for murder... -
Chaos Unleashed: by Drew Karpyshyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Legacy, a magical barrier protecting humanity from Chaos, has crumbled.Four unlikely champions, each touched with Chaos magic at birth, are all that can stop the return of Daemron the Slayer. Armed with the Talismans of power the four champions, the Children of Fire, must find the Keystone, a fabled place where, or so it is said, the Legacy can be restored... -
The Darkest Heart by Nancy A. Collins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSince exacting revenge on the vampire who introduced her to the world of the undead, Sonja Blue has grown bored with her existence. But it's a short-lived respite, for Sonja discovers that she is the target of another vampire hunter, a mortal named Jack Estes. As she tries to convince Jack that she is not like the others, Sonja grows attached to the mortal... -
SunRider by Rafael Hohmann
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMagic pieces of armor have begun to rain from Lenova's skies, granting men God-like powers. Mountains move, lightning bends to command, and a man's future can be written in a book before it has even happened. In all this emerging chaos, teenage Finn SunRider holds only the simple goal of escaping his enslavement and exploring the world he lives in...Categorized as:
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Night Chill by Jeff Gunhus
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of Jack Templar Monster Hunter comes a supernatural thriller for adult audiences. Jack Tremont moves his family to the quiet mountains of Western Maryland hoping to leave behind a troubled past and restart his life... -
The Light is the Darkness by Laird Barron
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConrad Navarro is a champion of the Pageant, a gruesome modern day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. Indentured by a cabal of ultra-rich patrons, his world is one of blood and mayhem, an existence where savagery reigns supreme while mercy leads to annihilation. Conrad's sister has vanished while traveling in Mexico... -
Louisa The Poisoner by Tanith Lee
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'There are three things that grow in March Mire,' said the aunt, in a silly sing-song voice, her eyes half closed, 'and that grow nowhere else together, and seldom anywhere. Find them in one spot, take them and make them up. From them comes this dew. Oh Louisa. Listen carefully. This stuff grants the gift of death.'Louisa widened her eyes but she was not actually impressed... -
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 Change by Teyla Branton
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere are only two ways to kill Unbounded, and fire isn’t one of them—as law school dropout Erin Radkey learns the hard way. By fluke of a recessive gene, she has become Unbounded, a nearly immortal being with paranormal abilities. Erin’s Change separates her from her loved ones and alters everything she believes to be true...Categorized as:
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Lord of Illusions by Clive Barker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on The Last Illusion, a short story in Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volume 6, this book is being released to tie in with the film starring Scott Bakula. Harry D'Amour, private investigator, thought he had seen the worst that flesh could suffer, but he hadn't... -
In Silent Graves by Gary A. Braunbeck
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRobert Londrigan seems to have it all. He is a newscaster with a rising career. He has a beautiful wife, Denise, and a new baby on the way. But in just a few short hours Robert's world is turned upside down. And the torment only gets worse when his daughter's body is stolen from the morgue by a strange, disfigured man... -
Demonsong by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first meeting between Glaeken and Rasalom, back in the dim recesses of the First Age. Written in the 1970s, and in a style geared more toward fantasy than the hardboiled prose of the Repairman Jack novels, "Demonsong" kicks off Wilson's massive Secret History of the World... -
Bad Blood by J.R. Rain, H.T. Night
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey call him Spider.And people come to him when they have a problem. So when teenager Parker Cole approaches Spider at night school, he figures she's just another problem waiting to happen. But then she tells him about her father, who runs a cult called Cloudland based at the foot of mystical Mount Shasta, California... -
Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane, Barbie Wilde
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe World’s Greatest Detective Meets Horror’s Most Notorious Villains!Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing persons case. On the face of it, this seems like a mystery that Holmes might relish – as the person in question vanished from a locked room... -
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Bound by Sorcery by Antara Mann
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA supernatural apocalypse is brewing. And only secret magic can defeat it. Alexandra Shaw may be an elemental mage, but she prefers the quiet life, running her struggling occult bookshop. With secrets of her own and a magical lineage shrouded in mystery, she keeps a low profile... -
Fosgate's Game by David C. Cassidy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKINGS OF INDUSTRY. PAWNS OF FATE. LET THE GAME BEGIN.For Chadwick Harlow, a peaceful, easy-going Englishman, after-dinner drinks with his business partner—a ruthless, hard-edged hunter—is a weekly affair. But when casual conversation takes a mysterious and menacing turn into the supernatural, his wits are put to the test in a deadly challenge... -
Facial by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNOTE: This book is included in the collection FIVE NOVELLAS by Jeff Strand. Greg has just killed the man he hired to kill one of his wife’s many lovers. He’s now got a dead body in his office. Carlton, Greg’s brother, desperately needs a dead body. It’s kind of related to the lion corpse that he found in his basement. This is the normal part of the story... -
Nevermore by Rob Thurman
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPeople die. Everyone knows that. I knew it intimately as everyone in my life died thanks to my one seemingly harmless mistake. I'd brought down Heaven, lifted up Hell, and set the world on fire, all due to one slip of the memory. I forgot the pizzas... Caliban is a dead man... -
Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsStella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. But he does remember. And so does her mom. So why doesn’t Stella? The more she investigates the show and the grip it has on her hometown, the eerier the mystery grows... -
Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt the end of a track, on the outskirts of an ordinary coastal town, lies a dilapidated house. Once, a group of amateur ghost hunters spent the night there. Two of them don’t like to speak about the experience. The third can’t speak about it. He went into the basement, you see, and afterwards he screamed so hard and so long he tore his vocal cords... -
Слуга Божий by Jacek Piekara
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAnthology of short stories about life of inquisitor Mordimer Madderdin in an alternative universe where people believe that Jesus stepped down from the cross and fought evil with sword, fire and blood... -
The Ward by S.L. Grey
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLisa is a plastic surgery addict with severe self-esteem issues. The only hospital that will let her go under the knife is New Hope: a grimy, grey-walled facility dubbed 'No Hope' by its patients.Farrell is a celebrity photographer. His last memory is a fight with his fashion-model girlfriend and now he's woken up in No Hope, alone. Needle marks criss-cross his arms... -
Ghosts & Echoes by Lyn Benedict
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe new urban fantasy series that has readers jumping at shadows. Chicago cop Adam Wright has picked up a spiritual hitchhiker, the ghost of a dead man who desperately wants to live again. So he turns to supernatural P.I. Sylvie Lightner to rid him of the spirit-a spirit she finds strangely familiar... -
Fallen by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom award-winning author Tim Lebbon comes this harrowing tale of an epic journey, crossing the forbidden boundary separating us from all we fear the most.…To the unknown corners of Noreela, the Voyagers have traveled, returning with fantastic tales of their journeys and discoveries... -
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The Taste of Night by Vicki Pettersson
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe Second Sign of the ZodiacBeing mortal isn’t easy. Being a superhero is even harder.Even mortal, Joanna Archer was nobody’s idea of a victim. But now, infused with the supernatural power to alter the battle between Shadow and Light forever, what she’s become is a target. And when a toxic virus invades the valley, her allies are targets are well... -
Freeks by Amanda Hocking
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a world of magical visions and pyrokinesis, Mara just wants to have a normal life. But is that possible?Mara has become used to the extraordinary. Roaming from place to place with Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Carnival, she longs for an ordinary life where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future... -
The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy's memories reside. They're all he has left. Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his son he would fix, but never did... -
Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories by Doug Murano, D. Alexander Ward
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom Bram Stoker Award-nominated publisher, Crystal Lake Publishing, and the editing duo who brought you the best-selling and critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian horror anthology Shadows Over Main Street, comes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories—a disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness. Awe meets ache. Terror becomes transcendence... -
Rebel's Creed by Daniel B. Greene
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWith one simple myth, nations burned. Under the Almighty, an empire has been forged, bringing peace to the once-divided continent. But now, a spark of truth threatens to ignite the religion of lies. Chapman unknowingly brought the Seventh Precinct to their demise... -
The Night Mayor by Kim Newman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis first novel is a highly entertaining and imaginative journey between fact, fiction, and fantasy in the depths of a city where it is always two-thirty in the morning and always raining. The conventions of film noir are lovingly exploited in this entertaining novel.--New York Times Book Review... -
Limbo. by Marko Pandza
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a story of a man who accidentally becomes Grim the Reaper, the most highly revered killer in Limbo. A place beyond time and space as we know it where psychopaths compete for perverse honour and status as they carry out their deathly duties... -
Damnable by Hank Schwaeble
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter being disgraced and wrongly imprisoned, special military operative Jake Hatcher finds himself standing watch against an unimaginable threat to humanity. For he's about to discover that the streets of New York City have become a secret battleground between forces he cannot comprehend... -
Naomi by Douglas Clegg
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe subways of Manhattan are only the first stage of Jake Richmond's descent into the vast subterranean passageways beneath the city -- and the discovery of a mystery and a terror greater than any human being could imagine.Naomi went into the tunnels to destroy herself...but found an even more terrible fate awaiting her in the twisting corridors. And now, the man who loves Naomi must find her.. -
Der Widersacher by Wolfgang Hohlbein
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIm verschneiten Hochtaunus ist der Versicherungsvertreter Brenner auf der Suche nach einer Tankstelle. Dabei gerät er auf das Gelände eines Klosters, in dem die Zeit stehengeblieben zu sein scheint. Doch rasch wird er in die Gegenwart zurückgeholt... -
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The Pines by Robert Dunbar
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young woman alone in the woods is brutally attacked by ... something... And so it begins. Deeper in the woods, a lonely woman lives in a ramshackle house where she cares for her disturbed young son. As killings in the barrens draw ever nearer, she comes to realize that her son has a psychic link to something in the forest. A small band of friends encounter a monstrous evil... -
Dark Screams: Volume One by Brian James Freeman, Richard Chizmar
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStephen King, Kelley Armstrong, Bill Pronzini, Simon Clark, and Ramsey Campbell are the first contributors to a mind-bending new series of short-story collections that push the boundaries of horror and dark suspense to the bleeding edge... -
Dark Duets by Christopher Golden, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDARK DUETS: New Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy will be published in January, 2014 by Harper Voyager. Edited by Christopher Golden, it features an extraordinary lineup of collaborative stories, with the authors of each story collaborating for the very first time. And here they are! -TRIP TRAP by Sherrilyn Kenyon & Kevin J. Anderson -WELDED by Tom Piccirilli & T.M... -
Behind the Fire by Susan May
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if all that stood between us and hell was a match? An ordinary couple stand accused of a heinous crime. They're the last people you'd expect to save the world. Are they criminals, heroes or completely insane? Or maybe all three?Emily and Bobby Jessup are just a sweet, ordinary couple, except they stand accused of multiple counts of first-degree arson... -
Back Again by Susan May
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween life and death lies fate and one hell of a fight A single mom struggles with unexplained lost time. An angry young woman makes a fatal mistake, taking them on a collision course which will smash their lives to pieces.Since childhood, Dawn has "lost time." She awakens in strange places, far away from her last memory... -
Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsEighteen-year-old Jenny Morton has a horrific secret: her touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague, the "Jenny pox." She lives by a single rule: Never touch anyone. A lifetime of avoiding any physical contact with others has made her isolated and painfully lonely in her small rural town.Then she meets the one boy she can touch. Jenny feels herself falling for Seth..
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