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Readers who enjoyed Enter at Your Own Risk: Old Masters, New Voices by Alex Scully, A.A. Garrison, David Thomas, B.E. Scully, Nicky Peacock, Carole Gill, Ed Medina, Joshua Skye, Bram Stoker, John Karr & Benjamin Sperduto also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Cities of Dead by Alys Arden
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Cities of Dead: the highly anticipated third book in Alys Arden’s spellbinding The Casquette Girls series. Old World witches collide with the French Quarter’s strangest denizens, setting off events that could tear the fabric of the Natural and Supernatural worlds, and only the most elusive, mischievous Voodoo lwa hold the key to stopping it... -
![Bloodwars by Brian Lumley]()
Bloodwars by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, have taken very different paths. Nathan as his father's powers--to talk to the dead, to travel instantly through space. Like Harry, this new Necroscope fights evil wherever he finds it... -
![The Gates of Guinée by Alys Arden]()
The Gates of Guinée by Alys Arden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA trip to the Afterworld might be the end of the supernatural world.As the Ghost Drinkers seep into the crevices of the Crescent City, leeching the French Quarter of magic, the local witches are consumed with a new fight for survival. Adele has one chance to save everyone she loves, but it will mean breaking away from her coven and trusting a vampire... -
![Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural by Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye,]()
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... -
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![The Last Aerie by Brian Lumley]()
The Last Aerie by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope... -
![The Night Crossing by Robert Masello]()
The Night Crossing by Robert Masello
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city... -
![Fear by Ronald Kelly]()
Fear by Ronald Kelly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was a legend in Fear County... a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods. But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are true. His best friend Mandy just up and disappeared... -
![Bound By Blood: Volume 1 (Bound By Blood, #1) by Shane K.P. O'Neill]()
Bound By Blood: Volume 1 (Bound By Blood, #1) by Shane K.P. O'Neill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“A war rages on around us every day. The struggle to save all mankind. The ultimate evil.”As his moment of death looms Dracula suffers the ultimate betrayal. The champion of the Catholic faith in Eastern Europe realises it is Lucifer who is coming to claim him. However, Lucifer does not want his soul. Instead he bites into Dracula’s neck and then offers his own blood to drink... -
![Whitstable by Stephen Volk]()
Whitstable by Stephen Volk
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent... A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he believes his stepfather really is a vampire.. -
![Crescent Moon by James Fahy]()
Crescent Moon by James Fahy
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat do you do when your world is turned upside down?When you discover your father had a direct hand in the genocide of much of the world’s human population?Phoebe Harkness’ life has changed forever. Thirty years after a cataclysmic world war that eviscerated one third of the human population, a new sub-species of vampire-like drones has set its teeth to the survivors of humanity... -
![All Hallows Night by Marie Hall, R.S. Black]()
All Hallows Night by Marie Hall, R.S. Black
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSecrets and truths, lies and red herrings… which is which? That’s what Pandora’s trying to figure out. Ever since the death of her best, and probably only friend by her own hands, she’s not sure who to trust anymore. The Priest is dead. The Gray Man is… she’s not even sure what. Luc, well, Luc is Luc. The Order has sent her deep into the heart of Mexico to investigate a potential zombie uprising... -
![Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]()
Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere are 16 classic ghost stories: "Carmilla" (perhaps the classic vampire thriller), "Green Tea", "The Familiar", "The Haunted Baronet", "Madam Crowl's Ghost", "The Dead Sexton", "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House" plus nine others. Half these stories never published before in U.S... -
![Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1 by Joss Whedon]()
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1 by Joss Whedon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis volume contains the first six scripts from the first season of the television programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These scripts are the shooting drafts, and contain production notes, cut dialogue and different scenes... -
![Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill]()
Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene 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. . . -
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![Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer by Brian Lumley]()
Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarry Keogh is moving on. Though the search for his missing wife and child continues, his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean--a beautiful Scottish werewolf whose friendly pack and flourishing pub have given him a place he can almost call home... -
![Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu]()
Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs it ever possible for the undead to find true love? You'll find no definitive answer here. Be aware of this much though: When werewolves and vampires clash; there can be no winners.When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria... -
![The Ammonite Violin & Others by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
The Ammonite Violin & Others by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Ammonite Violin & Others, one of contemporary dark fantasy s most bewitching and distinctive voices is back with another banquet of the weird and unexpected. In his introduction, Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints and Madmen, Finch) writes, Kiernan creates her own light in this remarkable collection, and shines it on dark places... -
![The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson]()
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle.Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson... -
![Defilers by Brian Lumley]()
Defilers by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope--how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously from place to place, how to talk to the dead--but dead humans don't like him much. It seems Jake's got a hitchhiker named Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Mobius equations, Jake can't just kick him out . . . though he's certainly trying... -
![A Rendezvous in Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith]()
A Rendezvous in Averoigne by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1927, H.P. Lovecraft wrote about Clark Ashton Smith: "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Mr. Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living... -
![Blood Crazy by Simon Clark]()
Blood Crazy by Simon Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSaturday is a normal day. People go shopping. To the movies. Everything is just as it should be. But not for long. By Sunday, civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane. One by one they become infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to slaughter the youngeven their own children. Especially their own children... -
![American Supernatural Tales by S.T. Joshi, Thomas Ligotti]()
American Supernatural Tales by S.T. Joshi, Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation’s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P... -
![Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense by Darcy Coates]()
Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Push past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience... -
![The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life by Michael Talbot, Thomas Walker]()
The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life by Michael Talbot, Thomas Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEver since Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the vampire has evolved from the ferocious blood-sucking fiend as portrayed in the penny dreadfuls such as Varney the Vampyre into a strangely alluring, erotic figure promising eternal life. But, it’s eternal life with a horrifying price attached, the overwhelming need to feast on the blood of the living... -
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![Mina and the Slayers by Amy McCaw]()
Mina and the Slayers by Amy McCaw
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW ORLEANS, 1995. MINA’S HAVING A KILLER HALLOWEEN.Three months after Fang Fest, Mina’s settling into her new life.Despite the teething problems in her relationship with Jared, she has her sister back, new friends and a part-time job to die for.Over Halloween, Mina and the gang have planned a spooky week of Gothic restaurants, horror movies, ghostly tours, creepy carnivals and a costume ball... -
![With Teeth by Brian Keene]()
With Teeth by Brian Keene
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor a group of middle-aged friends, the trip into the forest was supposed to be simple. All they had to do was find a place to set up their criminal enterprise, and all of their financial problems would be solved. But now, night is falling, and with the darkness comes something else. Something fast. Something ferocious. Something... with teeth... -
![Down in the Hollow by Timothy Hobbs]()
Down in the Hollow by Timothy Hobbs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt all begins with a decapitated head found at the bottom of a dark well. Bertram Stone is a former Texas Ranger running from the changes of an ever-evolving world. Horses were being replaced by cars. Laws were changing how Bertram could deal justice. Wanting to live out his golden years in peace, Stone flees to the quiet town of Hamilton, Texas where he becomes the local sheriff... -
![Necroscope: Resurgence, The Lost Years Volume II by Brian Lumley]()
Necroscope: Resurgence, The Lost Years Volume II by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHarry Keogh, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead, and Earth's greatest vampire hunter, has been searching for his wife and infant son, gone missing during Harry's war against the vampires. This obsession has left him open to subtle influence by an ancient vampire, Radu... -
![Best New Horror by Joe Hill]()
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... -
![61 A.D. by David McAfee]()
61 A.D. by David McAfee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBritannia, 61 A.D. For ten years, Taras has lived in the young city of Londinium, feeding off the city’s underbelly. But now Theron, his old enemy, has come looking for revenge, and Taras’ nights of living in relative peace are about to end.Yet not even Theron can slip into town unnoticed, and the Council of Thirteen sends Ramah to deal with the two renegades once and for all... -
![A Delicious Descent by Amanda Meuwissen]()
A Delicious Descent by Amanda Meuwissen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDracula retold, with Jonathan as the object of the legendary vampire’s obsession.Engaged to his dear friend Mina, Jonathan Harker jumps at the chance to delay their wedding by accepting an assignment in far-off Transylvania. Jonathan loves Mina but not in the way a man should love a wife, for his true passion lies with the company of men, an illicit craving he can never indulge... -
![Whickering Place by London Clarke]()
Whickering Place by London Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIn this gripping follow-up to The Meadows, a woman trapped by her own fears inherits a house haunted by a legacy of darkness and a history of ritual sacrifices. A violent attack that happened nearly a decade ago has left twenty-seven-year-old Avery Tullinger barely able to walk outside... -
![The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates]()
The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHomeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering... -
![A Russian reader "Viy": Vocabulary in English, Explanatory notes in English, Essay in English (illustrated, annotated) by Nikolai Gogol, Лев Дуров]()
A Russian reader "Viy": Vocabulary in English, Explanatory notes in English, Essay in English (illustrated, annotated) by Nikolai Gogol, Лев Дуров
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 27 ratings*Illustrated, Annotated, Includes Vocabulary in English, Explanatory notes in English, Essay in English. A Russian reader with Explanatory notes in English. “Вий” Николая Гоголя. На русском языке... -
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![Paint it Black by Nancy A. Collins]()
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... -
![Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis]()
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... -
![Lord of the Vampires by Jeanne Kalogridis, Elizabeth Jane Miller]()
Lord of the Vampires by Jeanne Kalogridis, Elizabeth Jane Miller
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter the death of his half brother, Stefan, at the hands of Vlad Tsepesh--also known as Dracula--and after the destruction of his vampire father, Arkady, also at the hands of Vlad, Abraham van Helsing has traveled the world slaying many vampires... -
![The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt]()
The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voice--a poetic, resonant force of darkness and unique terrors. He returns with The Inconsolables, a chilling selection of stories sure to brighten this star of literary horror...Categorized as:
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![The Horror in the Museum by H.P. Lovecraft]()
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 Penguin Book of Vampire Stories by Alan Ryan, Fritz Leiber]()
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories by Alan Ryan, Fritz Leiber
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee... -
![Necroscope: The Touch by Brian Lumley]()
Necroscope: The Touch by Brian Lumley
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo test of the power of God, an insane triad of malevolent aliens decides to become so evil that God himself will have to stop them. They have already destroyed their homeworld, an entire solar system, and most of their own race... -
![The Hunted by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan]()
The Hunted by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTheir radio is sabotaged. The wolves are gathering outside. And for the increasingly desperate mercenaries, the worst is yet to come in part three of The Boy in the Iron Box: the box is empty.In the wake of an inexplicable disappearance, Liev and his men use their tactical skills to last the night—by going hunting... -
![The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman]()
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...Categorized as:
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![Black Wings of Cthulhu 2: Eighteen Tales of Lovecraftian Horror by S.T. Joshi, Melanie Tem]()
Black Wings of Cthulhu 2: Eighteen Tales of Lovecraftian Horror by S.T. Joshi, Melanie Tem
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis second instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of “The Hound,” while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of “The Outsider... -
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![Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee]()
Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe sequel to "Dark Dance". The House is destroyed, the Scarabae dead or scattered, and the youngest and most dangerous of them, voracious for destruction, is free. Ruth, a mind as old as evil in the body of a teenage girl, unleashes blood and fire across southern England... -
![Black Wings of Cthulhu by S.T. Joshi]()
Black Wings of Cthulhu by S.T. Joshi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis third installment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of H. P. Lovecraft’s tales as springboards. Jonathan Thomas opens the book with a chilling tale of biological horror set in Lovecraft’s native Providence, Rhode Island. Caitlín R... -
![The Angry Angel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]()
The Angry Angel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a distant age of brutal chaos, young Kelene is her family's salvation. An exquisite, golden-haired child just entering womanhood's embrace, she is blessed -- and cursed -- with a great gift: the protection of the Militant Angels... -
![Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale]()
Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCombining the high-voltage excitement of David Morrell's First Blood with the stark horror of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, this action-packed novel of a Vietnam vet warring against a swarm of vampires delivers all the thrills readers expect from the genre . . . and more... -
![Guide to the Camarilla by Richard Dansky]()
Guide to the Camarilla by Richard Dansky
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoses watered with blood It has been over five centuries since the curtain of the Masquerade was drawn across the stage of the Kindred. It has been five centuries of secrecy, tradition and lies, five centuries of hidden elegance and terror. It has been five centuries since anyone knew the truth. Now, at last, the curtain will be drawn back. The lies will be exposed... -
![Death Comes Home by Rhiannon Frater]()
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...
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