18 books like Hourglass

What to read after Hourglass — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Byways of ghost-land Elliott O'Donnell · 1911 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth Andrew Joseph White · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate London, 1883. Der sechzehnjährige Silas Bell ist trans und würde sich lieber seine violetten Augen ausreißen, als eine gehorsame Speaker-Ehefrau zu werden. Doch es spielt keine Rolle, dass er ein Junge ist und nicht das Mädchen, das die Welt unbedingt in ihm sehen will. Nach einem gescheiterten Versuch, einer arrangierten Ehe zu entkommen, wird bei Silas die Schleierkrankheit diagnostiziert –… Shares: Secret societies, Ghosts, Horror stories, Young Adult

Haunted Meg Cabot · 2003 · ★ 3.6 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead? Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good. Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse… Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Young Adult

Shadow souls Lisa Jane Smith · 2010 · ★ 3.7 · 599p · ≈ 19h · Moderate On the run . . .Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havoc in Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore the evil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search of Stefan.In order to find him, she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother, Damon Salvatore, the handsome but deadly vampire who… Shares: Love, Horror stories, Vampires, Young Adult

They Thirst Robert R. McCammon · 1981 · ★ 3.6 · 531p · ≈ 17h · Moderate A collection of genre-bending horror and dark fantasy stories from the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of the Matthew Corbett novels.This edition includes an introduction by international bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale.Featuring two Bram Stoker Award–winning tales, McCammon's Shoppe of Olde Curiosities is a career-spanning collection gathering nineteen short stories… Shares: Vampires, Horror

Love in Vein Poppy Z. Brite · 1994 · ★ 3.1 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Twenty stories of vampiric erotica, or more precisely depravity with sex prominently featured. People are skinned alive and a pair of women make love to a man until he dies. Edited by the author of Drawing Blood. Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires, Horror

More Short & Shivery Robert D. San Souci · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 163p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A collection of scary folktales from the United States, China, England, Italy, Russia, and other countries around the world. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror stories

Gilda Joyce Jennifer Allison · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When her best friend, Wendy Choy, qualifies to compete in an international piano competition in Oxford, England, irrepressible Gilda Joyce finds a way to get an invitation herself—as a page-turner. Wendy settles into an exhausting practice schedule, made worse by strange nightmares, while Gilda finds herself falling in love with a British boy. But when Wendy discovers a ghostly message written in… Shares: Secret societies, Ghost Stories, Ghosts

Night Chills Dean Koontz · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Designed by top scientists and unleashed in a monstrous conspiracy, night chills are seizing the men and women of Black River--driving them to acts of rape and murder. The nightmare is real. And death is the only cure... Shares: Horror stories, Horror

Dearly, beloved Lia Habel · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "It's 2196, and the city of New London is now markedly changed. Political and social tensions are building around the advent of the "civilized" undead, and there's violence in the streets. When that violence hits close to home, Nora Dearly and Bram Griswold are once again forced to take control of their own destinies. As old friends become foes and chaos reigns all around them, Nora and Bram must… Shares: Love, Romance

Blood Oath Christopher Farnsworth · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. The President's vampire. Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the president. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood oath, Cade has spent more than 140 years in service to the president, battling… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Whispers Dean Koontz · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A MASTER STORYTELLER...his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns."—The San Diego Union-Tribune For thirty-five years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark...enough to make him kill—and kill again... Hilary Thomas is one… Shares: Horror stories, Horror

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Blake A. Hoena · 1958 · ★ 3.5 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Shares: Ghosts in fiction, Ghost Stories, Ghosts

Bloodsucking Fiends Christopher Moore · 1995 · ★ 4.2 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At last, a love story you can really sink your teeth into! With a psychedelic inventiveness that invites comparison with Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, the author of Coyote Blue, spins a hip tale of vampires on the loose and in love in San Francisco. When Jody wakes up in an alley, under a dupster, with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, she knows it isn't going to be… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires

Vampire Academy Richelle Mead · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires, Young Adult, Romance

The Clock Tower Ghost (Faber Children's Classics) Gene Kemp · 1981 · 89p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Awful Amanda, a mean, spiteful, greedy bully, finds herself living in a clock tower that is haunted by the ghost of a proud, rich man with a strangely familiar face. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts

Bumps in the night Harry Allard · 1979 · ★ 3.8 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate When he discovers his house is haunted, Dudley Stork enlists the help of his friends to find out what is causing the spooky noises. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts

Lover Avenged J. R. Ward · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 736p · ≈ 24h · Moderate The brothers are back—the latest installment in J. R. Ward’s sizzling #1New York Times bestselling series.J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood novels have introduced readers to a “different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing” (All About Romance)world. Now, as the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male’s loyalty to the Brotherhood will be tested—and his… Shares: Vampires in fiction, Vampires, Romance

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