18 books like Let the right one in

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs · 2011 · ★ 3.9 · 387p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he… Shares: Community pick

Fledgling Octavia E. Butler · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of an ancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with humanity. Genetically modified to be able to walk in daylight, Shori now becomes the target of a vast… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

King Arthur J. Comyns Carr · 1893 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Adaptations, Drama

Dark Ghost Christine Feehan · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate He wasn't civilized or tame. He had his own code and he lived by it. Monk. Bounty hunter. Vampire slayer. Andre Boroi has spent centuries battling the undead, holding out against the dark with honor. But now, gravely wounded by master vampire Costin Popescu, Andre will be easy to track -- his spilled blood marking the killing trail for Popescu and his hungry band of underlings. Andre's only… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

Merrick Anne Rice · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate At the center of Anne Rice's new novel is the beautiful, unconquerable Merrick, a child--a witch with the power and magical knowledge of a Medea and a Circe. She is a Mayfair of New Orleans, descendent of a family rich in its French and Spanish past, steeped in the age-old tradition of voodoo. Into this strange and exotic world comes David Talbot, hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost-mortal… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

A Discovery of Witches Deborah Harkness · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 585p · ≈ 19h · Moderate An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

Vampire Mountain Darren Shan · 2001 · ★ 4.2 · 199p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In this fourth book in the bestselling Saga of Darren Shan, Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain?the vampaneze have been there before them.Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain?Darren's… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) Charlaine Harris · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition. And with HBO launching an all-new show, True Blood, based on the Southern Vampire novels, the demand for Charlaine Harris and Sookie Stackhouse will be bigger… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871 · ★ 3.9 · 70p · ≈ 2h · Challenging First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. The novella notably never acknowledges homosexuality… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares: Drama

The Vampire Lestat Anne Rice · 1986 · ★ 4.1 · 525p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire (1976). The story is told from the point of view of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt as narrator, while Interview is narrated by Louis de Pointe du Lac. Several events in the two books appear to contradict each other, allowing the reader to decide… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

Living dead in Dallas Charlaine Harris · 2002 · ★ 4.3 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is on a streak of bad luck. First, her coworker is murdered and no one seems to care. Then she's face-to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it). Point is, they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she… Shares: Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires

The misfortunes of Arthur Thomas Hughes · 1900 · ★ 3.7 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This book contains images of pages from the 16th-century play titled "The Misfortunes of Arthur" by Thomas Hughes and fellow members of Grays Inn. Shares: Adaptations, Drama

Arthurian drama Alan Lupack · 1991 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This anthology reproduces six plays based on stories of King Arthur from a variety of periods. Originally published in 1991, it offers a comprehensive discussion of Arthurian Drama in introduction and also provides an appendix listing printed scripts in English that address Arthurian legend. Shares: Adaptations, Drama

Le\Chevalier de Neige Boris Vian · 1974 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Les amours de Lancelot et de la reine Guenièvre. Une pièce écrite en 1952 pour le Festival dramatique de Normandie. Shares: Adaptations, Drama

William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from… Shares: Adaptations, Drama

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: Coming-of-age, Vampires

The blue bird Maurice Maeterlinck · 1909 · ★ 3.5 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A brother and sister search for happiness. Shares: Drama

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