18 books like Merrick

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Taltos Anne Rice · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Meet Mr. Ash, quiet-spoken, tall, unfailingly kind - sole survivor of an ancient species, the Taltos - thriving among humankind as he has always done, now the head of a great corporate empire. As the novel opens, he is stunned to learn from an old and mysterious friend that another Taltos has been seen - in the very same Scottish glen where centuries ago, long before the coming of the Romans, Ash… Shares New orleans, Louisiana, Occult fiction, Witches

Blood Red Heather Graham · 2007 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When a fortune-teller shows bridesmaid Lauren Crow an omen of her gruesome death, she and her friends laugh it off as cheesy theatrics--until women begin disappearing in the night.Even as the streets become more dangerous, Lauren finds herself lusting after a man who is himself dangerous--and quite possibly crazy. Mark Davidson prowls the city by night armed with crosses and holy water, in search… Shares New orleans, Vampires, Paranormal

They Thirst Robert R. McCammon · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 531p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Vampires, Horror with this book.

Violin Anne Rice · 1997 · ★ 3.4 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Violin, released October 15, 1997, is Anne Rice's richly alluring new ghost novel that moves across the centuries to tell the story of three charismatic figures wrapped in music. A return to the romanticism of her first books, wild, passionate, tormented, operatic, Violin moves from nineteenth-century Vienna to modern New Orleans to Rio de Janiero telling the story of three unforgettable people.… Shares New orleans, Louisiana, Occult fiction, Paranormal

Let the right one in John Ajvide Lindqvist · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Twelve-year-old Oskar is obsessed by the murder that's taken place in his neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She's a bit weird, though. And she only comes out at night--Publisher's description. Shares Vampires -- Fiction, Vampires, General

Never Been Bit Lydia Dare · 2011 · ★ 4.0 Read for: Paranormal romance, witches, vampires, tortured hero, angelic heroine. Alec MacQuarrie never thought he could love again, his 'heart' was dead with his body. Until he starts seeing Sorcha Ferguson who he has known all his life as a mature woman. She brings light to his darkness and passion to his dead life. Sorcha wanted a happy marriage to someone who would love her… Shares Witches, Vampires, Paranormal, General

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix · 2020 · ★ 3.9 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of Stephen King. Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a… Shares Vampires, Paranormal, Horror

Ghost story Peter Straub · 1979 · ★ 4.0 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule. Shares Paranormal, Horror

Blackwood Farm Anne Rice · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 527p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Publication to coincide with new Vampire Chronicle BLOOD CANTICLE in hardback.Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide.Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and… Shares Louisiana, Occult fiction, Witches, Vampires

Fledgling Octavia E. Butler · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 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, Paranormal, Horror

Of blood and bone Nora Roberts · 2018 · ★ 4.3 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before -- the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a… Shares Witches, Vampires

Never Whistle at Night

Never Whistle at Night Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and… Shares Paranormal, Horror

The September House

The September House Carissa Orlando · 2023 · ★ 3.9 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would… Shares Paranormal, Horror

Stitches in time Barbara Michaels · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Rachel is an intelligent, attractive young woman trying to get continue with her life. She feels her plate is full: she is estranged from her family, has a carefully hidden and humiliating crush on her new patroness' husband, and, having thrown out a manipulating, verbally abusive boyfriend, she has a job, a really good new friend, and time to work on her dissertation: that traditionally, women… Shares Occult fiction, Witches, Paranormal

Otherworld Chills Kelley Armstrong · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In the final installment of the Otherworld anthology series, Armstrong brings the clever wit, dark twists and intense suspense her readers have come to expect. Shares Witches, Vampires, Paranormal, General

My Work Is Not Yet Done

My Work Is Not Yet Done Thomas Ligotti · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION, Horror with this book.

Shadow of night Deborah Harkness · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 588p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them,… Shares Witches, Vampires

From dead to worse Charlaine Harris · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 359p · ≈ 11h · Moderate After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. It's clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana likeit or not. And Sookie—Friend… Shares Louisiana, Vampires, Paranormal

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