18 books like Monsieur Pain

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

El Zorro Isabel Allende · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate El Zorro: comienza la leyenda es una biografía ficticia de 2005 y la primera historia de los orígenes del héroe El Zorro, escrita por la autora chilena Isabel Allende. Es una precuela a los eventos de la historia original del Zorro, la novela La maldición de Capistrano, escrita por Johnston McCulley y publicada en 1919. También contiene numerosas referencias a otros trabajos relacionados con El… Shares: Chilean fiction, Ficción

A bid for fortune, or, Dr. Nikola's vendetta Guy Boothby · 1895 London, the decadent 1890s: a mysterious meeting is called in a private room of the sumptuous Imperial Hotel. The sinister Dr Nikola is presiding, but what masterpiece of crime is he planning? Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, a rugged young man rescues a girl from attack by ruffians. These two events are skilfully woven together in one of the classics of late Victorian crime fiction. Before his… Shares: Occultism, Paranormal

Temporada de huracanes Fernanda Melchor · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Con un ritmo y un lenguaje magistrales, Fernanda Melchor, autora de Falsa liebre explora en esta obra las sinrazones que subyacen a los actos más desesperados de barbarie pasional. Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad. Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias… Shares: Romance literature, Ficción

The Room In The Dragon Volant Sheridan Le Fanu · 2002 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate The Room in the Dragon Volant is somewhat unusual for le Fanu, since it’s not really a supernatural tale. It does however have plenty of gothic elements and some genuine horror, and it’s an ingenious and entertaining tale. Shares: Paranormal

Cameos Marie Corelli · 1895 · ★ 3.4 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Paranormal

Five Days in Paris Danielle Steel · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Peter Haskell has everything.. power, position, a career and a family that mean everything to him and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher, the wife of a famous senator, is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she once loved and no longer even knows. Peter and Olivia meet in Paris,… Shares: Paris, Ficción

Odd Apocalypse Dean Koontz · 2012 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Once presided over by a Roaring ’20s Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants—and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably charming traveling companion. Fresh from a harrowing clash with lethal adversaries, they welcome… Shares: Occultism, Paranormal

Ghost story Peter Straub · 1979 · ★ 3.9 · 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

The elixir of life (Auriol) William Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life is a novel by British historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. It was first published in 1844 in serial form, under the title Revelations of London. Auriol, written 1844, is slightly unusual in the Ainsworth repertoire as the action is entirely couched as a fantasy, so that the supernatural element (which occurs also, for instance, in his Guy Fawkes and his… Shares: Paranormal

With the immortals Francis Marion Crawford · 1888 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Paranormal

Eat, Slay, Love Jesse Petersen · 2011 · ★ 3.7 Two zombie apocalypse survivors search for a cure and fight the undead together in this inventive and darkly funny romantic comedy perfect for fans of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Sarah and David have survived the zombie apocalypse. They stood side by side and fought the undead, mad scientists, and even bionic monsters until the unthinkable happened. A zombie bite. But not even that could… Shares: Paranormal

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

Vera, the medium; "Miss Civilization" Richard Harding Davis · 1905 · 215p · ≈ 7h · 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: Paranormal

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

Wilderness Dennis Danvers · 1991 · ★ 3.0 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Alice White has a secret. There is no friend or family member she can confide in—and she cannot trust it to the strangers she chooses for the fevered one-night stands that are as close as she dares come to love. Then she meets Erik Summers, college professor and biologist, who draws Alice from her cage, igniting a passion within her that she can't control or deny. Though he shares her fire and a… Shares: Paranormal

The Vampire Armand Anne Rice · 1998 · ★ 3.8 · 530p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The previous volume of the Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil, was called 'a modern Paradise Lost' by the Washington Post. Taking the Vampire Lestat from fiction into legend, it left him lying in a New Orleans convent, at the edge of death. Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the Vampire Chronicles returns to the glittering story of Armand, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven… Shares: Ficción, Paranormal

Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton · 1910 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection of ten Edith Wharton short stories: "The Bolted Door," "His Father's Son," "The Daunt Diana," "The Debt," "Full Circle," "The Legend," "The Eyes," "The Blond Beast," "Afterward," and "The Letters." Shares: Paranormal

Dark Peril Christine Feehan · 2010 · ★ 4.3 · 459p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Dominic, of the Dragonseeker lineage—one of the most powerful of the Carpathian lines—is desperate to go to the very heart of the enemy camp and learn their plans. There’s only one way to do so: ingest the parasitic blood of a vampire. He knows that it is a mission from which there is no return. With little time before the blood takes effect, he’ll get the information he needs, relay it to the… Shares: Ficción, Paranormal

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