18 books like Raven's Gate

What to read after Raven's Gate — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Dime Store Magic Kelley Armstrong · 2004 · ★ 4.1 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate From one of today’s most original writers comes the mesmerizing tale of an exceptional young woman caught up in an otherworldly realm where some will stop at nothing to get what they want. Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world’s most powerful elite organizations—the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is… Shares: Witches in fiction, Witches

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H.P. Lovecraft · 1965 · ★ 4.1 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Continuador de la tradición del cuento de terror, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) innovó el género con aportaciones procedentes de una veta personalísima de temas y obsesiones en la que se dan cita el mundo sobrenatural, el saber esotérico y las ensoñaciones oníricas. Creador de una mitología fantástica y prolífico autor de cuentos y relatos breves, publicó asimismo tres novelas, entre las que… Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural

The return Walter De la Mare · 1910 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Challenging After visiting a graveyard, a man finds his appearance has mysteriously changed. Returning home only to be received with horror and suspicion by his family, he must reckon with the social consequences of his bizarre transformation, while searching for an explanation and solution. Walter de la Mare has a reputation for crafting ghost stories of philosophical depth and haunting ambiguity. The… Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, 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: Supernatural, 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: Supernatural, Paranormal

Treasure Box Orson Scott Card · 1996 · ★ 3.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A reclusive millionaire's hasty marriage leads to chilling revelations in the renowned author's "enthrallingly entertaining" supernatural horror novel (Booklist). Software engineer Quentin Fears was only 10 when his beloved sister died in a car accident. Since then, he withdrew from the world into books and machines. Though he's made millions with his software, he avoids companionship at all… Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal

Son of a Witch Gregory Maguire · 2005 · ★ 3.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the teen is shattered in spirit and body. But silent novice Candle tends him at the Cloister of Saint Glinda, and wills him back to life with her music. What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers? Can he find his… Shares: Witches in fiction, Witches

A Journey from This World to the Next Henry Fielding · 1798 · 143p · ≈ 4h · Demanding This unique double edition brings together Henry Fielding's two voyage narratives. A Journey from this World to the Next (1743) and The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) belong, in different ways, to the travel-writing tradition, and show Fielding standing in ironic relation to the genre. The Journey is a powerful yet playful narrative, in which Fielding anatomizes contemporary follies with… Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal

The Witches of Eastwick John Updike · 1779 · ★ 3.2 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Demanding Three friends get more what they wish for when the guy of their dreams shows up in their sleepy little town. Then Darryl van Horn starts dating all three of them and reveals that they're witches. But is Darryl's offer of magical education really what it seems? Or are there some hidden motives to this man? Shares: Witches in fiction, Witches, 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: Supernatural, Paranormal

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: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, Young Adult

The Near Witch V.E. Schwab · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. There are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at… Shares: Witches, Supernatural, Paranormal

Duma Key Stephen King · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 678p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Duma Key is a novel by American writer Stephen King published on January 22, 2008 by Scribner. The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is King's first novel to be set in Florida and/or Minnesota. Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal

Mistral's Kiss Laurell K. Hamilton · 2006 · ★ 4.3 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne of faerie. My day job, once upon a time, was as a private detective in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, princess has now become a full-time occupation.My aunt, Queen Andais, will have it no other way. And so I am virtually a prisoner in faerie--trapped here with some of the realm's most beautiful men to serve as my bodyguards . . . and my lovers. For I am… Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal

The wind in the rose-bush Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1903 · ★ 4.2 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Six ghost stories from small-town 19th century America. Shares: Supernatural in fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal

Haunted Kelley Armstrong · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Moderate THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY -- SUPERNATURAL -- WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine -- half-demon, black witch and devoted mother -- has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again -- which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad -- all she needs to do is find a way to… Shares: Witches, Supernatural, Paranormal

The Witches Roald Dahl · 1983 · ★ 4.2 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. Shares: Witches in fiction, Witches, Young Adult

Practical Magic Alice Hoffman · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well; as children, the sisters were outsiders. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, but all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But… Shares: Witches in fiction, Witches, Paranormal

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