18 books like Slither

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

Rise of the Huntress (The Last Apprentice #7) Joseph Delaney · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 436p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Long journeys, hard battles, malicious witches, and a small band of kids facing an old enemy. This is the seventh volume in a series that continues to be one of the best! Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Horror stories, Supernatural

Rage of the Fallen Joseph Delaney · 2011 · ★ 4.5 A dangerous few months lie ahead—ones which some of us will be hard-pressed to survive.Thomas Ward has served as the Spook's apprentice for three years. He has battled boggarts, witches, demons, and even the devil himself. Tom has enemies: The Fiend stalks him, waiting for a moment of weakness. The terrifying Morrigan, goddess of witches, warned him never to step foot on her homeland, Ireland.But… Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Horror stories, Supernatural

A New Darkness (Starblade Chronicles) Joseph Delaney · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Although his apprenticeship was not done when John Gregory died, Tom Ward spent years learning to fight boggarts, witches, demons, and more and feels prepared to be the new county Spook, but while his youth causes many people to distrust him, Jenny is determined to be his apprentice. Shares: Apprentices, Monsters, Witches, Horror stories

The Dark Army Joseph Delaney · 2016 · ★ 4.8 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Tom Ward is now Spook of the county, and with his apprentice, Jenny, he continues the fight against boggarts, witches and terrifying new creatures of the dark. Along with the witch assassin, Grimalkin, Tom and Jenny lead an army into battle against a dangerous enemy -- but it all goes catastrophically wrong. The situation seems hopeless until Alice, Tom's lost love and a powerful witch, appears.… Shares: Apprentices, Monsters, Witches, Horror stories

Spook's Dark Assassin Joseph Delaney · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In his job as the county's spook seventeen-year-old Thomas Ward is used to battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. But now he and his apprentice, Jenny, must team up with former rivals and enemies to fight the evil Kobalos warriors intent on destroying the county. The fight has cost the life of a strong ally, Grimalkin the witch assassin. Determined to end the war with the… Shares: Apprentices, Monsters, Witches, Horror stories

Grimalkin, the witch assassin Joseph Delaney · 2011 · ★ 3.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend. Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Horror stories, Supernatural

The Spook's Apprentice Joseph Delaney · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried—some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive. Only Thomas Ward is left. He’s the last hope; the last apprentice. Can Thomas succeed? Will he learn the difference between a benign witch and a… Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Horror stories, Supernatural

Clay David Almond · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They're full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O'Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him--maybe some of their good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it's Stephen who sees something special in Davie.Stephen's a… Shares: Horror stories, Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror

Night of the Soul Stealer Joseph Delaney · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil. Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Supernatural, Paranormal

The Werewolf in the Living Room Robert Lawrence Stine · 1999 · ★ 3.5 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Aaron's Dad has a live werewolf in his living room but Aaron is not convinced. Shares: Monsters, Horror stories, Horror, Children's fiction

The Spook's Curse Joseph Delaney · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 455p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And there’s some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat. The Bane! But the Bane is not their only enemy. The Quisitor arrives, intent on hunting down anyone who meddles with the dark.… Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Supernatural, Paranormal

Wizard of Washington Square Jane Yolen · 1969 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Moderate David and Leilah are delighted to meet the wizard who lives in the park until he accidently turns David's dog into a statue and the statue is stolen. Shares: Witches, Magic, Children's fiction

Attack of the Fiend Joseph Delaney · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 530p · ≈ 17h · Moderate When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness. Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Horror stories, Supernatural

Clash of the Demons Joseph Delaney · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever. Shares: Apprentices, Witches, Supernatural, Children's fiction

Down a Dark Hall Lois Duncan · 1974 · ★ 4.0 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected. Shares: Horror stories, Supernatural, Children's fiction

I Was a Second Grade Werewolf Daniel Manus Pinkwater · 1983 · ★ 3.7 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Though he has turned into a werewolf, his parents, teacher, and classmates still see him as Lawrence Talbot, second-grader. Shares: Monsters, Horror stories, Children's fiction

Witch Christopher Pike · 1990 · ★ 3.8 · 225p · ≈ 7h · Moderate From Publishers Weekly In this hokey, meandering novel, Julia is a girl gifted with a healing touch and the power to glimpse the future. When she sees a vision of her best friend's boyfriend, Jim, shot and bleeding to death, she does her best to keep him out of danger. But then another friend is shot while witnessing a gas station holdup, and Julia and Jim set out to wreak revenge on the gunman.… Shares: Witches, Horror stories, Supernatural, Children's fiction

Wolf Trap Benjamin Hulme-Cross · 2015 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate There is a werewolf on the island. Mr. Blood tries to trap it. But who is really the hunter, and who is being hunted? Shares: Horror stories, Supernatural, Children's fiction

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