15 books like The laughing corpse

What to read after The laughing corpse — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) Laurell K. Hamilton · 1994 · ★ 4.3 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From back cover Jove paperback October 2002: "THEY WERE TREATING ME LIKE I WAS A VERY DANGEROUS PERSON. At five-three I am not imposing. Raise the dead, kill a few vampires, and people start considering you are one of the monsters. Sometimes it hurt. But now... it had possibilities. 'Do you really thing I came here unarmed?' I asked. My voice sounded very matter-of-fact... 'Want to bet… Shares: Vodou, Voodooism, Anita Blake, Blake

Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) Laurell K. Hamilton · 2003 · ★ 4.3 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate A collection of books 11-15 in Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.• Cerulean Sins• Incubus Dreams• Micah• Danse Macabre • The Harlequin Shares: Anita Blake, Blake, Vampires

Jambalaya Luisah Teish · 1985 · ★ 4.9 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Actress, storyteller, and priestess Luisah Teish dramatically re-creates centuries-old African-American traditions with music, memoir, and folk wisdom. Shares: Vodou, Voodooism

Danse Macabre Laurell K. Hamilton · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 459p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Times bestselling series.These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being… Shares: Anita Blake, Blake, Vampires

The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake) Laurell K. Hamilton · 1996 · ★ 4.2 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Anita Blake has fallen for the leader of a local pack of werewolves. She's survived a lot, but this love affair may kill her yet. Shares: Anita Blake, Blake, Vampires

Monster nation David Wellington · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The second entry in this "inventive and exciting" zombie series that began with Monster Island (Publishers Weekly). This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she's half-dead. She can't remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help—and that's when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the… Shares: Zombies in fiction, Zombies

Hadriana dans tous mes rêves René Depestre · 1988 · ★ 3.5 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion and collapses at the altar. Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer, then… Shares: Vodou, Zombies

Vampires and the undead Anita Ganeri · 2010 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate This collection of interconnected essays relates the Undead in literature, art and other media to questions concerning gender, race, genre, technology, consumption and social change. A coherent narrative follows Enlightenment studies of the vampire's origins in folklore and folk panics, the sources of vampire fiction, through Romantic incarnations in 'Byron' and 'Polidori' to Le Fanu's… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

The undead Jim Pipe · 2011 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Tales of bloodthirsty spirits that prey on the living are told in countries all over the world. But do vampires really exist? What are they? And how do people defend against them? Shares: Zombies, Vampires

I Am Legend Richard Matheson · 1954 · ★ 4.3 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Zombies, Vampires

Death Warmed Over (Dan Shamble Zombie P. I.) Kevin J. Anderson · 2012 · ★ 2.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From a New York Times bestseller, "a zombie sleuth prowls the mean streets as he works a half-dozen seriously weird cases" in this urban sci-fi fantasy(Kirkus Reviews).   Single Dead Detective Seeks Clue   Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it's been hell being a detective--especially for zombie P. I. Dan Chambeaux.… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

Jailbait zombie Mario Acevedo · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Vampires versus Zombies, round one . . .Vampire detective Felix Gomez has seen a lot of weird things since becoming one of the undead — nymphomaniacs, aliens, and X-rated bloodsuckers, just to name a few — but now he comes face-to-face with the worst sort of undead.To stop a ravenous army of zombies, Gomez must team up with a precocious teen with clairvoyant powers whose cooperation comes at a… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

The Onts Dan Greenburg · 2005 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin face giant ants, ghouls, zombies, and a treacherous orphanage matron when they leave their miserable home at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage to live with the Mandible sisters in the Dripping Fang Forest. Shares: Zombies, Vampires

That's Spooky Aaron Frisch · 2013 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Moderate Shares: Zombies, Vampires

Fright Night NOW Comics · 1988 · 36p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Adapted from the 1985 film, Fright Night featured the continuing adventures of movie star/vampire killer/TV horror host Peter Vincent and his teenage monster-hunter sidekick Charley Brewster. In addition to dealing with the resurrected Evil Ed, Jerry Dandrige and other vampires, the duo also squared off against a squid-man, spider-boy, minotaur, aliens and various other monsters. Many stories… Shares: Zombies, Vampires

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