Gothic castles and suburban houses, vampires and possessions, cosmic dread and quiet dread, from the novels that set the rules to this decade. 381 books so far, across 82 series, plus 235 titles with no series listed. This is page 7 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonIn Caldwell, New York, a long war is being fought at night between vampires and the slayers who hunt them. Six vampire warriors, the Black Dagger Brotherhood, exist to defend their race, and their leader Wrath is the last purebred vampire alive. When one of his most trusted fighters is killed, Wrath is left with the man's half-breed daughter, who knows nothing about what she is.
Rating coming soonJacques Dubrinsky, the younger brother of the Carpathian leader, is tortured and buried alive by the same fanatics who attacked his family twenty-five years earlier. He survives with little memory of himself, of his people, or of anything except the faces of the men who hurt him. An American surgeon researching a rare blood disorder finds herself drawn towards the Carpathian mountains.
Rating coming soonRaven Whitney is a telepathic hunter of serial killers, and the work has left her unable to be close to anybody and has worn out her body. She goes somewhere far away to rest. In the Carpathian mountains, the leader of an ancient nocturnal race is waiting for the woman whose mind he can hear, and he has been waiting a long time.
Rating coming soonRafael De La Cruz has hunted vampires with his brothers for centuries, and each year his capacity to feel has weakened, until only his will keeps him from becoming what he hunts. Colby Jansen has spent five years protecting her younger half-siblings and keeping their ranch going, and now the De La Cruz family claims the children belong with their father's people. Colby intends to fight them.
Rating coming soonAudrey Rose Wadsworth leaves London and its memories after discovering the identity of Jack the Ripper, travelling with Thomas Cresswell to Romania, to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine and to the country of Vlad the Impaler. Bizarre murders are then found in the castle of the prince known as Dracula.
Rating coming soonAlexia Tarabotti has several social problems: she has no soul, she is a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead, and she has just been attacked by a vampire, which breaks every standard of etiquette. Then she kills the vampire by accident and Lord Maccon, a loud and untidy werewolf, is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
Rating coming soonHarry Keogh can talk to the dead, which is how he learns what is buried in the mountains of Romania: a master vampire called Thibor Ferenczy, held between death and life, who is plotting an unearthly revenge. The vampire's instrument is Boris Dragosani, an agent of a secret Russian service who wants to learn the vampire's skills for himself.
Rating coming soonAfter Hurricane Katrina and an explosion at the vampire summit, everyone in Louisiana, human or otherwise, is under strain, including the cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, whose boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. The werewolves and vampires of her corner of the state are changing how they do things whether they like it or not.
Rating coming soonThirteen-year-old Vladimir Tod hates junior high: bullies harass him, the principal is watching him and the girl he likes prefers his best friend. He also has a secret, because his mother was human and his father was a vampire, and with no idea how far his powers go he struggles daily with blood cravings and his enlarged fangs.
Rating coming soonRaven is love-struck and cannot work out what is keeping her nocturnal boyfriend from coming back to Dullsville, so there is only one thing to do and that is to go and find Alexander. On the way she cannot resist visiting the Coffin Club, the place where she feels most at home.
Rating coming soonRachel Morgan is a witch and an independent bounty hunter, and she spends her nights in downtown Cincinnati among the creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vampires and tangle with a demon or two, but a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is pressing the limits.
Rating coming soonSixteen-year-old Amanda Verner fears that she is losing her mind, and she believes the baby will never stop crying. When her family decides to leave their small mountain cabin for the vast prairie, she hopes to leave behind her haunting memories of her mother giving birth to a terribly afflicted baby.
Rating coming soonA Boeing 777 arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport and stops while it is taxiing, with all its window shades closed except one, its lights out and its communication channels silent. Dr Ephraim Goodweather, who runs the CDC's rapid-response team for biological threats, boards the plane and finds everybody aboard dead except four people.
Rating coming soonAt the age of eleven, Abraham Lincoln learns from his father Thomas that vampires are real. A drunken Thomas explains that a vampire killed Abraham's grandfather in 1786, and that his mother Nancy did not die of milk sickness but was given a fool's dose of vampire blood after Thomas failed to repay a debt.
Rating coming soonZoey's friends have her back again and the red fledglings are no longer Neferet's secret, but an unexpected danger has emerged: Neferet is guarding her powerful new consort, Kalona, and nobody at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House under his spell.
Rating coming soonSomeone has put a price on Anita Blake's head, and dating both a vampire and a werewolf was not the hardest part of her life. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, a hitman, for help in finding out who is behind the threat. The buyer is not somebody she knows, and the reason for the contract is not obvious.
Rating coming soonHarry Dresden, Chicago's preeminent wizard, is coping with his new roommate, his vampire half-brother Thomas, when a bigger problem arrives. One of his vampire foes summons him and threatens his friend, the police lieutenant Karrin Murphy, unless he finds the Word of Kemmler. If he does not produce it within three days, his friend will be framed for a murder she did not commit.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works, and because Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured the suspicion falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects something else and works with Sam to find the culprit and the motive. The answer is not the one the neighbours assume it is.
Rating coming soonJody wakes up in an alley under a dumpster with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, and she knows it is not going to be one of her better days. She feels awful, looks worse, her clothes are torn and her sense of smell has become as sharp as an animal's.
Rating coming soonMexico City is an oasis in a sea of vampires, policed to keep the creatures out. Domingo, a teenage trash-picker, attaches himself to Atl, the last descendant of a line of Aztec blood drinkers, who is hiding in the city from other vampires and from the authorities hunting her, drawing police, crime bosses and the vampire community into the search.
Rating coming soonZarek has been a Dark-Hunter, one of the soulless guardians who stand between humanity and what would destroy it, for nine hundred years, and long ago he was exiled for something he wants to understand. Astrid, a woman who sees straight to the truth, becomes a point of light in a dark existence he has made for himself, and the two of them are drawn together as he looks into what was done to him.
Rating coming soonOut on the Yorkshire Moors lives a family of book eaters, people who feed on books and keep everything they have read. Devon, a daughter of the clan, is raised on fairy tales and cautionary stories while her brothers are given tales of valour, and she has to decide how far she will go to feed her son, who was born hungry for human minds.
Rating coming soonA woman with tangled hair and no memory of how she came to be there is locked in a hospital in the Old City, sure only of a tea party long ago, long ears and blood. A fire gives her a chance to escape, and she sets out to learn what was done to her years before, pursued by something powerful that left the hospital with her.
Rating coming soonMerit is a graduate student in Chicago until a rogue vampire attacks her and only gets a sip before another vampire drives him off and saves her life by turning her. Her rescuer is the master of Cadogan House, and her new existence at a Hyde Park mansion full of vampires means serving a house whose lord expects her gratitude, while someone is still trying to kill her.
Rating coming soonLissianna Argeneau has spent centuries looking for the right man rather than a quick meal, and she has an awkward problem for a vampire: she faints at the sight of blood. Her family's solution is to leave an unconscious doctor named Gregory Hewitt tied to her bed as a present, and he comes round to find a stranger in the room with plans for the evening.
Rating coming soonThe palazzo of the Scarletti family carries strange carvings and gargoyles, and a worse reputation: every bride who enters it is said to leave in a casket. Nicoletta has no fear of curses or of marriage until she looks into the eyes of Don Scarletti, who as head of the family has the right to choose a wife from among his people.
Rating coming soonSavannah Grant is chief ranger of the Ripple Creek werewolf reservation and has buried her heartbreak in the job since the affair that ended badly years ago. Now humans are being murdered on her land in a pattern that matches killings she saw a decade earlier, and the investigator who arrives to catch the killer is the man she lost.
Rating coming soonAngela Todd is a London seamstress who inherits a country cottage called Dower House and finds herself independent for the first time. From the day she arrives somebody wants her gone: there are cruel pranks, strange accidents and shrill threats, and two men take an interest in her, the schoolmaster Greg Ingram and Roderick Mellory.
Rating coming soonFang Kattalakis is a wolf, and the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion, the council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. When war breaks out among the lycanthropes he has to choose a side, and when Aimee, the woman he loves, is accused of betraying her people, saving her means breaking the law of his own.
Rating coming soonFrank Pollard wakes each night with no memory of where he has been or what he has done, and finds himself injured or carrying objects he does not recognise. Two private investigators, Bobby and Julie Dakota, are hired to find out what is happening to him, and their work leads into a web of experiments and family secrets.
Rating coming soonRoxanne and Pepper are a teenage couple with problems, and they leave their small town for a weekend to try to solve them. They do not succeed, and when they come home they find the town empty; the other towns are empty too, and so is the world, until they find three other teenagers who are still alive.
Rating coming soonTwenty-five years ago Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a Victorian estate in the Vermont woods, and fled it three weeks later in the middle of the night. Her father wrote a memoir about the haunting that made the family famous, and Maggie, who was too young to remember, has never believed it.
Rating coming soonToni MacNally and her friends buy a run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist attraction, complete with a re-enactment and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall. Then the castle's actual owner arrives, a formidable Scot who shares the invented laird's name, and young women begin to be murdered nearby.
Rating coming soonEmmalynn inherits a dilapidated seaside mansion from Henrietta Stern and lapses into amnesia rather than remember the axe murder she witnessed there. The police closed the case when the accused man died in jail, but his brooding son wants his father's name cleared and is prepared to endanger Emmalynn to do it, while another man keeps pressing her for a kind of intimacy she does not want.
Rating coming soonAt the start of the twentieth century Ellen Rimbauer, the young bride of a Seattle industrialist, begins to keep a diary. In it she records her anxieties about her marriage, her confusion about her own desires and the growing strangeness of her life, while the enormous house her husband is building, Rose Red, becomes a place where people disappear.
Rating coming soonWhen her little brother seems to be taken over by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura Chant goes for help to the older boy at school she is convinced has supernatural powers. What she asks for is a changeover: a deliberate move from one kind of life to another, which she has to be willing to make.
Rating coming soonNorman Saylor, a professor at a small American college, considers magic to be superstition. Then he discovers that his wife is a practising sorceress, and he still refuses to accept what he has learned: that among women magic is an open secret, that it is being used against him, and that the occult warfare behind ordinary academic life is a matter of life and death.
Rating coming soonMr Ash is quiet, tall, unfailingly kind and the last survivor of an ancient species called the Taltos, living among humans as he always has and running a great corporate empire. He learns from an old friend that another Taltos has been seen in the Scottish glen where, long before the Romans came, he ruled his clan.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse is at work at Merlotte's bar when it is firebombed, and because her employer Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion falls on the people who dislike shifters. Sookie suspects something else, and she is also caught up in a plot by her lover Eric and his vampire child Pam against the vampire who rules them.
Rating coming soonTommy Flood wakes up after the best night of his life to find that his girlfriend Jody is a vampire, and that she has made him one too. The two of them decide to work through it together, which means learning what he can do, finding someone to run errands in daylight, and dealing with everyone in San Francisco who wants them gone.
Rating coming soonSummer is over and Raven is not looking forward to going back to Dullsville High, where the school day means Trevor Mitchell and her nights with her immortal boyfriend Alexander come to an end. Then a letter arrives at Alexander's mansion announcing that his parents are coming to town, and almost nobody sees them except Raven.
Rating coming soonWith Alexander's parents back in Romania, Raven and her vampire boyfriend settle into their secret romance again. Then Sebastian, Alexander's best friend, arrives to stay at the mansion, and Raven sees a chance to learn about Alexander's past, including whether he will ever bite her and make their love immortal.
Rating coming soonKate Drake, a bestselling novelist and one of seven sisters with unusual powers, comes home for her northern California town's Christmas pageant and decides to open a bookshop in a rundown historic mill. The former Army Ranger who is restoring the building is drawn to her, and then an earthquake cracks the mill's foundation and uncovers a burial crypt.
Rating coming soonA vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, and she has to warn the local authorities what they are dealing with. The situation turns out to be worse than she thought: ten police officers and an executioner have already been killed, and Anita travels to Nevada with three other federal marshals to work the case.
Rating coming soonThree sisters named Rowan, Kestrel and Jade move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter in Briar Creek, Oregon, and the town has never seen anything like their supernatural grace. Mark becomes obsessed with Jade, and when the two of them follow the sisters into the woods one night they find out what the girls are running from.
Rating coming soonThe night creatures of Cincinnati dislike Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter whose new reputation for dark magic attracts the attention of humans and the undead alike. A mortal lover who left her has come back haunted by his past, and there are others who want what he is carrying badly enough to destroy the Hollows to get it.
Rating coming soonKathy Hunt travels to Castlemoor after her brother dies suddenly, intending to finish the book he was writing about the old rites once performed on the moors nearby. His manuscript has disappeared, and the people around her seem to be afraid of something. The man who says he loves her warns her that the danger is real.
Rating coming soonEvan died in the Fear Street woods a year ago, and since then Ellen has moved away and the group of friends has fallen apart. Meg Dalton decides to bring them back together with a surprise party for Ellen, and then the threatening telephone calls begin, followed by acts of vandalism and violence, all of them insisting that the party has to be cancelled.
The horror shelf runs from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century gothic novels that invented the furniture - the castle, the diary, the thing that will not stay buried - through the twentieth-century paperbacks and film-era classics to books published this decade. Ghost stories and haunted houses sit beside vampire and possession novels, cosmic and weird fiction, folk horror, body horror and quiet psychological dread.
A book lands here when it is built to unsettle: a haunting, a monster, a curse, an appetite, or a wrongness the characters cannot name. Crime and horror overlap at the edges, and a thriller that stays on the crime side of the line sits on the mystery shelf instead. Cross-over titles that genuinely belong on both shelves reuse one page and are listed on each.
The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
676 booksPrimary genreEpic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
685 booksPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
536 booksPrimary genreDetectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.
599 booksPrimary genreCathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.
580 booksPrimary genreNovels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.
575 booksPrimary genreShipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.
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