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- The Devils
series1 book2025
similar bydarksecondary world+1 more
Joe Abercrombie's The Devils (2025) opens a new grimdark fantasy series set in an alternate medieval Europe besieged by plague, famine, and monsters, following Brother Diaz as he's tasked by the Church with managing a squad of imprisoned monstrosities - a vampire, a werewolf, a cursed knight, a pirate, and others - for a mission nobody sane would volunteer for. Their job is to escort a former thief posing as a claimant to the throne of Troy safely to her coronation, through a landscape falling apart around them. It's Abercrombie's first work outside his First Law universe in a decade, pairing his usual morally compromised cast with a monster-squad premise.
- The Tears of Artamon
series4 books2003
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The Tears of Artamon is Sarah Ash's epic fantasy tetralogy: Lord of Snow and Shadows (2003), Prisoner of Ironsea Tower, Children of the Serpent Gate and The Arkhel Conundrum. It follows a young ruler cursed with a dragon-warrior's nature, caught between rival kingdoms and an ancient, malevolent bloodline he is bound to. The series follows one continuous royal conflict across its four volumes.
- Nytefall Trilogy
series3 books2023
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Chloe C. Peñaranda's Nytefall trilogy continues the star-maiden Astraea's story after she wins her freedom, following her as she tries to hold onto it while recovering memories and coming into dangerous new powers. Her arc runs alongside Nyte, a vampire whose brother is scheming against him from within their own ranks. The series leans into gothic romance stakes as loyalties and identities keep shifting between the two leads.
- House of Hunger
Alexis Hendersonstandalone novel2022
similar byvampiresdarksecondary world
House of Hunger is a 2022 horror novel by Alexis Henderson. It is the author's second novel. The story is set in a world where nobles feed on the blood of their servants. The plot follows the life of Marion as she becomes a bloodmaid in the titular House of Hunger.
- Necroscope
series26 books1982
completed
similar byvampiresdark
Brian Lumley's Necroscope opens an eighteen-book horror saga (1982-2017) centered on Harry Keogh, a man who can speak with the dead. Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination. Later volumes follow Harry's descendants and successors through further wars against the vampiric Wamphyri, across sequel trilogies and story collections.
- Kingdom of the Wicked (Kerri Maniscalco)
series6 books2020
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Kerri Maniscalco's trilogy follows Emilia, a Sicilian witch whose twin sister is murdered by a serial killer targeting witches, forcing her into an uneasy bargain with Wrath, one of the seven princes of Hell, to hunt the culprit. Kingdom of the Wicked and its sequels, Kingdom of the Cursed and Kingdom of the Feared, escalate from that investigation into a wider entanglement with the political rivalries of Hell itself. The series pairs a murder-mystery hook with a slow-burn romance between Emilia and Wrath.
